Standard Life Leven Gold Medal report, final totals

SCOTT LARKIN WINS BY FOUR STROKES

FROM MARK HILLSON

Royal Aberdeen's Scott Larkin, from the same Banchory "stable" as James Byrne, won his first SGU 72-hole Order of Merit today (Sunday) when he had four shots to spare at the end of the Standard Life Leven Gold Medal.
Larkin, who came home  a better player after four years on the American college circuit, took the lead at the halfway stage over the Fife links with rounds of 67 and 70 and held Craigielaw's Mark Hillson, the only Scot to reach the last eight of the British amateur championship last year, at bay over Sunday's final two rounds.
Larkin signed off with 65 and 70 over the par-71 course to win the prestigious Gold Medal with a 15 under par total of 269 while Hillson had a 66 and 72 on Sunday  claim the silver.
For Larkin it was the second time this summer he had been in contention to win a 72-hole. In the Cameron Corbett Vase at Haggs Castle, he tied for victory after four rounds and then lost at the second hole of a play-off. This time, Scott won with something to spare.
Twice past Scottish boys match-play runner-up Paul Shields (KirkhillP) and Edinburgh's James Ross (Royal Burgess) each earned a bronze medal, sharing third place on 276. 
+The Leven Golfing Society computer had a mental breakdown over the third and fourth rounds and the totals which we displayed on Sunday evening were later proved to be wrong in that the totals were right but the sequence of scores had been messed about by the computer. We now have the correct sequence as well as the correct totals below:

FINAL TOTALS
Par 284 (4x71) CSS 71 71 72 72
269 Scott Larkin (Royal Aberdeen) 67 67 65 70.
273 Mark Hillson (Craigielaw) 69 66 66 72.
276 Paul Shields (Kirkhill) 70 68 69 69, James Ross (Royal Burgess) 70 69 70 67
277 Paul Betty (Lenzie) 67 73 67 70.
278 Chris Lawton (Falkirk Tryst) 67 68 71 72, Fraser McKenna (Balmore) 67 69 73 69
280 Stephen Machin (Cowglen) 71 70 73 66, Michael Main (Thornton) 68 67 77 68.
 281 Steven Rennie (Drumpellier) 70 73 68 70, John Wybar (Aldeburth) 69 69 72 71, Jordan McColl (Scotscraig) 66 69 72 74.
282 Gordon Stevenson (Whitecraigs) 70 65 70 77, Gordon Yates (Hilton Park) 71 70 70 71, Bobby Rushford (Grangemouth) 73 68 71 70.
283 Scott Stewart-Cation (Balbirnie Park) 69 67 70 77, Scott Gibson (Southerness) 66 69 73 75, David Mitchell (Leven Thistle) 68 71 74 70.
284 Scott Michie (Kinross) 70 75 71 68, Scott Borrowman (Dollar) 73 69 69 73.
Brian Erskine (Merchants of Edinburgh) 68 73 75 68.
285 Neil Henderson (Glen) 75 72 65 73, Andrew Wallace (Glenbervie) 69 71 73 72.
286 Greg Nicholson (Mortonhall) 68 69 75 74.
287 James Hendrick (Pollok) 68 72 71 76, Ian Bell (Scotscraig) 66 75 72 74, John Duff (Newmachar) 68 71 75 73.
288 Keith Shanks (Briar Ridge) 72 70 74 72
289 Scott Crichton (Aberdour) 73 67 78 71, Ross Bell (Downfield) 65 73 79 72. 
290 Colin Martin (Balbirnie Park) 68 73 71 78, Chris Harkins (Ayr Belleisle) 74 67 73 76.
291 Robert Jenkins (Crow Wood) 72 71 71 77, Grant McNab (Lundin) 71 72 72 76, Sam Binning (Ranfurly Castle) 69 69 76 77, Michael Dailey (Erskine) 69 71 77 74.
292 Stephen Speirs (Australia) 69 74 80 69, Mark Anderson (Leven Thistle) 70 73 70 79
293 Adam Dunton (McDonald Ellon) 71 71 73 78.
294 Martin Brown (Monifieth) 70 67 81 76.
295 Duncan Martin (Longniddry) 69 72 80 74.