Hugh Hunter's Clackmannan County New

BOB BOUNCES BACK IN EUROPEAN SENIORS
After a disappointing finish to his British Seniors campaign at Prestwick two weeks ago, Tulliallan’s Bob Stewart wasted no time in recovering his golfing form when he travelled to Switzerland to represent Scotland in the European Seniors Team Championship last week.
In the 36 hole qualifying event with five scores counting out of six, Bob returned two good rounds of 75 which helped take the Scottish team into the top flight where they faced Sweden in the first round of the match play section.
The matches are decided with one foursome and four singles and Bob partnered by George Paterson won their game fairly easily, but the players in the singles only won one game which meant that Scotland lost by three matches to two overall and deny them a top four finish. In the second round, things looked bleak for a time against Germany, but Bob and George managed to turn their game round from two down to win at the 19th hole. This proved crucial and the team took the match by 3 games to two.
In the final match, Scotland took on Spain to decide fourth place
Bob was given a singles tie and duly came away with a halved match. However it wasnt good enough as Scotland lost by 3 matches to 1.
Bob came away undefeated in his match play games and must be highly pleased with his performance which should ensure selection for the Senior Home Internationals at the end of the season. Indeed, if he keeps up this sort of performance, then he could be in the Scottish team for a few years to come Well done Bob !!"
2009 EDEN TOURNAMENT
2009 marks the 40th anniversary of the win of Alan Glass (Alloa) in the Eden tournament. Alan made a bit of history in the late 1960’s when he won all three trophies in the event in the space of a few years. Alan still plays and enjoys his golf and now with his retirement status he intends to focus more on his golf and some of the Senior events.
The Eden tournament used to attract a high quality Scottish field with a significant number of golfers and spectators from Clackmannanshire. Nowadays most of the entries come from outwith Scotland and it was left to Graham Rennie (Alloa) to mount the only Clackmannanshire challenge. Five handicapper Graham just missed the scratch event qualifying, but featured in the Eden tankard decided on handicap where he won by 2/1 in the first round, but lost in round two. Nevertheless a good performance to finish in the top 25% of the field.

BELHAVEN BEST SCOTTISH CLUB HANDICAP CHAMPIONSHIP.
The Tulliallan and Dollar teams finished down the field at Prestonfield last Friday, missing a top ten place which would have taken them to the Scottish final. Braehead (Steve Skelton/Martin Kaney) with a level par score finished in 27th position while Dollar (Andrew Ure/Ken Christie) were two shots further back in 43rd position. The event was won by Lochmaben Golf Club with a 7 under par score of 63.