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Neil Henderson, Alison Goodwin

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Neil Henderson, a former Scottish schoolboys title-winner and Junior Champion of Champions from The Glen Golf Club, North Berwick, claimed a spot in his second Faldo Series Europe Grand Final when he won both the overall and the Boys’ Under-21 prizes at the Faldo Series UK Championship at The Roxburghe near Kelso.
Henderson, pictured right with his Faldo winners' medal, a student at Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia in the United States, put together rounds of 73 and 69 for an impressive two-under par total of 142. That gave him a three-stroke victory over Craig Ross (Kirkhill) and Simon Fairburn (Galashiels) for the overall prize and a four-shot win over Daniel Kay (Dunbar) and Andrew Wallace (Glenbervie) in the Boys’ Under-21 event.
The victory at The Roxburghe earned Henderson a place in the 2010 Faldo Series Europe Grand Final, to be staged over the Faldo Course at the Lough Erne Resort, Co. Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, on September 21-23, where he will be joined by Boys’ Under-18 winner Ross, Boys’ Under-16 winner, Ewan Scott, and by Alison Goodwin and Lesley Atkins, who won the Girls’ Under-21 and Under-16 events respectively.
It will be Henderson’s second appearance in a Faldo Series Grand Final, having previously won the Under-18 title at the Faldo Series UK Championship at The Roxburghe back in 2007.
Henderson opened the event with a one over par 73 and then moved ahead of the field with a spectacular eagle on the 546-yard par-5 5th. He dropped a shot on the 469-yard par-4 10th but then romped home with three birdies to leave the rest of the field trailing in his wake.
Henderson’s nearest challengers for the overall prize turned out to be Ross and Fairburn who both produced rounds of 73 and 72 to share first place in the Under-18 event, two shots ahead of Grant Forrest (Galashiels).
Ross had looked odds on to emerge as winner of the Under-18 event when he produced an eagle on the 523-yard par-5 14th but Fairburn birdied the 422-yard par-4 18th to force a tie before succumbing to a birdie three on the first hole of the subsequent sudden-death play-off.
Ewan Scott, a hugely promising scratch handicapper from the St Andrews Golf Club, will join Henderson and Ross at the Faldo Series Grand Final at Lough Erne after producing rounds of 76 and 72 to finish three shots ahead of Cameron Farrell from Cardross in the Boys’ Under-16 event.
Scott, the first Scot to win the English Boys’ Under-14 Stroke Play Championship, went into the second round one shot behind overnight leader, Blair Carnegie (Dunblane New) but took control with a fine level par 72 that left him three shots ahead of Farrell and four in front of Craig Howie (Peebles)
Alison Goodwin (Glenbervie) and Lesley Atkins (Gullane Ladies) can also look forward to a trip to Northern Ireland after winning the Girls’ Under-21 and Girls’ Under-16 events. Goodwin produced a second round of 72 to emerge a clear winner in the Under-21 event while Aitken carded rounds of 75 and 79 to finish six shots ahead of Clara Young (North Berwick) in the Under-16 tournament.
+LATER NEWS: The Nick Faldo Series organisers will make arrangements to fly Neil Henderson to Northern Ireland for the European Final from his college at Norfolk, West Virginia - if Old Dominion Univeresity do not require him for a college circuit tournament. There does not seem to be a clash of events at the moment.

Leading results from the Faldo Series UK Championship at The Roxburghe
Boys’ Under-21
142 Neil Henderson (The Glen) 73 69
146 Daniel Kay (Dunbar) 72 74, Andrew Wallace (Glenbervie) 74 72
151 Kyle McClung (Wigtonshire County) 76 75
154 Adam Dunton (McDonald Ellon) 73 81
Boys’ Under-18
145 Craig Ross (Kirkhill) 73 72, Simon Fairburn (Galashiels) 73 72 (Ross won sudden-death play-off)
147 Grant Forest (Craigielaw) 75 72
149 Jamie Lynch (Falkirk) 76 73
151 Andrew Whyte (St Andrews New) 76 75, Greg Smail (Craigielaw) 81 70
Boys’ Under-16
148 Ewan Scott (St Andrews) 76 72
151 Cameron Farrell (Cardross) 77 74
152 Craig Howie (Pebbles) 76 76
153 Anthony Blaney (Liberton) 77 76
155 Alasdair McDougall (Elderslie) 79 76
Girls’ Under-21
153 Alison Goodwin (Glenbervie) 81-72
166 Gabrielle Macdonald (Craigielaw) 84-82
175 Jordana Graham (Southerness) 89-86
Girls’ Under-18
154 Lesley Atkins (Gullane Ladies) 75 79
160 Clara Young (North Berwick) 82 78, Lauren Whyte (St Andrews New) 82 78
162 Hannah Scott (Broomieknowe) 81 81
163 Eilidh Watson (Muckhart) 81 82