WILLIE SHARPE'S COUNTY NEWS

Ed Wood is Lanarkshire stroke-play champion

Crow Wood's Ed Wood is the new Lanarkshire men's county stroke-play golf champion. At Motherwell's Colville Park Golf Club today, he had rounds of 67 and 70 for a five-under-par total of 137. He won the county title by three shots from Andy Fairbairn (Kirkhil) who had rounds of 68 and 72.
These two players finished in the same order last weekend in the Cadzow Cup at Hamilton and they are also 1 and 2 in the Lanarkshire Order of Merit.
The top 16 available players play start the Lanarkshire match-play on Thursday and Friday at Crow Wood Golf Club.
Stroke-play leading returns
Par 142 (2x71) CSS 71 71
137 Ed Wood (Crow Wood) 67 70.
140 Andy Fairbairn (Kirkhill) 68 72.
143 David Oldham (Hamilton) 71 72, Tony Whitelaw (Mouse Valley) 70 73.
144 Garry Wood (Crow Wood) 72 72.
145 Gordon Taylor (Airdrie) 74 71, Kevin Loughrie (Cambuslang) 72 73, J J Smith (Cambuslang) 72 73.
146 Andrew Steven (Easter Moffat) 74 72, Calum Maclean (Hamilton) 72 74, Scott Douglas (Drumpellier) 72 74.
147 Alan McDonald (Crow Wood) 74 73, Paul Gault (Kirkhill) 74 73, Derek Loudon (Hamilton) 74 73, Stephen Haugh (Colville Park) 72 75, Alan Welsh (Torrance House) 70 77.
148 Stewart Henderson (Hamilton) 74 74.
149 Jordan Gallagher (Crow Wood) 80 69.
150 Alec Brown (Kirkhil) 73 77, Keith Turnbull (Larkhall) 71 79.

Match Play Draw:
E Wood v J Gallagher, J J Smith v A Steven, T Whitelaw v D Loudoun, G Wood v A McDonald, A Fairbairn v S Henderson, K Loughrie v C Maclean, D Oldham v S Haugh, G Taylor v S Douglas.
Dates of ties:
Thursday, July 16.
Friday, July 17.
Monday, July 20.
Final on Thursday, July 23.