CLASSY KELLY WINS AT CRUDEN BAY

By COLIN FARQUHARSON
Cawder’s Chris Kelly scored his sixth one-day victory on the Tartan Tour this season with a splendid round of six-under-par 64 in testing conditions for the VSA Tartan pro-am at Cruden Bay today (Thursday).
It was Kelly’s fourth outright success – he was joint winner in the two other events – and he earned the £860 first prize with a quality performance. Only Chris and runner-up Callum Nicoll (The Els Club), with a 67, got under the par of 70.
After an eagle 2 at the second put him in the mood, Kelly birdied the third, fourth and sixth before he cooled off with a bogey at the seventh but a birdie at the eighth put him out in five-under-par 31.
Two more birdies followed at the 10th and 12th and a Cruden Bay pro record low score was on the cards until he bogeyed the 15th and 16th before closing with his seventh birdie of the day at the 18th in an inward 33.
Nicoll earned £680 for his 67 and David Orr (Eastwood) picked up £500 for finishing third in a field of 19 pros with a 70.
Paul Lawrie, who had an individual round of 72, led the Paul Lawrie Foundation team of his son Craig Lawrie (handicap 4), Alan Reid (18) and Barry Duncan (14) to victory in the pro-am event with a net score of 12-under-par 128.




PRO SCORES (par 70)
64 Chris Kelly (Cawder).
67 Callum Nicoll (The Els Club).
70 David Orr (Eastwood).
71 Stephen Gray (Hayston).
72 Steven Taylor (Bothwell Castle), Paul Lawrie (Carrick at Cameron House).
73 James McKinnon (Irvine), Lindsay Mann (Carnoustie), Mark King (Kingsfield), Jason McCreadie (Buchanan Castle), Graham Fox (East Kilbride), Dean Vannet (Peterculter).
74 Robert Arnott (Bishopbriggs GR).
75 Neil Murray (Cruden Bay), Mark Kerr (Marriott Dalmahoy), Colin Gillies (Braid Hills), Craig Matheson (Falkirk Tryst)

76 Scott Henderson (Kings Links).
77 Edward Thomson (Senit Associates).