NOW MAITLAND SHIELD WINNERS BON ACCORD TAKE JOURNAL CUP

By COLIN FARQUHARSON
Colin@scottishgolfview.com
Bon Accord followed up their recent Maitland Shield foursomes triumph by winning the Journal Cup at Kintore at the weekend.
Clark Brechin (Portlethen) retained the Jaffrey Cup, contest by the lowest four scorers in the Journal Cup 36-hole stroke-play competition.
Barrie Edmond (140), Matt Greig (144) and Neil Mitchell (148) totalled 432 to win the Journal Cup by four shots from Fraserburgh with Deeside (435) third.
Brechin beat Gordon Grimmer (Nigg Bay) by 5 and 3 in the semi-finals of the Jaffrey Cup and then had a one-hole victory over Laurie Phillips (Cruden Bay) in the final. Phillips had beaten Barrie Emond (Bon Accord) 3 and 2 in the other semi-final.


JOURNAL CUP SCOREBOARD
Kintore GC.
CSS 70 (am), 71 (pm)
432 BON ACCORD (140 B Edmond 70 70. 144 M Greig 75 65. 148 N Mitchell 69 79).
436 FRASERBURGH (142 G Munro 71 71. 144 J Mitchell 72 72. 150 N Thomson 72 78).
438 DEESIDE (145 J Broadley 73 72. 146 R Evett 75 71. 147 T Rennie 71 76).
442 ROYAL ABERDEEN (142 D W MacAndrew 70 72. 148 B Barclay 75 73. 152 D F MacAndrew 72 80); NIGG BAY (142 G Grimmer 73 69. 149 I Welsh 70 69. 151 R Young 76 75).
444 MURCAR LINKS (137 B Innes 68 69. 151 A Bews 77 74. 156 A Styles 75 81).
445 McDONALD ELLON (145 J Godward 73 72. 150 M Patterson 71 79, B Mitchell 76 74).
449 CRUDEN BAY (140 L Phillips 678 72. 151 M Christie 70 81. 158 S McCulloch 78 80).
452 DUFF HOUSE ROYAL (144 I Angus 71 73. 145 D Morrison 73 72. 163 J Sim 84 79).
Other team totals:
454 Kintore, Meldrum House.
455 Hazlehead.
462 Caledonian.l
464 Northern.
465 Auchmill.
466 Banchory.
480 Peterculter.
No Returns: Turriff, Peterhead.

JAFFREY CUP
Semi-finals
Clark Brechin (Portlethen) bt Gordon Grimmer (Nigg Bay) 5 and 3, Laurie Phillips (Cruden Bay) bt Barrie Edmond (Bon Accord) 3 and 2.
Final
Brechin bt Phillips 1 hole.