Ian Hutcheon to present painting at evening reception next week

ALYTH TO HONOUR SCOTTISH
CHAMPION KEVIN McALPINE

Alyth Golf Club is to hold an evening reception to mark the achievement of one of its members, Kevin McAlpine, in winning the Allied Surveyors Scottish amateur championship at Nairn Golf Club during the summer.
It will take place in the Alyth clubhouse on Thursday, October 26.
Guests will include representatives of the Scottish Golf Union and Perth & Kinross County Golf Union, last year’s Scottish amateur champion Glenn Campbell (Blairgowrie) and former Walker Cup player Ian Hutcheon (Monifieth) who skippered the Scotland team to victory in the recent senior men’s home internationals.
Ian will say a few words before presenting Kevin with a framed painting of Nairn Golf Club.
Kevin, pictured right, joined Alyth Golf Club as a youngster in 1992 and was twice junior club champion before he left for the United States on a four-year golf scholarship at Colorado State.
Kevin played in the Scotland team who retained the men’s home internationals title at Pyle & Kenfig Golf Club, South Wales in September.
Apart from winning the national title, he won the Alyth club championship this year and also the Perth & Kinross county stroke-play title by five strokes over his home course with rounds of 65 and 64 for an 11-under-par total.
McAlpine returned to the town of Nairn two or three weeks after his “Scottish” triumph to win the North of Scotland open amateur stroke-play title for the David Blair Trophy over four rounds at the Nairn Dunbar course.
His father, Hamish, was Dundee United’s goalkeeper for many years.