ORR EQUALS WILLIAMWOOD COURSE
RECORD OF 61 AND PIPS HUTCHEON

FOR TOP PRIZE OF £2,700

David Orr (East Renfrewshire) equalled Stephen Gallacher's Williamwood Golf Club course record of seven-under-par 61 in the second and final round of the Williamwood 36-hole pro-am today. And part-time Glasgow taxi driver finished up pipping overnight leader Greig Hutcheon (Peterculter) for the first prize of £2,700.

It was a first two-round victory of the season for Orr who threatened to win the Gleneagles PGA Scottish championship at one stage of that 72-hole tournament at the start of the month.

He had one 18-hole pro-am success to his credit in June at East Renfrewshire.

Orr, pictured right, had birdies at the fourth, sixth, eighth, 10th, 12th, 13th and 18th in bogey-free halves of 30 (three under par) and 31 (four under par).
Added to his first-day score of 66, that put Orr in the clubhouse lead at nine-under-par 127.

Hutcheon, clear overnight leader with a 62, which gave him a four-shot advantage over Orr at the start of the second day, had seen his lead cut to two by halfway.

Greig reached the turn in one-under-par 32 with birdies at the third and seventh and his first bogey of the tournament at the sixth.

Orr was playing several holes ahead of Hutcheon but a hole-by-hole comparison of their scorecards shows that they were level for the tournament after the 10th at which there was a two-shot swing in Orr's favour. He birdied it, Hutcheon bogeyed.

They both birdied the 12th and Orr's 13th hole birdie matched by Hutcheon's 14th hole birdie left the two players level through the 15th and 16th.

So it all boiled down to the last two holes.

Hutcheon slipped one behind with a bogey at the 17th. Orr had birdied the 18th when he played it which meant that Hutcheon needed an eagle for a tie. He had to settle for a par, which meant that Orr had won by two strokes.

Hutcheon finished with a 67 for seven-under-par 129 and collected a £2,150 prize to add to the money he has won with a superlative run of form since the last round of the Gleneagles PGA Scottish championship in which he finished sixth.

Winner of the Tartan Tour Order of Merit last year, the North-east man is leading the way again.

Robert Arnott (Bishopbriggs Golf Range) finished third at Williamwood with 66 and 65 for 131 and a £1,700 prize.

Hayston tour pro Steven Gray came joint sixth on 135 with 70 and 65 and led "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly" trio of amateurs - Alastair Crabb (handicap 15), Brian Connelly (6) and John McLachlan (12) - to victory in the team event with a net 36-hole two-ball score of 33-under-par 239.

LEADING FINAL TOTALS

Par 136 (2 x 68)

127 D Orr (East Renfrewshire) 66 61 (£2,700).

129 G Hutcheon (Peterculter) 62 67 (£2,150).

131 R Arnott (Bishopbriggs Golf Range) 66 65 (£1,700).

134 D Robertson (Mearns Castle) 69 65, M King (Kingsfield Golf Range) 67 67 (£1,150 each).

135 S Gray (Hayston) 70 65, J McKinnon (Irvine) 68 67, S Catlin (Greenburn) 68 67, S Taylor (Bothwell Castle) 68 67 (£637 each)

136 G Law (Uphall) 69 67, G Lornie (Aspire) 69 67 (£408 each).

137 C Lee (All Golf Swing Centre) 68 69, C Nicoll (Prestwick) 67 70 (£345 each).

138 M Urquhart (Inverness) 70 68, S Cairns (Westerwood) 70 68, G Fox (West Kilbride) 69 69, C Kelly (Cawder) 69 69, R Cameron (McDonald Ellon) 68 70 (£253 each).

139 C Ronald (Carluke) 72 67 (£190).

140 G McInnes (Murcar Links) 72 68, P Wardell (Whitekirk) 71 69, C Elliott (Haggs Castle) 69 71 (£153 each).

141 J McCrfeadie (Buchanan Castel) 74 67, C Gillies (Kingsfield Golf Range) 68 73 (£127 each).

142 D Patrick Mortonhall) 75 67, J McGhee (Turnhouse) 74 68, G McFarlane (Clober) 74 68, D McKay (Wellsgreen) 72 70, E Cameron (Hamilton) 71 71, C Matheson (Falkirk Tryst) 68 74 (£109 each).

143 J Sharp (The Carrick at Cameron House) 71 71, P McKechnie (Braid Hills) 69 74.

144 J Stevenson (Braehead) 71 73.

145 A Lockhart (Ladybank) 74 71, A Fullen (Irvine) 73 72, A Mackrell (Gary Mitchell Golf) 72 73, M Loftus (Cowglen) 71 74, J Clive (Buchanan Castle) 71 74.

146 S Lamb (Broomieknowe) 74 72, A Crerar (King James VI) 73 73.

147 S Garrett (East Renfrewshire) 76 71, N Huguet (Musselburgh) 72 76.

149 A Fleming (North Highland College) 76 73, S Wilson (Gleneagles Hotel) 75 74.

150 B Dunbar (Esporta Dougalston) 76 74, A Hutton (World of Golf) 70 80.

151 K Monaghan (Bothwell Castle) 73 78.

152 S Marshall (Williamwood) 78 74.

154 C McCalman (unatt) 78 76.

Retired: C Doak (unatt) 75 -.

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