North Scottish Golfers' Alliance revisits Black Isle

JOHN CAMPBELL WINS AT FORTROSE
WITH SEVEN-UNDER-PAR 64

By ALAN COWIE
The North Scottish Golfers' Alliance returned to the Black Isle for a fixture at Fortrose & Rosemarkie for the first time in several years.
A total of 116 competitors found a course in excellent condition for the time of year and greens that had several competitors struggling to cope with their faster pace.
The leading scratch score was achieved by John Campbell, from Grantown, who all but wrapped up the aggregate competition with a seven-under-par 64. He has a seven-shot cushion in the aggregates with one round to come.
It took him six holes to score the first of seven birdies which secured a two-stroke victory over Allan Cameron, a local member who plays out of Inverness GC.
Cameron raced to the turn in five-under-31, but slipped up with bogeys at the 12th and 14th.
Graham Short of the host club won the low handicap with a 66 off seven and there was a three- way tie for first in the high handicap section, including Malcolm McArthur, also Fortrose, who had a double-hit tapping in at the 16th.
Leading returns:
SCRATCH
64 J S D Campbell (Grantown).
65 R A L Cameron (Inverness).
67 M Macdonald (Fortrose & Rosemarkie), B Fotheringham (Forres).
70 C Gaittens (Fortrose & Rosemarkie).
71 D Hector (Elgin).
72 K Thomson (Moray), R Mackay (Fortrose & Rosemarkie).
73 G Short (Fortrose & Rosemarkie), K Fowler (Fortrose & Rosemarkie).
74 B Main (Fortrose & Rosemarkie), J A Grant (Grantown), M Mann (Moray).
75 N D Hampton (Loch Ness), L Reid (Fortrose & Rosemarkie), R McKerron (Forres).
76 S Wilson (Inverness), W Kettles (Nairn Dunbar), J Simpson (Forres), W Donnelly (Forres), G Morrison (Fortrose & Rosemarkie) p, M McArthur (Fortrose & Rosemarkie).
77 A W Mair (Moray), J S Macpherson (Forres), W R Duncan (Moray), K Gaittens (Fortrose & Rosemarkie), JAG Innes (Elgin).
78 J Bellshaw (Fortrose & Rosemarkie), A Thomson (Moray) p, J Hearmon (Fortrose & Rosemarkie), A Henry (Grantown), D F Sharp (Boat of Garten).

HANDICAP
Class 1 (eight and under)
66 G Short (Fortrose & Rosemarkie) (7).
67 K Fowler (Fortrose & Rosemarkie) (6).
69 D Hector (Elgin) (2), M Mann (Moray) (5), W R Duncan (Moray) (8), B Main (Fortrose & Rosemarkie) (5).
Class 2 (nine to 14).
67 R B Urquhart (Inverness) (13), M McArthur (Fortrose & Rosemarkie) (9), T Loynes (Boat of Garten)(13).
70 W Fairfield (Nairn Dunbar) (13), A Boxx (Boat of Garten) (9), W Maclennan (Inverness) (12), C Small (Loch Ness)(13).

+Apologies for the late display of Alan Cowie's report due to transmission difficults with AOL.