Somerset county players Phil White (Wells) and Stuart Ponfield (The Mendip) have achieved another convincing win in the history of the West Country's major winter open competition.

They beat Cumberwell Park and Wiltshire county player Ali James, and his Exeter University colleague Scott van der Voord who plays for Suffolk, 8 and 6 in the final of the West of England Open Foursomes at Burnham and Berrow.

They were seven holes ahead at lunch in a contest scheduled for 36 holes and their next target is to add the Somerset county foursomes championship title at Bath on March 26.

Scratch players White, 21, and Ponfield, 27, members of last year's Channel League-winning team, have become a formidable pairing in county games. They lost only twice in 10 starts last summer.

Former Millfield pupil and county colts champion White, who works in his father's nursing home in Glastonbury, said: "It was virtually all over after the first round, even though we lost the 18th hole.

"We birdied three of the first nine holes when we were five up. The weather worsened and that made the birdies they needed almost impossible so we just settled for pars and they simply ran out of holes."

Ponfield, a former Farrington and Mendip champion, is greenkeeper at Wheathill. He also plays football for Paulton Rovers but took the previous day off so as not to risk injury.