Oxfordshire girls won the Berks Bucks & Oxon Stableford team event for the first time after a tight contest at the Sunningdale Ladies' course.

Although missing a player from the competition squad due to injury, Oxon won on countback from Bucks with an aggregate score of 204 points.

The other counties had seven players although only the best six scores were counted, whereas Oxfordshire were down to six - and each player's score had to count!

Their missing player was Giverney Porter who suffered an injury while playing hockey.

The county were also without talented young players Kate Turner and Samantha Round.

The Oxon captain for the day was Tadmarton's Katherine O'Connor, who had a score of 38 points to win third prize in the individual competition.

Oxon's scores were Vicky Shepherd (Carswell) 37 pts, Anna Nash (North Oxford) 34, Nicola Shaw (Tadmarton) 33, Lauren Jupp (Studley Wood) 32 and Claire Reynolds (Chipping Norton) 30.

Nash almost had a hole-in-one on the par-three seventh hole, where her tee shot hit the flag but failed to drop.

Oxfordshire girls' next competition is the spring meeting at Chipping Norton

next month, while the Berks, Bucks & Oxon Girls Championship will be played at Maidenhead on April 8.

The area's most talented amateur golfers can earn a chance to play on one of the Portugal's top courses when the Bass Ale Golfing Pub of the Year tournament tees off at Studley Wood on Monday, March 22.

Some 30 teams - including the Shelley Arms in Kennington and The Bell Inn at Long Wittenham - are set to tee off in Horton-cum-Studley, in the first round of the south-east area heats.

The top ten teams will progress to the area final to be held at Magnolia Park Golf Club on Monday, April 19.

And it will be at this potentially nail-biting area final stage that the top three teams will progress through to the regional final, at Marriott Meon Valley, on Sunday and Monday, June 6 and 7.

The qualifiers from that day will go on to compete in the national final at Villamoura in the Algarve.