NE ALLIANCE SET TO RESUME AT NEWBURGH ON JANUARY 5

By COLIN FARQUHARSON
Colin@scottishgolfview.com
If the thaw continues, the North-east Golfers' Alliance season will resume after its mid-winter break on Wednesday, January 5 but not at the scheduled venue of Craibstone Golf Centre.
Newburgh is now the host club, enabling a two-tee start to be held, which will allow a field of 108, starting at 9am with 11.10 the last tee times.
There are no spaces available at the moment for "late entries" but the NE Alliance mobile phone - 07801 819746 - will be "live" from 10am to 4pm on Tuesday, January 4.
If you have to pull out from the tee time you have reserved, please phone Dave Wilson on that number. That would enable others to take your place.

CRAIG BUCHANAN TOP PRIZEWINNER IN FIRST HALF OF SEASON 

Craig Buchanan (Newmachar) was the leading prize voucher winner in the first half of the season. A single-figure handicap player, he tops the table with £200 to his credit. Kemnay club pro David Brown is second with £192 and Scotland international Philip McLean (Peterhead) third with £170 in vouchers won.
Leading prize winners (vouchers for amateurs, cash for pros):


C Buchanan (Newmachar) £200; D Brown (Kemnay) p £192; P McLean (Peterhead) £170; R Fitzpatrick (Inchmarlo) p £144; M Booth (Kemnay) £135; J Findlay (Fraserburgh), A K Pirie (Hazlehead) £130; D Law (Hazlehead) £126; S Davidson (Northern) £115; C Nelson (MacKenzie Golf) p £112; S Pert (Huntly) £110; S Elrick (Kemnay) £105; K Beveridge (Inchmarlo) p, K Nicol (Fraserburgh), A Ross (Deeside), S Larkin (Royal Aberdeen), J Hopwood (Carnegie) p £100.

C Clark (MacKenzie Golf) p, A Campbell (Deeside), E Duthie (Oldmeldrum) £90; H Roulston (Stonehaven), M Rogers (Kemnay) £75; G H Paterson (Northern), M K Smith ((Inverurie), G Geddes (Auchmill) £70; M Brown (Inverurie), P Cornfield (Auchmill), P Guthrie (Peterculter) £65; S Finnie (Caledonian) £60; P Morrison (Oldmeldrum) £55; T Collie (Kemnay), D Mackay (Newmachar), C Farquhar (Auchmill), R Brown (Inverurie), G Mitchell (Braemar), D Wilson (Duff House Royal) £50.
N Chisholm (Kemnay) £45; D Townsley (Peterculter), C Ord (Auchmill), I MacDonald (Dunecht House), J Short (Peterculter), D Randall (Banchory) £40; C Carnegie (Kemnay), K Minty (Turriff), G Ross (Deeside) £35; C Cassie (Nigg Bay), P Pugh (Oldmedlrum), L Fowler (Royal Aberdeen) £30; B Nicolson (Auchmill) £30; P Anderson (Deeside), I Mundie (Newburgh), F Bisset (Banchory) £25; J Duncan (Newburgh) £23.
D Bingham (Newburgh), L Morland (Kemnay) £20; J Dalgarno (Hazlehead), P McIntosh (Newburgh), G Mitchell (Braemar) jun, W Shaw (Banchory), R Lamb (Newmachar), Laura Murray (Alford) £15; K Dalglish (Nigg Bay) £10; C Stewart (Kippie Lodge) p, P McArthur (Meldrum House) £8; C Brindley (Banchory), G Brown (Kemnay) £5.