EUROPROTOUR REPORT, SCORES

Craig Lee collects £2,500

for third place finish

By COLIN FARQUHARSON
Craig Lee finished par-bogey when he needed to birdie the last two holes to win the £10,000 top prize in this week’s PGA EuroPro Tour event, the £40,100 Pandora’s Open at Burhill Golf Club, Surrey, today.
The Stirling man, pictured right by Cal Carson Golf Agency, attached this season to the Aspire Golf Centre, near Aberdeen, signed for a two-under-par 70 and a final total of six-under 210 when a 67 for 207 would have got him first past the winning post. .
The “consolation” prize for his third place finish, two shots behind play-off participants, Englishmen Sean Doherty and Robert Steele, was £2,500.
Lee birdied the third and sixth, having dropped a shot at the first, to turn in one-under-par 35. After birdies at the 10th and 16th, the Scot had an outside chance of posting a 207 target. It was not to be but Lee can feel happy with his performance.
Steele beat Doherty at the first extra hole of the play-off..
Scott Henry (The Carrick on Loch Lomond) and Craigielaw’s Shaun McAllister shared 30th place on level par 216, both closing with disappointing 75s. Henry had a triple bogey 8 at the long fifth while McAllister bogeyed the 12th, 15th and 17th at a time when he really needed birdies, and a lot of them, to get nearer to the top 20. Both earned £287.50.
Paul Lawrie Foundation team members Graeme Lornie (73 for 218) and Ross Cameron (76 for 221) earned £260 and £205 respectively for joint 37th and joint 48th positions.
FINAL TOTALS
Par 216 (3x72)
208 Sean Doherty (Eng) 68 71 69, Robert Steele (Forest of Arden) 72 64 72 (playing off).
210 Craig Lee (Aspire Golf Centre) 74 66 70 (£2,500).
211 Robert Watkins (England) 74 70 67, Gary King (Eng) 70 72 69, Martin Sell (Eng) 68 72 71, Jamie Little (Eng) 70 68 73, Alex Belt (Eng) 70 68 73.
212 George Woolgar (Eng) 72 69 71, Matthew Ford (Eng) 70 71 71, Paul O'Hanlon (Ire) 9 72 72.
213 James Hepworth (Eng) 76 69 68, James Heath (Eng) 74 68 71, Stuart Archibald (Eng) 71 71 71, Graham Benson (Eng) 68 71 74
Selected totals:
216 Scott Henry (The Carrick on Loch Lomond) 70 71 75, Shaun McAllister (Craigielaw) 68 73 75 (jt 30th) (£287.50 each).
218 Graeme Lornie (Paul Lawrie Foundation) (72 73 73 (jt 37th) (£260).
221 Ross Cameron (Paul Lawrie Foundation) 74 71 76 (jt 48th) (£205).


Sean Doherty and Robert Steele are playing for first prize in this week's PGA EuroPro Tour event, the £40,100 Pandora's Open at Burhill Golf Club, Surrey.
They tied on eight-under-par 208.
Scotland's Craig Lee finished third on 210 with scores of 74, 66 and 70.
More news later.

FINAL TOTALS
Par 216 (3x72)
208 Sean Doherty (Eng) 68 71 69, Robert Steele (Forest of Arden) 72 64 72 (playing off).
210 Craig Lee (Aspire Golf Centre, nr Aberdeen) 74 66 70.
211 Robert Watkins (England) 74 70 67, Gary King (Eng) 70 72 69, Martin Sell (Eng) 68 72 71, Jamie Little (Eng) 70 68 73, Alex Belt (Eng) 70 68 73.
212 George Woolgar (Eng) 72 69 71, Matthew Ford (Eng) 70 71 71, Paul O'Hanlon (Ire) 9 72 72.
213 James Hepworth (Eng) 76 69 68, James Heath (Eng) 74 68 71, Stuart Archibald (Eng) 71 71 71, Graham Benson (Eng) 68 71 74.
Selected totals:
216 Scott Henry (The Carrick on Loch Lomond) 70 71 75, Shaun McAllister (Craigielaw) 68 73 75 (jt 30th).
218 Graeme Lornie (Paul Lawrie Foundation) (72 73 73 (jt 37th).
221 Ross Cameron (Paul Lawrie Foundation) 74 71 76 (jt 48th).