Broch boy Gordon Munro wins North-east

Under-18s championship over home course

Local knowledge paid off in a big way for Gordon Munro, playing over his home course at Fraserburgh in today's Paul Lawrie North-east boys' golf championship.
In the absence of Hazlehead's Scottish boys champion David Law and Chris Robb (Inchmarlo), competing in a Dutch junior international event, Munro, who made his representative debut for the North-east boys team earlier in the week, finished four shots clear of the field.
A first-round 68, two under par, gave him a two-stroke lunchtime lead over Andrew Carrell (Peterculter) and an afternoon 70 for a total of two-under-par 138 saw him win with ease from Carrell who added a 72 for 142.
Carrell won the Under-16 championship.
Ryan Gordon (Alford) was down the field with an opening 75 but a 69 - the best score by anyone in the second round - lifted him up into third place on 144.
Ryan Bain (Strathlene) and Jack Presly (Banchory) both finished on 146. Ryan Bain, who took the day off from his first job to play in the championship, is not available for the North-east boys' match-play championship contested at the same Fraserburgh venue today alongwith the North-east Under-14s championship.
The semi-final ties are:
9.30am Gordon Munro v Jack Presly.
9.40 Andrew Carrell v Ryan Gordon.
The final will tee off at 2pm.

LEADING TOTALS
Par 140 (2x70). CSS 71 71
138 Gordon Munro (Fraserburgh) 68 70.
142 Andrew Carrell (Peterculter) 70 72.
144 Ryan Gordon (Alford) 75 69.
146 Ryan Bain (Strathlene) 73 73, Jack Presly (Banchory) 72 74.
147 Fraser Clarke (Westhill) 74 73, D Ritchie (Fraserburgh) 72 75.
149 D Thomsett (Aboyne) 76 73.
150 Conner Campbell (Inchmarlo) 73 77, Chris Lamb (Newmachar0 72 78.
151 J Drummond (Strathlene) 75 76.
152 R Manson (Braemar) 75 77, Robbie Gauld (Cruden Bay) 74 78,
153 Steven Smith (Deeside) 77 76, Nicholas McAndrew (Cullen) 73 80.
154 J Reid (Cruden Bay) 77 77, Alexander Wiseman (Fraserburgh) 74 80.
155 J Barbour (Fraserburgh) 78 77, Jack Walker (Fraserburgh) 78 77
156 R Taylor (Fraserburgh) 82 74, Neale Barnes (Deeside) 78 78, Chris Kelman (Deeside) 77 79.
157 C Bain (Strathlene) 81 76, A Wallace (Portlethen) 79 78.
158 Matthew Roger (Fraserburgh) 80 78, Jamie Manson (Oldmeldrum) 77 81.
159 Blair McPhersoin (Northern) 83 76, S Johnson (Fraserburgh) 80 79, James W Cardno (Inverallochy) 77 82.
160 Sean Lawrie (Portlethen) 83 77, Evan Robertson (Inchmarlo) 81 79, Ben Murray (Portlethen) 81 79.
161 K Zevnalov (Portlethen) 77 84, William Rennie (Hazlehead) 77 84.
162 C Diack (Aboyne) 82 80.
165 Ross Buchan (Inverallochy) 88 77, Charles Cross (Peterhead) 86 79, Ross Anderson (Stonehaven) 83 82, S Kiloh (Portlethen) 80 85.