IMPRESSIVE WINNER AT LETHAM GRANGE

Patrick flying with the eagles as he wins

Scottish young pros' title by four shots


Former Walker Cup player David Patrick produced his most impressive performance yet in the play-for-pay ranks in winning the Scottish Young Professionals’ Championship at Letham Grange Hotel & Golf Resort, near Arbroath today.
A former stalwart of the Lothians amateur team, Patrick, now playing out of the Elie club, had three eagle 3s over the final 36 holes of 70 and 68 for a 14-under-par total of 278. He had a pair of 70s over the first two rounds.
He was one of only four players to finish under par after four circuits of the par-73 course so to reach double digits under par was a yardstick of how well he played.
His eagles came at the 485yd 14th in the third round and at the 476yd third and the 14th again in the fourth round. But for late bogeys at the 16th and 17th, Patrick’s win would have been even more emphatic.
Patrick, who played alongside Luke Donald and Paul Casey in the GB&I team who beat the Americans 15-9 in the 1999 Walker Cup match at Nairn, was eight under par for the final two rounds to win the £1,000 and the title by four shots from Steven Duncan (Balbirnie Park).
Duncan matched the winner’s closing round of 68 for a total of 10-under 282. His reward was £750.
James McGhee (Turnhouse), the first-round leader with a 66, which stood up as the best round of the tournament, finished third on 289 with closing rounds of 72 and 74 to earn £575.
Defending champion Greg McBain (Royal Dornoch) achieved a top 10 finish with a final rouond of 72 to finish joint seventh on 295.
Neil Fenwick (Dunbar) dropped out of contention with a catastrophic eight-over-par third round of 81. He rallied with a more acceptable one-over 74 in the last round but joint 11th after he was in the mix for a much higher finish was a big disappointment for the Dunbar player.
FINAL TOTALS
Par 292 (4x73)
278 David Patrick (Elie) 70 70 70 68 (£1,000).
282 Steven Duncan (Balbirnie Park) 72 71 71 68 (£750).
289 James McGhee (Turnhouse) 66 77 72 74 (£575).
281 Malcolm Isaacs (Nairn Dunbar) 71 74 75 71 (£450).
293 Iain Colquhoun (Dundonald Links) 74 75 75 69, Stephen Lamb (Broomieknowe) 72 76 74 71 (£350 each).
295 Graham Fox (East Kilbride) 75 75 78 67, Michael Rae (Alyth) 75 75 72 73, Greg McBain (Royal Dornoch) 75 73 75 72, Christopher Currie (Caldwell) 76 68 77 74 (£237 each).
297 Christopher Robinson (Dumfries & Galloway) 76 74 70 77, Scott Herald (Mearns Castle) 75 73 73 76, Graeme Brown (Montrose) 77 70 74 76, Neil Fenwick (Dunbar) 70 72 81 74 (£176 each).
298 David Broadfoot (Dumfries & Co) 75 75 75 73 (£143).
303 Alan Martin (Dunbar) 75 78 76 74, Terry Mathieson (Kings Acre) 72 77 77 77 (£138 each).
305 Ross MacLeod (Greaves Sport) 78 78 74 75 (£132).
306 David Blackadder (Kingsbarns) 77 74 81 74, Matthew Burt (Helensburgh) 72 76 82 76 (£126 each).
307 Peter Mitchell (Hermitage) 78 75 78 76 (£120).
308 Alastair Thomson (Douglas Park) 75 80 73 80, Alasdair McDonald (Elie) 74 76 71 87 (£116 each).
309 Ross Neill (Drumpellier) 76 77 79 77 (£113).
310 Ross Dixon (Renaissance Club) 84 71 80 75, Nathan Keast (Duff House Royal) 71 80 78 81, Andrew McHardy (Noah’s Ark) 76 74 81 79 (£110 each).
311 Alistair Brown (Whitecraigs) 82 76 76 77, Gareth Hardy (Belleisle) 78 78 76 79 (£106 each).
312 Alistair Love (Charleton) 76 83 79 74, Michael Baxter (Westerwood) 79 76 84 73 (£103 each).
314 David Laing (Craigielaw) 76 78 76 84 (£100).
317 Oliver Morton (Gullane) 76 77 78 86 (£99).
318 Paul Hubner (Eastwood) 81 76 84 77, Daniel Wood (Eyemouth) 78 79 79 82, Calum Lawson (Blairgowrie) 79 78 83 78, Graeme Fisher (Glasgow) 75 82 81 80 (£95 each).
319 Bobby Wallace (Bearsden) 77 80 80 82 (£91).
320 Stuart Williamson (Kirkhill) 76 81 83 80 (£89).
335 Michael Patterson (Kilmacolm) 80 77 88 90 (£88).