UPCOMING Malton & Norton Golf Club amateur David Hague beat a field which included 27 professionals to lift a top title on the Evolve Pro Tour.

Hague hit a level-par first round of 72 at La Serena, in Murcia, Spain, and followed with a marvellous bogey-free six-under-par effort of 66 in round two to top a field of 57 players, winning by two shots.

He was this week hoping to sneak into the Spanish Amateur Championship at El Saler, in Valencia, having initially been third reserve, and is also targeting the Italian Amateur Championship at the Acaya Golf Club in Lecce in a fortnight.

His second-round 66 at La Serena included six birdies, despite 25mph winds. Keeping the ball low and concentrating on accuracy over distance, he missed only two fairways and hit every green, in one of the best - and smartest - rounds of his burgeoning career.

Hague, who plays off a plus-three handicap, was rewarded with a smart Thomas Sabo wristwatch for the victory, having had to forfeit the 2,000 euros first prize due to his amateur status.

He was to give it the watch to his dad, Andy, as thanks for caddying and for supporting him through some warm-weather practice at La Manga, also in Murcia, and in Portugal.

Hague was twice a winner on the Yorkshire Order of Merit series last year, triumphing at the Pannal Rose and Vardon Grip events to place third in the final county rankings.

He also qualified for the Brabazon Trophy and reached the third round of the matchplay stage of the English Amateur Championship at Ganton.

Within the York Union of Golf Clubs last year, he won the Open, Matchplay, Crossley Trophy and Order of Merit.

But this victory over a field in which professionals made up half the contingent is arguably the pick of his growing list of triumphs.