Bowls: Mark Wood takes Horace Walker title

Sep 11 2009 by Mel Booth, Huddersfield Daily Examiner

MARK WOOD of Lockwood (3) won the Conservative League’s Horace Walker Handicap at Holmfirth.

He defeated Peter McWilliam (Almondbury, 5) 21-13 in the final.

The event was sponsored by Barry Townsend-Cardew.

Quarter-finals: D Garner (Netherton, 4) 21 R Cox (Lockwood, 3) 12, P Bywater (Lockwood, 3) 14 M Wood (Lockwood, 3) 21, R Harper (Lockwood, 3) 19 P McWilliam (Almondbury, 5) 21, G Wilkinson (Lockwood, 4) 21 G Brook (Netherton, 3) 13.

Semi-finals: Garner 18 Wood 21, McWilliam 21 Wilkinson 20.

Final: Wood 21 McWilliam 13.