HAZLEMERE Golf Club's Jamie Hunt claimed the Castle Royle Masters title with a winning four-shot margin.

Nineteen-year-old Hunt, who is in the first year of a golf scholarship at the University of South Carolina, claimed the title after a two-round 144, which saw him finish on level par.

It is the third year running that a player on a US scholarship has taken the Masters, which is the first event in the Berks, Bucks & Oxon Order of Merit series.

A windy Knowl Hill was the setting for the sixth Masters, and with defending champion Geoff Harris in the field, together with past winner Mark Housego and BB&O captain Matthew Briggs, the competition was always going to be fierce.

But Hunt was undaunted by the field, putting in a solid first round one-under-par 71, which included four birdies - to lead at lunch by a shot from Beaconsfield's Roger Stilwell.

Housego (Gerrards Cross), David Lovell (Mill Ride) and Chris Rowse (Woking) were a shot further back on 73, while defending champion Harris (Reading) trailed by four shots at the halfway point.

Hunt sealed the title in afternoon session, grinding out 17 successive pars before three-putting the last green, to record a second round 73.