The Red Rose side, pipped by Yorkshire last season, stormed to a 5-1 foursomes victory and won all but two of the dozen singles.
Richard Walker, who opted not to play for England against France at Royal St George's over the weekend, led the rout with a five and four demolition of former Scottish international Sandy Twynholm.
Cheshire also gave notice of their title intentions when they beat Cumbria by three points at Heswall.
And it was a double celebration with Gareth Bradley and Phil Bolton respectively making their 150th and 100th appearances. Bradley, from Bramhall, beat James Wilkinson five and four in the singles and Chorlton's Bolton settled the match with a final green win over Craig Morrow.
NATALEE Evans from Pleasington won the Lancashire Women's Championship at Stand in dramatic fashion when she beat former Curtis Cup player Kim Andrew with a 30-foot birdie putt on the third extra hole.
Andrew, from Clitheroe, who beat Hart Common's Catherine Roberts at the first extra hole, had birdies at the final two holes to force a sudden-death play-off.
ON the eve of his 500th European Tour event and 10 years after his last victory, England's Barry Lane won the British Masters.
A closing 66 for a 16-under-par total at the Marriott Forest of Arden gave him a three stroke victory over the Argentine pair of Angel Cabrera and Eduardo Romero.
TAXI driver Jimmy O'Riley clocked up a second successive win in the Balfour Cup, Manchester golf's top amateur prize, at Saddleworth.
MARCUS Armitage added another trophy to the already packed display cabinet at Hopwood Cottage when he won the Lancashire Boys' Championship at Blackpool North Shore with rounds of 68 and 69, four-under-par in total, five ahead of Martin Barnes.
PLEASINGTON'S Michael Hunt won the Mitsushiba northern merit Pines Trophy at Hillside with a pair of 69s, six-under-par, and by three shots from Manchester's Gareth Clark.
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