The Trophy was presented in 1975 by our founder Gordon Emerton-Court, and played for from 1976 onwards. It is an inter-Club four ball better ball matchplay competition, of five pairs per side, between DMVGA member Clubs. Initially, matches were one-off games on the “home team’s” course or on a neutral course as agreed between the two Clubs with the final being on a neutral course (traditionally Churston as it was Gordon Emerton-Court’s home Club).

Nowadays, each round up to the final is played on a home and away basis with the overall score after both games determining the winner.

The final is always played on a neutral course over 18 holes and currently the venue alternates between Churston and Tiverton, both clubs where Gordon was a member. The winning Club receive the Trophy (an old-fashioned pewter measuring mug from the Emerton-Court family on a wooden stand made by Gordon Emerton-Court himself) which they keep for one year. The runners up receive the Harold Lee Salver and the individual players of both teams receive an engraved glass.