Tom Spencer with the North-east District boys' championship trophy at Murcar Links.

TOM SPENCER BACK IN FORM TO WIN
NORTH-EAST BOYS’ CHAMPIONSHIP

Scotland boy international Tom Spencer regained the form that gained him a cap by winning the North-east District boys’ championship after a long, long day's golf at Murcar Links.
Spencer opened up a four-stroke lead with a first-round, two-under-par 69 to which he added a 74 for a one-over-par tally of 143.
Tom had bogey-free opening round highlighted by birdies at the first and short fifth in halves of 34 and 35. He again got a 2 at the fifth second time round and a birdie 3 at the ninth but his halves of 36 and 38 also included five bogeys, three on them on the inward half.
Neverthless, Spencer had three shots to spare at the finish from Inchmarlo clubmate Chris Robb who had a pair of 73s for 146.
Robb won the Under-16s trophy.
Sam Griffiths (Cullen), the long-time clubhouse leader, finished third on 147 with 74 and 73.
Sam won the prize for the best net aggregate of 139.

+++Two players, Steven Smith (Deeside) and Fraser Clarke (Westhill), both had holes in one at the short fifth.

The top four players qualify to contest the North-east District boys' match-play championship, also at Murcar Links, on Friday. The semi-finals, starting at 8.45am, are:

Tom Spencer v Ryan Bain (Strathlene) (better second round than two others who finished on 148).

Chris Robb v Sam Griffiths.

The leading 12 players (also those on 151 or better plus one from the 152 mark: Ewan Barrack with a better second round) qualified to be the North-east District representatives in the Platform 2 boys and girls tournament, sponsored by Eric Lindsay, at Letham Grange on Sunday, September 16.

NORTH-EAST DISTRICT UNDER-18 BOYS’ CHAMPIONSHIP
Murcar Links. Par 71, CSS 73 72.
LEADING SCRATCH
143 T Spencer (Inchmarlo) 69 74.
146 C Robb (Inchmarlo) 73 73.
147 S Griffiths (Cullen) 74 73.
148 R Bain (Strathlene) 75 73, C Trahan (Inchmarlo) 74 74, A Dunton (McDonald Ellon) 74 74.
150 O Coull (Buckpool) 76 74, S Robertson (Hazlehead) 75 75, M Campbell (Buckpool) 77 73, D Law (Hazlehead) 78 72.
151 F Clarke (Westhill) 80 71.
152 M Stainton (Peterhead) 77 75, E Barrack (Oldmeldrum) 78 74, W Rennie (Royal Aberdeen) 77 75, R Penny (Portlethen) 75 77.
153 K Watson (Newburgh) 78 75, S Strachan (Inverallochy) 76 77.
155 C Cromar (Lumphanan) 76 79, E McIntosh (McDonald Ellon) 80 75.
156 N Barnes (Deeside) 74 82, C Chalmers (Oldmeldrum) 80 76, C Brown (Stonehaven) 77 79, S Brown (Murcar Links) 78 78, J Scott (Deeside) 77 79.
157 M Mair (Cullen) 84 73.
158 R Milne (Aboyne) 78 80, N McAndrew (Cullen) 81 77.
159 D Ibbotson (Murcar Links) 80 79, D McAndrew (Royal Aberdeen) 80 79, J Robertson (Turriff) 81 78, S Fraser (Royal Aberdeen) 76 83.
160 S Smith (Deeside) 82 78.
163 F O’Connor (Inchmarlo) 84 79, C Ross (Northern) 81 82.
164 M Roger (Fraserburgh) 82 82.
165 M Kelly (Deeside) 80 85.
166 I McLeod (Stonehaven) 83 83.
168 K Booth (Hazlehead) 90 78, G Law (Oldmeldrum) 85 83.
169 S Goodbrand (Westhill) 83 86, M Wiseman (Peterhead) 81 88.
171 G Kennedy (Hazlehead) 90 81, M Patterson (McDonald Ellon) 89 82.
172 M Kidd (Newburgh) 86 86, P Lemon (Peterhead) 92 80.
174 S Sharp (Newburgh) 92 82.
175 M Lawson (Peterhead) 86 89.
179 D Christie (Portlthen) 89 90.
180 G McKechnie (Oldmeldrum) 90 90.

UNDER-14s (Strabathie course, Par 70, CSS 67)
Leading scratch - 72 C Kelman (Deeside). 73 R Gauld (Cruden Bay). 75 J Presley (Deeside). 77 S McNeill (Inchmarlo). 79 R Gordon (Alford), A Carrell (Peterculter). 81 C Campbell (Inchmarlo). 83 G Joss (Royal Aberdeen). 84 C Cross (Peterhead). 85 D Ross (Portlethen). 86 E Robertson (Peterculter). 87 S Skinner (Peterhead). 88 M Fraser (Alford). 89 G Wilson (Alford), C Polson (Auchmill).
Leading handicap – C Kelman (Deeside) (13) 59; J Presly (Deeside) (11), R Gauld (Cruden Bay) (9) 64; R Gordon (Alford) (11), G Joss (Royal Aberdeen) (15), L Minty (Northern) (22) 68; C Campbell (Inchmarlo) (11), E Robertson (Peterculter) (16) 70; S McNeill (Inchmarlo) (6) 71.