St Andrews New player makes 72-hole OOM breakthrough

GREG PATERSON WINS SUTHERLAND CHALICE BY EIGHT STROKES WITH

16-UNDER-PAR 264

Uncapped Fife county player Greg Paterson of the St Andrews New Golf Club scored his first ever SGU Order of Merit 72-hole tournament win today – and he did it in style, winning the Sutherland Challice by EIGHT strokes at Dumfries & Galloway Golf Club.
Paterson, who lives at Drumoig, shot to the front at halfway with a second-round 64, six under par, but those it was a flash in the performance were silenced when Greg actally increased his five-stroke advantage over the field at halfway to eight shots with one round to go.
Greg repeated his third-round 66 at the last time of asking for a exceptional total of 16-under-par 264 … not bad going indeed for a player who was joint 23rd in the Cameron Corbett Vase, joint 20th in the West of Scotland Open and tied 19th in the Scottish youths championship.

Paterson's best open tournament performance prior to this weekend was possibly to finish joint runner-up to Scott Henry in the 2004 Scottish boys' open stroke-play at Machrihanish.
Keir McNicoll (Carnoustie), pictured above, finished strongly with Sunday rounds of 67 and 65 to finish second on 272.
Joint third were Callum Macaulay and Craig Watson on 275.
Wallace Booth (Comrie), winner of the Tennant Cup and the Cameron Corbett Vase to lead the SGU Order of Merit, saddled himself with a second-round, five-over-par 75 but he finished well with scores of 65 and 68 to gain fifth place on 276.

Scroll down if you want to see the list of non-qualifiers for the final two rounds ... they included such big names as Paul O'Hara and Scott Henry.

FINAL TOTALS
Par 280 (4 x 70). CSS 72 72 70 70
264 G Paterson (St Andrews New) 68 64 66 66.
272 K McNicoll (Carnoustie) 71 69 67 65.
275 C Macaulay (Tulliallan) 71 71 65 68, C Watson (East Renfrewshire) 70 70 66 69.
276 W Booth (Comrie) 67 75 65 69.
277 L Kirton (Newmachar) 73 73 64 67, M Millson (Craigielaw) 71 72 65 69, S Borrowman (Dollar) 69 72 65 71, P McLean (Peterhead) 71 68 69 69, J King (Glasgow) 67 71 72 67, I Thomson (Powfoot) 68 69 69 71.
279 C Harkins (Ayr Belleisle) 70 72 69 68, J White (Lundin) 68 71 71 69.
281 B Fotheringham (Forres) 72 69 71 69.
282 M Lawrence (Newmachar) 73 73 67 69, G Campbell (Blairgowrie) 71 66 75 70.
283 J Hempstock (Dumfries & Galloway) 72 74 66 71, P Latimer (St Andrews New0 67 78 70 68, R McKnight (Barassie) 74 71 69 69, S McEwan (Caprington) 71 73 68 71, J Findlay (Fraserburgh) 69 74 72 68.
284 P Betty (Hayston) 74 68 70 72.
285 M Bookless (Sandyhills) 73 72 74 66.
286 G C Turner (West Linton) 72 73 68 73, A Main (Thornton) 73 72 72 69, N Bell (Carlisle) 71 73 70 72, J Hamilton (NZ) 72 69 74 71.
287 A Culverwell (Dunbar) 70 74 76 67.
288 A Gordon (Portpatrick (Dunskey) 71 75 71 71, E Polson (Inverness) 74 71 67 76.
289 R Dixon (Barassie) 68 77 68 76.
290 J Clarke (Royal Montrose) 73 73 73 71, C Riddick (Dumfries & Galloway) 74 72 73 71, S Lockhart (Bathgate) 72 71 74 73.
292 D Addison (Barassie) 75 69 75 73.
293 J Paterson(Hayston) 72 73 75 73.
297 S Hume (Murrayshall) 73 72 74 78.
Scratched from final round – M Kerr (Craigielaw) 71 71 74 -, R Shaw (Wigtown & Bladnoch) 70 75 81 -.

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