SCOTTISH AREA CHAMPIONSHIP
NORTH-EAST AREA HOPES NOSEDIVE
North-east’s hopes of making it through to the finals of the Scottish men’s area team golf championship nosedived over Alloa Golf Club’s Schawpark course yesterday (Sunday).
They were well beaten 7-2 by Clackmannanshire while Angus beat Dumbartonshire 5-4 at Windyhill.
The two results combine to make Angus favourites to qualify for the semi-finals at Glasgow Gailes Golf Club on Saturday, October 7. Angus top Section B with two wins out of two and complete their programme with a home game against North-east at Letham Grange in September.
North-east trailed 2-1 after the foursomes at Alloa and then lost the singles heavily, 5-1. Mark Halliday (Royal Aberdeen), who had partnered Laurie Phillips (Cruden Bay) to North-east’s only foursomes success, was the only visiting winner in the singles.
Terry Mathieson (Murcar Links), who has a splendid match-play record for North-east District over the years, was obviously feeling the effects of his great run in the Allied Surveyors Scottish match-play championship at Nairn last week.
Terry lost both his foursomes and singles ties.
North went down 6 ½-2 ½ to Perth & Kinross at Crieff in a tie between two winning teams from the opening sectional ties. That means P&K, with two wins out of two, are in the driving seat to qualify from Section D.
North lost the foursomes 2-1.
Wallace Booth (Comrie) was seven under par for the first 11 holes in beating Bryan Fotheringham (Forres) 2 and 1 in a top singles tie of rare quality.
Results:
Group A – Argyll & Bute 5, Lanarkshire 4 (at Machrihanish); Fife 4, Lothians 5 (Thornton).
Group B
CLACKMANNAN 7, NORTH-EAST 2
at Alloa
Foursomes: S Borrowman, C O’Connor lost to M Halliday, L Phillips 4 and 3; C Macaulay, S Horne bt G Taylor, P Cormack 6 and 4; N Scaife, M Crichton bt T Mathieson, B Edmond 3 and 1 (2-1).
Singles: O’Connor bt Phillips 2 holes, Scaife lost to Halliday 6 and 4, Macaulay bt Cormack 3 and 2, Horne bt Taylor 3 and 2, Crichton bt Mathieson 3 and 2, Borrowman bt Edmond 3 and 1 (5-1).
Also:
Dunbartonshire 4, Angus 5 (at Thornton)
Group C – Borders 1 1/2, Renfrewshire 7 1/2 (at Cardrona).
Group D – Perth & Kinross 6 ½, North 2 ½ (at Crieff), South 5, Glasgow 4 (at Southerness).
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North-east’s hopes of making it through to the finals of the Scottish men’s area team golf championship nosedived over Alloa Golf Club’s Schawpark course yesterday (Sunday).
They were well beaten 7-2 by Clackmannanshire while Angus beat Dumbartonshire 5-4 at Windyhill.
The two results combine to make Angus favourites to qualify for the semi-finals at Glasgow Gailes Golf Club on Saturday, October 7. Angus top Section B with two wins out of two and complete their programme with a home game against North-east at Letham Grange in September.
North-east trailed 2-1 after the foursomes at Alloa and then lost the singles heavily, 5-1. Mark Halliday (Royal Aberdeen), who had partnered Laurie Phillips (Cruden Bay) to North-east’s only foursomes success, was the only visiting winner in the singles.
Terry Mathieson (Murcar Links), who has a splendid match-play record for North-east District over the years, was obviously feeling the effects of his great run in the Allied Surveyors Scottish match-play championship at Nairn last week.
Terry lost both his foursomes and singles ties.
North went down 6 ½-2 ½ to Perth & Kinross at Crieff in a tie between two winning teams from the opening sectional ties. That means P&K, with two wins out of two, are in the driving seat to qualify from Section D.
North lost the foursomes 2-1.
Wallace Booth (Comrie) was seven under par for the first 11 holes in beating Bryan Fotheringham (Forres) 2 and 1 in a top singles tie of rare quality.
Results:
Group A – Argyll & Bute 5, Lanarkshire 4 (at Machrihanish); Fife 4, Lothians 5 (Thornton).
Group B
CLACKMANNAN 7, NORTH-EAST 2
at Alloa
Foursomes: S Borrowman, C O’Connor lost to M Halliday, L Phillips 4 and 3; C Macaulay, S Horne bt G Taylor, P Cormack 6 and 4; N Scaife, M Crichton bt T Mathieson, B Edmond 3 and 1 (2-1).
Singles: O’Connor bt Phillips 2 holes, Scaife lost to Halliday 6 and 4, Macaulay bt Cormack 3 and 2, Horne bt Taylor 3 and 2, Crichton bt Mathieson 3 and 2, Borrowman bt Edmond 3 and 1 (5-1).
Also:
Dunbartonshire 4, Angus 5 (at Thornton)
Group C – Borders 1 1/2, Renfrewshire 7 1/2 (at Cardrona).
Group D – Perth & Kinross 6 ½, North 2 ½ (at Crieff), South 5, Glasgow 4 (at Southerness).
+Switch to our sister website, www.gilliankirkwood.co.uk, to find out who has won the Riccarton Rosebowl, the premier 36-hole open event on the Scottish women's amateur golf calendar today.
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