Wednesday, August 08, 2007

British seniors open amateur championship

REYNOLDS AND PIERSE POST 67s AT
NAIRN AS SHADOWS LENGTHEN

Monifieth maestro Ian Hutcheon possibly lost his chance of winning the British senior men’s open amateur championship over the space of four holes in the first round today (WED).
Three times Scottish over-55s champion in the past five years, the 65-year-old finished on four-over-par 76 at the Nairn links.
That was six shots off the pace set for most of the day at this venue by American Erik Myrmo and Spaniard Miguel Presysler.
Then, between 7.30pm and 8.15pm, with the shadows lengthening at the end of gloriously sunny day, first Chris Reynolds from Littlestone Kent, came storming home in 32 at Nairn to return a five-under-par 67, followed in the last group to finish by Arthur Pierse from Tipperary, also with a 67.
Pierse was four under par after three holes after a birdie-eagle-birdie start.
Not that laid-back Ian will have lost any sleep over it, but he could have been in contention instead of nine strokes adrift but for a most uncharacteristic spell of five shots dropped between the 10th and the 13th.
Hutcheon had had a bogey 5 at the short sixth but he came out of the outward half on level par 36, thanks to birdies at the first, second and seventh.
He dropped another one at the 10th but then came a horrendous triple bogey 7 “from nowhere” at the 444yd 12th.
“I am in the middle of the fairway with my drive and then I hit my second way off line into some bushes. I’ve not hit as bad a shot as that for a long, long time,” said Hutcheon who improved his handicap to +3 with a pair of 66s at Monifieth last week when he won the East of Scotland Seniors open by 13 strokes.
“I just don’t know where it came from but that cost me a 7 and then I dropped another one at the next. I felt better after parring the next four holes and birdieing the last, but it wasn’t one of my best days. I missed a few putts too.”
The top Scots at the end of a long day which saw a field of 250-odd competitors in action – only the leading 60 and ties will play Friday’s final round – were former Newtonmore shinty ace John Fraser (Royal Burness), the Nairn trio of Peter Saggers, Patrick Tomisson and Robin Paton, former Walker Cup player George Macgregor (Glencorse), Robert Gill (Gerrards Cross) and Aberdeen’s Alastair Fiddes (Murcar Links) and George Paterson (Northern).
Former Murcar man Fraser’s 73 (37-36) at Nairn represented a very good recovery from a double bogey 7 at the second.
One of the last to finish after 8pm, Northern’s George Paterson matched Fraser’s round with halves of 34 and 39. George had six birdies in all but, unfortunately, he had seven bogeys, including at the 12th, 13th, 14th and 16th.
Also at Nairn Saggers used his local knowledge to come roaring home in 35 for a 75 and five-handicapper Fowler did it the other way round: 35 to the turn and then 40 home, including a quadruple bogey 8 at the 12th.
Macgregor (35-40) ran up a double bogey 7 at the last.
At the marginally longer Nairn Dunbar, Gill finished strongly with birdies at the 13th, 14th and 18th for for 35 home and a 72.
Tomisson had a 73 (38-35) after a shaky outward half with bogeys at the fourth, fifth and eight but a stout finish with birdies at the 13th and 16th no blemishes at all in an inward half.
Fiddes had a double bogey 6 at the sixth and dropped another shot at the seventh but he had enough birdies – at the fifth, ninth, 13th and 16th – to salvage a one-over 73 (37-36).
Paton had a 75 (37-38) at Nairn Dunbar.


maestro Ian Hutcheon possibly lost his chance of winning the British senior men’s open amateur championship over the space of four holes in the first round today.
Three times Scottish over-55s champion in the past five years, the 65-year-old finished on four-over-par 76 at the Nairn links. That’s not too bad a score in the context that 70s by American Erik Myrmo and Spaniard Miguel Preysler were the best at this venue.
Not that laid-back Ian will have lost any sleep over it, but he could have been right up there disputing the lead but for a most uncharacteristic spell of five shots dropped between the 10th and the 13th.
Hutcheon had had a bogey 5 at the short sixth but he came out of the outward half on level par 36, thanks to birdies at the first, second and seventh.
He dropped another one at the 10th but then came a horrendous triple bogey 7 “from nowhere” at the 444yd 12th.
“I am in the middle of the fairway with my drive and then I hit my second way off line into some bushes. I’ve not hit as bad a shot as that for a long, long time,” said Hutcheon who improved his handicap to +3 with a pair of 66s at Monifieth last week when he won the East of Scotland Seniors open by 13 strokes.
“I just don’t know where it came from but that cost me a 7 and then I dropped another one at the next. I felt better after parring the next four holes and birdieing the last, but it wasn’t one of my best days. I missed a few putts too.”
By the way, Nairn joint leader Myrmo, a 57-year-old from Eugene, Oregon wasn’t exactly doing handstands after finishing his very good round with a bogey 5 at the 17th and a double bogey 7 at the last.
The defending champion, Paul Simson from Raleigh, North Carolina, 56-year-old president of an insurance ageny, began impressively with a best of the day, four-under-par 68 at Nairn Dunbar.
Simson got his bogeys out of the way early – at the second and fifth – and then covered the last 13 holes in six under par with birdies at the sixth, eighth, ninth, 13th, 15th and 18th in halves of 34 (one under par) and 34 (three under par).
The top Scots at the end of a long day which saw a field of 250-odd competitors in action – only the leading 60 and ties will play Friday’s final round – were former Newtonmore shinty ace John Fraser (Royal Burness), the Nairn trio of Peter Saggers, Patrick Tomisson and Robin Paton, former Walker Cup player George Macgregor (Glencorse), and Robert Gill (Gerrards Cross).
Fraser’s 73 (37-36) at Nairn represented a very good recovery from a double bogey 7 at the second.
At the same venue Saggers used his local knowledge to come roaring home in 35 for a 75 and five-handicapper Fowler did it the other way round: 35 to the turn and then 40 home, including a quadruple bogey 8 at the 12th.
Macgregor (35-40) ran up a doule bogey 7 at the last.
At the marginally longer Nairn Dunbar, Gill finished strongly with birdies at the 13th, 14th and 18th for for 35 home and a 72.
Tomisson had a 73 (38-35) after a shaky outward half with bogeys at the fourth, fifth and eight but a stout finish with birdies at the 13th and 16th no blemishes at all in an inward half.
Paton had a 75 (37-38) at Nairn Dunbar.

FIRST ROUND SCORES (end of play)

NAIRN
Par 72. 6,670yd
67 C Reynolds (Littlestone), A Pierse (Tipperary).
70 E Myrmo (US), M Preysler (Spain), G Cooke (Canada).
72 R Berg (US).
73 J Fraser (Royal Burgess), V Mandelli (Italy), G Paterson (Northern).
74 G Potton (Berkhamsted), M Kelly (Killeen), M Brummer (US).
75 P Saggers (Nairn), L Fowler (Royal Aberdeen), J Hirsch (US), G Macgregor (Glencorse), J Dennis (US), D Harte (Fota Island), M Bell (US).
76 J Putt (Sunningdale), G Brown (Vale of Leven), I C Hutcheon (Monifieth), J Greenbaum (US).
77 K Benson (US), B Kain (US), A Patterson (Sunningdale).
78 D Perrie (Paisley), D McCart (Castlerock), S Baker (Little Aston), H MacKeown (Portmarnock), S Smale (Royal St George’s), G McGee (Erskine), G Thomson (Bearsden).
79 J W Johnston (Royal Aberdeen), J Keller (US), R Smethurst (Crewe), C Nelson (US), C Macleod (Moray), I Cumming (Eastwood), C Christy (Kilmacolm), G MacDonald (Callander), G Rodaks (Moffat), B Grieve (King James VI), C Moir (Worksop).
80 T Hewan (South Africa), J French (US), W Wallace (Strathaven), P Jones (Bromborough), R Wallace (Crosland Heath), B Cramb (Tenby), V Villarreal (Mexico), A Brownridge (Canada), R Thomson (St Andrews), H Clunas (Nairn Dunbar).
81 D Longmuir (Verulam), S Pond (Worksop), T Bennett (Great Barr), F Urquhart (Inverness), J Clay (Minchinhampton), J Provot (France), A Deichler (US), B Nicholson (Royal Dornoch), S Hickey (Spain),K MacBryde (Newcastle-under-Lyme), D Doodson (Temple).
82 F Lang (Italy), G Payne (Prestbury), T Coffield (US), D Alexander (US), M Wilde (Camberley Heath), H Heyns (South Africa), A Wight (Glencorse), J Watt (Letham Grange), J Nash (Sunningdale).
83 A Ferguson (Drumpellier), G Larrazabal (Spain), T Wells (Burnham Beeches), T Lyford (US), N Cameron (Porters Park), D Du Temple (Australia), R Stuart (US).
84 J Broadfoot (Turnberry), J Marks (Woodbridge), M Irrgang (Germany), P Cowley (Cork), J Dolk (Sweden), G Millerick (Fota Island), G Allan (Wildernesse), R Kidd (Royal Norwich), J Kidney (US).
85 B Back (Sweden), L Engstrom (Sweden), N Marsden (Moor Park), K Sargent (Haydock Park), A K Pirie (Hazlehead), Y Hoffstetter (Switzerland), C Heath (Silloth on Solway), R Carter (North Manchester), J Pierce (US), T Finn (Cork), N Hughes (Gog Magog), M Eager (Lucan).
86 J Adams (Costa Rica), G Steel (Moor Park), B Christie (Bridge of Allan), M Britovsek (Nairn Dunbar).
87 R Haig (Northamptonshire Co), D Millar (St Andrews New), P Crompton (Eaton)..
88 G Chatham (US), M Morris (Portmarnock), O Browne (Richmond), J Andrew (Western Gailes).
89 J Wilson (Frilford Heath), R Pauley (Woodhall Spa), J Kirwan (Bramhall), W Morton (Dunbar).
92 R Lawson (Sunningdale).
94 F Natali (France).

NAIRN DUNBAR
Par 72. 6,703yd.
68 P Simson (US).
71 J Myers (US).
72 B Mills (Clandeboye), R Gill (Gerrards Cross), D Arnold (Copthorne).
73 J Baldwin (US), S Hakes (US), P Tomisson (Nairn), A Fiddes (Murcar Links), J Blumenfeld (US).
74 R Woulfe (US), B Rowan (Drift), G Verble (US), R Thoms (US), W Jackson (US), T McGraw (US), G Reynolds (Ludlow), D Crawford (US), F Lukasik (US).
75 D Lane (Goring & Streatley), G Rees (Fleetwood), I Taylor (Royal Burgess), B Leonard (US), R Walker (Crewe), R Paton (Nairn), J Wellington (South Africa), K Richardson (US), D McKinnon (Ballochmyle), S Segsworth (Canada), B Edgar (Blackpool North), B Reddan (Co Louth), R Humble (Kilspindie).
76 P Garner (Sunningdale), C Salaber (US), J Jermine (Sunningdale), B Griffiths (Llanymynech), M Wigley (Hankley Common), L J Trenor (Spain), D Kuehn (US), D Eccleston (Ormskirk), T McEvoy (Hatfield), D Brodie (Nairn Dunbar), I Stewart (Curragh), J Whitcutt (Bur nham & Berrow)..
77 R McLellan (Turnberry), S Ellis (Cowal), V Singh (India), B Simmons (Canada).
78 M McKenna (Elsenham), R Shimwell (Hessle), S Coyne (Killarney), J Thomas (Ravensworth), K Howie (West Kilbride), R McDonnell (Co Louth), A Morrison (Appleby), G Bray (Carrickmines), J Bruce (Edzell), N P Machado (Portugal), D Bentham (Bolton).
79 L Frankel (France), P Kinloch (Cardross), J Smith (Taunton & Pickeridge), C Hurst (London), J Hubbard (Sunningdale), F Silver (Canada), B Methven (Royal Aberdeen), N Barnes (Brokenhurst Manor), B Varn (US), N Fletcher (Chorley), R A Abdellaoui (Morocco).
80 T Brown (Stand), D Lindsay (Windyhill), A Elder (Kirkcaldy), T Hartnett (St Andrews), J Westwood (Moray), J O’.Neill (Reddish Vale).
81 T Dickinson (Royal Liverpool), N Wilson (Spain), E Fontecilla (Spain), D Bunker (Nairn Dunbar), R Kulp (US), S Bannerman (Glasgow), W Morgan (Wynyard), D Millar (Berwick), F Clark (Royal Aberdeen), R Horseman (Woodhall Spa), J Stevens (Hayston).
82 K Ballenger (UAE), J Black (Scotscraig), J Anderson (Scotscraig), J Anderson (Radcliffe on Trent), J Kinloch (Cardross), C Alexander (Murcar Links).
83 D Miller (Murrayfield), B Josefsson (Sweden), K N Andersson (Sweden), J Hodday (South Africa), A Waddington (Crewe), P Bradley (Retford), R Searle (High Post), G Graham (US), S Radcliffe (US), C W Green (Cardross), A Grufman (Sweden), S Sander (Sunningdale).
84 R Linacre (Coxmoor), R Stewart (Tulliallan), R Crisp (Ellesborough).
85 L Gordon (Turnhouse).
86 N Kirkness (Wilmslow), A Tarumianz (US), I Duncan (Nairn Dunbar), D Clifford (Cork).
87 A Cameron (Gourock), R Floyd (Celtic Manor), D Sharp (Boat of Garten), W Weynerowski (Canada).
88 M Lironi (Cathkin Braes).
89 H Douthwaite (Dumbarton).
90 G Eiras (Argentina).
91 R King (Hong Kong).
92 G Wilson (Dalhousie).


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