This week's North-east Golfers' Alliance leading scores

BRIAN RITCHIE WINS AT TURRIFF
WITH A TWO-UNDER-PAR 66

Inverallochy two-handicapper Brian Ritchie became the third first-time winner on this season’s North-east Golfers’s Alliance when he headed a field of 95 players at Turriff yesterday.
(Editor's note: Apologies for not being able to put the scores up last night. Ron Menzies phoned them through to me here in Spain but could not crack the hotel telephone system, so I was unable to "post" them until I got to the Roda golf course this morning. Normal service resumed next Monday!)
Brian shot a two-under-par 66 to win by one stroke from Cruden Bay professional Robbie Stewart, fellow-pros Gary Forbes (Murcar Links) and amateurs Terry Mathieson (Murcar Links) and Luke Barbour (Cruden Bay).
Leading returns (par 68)
SCRATCH
66 Brian Ritchie (Inverallochy).
67 Robbie Stewart (Cruden Bay), Terry Mathieson (Murcar Links), Nick Reid (Deeside), Luke Barbour (Cruden Bay), Gary Forbes (Murcar Links).
68 Dean Yeats (Newmachar), Stewart Finnie (Caledonian).
69 Andrew Campbell (Deeside).
70 Gary Esson (Portlethen), Billy Main (Murcar Links), Colin Nelson (MacKenzies’ Club), Scott Fraser (Northern), Sandy Pirie (Hazlehead).
71 Colin Carnegie (Kemnay), Iain Buchan (Craibstone), Richard Hyland (Newmachar), Roy Pirie (Caledonian).
HANDICAP
Class 1 – Brian Ritchie (Inverallochy) (2), Keith Smith (Aboyne) (8) 64; Alan Grant (Portlethen) (7) 66, Luke Barbour (Cruden Bay) (1) 66; Brian Harper (Newburegh) (6), Bob Nicoll (Murcar Links) (5), Jim Murray (Banchory) (5), Kenny Minty (Turriff) (8) 67.
Class 2 – Derek Randall (Banchory) (13) 62; Stuart Florence (Oldmeldrum) (11) 65; Alex Buchan (Northern) (10), Derek Moir (Murcar Links) (13) 64; DonaldWood (Newburgh) (14), Michael Rogers (Kemnay) (14) 65.
+A reminder that next Wednesday’s competition has been switched from Spey Bay to Buckpool.