Parkman crowned on his favourite CI course again

DESPITE being a Jerseyman, Matt Parkman has a love affair with L'Ancresse.

Twice the amiable Caesarean has reached the Channel Islands Championship final and both times he has come across and beaten the Guernsey champion in their own backyard.

Yesterday it was Garry McFarlane who was on the receiving end of a 4 and 3 defeat against a man who later admitted that he came close to quitting the game a couple of years ago.

Considering the calibre of golf he had just produced, that revelation was quite astonishing.

So was his disclosure immediately after finishing, that: 'I love playing around here. It is my favourite course in the Channel Islands by a mile.'