Wednesday, January 31, 2007

Field of 95 for North-east Alliance meeting at Buchan venue


CARNEGIE AND CORMACK
TIE ON FOUR-UNDER-PAR
61 AT INVERALLOCHY

Inverallochy’s winter course will never stage the Open but it gave a lot of fun to most of the field of 95 for today's North-east Alliance.
It provided a bonanza of scores in the 60s with Kemnay amateur Craig Carnegie and Inchmarlo assistant professional Paul Cormack, pictured right, jointly heading the birdie parade on the four-under-par 61 mark.
Two-handicapper Carnegie had the “magic” figure of 29 for his outward half with birdies at the third, fifth, seventh and ninth but he was caught over the last two holes by Cormack.
Carnegie finished bogey 5-par 4 while Cormack’s scores at the 17th and 18th were birdie 3-birdie 3 – a three-shot swing in favour of Paul who had halves of 30 and 31.
Cormack had eight 3s in a row on his scorecard, from the fourth to the 11th inclusive
Third placed Ian Bratton, the Newburgh professional, had seven 3s in his inward half of 29 for a 62.
Almost everyone was "raving" about the quality of the Inverallochy greens. "Better even than Buckpool" - and that's praise indeed - was the general comment.
Deeside's Gordon Gray, for instance, had only 23 putts on the finest greens he has played on for many a long day.
Gordon had only 23 putts - 12 for the first nine holes, followed by a three-putt and then single putts on the last eight greens. Pity Gordon's tee-to-green game had not been of the same standard but we'll draw a veil over that!

Leading returns:

SCRATCH
Par 65
61 C Carnegie (Kemnay), P Cormack (Inchmarlo) ap.
62 I Bratton (Newburgh) p.
63 I Welsh (Nigg Bay), S Finnie (Caledonian), J Nicolson (Auchmill).
64 A Campbell (Deeside).
65 G Grimmer (Nigg Bay), C Nelson (MacKenzie Club) p, E Kennedy (Stonehaven),T Mathieson (Murcar Links).
66 B Main (Murcar Links), R Hyland (Newmachar), R MacDonald (Kemnay) p.
67 S Scott (Auchmill), R Fitzpatrick (Inchmarlo) p, S Murray (Aspire) p, N Reid (Deeside) ap, G Ingram (Inverurie), N Murray (Cruden Bay) p, W S Urquhart (Murcar Links).
68 J Hamilton (Murcar Links), F Bisset (Banchory), S Troup (King’s Links) ap, S Fraser (Northern), C Clark (MacKenzie Club) p.
(p denotes professional; ap, assistant professional)

HANDICAP
Class 1 – C Carnegie (Kemnay) (2), J Nicolson (Auchmill) (4) 59; J Kinsella (Braemar) (8), K Davidson (Turriff) (8) 62; I Welsh (Nigg Bay) (scr), S Finnie (Caledonian) (scr), G Grimmer (Nigg Bay) (12), G Ingram (Inverurie) (4), J Hamilton (Murcar Links) (5), K Minty (Turriff) (8), A Stewart (Hazlehead) (8) 63.
Class 2 – K Lumsden (Northern) (16) 61; P Cornfield (Auchmill) (11), I Strachan (Royal Aberdeen) (11), J Jessiman (Oldmeldrum) (14) 62; M Kydd (Newburgh) (10), G Homer (Lumphanan) (12), R Addison (Newburgh) (18) 63.
LEADING SCORECARDS
Inverallochy par 65
OUT: 4-3-4-4-3-4-3-4-4-33. IN: 3-4-4-3-4-3-4-4-3-32
CRAIG CARNEGIE 61
OUT: 4-3-3-4-2-4-2-4-3-29. IN: 3-4-5-3-3-2-4-5-3-32
PAUL CORMACK 61
OUT: 5-3-4-3-3-3-3-3-3-30. IN: 3-3-5-3-5-3-4-3-2-31
IAN BRATTON 62
OUT: 4-3-4-5-3-5--3-3-3-33. IN: 3-4-3-3-3-3-3-4-3-29
+Next Wednesday's meeting is at Montrose.
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