Ferries' 75 good enough to win in the

rain at Invergordon Alliance meeting

By ROBIN WILSON
Over a rain-sodden Invergordon course Tain's Munro Ferries recorded his second North Alliance win in three outings with, in the conditions prevailing, a valiant gross 75.
The rain was continuous from start to the end of play and only a few who teed off very early got perhaps six or seven of the first nine holes played in the dry.
In the lucky few were Tain club mates Raymond Lockie and Andrew Watt and they were the only other two in the entry of 49 who broke 80, 12 of the 49 entries not returning scores or completing 18 holes.
Seven handicapper Watt had a creditable 79 to take second scratch and Lockie a net 71, off 8, to win first handicap in Class 1.
Local Mike Moran grossed 84, but with the conditions even his net 75 took a second handicap place! He was followed onto the prize list by two members from Tarbat, Mike Keay (7) 76 and Hamish Skinner (9) 77.
With the best net score of the competition, a 70 from his handicap of 12, Colin Stewart from Reay was a seven-shot winner in Class 2. Making a reappearance in Alliance golf, Francis Keith (Durness) fought and won, with a count of 43, an inward nine hole count back against Graham Macleod (Thurso) for second place . Gavin Gunn (Reay) was fourth with 78.
The fixture this weekend is being played over the Royal Dornoch winter course.
Results:
SCRATCH
75 M Ferries (Tain).
79 A Watt (Tain), R Lockie (Tain).
81 B Ronald (Thurso ).
83 M Keay (Tarbat), R Matheson (Thurso).
84 M Moran (Invergordon), A Gunn (Tain).
HANDICAP
Class 1 – R Lockie (Tain) (8) 71; M Moran (Invergordon) (9) 75; M Keay (Tarbat) (7) 76; H Skinner (Tarbat) (9) 77.
Class 2 – C Stewart (Reay) (12) 70; F R M Keith (Durness) (12), G McLeod (Thurso) (18) 77; G Gunn (Reay) (10) 78.