Daily Telegraph Junior Scores from Abu Dhabi

Find out how Oliver Huish, Carly Booth, Kelsey MacDonald and Rachael McQueen have fared in today's second round of the Daily Telegraph Junior Golf Championship Finals at Abu Dhabi, the capital city of the United Arab Emirates by switching over to our sister website, www.kirkwoodgolf.co.uk

North-east Alliance members give their views

Scroll down to read the three E-mail letters (from Harry Roulston, A J Smith and Iain Taylor) we've had so far from North-east Alliance members, responding to the Editor's suggestion that perhaps the Newmachar Hawkshill course was too long for the average member (40 No Returns, only 12 players broke 80 last Wednesday).

Matt Richardson looks set for place
at US Tour Final Q School

Former Walker Cup player and past Brabazon Trophy winner Matt Richardson from Ickenham, England is joint leader at Lantana, Texas with one round to go in the US PGA Tour Qualifying School Stage 2 event.
Richardson has had rounds of 70, 74 and 67 for five-under-par 211, a 54-hole total matched only by American Jimmy Walker with scores of 68, 73 and 70.
The leading 20 qualify after the fourth and final round at this venue. They go on to the six-round Final Qualifying School from December 3 to 8 at PGA West.
Another Englishman, Jonathan Lomas, who played on the Tartan Tour in 2008 and is entered from "Scotland," has no chance of making the 19 qualifiers from the Stage 2 eliminator at Beaumont, California.
Lomas is languishing in joint 65th position on 222 after rounds of 73, 76 and 73.
Steve Friesen (Scottsdale, Arizona) leads here with 68, 69 and 67 for 204.

Japan Tour Scoreboard
DUNLOP PHOENIX TOURNAMENT
Phoenix CVC, Hamayama, Yamasaki-Cho, Miyazaki
THIRD-ROUND SCOREBOARD
Par 213 (3 x 71)
205 Prayad Marksaeng (Tha) 68 70 67
207 Tomohiro Kondo 68 69 70
209 Ryo Ishikawa 72 67 70, Masaya Tomida 71 69 69, Brandt Snedeker (USA) 68 71 70
210 Azuma Yano 70 70 70, Shigeki Maruyama 71 68 71, Toru Taniguchi 70 69 71, Hiroyuki Fujita 72 69 69, Hideto Tanihara 72 70 68
211 Hirofumi Miyase 69 73 69, Yasuharu Imano 71 73 67, Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano (Spa) 68 70 73
212 Steve Marino (USA) 71 70 71, Ian Poulter (Eng) 73 73 66, Taichi Teshima 73 66 73, Hyung-sung Kim (Kor) 70 74 68
213 Daisuke Maruyama 73 73 67, Brendan Jones (Aus) 71 71 71, Takao Nogami 72 72 69
214 Koumei Oda 72 70 72, Michio Matsumura 70 68 76, Toru Suzuki 68 71 75, Takashi Kanemoto 73 69 72, Yusaku Miyazato 70 73 71, Naomichi Joe Ozaki 72 73 69
215 Ik-Je Chang (Kor) 69 75 71, Ernie Els (Rsa) 72 73 70, Martin Kaymer (Ger) 76 69 70, Steven Conran (Aus) 71 68 76, S K Ho (Kor) 69 70 76, Kenichi Kuboya 73 73 69, Henrik Stenson (Swe) 68 70 77, Paul Sheehan (Aus) 67 73 75
216 Brandt Jobe (USA) 74 68 74, Satoru Hirota 73 71 72, Yoshikazu Haku 71 71 74
217 Kaname Yokoo 74 72 71, Keiichiro Fukabori 72 72 73, Ryuichi Oda 70 75 72, Seung-ho Lee (Kor) 71 72 74, Shingo Katayama 73 74 70
218 Tadahiro Takayama 76 71 71, David Smail (Nzl) 73 70 75, Toshinori Muto 74 74 70, Masao Nakajima 78 70 70
219 Hideki Kase 70 72 77, Steve Flesch (USA) 71 75 73, Dong-Hwan Lee 69 76 74
220 Wei-Tze Yeh (Tai) 74 74 72, Mitsuhiro Tateyama 72 76 72, Kiyoshi Murota 75 72 73, Hiroshi Iwata 68 74 78
221 Chris Campbell (Aus) 73 75 73, Tommy Nakajima 74 73 74, Sushi Ishigaki 74 73 74, Nobuhito Sato 72 72 77, Takuya Taniguchi 70 76 75
222 Greg Meyer (USA) 72 76 74, Makoto Inoue 73 74 75
223 Kiyoshi Miyazato 74 73 76, Shintaro Kai 75 73 75
224 Johnson Wagner (USA) 71 74 79
226 Toshimitsu Izawa 76 72 78
227 Naoya Takemoto 71 75 81
228 Hidemasa Hoshino 73 74 81

Oliver wants more as he shoots a 65

to lead Hong Kong Open by one

PRESS RELEASE ISSUED BY ASIAN TOUR

England’s Oliver Wilson blasted a five-under-par 65 for the third round lead with Chinese Taipei’s Lin Wen-tang in hot pursuit at the UBS Hong Kong Open today.
The Ryder Cup rookie from Yorkshire holed six birdies against a lone dropped shot for a 13-under-par 197 total while Lin enjoyed a bogey free 64 to lie in second place at the Hong Kong Golf Club.
Former winner Bernhard Langer of Germany, who won the event back in 1991, was two strokes off the pace when he fired an impressive 63 to lie in third spot.
India’s Jeev Milkha Singh, who virtually sealed the Asian Tour’s Order of Merit after his win in Singapore last week, remained in contention in Hong Kong after a 66 to lie in joint fourth spot alongside Northern Ireland’s Rory McIlroy who shot a similar score. Italy’s Francesco Molinari was also in the mix in fourth place after his second straight 67 together with Spain’s Pablo Larrazabal who improved with a 64 for a 200 total.
Wilson, with eight runner-up finishes in Europe, will be eager to break the deadlock this week after a strong 65 today.
“It's tricky out there, you never know, that front nine is quite tough. Our group, we didn't really do much on the first few holes. I didn’t really get off to the best of starts but everything is in good shape. I putted well again today. So if I can keep that one warm tomorrow, then we should be in good shape,” said Wilson.
Lin, who won the Asian Tour International in Thailand in March, enjoyed a solid finish having birdied the last two holes to remain a stroke behind the leader at the par-70 course.
“I birdied the first hole and it gave me very good momentum to carry on for the next 17 holes. There was bit of distraction on my approach shot on the 18th so I had to refocus but the ball landed around eight feet away from the pin and I holed it for birdie.
“I've been a very steady player on the Asian Tour and what I would do is just take it easy and do it in to my own tempo. For a possible win tomorrow, I might need a little bit of luck. And also, every time when I go out to play I can learn, so it's a learning process for me every time,” admitted Lin, who has won three titles on the Asian Tour.
Langer, 51, nailed four straight birdies on the back nine on the way to a strong 63.
“It’s fun. It's always great to be up on the leaderboard. It's always great to be in contention. That's what we practise for and that's what we work for to have a chance on Sunday afternoon to win the golf tournament,” said Langer.
Singh, who won in Singapore last week, shot five birdies against a lone dropped to remain in the hunt heading into the final round.
“I’m comfortable with the way I’m playing and I’m confident and looking forward to tomorrow, see what comes my way. This tournament has a lot of history and the set up is fantastic. It’s great to be here.
“Anybody from eight under can take this. It’s going to be a great day tomorrow. Everyone’s will be fired up and may the best man win. I will keep doing what I’m doing and that’s where I get those 62s and 63s, but I think it will all come down to putting,” said Singh, who was the 2006 Asian Tour’s Order of Merit winner.
Thailand’s Chawalit Plaphol, who was the overnight co-leader, was even-par for the day to lie in a tie for ninth place.
“I hit it well but just I couldn’t make the putts. Hopefully things will improve on Sunday,” said Chawalit.
THIRD ROUND SCOREBOARD

Par 210 (3 x 70)
197 Oliver Wilson 66 66 65
198 Wen-Tang Lin (Tai) 65 69 64
199 Bernhard Langer (Ger) 69 67 63
200 Francesco Molinari (Ita) 66 67 67, Jeev Milkha Singh (Ind) 71 63 66, Rory McIlroy 70 64 66, Pablo Larrazabal (Spa) 69 67 64
201 Colin Montgomerie 68 65 68
202 David Gleeson (Aus) 72 65 65, Iain Steel (Mal) 68 68 66, Chawalit Plaphol (Tha) 66 66 70, Richard Sterne (Rsa) 64 69 69
203 Jean-Baptiste Gonnet (Fra) 69 66 68, Wei Chih Lu (Tha) 70 69 64, Angelo Que (Phi) 68 68 67, David Lynn 71 67 65, Marcus Fraser (Aus) 67 66 70, Kyung-Tae Kim (Kor) 70 67 66
204 Graeme McDowell 71 68 65, Wen-chong Liang (Chn) 64 71 69, Ben Leong (Mal) 69 70 65, David Frost (Rsa) 69 68 67, Mardan Mamat (Sin) 70 67 67, Bradley Dredge 69 70 65
205 Louis Oosthuizen (Rsa) 70 62 73, Oliver Fisher 67 65 73, Martin Rominger (Swi) 71 66 68, Jyoti Randhawa (Ind) 71 68 66
206 Ter-Chang Wang (Tpe) 66 71 69, Antonio Lascuna (Phi) 70 70 66, Darren Beck (Aus) 68 69 69, Mikko Ilonen (Fin) 67 72 67, Soren Kjeldsen (Den) 68 68 70, Gareth Maybin 71 67 68, Paul Waring 72 68 66, Thaworn Wiratchant (Tha) 70 66 70, Unho Park (Aus) 71 68 67, Mark Brown (USA) 70 70 66, Johan Edfors (Swe) 68 65 73, Thongchai Jaidee (Tha) 70 70 66, Peter Hanson (Swe) 67 70 69
207 Daniel Vancsik (Arg) 69 70 68, Anthony Kang (USA) 70 70 67, Gaurav Ghei (Ind) 71 69 67, Wook-Soon Kang (Kor) 69 69 69, Gavin Flint (Aus) 68 70 69, Paul McGinley 71 69 67
208 Rory Sabbatini (Rsa) 71 69 68, Taco Remkes (Ned) 69 70 69, Paul Lawrie 69 70 69, Pelle Edberg (Swe) 69 68 71, David Bransdon (Aus) 70 68 70, Chinarat Phadungsil (Tha) 67 71 70, Wen Teh Lu (Tpe) 68 69 71
209 John Daly (USA) 68 68 73, Frankie Minoza (Phi) 65 72 72, Tony Carolan (Aus) 70 67 72, Taichiro Kiyota (Jpn) 72 67 70, Anders Hansen (Den) 71 68 70, Artemio-hiromasa Murakami (Phi) 67 70 72, David Dixon 68 69 72
210 Zaw Moe (Kor) 72 68 70, Jarmo Sandelin (Swe) 70 67 73, Scott Strange (Aus) 71 68 71, Jose Manuel Lara (Spa) 71 69 70, Juvic Pagunsan (Phi) 70 70 70, Jean Van de velde (Fra) 73 67 70, Phillip Archer 72 67 71, Jamie Donaldson 75 63 72, Sattaya Supupramai (Tha) 71 69 70
211 Jose-Maria Olazabal (Spa) 69 68 74, David Horsey 70 70 71, Miguel Angel Jimenez (Spa) 71 69 71, Niclas Fasth (Swe) 71 69 71, Gregory Bourdy (Fra) 71 69 71, Joong Kyung Mo (Kor) 69 71 71
212 Anthony Wall 72 68 72
213 Marcus Both (Aus) 68 72 73, Shun yat jason Hak (Hkg) 70 70 73, Jong Yul Suk (Kor) 70 69 74
214 Martin Erlandsson (Swe) 70 70 74, Scott Drummond 68 70 76

Snow much chance of playing golf in North-east Scotland!

They may be golfing in Hong Kong, Abu Dhabi and Florida but they are certainly not in Aberdeen and the North-east of Scotland after a heavy fall of snow overnight. Editor Colin Farquharson, for one, is snowbound. Can't get car out up slope of drive-in. Nothing for it but to spend the day trawling the golfing websites of the world ... but he does that anyway!

Alastair Forsyth parts company

with Bob Torrance and goes

back to coach Ian Rae

FROM THE SCOTSMAN SPORTS WEBSITE
By MIKE AITKEN
Alastair Forsyth, Scotland's highest-ranked golfer, has parted company with coach Bob Torrance after two years in a bid to find greater consistency in 2009 and challenge for victories on a more regular basis.
The Paisley golfer enjoyed some high points over the past year, winning the Madeira Islands Open, losing the Estoril Open in Portugal in a play-off, and posting his first top-ten finish in the majors when he was ninth at the US PGA Championship.

On the other hand, there were too many weeks when Forsyth made the cut only to finish among the also-rans. After his terrific display at Oakland Hills, Forsyth didn't improve on 40th place in his last four events.

Indeed, there were no fewer than 19 tournaments in 2008 when the Scot wasn't inside the top 50.

Though he respects and admires Torrance, who has coached Padraig Harrington to three majors in the past two years, and knows his ball-striking greatly improved under the tutelage of Scotland's leading tutor, Forsyth decided he needed a fresh pair of ears and eyes to get him in shape for next term.

Consequently, he has returned to Scottish Golf Union national coach Ian Rae, who was previously his coach for four years."That is no slight on Bob," observed the 32-year-old Forsyth.

"He's terrific, but my game wasn't getting any better and when I explained this to him he was very good about it. He wished me all the best and I hope when we meet up at various tournaments we will still get on well because we had some great laughs down at his place at Inverclyde.

"It's part of a golfer's life that relationships with coaches and caddies come and go. And sometimes we go back to the ones we used to have, as I have done with Ian Rae."

It's the same change made by his compatriot Marc Warren earlier this year, though Forsyth has engineered the switch with more tact.

He'll partner Colin Montgomerie in the World Cup at Mission Hills next week but won't start work on revising his technique until the close season. The Scots are defending champions in China after Monty and Warren tasted success together 12 months ago.

David Huish retiring next spring

David Huish, North Berwick's long-serving professional, is to retire next spring when he will be 65. David won the Northern Open three times, the Scottish professional title once and was a winner more than once on the European Seniors Tour. He also led at halfway in the 1975 Open at Carnoustie.
His oldest son, Martyn, will take over the post of head pro.
See story on our sister website, www.kirkwoodgolf.co.uk

Monty starts third round with a double
bogey 6 in Hong Kong Open

FROM THE EUROPEAN TOUR WEBSITE
Spain’s Pablo Larrazabal surged up the UBS Hong Kong Open leaderboard to share the lead with England's Oliver Wilson and Lin Wen-tang of Chinese Taipei midway through the third round today.
Larrazabal, the European Tour's 2008 Rookie of the Year, started the day four shots off the lead but made his move with an eagle 3 at the long third. Then birdies on sixth, 12th and 13th sent him top at nine under with five holes left to play.
Of the four players who were tied for lead overnight, Wilson was the only one to maintain that position midway through his round.
The 28 year old bogeyed the first but recovered with two successive birdies from the seventh to reach the turn at one under par for the day.
Lin, meanwhile, started the round three shots off the pace but a flawless run on the front nine that yielded three birdies moved him up the leaderboard.
Louis Oosthuizen, who was the overnight leader alongside English duo Wilson and Oliver Fisher and Thailand’s Chawalit Plaphol, had failed to pick up any birdies midway through his round and a bogey on the par three eighth meant he was seven under for the tournament at the turn.
Fisher also struggled to build on his promising display from yesterday as three bogeys and just one birdies through nine dropped the 20 year old to three strokes behind the leaders.
Meanwhile, an eagle 2 on the par-4 seventh helped move major winner Bernhard Langer into contention.
The German veteran began the day four shots off the pace and bogeyed the first to drop to three under.
However, Langer recovered with an impressive run as the 51 year old went birdie-eagle-birdie from the sixth.
Langer picked up another shot on the par four 10th but bogeyed the 12th and trailed the leaders by two strokes after 12 holes.
Colin Montgomerie started his round just one stroke off the lead but made a bad start with a double bogey 6 at the first.
The Scot recovered with birdies on the third and fifth but a bogey at the short eighth meant he dropped to six under for the tournament at the turn.
Teenage amateur Jasan Hak, who yesterday became the youngster ever player to make the cut on the European Tour, completed his round with a three over par 73 and is two over for the tournament.
SCOREBOARD AT THE END OF PLAY