BEN Lobacz won the Hampshire Open at Blackmoor Golf Club after a sudden-death play-off with Mark Burgess.

The Blackmoor duo had tied on 137, one under par for the 36-hole Championship.

The play-off started at the 10th, which was halved. Both players then missed the 18th green with their second shots.

Burgess played up to within three feet of the hole, leaving Lobacz with a tricky 20-yard shot down the hill from the very edge of the clubhouse patio.

His ball raced down the slope, across the green and into the hole in true Larry Mize style for a Championship-winning birdie.

Top professional was Lee-on-the-Solent’s Jon Barnes.

* Hindhead’s David Corben had a grandstand seat as Harry Ellis fired a superb four-under par 66 to fire his Hampshire team to the English County Finals for the sixth time in ten years last Saturday (writes Andrew Griffin).

Corben was in the penultimate playing group at Reading’s Calcot Park during England Golf’s-South East Qualifier, but could only card his second 71 of the day.

That crucially gave their rivals a five-shot swing and when former Surrey captain Mark Booker added a second 73, it left Hampshire three shots clear – the lead they had held at lunch.

Ellis’s 66 earned him the Peter Benka Trophy for best individual score.

Two years ago, Surrey denied Hampshire by six shots when they hosted the SEQ at Hankley Common.