BRAINTREE’S Todd Clements led from the front to steer England to an impressive victory in the annual European Nations Championship at Sotogrande in Spain.

The Braintree Golf Club member, who is the English Amateur champion, also won the individual title by five strokes as England dominated the event from start to finish and claimed the trophy by 20 shots.

Alongside team-mates Marco Petrozzi from Staffordshire, Cheshire’s Matthew Jordan and David Hague from Yorkshire, Clements laid down a marker from the start with an opening three-under-par 69.

He followed with rounds of 73, 71 and 70 for an aggregate of 283, five under, while the team won with 853, with Ireland second and Denmark third.