Hugh Hunter's Clackmannan County News
JOHN AND GARY JUST MISS OUT
In the Scottish boys' stroke-play championship last week, held over the par 71 Craigielaw course in East Lothian, Alloa’s John Salmond and Dollar’s Gary Chalmers just missed the cut at the halfway stage. Over the tricky course, where distance judgement is absolutely essential to hit the greens--- many are like upturned saucers leaving very little margin for error--- Gary scored a nine over par aggregate of 151 (75-76) with John two shots back on 153 (77-76).
The cut came at a six-over-par 148. However, both picked up tips for improvement, especially how double bogeys are score-wrecking.
John has been showing good form in local boys' open events with wins at Linlithgow and Dunfermline recently. He must be very pleased that his handicap has gone down to scratch.
MODERATE RESULT FOR LAWRENCE
Alva’s Lawrence Allan missed out on the boys' stroke-play event because of a clash with the European Young Masters Championship, held in Hungary last week In this under-16s event, he finished with the lowest three-round score of the Scots contingent of two boys and two girls.
In difficult conditions, especially on the last day, Lawrence returned a three-round aggregate of 237 (76, 78, and 83) to finish in 22nd equal position out of more than 100 players. His second round could have been very good. It contained six birdies, showing considerable class, but these were neutralised by a few double bogeys.
In the last round, only 15 players broke 80, with high scores returned by many of the higher handicap players. One player scored 12 on the first hole!
In the Nations Cup, the Scottish team finished in 19th position on 734. The winning team from Finland scored 676.
In the World Amateur Golf Rankings, Lawrence has moved up again, .almost 150 places actually, thanks to some points from the English under-16s event
COUNTY SENIOR GOLFERS IN ACTION
Tulliallan’s Bob Stewart, now ninth in the senior Order of Merit, qualified quite comfortably for the Scottish seniors match-play championship at Kinross last week with scores of 77 and 81. In the first round, Bob had a good win over Derek Murphy by 6 and 5, but could not sustain it in the second round where he lost to top seed Colin Christy by 2 and 1.
The event was won by Tony Stafford (Gleneagles), a former Clackmannanshire golfer.
Seniors action moves to Stirling this week with the first “Super Seniors” event for the over 65’s--- decided over 36 holes on Thursday and Friday. It is pleasing to see a number of local golfers supporting the event.
COUNTY GOLF LEAGUES
County Golf Leagues co-ordinator Sam Kinnaird is having a difficult time with both the boys' league and men’s league matches. Sam remarks: “Matches are cancelled at the last minute, even in good weather, plus there is a delay in reporting some of the results. All of this makes it difficult to work out accurate team positions”
Sam’s latest assessment is as follows
Boys' League:- Braehead and Alva are leading with six points from four matches; Alloa (six matches) and Tillicoultry (three matches) both have four points.
Last Sunday’s matches did not resolve the position. Only one match was played, between Alloa and Tillicoultry ,which resulted in a draw. The Alloa team were one man short.
MATCH RESULTS:
Alloa 3 Tillicoultry 3
(Alloa names first)
John Salmond bt Steven Watson 4 and 3, Calum Boyd lost to Kevin Ross 4 and 3; Grant Ross lost to Scott Baird 3 and 2; Jack Dowie bt Ryan Millar 1 hole, Angus Boyd bt Calum Reid 6 and 5, Jonathan Clark (Tillicoultry) won on a walk-over.
Men’s League: Alloa leads with six points from three matches; Tulliallan are in second place with four points, also from three matches. The remaining clubs have still to score points in their matches.
In the Scottish boys' stroke-play championship last week, held over the par 71 Craigielaw course in East Lothian, Alloa’s John Salmond and Dollar’s Gary Chalmers just missed the cut at the halfway stage. Over the tricky course, where distance judgement is absolutely essential to hit the greens--- many are like upturned saucers leaving very little margin for error--- Gary scored a nine over par aggregate of 151 (75-76) with John two shots back on 153 (77-76).
The cut came at a six-over-par 148. However, both picked up tips for improvement, especially how double bogeys are score-wrecking.
John has been showing good form in local boys' open events with wins at Linlithgow and Dunfermline recently. He must be very pleased that his handicap has gone down to scratch.
MODERATE RESULT FOR LAWRENCE
Alva’s Lawrence Allan missed out on the boys' stroke-play event because of a clash with the European Young Masters Championship, held in Hungary last week In this under-16s event, he finished with the lowest three-round score of the Scots contingent of two boys and two girls.
In difficult conditions, especially on the last day, Lawrence returned a three-round aggregate of 237 (76, 78, and 83) to finish in 22nd equal position out of more than 100 players. His second round could have been very good. It contained six birdies, showing considerable class, but these were neutralised by a few double bogeys.
In the last round, only 15 players broke 80, with high scores returned by many of the higher handicap players. One player scored 12 on the first hole!
In the Nations Cup, the Scottish team finished in 19th position on 734. The winning team from Finland scored 676.
In the World Amateur Golf Rankings, Lawrence has moved up again, .almost 150 places actually, thanks to some points from the English under-16s event
COUNTY SENIOR GOLFERS IN ACTION
Tulliallan’s Bob Stewart, now ninth in the senior Order of Merit, qualified quite comfortably for the Scottish seniors match-play championship at Kinross last week with scores of 77 and 81. In the first round, Bob had a good win over Derek Murphy by 6 and 5, but could not sustain it in the second round where he lost to top seed Colin Christy by 2 and 1.
The event was won by Tony Stafford (Gleneagles), a former Clackmannanshire golfer.
Seniors action moves to Stirling this week with the first “Super Seniors” event for the over 65’s--- decided over 36 holes on Thursday and Friday. It is pleasing to see a number of local golfers supporting the event.
COUNTY GOLF LEAGUES
County Golf Leagues co-ordinator Sam Kinnaird is having a difficult time with both the boys' league and men’s league matches. Sam remarks: “Matches are cancelled at the last minute, even in good weather, plus there is a delay in reporting some of the results. All of this makes it difficult to work out accurate team positions”
Sam’s latest assessment is as follows
Boys' League:- Braehead and Alva are leading with six points from four matches; Alloa (six matches) and Tillicoultry (three matches) both have four points.
Last Sunday’s matches did not resolve the position. Only one match was played, between Alloa and Tillicoultry ,which resulted in a draw. The Alloa team were one man short.
MATCH RESULTS:
Alloa 3 Tillicoultry 3
(Alloa names first)
John Salmond bt Steven Watson 4 and 3, Calum Boyd lost to Kevin Ross 4 and 3; Grant Ross lost to Scott Baird 3 and 2; Jack Dowie bt Ryan Millar 1 hole, Angus Boyd bt Calum Reid 6 and 5, Jonathan Clark (Tillicoultry) won on a walk-over.
Men’s League: Alloa leads with six points from three matches; Tulliallan are in second place with four points, also from three matches. The remaining clubs have still to score points in their matches.
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