Part two of Rob Batiste’s review of the star players in the men’s game.

Ocborne-Smith of Jersey (left) and Reuben Mahy in 1966 at L’Ancresse Golf Course, with the Royal Guernsey Golf Club in the background. (0673751)

6

REUBEN MAHY is one of just two Guernseyman to have won the coveted Hampshire championship, which is one more than Justin Rose managed in his short period as a plus-handicap amateur.

Bobby Eggo – more of him next week – is the other, having achieved the feat twice.

Mahy, now a youthful 86 and living a pitching wedge from the 10th green of the course on which he featured for so long, fully deserves his high rating in our unofficial rankings and comes in at No. 6. and top of this week’s leader board.

He has been a great servant to Guernsey golf, both as a player and as an administrator.

And talking to him this week he admits he might have done better than his three island titles had his career not been held back by the war years and his insistence on mainly playing for pleasure.