Englishman's third Scottish senior amateur championship win

Panmure parade of the prizewinners (left to right): John Fraser, champion David Lane, runner-up Ian Hutcheon, and Andrew Campbell. Image by courtesy of the Scottish Golf Union (Rob Eyton-Jones). Click on it to enlarge.

David Lane holds off last-nine challenge

from Ian Hutcheon at Panmure

David Lane from the Goring & Streatley club near Reading made the long trip up to the Panmure course, near Carnoustie worthwhile when he won the Scottish senior men's open amateur championship for a third time today.
His previous successes came at Glasgow Killermont in 2001 and Scotscraig in 2002. There's no doubt that the Scottish air brings the best out of David. He won the British seniors' open amateur title in 1998 when it was staged over Western Gailes and Glasgow Gailes.
Lane was three shots behind Ian Hutcheon - also a two-time Scottish seniors winner, Alyth in 2004 and Drumpellier in 2007 - after the first round but led by one shot going into today's final round.
Lane's final outward half of 39 gave Hutcheon the chance to draw level with 38 to the turn but the Monifieth maestro bogeyed the 15th and 16th while his English rival reeled off nine straight inward pars for victory with a 74 for nine-over-par 219.
Hutcheon had rounds of 67, 79 and 75 for 221.
Andrew Campbell (Kinross) and former shinty ace John Fraser (Royal Burgess) finished joint third on 223.
Campbell had scores of 75, 76 and 72, Fraser 78 68 and 77. John will be rueing a triple bogey 7 at the eighth in a disastrous outward nine of six-over-par 42. A par at the eighth might have seen him finish at least second.
But that's golf - full of might-have-beens!

Defending champion Bob Stewart (Tulliallan) finished joint 26th.
FINAL TOTALS
Par 210 (3x70) CSS 73 73 73
219 David Lane (Goring & Streatley 70 75 74.
221 Ian C Hutcheon (Moifieth) 67 79 75.
223 Andrew Campbell (Kinross) 75 76 72, John Fraser (Royal Burgess) 78 68 77.
224 David Downie (Kirriemuir) 77 74 73, Stephen Baker (Woodside) 74 74 76, Robert Vallis (Bermuda) 76 70 78.
226 John Johnson (Royal Aberdeen) 78 75 73, Sandy Pirie (Hazlehead) 75 75 76, Philip Sater (Sandiway) 75 74 77.
227 George Payne (Prestbury) 75 76 76, Gordeon MacDonald (Callander) 76 71 80.
228 Paul Crellin (Prenton) 78 77 73.
229 Keith MacBryde (Stone) 74 809 75, Adrian Donkersley (Gerrards Cross) 77 76 76, Glyn Rees (Fleetwood) 74 77 78, Alan Ferguson (Drumpellier) 77 74 78, George Paterson (Northern) 76 73 80.
230 Glyn Hughes (Church Stretton) 74 81 75, Andrew Wight (Glencorse) 73 80 77, Geoffrey King (West Essex) 81 72 77, J Scott Macdonald (Dunfermline) 78 75 77, Tony Patterson (Sunningdale) 76 77 77, Ralph Cowe (Kelso) 76 77 77, John Black (Scotscraig) 74 76 80.
231 Robert Stewart (Tulliallan) 77 76 78, John Baldwin (Sunningdale) 77 74 80.

232 Robert Jack (Liberton) 78 74 80.

233 Richard Campbell (Kinross) 79 76 78, Bill MacIntyre (Harpenden) 77 78 78, Rich Tolly (US) 80 75 78, Aidan Grounds (Falkirk Tryst) 75 79 79, Martyn Temple (US) 76 76 81, Donald McCart (Sherwood Forest) 73 78 82, Francis Clark (Royal Aberdeen) 75 75 83.

234 Jim Watt (Edzell) 75 79 80, William Brown (Strathaven) 77 75 82.

235 Norman Swenson (US) 77 77 81.

236 Jonathan Hubbard (Sunningdale) 80 74 82, Robert Gill (Gerrards Cross) 73 79 84.

237 Robert Wallace (Crosland Heath) 78 76 83, Basil Griffiths (Llanymynech) 77 75 85.

239 Colin Halcrow (Windyhill) 75 79 85.

241 Alistair Brett (Northumberland) 81 74 86.