Hugh Hunter's Clackmannanshire Golf News Round-up

OPENING EUROPEAN TOUR

EVENT FOR CALLUM

This week sees Callum Macaulay (Tulliallan), pictured right by Cal Carson Golf Agency, make his debut on the 2009 European Tour when he competes in the Alfred Dunhill Championship which is being held over the Leopard Creek Golf course in South Africa from December 11 to 14.

Callum will be competing in an elite field over the par 72, 7249 yard course and can take some encouragement from the performance of the 2007 winner Alvaro Quiros who won after graduating from the 2006 Tour School.

At present Callum is ranked 1367 in the World Golf rankings, and will be hoping for some good golf to move him upwards. Local golfing enthusiasts can follow his progress in detail on the PGA European Tour website.
There is further good news for Callum in that he is in the field as a sponsor’s invite for the next event (December 18 to 21) in South Africa—the South African Open Championship held at Western Cape on an even longer course at 7438 yards. Best of luck, Callum!!

SCOTT DOES WELL IN ARGENTINA.

The other Clackmannan County golf star, Dollar’s Scott Borrowman, played well in Argentina last week in the Argentine Amateur Golf Championship. Scott was given the golfing opportunity by the Scottish Golf Union as one of a four man squad playing in two tournaments in South America.

The Argentine Amateur was settled by match play after stroke play qualifying, and it was good to see Scott leading the qualifiers by one shot with scores of 71 and 70. In the match play section Scott reached the quarter final stage with three good victories, beating Gabriel Ramella (Argentina) by 8 and 7, then Nicollo Quintarelli (Italy) by one hole and then Matthew Haines (England) 2 and 1 before losing to Jason Scrivener (Australia) in the last eight by 3 and 2.