Jersey too hot to handle for battling Guernsey

THE scoreline might suggest otherwise, but Guernsey made Jersey work very hard for their fifth consecutive inter-insular win.

Always the underdogs away from home, the Sarnians heeded captain Dave Rowlinson's call to be in with a chance after the opening fourballs. Overnight they trailed narrowly 3-2.

However, the hosts had taken a commanding 7-3 lead after the foursomes and Guernsey were left with a mountain to climb in the 10 singles.

'Jersey just played very, very well,' said Rowlinson. 'I do not think we played bad golf, but Jersey are such a strong side that when they are on that form at home, I'm afraid we can't live with them.

'We were just very much up against it and we have to improve our overall standard.'

The star for Guernsey was Jamie Blondel. Together with Steve Mahy, he won both his fourballs and foursomes matches before defeating former CI champion Matthew Parkman over his home course in the singles to finish with a maximum of three points.