Sunday, May 18, 2008

Start of Scottish men's area team championship

PHILIP McLEAN STAGES GRANDSTAND

FINISH TO WIN AT CRUDEN BAY

North-east made a good start to this year's Scottish Golf Union men's area team championship with a resounding 8-1 win over Argyll & Bute at Cruden Bay in a Group C tie today.

North-east reached the semi-finals 12 months ago and the incentive this year is that the semi-finals and final will be played at Tain in the North of Scotland on October 4 and 5.

Not all the North-east players had "easy" matches. For instance, youth cap Philip McLean from Peterhead was four down with five holes to play against George Reynolds in the No 2 singles tie.

McLean staged a grandstand finish, winning all of the last five for a one-hole success.

Champions Lothians started their campaign with a 6.5-2.5 win at Craigielaw over Glasgow while there was an unexpected reverse for Perth & Kinross, last year's beaten finalists.

They were beaten 5-4 by Borders at Peebles.

South, who were in the final four last autumn, had a surprisingly comfortable 6-3 win over Angus at Panmure.

Fife led Stirling 2-1 at Thornton after the foursomes but the visitors levelled the scoreline at 4.5 apiece by taking the singles 3.5 to 2.5.

The North suffered a disappointing 5-4 defeat in their only home section tie, to Lanarkshire at Royal Dornoch
The North can lay no blame on their two newly crowned champions, Brian Fotheringham (Forres) who won the District title at Forres on Saturday and Fraser Fotheringham (The Nairn) who won the Youths championship at the same venue.

This pair got three of the North's four points. They were the North's only winners in the foursomes and in the singles Brian Fotheringham recovered from two behind after four holes to win three on the run from the seventh to the ninth.

Then, after a birdie at the 17th, the North champion won on the last green against Lanark's Alyn Dick (Shotts).

Fraser Fotheringham,with a birdie 3 on the 16th green,was always a comfortable winner over Steve Rennie (Drumpellier).
Two of the single matches went to the last green but both points went to the visitors. North's Michael MacDonald (Fortrose & Rosemarkie) found the rough from the tee and a bunker with his recovery to lose by one hole to Paul Shields (Shotts).

Inverness's Bruce Thomson three-putted the last green to lose by one hole to Kevin Loughrie(Cambuslang). The North's third singles winner was Kevin Thomson Moray who won with a birdie on the 17th againsy David Henderson (Hamilton).

Results:

GROUP A

Angus 3, South 6 (at Panmure).

Borders 5, Perth & Kinross 4 (at Peebles).

GROUP B

Lothians 6.5, Glasgow 2.5 (at Craigielaw).

Renfrewshire 6.5, Dunbartonshire 2.5 (at Greenock)).

GROUP C

CLACKMANNANSHIRE 4, AYRSHIRE 5 (at Braehead).

Foursomes – S Borrowman & S Horne lost to J Cairney & T McInally 2 and 1; R Benvie & J Aitken bt E Brown & M Stewart 4 and 3; S Moffat & M Rust lost to G Robertson & B Crawford 2 and 1 (1-2).

Singles – Benvie lost to Stewsart 4 and 2, Borrowman bt Cairney 1 hole, Aitken lost to McInally 2 and 1, Moffat bt Brown 5 and 3, Horne halved with Robertson; Ross halved with Crawford (3-3).

NORTH-EAST 8, ARGYLL & BUTE 1 (at Cruden Bay)

Foursomes – L Phillips & P McLean bt G Tyre & R Currie 6 and 5; M Halliday & G Taylor lost to L Piere & C Timms 3 and 1; A Bews & B Innes bt G Bolton & G Reynolds 4 and 2 (2-1).

Singles – Phillips bt Currie 3 and 1, McLean bt Reynolds 1 hole, Halliday bt Tyre 7 and 5, Taylor bt Bolton 1 hole, Bews bt Piere 6 and 4, Innes bt Tyre 1 hole (6-0).

GROUP D

FIFE 4.5, STIRLING 4.5 (at Thornton).

Foursomes - S Michie & J White bt B Rushford & S Aitken 1 hole; G McNab & C Bradley lost to G Robertson & A Wallace 3 and 2; D Imrie & D Gould bt L Blair & C Lawton 3 and 2 (2-1).

Singles - Michie halved with Wallace, White halved with Lawton, McNab lost to Robertson 5 and 3, Gould bt Aitken 6 and 5, Bradley lost to Rushford 3 and 2, Imrie halved with Blair (2.5-3.5).

NORTH 4, LANARKSHIRE 5 (at Royal Dornoch)

Foursomes: G Thomson & K Thmson lost to A Dick & S Rennie 3 and 2; B Fotheringham & F Fotheringham bt B Sloan & D Henderson 3 and 2; B Thomson & M MacDnald lost to G Rodger & K Loughrie 3 and 2 (1-2).

Singles - B Fotheringham bt Dick 1 hole, F Fotheringham bt S Rennie 1 hole, MacDonald lost to P Sheilds 1 hole, B Thomson lost to Loughrie 1 hole, K Thomson bt Henderson 2 and 1, G Thomson lost to Rodger 4 and 3 (3-3).

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