Tuesday, August 11, 2009

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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2009 FIFE ORDER OF MERIT for THE MACKAY BOWL

Positions after 17 events

1 James White (Lundin) 800pt.
2 Greg Paterson (St Andrews New) 590.
3 Peter Latimer (St Andrews New) 320.
4 Scott Crichton (Aberdour) 305.
5 Alex Main (Thornton) 270.
6 Colin Martin (Balbirnie Park) 250.
7 Danny Sommerville (St Andrews) 220.
8 Brian Erskine (Ladybank) 210.

***The next counting event for the 2009 FIFE ORDER OF MERIT is the North East District Open Amateur Stroke Play Championship at Peterhead on 15 & 16 August.

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.DAVID LAW, Scottish boys' and men's amateur champion (image by Cal Carson Golf Agency).

Good start by Manassero and Law in British

boys' championship at Royal St George's

FROM THE DAILY TELEGRAPH GOLF WEBSITE
By Chris Smart
Italy's Manassero, 16, the winner of the Open's silver medal at Turnberry and bidding to become the first player to win the men's and boys' amateurs in the same year, overcame Belgian Julien Richelle 4 and 2 in the first round of the British boys' open championship at Royal St George's Golf Club, Sandwich in Kent.
Manassero was not totally happy with his tee shots – "I was spraying them to the right and left."The Italian eenager was one down after seven holes, having gone out of bounds, but then won four holes in a row to take charge.
Paul Lawrie protege David Law, 18, from Aberdeen's municipal Hazlehead course, is also seeking more silverware after becoming the first player to win both the Scottish men's and boys' match-play titles in the same season.
Law swept to a 4 and 3 victory over Italian Alfredo Pazzeschi after winning five of the first six holes.
Sebastien Crookall-Nixon, holder of the English Under-16 boys' championship for the past two years, was a 5 and 4 first-round winner while his international colleague, James Webber, had to pull out all the stops to get past Jeff Hopkins, 2 & 1.
Meanwhile at West Lancashire, Spaniard Noemi Jimenez, 15, a retired professional's daughter from Malaga, set the early pace in the British girls' open amateur championship with a first qualifying round of 70 – two under par. Her round contained five birdies.
England girl international Heidi Baek (Felixstowe Ferry), who helped England win the Stroyan Cup at Fairhaven Golf Club, also in Lancashire, last week, came in late in the day with a 71 to cut Noemi's lead to one shot.
The leading 64 players after today's second qualifying round will go through to the match-play stages which climax with an 18-hole final on Friday afternoon.

SLOW PLAY PENALTIES ON THE CARDS IN BRITISH GIRLS CHAMPIONSHIP
Switch over to our sister website, http://www.kirkwoodgolf.co.uk/, to read a full report on the first day's play (and see all the scores) from the British girls' championship, including the possibility that the Ladies Golf Union will impose slow-play penalties during today's second qualifying round.
Leader Noemi Jimenez was one of those warned by Susan Simpson, the LGU Head of Golf Operations, that they had been "over the clock" in some of her shot-making (40sec is permitted to play a shot; 50sec if the player is the first in the group to play) during the first round and a repeat today would lead to a one-stroke penalty being imposed.

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Tiger Woods to be fined for criticism of

European Tour's John Paramor

Tiger Woods will be fined by the US PGA Tour for his public criticism of a rules official - ther European Tour's John Paramor - after winning the Bridgestone Invitational at Akron, Ohio on Sunday.
As a rule, the Tour does not publicise the disciplinary fines it imposes on players from time to time but an "insider source" confirmed that Woods, the world's No 1 player who, to be fair, does not normally speak out of turn, will be rapped over the knuckles.
Woods was hot and bothered after his four-shot victory because he and playing partner Padraig Harrington were put on the clock at the par-5 16th.
Tiger said that he believed this action caused Harrington to rush three difficult shots, leading to triple bogey 8.
European Tour chief referee John Paramor, on a busman's holiday at the event, told Woods and Harrington they were being timed.
Woods said he told Harrington after it was over, “I’m sorry that John got in the way of a great battle.”
Paramor said the final pairing was well behind most of the back nine, but officials gave them time to catch up. They were still 17 minutes out of position on the 16th tee, when they were put on the clock.
Woods hooked his tee shot, punched out to 178 yards and hit an 8-iron that stopped a foot from the hole for birdie. From the right trees, Harrington hit a 5-iron to the edge of a bunker, went over the green, then hit a flop shot too hard and into the water.
The four-shot swing over one hole took the drama out from one of the most compelling final rounds of the year.
“I don’t think that Paddy would have hit the pitch shot that way if he was able to take his time, look at it, analyze it,” Woods said. “But he was on the clock, had to get up there quickly and hit it.”
Harrington conceded he was rushed, although he said it would be unfair to give the final group preferential treatment.
Section VI-D in the PGA Tour’s player handbook reads, “It is an obligation of membership to refrain from comments to the news media that unreasonably attack or disparage tournaments, sponsors, fellow members, players of PGA Tour.”

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King leads by one from Kelly at halfway

in Volvo/Ayrshire Hospice 36-hole event

Kingsfield’s Mark King leads by one stroke from Chris Kelly (Cawder) going into the second and final day of the Volvo/Ayrshire Hospice professional golf tournament ta West Kilbride yesterday.
King shot a seven-under-par 64 with one eagle (a 2 at the 14th) and seven birdies (the third, fifth, sixth, seventh, ninth, 12th and 16th). He also had bogeys at the 10th and 15th. It’s by no means a two-horse race between four players are bracketed in third place on 66 – Gordon Law (Uphall), Paul McKechnie (Braid Hills), Callum Nicol (Prestwick and Stephen Gray (Hayston).
The first day took the form of a pro-am event but it’s pros only for today’s action at the Ayrshire venue.

First round pro scores
Par 71
64 Mark King (Kingsfield).
65 Chris Kelly (Cawder).
66 Gordon Law (Uphall), Paul McKechnie (Braid Hills), Callum Nicol (Prestwick), Stephen Gray (Hayston).
67 Graham Lornie (Paul Lawrie Foundation), Chris Doak (unatt).
68 Fraser Mann (Musselburgh), Graham Fox (East Kilbride), Colin Gillies (Perry Golf).

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