TERRY GETS OFF THE MARK IN
N E ALLIANCE AT DEESIDE

By RON MENZIES

Last week's North-east Alliance meeting at Deeside provided Terry Mathieson of Murcar Links with his first win of the season - and the +2 player did it by the handsome margin of four strokes at the head of a big field of 102.
After a bogey start, Terry, pictured right, had birdies at the sixth and eighth holes and reached the turn on one-under-par 35.

Three consecutive birdies from the 15th produced a three-under-par inward half of 31 and a total of 66.

Runner-up on 70 - two shots clear of professional Colin Nelson, was home-course player Andrew Campbell who had been the early clubhouse leader with halves of 36 and 34. He had birdies at the sixth, ninth and 14th.

Leading returns:
SCRATCH

66 T Mathieson (Murcar Links).

70 A Campbell (Deeside).

72 C Nelson (MacKenzie Club), N Reid (Deeside), P Cormack (Inchmarlo), S Davidson (Banchory).

73 A K Pirie (Hazlehead), G Forbes (Murcar Links), R Hyland (Hazlehead), R McDonald (Kemnay).

74 W S Urquhart (Murcar Links), G McInnes (Murcar Links).

75 C Stephen (Meldrum House).

76 G Esson (Portlethen), B Ritchie (Inverallochy), I Bratton (Newburgh).

77 C Duffus (Kemnay), S Elrick (Kemnay), G Grimmer (Nigg Bay),
R Nicoll (Murcar Links), S Murray (Aspire), S Fraser (Northern), G Ingram (Inverurie).
HANDCAP

Class 1 - T Mathieson (Murcar Links) (+2) 68; A Campbell (Deeside) (scr) 70; A K Pirie (Hazlehead) (2) 71; W S Urquhart (Murcar Links) (2), C Duffus (Kemnay) (5), S Elrick (Kemnay) (5), R Nicoll (Murcar Links) (5), F Barclay (Kintore) (7) 72.
Class 2 - G Kennedy (Meldrum House) (13) 66; M Kidd (Newburgh) (10), P Cornfield (Auchmill) ((11) 69; W McBain (Turriff) (13), W Forbes (Murcar Links) (15) 70; C Hood (Alford) (10), J Wilson (Deeside) (10) 73).

This Wednesday's meeting is at Murcar Links.