MACDONALD WINS NORTH ALLIANCE OVER HOME COURSE

By ROBIN WILSON
Fortrose and Rosemarkie Golf Club members Michael MacDonald and Alan Cameron, who finished first and second in the previous North Scottish Golf Alliance fixture at Lossiemouth, went head to head in a repeat result in the fixture on their home course last Saturday with host club secretary, MacDonald, again edging his local rival into second place.
At Lossiemouth MacDonald won on a better last nine hole count back but on home turf he had a one stroke advantage 67 to Cameron's 68 from his halves of 33 and 34.
On his outward half the winner featured birdies at the 2nd, 6th, 8th and ninth holes, while on the homeward stretch he drove and two putted both the fourteenth and fifteenth greens for birdies . On his four under par card of 67 his two bogies arrived as a result of three putts on the 3rd and 11th greens.
Cameron, after a three birdie and two bogey outward card of 35, the birdies at the 4th, 5th and eighth holes, bogies at second and ninth, drove the short par 14th green for eagle two and followed up with a birdie the 15th for an inward 33 to finish with 68. His only inward bogey was at the penultimate hole.
Scratch handicap holder, Cameron, whose home club is Inverness, had the consolation of the leading nett score in the first category and along with his previous Lossiemouth score this may stand him in good stead to retain the Burnett Trophy which he won last season for best five scores.


LEADING SCRATCH
Par 71
67 M Macdonald (Fortrose and Rosemarkie).
68 A Cameron (Inverness).
71 D Hexley (Inverness), D McIntosh (Fortrose and Rosemarkie, G H Hay (Grantown).
72 R McKerron (Forres), B A Watson (Nairn Dunbar), N McWilliam (Elgin).
73 K Thomson (Moray), J S D Campbell (Grantown), B Fotheringham (Inverness), R Harrower (Boat of Garten).
74 R Mackay (Fortrose and Rosemarkie), R H Stewart (Torvean), S Kinnaird (Fortrose and Rosemarkie).
75 S Wilson (Inverness), R Stewart (Nairn Dunbar), B Cruickshank (Garmouth and Kingston), I Findlay (Grantown), A Imrie (Muir of Ord).
76 A J England (Moray), J C Milne (Moray), D F Sharp (Boat of Garten).
77 G Mackenzie (Hopeman), J A Grant (Grantown), J Simpson (Forres), J A G Innes (Elgin).
78 D Chisholm (Fortrose and Rosemarkie), M Lyall (Torvean), K Ross (Fortrose and  Rosemarkie), W Hutchison ( Inverness).
79 S Mitchell (Moray), J R Ingram (Boat of Garten), A Henry (Inverness), S Chisholm (Nairn).
80 K Williamson (Torvean), V Tilman (Muir of Ord), R Carr (Fortrose and Rosemarkie), R G Macpherson (Moray), F Brown (Nairn Dunbar);
81 I Macaulay (Elgin), M McArthur (Fortrose and Rosemarkie), A Cowie (Moray).
82 W Rusk (Torvean).
HANDICAP
Class 1 - A Cameron (Inverness) (1) 67; R Mackay (Fortrose and Rosemarkie) (4), D F Sharp (Boat of Garten) (6), R Stewart (Nairn Dunbar) (5) 70; D Chisholm (Fortrose & Rosemarkie) (7), S Kinnaird (Fortrose and Rosemarkie) (3), A J England (Moray) (5), R H Stewart (Torvean) (3) 71.
Class 2 - A Imrie (Muir of Ord) (9) 66; M Lyall (Torvean) (11) 67; G A McColl (Moray) (14), K Ross (Fortrose and Rosemarkie) (8) 70; C Small (Nairn) (12), R G Macpherson (Moray) (9), S Taylor (Boat of Garten) (12) 71.