PRESIDENTS CUP problem for Skipper Fred

The long and the short of it is ... Tiger Woods

is not a team player, and Couples knows it

FROM THE DAILY TELEGRAPH WEBSITE
By MARK REASON
How do you solve a problem like Tiger? That is the question facing captain Fred Couples ahead of the Presidents Cup in San Francisco, which starts on Thursday.
In 10 Presidents and Ryder Cups, Woods has only twice had a winning record in the four-balls and foursomes, but on each occasion he has then lost his singles.
Woods is not a team player.
It is almost as if the strain of finally learning how to play with a partner has exhausted Tiger. The gifted one has had no fewer than 16 separate partners in the course of his 10 matches for the United States, but his relationships keep ending in divorce.
Couples, one of the "divorcees," has an odd solution. He has drafted in Michael Jordan as a co-captain and has a guy called Matt Furman as the team magician. Apparently Robin Williams, and this is serious, had other commitments.
In other words, the Presidents Cup, the biennial bash between America and the International Team (or the Rest of the World. not including Europe) has an element of hit-and-giggle about it. Woods used the word "fun" six times when talking about the Presidents Cup. Anyone ever heard him use the word six times before a major?
But even if the Presidents Cup is the show on the end of the pier, Corey Pavin, the United States Ryder Cup captain, will still be looking at Tiger's performance with interest. So too will Europe's captain Colin Montgomerie. He knows that the United States looked far more of a Ryder Cup team when Tiger was missing last year.
Montgomerie said: "They won with him, they lost without him. You can't say: 'Damn it, the No 1 player's not playing', but Tiger in a 'bad' Ryder Cup (for him) will get a minimum of three points. I would rather they had someone who doesn't get three points."
Much of what Montgomerie said is nonsense.
Colin got the first sentence the wrong way round, and Tiger does not get you three points in a bad Ryder Cup. Three points is Tiger's best-ever performance in a Ryder Cup. But Montgomerie was unusually tongue-tied because he could not say what he really felt on the matter. He does not want to give Tiger an incentive. He does not want America to solve the problem.
Pavin has said: "Any time Tiger is paired with someone else, his influence is diminished. I watched him in 2006 and walked every step of the way with him the first two days of the matches. I looked into his eyes and I could see how much he wanted to win."
The problem remains not whether Tiger wants to win, but how to fit him into a team. Paul Azinger, the winning Ryder Cup captain in 2008, had US Navy SEAL 'buddy' pods of four players. Woods would have been slotted in with Boo Weekley, J B Holmes and Kenny Perry.
I think it was a brilliant strategy. Tiger would have been bunged in with the team of good ol' southern boys. In other words, he would have had to fit in.
Tiger has criticised Holmes in the past, but this time Tiger would have had to adapt. He would have been the outsider coming into the group.
Couples will not be anything like as cute as that. Everyone will have a great time. America will probably win, having never lost a Presidents Cup at home.
And Pavin will still be none the wiser about how to solve the Tiger problem.

Robin Wilson's picture in the Royal Dornoch clubhouse of Hamish Macrae (Royal Dornoch vice-captain) presenting the winner's cheque to Gareth Wright. Runner-up Mark Kerr comes next followed by joint third finishers Malcolm Isaacs (Nairn Dunbar).

Gareth Wright wins Royal Dornoch Young

Masters title despite mediocre finish

Former Welsh amateur international Gareth Wright, son of the West Linton club pro near Edinburgh, won the Royal Dornoch Young Masters title and cheque for £840 in less than convincing manner over the world-ranked links course today.

Wright, leader by two shots after an opening round of one-under-par 69, slipped to a 74 second time round for a three-over-par total of 143. He did not have a single birdie in his second round and was four over par for the last six holes - double bogey at the short 13th, bogey at the 14th and a three-putt bogey at the 18th for 39 home.

Fortunately for Gareth, his nearest challengers at the start of the day were not able to take advantage and it was Mark Kerr, who had an opening 74, who made a run with a 70 which came up one short of forcing a play-off with a 144 aggregate. The Dalmahoy player birdied the first, ninth, 10th and 15th but shed shots at the eighth, 12th, 13th and 16th in halves of 34 and 36.

Kerr collected £644 for second place. Neil Fenwick (Dunbar), with the day's joint best round of 69, and Nairn Dunbar's Malcolm Isaacs, who had a 71, tied for third place on 145 and earned £451 each.

LEADING TOTALS

Par 140 (2x70)

143 Gareth Wright (West Linton) 69 74 (£840).

144 Mark Kerr (Marriott Dalmahoy) 74 70 (£644).

145 Neil Fenwick (Dunbar) 76 69, Malcolm Isaacs (Nairn Dunbar) 74 71 (£451.50 each).

146 Bobby Wallace (Bearsden) 74 72 (£329).
147 Alastair Thomson (Douglas Park) 74 73, Iain Colquhoun (Dundonald Links), Graham Fox (West Kilbride), Paul McKechnie (Braid Hills) 71 76 (£241.50 each).
148 Mark Finlayson (Edzell) 75 73, Ross Neill (Drumpellier) 72 76 (£182 each).
149 Greg McBain (Royal Dornoch) 7 74, Matthew Burt (Helensburgh) 74 75, Malcolm Murray(Bearsden) 74 75 (£147 each).

150 Graeme Brown (Montrose), Michael Rae (Alyth) 80 70, David Patrick (Elie) 80 70, James McGhee (Turnhouse) 76 74, Andrew Rollo (Moray) 74 76, Terry Mathieson (Kings Acre) 74 76.

151 Daniel Wood (Eyemouth) 77 74, Gareth Hardy (Ayr Belleisle) 77 74, Peter Mitchell (Hermitage) 76 75 (£103.36 each).

152 David Broadfoot (Dumfries & Co) 80 72, Alan Gibson (Troon Municipal) 77 75, Chris Conroy (Paisley) 75 77, Nathan Keast (Duff House Royal) 73 79 (£97.30 each).

153 Alan Martin (Dunbar) 80 73, Alan Mackay (Pumpherston) 76 77 (£93.10 each).

155 Ross Ewen (West Lothian) 80 75 (£91).

156 Christopher Currie (Caldwell) 83 73, Alastair Love (Charleton) 81 75, Steven Mann (unatt) 79 77, Andrew McIntyre (Ranfurly Castle) 76 80 (£87.50 each).

157 Michael Sweenie (Turnberry) 84 73, David Snodgrass (Hilton Park) 82 75, Michael Patterson (Kilmacolm) 81 76, Alistair Brown (Whitecraigs) 81 76, Peter McLachaln (West Kilbride) 78 79, Mark Barnard (unatt) 76 81, Alasdair McDonald (Elie) 75 82 (£69 each).

158 Scott Herald (Mearns Castle) 83 75, Stuart McEwing (Montrose) 81 77.

159 Graham Mackay (Prestonfield) 81 78, Robin Gaden (unatt) 80 79.

Kuchar wins US Tour play-off at sixth extra hole

Matt Kuchar beat Vaughn Taylor at the sixth extra hole of their sudden-death play-off for the Turning Stone Resort title at Verona, New York State ... a play-off which spanned two days because of nightfall on Sunday evening.
Kuchar won with a par 4 at the sixth extra hole. Taylor had a double bogey 6.

Aberdonian earns £134,677 for joint 4th highest Euro Tour finish

Ramsay not rueing £82,000

missed putt at last hole

FROM THE A O L GOLF NEWS SERVICE
with some additional words by Colin Farquharson
England's Simon Dyson fired a superb closing 66 to win the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship by three shots over the Old Course, St Andrews today.
One behind Luke Donald overnight, Dyson, pictured right, captured the £485,850 first prize - the biggest of his career - with a 20-under-par total after grabbing birdies on six of the first seven holes in an outward 30.
Joint second were compatriot Oliver Wilson and Northern Ireland's Rory McIlroy.
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Richie Ramsay, pictured above, achieved his highest European Tour finish - joint fourth - in this his first season playing with the "big boys" and his biggest cheque for 149,809 Euros (£134,677) guarantees him playing rights for next season and well beyond because this performance should work wonders for his self-confidence.

After four sub-par rounds over Kingsbarns, Carnoustie and the Old Course (twice), the Aberdonian, in his second year as a pro after a stellar amateur career, can probably hardly wait for next year's Open championship over the Old Course, although he might take an iron off the tee at the last!
Former US amateur champion and Walker Cup player Ramsay is 96th in the European Tour money list with 308,871 Euros to his credit.
Another rookie, Callum Macaulay is in 124th spot with 209,443 Euros in winnings. Steven O'Hara is 151st with 151,273 Euros to his name.

Ramsay could actually have finished joint second but he missed a short, downhill putt on the Old Course's sloping last green. Had he holed it, Richie would have earned an additional £82,000.

The Aberdonian's last drive landed on the tarmac road that bisects the 18th fairway. It is an integral part of the course and you either play off it or take a lift and drop under a one-stroke penalty.

Ramsay's second shot, played from the tarmac, came up short of the green in the notorious Valley of Sin. From there he putted up four feet passed the hole - and, a la Doug Sanders in the 1970 Open, missed the next one.

"I said at the start of the week that I was going to be as positive as I could and I'm not going to let that Scottish negativity creep in," said Ramsay later.

"I'm delighted, not only to have done so well in one of the biggest tournaments on the circuit at the home of golf, but also to have secured my job for another year."

Ramsay, whose previous best European Tour finish was 10th in the Wales Open earlier this year, added: "Things have fallen into place this week and I feel this could be the start of something that I need to replicate more often. Scottish golf is looking for a player to be up there winning some big titles. We have a number of players knocking on the door like Callum Macaulay, Steven O'Hara and myself who are all looking to be the guy to make the breakthrough."

Wallace Booth earned his first cheque as a tour pro - £6,000 - for a total of four-under-par 284.
Simon Dyson must have known it could be a special day from his second shot - a pitch to three feet that brought him level with Donald, who, with a 73, fell all the way back to seventh place. Luke still has not won for three-and-a-half years.
By the eighth tee, Dyson was already four clear - and although McIlroy did cut it back to two by turning in 32 to the winner's 30 that was as close as it got.
Dyson added another birdie on the 12th and could afford to bogey the Road Hole 17th.
McIlroy ruined his chances of winning by bogeying the 12th, 16th and 17th. But his birdie on the last was huge for the Tour money list battle.
For Wilson it was an eighth runners-up finish - he has yet to win - while for 20-year-old McIlroy it was good enough to take him from third to first on the money list with two months of the race to go.
Dyson now leads Europe's Ryder Cup race and is in the world's top 50 for the first time.
FINAL TOTALS
Par 288 (4x72). Final round over Old Course, St Andrews.
268 Simon Dyson 68 66 68 66 (540,440 Euros).
271 Rory McIlroy 68 65 69 69, Oliver Wilson 69 67 70 65 (281,690 Euros each).
272 Richie Ramsay 67 66 70 69, Rafael Cabrera Bello (Spa) 70 68 65 69 (149,809 Euros each).
273 Ross McGowan 66 68 71 68
274 Luke Donald 72 65 64 73, Darren Clarke 68 68 67 71
275 Gary Lockerbie 69 71 67 68, Ricardo Gonzalez (Arg) 70 71 68 66, Francois Delamontagne (Fra) 71 67 67 70, Gregory Bourdy (Fra) 73 67 67 68, Kenneth Ferrie 69 66 69 71, Paul McGinley 69 67 69 70, Lee Westwood 73 67 66 69
276 Peter Hanson (Swe) 72 64 75 65, Jose Manuel Lara (Spa) 67 68 69 72, Raphael Jacquelin (Fra) 67 71 68 70
277 Brett Rumford (Aus) 68 71 70 68, Marc Warren 70 69 71 67, David Dixon 68 67 73 69, Simon Khan 74 70 67 66, Graeme Storm 69 69 72 67, Michael Hoey 67 66 70 74, Paul Broadhurst 70 67 72 68
278 Richard Bland 72 67 71 68, Carlos Del Moral (Spa) 69 69 71 69, Mikko Ilonen (Fin) 70 64 70 74, Graeme McDowell 69 70 68 71, Steven O'Hara 71 66 74 67, Johan Edfors (Swe) 70 68 70 70, Ernie Els (Rsa) 72 72 66 68, James Kamte (Rsa) 69 69 70 70, Sam Little 68 71 67 72, Padraig Harrington 70 70 72 66
279 Joakim Haeggman (Swe) 73 69 68 69, Francesco Molinari (Ita) 71 68 69 71, Damien McGrane 71 71 68 69, Dale Whitnell 69 69 73 68, Miguel Angel Jimenez (Spa) 74 67 68 70, Ignacio Garrido (Spa) 68 71 71 69
280 Callum Macaulay 72 73 67 68, Alessandro Tadini (Ita) 69 70 73 68, Soren Hansen (Den) 71 69 71 69, Thomas Bjorn (Den) 64 74 72 70, Marcel Siem (Ger) 70 71 70 69, Danny Willett 71 67 70 72, Mark Foster 71 70 68 71, Thongchai Jaidee (Tha) 70 69 73 68, Bradley Dredge 72 69 69 70
281 Gareth Maybin 66 73 71 71, Wade Ormsby (Aus) 70 66 73 72
282 Hennie Otto (Rsa) 70 70 72 70, Graham Delaet (Can) 70 68 74 70, Marc Cayeux (Zim) 70 70 71 71, Daniel Vancsik (Arg) 70 71 70 71, Brad Faxon (USA) 74 67 71 70, Trevor Immelman (Rsa) 71 67 72 72, Keith Horne (Rsa) 70 70 70 72, Richard Green (Aus) 72 69 69 72, Alastair Forsyth 70 64 77 71
283 Soren Kjeldsen (Den) 70 71 70 72, Gary Murphy 71 72 69 71, Michael Jonzon (Swe) 72 73 67 71, Alvaro Quiros (Spa) 72 68 70 73
284 Brett Quigley (USA) 72 71 69 72, Wallace Booth 72 65 75 72, David Lynn 73 66 73 72
285 Chih-bing Lam (Sin) 69 69 74 73
287 Lee Slattery 68 71 72 76

Cardross boys win McIntyre League

for second time in three years

For the second time in three years the Cardross Golf Club juniors (pictured below) have won the McIntyre League, played for by golf clubs in the area. With only two boys from the winning team two years ago playing in this year's team, the whole squad provided evidence of the ability and strength in depth the village side has where the junior section forms an important section of the club.

Gavin Foubister and Ian Stewart were the two juniors to feature in both league wins and their experience was crucial to guide the younger players, such as Cameron Black who was only 10 years old when the first game was played, to this year's league trimuph.

First up was a home game against Helensburgh and a 5 1/2- 1/2 victory gave the boys confidence that good times were ahead. This was followed by another home win, this time by 4 1/2- 1 1/2 against Clydebank and District.

Two away games then followed against Overton and Vale of Leven where two wins, dropping only one halved match, set up another away game against Dumbarton. This game was tighter and in the end the Cardross juniors came away with a 4-2 victory.

The final game was at home to Clober and a 5 1/2-1/2 win, which saw them go through the league with an unbeaten record, was the icing on the cake.

The boys were photographed after the league junior presentation day for all the league teams which by coincidence was held at Cardross this year. In the medal round played for by all of the teams Gavin Foubister carded the lowest scratch with a 74 to edge out Liam Chambers.

Photograph below: Back row - Colin Cameron, Liam Chambers, Gavin Foubister,Alasdair Hughes - Hughes, Front row - Cameron Black, Liam Halliday. Missing from the photograph were Ian Stewart, Cameron Farrell, Jordan Stewart and Lee Gibson all of whom played their part in winning the league.

NATIONWIDE TOUR REPORT

Two weeks to go from rags to riches

for self-taught Jerod Turner

FROM THE PGATOUR.COM WEBSITE
By Joe Chemycz, PGA TOUR Staff
SAN JACINTO, California -- Hello, Hollywood, here's a script that writes itself. Okay, maybe it's not exactly Cinderella, but the Jerod Turner story is close. The 34-year old, self-taught Texan has been chasing his dream and scratching out a living on mini-tours for the past nine years. He'd earned less than $8,000 on the Nationwide Tour and was contemplating a next step that would take him away from golf. Suddenly, in the span of two weeks, he's inches away from playing on the US PGA Tour next year.
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Turner turned his life completely upside down on Sunday, shooting a 2-under 69 to win the Nationwide Tour's $1million Soboba Classic by two strokes. More importantly, the victory was worth $180,000, equal to the largest in Tour history, and propelled the father of two from No. 150 on the money list to No. 17 with only three events left on the schedule.
The top-25 at the end of the year will earn their US PGA Tour cards for next season and it would take a perfect storm to knock Turner out of "THE 25."
"Right now, I still don't know what hit me," said Turner, who finished at 15-under 269. "This week blows everything out of the water."
Two weeks ago, Turner was thinking about whether he should take a job in construction or the oil and gas business during the winter to help pay the bills. Then his phone rang on Tuesday afternoon and he was told Kyle Reifers had withdrawn from last week's WNB Golf Classic. Turner was in -- the second-to-last to make it into the field.
"I think I owe him a thank you note," he said with a laugh.
Turner played well on a difficult golf course and tied for seventh in Midland, Texas, giving him an entry into this week's event.
"I was frustrated I wasn't getting the starts out here. I felt if I got the starts and got the right golf course I could contend. Win? Who knows. I missed 17 tournaments and never got in a field."
Turner tossed conventional wisdom aside this week, as he has done for much of his life, and hit driver where others feared to go, attacked pins that others wouldn't and rolled in par-saving putts that others struggled to make.
He was one shot off the lead after the first day, led by one after two days and was one down to start the final round.
"I thought I'd have to get to 20-under today to have a chance," said Turner, who started the day at minus-13. "As soon as we got on one and two and I saw how hard and tough the course was playing, I realized there weren't a lot of birdies out there."
Sunday's scoring average of 72.836 was more than three full strokes higher than Saturday's third round, which produced the two lowest scores of the week, a 9-under 62 and a 7-under 64.
"This was the hardest golf course I've ever played on," said Turner, who was making only his ninth start on the Nationwide Tour. "It was like a U.S. Open."
Just like an Open, it was a question of who would inch forward while others backed up.
Turner grabbed a share of the lead with a birdie at No. 2 and then took the lead for good with another birdie at the par-5, 5th.
"I knew that if I could get it in the fairway and get it on the green and make some pars I'd be okay," he said. "Heck, I think I gained ground."
Third-round co-leaders Derek Lamely (72) and Brian Stuard (74) stumbled but did their best to keep pace with Turner, who admitted his only golf lesson came at the age of 14 but "lasted about 30 minutes."
Tyrone van Aswegen, a Monday qualifier, vaulted up the board with a 2-under 69 that put him at 11-under, but was never in serious contention.
Turner ran off nine consecutive pars starting at No. 6 and was ahead by three when he three-putted the 209-yard, 15th, cutting his margin to two over Lamely, who would bogey No. 15 and birdie No. 16 to keep the margin at two.
Turner approached the 521-yard, par-5, 18th with the same all-out enthusiasm he displayed all week. After a good drive, he hit a hybrid to the green and was just over the back in two.
"I told my caddie this was going to be an up-and-down for a lifetime," said Turner. "I knew he (Lamely) would have to hole it from the fairway. I thought if I could get it up-and-down it would change everything. I've practised and practised and practised and hit thousands and thousands of golf balls and spent hours and hours to get to this point."
Just as the script would have it, Turner knocked it to within a foot or two.
"I don't know how far it was," he said trying to estimate the distance. "If it was any further I might have to think about it but whatever it was, I was still pretty confident."
The short birdie put him at 15-under and out of reach. Lamely, in the final group, had run out of holes.
By the time Turner had finished chatting with the media, his phone was buzzing -- 73 text messages and 51 calls.
"I didn't know I knew this many people," he laughed.
He may not know them, but very shortly, they're all going to know him.
SCOREBOARD TO FOLLOW

Golf stars will appear at IGF final presentation

to International Olympic Committee

RELEASE ISSUED BY THE INTERNATIONAL GOLF FEDERATION
The International Golf Federation has announced that Padraig Harrington of Ireland, Suzann Pettersen of Norway and Michelle Wie of the United States, as well as 16 year old British Amateur Champion Matteo Manassero of Italy, will participate in the final presentation before the International Olympic Committee membership this Friday during the IOC’s 121st Session.
The four golfers will join Ty Votaw, Executive Director of the IGF Olympic Golf Committee, which has coordinated golf’s Olympic bid, and Peter Dawson, Chief Executive of The R&A and joint secretary of the IGF.
Golf and rugby sevens, the two sports recommended for the 2016 Olympic Programme in Rio de Janeiro by the IOC Executive Board, will present their final case to the full IOC membership before it votes that same day on whether to accept one, both or neither sport.
“We have demonstrated to the IOC Executive Board throughout the evaluation process that golf’s bid to become an Olympic sport has received unprecedented support from both amateur and professional golf organisations around the world and leading international players,” Votaw said.
“Now, we must reaffirm this support before the full IOC membership and we couldn’t be more pleased than to have Padraig, Suzann, Matteo and Michelle help to communicate this support during our final presentation.”
Leading up to Friday’s vote, golf and rugby sevens emerged from a year-long evaluation that included formal presentations by seven candidate sports, the submission of a Detailed Questionnaire and responses to questions raised by both the IOC Programme Commission and the IOC Executive Board.
The IOC Executive Board announced its recommendation of golf and rugby sevens following a meeting in Berlin, Germany on August 13.

US PGA Champions' Tour Scoreboard
CONSTELLATION ENERGY SENIOR PLAYERS CHAMPIONSHIP
FINAL TOTALS
Par 280 (4x70)
267 Jay Haas 66 70 67 64
268 Tom Watson 66 68 64 70
273 Loren Roberts 70 67 65 71, Mark Wiebe 69 67 66 71
274 Bernhard Langer (Ger) 72 65 69 68, John Cook 69 68 65 72
275 Phil Blackmar 71 70 64 70, Fred Funk 71 68 69 67
276 Mark O'Meara 70 69 68 69, Mike Reid 68 72 68 68, Nick Price (Zim) 69 69 69 69, Tim Simpson 69 69 69 69
277 Keith Fergus 70 69 69 69, Morris Hatalsky 70 69 66 72
278 Andy Bean 69 73 65 71, Gary Hallberg 74 68 69 67, Gene Jones 71 68 67 72, Joey Sindelar 69 71 70 68, Dan Forsman 68 72 68 70, Hale Irwin 72 67 68 71, Jay Don Blake 70 70 70 68
279 Lonnie Nielsen 65 73 70 71, Mark James (Eng) 69 71 68 71
280 Jeff Sluman 74 68 66 72, Fuzzy Zoeller 69 72 67 72, Mike Goodes 70 69 68 73, Ronnie Black 72 68 67 73, Larry Nelson 72 69 68 71, David Eger 70 74 69 67, David Frost (Rsa) 71 76 66 67
281 Sandy Lyle (Sco) 67 73 66 75, Eduardo Romero (Arg) 68 74 69 70, Bob Tway 68 68 73 72
282 Bruce Vaughan 72 68 71 71, Olin Browne 70 72 71 69, Don Pooley 72 71 71 68
283 Robert L Thompson 69 75 68 71, Chip Beck 72 71 68 72, Robin Freeman 71 69 73 70, Scott Simpson 69 71 71 72
284 Fulton Allem (Rsa) 69 70 69 76, Russ Cochran 75 71 69 69
285 Tom Purtzer 71 73 69 72, R.W. Eaks 73 75 69 68, Joe Ozaki (Jpn) 71 68 74 72, Allen Doyle 72 70 71 72
286 Kirk Hanefeld 74 69 70 73, James Mason 77 70 70 69, Craig Stadler 71 65 70 80, Tom Kite 74 69 72 71, Larry Mize 70 73 70 73, Jerry Pate 77 67 72 70
287 Bruce Lietzke 74 68 69 76, Gil Morgan 71 71 74 71, Jim Thorpe 72 72 70 73, Brad Bryant 73 73 71 70, Blaine McCallister 72 70 73 72
288 Bruce Summerhays 76 68 69 75, Hal Sutton 74 72 68 74
289 John Morse 71 74 72 72, Bob Gilder 71 69 70 79
290 Mark W Johnson 73 76 68 73, Des Smyth (Irl) 72 74 74 70, Walter Hall 73 71 74 72
291 Ben Crenshaw 75 71 69 76, John Harris 71 74 71 75, Chris Starkjohann 74 71 70 76, Steve Thomas 75 74 69 73
292 Donnie Hammond 79 67 71 75, Tom McKnight 76 69 75 72
294 Tom Jenkins 72 75 72 75
297 Denis Watson (Zim) 76 71 74 76
299 Bobby Wadkins 72 72 75 80
303 Mike Hulbert 79 73 71 80
304 Mike McCullough 73 78 74 79
306 Wayne Grady (Aus) 81 70 74 81
Withdrew: 209 Bruce Fleisher 69 69 71

Taylor and Kuchar play-off resumes this morning

Vaughn Taylor and Matt Kuchar will resume their play-off at the Turning Stone Resort Championship this morning after darkness forced play to be suspended.
The American duo were given the option of waiting it out overnight after reaching a third hole level and with dusk descending, decided to continue on Monday.
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Taylor and Kuchar will meet on the 13th tee at 8.30am local time.
They were deadlocked after Taylor, the half-way leader, produced an excellent 66 to get himself back amongst it while Kuchar, who resumed in joint first with Scott Piercy this morning, fired his worst round so far with 69 to find himself level with Taylor.
Playing the par-five 18th in the first play-off hole both managed nerveless birdies before moving to the 12th and parring with 5s.
The winner will collect a US$1,080,000 cheque.
Collated final-round scores (USA unless stated, par 72):
FINAL TOTALS
Par 288 (4x72)
271 Vaughn Taylor 67 67 71 66, Matt Kuchar 67 68 67 69
272 Leif Olson 66 69 68 69, Tim Petrovic 66 71 68 67
273 John Senden (Aus) 67 71 68 67, Jimmy Walker 68 69 70 66
274 Jeev Milkha Singh (Ind) 70 72 68 64, Rodney Pampling (Aus) 69 69 65 71, Bo Van Pelt 70 66 73 65, Harrison Frazar 75 65 69 65, Webb Simpson 70 72 67 65
275 Rory Sabbatini (Rsa) 73 66 70 66, Scott Piercy 70 66 66 73, Peter Lonard (Aus) 70 72 70 63
276 Fredrik Jacobson (Swe) 69 67 69 71, Justin Rose (Eng) 69 70 71 66, Davis Love III 71 70 66 69
277 D.A. Points 69 69 69 70, Scott Gutschewski 68 73 69 67, James Nitties (Aus) 70 72 67 68, Nick O'Hern (Aus) 73 70 68 66, Charles Howell III 69 72 67 69
278 Kevin Stadler 68 70 71 69, Michael Allen 72 67 71 68, Robert Garrigus 69 70 72 67, Jonathan Byrd 69 69 67 73, Jason Bohn 71 67 70 70, D.J. Trahan 73 70 69 66
279 Dustin Johnson 69 70 69 71, Aaron Baddeley (Aus) 70 68 73 68, Colt Knost 73 70 68 68, Martin Laird (Sco) 69 70 69 71, Ben Curtis 71 68 72 68, Matt Weibring 70 71 69 69
280 Will MacKenzie 71 67 70 72, Ben Crane 74 69 69 68, Adam Scott (Aus) 68 70 70 72, Corey Pavin 71 71 70 68, Mathias Gronberg (Swe) 73 69 64 74, Brandt Snedeker 71 67 70 72, Nicholas Thompson 68 67 69 76
281 Bill Haas 73 69 68 71, Arjun Atwal (Ind) 71 69 72 69, K J Choi (Kor) 70 70 71 70, Kevin Streelman 70 69 69 73, Matthew Jones (Aus) 68 72 70 71
282 Brendon De Jonge 72 70 71 69, Richard S Johnson (Swe) 72 70 69 71, Chris Stroud 69 71 73 69, Greg Chalmers (Aus) 73 68 69 72, Troy Matteson 70 67 75 70, Carl Pettersson (Swe) 72 71 72 67, Steve Elkington (Aus) 73 70 69 70, Mark Wilson 73 68 71 70
283 Kent Jones 69 72 71 71, Michael Sim (Sco) 75 66 72 70, Dean Wilson 73 69 73 68, Ken Duke 68 73 69 73
284 Aaron Watkins 74 66 75 69, Casey Wittenberg 70 71 71 72, Ted Purdy 71 70 72 71, Alex Cejka (Ger) 71 70 69 74, Stuart Appleby (Aus) 72 70 70 72
285 Jarrod Lyle (Aus) 71 68 74 72, Nathan Green (Aus) 72 70 72 71, Brian Vranesh 71 70 73 71, Andres Romero (Arg) 75 67 69 74, Bob Heintz 70 70 75 70
286 Aron Price (Aus) 72 65 71 78, Matt Bettencourt 72 70 68 76
287 Chris Riley 71 71 71 74, Joe Durant 72 70 72 73
288 Mark Calcavecchia 72 71 70 75, Roland Thatcher 71 72 74 71
292 Jason Gore 71 72 74 75

Hugh Hunter's Clackmannan County News

Lawrence Allan (Alva), on right, and foursomes partner Euan Bradley (Mount Ellen), foursomes partners for Scotland in the Under-16 international againts England at Arbroath. Image by courtesy of Hugh Hunter.

SUCCESS GALORE FOR CLACKMANNAN GOLFERS

It's been a week of achievement for Wee County golfers on the national stage. Top performance of the week came from Tulliallan’s Bob Stewart in the Senior Home Internationals held in Ireland.

In six matches of foursomes and singles, Bob recorded three wins, two halves and one loss. Best performance was in the singles when he played for Scotland in the No 1 spot, and over the three days was undefeated---winning against England, and halving with Ireland and Wales.

In the foursomes, partnered by Derek Murphy, they won two matches and lost one. Unfortunately Ireland just pipped Scotland for the 2009 Senior Men's Home Internationals title.
Next best performance came from 14-year-old Lawrence Allan (Alva) who played in the Under- 16s Scotland team in the annual match against England at Arbroath. Lawrence partnered Euan Bradley (Mount Ellen) and the pair seemed to be heading for a heavy defeat and early lunch when they were five down after nine holes.

However, a spirited fightback took the match to the last green where they lost by the narrowest of margins. In his singles match, Lawrence reversed his foursomes loss with a one-hole win over English player Curtis Griffiths.
After the morning foursomes, the Scottish boys found themselves 4-1 down, but turned the match round in the singles and the final match result was a draw at seven and a half matches each.
Lawrence has demonstrated that he can play at a high level, and with a few more years in boys' golf, he should be able to make a considerable mark, bringing great honour to his family and Alva Golf Club.
After coming close in previous years, Alloa’s Ray Barton eventually won the PGA Patrons' Club match-play tournament last at Gleneagles, winning his semi-final match by 2 and 1 and the final by two holes.
Alloa Golf Club’s professionals David Herd and Gregor Abel are also making inroads into the competitions scene - Gregor has been a regular in Tartan Tour events - with some good finishes and both will be at some of the Midland Alliances event over the winter.

The lead in the money-winners list in the Alliance is held by Alloa’s Michael Niven with Tulliallan’s Bob Stewart in second place.

AND MORE SUCCESS FOR CALLUM

Once again, Tulliallan’s Callum Macaulay bounced back in the last two rounds of the Dunhill at St Andrews to pick up a good five-figure pay cheque and move him that bit closer to retaining his European Tour card for the 2010 golf season.

In his first round over Kingsbarns, water gave him trouble and in round two the Carnoustie bunkers in the last few holes cost a number of dropped shots. So after two rounds he stood at one over par and needed something special in round three if he was to make the cut for the top 70 players.

Well, it happened and fellow Tulliallan golfer Bob Stewart was there to see accurate driving of well over 300 yards, and much better putting than in the first two rounds. Said Bob “It was a gutsy performance and Callum produced it when he needed it, making the cut with nothing to spare.”

A five under par 67 was the result and he followed it with a final 4 under 68 to give him a four round total of eight under par, and a share 0f 42nd place. He was also pleased to learn that he had made the field for the Madrid Open this week, and of course hoping that he can continue where he left off.

Well done, Callum!