Kingsknowe player shoots up 167 places in RandA WAGR

Allyn Dick's Euro 6th place


boosts world ranking  

By COLIN FARQUHARSON
Twice a winner of the Scottish mid-amateur title (2005-2006), Allyn Dick, who now plays out of Kingsknowe, has shot up 167 places in the R and A World Amateur Golf Rankings to No 669.
His remarkable upsurge follows a sixth place finish in the individual standings of last week's European Club championship at Estela Golf Club in Portugal.
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Allyn, pictured, winner of the Newlands Trophy SGU Order of Merit 72-hole event at Lanark in July, was a member of the Scottish club championship winners - Carrickvale - who finished a creditable sixth in a field of 23 at the European Final, as Allan says, "much better than the other Scottish qualifiers have done in previous years."
Quite a finish to the competitive season for Allyn who gained his first Scotland cap in the Home Internationals at Ashburnham where he gained 4 1/2pt out of six, including three foursomes victories in partnership with James Byrne. And Allyn is now a member of the SGU's Elite Squad.
Elsewhere in this week's updated WAGR, Banchory’s James Byrne goes up one place to No 22. His team-mates in the defence of the Eisenhower Trophy in Argentina – Scottish champion Michael Stewart (Troon Welbeck) and Ross Kellett ( Colville Park ) – are ranked No 61 and 73 respectively. Stewart goes up two places, Kellett stays the same compared with last week.
Fraserburgh’s Kris Nicol remains the fourth highest-ranked Scot at No 151, a rise of three places while Anglo-Scot Stuart Ballingall from Norwich, a student at Missouri University, comes next at No 176.
Stirling University student James White (Lundin) (No 275), Scott Larkin (Royal Aberdeen) (285) and Scott Crichton (Aberdour) (294) round off the eight Scots in the top 300 of the RandA WAGR.

SCOTS IN WORLD TOP 1000
22 James Byrne +1
61 Michael Stewart +2
73 Ross Kellett no change.
151 Kris Nicol +3.
176 Stuart Ballingall -1.
275 James White -1
285 Scott Larkin -1
294 Scott Crichton -2.
309 Peter Latimer -6.
374 Paul Shields +1.
413 Steven Rennie +4.
416 Greg Paterson +6.
435 Philip McLean +8.
509 James Ross +10.
539 Gordon Yates -3.
572 Gordon Stevenson +1.
585 Matthew Clark +4.
595 David Law +5.
614 Neil Henderson +2
621 Graeme Robertson +2
622 Scott Gibson +2.
650 Jordan Findlay -1.
657 Sam Binning -3.
669 Allyn Dick +167.
716 Adam Dunton +7
735 Ed Wood +15.
742 Glenn Campbell +13.
 775 Mark Hillson +13.
777 Ross Bell +13.
811 Andrew Gunson -123.
816 Paul Ferrier -3.
832 Jordan McColl -126.
856 Steven McEwan -1.
916 Michael Daily -8.
933 Bobby Rushford -11
949 Fraser Fotheringham -9.
955 Stephen Speirs -8.
973 Alexander Culverwell -8.
975 Mark Bookless -8.

+Americans Peter Uihlein and David Chung remain Nos 1 and 2 in the world amateur rankings. In all, there are seven players from the United States, one from Canada and one Australia-based South Korean in the top 10. The only European is Romain Wattell (France) in third place. The highest ranked English player is Matthew Nixon in 20th place.

Carrickvale sixth in European Men's Club Trophy

FROM THE CARRICKVALE GOLF CLUB WEBSITE
The Carrickvale team represented Scotland in the European Men’s Club Trophy at the Estela Golf Club in northern Portugal, and finished in a very creditable sixth place from the 23 countries which took part. The Ormesson Golf Club from France were very worthy winners by 15 shots, followed by Iceland, Germany, the local Oporto team, and Spain.
Allyn Dick, Craig Elliott and David Ewen had a great experience over one of the hardest courses in Portugal, and were a real credit to their club and country in terms of their golf, their appearance, and especially the manner in which they conducted themselves. They were popular and made a lot of new friends – it was very noticeable how all the other countries’ players and the local Portuguese officials warmed to them.
Our current Scottish Club Champions finished ahead of the other home nations, and although they were disappointed with their first round scores they recovered well and only the French team had a better aggregate score for the second and third days.
The biggest single highlight of the event was a hole-in-one recorded by Craig Elliott at the 176-metre fourth hole in the final round. The green is elevated and it was straight into a 20 mph wind.
Thanks go to the Scottish Golf Union (www.scottishgolf.org) who financed the trip for the team, and particularly to Liz Burns who made their travel and hotel arrangements. Thanks also to Look Good Golfing (www.lookgoodgolfing.com) for providing their polo shirts, etc., and to Age Branding (www.agebranding.co.uk) who did the club cresting on their garments in very quick time.

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