HIGH-CLASS FIELD AT LUNDIN THIS WEEKEND
Solarsport sponsor East of
Scotland Open Stroke-play
NEWS RELEASE
Solarsport, the leading sports suncare company, is proud to sponsor the renowned East of Scotland Open Amateur Stroke Play Championship that takes place at Lundin this Saturday and Sunday.
The three-year deal seals a long-standing friendship between The East and Solarsport, and helps the organisers to continue to attract the cream of amateur players from all over the world to maintain the Championship’s high position on the List of Counting Events of the R&A World Amateur Golf Ranking.
The East has attracted a high-class field, most of which are world ranked amateurs, and, as usual, there is an international flavour to this year’s event. Four competitors from Australia, Raphael Becker from Brazil, Arie Fauzi from Malaysia, the Hamilton brothers and Sean Riordan from New Zealand, Ryan Clatworthy from South Africa and three, from USA, including the highly rated Scott Pinckney, in the starting field.
The highest WAGRanked player is Bryden Macpherson, the current Australian Stroke Play Champion, who will be trying to emulate the 2008 East of Scotland Champion, fellow countryman, Rohan Blizard, who now holds his tour card on the Asian Tour. MacPherson equalled the Killermont course record of 63 during the Tennant Cup tournament last Sunday.
There are two past East Champions in the field, 2008 Standard Life Gold Medal and St Andrews Trophy winner, Keir McNicoll of Carnoustie, who will feel he has a point to prove this weekend, and 1997 Amateur Champion, Craig Watson, who, with Lundin member Peter Latimer (The New Club) lost in a three way play-off in 2008 to Blizard.
The Scottish selectors have picked a strong team for the European Team Championships in Wales next week and these players will not be at Lundin, but those players not selected are trying to prove their exclusion unjustified in the best way possible - performance.
A student at Arizona State University, James Byrne from Banchory won the Tennant Cup last weekend with record numbers, Craigielaw’s Mark Hillson reached the quarterfinals of The Amateur at Formby and Fifers James White (Lundin) and Greg Paterson (The New Club) made the match play stage.
Local interest will be intense with Fife Order of Merit leaders, White and Paterson, pitted against Latimer, Alex and Michael Main (Thornton), Fife Champion Colin Martin (Balbirnie Park), former Leven record-holder Barry McDermott (LGS), up and coming St Andrews man Danny Sommerville, Scott Stewart-Cation (Ladybank), Jim White (Leven Thistle) and Lundin’s Grant McNab, Steven Meiklejohn and James Ross.
The East and Lundie look forward to welcoming players and spectators to a weekend festival of fantastic golf at its beautiful links and to the clubhouse of Lundin Golf Club.
Scotland Open Stroke-play
NEWS RELEASE
Solarsport, the leading sports suncare company, is proud to sponsor the renowned East of Scotland Open Amateur Stroke Play Championship that takes place at Lundin this Saturday and Sunday.
The three-year deal seals a long-standing friendship between The East and Solarsport, and helps the organisers to continue to attract the cream of amateur players from all over the world to maintain the Championship’s high position on the List of Counting Events of the R&A World Amateur Golf Ranking.
The East has attracted a high-class field, most of which are world ranked amateurs, and, as usual, there is an international flavour to this year’s event. Four competitors from Australia, Raphael Becker from Brazil, Arie Fauzi from Malaysia, the Hamilton brothers and Sean Riordan from New Zealand, Ryan Clatworthy from South Africa and three, from USA, including the highly rated Scott Pinckney, in the starting field.
The highest WAGRanked player is Bryden Macpherson, the current Australian Stroke Play Champion, who will be trying to emulate the 2008 East of Scotland Champion, fellow countryman, Rohan Blizard, who now holds his tour card on the Asian Tour. MacPherson equalled the Killermont course record of 63 during the Tennant Cup tournament last Sunday.
There are two past East Champions in the field, 2008 Standard Life Gold Medal and St Andrews Trophy winner, Keir McNicoll of Carnoustie, who will feel he has a point to prove this weekend, and 1997 Amateur Champion, Craig Watson, who, with Lundin member Peter Latimer (The New Club) lost in a three way play-off in 2008 to Blizard.
The Scottish selectors have picked a strong team for the European Team Championships in Wales next week and these players will not be at Lundin, but those players not selected are trying to prove their exclusion unjustified in the best way possible - performance.
A student at Arizona State University, James Byrne from Banchory won the Tennant Cup last weekend with record numbers, Craigielaw’s Mark Hillson reached the quarterfinals of The Amateur at Formby and Fifers James White (Lundin) and Greg Paterson (The New Club) made the match play stage.
Local interest will be intense with Fife Order of Merit leaders, White and Paterson, pitted against Latimer, Alex and Michael Main (Thornton), Fife Champion Colin Martin (Balbirnie Park), former Leven record-holder Barry McDermott (LGS), up and coming St Andrews man Danny Sommerville, Scott Stewart-Cation (Ladybank), Jim White (Leven Thistle) and Lundin’s Grant McNab, Steven Meiklejohn and James Ross.
The East and Lundie look forward to welcoming players and spectators to a weekend festival of fantastic golf at its beautiful links and to the clubhouse of Lundin Golf Club.
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