King crashes in second round and Kelly

steps up to win £3,100 prize

Overnight leader Mark King (Kingsfield) plummeted to a joint 17th place finish with a catastrophic second round of seven-over-par 78 – 14 shots worse than his opening round – in the Volvo/Ayr Hospice professional tournament at West Kilbride Golf Club today (Tuesday).
King had double bogeys at the fifth and 10th and a triple bogey 7 at the 17th. His ouotward half cost him two-over-par 38, compared with 31 in his first round 64., He did have biredies at the long third, the long seventh, the 11th and the 13th but his disasters far outweighed his successes. He also dropped single shots at the sixth and ninth, coming home in five-over-par 40 for his 78.
King's collapse left the door open for Cawder's Chris Kelly, second with a 65 at the start of the day, to win with a 70 for a seven-under-par total of 135. Kelly had a mixed bag of five birdies and four bogeys on his final circuit.
He birdied the second, third, foufrth, 11th and 18th in halves of 35 and bogeyed the eighth, ninth, 12th and 13th.
But he was able to claim the £3,100 first prize by two shots from the strong finishing Alan E Reid (West Lothian), Graham Fox (East Kilbride) and Stephen Gray (Hayston) who each earned £1,900 for figuring in a triple tie for seconde place.
Reid's bogey-free 66 (33-33) was the best round of the final day. He had birdies at the second, third, fourth, 11th and 16th.
Stephen Gray might have been second on his own but for a double bogey 6 at the 14th in his closing 71.
Chris Doak, making his first appearance of the season on the Tartan Tour, finished joint fifth on 138 wsith scores of 67 and 71.
LEADING FINAL TOTALS (Par 142: 2x71)
135 Chris Kelly (Cawder) 65 70.
137 Alan E Reid (West Lothian) 71 66, Graham Fox (East Kilbride) 68 69, Stephen Gray (Hayston) 66 71.
138 David Orr (East Renfrewshire) 70 68, Lee Harper (Archerfield Links) 69 68, Chris Doak (unatt) 67 71, Callum Nicoll (Prestwick) 66 72.
139 Jason McCreadie (Buchanan Castle) 71 68, Craig Lee (unatt) 71 68.
140 Andrew Oldcorn (Kings Acre) 71 69, Samuel Cairns (Colville Park) 70 70, Craig Matheson (Falklirk Tryst) 69 71, Fraser Mann (Musselburgh) 68 72, Paul McKechnie (Braid Hills) 66 74, Gordon Law (Uphall) 66 74.
142 James McKinnon (Irvine) 69 72, Colin Gillies (Playsport Golf) 68 74, Mark King (Kingsfield) 64 78.
143 Steven Taylor (Bothwell Castle) 73 70, Edward Thomson (Senit Associates) 71 72.
144 Lindsay Mann (Carnoustie) 73 71, Mark Loftus (Cowglen) 73 71, Scott Herald (Mearns Castle) 71 73, Scott Henderson (Kings Links) 70 74, Robert Arnott (Bishopbriggs) 70 74, Euan Cameron (Hamilton) 69 75, Alan Lockhart (Ladybank) 69 75, Campbell Elliott (Haggs Castle) 69 75, Graeme Lornie (Paul Lawrie Foundation) 67 77.
145 James McGhee (Turnhouse) 73 72, Mark Kerr (Marriott Dalmahoy) 70 75, Scott Catlin (Greenburn) 69 76.
146 Hamish Kemp (Bishopbrfiggs) 73 72, Sean O'Donnell (Balbirnie Park) 72 74,Chris Russell (RAW Golf Course Design) 70 76.

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