STARS MISS EAST OF SCOTLAND OPEN
BUT STILL PLENTY OF BIG NAMES
LEFT IN FIELD AT LUNDIN LINKS
The absence from this weekend's East of Scotland Open of a clutch of the best players in Scotland is a blow to Scottish Golf Union president David Moir who just happens to be the livewire organiser of the 72-hole SGU Order of Merit event at Lundin Links.
Title-holder Keir McNicoll (Carnoustie) is absent alongwith the five other top players in the Scotland squad for next week's European men's amateur team championship at Western Gailes - James Byrne (Banchory), Richie Ramsay (Royal Aberdeen), Lloyd Saltman (Craigielaw), Kevin McAlpine (Alyth) and Jonathan King (Glasgow).
Then there's this week's Ireland v Scotland youths international match at West Waterford followed by the Irish youths open amateur stroke-play championship in which new Scottish youths champion Scott Borrowman (Dollar), Ross Kellett (Colville Park), Jordan Findlay (Fraserburgh), Lewis Kirton (Newmachar), Philip McLean (Peterhead) and Robert McKnight (Barassie) are all playing.
The tournament ends Friday but they won't be back in time to play the first two rounds at Lundin Golf Club on Saturday.
That is not to say that the East of Scotland Open title is there for the taking. There are still a host of very good players in the field, including the in-form Wallace Booth (Comrie), the former Scottish youths champion who won the Tennant Cup last weekend, thanks to a magnificent third and final round of 64 at Glasgow Killermont.
Then there's former Scottish match-play champion Glenn Campbell (Blairgowrie), past British amateur champion Craig Watson (East Renfrewshire), who led the Tennant Cup field after 36 holes at Glasgow Gailes and was then left behind in Wallace Booth's slipstream last Sunday, and Paul O'Hara (Colville Park), who feels he should be in next week's Scotland line-up and desperately wants to win a 72-hole SGU Order of Merit event to prove his point.
Callum Macaulay (Tulliallan), a semi-finalist in the British amateur championship last week, Duncan Stewart (Grantown on Spey), Bryan Fotheringham (Forres), Iain Colquhoun (Glasgow), Gavin Dear (Murrayshall) and Scott Mann (Carnoustie) are also capable of mounting a challenge in this 72-hole event.
BUT STILL PLENTY OF BIG NAMES
LEFT IN FIELD AT LUNDIN LINKS
The absence from this weekend's East of Scotland Open of a clutch of the best players in Scotland is a blow to Scottish Golf Union president David Moir who just happens to be the livewire organiser of the 72-hole SGU Order of Merit event at Lundin Links.
Title-holder Keir McNicoll (Carnoustie) is absent alongwith the five other top players in the Scotland squad for next week's European men's amateur team championship at Western Gailes - James Byrne (Banchory), Richie Ramsay (Royal Aberdeen), Lloyd Saltman (Craigielaw), Kevin McAlpine (Alyth) and Jonathan King (Glasgow).
Then there's this week's Ireland v Scotland youths international match at West Waterford followed by the Irish youths open amateur stroke-play championship in which new Scottish youths champion Scott Borrowman (Dollar), Ross Kellett (Colville Park), Jordan Findlay (Fraserburgh), Lewis Kirton (Newmachar), Philip McLean (Peterhead) and Robert McKnight (Barassie) are all playing.
The tournament ends Friday but they won't be back in time to play the first two rounds at Lundin Golf Club on Saturday.
That is not to say that the East of Scotland Open title is there for the taking. There are still a host of very good players in the field, including the in-form Wallace Booth (Comrie), the former Scottish youths champion who won the Tennant Cup last weekend, thanks to a magnificent third and final round of 64 at Glasgow Killermont.
Then there's former Scottish match-play champion Glenn Campbell (Blairgowrie), past British amateur champion Craig Watson (East Renfrewshire), who led the Tennant Cup field after 36 holes at Glasgow Gailes and was then left behind in Wallace Booth's slipstream last Sunday, and Paul O'Hara (Colville Park), who feels he should be in next week's Scotland line-up and desperately wants to win a 72-hole SGU Order of Merit event to prove his point.
Callum Macaulay (Tulliallan), a semi-finalist in the British amateur championship last week, Duncan Stewart (Grantown on Spey), Bryan Fotheringham (Forres), Iain Colquhoun (Glasgow), Gavin Dear (Murrayshall) and Scott Mann (Carnoustie) are also capable of mounting a challenge in this 72-hole event.
Labels: Amateur Men
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