LOMAS AND GRAY TIE AT NEWMACHAR

WITH TWO-UNDER-PAR 70s

Former European Tour player Jonathan Lomas, who now lives near Alloway, Ayrshire, shared first place with Hayston's Stephen Gray in the £5,500 Fairways Pro-am, supported by Golf Finance, at Newmachar Golf Club today.
Once again the Tartan Tour pros found the Dave Thomas-designed Hawkshill course, with its tree-lined fairways and water hazards, a test for the best.
Gray and Lomas headed the field in the shotgun start event with matching rounds of two-under-par 70. They each earned £818.55.
Gray started his round at the fifth and did well to shake off the potentially demoralising effect of a double bogey at the eighth. He bounced back with birdies at the ninth, 11th, 14th and 16th in halves of 37 and 33.
Lomas started his round at the eighth and his two bogeys came at the 13th and 14th. But he then birdied the 17th and 18th and the fifth and sixth.
Robert Arnott (Bishopbriggs) led the Concept Group Ltd trio of amateurs, Neil McLean (handicap 18), Philip Edwards (1) and Kevin Riley (scratch) to victory in the team event with a 13-under-par net score of 131. They won by one shot from the team piloted by Kingsfield pro Mark King.
FINAL TOTALS
Par 72
70 Stephen Gray (Hayston), Jonathan Lomas (unatt) £815.55 each.
71 Edward Thomson (Senit Associates), Robert Arnott (Bishopbriggs), Craig Ronald (Carluke) £427.46 each.
72 Mark King (Kingsfield), Lindsay Mann (Carnoustie) £254.57 each.
73 Chris Campbell (Grantown on Spey), Graeme Lornie (Paul Lawrie Foundation), Fraser Mann (Musselburgh) £175.89 each.
74 Callum Nicoll (Prestwick), Alan Lockhart (Ladybank), Greg McBain (Royal Dornoch) £131.78 each.
75 Scott Henderson (Kings Links), Christopher Russell (RAW Golf Course Design) £109.14 each.
76 Paul McKechnie (Braid Hills) £91.13.
77 Andrew Coooper (Newmacharr), David Orr (East Renfrewshire) £77.21 each.]78 Craig Matheson (Falkirk Tryst) £63,85.
81 Colin Gillies (Perry Golf) £54.57.
NR Gordon Simpson (Hilton Park) £43.01.