Policeman Brian beats field of 100

to win NE Alliance at Turriff

Inverallochy policeman Brian Ritchie headed a field of 100 with a fine round of four-under-par 66 at today's North-east Golfers' Alliance competition over a rain-saturated Turriff course.
Several forward tees were used because of the conditions but that does not detract from Ritchie's spectacular start in which he birdied five of the first six holes and reached the turn in five-under-par 31.
Bogeys at the 10th and 11th took some of the wind out of his sails but the two-handicapper parred the next six holes before finishing with his sixth birdie of the day, a 3 at the 18th, for 35 home and a two-stroke victory.
McDonald Ellon tour pro Ross Cameron and senior amateur George Paterson (Northern) shared second place on 68. Cameron had six birdies and four bogeys, Paterson three birdies, including two 2s, and only one bogey.
62 was the lowest net score of the day, achieved by seven-handicapper John Roberts, the Cruden Bay GC caterer, making a welcome comeback to the Alliance fold, in Class 1 and Tom Collie (Kemnay), off 11 in Class 2.

LEADING SCRATCH
Par 70
66 B Ritchie (Inverallochy).
68 R Cameron (McDonald Ellon), G Paterson (Northern).
69 B Brooks (Meldrum House), C Trahan (Murcar Links), J Roberts (Cruden Bay), P McLean (Peterhead), D Clark (Duff House Royal), M Jenkins (Duff House Royal).
70 R Stewart (Cruden Bay), S Davidson (Banchory), S Finnie (Caledonian), B Urquhart (Murcar Links), R McDonald (Inchmarlo).
71 I Bratton (Newburgh), B Nicolson (Auchmill), J Mooney (Turriff).
72 A Campbell (Deeside), S Scott (Auchmill), C Robb (Inchmarlo).
73 D Corkey (Murcar Links), N Reid (Deeside), T Collie (Kemnay), F Bisset (Banchory).
74 J Borthwick (Craibstone), L Taylor (Auchmill), C Clark (Mackenzie Club).
75 N Hardie (Kintore), J Duncan (Newburgh), D Law (Hazlehead), D MacKay (Newmachar), K Beveridge (Aboyne), I Gordon (Aboyne).
76 L Roger (Royal Aberdeen), K Minty (Turriff), J Thomas (Craibstone), D MacAndrew (Royal Aberdeen), N Parker (Murcar Links).
77 C Alexander (Murcar Links), C Duffus (Kemnay).
78 P Farnan (Royal Aberdeen), D Wood (Newburgh).
79 F Barclay (Kintore), P Anderson (Deeside), B McPherson (Northern), N Stewart (Northern), D Wilson (Duff House Royal), C Hood (Alford), S Elrick (Kemnay), J Kinsella (Braemar), D Nelson (Aboyne), J Murray (Banchory).
LEADING HANDICAP
Class 1 - J Roberts (Cruden Bay) (6) 62; B Ritchie (Inverallochy) (2), J Borthwick (Craibstone) (8) 66; N Hardie (Kintore) (8) 67; G H Paterson (Northern) (scr), D Clark (Duff House Royal ) (1), M Jenkins (Duff House Royal ) (1), S Scott (Auchmill) (4), D MacKay (Newmachar) (1), L Roger (Royal Aberdeen) (8) 68.
Class 2 - T Collie (Kemnay) (11), 62; D Wood (Newburgh) (12), B Sinclair (Caledonian) (14), D Lawrie (Inchmarlo) (14) 66; K Minty (Turriff) (9), N Parker (Murcar Links) (9) 67; S Kennedy (Craibstone) (12), P Cornfield (Auchmill) (12), I Strachan (Royal Aberdeen) (12), J Jessiman (Oldmeldrum) (15), J Jones (Craibstone) (17) 68.

TURRIFF PAR 70
OUT: 4-4-4-3-4-5-4-4-4--36. IN: 3-4-5-4-4-3-4-3-4--34

BRIAN RITCHIE 66 (-4)
OUT: 3-4-3-2-3-4-4-4-4--31. IN: 4-5-5-4-4-3-4-3-3--35

GEORGE PATERSON 68 (-2)
OUT: 4-4-4-2-4-5-4-5-4--36. IN: 2-3-5-4-4-3-4-3-4--32

ROSS CAMERON 68 (-2)
OUT: 3-4-4-4-3-5-5-3-4--35. IN: 4-4-5-3-5-3-3-2-4--33

JOHN ROBERTS 69 (-1)
OUT: 3-4-4-2-5-5-4-4-4--35. IN: 3-4-4-4-5-4-3-3-4--34

PHILIP McLEAN 69 (-1)
OUT: 4-4-4-3-4-4-5-4-4--36. IN: 3-4-4-3-4-3-4-3-5--33

DUNCAN CLARK 69 (-1)
OUT: 3-4-5-3-3-6-4-4-4--36. IN: 4-3-5-5-4-3-3-3-3--33

MIKE JENKINS 69 (-1)
OUT: 4-5-4-3-4-4-4-4-5--37. IN: 3-4-5-4-4-3-3-2-4--32

BARRY BROOKS 69 (-1)
OUT: 4-4-4-3-4-4-4-5-4--36. IN: 3-4-4-4-5-3-4-3-3--33

CALLUM TRAHAN 69 (-1)
OUT: 4-4-3-3-3-5-4-4-4--34. IN: 4-4-5-3-6-3-3-3-4--35