Parent power proved the decisive factor as four dads from Prestbury won the Alan McInnes Bursary Fund Golf Day with a record-breaking score.

Established some 30 years ago by one of Macclesfield's favourite sporting sons, former King's pupil and teacher, Alan McInnes, the golf day raises money for the King's School's bursary fund. A true man of the people, Alan had a glittering sporting career first playing for Sale RUFC before transferring codes to Salford and then coaching Wigan to the Rugby League Challenge Cup.

From a modest background himself, Alan's mission was to enable local boys and girls to benefit from the same start in life he had enjoyed, setting up the golf day to raise funds for the King’s School’s bursary fund.

The winning team, captained by Steve Creswell who scored an astonishing 46 points with his own ball, consisted of Neil Price, James Phillips and John Usher, did the event justice, cruising home with a stunning 103 points, or 31 points better than par, a record tally for the event.

The day was capped by John Usher's second shot to the last, a raking, superbly bunkered 390 yard par four, which he nailed with an arrow like 140 yard eight iron second to just three feet. They might have thought they needed that birdie for another four point tally, but second place and third place were in reality way back in the distance with 89 and 88 points respectively, both usually good enough to win especially on a challenging, fast-running breezy afternoon.

Skipper of the colour coordinated and eccentrically named, 'Pineapple Skullz' team, Steve Cresswell summed up the mood: "Golf was the winner. It was just a group of friends having a really great day out." He added: "More importantly it was about raising money for the bursary fund. Some of my lads' best mates have benefitted from the bursary fund, and they simply wouldn't have been friends if people like Alan McInnes, and his daughter Nicola Moores, hadn't done so much to raise much needed funds."

Second place went to ‘Three Men and a Dandy’: Martin Glenister, Tim Gallagher, Terry Harrison and Simon Harrison. While third place went to ‘The Jackson Fore': Scott Jackson, a former European Junior Champion and the best player in the field, captaining Neil McGuiness, Shaun Smith and Rob Turner on 88 points.

The Yellow Ball challenge was won by ‘I like big putts and I cannot lie’, with Steve Norris's straightest drive winning a Mercedes for a weekend courtesy of LSH Auto and Mercedes Benz of Macclesfield.

King's Head, Jason Slack, said: "The Alan McInnes Golf Day has become a key event in our sporting calendar for the parents and alumni of the school. It attracts amazing sponsorship and raised £7,000 to support one of our key long term missions; to enable those children who might not normally be able to come to King's to enjoy what we believe and, what Alan believed, is a wonderful education."

Pictured from left to right basking in their success are Neil Price, Steve Cresswell, James Phillips and John Usher.