Somerville wins South East District

Open by 3 from McAlpine, Nicol

Former US college circuit player Daniel Somerville turned the tables on Kevin McAlpine in winning the South East District Open championship by three strokes at Dunbar Golf Club today.

Seven days earlier, Somerville finished joint fifth in the North of Scotland open amateur stroke-play championship at Lossiemouth, 11 shots behind winner McAlpine.

But at the end of four rounds at Dunbar this weekend it was Somerville who had scored his first SGU 72-hole Order of Merit tournament victory.

The only man to break par at the end of 72 holes in some rough weather over the weekend, Daniel had rounds of 71, 70, 72 and 69 for a total of two-under-par 282 over the par-71 lay-out.

Myles Cunningham (Craigielaw), who had earlier rounds of 72 70 and 69, would have finished second but was disqualified for a scorecard infringement.
That promoted McAlpine and Kris Nicol (Fraserburgh) to joint second place on 285.
The Alyth man scored 74, 72, 70 and 69, Nicoll had rounds of 75, 72, 69 and 69.
Title-holder Scott Borrowman (Dollar) failed to survive the halfway cut at 13-over-par.

FINAL TOTALS
Par 284 (4x71)
282 Daniel Somerville (St Andrews) 71 70 72 69.
285 Kevin McAlpine (Alyth) 74 72 70 69, Kris Nicol (Fraserburgh) 75 72 69 69.
286 Mark Hillson (Craigielaw) 73 74 71 68.
287 Gordon Stevenson (Whitecraigs) 70 74 71 72, Greg Paterson (St Andrews New) 75 72 71 69.
295 Graham Davidson (Winterfield) 73 73 75 73, Peter Speaman-Burn (NZ) 75 77 69 74.
296 Richard Gill (Craigmillar Park) 77 70 73 76.
297 Gordon Yates (Hilton Park) 76 75 74 72, Philip McLean (Peterhead) 78 75 70 74, Malcolm Campbell (Swanston New) 75 73 78 71, Adam Dunton (McDonald Ellon) 76 79 72 70.
298 Alexander Culverwell (Dunbar) 78 76 74 70.
299 Paul McPhee (King James Vi) 79 75 70 75, Grant Forrest (Craigielaw) 78 77 773 71, Paul Betty (Hayston) 74 77 75 73, Bryan Fotheringham (Forres) 77 74 76 72, Matthew Clark (Kilmacolm) 75 77 74 73.
301 Keith Reilly (Silverknowes) 80 75 73 73, Stephen Neilson (Dunbar) 75 76 77 73, Ben Sloan (Cathkin Braes) 82 73 75 71, Tom Blennerhassett (Dalmahoy) 78 74 74 75, Dean Muir (Dunbar) 75 73 74 79.

302 Graham Robertson (Silverknowes) 80 74 73 75, Andrew Wallace (Glenbervie) 76 76 77 73, Steven Armsrong (Turnhouse) 78 73 78 73.

303 Stephen Simants (Dunbar) 74 79 82 68.

304 Simon Lockhart (Bathgate) 79 75 78 72, Ed Wood (Crow Wood) 74 76 78 76.

306 Richard Graham (Hayston) 78 76 78 73.

308 Martin Stein (Craigielaw) 79 76 74 79, Ally Macphail (Ratho Park) 76 799 79 74.

Disqualified - Myles Cunningham (Craigielaw) 72 70 69 DQ; Stewart McCulloch (McDonald Ellon) 78 75 DQ 73.