Hugh Hunter's Clackmannan County New
NO JOY FOR LOCAL GOLFERS IN SCOTTISH AMATEUR.
Three local golfers featured in the field of 256 in the Scottish Amateur Golf Championship held over Royal Troon last week, but the best performance came from Dollar’s Scott Borrowman when he reached the third round. For the last two years, Scott has reached the quarter final stage of the event, but this year he crashed out to Stephen Machin in Round 2.
Currently Scott is placed 42nd in the Scottish Golf Union Order of Merit, and he has a world ranking of 334, having moved up considerably this season.
Also playing in the event were two Alloa golfers, Jamie Aitken who lost in the first round and Scott Moffat who lost in the second round. Scott sealed his first round win with a fairway splitting drive of around 390yards at Troon’s last hole--- a bit shorter than a recent awesome drive at the fifth at Alloa which finished some 100yards short of the green, making it just over 400 yards.
COUNTY TEAM ON TOP FORM
In the second match of the 2009 Scottish Golf Union Area Team Championship, Clackmannan recorded an impressive away win against Argyll and Bute over Millport golf course by 6 matches to 2 with one half. The team beat Fife earlier in the year and the deciding match will be away against Renfrewshire where the County only need to draw to qualify. This match will be played over Erskine Golf course on the 20th September. The winning team will go forward to the Team Championship finals at Crail in October.
MATCH RESULTS (Clackmannan names first)
FOURSOMES (2-1)
Scott Borrowman &Ian Ross bt G Lundie & A McKie 2 and 1.
Jamie Aitken & Ross Benvie lost to G McMillan & G Watson 3 and 1.
John Maxwell & Steven Horne bt L Pirie & B Willan 2 and 1.
SINGLES
Borrowman lost to Pirie 3 and 2, Ross bt McMillan 5 and 4, Benvie bt McKie 1 hole, Aitken beat Willan 4 and 3, Maxwell bt Lundie 1 hole, Horne halved with Watson.
MORE GOOD GOLFING FORM FROM CALLUM
Tulliallan’s Calum Macaulay continues to make progress on the European Tour---he has made the cut in the last two events including a fine 6 under par total and 11th position (over 32,000 euros) last weekend in the Czech Republic. His Race to Dubai ranking has improved to 116 from 131 and he is getting close to his target of retaining his European Tour card for 2010….he needs to be in the top 115 golfers.
With several events left, he must be feeling quite confident, although he must also be reflecting on the par 5 where he dropped 5 shots to par over the first two rounds last week His current World ranking is 390 and he has reached this in 10 months as a professional golfer…. an outstanding achievement.
BOY GOLFERS ALSO MAKING PROGRESS
After their fine showing in the Under 16 Golf Championships at Largs at the beginning of the month, Alva’s Lawrence Allan and Dollar’s Gary Chalmers took on the Under 18’s at Ladybank recently. Gary just missed the cut, but Lawrence started with two fine rounds of 73 and 72 putting him in the top ten.
Although he was very disappointed to slump to an 84 in the third round, he recovered to a 77 in the final round and a 36th position in the event. He must have been encouraged by his 6th position in the Under 16 category of the same event…..and of course he is building up considerable experience at elite boys level, which must give him much confidence.
Three local golfers featured in the field of 256 in the Scottish Amateur Golf Championship held over Royal Troon last week, but the best performance came from Dollar’s Scott Borrowman when he reached the third round. For the last two years, Scott has reached the quarter final stage of the event, but this year he crashed out to Stephen Machin in Round 2.
Currently Scott is placed 42nd in the Scottish Golf Union Order of Merit, and he has a world ranking of 334, having moved up considerably this season.
Also playing in the event were two Alloa golfers, Jamie Aitken who lost in the first round and Scott Moffat who lost in the second round. Scott sealed his first round win with a fairway splitting drive of around 390yards at Troon’s last hole--- a bit shorter than a recent awesome drive at the fifth at Alloa which finished some 100yards short of the green, making it just over 400 yards.
COUNTY TEAM ON TOP FORM
In the second match of the 2009 Scottish Golf Union Area Team Championship, Clackmannan recorded an impressive away win against Argyll and Bute over Millport golf course by 6 matches to 2 with one half. The team beat Fife earlier in the year and the deciding match will be away against Renfrewshire where the County only need to draw to qualify. This match will be played over Erskine Golf course on the 20th September. The winning team will go forward to the Team Championship finals at Crail in October.
MATCH RESULTS (Clackmannan names first)
FOURSOMES (2-1)
Scott Borrowman &Ian Ross bt G Lundie & A McKie 2 and 1.
Jamie Aitken & Ross Benvie lost to G McMillan & G Watson 3 and 1.
John Maxwell & Steven Horne bt L Pirie & B Willan 2 and 1.
SINGLES
Borrowman lost to Pirie 3 and 2, Ross bt McMillan 5 and 4, Benvie bt McKie 1 hole, Aitken beat Willan 4 and 3, Maxwell bt Lundie 1 hole, Horne halved with Watson.
MORE GOOD GOLFING FORM FROM CALLUM
Tulliallan’s Calum Macaulay continues to make progress on the European Tour---he has made the cut in the last two events including a fine 6 under par total and 11th position (over 32,000 euros) last weekend in the Czech Republic. His Race to Dubai ranking has improved to 116 from 131 and he is getting close to his target of retaining his European Tour card for 2010….he needs to be in the top 115 golfers.
With several events left, he must be feeling quite confident, although he must also be reflecting on the par 5 where he dropped 5 shots to par over the first two rounds last week His current World ranking is 390 and he has reached this in 10 months as a professional golfer…. an outstanding achievement.
BOY GOLFERS ALSO MAKING PROGRESS
After their fine showing in the Under 16 Golf Championships at Largs at the beginning of the month, Alva’s Lawrence Allan and Dollar’s Gary Chalmers took on the Under 18’s at Ladybank recently. Gary just missed the cut, but Lawrence started with two fine rounds of 73 and 72 putting him in the top ten.
Although he was very disappointed to slump to an 84 in the third round, he recovered to a 77 in the final round and a 36th position in the event. He must have been encouraged by his 6th position in the Under 16 category of the same event…..and of course he is building up considerable experience at elite boys level, which must give him much confidence.
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