Cameron Corbett Vase 72-holer this weekend

Booth absence opens door

for last year's chasing pack

to succeed at Haggs Castle

Scotland international Wallace Cooth is still in Italy, competing in the European team championship, so there is no chance of the Comrie man repeating last year's seven-stroke victory in this weekend's Cameron Corbett Vase SGU 72-hole Order of Merit event at Haggs Castle Golf Club, Glasgow.
But the next four behind Booth last year - Ross Kellett (Colville Park), pictured right by Cal Carson Golf Agency, runner-up on 278, and the joint third trio on 279, Paul Betty (Hayston), Robert McKnight (Caprington) and Scott Henry (Cardross) - are in the field of 80.
The horses for courses theory applies in golf as well as racing and Haggs Castle, which has staged tghe Cameron Corbett Vase since it was inaugurated in 1897, might well draw the best out of Messrs Kellett, Betty, McKnight and Henry once again.
Rohan Blizard, the touring Australian, who beat Craig Watson (East Renfrewshire) and Peter Latimer (St Andrews New) in a 45minute play-off last Sunday evening for the East of Scotland Open title at Lundin Golf Club, Fife has left Scotland alongwith his globe-trotting Anzac colleagues.
Former British amateur champion Watson won the Cameron Corbett Vase as long ago as 1996 and 1997 but his Fife form indicates that he is a long way from being a back number.
Latimer could be an interesting "dark horse" in the Haggs Castle field. As a student at Guilford College, North Carolina, the 20-year-old from Muckhart has won twice on the US college circuit but had done nothing of note on home turf until last weekend. He came storming up through the East Open field with the lowest Sunday 36-hole aggregate by anyone, including winner Blizzard, and posted the clubhouse target which was equalled only by the Australian and Watson.
Latimer was eliminated at the first play-off hole but now that he has got the scent of victory in an SGU Order of Merit event, who knows what he will do in the Cameron Corbett Vase?





+With the co-operation of Haggs Castle Golf Club's industrious secretary Alan Williams, we hope to be able to display the Cameron Corbett Vase scores at the end of each of the four rounds. Fingers crossed!