LAIRD NOW 11TH ON NATIONWIDE
TOUR MONEY TABLE AFTER JOINT

FOURTH FINISH AT OMAHA

Former Scottish youths champion Martin Laird, 25, has moved up from 16th to 11 on the Nationwide Tour on the United States.
This follows the long-hitting Glasgow player’s joint fourth place finish – his third top-five of the season – in the Cox Classic tournament on Sunday at Champions Run, Omaha in Nebraska.
Laird, who has been a winner this year, had scores of 68, 65, 66 and 66 for 19-under-par 265.
His bogey-free final round contained birdies at the fourth, sixth, ninth, 10th and 17th.
Although he had two eagles in the course of his first three rounds, Martin will be rueing a double bogey 6 at the fourth hole in his opening round.
He finished five shots behind winner Roland Thatcher (64-63-68-65) and four behind runner-up Jason Day (66-70-62-63).
Laird earned $25,593 for his joint fourth place finish. That boosted his season’s earnings to $174,134 from 16 events. He has missed only three cuts. Martin, who stands 6ft 2in and weighs 185lb, is the 11th longest driver on the No. 2 American Tour with an average tee shot of 306.6 yards.

Laird, a Hilton Park Golf Club member during his amateur career, spent four years on the American college circuit as a student at Colorado State University.