JAUNTY golfer Bryan Schofield has definitely put the 'gen' into septuagenarian.

Painful arthritis of the knees may well restrict the Old Malton-based player's golfing activities - he needs to get around with a buggy and his walking sticks - but it's not stopped him continuing to be an ace from the tee.

The 77-year-old struck an impressive hole in one when he fired an unerringly accurate three-wood shot right into the tin cup at the 147-yard par three 13th hole at his home Malton and Norton Golf Club course. And that was the third ace he has recorded in close on 66 years of playing the game.

Recalled Schofield: "The 13th tee is a bit of a blind approach to the hole, so I did not see the ball go in. But as I drove up in my buggy the chap I was playing with said it must have gone close. As we got nearer to the flag I looked in and there it was sat.

"It was a great shot to remember, but I won't tell you about the rest of the round."

Schofield's other one-shot wondrous feats were achieved at Silloth GC many years ago and then at the 17th at Malton but before the Welham Park course underwent a massive reconstruction programme in the 1970s.

At best an eight-handicapper, illness and advancing years have now knocked him back to playing off 22. But thanks to his faithful buggy he can still get round the course he joined in 1977, and, as he showed, he can still grab the headlines.

Another hole-in-one three-timer is Ed Johnson.

A 14-handicap member of Swallow Hall GC near Wheldrake, he has only been playing nine years but now has three holes in one - all posted in the last five years.

The first was at Wheldrake's 190-yard eighth and the second two years ago on the sixth. Now he has repeated his year 2000 great eight feat to complete his treble, this time using a three-wood.

And to round off the ace theme, Kay Thornham, a 15-handicap member of Fulford GC, holed in one with a six-iron at the 14th in the club's annual Turkey Trot competition. It was his second ace following one at Fulford's fifth hole.

James on the Jubilee line

CAPTAIN consistency could be the title applied to Fulford Golf Club youngster James Wake.

The current junior captain at the club won the Jubilee Trophy for the third successive year to be crowned junior club champioin.

Wake beat the club's vice-captain Ashley Simpson in the final to record his triple tonic.

Updated: 11:02 Saturday, October 15, 2005