SEARCH TO FIND SCOTTISH GOLF'S UNSUNG HEROES

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A new award is being launched by the Scottish Golf Union to honour the country’s unsung golfing heroes with the inaugural winner to be presented alongside the stars of the game at February’s XOS Scottish Golf Awards.
The Scottish Golf Volunteer of the Year Award has been created to recognise the contribution made by thousands of club volunteers up and down the country whose efforts give so much to the running of the game, both locally and nationally.
The SGU is inviting clubs to nominate their unsung volunteers for this prestigious new award, with the fantastic prize of two places on offer at the XOS Scottish Golf Dinner on Friday, February 18 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel,  Glasgow.
The leading five nominees as selected by our judging panel will be invited to attend the event with a guest and the winner being presented with their award on the night by one of the leading names in Scottish Golf.
The Volunteer of the Year will also receive a fantastic individual prize, in addition to a donation towards golf development at their home club.
“We’ve seen so many fantastic examples of volunteering at clubs across the country that we felt it was important to recognise the commitment of these individuals. Like many sports, golf relies on the contribution of so many people at a local level and so we are delighted to launch this new award.” said Andy Salmon, Scottish Golf Development Manager.
“Next year’s XOS Scottish Golf Awards will be a fantastic occasion and it’s important that we honour golf club members involved in the grass roots of the game as well as those performing at the highest level. We look forward to receiving many nominations from clubs and while there can only be one winner, it will be great to recognise all our volunteers’ outstanding efforts through this award.” he added.
Nomination forms will be available on-line at www.scottishgolf.org and clubs will also be sent information on the Awards through the post and via e-mail. Entries for the Award will close on Thursday, January 20 with the five leading volunteers selected by our judging panel to be profiled on the website and the winner announced on Friday, February 18.
Entry is open to anyone aged 16 or over who is a member of an SGU or SLGA affiliated golf club and an active volunteer on a club committee, junior section or another recognised unpaid position within the club.
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OLAZABAL RYDER CUP ANNOUNCEMENT ON CARDS NEXT MONTH

FROM THE DAILY TELEGRAPH WEBSITE
By Telegraph staff and agencies
A press conference has been scheduled for January 18 in Abu Dhabi, where the European Tour's four-week Middle East swing begins two days later.
At it, Jose Maria Olazabal, pictured, is expected to be named as Europe's next Ryder Cup captain.
Olazabal might well have led the side at Celtic Manor in October, but hesitated over throwing his hat into the ring and the Tour's tournament committee instead turned to Colin Montgomerie.
Immediately after regaining the trophy in Wales Montgomerie confirmed that he had no intention standing for re-election and gave his support to Olazabal taking over from him for the 2012 match at Medinah in Chicago.
The only problem for the Spaniard, who with Seve Ballesteros formed the most successful partnership in cup history, has been his health. He has been battling rheumatic pains for well over a decade and played only one tournament in the first nine months of this year.
But even if he cannot commit himself to a full schedule next season he is the obvious candidate for the captaincy after serving as Nick Faldo's assistant in Louisville two years ago.
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TITANTIC THOMPSON: KING OF THE GOLF HUSTLERS, PART 2

FROM THE GOLF.COM WEBSITE
Last night's publication of the first of two excerpts from a very readable golf history book -
"Titanic Thompson: The Man Who Bet on Everything" by Kevin Cook, proved very popular with Scottishgolfview.com readers. Now for Part 2:

The story so far: Titantic Thompson, pictured, was possibly a better golfer, under pressure, than Ben Hogan, Sam Snead and Byron Nelson. Although Titanic never played on the US Tour - he could make more money for less effort in big gambling golf matches.He was a notorious con man, card shark and he had killed more than one man - who tried to rob him. Thompson was one hell of a golfer - "the best shot-maker I ever saw," said Hogan.

You need to remember the life and hard times in which Thompson's style prevailed:

PART TWO
The most alluring golf hustler was a Las Vegas mob moll who belted drives while wearing high heels and a bikini. Gamblers distracted by Jeanne Carmen's 36-25-36 figure missed the pure thwack she put on the ball. A generation later she might have been an LPGA star; instead she tucked hundred-dollar bills into her bikini top after stacking three balls on a tee (a tricky task in itself) and lacing the middle ball 220 yards while the top ball popped up into her hand and the bottom ball sat untouched on the tee.
Titanic might admire Carmen's three-ball stunt as well as her figure, but he dismissed her and the rest as his imitators. "Bush-leaguers," he said.
In the mid-1960s Titanic arranged a high-stakes clash between two up-and-coming pros named Raymond Floyd and Lee Trevino — "the last of the great money matches," veteran pro Gary McCord later said.
Over two days at Horizon Hills Country Club, a dusty track in El Paso, Texas, Titanic and his gambling buddy, Ace Darnell, bankrolled Floyd, and gnashed their teeth as they watched him lose not one but two tightly-contested matches to the gritty Trevino who had been brought up in a hard school. The cost to Titanic and Darnell: 18 grand a piece.
Titanic was livid. "We bring a sports car to race a Model T and get run over!" he told Darnell. Their one hope was to talk Trevino's backers into a third round for still-higher stakes, a real showdown. But first Ti had to take his man's measure.
He sat Floyd down in a corner of the clubhouse. Floyd hung his head, griping about the cement fairways, the unreadable greens, and the wind.
"Listen here," Ti said. "You forget all that. There's times you get yourself down to two choices. You can lose. Or put your head down and play."
"I can beat him," Floyd said.
Trevino's camp agreed to one more round. Titanic wanted to play for $50,000. Trevino's backers agreed to $20,000, not knowing that Thompson couldn't cover even that. Down $18,000 already, Ti would be in a fix if Floyd lost. Losers who were slow to make their markers - settle their debts - could sometimes "woke up dead," as he put it.
The final day was a golf fiesta. "There were pick-up trucks bouncing down the fairway full of guys drinking beer and watching our match," Trevino recalled. Truck radios provided a Spanish-music soundtrack as Floyd fired a 31 on the front nine that had Darnell thumping the steering wheel of Ti's golf cart. Titanic, riding shotgun, had yet to crack a smile. "Got a ways to go," he said.
Sure enough, Trevino made a late birdie to cut Floyd's lead to one shot. He birdied again to pull even.
They were deadlocked as they stepped to the tee box at the 18th hole, a 556yd par-5 that was reachable in two shots, thanks to a hard-baked fairway that sent Floyd's drive bounding and rolling to a stop in a patch of brown grass within 250 yards of the green.
Trevino's shorter drive left him farther back. That meant he would hit next. He lashed a fairway wood shot that zipped past at head height, curled from right to left - his natural shape of shot - and bounced to a stop 15 feet from the hole.
The muchachos in their pickup trucks pumped their fists and honked their horns. Floyd was surely snakebit; if Trevino made that eagle putt, Floyd stood to lose even if he birdied the last hole. He reached for his one-iron.
Head down, Floyd pictured the target, a flagstick with another ball too damn close to it. He swung and struck a low, near-perfect approach that bit the green, skidded, and stopped — a Tour-level shot, almost as good as Trevino's.
Moments later the 18th green was ringed with golf carts, pick-up trucks, Horizon Hills golfers, course workers, and other locals who had heard about the match, a rowdy gallery of perhaps a hundred spectators. Some were drunk, others just festive, but everyone and everything — every gambler, dog, crow, and cowboy-hatted truck driver — went quiet as Floyd studied the green between his ball and the cup.
After three days at Horizon Hills he knew which way his 20ft putt would break. He started his ball toward the hole. It rolled for four long seconds and curled into the cup. An eagle!

Those four seconds turned the match upside down. Trevino, pictured in later life, would have to sink his own 15ft eagle putt to match Floyd's 63. If he missed, he would have outplayed the Tour's golden boy for 53 holes only to lose on the 54th. Trevino eyed his putt from every angle. When he chose his line, he didn't hesitate; he took his stance, rapped the putt.
The ball horseshoed around the hole. Floyd blinked. "I can still see that putt in my sleep," he said later. "It went down in the cup, went around, came back out and stuck on the lip."
Trevino looked at his ball in disbelief. Titanic sat up straight in his golf cart. After more than a minute of waiting, with Trevino walking around the hole, peering down from every angle, the ball still refused to drop in. Ti and Darnell clambered from their cart and hugged Floyd. Trevino's supporters surrounded him, commiserating in Spanish.
Their assistant pro had fought Floyd to a three-day stand-off. They loved him more than ever. Floyd worked his way through the crowd to Trevino. The players shook hands as Floyd deployed the only Spanish he knew.
"Adios, amigo," he said. "I can make easier money on the Tour."

An excerpt from "Titanic Thompson: The Man Who Bet on Everything," by Kevin Cook



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DEATH OF FORMER GOLF PRO GEORGE HAMPTON

FROM DAVID McPHERSON
It is with much regret that I bring to your attention the death of retired golf professionalGeorge Hampton. George spent his early life in Burntisland, Fife, working on the course at Dodhead, before moving to look after affairs, both on and off the course, at Stornoway GC in the late 60s.
Following his term on Lewis, he went on to spend a good number of years working at Fortrose and Rosemarkie GC on the Black Isle, before moving to what would be his last Professional post before retirement, Pitlochry GC.
It was during his spell at Pitlochry that he enjoyed his finest golfing moment - as far as I am aware - when he won the Scottish Seniors PGA title at Dalmahoy in 1993. As he beamed with pride in the presentation picture, I'm sure many from Burntisland, Stornoway, Fortrose and Pitlochry beamed along with him.
George was a pleasant, amiable man who was always willing to help where and when he could. On one particular occasion when our annual outing was washed out at Auchterarder GC, George was able to organise a re-route to Pitlochry for 36 of us to play 36 holes and also sort out catering in the evening at a nearby hotel!
As Honorary Professional to the Burntisland Golf Club his duties were not onerous in any way but he was always keen to know what was happening in the Club and annually supported the 'Golfer of the Year' trophy that bears his name.
He will be sadly missed by all at Burntisland who remember him and also, I'm sure, by all who he came in contact with throughout his life.
He passed away peacefully in Raigmore Hospital, Inverness, on Wednesday, 8th December 2010, aged 74 years, a beloved husband of Mary, proud father of Graeme, Neil and Ross, dear father-in-law to Maureen, Fiona and Louise, doting gran- dad to Kirsty, Max and Cameron, also a dear brother to Shona.
Our thoughts are with all his family.
David McPherson,
Secretary,
Burntisland Golf Club.

RAIN HALTS PLAY EARLY ON FIRST DAY OF S AFRICAN OPEN

FROM THE EUROPEAN TOUR WEBSITE
Persistent rain has forced organisers to call an early finish to the first day of the South African Open Championship in Durban.
The adverse weather conditions meant that only half the field teed off at the 100th edition of the competition, with only six players completing nine holes.
Two-time US Open Champion Retief Goosen was amongst those in a five-way tie at the top of the leaderboard when rain forced play to be halted at 0853 local time (06.53 GMT).
Twice a winner of this event, Goosen shares top spot on two under par (through four holes), alongside Scotland's David Drysdale (seven), Danish Challenge Tour graduate Thorbjorn Olesen from Denmark (eight) and fellow South Africans Divan van den Heever (six) and Martin Maritz (six).
Norwegian Marius Thorp and home pair Willie van der Merwe and Colin Nel - three of the players that did manage to beat the rain and finish nine holes - sit a shot off the leaders.
They are part of a 12-man group on one under along with former Ryder Cup star David Howell (six) and Open Championship winner Louis Oosthuizen (six).
Defending champion Richie Ramsay was on one over through four holes - the Scot's solitary bogey coming on the par four 11th - with the likes of Ernie Els and Tim Clark, both past winners, having to now wait 24 hours for their first round.
The persistent drizzle came and went at the Durban Country Club making parts of the course unplayable.
It left organisers having to wait more than five-and-a-half hours before they made a final call on proceedings at 1430 local time (1230 GMT).
They now plan to dedicate tomorrow to round one with an 0830 (0630 GMT) start scheduled - two hours later than normal - and Saturday to round two.
Tournament director Gary Todd said: "We've had in excess of three inches of rain, that's a massive amount.
"We need maximum drainage, hence the 0830 start tomorrow. Hopefully the wind picks up this evening and it dries up a little bit and it gives the green keeper two hours tomorrow morning.
"The key is to get 36 holes in, which constitutes a tournament. So we'll finish round one on Friday and then start round two on Saturday.
"So we'll get round two done and make a cut. Then we'll see how things pan out and what the weather looks like.
"It will either be a 36-hole final round with a limited field or a 54-hole tournament with a full cut, 65 and ties."
Todd also seemed to rule out a Monday finish in the co-sanctioned European and Sunshine Tour event.
He added: "Logistically it's quite tricky for the European guys to find flights this close to Christmas. It's a very busy time and we'll need to weigh up all those options.
"Getting people in and out of the place at this time of year can be tricky. So we might have to do what we can to get done on Sunday."

THREE SHARE LEAD ON SEVEN-UNDER 65

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Hua Hin, Thailand: A relaxed Angelo Que of the Philippines made a welcome return to form to share the first round lead with Japanese duo Tetsuji Hiratsuka and Daisuke Maruyama at the US$600,000 Black Mountain Masters today.
Que brilliantly fired two eagles, four birdies and a lone bogey at the magnificent Black Mountain Golf Club for a seven-under-par 65 which was matched by his Japanese rivals in what is the Asian Tour’s season finale.
South Korea’s Lee Sung, who was born deaf but had an implant surgically placed in his right hear to help with his hearing recently, shot a 66 to share third place with big-hitting local star Chapchai Nirat, countryman Atthaphon Prathummanee, India’s Himmat Rai, England’s Simon Griffiths and American Anthony Kang on a day of low scoring.
Three-time Order of Merit winner Thongchai Jaidee of Thailand, fresh off a victory in Cambodia on Sunday, rued a cold putter after carding a 68 to trail by three shots while defending champion Johan Edfors of Sweden stumbled to a 74.
A bogey on his last hole failed to dam pen Que’s mood. “I’m just coming out for a good time and whatever hap pen s, hap pen ,” said the jovial Filipino, a three-time Asian Tour winner.
“Normally if I shoot seven under with a bogey on the last, I’ll be so mad and depressed. But you know what, I still shot seven under. It’s just a bogey. I think looking at things that way helps a lot.”
Que’s form dipped after lifting a third career title in August in Malaysia as he started putting pressure on himself to achieve more success. He realized his mistake and vowed to maintain his happy-go-lucky style. “The next time I win, I’ll just let it go and do whatever I can and not think about anything,” said Que.
“The two eagles helped. As my caddie described it, I hit a solid fat shot on the par five 13th and holed a 20 footer. I also holed my bunker shot on sixth (for eagle). I was a bit lucky. Hopefully the luck stays with me the whole week.”
A blazing finish with four closing birdies put Hiratsuka in the hunt for his third Asian Tour victory of the season. “I hit it very solid but struggled with my putting on my front nine (started on the 10th tee). It started to click in my homeward nine and I sank four straight birdies which was a great way to end my round,” said Hiratsuka , who won the Air Bagan Myanmar O pen and Queen’s Cup in Thailand this year.
Countryman Maruyama, who finished 15th on the Japan Tour moneylist this year, was bogey free and got lucky on the second hole which he eagled. “I thought it (his three wood approach) was going to end up in the water hazard as I hit a low shot but luckily, it found the green and I holed a putt from 15 feet,” said Maruyama, who is a two time Asian Tour winner.
Lee, who has won once on the Asian Tour, arrived in Black Mountain with the ability to hear and he made some loud noises of his own with his clinical iron play. “Hit my irons solid and longest putt was from 20 feet at the 14th hole,” said the Korean, whose father Kang-kun still helps him to communicate.
Lee, who lip-reads, is learning to speak better and will have another implant for the left ear within the next three years which should give him a greater hearing ability. “I can hear the impact of the ball now but I can also hear the noises from the fans and telephones!” he smiled.
Thongchai, a record holder of 13 titles after last week’s triumph, hit all 18 greens but took 33 putts to settle for a 68. “The greens are quite tricky. I missed a few in the last few holes but this is golf,” he said.
FIRST-ROUND LEADERS
Par 72
65 Tetsuji Hiratsuka (JPN), Angelo Que (PHI), Daisuke Maruyama (JPN)

66 Lee Sung (SKOR), Chapchai Nirat (THA), Simon Griffiths (ENG), Himmat Rai (IND), Anthony Kang (USA), Atthaphon Prathummanee (THA)

67 Udorn Duangdecha (THA), S.S.P. Chowrasia (IND), Martin Rominger (SUI), Thaworn Wiratchant (THA), Matthew Rosenfeld (USA), Lu Wen-teh (TPE)

68 Thongchai Jaidee (THA), Han Seung-su (SKOR), Panuwat Muenlek (THA), Namchoak Tantipokakul (THA), Chinnarat Phadungsil (THA), Pornsakon Tipsanit (THA)

69 Mo Joong-kyung (KOR), Lin Wen-hong (TPE), Prom Meesawat (THA), Darren Beck (AUS), Oscar Fraustro (MEX), Hwang In-choon (SKOR), Scott Barr (AUS), Ronnachai Jamnong (THA), Pasamet Pogamnerd (THA), Pariya Junhasavasdikul (THA), Siddikur (BAN), Kiradech Aphibarnrat (THA), Zaw Moe (MYN), Piya Swangarunporn (THA), Ross Bain (Sco).
Selected scores:
71 Chris Rodgers (England) (jt 56th).
73 Simon Dunn (Scotland) (jt 85th).
75 Nick Redfern (England) (jt 110th).











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STEVEN YOUNG RUES SWING CHANGE AFTER Q SCHOOL MISS

       HAPPY AT HOME - Steven Young and family at Midland, Texas

By COLIN FARQUHARSON
Colin@scottishgolfview.com
When I think of the now Texas-based son of Inverallochy, Steven Young, I think of that famous Marlon Brando line in 1954 film “On the Waterfront” … “I coulda been a contender.”
Steven Young could have been more than a “contender.” I believe he might well have gone all the way to the top of the tree in pro golf.
So what stopped him? One stroke over 108 holes. That’s all.
Thirteen years ago this month, Young came agonisingly close to winning a US PGA Tour Card at the Final Q School in Palm Springs, California. If his final six-round aggregate had been just one shot less, he would have made it. The door would have opened and who knows where he would have been today.
The Buchan loon was 20 years old at the time. Had he got on to the 1998 American Tour, we might well have been talking of Young in the same context as Lee Westwood, Rory McIlroy and Graeme McDowell as the 2010 big-time golf season comes to an end.
A flight of fancy? Maybe, but Steven as a junior golfer had the best record ever achieved by any Scottish teenager, and that includes Ronnie Shade, Colin Montgomerie, Scott Henry and anybody else you care to name.
After winning the Scottish schoolboys’ championship as a 15-year-old in 1992, setting a course record at Kinross in the process, Young won the Scottish boys’ match-play championship three years in a row – a feat never achieved before or since – winning the title at West Kilbride in 1993, Dunbar in 1994 and Royal Aberdeen in 1995.
He won the Scottish boys open stroke-play at Drumpellier in 1994 and the British boys’ championship at Dunbar in 1995, having been awarded the best Under-16 award in the same tournament a couple of years earlier at Glenbervie. He was also Scottish youths champion in 1997.
In a European team championship around that time, hosted by Ireland, Scotland played Spain in the final and Steven beat a certain Sergio Garcia 7 and 6! Young had a liking for Ireland – he won the Irish open youths championship at Ballybunion in 1995 and retained the title a year later at Royal Portrush.
And the “boy wonder” did, in horse racing parlance, “train on.” He was capped for Scotland in the men’s home internationals of 1996 and 1997, his performance at Lossiemouth earning him a Walker Cup cap in the Quaker Ridge match against the United States.
GB&I were thrashed 18-6 but Young was the star of the beaten line-up, gaining two of the points. He played lead-off foursomes with the late Barclay Howard on Day 1 but, more remarkable than that, was the fact that in a line-up including Justin Rose, Gary Wolstenholme and Craig Watson at his peak, Young was played No 1 in the singles both days by captain Clive Brown, winning 5 and 4 and then 2 and 1.
It was later that year that Young came so close to gaining US PGA Tour playing rights. Steven takes up the story:

“When I got home from the Tour School, I and a local friend/swing coach decided to make some swing changes to gain more consistency. Without a doubt it was the worst decision I ever made!
“I basically had a new swing from then on that had the club in better positions but these positions were so unfamiliar to me that I could not repeat them when in a tournament.
“No doubt about it I should have stuck with the swing that Deeside Golf Club professional Frank Coutts – (then the North-east District coach) – and I had made so successful but I tried to improve and went the wrong way about it.”
Young had played on the US college circuit as a student at Midland College, Texas – the same university that President-to-be George W Bush calls his Alma Mater – and it was there he met his wife to be, Joni Richardson. Steven spent a year on the European Challenge Tour after his two years at Midland College but then went back to Texas and the city of Midland which has been his base ever since. He and Joni were married there in November 1999
Steven played on the US satellite circuits in a vain bid to recapture the ability that once had earmarked as a tip for the top. He got a job on the pro staff at Midland Country Club and that’s where he still is.
“I am the first assistant professional. I teach quite a bit each week and have grown fond of that aspect of the game. I enjoy the challenge of working with a beginner golfer, i.e. a complete duffer, and I have also been working with the Midland College players.
“When I first came to Midland Country Club, I figured I’d hate teaching a bunch of hacks but over the past few years I’ve developed some great friends and clients. I especially enjoy introducing kids to the game and watching them develop when, in their first lesson, even making contact with the ball was enough to light up their face.
“I don’t have any regrets when it comes to my golfing career. I’m thankful of all that golf has given me and it keeps giving, just down a much different path. I must say that getting to see my wife and kids every night is a much better situation than living out of a suitcase!
“On November 28, we celebrated our 11th wedding anniversary and I’m a proud father of two great kids – Alex 6 and Ava 3. I now play ‘member golf’ once a week but have been seeing flashes of the ‘old me’ on the links.
“I don’t see a return to competitive golf in the future at the age of 33 but stranger things have happened!”
Another Scot who was British boys’ champion in 2000 – David Inglis – recently echoed Steven Young’s sentiments that the worst thing he ever did was to change his golf swing when he turned pro in the mistaken belief that it would take his game to a higher level!
Frank Coutts, now director of golf at Deeside Golf Club, says:
“Players should work with the swing they know works and repeats. Look at Jim Furyk. Where would we start with him? Too many times I hear of good players trying a complete swing change and then they nearly disappear ‘off the radar.’
“Steven Young was a great player, a great prospect. He did all in junior amateur golf that was possible and had the mind set and determination to go with it. He was fearless of opponents – that win over the rising star Sergio Garcia in the 1990s underlined the confidence of youth.
Coutts remembers speaking to Young on the practice ground one very cold and frosty day about his selection for the Walker Cup.
“Steven said he was delighted ‘but nae quite richt for it yet.’ Three or four months later, the same question got the answer: ‘Now I’m richt – bring these boys on!’”

“He was immensely long off the tee and had great feel round the green – what a combination. Steven is the only person I know who has bent a set of Ping irons at the hosel, hitting balls off the hard turf.

Coutts, pictured right, recalls that Young was a coach’s delight to teach.

“Steven would do anything that I ask of him with his swing because I think/hope he trust me. I watched the last Scottish boys’ final he was in and it was a case of ‘man against boy’ – no disrespect to his opponent who won the title himself a couple of years later.

“Young’s second shot into the ninth in that final – a driver off the deck! - was one of the most impressive I have ever seen, and he must only have been about 18 years old. What a talent!

“I am delighted to hear from his father George (secretary of the North-east District Association) that Steven is very happy and settled in the States with his family. His golf has gone a slightly different direction from where he intended as a young man – but look what the game of golf has given us both.”

Comment from Dean Robertson

Brilliant article!! What an amazing 'natural' talent Steven was! Up there with the mentioned late great Barclay Howard who was a huge inspiration to me as a youngster growing up and developing my skills at Cochrane Castle.
I, along with Andrew Coltart, attended Midland College, Texas and it is great to see Steven happy with his family. Great memories!
Much can be learned from what you say and there lies a strong message within this article, Colin! Well said!


Dean Robertson
Performance Golf Coach
Golf Pavilion,
University of Stirling,
Stirling,
FK9 4LA
tel: 01786 466913
mob: +44 (0)7766 072888
email: dean.robertson@stir.ac.uk

SCOTT CATLIN PIPS IAN WYSE FOR E OF S ALLIANCE TROPHY

By ALAN GREENSHIELDS
Edinburgh and East of Scotland Alliance
A break in the weather allowed the East Alliance to re-schedule their Eyemouth outing for yesterday and remarkably the outing was played on a course completely free of snow, with no water lying, normal greens and tees in play and even some sunshine.

The Professional's Trophy, contested by 54 players, was won on a better inward half by Greenburn's professional, Scott Catlin, whose gross 69 pipped the net 69 of Ian Wyse of Falkirk Tryst.

Second scratch prize was split four ways via the 73s from professionals Stuart Callan (Bathgate), Scott Grieve (Turnhouse) and Andrew Marshall (Houston DR) along with amateur Sean McGarvey ( Glencourse).
Handicap second prize went to Alex McKenzie(Lothianburn), net 71, and third prize was won by Stuart Brown (Glencorse) with a net 72.

Local assistant Daniel Wood (Eyemouth) won the Trainee prize with a score or 74 and the senior prize was shared by Bill Bonar (Musselburgh) and Peter Ritchie (Bathgate) with net 75s.

With mid season break now here, the Order of Merit standings at the halfway point are:

Scratch
1 Chris Morris (Kingsknowe) p - 327 pts
2 Scott Grieve (Turnhouse) p - 322.5 pts
3 Scott Catlin (Greenburn) p - 317 pts


Handicap
1 George Wither (Lothianburn) - 88 pts
2 Graeme Johnston (Glenbervie) - 87 pts
3 Stuart Brown (Glencorse) - 86.5 pts


Next Outing will be on January 12 at Gullane No 3

EYEMOUTH SCOREBOARD
SCRATCH
Catlin Scott Greenburn p 69
Callan Stuart Bathgate p 73
Grieve Scott Turnhouse p 73
Marshall Andrew Houston GR p  73
McGarvey Sean Glencorse  73
Fraser Hugh Niddry Castle  74
Wither George Lothianburn 74
Wood Daniel Eyemouth Trainee 74
McKenzie Alex Lothianburn  76
Rothney Andrew Deer Park 76
Brown Stuart Glencorse  77
Colquhoun Neil Merchants p 77
Thomson Mike Torwoodlee  77
Wyse Ian Falkirk Tryst  77
Johnston Graeme D Glenbervie  78
Graham David Lochend 79
Morris Chris Kingsknowe p 79
Neill Ross Drumpellier p 79
Ramsay Lee West Lothian  79
Taylor Ian Royal Burgess 79
Laing William Prestonfield 80
McMillan Alexander Bathgate 80
Buckley Ryan Craigielaw Trainee 81
Munro Donny Kingsknowe  81
Leggate Philip Musselburgh  82
McLennan Andrew Deer Park  83
Stavert Iain Duddingston  83
Doyle Steven Gifford  84
Morton Wilson Dunbar 84
Ritchie Peter Bathgate Senior 84
Skinner Grant Glencorse  84
Bain Neil Haddington  85
Marshall Robert Greenburn  85
Wight Andrew Glencorse Senior 85
Miller William Falkirk Tryst  86
Downing Stewart Craigmillar Park 87
McKean David Cardrona Senior 87
Stewart Duncan Craigielaw  87
Wardlaw Stuart Harburn Senior 87
Young Alan Lochend  87
Allan Robert Cardrona p 88
Denham John Torwoodlee Senior 88
Gilhooley Stephen Duddingston Senior 88
Bonar Bill Musselburgh Senior 89
Jeffrey Peter Duddingston  89
Watson David Peebles Senior 91
Bootland Hinton Duddingston Senior 92
Mills Alex Lothianburn  93
Denholm Robert Kinross  94
Crombie Derek Falkirk Tryst Senior 95
Jeavons Ian Dunbar  95
Wilson Gerry Musselburgh  95
Downing Andy Duddingston  96
Smith William Harburn Senior 104
HANDICAP
Wyse Ian Falkirk Tryst 77 8 69
McKenzie Alex Lothianburn 76 5 71
Brown Stuart Glencorse 77 5 72
Fraser Hugh Niddry Castle 74 1 73
Johnston Graeme D Glenbervie 78 5 73
Laing William Prestonfield  80 7 73
McGarvey Sean Glencorse 73 0 73
Wither George Lothianburn 74 1 73
Rothney Andrew Deer Park 76 2 74
Bonar Bill Musselburgh Senior 89 14 75
Graham David Lochend 79 4 75
Leggate Philip Musselburgh 82 7 75
McMillan Alexander Bathgate 80 5 75
Ritchie Peter Bathgate Senior 84 9 75
McLennan Andrew Deer Park 83 7 76
Ramsay Lee West Lothian 79 3 76
Marshall Robert Greenburn 85 8 77
Wardlaw Stuart Harburn Senior 87 10 77
Stewart Duncan Craigielaw 87 9 78
Taylor Ian Royal Burgess 79 1 78
Thomson Mike Torwoodlee 77 -1 78
Watson David Peebles Senior 91 13 78
Doyle Steven Gifford 84 5 79
Jeffrey Peter Duddingston 89 10 79
Miller William Falkirk Tryst 86 7 79
Munro Donny Kingsknowe 81 2 79
Stavert Iain Duddingston 83 4 79
Morton Wilson Dunbar 84 4 80
Skinner Grant Glencorse 84 4 80
Young Alan Lochend 87 7 80
Bain Neil Haddington 85 4 81
Crombie Derek Falkirk Tryst Senior 95 14 81
Downing Stewart Craigmillar Park 87 6 81
McKean David Cardrona Senior 87 6 81
Denham John Torwoodlee Senior 88 6 82
Downing Andy Duddingston 96 14 82
Gilhooley Stephen Duddingston Senior 88 6 82
Mills Alex Lothianburn 93 10 83
Wight Andrew Glencorse Senior 85 2 83
Bootland Hinton Duddingston Senior 92 7 85
Wilson Gerry Musselburgh 95 10 85
Denholm Robert Kinross 94 4 90
Jeavons Ian Dunbar 95 5 90
Smith William Harburn Senior 104 14 90