HERE'S a tip if you ever find yourself short of cash in the 19th hole at Clitheroe Golf Club.

Buy yourself a drink and ask to put it on the Underwood tab.

Chances are, they'll owe you and the rest of the clubhouse a free scoop because one of them will probably have just emerged from the course with another hole-in-one.

This remarkable family of four have a bigger bar bill than most, with six aces between them in the past 32 years.

It was eldest son Keith, 49, who completed the set on Easter Monday, as he coped admirably with the pressure of being the only family member who hadn't hit a hole-in-one.

But after conquering the 17th in one shot, it was finally his turn to get the drinks in at the Whalley Road club.

Despite the Underwoods' incredible achievement, mum Doreen insists there's no magic formula in the gene pool.

She said: "It's every golfer's dream to have a hole-in-one so we are lucky.

"But that's all it is, just luck. If it comes along, it comes along."

Modest Doreen, 71, actually has two aces to her name, which came 20 years apart on the same hole at Clitheroe. Younger son Denis, better known as the football manager who took Clitheroe to the FA Vase final in 1996, also has a pair, with one at his home club and another at Blackburn.

And he revealed that the tradition of buying everyone a drink does have its drawbacks, as he found out when he hit his second hole-in-one last year.

Denis said: "There was a nearest the pin competition on the 12th.

"You can't see the hole, you can only see the top of the flag and the ball looked to be heading straight for it.

"I thought mine had run off the back of the green and one of the lads walked up and said it was in the hole. Nobody was going to get nearer than that!

"I won a big bottle of vodka but it cost me because I put a bottle of whiskey and a bottle of gin behind the bar for everybody else"

It was dad Douglas, 74, who got the ball rolling when he holed with one swing of the club at the 14th in 1972.

Then Doreen stole the limelight four years later when she aced at the fifth -- 20 years before she repeated the shot at the same hole in her year as lady captain.

A year earlier, in 1995, Denis struck his first ace, with the second at Blackburn in 2003 the only one of the six to come away from Clitheroe.

CLITHEROE Golf Club's Robert Bennie returned to his studies at Oxford this week content that he had not only outscored brother Andrew but also earned a reduction in handicap to eight.

Not to be outsmarted though, 15-year-old grammar school student Andrew scored a creditable 37 points in the weekend's stableford and maintained the differential over Robert by reducing his handicap to five.

Clive Richards is another golfer having a profitable spell, taking first prize with 41 points, but no one can match Andrew Heesom's form of late.

Third after a card play-off with Robert Bennie in the singles stableford, he then won the junior medal with a net 65 off his eight handicap. James Taylor confirmed his improvement with a 66 followed by Andrew Mercer and William Tyrrell who both registered 67s for the minor prizes.

Stefano Coppola won the junior medal Easter Championship with a net 67, taking home the giant chocolate egg first prize.

Alex Alcock was unlucky on the cards taking second spot with the same score and Sarah Hale and Jacob Foley took the minor prizes.

Sunday's greensomes played in wet miserable conditions were no problem to in-form Richards and his able partner Brian Stokes. They relegated Tom Poole and Mike Finney into second spot with the Peter Dunn, Paul Connolly do just out of the prizes.