Edmond v Paterson in Friday's final

....................................BARRIE EDMOND ..................................................GEORGE PATERSON

Aberdeen Links Championship Scoreboard

Results of tonight's semi-finals:

SCRATCH

G PATERSON (N) bt D MULLEN (C) 2 & 1.

B EDMOND (BA) bt M GREIG (BA) 2 & 1.

HANDICAP

N GRAY (BA) bt A DIVERS (C) 1 hole.

W WEST (N) bt J KILMAN (BA) 5 & 4.

MURRAY CUP

G W MACKIE (C) bt G MILNE (C) 2 & 1.

R DAVIDSON (C) bt S KENNEDY (N) 5 & 4.

The stories behind the scorelines ...

Bon-Accord's top two players turned on the style in tonight's semi-finals. Matthew Greig can count himself unlucky to be beaten with four-under-par figures. However, he came up against a superb display of ball-striking and putting from Barrie Edmond who grabbed six birdies and no bogeys in the 17 holes played.

Pars were traded at the first three holes and birdies were exchanged at the fourth. Edmond parred the fifth to move one ahead, only for Greig to level at the eighth with a birdie.

The ninth was halved in birdies, leaving Edmond one up at the turn. Birdies were traded at 11, 12 and 13 for Edmond to go two up.

A half in birdies at 15 and two pars were enough for Edmond to squeeze through 2 & 1.

In the other semi-final, George Paterson came through by the same margin in a tight affair. Mullen won the second with a par 4, only to lose the next two holes to a par and a birdie. He squared it at the fifth with a birdie 3 but fell behind again when Paterson birdied the eighth.

Pars at 11 and 14 put Paterson three up but Mullen birdied 15 to reduce the deficit.

Pars at 16 and 17 closed out the match for Paterson.

In the Handicap semi-finals, Norman "Nodge" Gray came through a scrappy encounter against Alan Divers at the last hole. Holes were exchanged at the fourth and sixth for them to turn all square.

Divers won 11 and 12 to move two up but Gray squared the match with wins at 13 and 15. All square standing on the last tee, Divers found the ditch and could not get up and down, leaving Gray to hole a six-footer for victory.

In the other semi-final, Willie West put in a display worthy of the scratch competition with six-under-par figures in defeating Jeff Kilman.

West birdied 5, 8, 9, 12, 13 and 14 to oust Jeff whose one-under-par figures would have won most games.

The Murray Cup final will be an all-Caley affair after wins by Richie Davidson and Graeme Mackie against Stuart Kennedy and Gary Milne respectively.

Davidson posted a devastating run of figures to beat Kennedy 5 & 4 whilst Mackie edged out Milne by 2 & 1 after Milne had broken his putter on the 13th and was forced to putt with a rescue club.

WEDNESDAY TIES

ROYAL ABERDEEN MEDAL PLAY-OFF

5.15 Lee Morrice (C) v Barrie Edmond (BA).

LINKS HANDICAP FINAL

5.30 Norman Gray (BA) v Willie West (N).

MURRAY CUP FINAL

5.45 Graeme Mackie (C) v Richie Davidson (C).