LINDSAY’S THE MANN AT DOUGLAS

 PARK PRO-AM (home in five-under 30) 

By COLIN FARQUHARSON
Carnoustie Links’ Lindsay Mann, the 48-year-old former Walker Cup player, today scored his first outright win on the Tartan Tour since the Easter Moffat pro-am last September.
Mann, pictured right, who twice partnered Andrew Oldcorn to foursomes victories under the captaincy of Charlie Green in the 1983 match against the Americans at Hoylake (the USA won 13 1/2-10 1/2), won the £1,058 top prize at the Douglas Park Golf Club pro-am with an excellent score of five-under-par 64.
Lindsay’s outward half of level par 34 – birdies at the sixth and eighth between bogeys at the fourth and ninth – gave no hint of the fireworks to come,
He birdied the 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th and 15th in a bogey-less inward half of five-under-par 35.
Mann won by two shots from joint runners-up Ian Graham (Crow Wood) and Jason McCreadie (Buchanan Castle) who each earned £7840.
Paul McKechnie (Braid Hills) picked up £476 for fourth place on 67.
Peter Mitchell (Hermitage) led the Nexus Packaging amateur trio fo Mark Ferguson (scratch), Ewan Ferguson (4) and Lewis Ferguson (13) to victory in the team event with a net score of 21-under-par 117.
They won by two shots from the team led by Crow Wood professional Ian Graham.
SCOREBOARD
Par 69
64 Lindsay Mann (Carnoustie) (£1,058).
66 Ian Graham (Crow Wood), Jason McCreadie (Buchanan Castle) (£740 each).
67 Paul McKechnie (Braid Hills) (£476).
68 Robert Arnott (Bishopbriggs GR), Steven Taylor (Bothwell Castle) (£348 each).
69 James McKinnon (Irvine), Campbell Elliott (Haggs Castle) (£254 each).
70 Stephen Gray (Hayston), Alan Lockhart (Ladybank), Craig Ronald (Carluke), Scott Henderson (Kings Links), James McGhee (Turnhouse) (£165 each).
71 Colin Gillies (Braid Hills), Chris Kelly (Cawder) (£121 each).
72 Gary Dingwall (Royal Dornoch), Mark King (Kingsfield), Peter Mitchell (Hermitage), Craig Matheson (Falkirk Tryst) (£90 each).
73 Graham Fox (East Kilbride) (£63).
74 Gareth Hardy (Ayr Belleisle), David Patrick (Elie) (£48 each).
75 Alastair Thomson (Douglas Park) (£48).
76 Kevin Campbell (Greenock), Andrew Marshall (Houston GR), Brian Leishman (Gleneagles Hotel) (£48 each).
77 Kevin McAleer (Gleddoch), Duncan Williamson (Kirkhill), Derek Watters (Gourock) (£48 each).
78 David Park (Wishaw) (£48).
80 Andrew Cooper (Newmachar)(£48).
81 David Blackadder (Kingsbarns), Ross Cameron (McDonald Ellon) (£48 each).
84 Robert Irvine (Douglas Park) £48).
Disqualified – Andrew Carlton (Paisley), Nicola Melville (Nicola Melville Golf) (£48 each).

+In case you've been trying to remember who else was in the 1983 GB and I Walker Cup team alongwith Lindsay Mann and Andrew Oldcorn, we can tell you now:

G Macgregor (Scotland), P Walton (Ireland), S D Keppler (England), D G Carrick (Scotland), P Parkin (Wales), A D Pierse (Ireland), M E Lewis (England), M S Thompson (England).