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Sumrie Better-Ball
Tournament information
Location	Bournemouth, Dorset, England (1974–78)
Established	1969
Course	Queen's Park Golf Club (1974–78)
Final year	1978
Final champion
Eamonn Darcy and Christy O'Connor Jnr

The Sumrie Better-Ball was a professional golf tournament played from 1969 to 1978. It was a 72-hole better-ball stroke-play event. It was played at Pannal in 1969 and 1970 and then at Blairgowrie in 1972 and 1973. From 1974 it was called the Sumrie-Bournemouth Better-Ball and was played at Queen's Park Golf Club, Bournemouth, England. The tournament was sponsored by Sumrie Clothes who has previously supported the Sumrie Tournament in 1968.

Winners

Year	Winners	Country	Venue	Score	Margin of victory	Runner(s)-up	Winner's share (£)	Ref
Sumrie Better-Ball
1969	Maurice Bembridge & Ángel Gallardo	England Spain	Pannal	263 (−29)	1 stroke	Hedley Muscroft & Lionel Platts	1,000 (each)	^[1]
1970	Neil Coles & Bernard Hunt	England England	Pannal	257 (−31)	4 strokes	Peter Butler & Clive Clark	800 (each)	^[2]
1971: No tournament
1972	Malcolm Gregson & Brian Huggett	England Wales	Blairgowrie	264 (−24)	1 stroke	Guy Hunt & Doug McClelland	800 (each)	^[3]
1973	Neil Coles & Bernard Hunt	England England	Blairgowrie	265 (−27)	5 strokes	Malcolm Gregson & Brian Huggett	800 (each)	^[4]
Sumrie-Bournemouth Better-Ball
1974	Peter Butler & Clive Clark	England England	Queen's Park	267 (−21)	Playoff	Craig Defoy & Derek Small Vince Hood & Hugh Jackson	1,200 (each)	^[5]
1975	Jack Newton & John O'Leary	Australia Ireland	Queen's Park	256 (−32)	4 strokes	Brian Barnes & Bernard Gallacher Neil Coles & Bernard Hunt John Fowler & Nick Job	1,200 (each)	^[6]
1976	Eamonn Darcy & Christy O'Connor Jnr	Ireland Ireland	Queen's Park	260 (−28)	Playoff	Maurice Bembridge & Norman Wood	1,200 (each)	^[7]
1977: No tournament
1978	Eamonn Darcy & Christy O'Connor Jnr	Ireland Ireland	Queen's Park	255 (−33)	4 strokes	Rodger Davis & Chris Tickner	2,000 (each)	^[8]

References

"Anglo-Spanish team win Sumrie event with 28 under par". The Glasgow Herald. 9 June 1969. p. 4.
"Hunt and Coles invincible". The Glasgow Herald. 18 May 1970. p. 4.
"Winning thrust by Huggett and Gregson". The Glasgow Herald. 22 May 1972. p. 5.
"Hunt and Coles play down their five-shot victory". The Glasgow Herald. 21 May 1973. p. 5.
"Butler settles it with birdie". The Glasgow Herald. 20 May 1974. p. 5.
"O'Leary and Newton storm home as Scots fade". The Glasgow Herald. 19 May 1975. p. 23.
"Irish snatch Sumrie prize". The Glasgow Herald. 24 May 1976. p. 15.
"Another battle for O'Connor". The Glasgow Herald. 26 June 1978. p. 23.