Canterbury Golf Club professional Richard Wallis won an invitational pro-am at the The Richmond GC last week.

The Great Britain and Ireland international teaching professional shot an eight-under par 63, one over the course record, to clinch Thursday's win.

Wallis beat European Tour player Andrew Marshall into second place by three shots in a high quality field.

He was delighted to be back in the winner's circle after an injury-hit 2019 season and then the Coronavirus lockdown.

He said: ''It was very good opposition, the course was immaculate, there were very light winds and the greens were absolutely fantastic, just like billiard tables.

''It's a short but very narrow course, so you had to hit a lot of irons into position off the tees and that suited me because my long irons are pretty strong.

''I got got off to a bit of a ropey start, the first few holes are very tight and I was one over after four but then I birdied five in a row to be four under at the turn.

''I made a bogey at the 10th which is their stroke index one but then I made birdies at 11, 13, 16 and 17 to finish on 63 and that won by three shots from Andrew Marshall.

''I'm obviously very pleased, I've put in a lot of work in on the range at Canterbury, just going back to the basics of what I was doing when I was playing a bit more and I played really well, I hit it nicely and my putting was lovely.''

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