LAWRIE MISSES SCOTTISH PRO CHSHIP
PAUL WANTS TIME TO WORK ON SWING
After missing his last eight cuts, former PGA champion Andy Oldcorn is looking to regain some confidence when he tees up on Thursday in the Gleneagles Scottish Championship over the PGA Centenary course.
“I’ve had a terrible run recently”, admitted the 2001 PGA champion. “There’s no European Tour action this weekend, so I thought this would be a good chance to help get my confidence back in slightly more relaxed conditions.”
The 46-year-old’s chances of success have been improved by the withdrawal of defending champion, Paul Lawrie.
Said the 1999 Open champion “I’m sorry to have to miss the championship but my coach (Adam Hunter) and I are in the throes of trying to work on swing changes which I’d like to have sorted out before going to next week’s BMW International Open in Munich.”
And by an unfortunate coincidence the Gleneagles event has also been deprived of the presence of Lawrie’s runner-up last year, David Drysdale. The Dunbar player, by finishing second at the weekend in the Russian Open, gets a place in the BMW event, and probably the European Masters in Switzerland the following week.
“I’m reluctant to withdraw from our national championship”, said Drysdale, “But I’ve played 14 of the last 15 weeks, and these two European Tour events I’m now in were never on my season’s schedule, so I really feel I have to take a break sooner rather than later.”
Among the field of 132 are a number of players with the qualities to take the title, and with it the winner’s cheque for just under £9,000. Former champions Chris Kelly and Craig Ronald (the latter on form after his 36-hole win in the Volvo/Ayrshire Hospice Pro-am at West Kilbride last week) could well vie with Greig Hutcheon, Chris Doak Robert Arnott or twice-winner, Colin Gillies.
The leading 50 and ties will contest the two final rounds on Saturday and Sunday.
After missing his last eight cuts, former PGA champion Andy Oldcorn is looking to regain some confidence when he tees up on Thursday in the Gleneagles Scottish Championship over the PGA Centenary course.
“I’ve had a terrible run recently”, admitted the 2001 PGA champion. “There’s no European Tour action this weekend, so I thought this would be a good chance to help get my confidence back in slightly more relaxed conditions.”
The 46-year-old’s chances of success have been improved by the withdrawal of defending champion, Paul Lawrie.
Said the 1999 Open champion “I’m sorry to have to miss the championship but my coach (Adam Hunter) and I are in the throes of trying to work on swing changes which I’d like to have sorted out before going to next week’s BMW International Open in Munich.”
And by an unfortunate coincidence the Gleneagles event has also been deprived of the presence of Lawrie’s runner-up last year, David Drysdale. The Dunbar player, by finishing second at the weekend in the Russian Open, gets a place in the BMW event, and probably the European Masters in Switzerland the following week.
“I’m reluctant to withdraw from our national championship”, said Drysdale, “But I’ve played 14 of the last 15 weeks, and these two European Tour events I’m now in were never on my season’s schedule, so I really feel I have to take a break sooner rather than later.”
Among the field of 132 are a number of players with the qualities to take the title, and with it the winner’s cheque for just under £9,000. Former champions Chris Kelly and Craig Ronald (the latter on form after his 36-hole win in the Volvo/Ayrshire Hospice Pro-am at West Kilbride last week) could well vie with Greig Hutcheon, Chris Doak Robert Arnott or twice-winner, Colin Gillies.
The leading 50 and ties will contest the two final rounds on Saturday and Sunday.
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