Aspire Golf Centre pro's breakthrough victroy
GRAEME LORNIE TAMES DORNOCH
WIND FOR FIRST TARTAN TOUR WIN
Aspire Golf Centre near Aberdeen staff professional Graeme Lornie scored his first win on the Tartan Tour today, thanks to a fine round of one-under-par 69 in windy conditions over Royal Dornoch’s classic links today.
Aberdonian Lornie started the second and final day of the Royal Dornoch Young Professionals’ Masters four shots off the pace after a 74 on Sunday.
But Graeme soon overhauled the leaders with an outward half of two-under-par 33. He birdied the third, fifth and sixth and dropped only one shot before the turn, at the fourth.
Coming home, Lornie bogeyed the 11th and 17th but had a fourth birdie which helped him to return a three-over-par winning total of 143.
He collected the £720 first prize by one shot from three players - Alastair MacKenzie (Liberton) 73-71, Mark Loftus (Cowglen) 72-72, and James McGhee (Turnhouse) 71-73. They each earned £442.
Loftus’s high finish enabled him to clinch the PGA Scottish Region’s Young Professionals’ Order of Merit title – ahead of Graeme Lornie and third-placed Steven Taylor (Bothwell Castle).
LEADING FINAL TOTALS
Par 70
143 G Lornie (Aspire GC) 74 69 (£720).
144 A MacKenzie (Liberton) 73 71, M Loftus (Cowglen) 72 72, J McGhee (Turnhouse) 71 73 (£442 each).
145 J Cliff (Murrayfield) 71 74, L Harper (Archerfield) 70 75, N Christie (Montrose Linksd) 70 75.
146 C Russell (Dunbar) 70 76.
147 J Clive (Buchanan Castle) 74 73, B Wallace (Forrester Park Resort) 72 75.
WIND FOR FIRST TARTAN TOUR WIN
Aspire Golf Centre near Aberdeen staff professional Graeme Lornie scored his first win on the Tartan Tour today, thanks to a fine round of one-under-par 69 in windy conditions over Royal Dornoch’s classic links today.
Aberdonian Lornie started the second and final day of the Royal Dornoch Young Professionals’ Masters four shots off the pace after a 74 on Sunday.
But Graeme soon overhauled the leaders with an outward half of two-under-par 33. He birdied the third, fifth and sixth and dropped only one shot before the turn, at the fourth.
Coming home, Lornie bogeyed the 11th and 17th but had a fourth birdie which helped him to return a three-over-par winning total of 143.
He collected the £720 first prize by one shot from three players - Alastair MacKenzie (Liberton) 73-71, Mark Loftus (Cowglen) 72-72, and James McGhee (Turnhouse) 71-73. They each earned £442.
Loftus’s high finish enabled him to clinch the PGA Scottish Region’s Young Professionals’ Order of Merit title – ahead of Graeme Lornie and third-placed Steven Taylor (Bothwell Castle).
LEADING FINAL TOTALS
Par 70
143 G Lornie (Aspire GC) 74 69 (£720).
144 A MacKenzie (Liberton) 73 71, M Loftus (Cowglen) 72 72, J McGhee (Turnhouse) 71 73 (£442 each).
145 J Cliff (Murrayfield) 71 74, L Harper (Archerfield) 70 75, N Christie (Montrose Linksd) 70 75.
146 C Russell (Dunbar) 70 76.
147 J Clive (Buchanan Castle) 74 73, B Wallace (Forrester Park Resort) 72 75.
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