Hugh Hunger's Clackmannan County news

Alloa boys' team who beat Tillicoultry. Image by courtesy of Hugh Hunter.

CRACKING START FOR BOYS GOLF LEAGUE MATCHESWith only one week and three matches, the 2010 county Boys league is shaping up for exciting Sunday matches between 5 Clubs in the County--- regrettably Tulliallan are unable to participate again. Last week, only one match was played with Alva defeating Tillicoultry by 3 ½ matches to 2 ½ --- the Dollar v Braehead match was unable to be played.
Two matches were played at the weekend--- Alloa defeated Alva by 4 ½ to 1 ½ and Tillicoultry defeated Braehead by 3 ½ to 2 ½.
Top match at Schawpark was a halved game between low handicappers John Salmond and Lawrence Allan. The Boyd brothers provided another two wins along with Grant Ross and Calum Watson.

MATCH DETAILS (Alloa names first)
John Salmond halved with Lawrence Allan
Calum Boyd beat Reyner Kennedy 4/3
Grant Ross beat Daniel Ashe 2/1
Calum Watson beat Calum Graham 2/1
Jack Dowie lost to Martin Hall 5/4
Angus Boyd beat Craig Comrie 4/3
This week’s fixtures Tillicoultry v Dollar; Braehead v Alloa.

SCOTTISH BOYS AREA TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP
The top four county boys will represent Clackmannanshire at Peebles this weekend in the 2010 Boys Team Championship--- the Hillfoots golf clubs are well represented. Following a practice round on Saturday, the event is decided by two foursomes scores on Sunday morning added to three out of four singles scores in the afternoon. Sam Kinnaird the County Boys convenor is reasonably confident “We are hoping the team members can play near their handicaps to give Clackmannanshire a chance of a good team score in the event”
Clackmannan team Lawrence Allan (Alva);Scott Baird (Tillicoultry);Gary Chalmers (Dollar); John Salmond (Alloa).

GRANT DOWIE BOYS ORDER OF MERITThe Clackmannan County Golf Union are extremely grateful to the Dowie family for their generous gesture in presenting a trophy in memory of Grant. For 2010 the counting events for points will be the County Boys events and the Open boys competitions held at the six Clubs in the County. With the County events completed, the leading scores are as follows
1. Lawrence Allan 200 2. John Salmond 150 3. Kevin Ross 125 4. Ryan Millar 100 5 Scott Baird 90 6. Gary Chalmers 80 7. Grant Carmichael 70 8.Martin Hall 50 9. Steven Watson 25 10. Calum Graham 10.
The next counting event is the Dollar Boys open on the 6th June and with four top players missing, there is a chance for others to make up some ground.

SCOTTISH STROKE PLAY CHAMPIONSHIP
Top Dollar players Scott Borrowman and Darren Hulston missed the 36 hole cut weekend event held at Glasgow Gailes. Scott finished at 9 over (77, 74) and Darren at 12 over (76, 78).
The winner was French player Romain Wattel at nine under par for 72 holes.

SCOTTISH SENIORS GOLF

Clackmannanshire senior golfers are strong supporters of the Seniors Golfing Society and in the Spring meeting at Montrose, the three County players returned quite respectable scores over the par 72 layout. Top scorer was Tulliallan’s Bob Stewart with 153 (76,77) followed by Phil Dempsey on 157 (82,75) and Michael Niven on 159 (79,80). There is a succession of top senior events over the summer—the next one is the East of Scotland seniors on the 10/11th June.

CALLUM IN GOOD FORMTaking a break from the Challenge Tour events last week, Tulliallan’s Callum Macaulay played in the Tartan Tour Teddy Bear Foundation at the King’s course, Gleneagles. Callum tied for the best score with three others on a two under par 68. This week Callum is due to play in a Challenge tour event in South Austria at the 7000 yard Klagenfurt – Settenheim layout.

Front row (left to right): Calum Boyd, John Salmond, Angus Boyd. Back: Calum Watson, Grant Ross, Jack Dowie, Drew Hunter (reserve).