PAUL O'HARA HEADING FOR TURKEY AND MOROCCO

By COLIN FARQUHARSON

Colin@scottishgolfview.com
Former Walker Cup reserve Paul O'Hara from Motherwell will be seeing plenty of Turkey and Morocco over the first nine events of the PGA of Germany's EPD Tour's 2011 schedule.
O'Hara, now 24, finished ninth in the EPD Tour's Order of Merit in 2010 with earnings of 17,639 Euros.
That was the rookie pro year for Paul - younger brother of European Tour player Steven O'Hara and twice a beaten finalist in the Scottish amateur championship - and he would expect to do better next year now that he knows what it's all about.
Good luck, Paul! We'll be tracking your fortunes on http://www.scottishgolfview.com/
+Incidentally, even if you are not a tour pro, you can play most of the Moroccan venues on the EPD schedule - the 2011 Morocco Golf Festival is being played over five courses in and around Marrakech - the "Red City" - from October 8 to 15. And the inaugural Moroccan international amateur championships from October 18 to 21 will utilise three courses: The Ocean, Golf du Solleil and The Dunes.

EPD TOUR EVENTS
January
23-25: Tat Golf Classic 2011 - Belek (Turkey).
Venue Details: http://www.tatgolf.com/

28-30: Sueno Dunes Classic- Belek (Turkey)
Venue Details: http://www.sueno.com.tr/

February
01-03: Sueno Pines Classic 2011 - Belek (Turkey)
Venue Details: http://www.sueno.com.tr/

16-18: Cimar Open Samanah - Marrakech (Morocco)
Venue Details: http://www.samanah.com/

22-24: Al Maaden Classic - Marrakech (Morocco)
Venue Details: http://www.almaaden.com/

27-01 March: Amelkis Classic - Marrakesch (Morocco)
Venue Details: http://www.amelkis.com/

April
07-09: Tikida Open 2011 - Agadir (Morocco).
Venue Details: http://www.golfdusoleil.com/

13-15: Auto Hall Open - Agadir (Morocco).
Golf de l´Ocean (Agadir, Morocco)
Venue Details: http://www.morocco4golf.com/

20-22: Open Mogador - Essaouira (Morocco).
Venue Details: http://www.golfdemogador.com/

*The EPD Tour website can be accessed by clicking here:

http://www.pga.de/epd-index-en.html

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.

FOLLOW THE GOLFING ROAD TO MOROCCO IN 2011

An inside view of the clubhouse at The Ocean Course, Agadir.

By COLIN FARQUHARSON
Colin@scottishgolfview.com
Scotland cap Allyn Dick (Kingsknowe), whose golfing career we've been highlighting in Scottishgolfview.com this week, may be the first leading Scot to enter the inaugural Moroccan international amateur championships at Agadir from October 18 to
"I am meeting with (SGU national coach) Ian Rae to discuss my schedule for 2011 and I'm hoping they will accommodate me to play in that event, so I can take the wife on holiday at the same time!" said Allyn.
The 72-hole men's and women's Moroccan international amateur championships will run in tandem over The Ocean Course at Agadir, the same course that will house the European Tour's Hassan II Trophy event in early April.
Both events will be counters for the RandA's World Amateur Golf Rankings and also the Women's World Amateur Rankings.
It is hope that some other Scots, men and women, will enter the championships which will be offering the maximum amateur prize vouchers permitted.
There will be senior men and senior women's championships, over 54 holes, the same week at Agadir. They will be played over the Golf du Soleil course, again with maximum prize vouchers on offer.
Players whose handicaps are not low enough to make them eligible to play in these aforementioned championships have not been ignored by the organisers.
They will also be able to go to Agadir that week next October and compete in a three-round Stableford event open to men, women, senior men and senior women (maximum handicaps: men - 28, women - 36).
Agadir is the major Moroccan city on the North African country's coastline with miles and miles of unbroken beaches.
If you want to make a fortnight of it in Morocco in October, the week before (October 8 to 15) the Agadir golfing bonanza, there's the 2nd Morocco Golf Festival, played over five courses, including the Jack Nicklaus-designed Samannah lay-out.  
For more details on all of these events, log on the the London-based Menara Travel's website, http://www.morocco4golf.com/
To enter the events - or simply to ask for more details, E-mail Mohamed Fakir at info@morocco4golf.com
Mohamed will fix up for you flights, hotel accommodation, meals, etc.

MOROCCAN INTERNATIONAL OPEN AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIPS
AT AGADIR, OCTOBER 18-21, 2011

MEN’S 72-HOLE STROKE-PLAY CHAMPIONSHIP
Tuesday-Friday, October 18-21. R and A World Amateur Golf Rankings event.
The Ocean Golf Club, Agadir.
Handicap limit: 9.
No halfway cut.
Prize vouchers for four-round gross totals
1st – 500 Euros (+championship trophy).
2nd – 400 Euros
3rd – 300 Euros
4th – 200 Euros
5th – 100 Euros
6th -- 75 Euros

WOMEN’S 72-HOLE STROKE-PLAY CHAMPIONSHIP
Tuesday-Friday, October 18-21. Women’s World Amateur Golf Rankings event.
The Ocean Golf Club, Agadir. 
Handicap limit: 11.
No halfway cut.
Prize vouchers for four-round gross totals
1st – 500 Euros (+ championship trophy).
2nd – 400 Euros.
3rd – 300 Euros.
4th – 200 Euros.
5th – 100 Euros
6th – 75 Euros.
SENIOR MEN’S 54-HOLE STROKE-PLAY CHAMPIONSHIP
Wednesday to Friday, October 19-21.
Golf du Soleil Golf Club, Agadir.
Age eligibility: 55 years and over on first day of championship.
Handicap Limit: 15
No two-round cut.
Prize vouchers for three-round gross totals.
1st – 500 Euros (+ championship trophy)
2nd – 400 Euros
3rd – 300 Euros
4th – 200 Euros
5th – 100 Euros
6th – 75 Euros

SENIOR WOMEN’S 54-HOLE STROKE-PLAY CHAMPIONSHIP
Wednesday to Friday, October 19-21
Golf du Soleil Golf Club, Agadir.
Age eligibility: 50 years and over on first day of championship.
Handicap limit: 18.
No two-round cut.
Prize vouchers for three-round gross totals
1st – 500 Euros (+ championship trophy).
2nd – 400 Euros.
3rd – 300 Euros.
4th – 200 Euros.
5th – 100 Euros.
6th – 75 Euros.

AGADIR OPEN AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIPS
Wednesday to Friday, October 19-21
The Dunes Golf Club, Agadir.
MEN’S 54-HOLE STABLEFORD TOURNAMENT
Handicap limit: 28.
No two-round cut
Prize-vouchers for three-round points totals
1st – 250 Euros
2nd – 200 Euros
3rd – 150 Euros
4th – 100 Euros
5th – 50 Euros
6th – 40 Euros

WOMEN’S 54-HOLE STABLEFORD TOURNAMENT
Handicap limit: 36
No two-round cut
Prize vouchers for three-round points totals
1st – 250 Euros.
2nd – 200 Euros.
3rd – 150 Euros.
4th – 100 Euros.
5th – 50 Euros.
6th – 40 Euros

SENIOR MEN’S 54-HOLE STABLEFORD TOURNAMENT
Age eligibility: 55 years and over on first day of tournament.
Handicap limit: 28
No two-round cut.
Prize vouchers for three-round points totals.
1st – 250 Euros.
2nd – 200 Euros.
3rd – 150 Euros.
4th – 100 Euros.
5th – 50 Euros.
6th – 40 Euros.

SENIOR WOMEN’S 54-HOLE STABLEFORD TOURNAMENT
Age eligibility: 50 years and over on first day of tournament.
1st – 250 Euros.
2nd – 200 Euros.
3rd – 150 Euros.
4th – 100 Euros.
5th – 50 Euros.
6th – 40 Euros.

+The Tournament Director reserves the right to reduce the prize list for any event which attracts fewer than 60 competitors.