Paul Lyons crowned a memorable season with victory in the Sussex Professional Championship.

The 37-year-old Sweetwoods Park professional went to West Hove having already won the Southern PGA title as reigning captain of the region.

He won a sudden death play-off with a birdie at the first extra hole after a three-way tie with Jason Partridge and Jamie Harris to lift the trophy for the second time in three years.

He did it with some style. His round included the ninth hole-in-one of his career when a sweetly-struck six iron downwind at the 207-yard 17th spun back into the hole.

It helped Lyons to a new course record 64 and his 137 aggregate equalled the scores of Harris and Partridge.

Earlier this year, Lyons set up a fresh course record at Sweetwoods. But for two-thirds of the day at West Hove he was very much the outsider.

He said: "After 27 holes I was nowhere. Being level par was nothing to shout about but then I had a little run and the hole-in-one helped. That burst apart, I didn't play very well."

At halfway, Lyons was six strokes behind joint leaders Steve Fenn, Harris and Partridge but then shook everyone rigid by blazing round in 64 and better par by seven.

Both Harris and Partridge had posted their scores when Lyons produced the shock of the day. There would have been five in the play-off had Phil Bonsall not missed a four-footer on the last hole and Calum Callan bogied the last three. For Harris, there was some consolation in winning the Assistants' Trophy.

In the shoot-out up the 310-yard 14th Lyons, who had gone through the green earlier in the day from the tee, was a shade lucky when his ball just missed finding a greenside bunker. A deft chip and one-yard putt and his birdie gave him the championship.