ANGLO CAMERON IS TOP SCOT BEHIND

YANKEE DOODLE DANDY SIMSON

American Peter Simson won the British senior open amateur golf championship for the third time in the past four years at Walton Heath GC, Surrey today
Winner in 2006 and 2008, as well as being runner-up last year, Simson continued his love affair with this over-55s tournament, having five shots to spare after 54 holes.
He had rounds of 70, 69 and 69 for an excellent total of eight-under-par 208, the standard of scoring of a man of lesser years.
He won by five shots from another American, Chip Lutz who score 72, 71 and 70 for 213.
Former Walker Cup player Garth McGimpsey from Bangor in Northern Ireland came third on 215 with scores of 70, 72 and 73.
The leading Scot was English-based Douglas Cameron (Moor Park). He tied for seventh place on 222 with scores of 79, 77 and 76.
Tony Stafford (Dun Ochil) finished on 227 (72-75-80), thye same mark as Bob Stewart from Tulliallan. Bob scored 74, 76 and 77.
Derek Murphy (Kinross) scored a hat-trick of 76s for 228 - one shot better than Lindsay Gordon (Turnhouse) with rounds of 78, 73 and 78.
John Johnston (Lanark) and David Perrie (Paisley) finished on 232, Johnston with 75, 77 and 80, Perrie with 79, 74 and 79.

LEADING FINAL TOTALS
Par 216 (3x72)
208 Paul Simson (US) 70 69 69.
213 Chip Lutz (US) 72 71 70.
215 Garth McGimpsey (NIr) 70 7 73.
219 Douglas Pool (US) 73 76 70.
220 Tom Clearly (Cork) 74 76 71, Roy Smethurst (Crwew) 71 77 72.
222 Alan Fadel (US) 72 76 74, Chris Reynolds (Littlestone) 71 76 75, Adrian Morrow (Portmarnock) 76 71 75, Douglas Cameron (Moor Park) 79 77 76, Michael Quirke (Doneraile, Cork) 75 70 77.
223 Peter Hedges (Wildernesse) 75 75 73., Danny Yates (US) 67 75 81.
Other Scots scores:
227 Tony Stafford (Dun Ochil) 72 75 80, Bob Stewart (Tulliallan) 74 76 77.
228 Derek Murphy (Kinross) 76 76 76.
229 Lindsay Gordon (Turnhouse) 78 73 78.
232 John Johnston (Lanark) 75 77 80, David Perrie (Paisley) 79 74 79.