Peter Martin will regret missing the green at the short 18th hole at Whitehead as it cost him outright victory in the latest PING Ulster Golfers' Alliance tournament.
Making bogey four at the last hole meant that the Riverside Academy professional had to share the winner's cheque with Wesley Ramsey as both players finished on one-under-par 69.
Martin teed off at the first and made birdies at long holes three, where he chipped and putted, and six, where he found the surface with a drive and four iron. In between, he dropped a shot at the fourth hole after doffing his second approach.
That left Martin out in one-under 34 and he went two-under at the par four 14th. However, he drove into trees for bogey five at 15, and then rolled home a 40-footer for birdie three at 17 before suffering that bogey four at 18.
Knockbracken's Ramsey must have been thinking of packing up and going home after his first nine holes, having teed-off at the 10th. He three-putted the 12th for bogey five, took three stabs at the next hole for double-bogey six and three-putted again at 17 for bogey five to turn four-over-par.
It was a different story over the front nine which he sped over in five-under-par 30 without another bogey in sight. He wedged to two feet for birdie three at the first hole, slotted in a 15-footer for a two at the fifth, was on at the long sixth with a drive and six iron, got down from 20 feet at the seventh and shot his fifth birdie at nine from 25 feet as the putter had turned red hot.
Ballymena plus-two handicapper Dermot McElroy matched the winning pros as he took the amateur's gross prize on 69 while Bill Nixon, who plays off 16 at Portadown, won the nett prize on 41 points.
