CAERNARFONSHIRE claimed the Welsh Inter-Counties title for the second time in four years when their aggregate total of 747 left them six strokes clear of Glamorganshire at a windswept Borth & Ynyslas. The difference in conditions from last year is reflected in the scores, with last year's winning score of 695 by Gwent no less than 52 strokes better than Caernarfon's this time. Caernarfon's North Wales county players were steady in the morning, with all six of their players breaking 80. Paul Roberts from the North Wales club in Llandudno was best with a 73, Gareth Dobson-Jones of Porthmadog and Mark Wyn Jones from Royal St David's both shot 74, captain Neil Lloyd from the Caernarfon club and Conwy's Gareth Williams each posted 75, and James Gresty's 78 was the non- counting score. Their morning total of 371 left them just a stroke ahead of Glamorganshire, then in the afternoon when the wind had got even stronger, they totalled 376 with all but Gresty breaking 80. Roberts added a 74 along with Wyn Jones, Dobson-Jones had a 75, Lloyd a 76 and Williams a 77 to clinch the title. The only player to break 70 in the competition was Glamorganshire's Lee Thomas, who shot a 69 in the afternoon, 10 strokes better than his morning round. His 148 total left him three behind Dyfed's Richard Scott from the Haverforwest club, who shot 70-75 to win the individual competition and help his county to third place on 761. Second in the individual competition was Anglesey player Tony Blackwell from Bull Bay who scored 72-74 . Anglesey finished fourth on 763, Gwent were fifth on 765, Flintshire sixth on 782 and Denbighshire last on 788. PRO NEWS: Flint's Gary Houston attempts to consolidate seventh place in the money list today when the European Challenge Tour resumes at the Toulouse Open in France. The 33-year-old, attached to Northop Country Park, is on course to win back his card on the main European Tour, which is awarded to the top 15 money earners at the end of the season. Houston has winnings of almost 56,000 euros, 17,000 ahead of Sweden's Steven Jeppeson in 15th place. INTER-COUNTIES RESULTS Caernarfonshire 747 - Neil Lloyd 75-76, Gareth Dobson-Jones 74-75, Mark Wyn Jones 74-74, Paul Roberts 73-74, Gareth Williams 75-77, James Gresty 78-82. Anglesey 763 - David Lovell 80-82, Tony Blackwell 72-74, Howie Hughes 78-79, Emyr Jones 75-77, Mark Perdue 77-77, Colin Jones 80-74. Flintshire 782 - Alex Bradbroke 73-81, Nick Tomlinson 83-91, Lee Hinks Edwards 79-79, Jason Snead 74-78, Lee Williams 76-71, Jon-Paul Snead 80-81. Denbighshire 788 - Adam Runcie 81-77, Andrew Evans 77-76, Stuart Runcie 73-75, Iain Hayes 81-80, Jeremy Hughes 83-86, Peter Grimley 82-rtd. Wales bid to claim first place outright CONWY'S John Roger Jones is again in the Welsh side bidding for an outright victory in the Seniors' Home International Championship starting at Aberdyfi next Tuesday. JR a past president of the Welsh Golfing Union, won two and halved one of his singles and won two and lost one of his foursomes in partnership with Bromborough's Phil Jones when Wales shared the title with Ireland at Seaton Carew in County Durham last year. After beating England, who had won the championship when it was first staged at Nairn in Scotland in 2002, 4-3 in the opening match, Wales lost 5-2 to Scotland on the second day before beating Ireland 5-2. Another half point would have given Wales the title outright but their last two singles players Roger Floyd and George Stowe both lost by one hole on the final green in a nail biting finale. Ireland finished level with Wales on 11 points to share the title. Wales make just one change from last year's line-up, with Keith Stimpson from Wenvoe Castle in Cardiff coming in for Roger Floyd. John Roger Jones is the only North Walian in the side but he is joined by George Stowe from the host club Aberdyfi and Bromborough's Jones , who retained his Welsh Seniors title at Aberdyfi back in June. North Wales Boys team take on North Wales Four Counties Girls side at the North Wales club in Llandudno on Sunday, with Jamie Bradbury from the host club in the 12-strong line-up and Royal St David's Sion Rees, Joe Soar and Llion Kerry. CLUB NEWS GARETH and Shan Gruffydd beat lady captain Janet Ellwood and her husband Roger 4&3 in the final of the Mixed Foursomes Summer Knockout at NEFYN and Shan Gruffydd claimed a double when she beat Liz Mangham 3&1 in the final of the Roulston Rose Bowl. In an outing to the North Wales club Joan Royle won from Ase Richardson with Voirrey Oxley third. A nett 70 gave HM Williams the Victory Cup by one from IR Williams with vice-captain R Rimmington third on 72. PAULENE and Tecwyn Williams beat Alan and Maggie Mycock 5&3 in the final of the Pender Hughes Trophy at CONWY , while in the final of the Beacon Salvers Gwynfor and Lee Jones beat Steve Eardley and Adrian Johnson by one hole. Six-handicapper Barry Jackson was round in 80 for a nett 74 to win the Healey Cup, and in the Winners Take All comp Arfon Slater (78-8-70) won on a countback from Tegwyn Lloyd (83-13-70) with Steve Eardley (80-8-72) third. GORDON JARMAN (83-12-71) won Division One and Paul Davies (91-18-73) Division Two in the Monthly Medal at MAESDU , while Wayne Foster had a hole in one at the 17th. Maesdu players took the prizes in an Open greensome, Janet Lockett and Janet Franey winning from Gill Boulden and Janet Barrington, with Ginny James and her partner from the North Wales club Brenda Connor third. In the monthly stableford Nia Carrington Jones won with 39 points, three ahead of Eileen Roberts. GARY WYN EVANS bagged 40 points to take the top prize when Arthur Rowley held his President's Day at BETWS-Y-COED . Barrie Williams had the best gross of 76. John Marshall was second with 38 points and Merfyn Jones third with 35, the same as senior winner Dafydd Horan. Betws beat Conwy 8-3 in the seniors match. HUMPHREY WILLIAMS of Pwllheli won with 36 points when the Eryri captains and past captains held their autumn meeting at PORTHMADOG, with host club player Bob Thomas second on 35. Owie Ward from Abersoch won the 16-and-under-handicap prize with 34 points and David Whitehurst from Porthmadog won the 17-and-over with 32. The Abersoch team of Owie Ward, Hywel Jones and Brian Bethell won the team prize with 96 points, one ahead of the host club team. Having won both the spring and autumn meetings Humphrey Williams won the Secretary's Putter for the best scores at both meetings. PAST captain Llew Davies won the final event of the summer season at DENBIGH with 42 points, one ahead of Glyn Williams with Tudor Jones third on 39. A Texas scramble went to the team of J B Williams, G Davies, B L Owen and A Williams with a nett 56, with Eifion Howatson, Ian Hession, Don Walmsley and D Roberts second on 57.6. Joe Cummings, Mike Roberts, Eilian Williams and Peter Wharton were third on 57.7. DAVE MASTERS won a 15-hole stableford at RHOS-ON-SEA on a countback after finishing level on 32 points with Norman Shallcross. Colin Williams, who was third with 30 points, had a hole-in-one on the 15th. Tom Duffy (81-12-69) won the final Sunday Medal by a stroke from Roy Passmore (82-12-70) with Alwyn Trinder (82-11-71) third. | 
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