HUGH HUNTER'S Clackmannan County News
BALBIRNIE SUCCESS FOR COUNTY GOLFERS
In the annual Midlands District Championship, contested by teams of county golfers representing Angus, Clackmannan, Fife, and Perth and Kinross, it was Clackmannanshire that triumphed at Balbirnie golf course in Fife.
Over the par-71 golf course and with seven scores counting out of eight over 18 holes, the Wee County team won easily by seven shots.
Team Captain John Gullen at the end of his year was highly delighted with the result. He said: “Four team members put in great sub-par performances, and this has to be encouraging for next year’s Area Team Championship.”
Results (best 7 from 8 to count)
497 CLACKMANNAN (Jamie Aitken 74, Ian Ross 70, Scott Borrowman 70, Scott Moffat 70, Michael Robertson 73, Steve McIvor 76, Darren Hulston 69, Alan Watson 71).
504 ANGUS.
507 FIFE.
532 PERTH and KINROSS.
The Clackmannan team at Gleneagles: left to right - Grant Murray (Braehead), Angus Boyd (Alloa), Rikki Alexander (Braehead), Scott Beattie (Braehead), Jordan Struthers (Braehead).
FRANK THOMPSON TROPHY
The Clackmannan County Under 15 Boys couldn’t match the Balbirnie performance of the Men’s team, but the boys learned something from their round over the PGA Ryder Cup course in the Frank Thompson Trophy at Gleneagles.
The event is contested by teams of five boys (best 4 to count) using the Stableford system on a scratch basis. Against much lower handicaps this was always going to be a difficult task and the Clackmannan County Boys finished with 88 points, a good bit behind Fife with 119 points and the winners Perth and Kinross on 123 points.
Best of the day for Clackmannan was Braehead’s Rikki Alexander with 27 points, his highlight being a 4pt eagle 3 at the par-5 16th hole when he hit a great approach over the water hazard to 10 feet and holed the putt.
Other scores were Angus Boyd 14, Grant Murray 15, Scott Beattie 21 and Jordan Struthers 25.
MIDLAND ALLIANCE
Clackmannan County golfers continue to feature towards the top of the score lists in the Midland Alliance events. In the first event at Alloa for a number of years, Bob Stewart (Tulliallan) and Braehead professional Jamie Stevenson tied for second place with scratch scores of 75 in difficult windy conditions while Michael Niven and Chris Westland went a bit better, sharing the top handicap prize with net scores of 73.
Other local scores were (scratch) Gregor Abel 77 (6th) and David Herd 78(7th) (handicap) Willie Hatley, Alan Glass 74 (4th equal).
Sixty Alliance members played over the Schawpark golf course--- many of them for the first time—and the reports were all favourable, which must have pleased Alloa Golf Club.
In the second event last Thursday at Pitlochry, again it was Michael Niven (on 72) a former Highland Open winner over that course and Bob Stewart (on75) who finished well up in the scratch scores.
In the handicap section Michael tied for the second handicap prize on a net 66--- Alloa’s Ken Thomson and Chris Westland finishing with net 71’s.
SCOTTISH CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP
This weekend sees the final stages of the Scottish Club Championship held over the Fortrose and Rosemarkie course to the north of Inverness. Each of the sixteen areas is represented by one club--- Clackmannan will be represented by Tulliallan Golf Club (Robert Lyons, Steven Horne, Mark Crichton) and they will be hoping for a repeat of the success they obtained a few years ago in 2002 when their win took them to the European final.
SCOTTISH SCHOOLS INTERNATIONAL
Alva Academy’s Lawrence Allan represented the Scottish Schools in their annual International against England held over the Fairhaven course in Lancashire. Unfortunately the event was abandoned due to heavy rain with only the foursomes being played, which England won quite easily.
In the foursomes, Lawrence was paired with Brora’s Callum Stewart. They narrowly lost by one hole to Liam Cox and Andrew Scrimshaw.
In the annual Midlands District Championship, contested by teams of county golfers representing Angus, Clackmannan, Fife, and Perth and Kinross, it was Clackmannanshire that triumphed at Balbirnie golf course in Fife.
Over the par-71 golf course and with seven scores counting out of eight over 18 holes, the Wee County team won easily by seven shots.
Team Captain John Gullen at the end of his year was highly delighted with the result. He said: “Four team members put in great sub-par performances, and this has to be encouraging for next year’s Area Team Championship.”
Results (best 7 from 8 to count)
497 CLACKMANNAN (Jamie Aitken 74, Ian Ross 70, Scott Borrowman 70, Scott Moffat 70, Michael Robertson 73, Steve McIvor 76, Darren Hulston 69, Alan Watson 71).
504 ANGUS.
507 FIFE.
532 PERTH and KINROSS.
FRANK THOMPSON TROPHY
The Clackmannan County Under 15 Boys couldn’t match the Balbirnie performance of the Men’s team, but the boys learned something from their round over the PGA Ryder Cup course in the Frank Thompson Trophy at Gleneagles.
The event is contested by teams of five boys (best 4 to count) using the Stableford system on a scratch basis. Against much lower handicaps this was always going to be a difficult task and the Clackmannan County Boys finished with 88 points, a good bit behind Fife with 119 points and the winners Perth and Kinross on 123 points.
Best of the day for Clackmannan was Braehead’s Rikki Alexander with 27 points, his highlight being a 4pt eagle 3 at the par-5 16th hole when he hit a great approach over the water hazard to 10 feet and holed the putt.
Other scores were Angus Boyd 14, Grant Murray 15, Scott Beattie 21 and Jordan Struthers 25.
MIDLAND ALLIANCE
Clackmannan County golfers continue to feature towards the top of the score lists in the Midland Alliance events. In the first event at Alloa for a number of years, Bob Stewart (Tulliallan) and Braehead professional Jamie Stevenson tied for second place with scratch scores of 75 in difficult windy conditions while Michael Niven and Chris Westland went a bit better, sharing the top handicap prize with net scores of 73.
Other local scores were (scratch) Gregor Abel 77 (6th) and David Herd 78(7th) (handicap) Willie Hatley, Alan Glass 74 (4th equal).
Sixty Alliance members played over the Schawpark golf course--- many of them for the first time—and the reports were all favourable, which must have pleased Alloa Golf Club.
In the second event last Thursday at Pitlochry, again it was Michael Niven (on 72) a former Highland Open winner over that course and Bob Stewart (on75) who finished well up in the scratch scores.
In the handicap section Michael tied for the second handicap prize on a net 66--- Alloa’s Ken Thomson and Chris Westland finishing with net 71’s.
SCOTTISH CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP
This weekend sees the final stages of the Scottish Club Championship held over the Fortrose and Rosemarkie course to the north of Inverness. Each of the sixteen areas is represented by one club--- Clackmannan will be represented by Tulliallan Golf Club (Robert Lyons, Steven Horne, Mark Crichton) and they will be hoping for a repeat of the success they obtained a few years ago in 2002 when their win took them to the European final.
SCOTTISH SCHOOLS INTERNATIONAL
Alva Academy’s Lawrence Allan represented the Scottish Schools in their annual International against England held over the Fairhaven course in Lancashire. Unfortunately the event was abandoned due to heavy rain with only the foursomes being played, which England won quite easily.
In the foursomes, Lawrence was paired with Brora’s Callum Stewart. They narrowly lost by one hole to Liam Cox and Andrew Scrimshaw.
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