PHIL Robson and Graham Doherty were clear winners at Five Lakes.

The fifth and penultimate round of the winter league was played on Sunday on the championship Lakes course.

Three pairs returned 38 points, Barry Boniface and Malcolm Pitt, club Captain Nigel Popper and Richard Hardy-King along with Doug Wood and Graham Sinfield.

Coming close with 41 points were Charlie Powell and Joe Hart, enhancing their overall standings.

However, there was another strong showing in third place from Clive Taylor and Dave Chignell with 42 points, second place went to the Winter League front runners Frank Taylor and Neil Shinwell, also with 42 points.

With 20 points on their back nine holes the winners of the sixth round were Robson and Doherty with 45 points, enhancing their second place overall.

Birdie balls were won by Graham Doherty on the long 16th par three.

Next week is the final round of this year’s winter league with two points separating the top two in the overall places.

Five Lakes Seniors played their seventh and final round of this season’s Winter League.

The format was a Texas Scramble Stableford, played off 1/7 combined handicaps for three-balls.

Players carry over their individual points from each round and select their best five score out seven rounds for the title.

The final round was played on the Lakes course in very cold, blustery but sunny conditions on a water-saturated course requiring preferred lies to be taken through the green.

With the wind-affected ball having virtually no run, good scoring was challenge and only two of the six teams returned more than 40 points.

With six-round leader Jim Fern unable to play, only Mike Martin in the top six was able to add to his best-five score.

With Tony Tyler and John Knight, Mike’s team returned a creditable score of 41 points to take the honours on countback from the team of David Owen, Martin Measor and David Swain.

However, Jim Fern had sufficient points from his earlier best five rounds to land this season’s Seniors Winter League title.

Final round results: 1 Tony Tyler, Mike Martin and John Knight 41 pts ocb; 2 David Owen, Martin Measor and David Swain 41 pts; 3 Bal Singh, Clive Jenner and Tony Horne 39 pts; 4 Bryan Thompson, Ken Laight and Paul Raymond 38 pts; 5 Peter Gee, Mick Phillis and Alan Blois 37 pts; 6 Brian Day, Barry Painter and Ray Saxer 35 pts.

Seniors’ Winter League final standings: 1 Jim Fern 218 pts, 2 Ron Colbert 207 pts, 3 Mike Martin 206 pts, 4 Peter Ivey 206 pts, 5 Tony Tyler 204 pts, 6 Alan Blois 203 pts, 7 Mick Phillis 203 pts, 8 Clive Jenner 201 pts, 9 Ken Laight 200 pts, 10 Barry Painter 196 pts.

In the nearest the pin competition, Peter Gee took the award at the eighth hole and Tony Tyler at the 11th.