E-mail from Neil Wilson

Reference recent Martin Dempster article about Paul Lawrie wishing other Scottish pros would follow his example in encouraging young amateurs

"On the general issue of encouragement to young golfers by the professional class, can I say that my own experience has been almost all positive. We have the good fortune to live for much of the year in Spain and play most of our golf at Valderrama.
"A number of current European Tour professionals are members, including Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano, Alvaro Quiros and Soren Hansen. They all spend a lot of time over the winter practising at Valderrama and I have found them to be incredibly generous with their time and will play a few holes or have putting competitions with any of our junior members who happen to be around.
"My son is a pupil at Loretto School Golf Academy in Musselburgh and is a huge fan of Gonzo, Alvaro and Soren whereas the current crop of Scottish pros are by and large just names that occupy the lower reaches of the results sheet each week. More's the pity."

Neil Wilson

Keep up the good work. "Scottish Golf View" is brilliant for keeping us very much in the picture as to what is happening in Scottish golf.

Kind regards,

Neil Wilson