Ross Harrower is North Scottish Alliance champion

By ALAN COWIE
Boat of Garten professional Ross Harrower won the North Scottish Golfers' Alliance Championship fixture at Fortrose & Rosemarkie after John Forbes (Inverness) was unable to make the scheduled play-off.
Forbes posted a five-under-par 66 early on with six birdies and a single dropped shot at the 17th.
Later starter Harrower equalled this mark seven birdies between bogeys at the first and last. Five of his sub-par figures came on the home nine and he was awarded the Sir Hugh Mackenzie Trophy.
Consolation for Forbes was the fact that his net 67, off a handicap of +1, earned him the Bank of Scotland Quaich for victory in the Handicap Class 1.
In Class 2, L Macbean (Boat of Garten), playing off nine, won the Jim Thom Quaich for a net 69.
Jim Simpson (Forres) won the seniors' scratch award, the J A B Little Trophy, with a 72 while A Tait (Fortrose & Rosemarkie), playing off six, took the seniors' handicap prize, the J M C Gourlay Salver with a net 68.
LEADING SCRATCH
66 R Harrower (Boat of Garten) p, J D Forbes (Inverness).
69 G Hay (Grantown), M Macdonald (Fortrose & Rosemarkie).
70 G Murray (Spey Bay), B Fotheringham (Forres).
71 M L Macleman (Moray).
72 S Chisholm (Nairn), J Simpson (Forres).
73 J C Milne (Moray), A Cameron (Inverness), J R Mackay (Muir of Ord).
74 B A Watson (Nairn Dunbar), J A Grant (Grantown), C Campbell (Nairn Dunbar) p, R McKerron (Forres), A Tait (Fortrose & Rosemarkie).
75 K Thomson (Moray), J Milne (Elgin), K Stables (Elgin) p.
76 F Brown (Nairn Dunbar).
77 M. McDonald (Grantown), W Hutchison (Inverness), A Henry (Inverness), I Hamilton (Elgin).
78 G Mackenzie (Hopeman), K Williamson (Torvean), L Macbean (Boat of Garten);
79 A Thomson (Moray) p, R Proctor (Forres), B Main (Fortrose & Rosemarkie), S Rooney (Boat of Garten), G Burnett (Nairn), I Macaulay (Elgin), N. McWilliam (Elgin).
80 G J Abel (Elgin), S Wilson (Inverness), W Weatherall (Muir of Ord), J B Thomson (Moray).
LEADING HANDICAP
Class 1 (eight and under)
67 J Forbes (Inverness) (+1).
68 A Tait (Fortrose & Rosemarkie) (6), G Hay (Grantown) (1).
70 I. Hamilton (Elgin)(7), J C Milne (Moray) (3).
71 S. Rooney (Boat of Garten)(8), M Mcdonald (Grantown) (6).
Class 2 (nine to 14)
69 L. Macbean (Boat of Garten) (9).
71 T Loynes (Boat of Garten) (12).
72 C Small (Nairn) (11).
73 D Macleod (Loch Ness) (11), G Knapp (Muir of Ord) (11), J Mcdonald (Nairn Dunbar) (14).