INJURED COLIN GILLIES OUT OF PAUL LAWRIE INVITATIONA
By COLIN FARQUHARSON
Colin@scottishgolfview.com
Colin Gillies has had to withdraw from the inaugural £25,000 Paul Lawrie Invitational 54-hole tournament which tees off at Deeside Golf Club on Aberdeen’s leafy western suburbs tomorrow.
The 44-year-old Braid Hills tour pro, who turned pro in 1984 – the year after he won the Scottish boys’ championship, has had a recurrence of an old ankle injury and has missed several events recently.
Gillies, winner of 125 Tartan Tour events, started the season needing to win £2,000 to become the first player to hit the £500,000 mark on the PGA Scotland circuit. He is edging closer, having won £1,520 this season, so what a pity that Colin has had to rule himself out of the opportunity of passing the significant milestone in Paul Lawrie’s brainchild of a tournament.
There will be a cut after 36 holes, reducing the field by half for the final round on Friday.
Deeside’s Haughton course is a short one by pro standareds – around 6,400yd with a par of 70 so look out for some scoring fireworks from in-form men like Greig Hutcheon (Banchory), Stephen Gray (Hayston) and Paul McKechnie (Braid Hills). Hutcheon tied for victory today in the Parkdead pro-am at Ayr Belleisle.
There is no admission charge and the biggest gallery will probably follow the 10.57 tee-off threesome of Paul Lawrie, Scott Henderson and PGA club champion Peter Smith – three sons of the North-east. Henderson led the winning team in today's curtain-raising pro-am.
Lawrie lives only a couple of par-5s away from Deeside Golf Club where his two sons are junior members and he is a honorary member with his framed picture adorning a wall of the splendid clubhouse
Former Curtis Cup player and past Scottish women’s amateur champion Michele Thomson (McDonald Ellon) and Heather MacRae (Downfield), winner of the British women’s stroke-play at Nairn near the end of her amateur career, tee off at 8.22am.
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Colin@scottishgolfview.com
Colin Gillies has had to withdraw from the inaugural £25,000 Paul Lawrie Invitational 54-hole tournament which tees off at Deeside Golf Club on Aberdeen’s leafy western suburbs tomorrow.
The 44-year-old Braid Hills tour pro, who turned pro in 1984 – the year after he won the Scottish boys’ championship, has had a recurrence of an old ankle injury and has missed several events recently.
Gillies, winner of 125 Tartan Tour events, started the season needing to win £2,000 to become the first player to hit the £500,000 mark on the PGA Scotland circuit. He is edging closer, having won £1,520 this season, so what a pity that Colin has had to rule himself out of the opportunity of passing the significant milestone in Paul Lawrie’s brainchild of a tournament.
There will be a cut after 36 holes, reducing the field by half for the final round on Friday.
Deeside’s Haughton course is a short one by pro standareds – around 6,400yd with a par of 70 so look out for some scoring fireworks from in-form men like Greig Hutcheon (Banchory), Stephen Gray (Hayston) and Paul McKechnie (Braid Hills). Hutcheon tied for victory today in the Parkdead pro-am at Ayr Belleisle.
There is no admission charge and the biggest gallery will probably follow the 10.57 tee-off threesome of Paul Lawrie, Scott Henderson and PGA club champion Peter Smith – three sons of the North-east. Henderson led the winning team in today's curtain-raising pro-am.
Lawrie lives only a couple of par-5s away from Deeside Golf Club where his two sons are junior members and he is a honorary member with his framed picture adorning a wall of the splendid clubhouse
Former Curtis Cup player and past Scottish women’s amateur champion Michele Thomson (McDonald Ellon) and Heather MacRae (Downfield), winner of the British women’s stroke-play at Nairn near the end of her amateur career, tee off at 8.22am.
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