JALIL AMAN WINS FIRST SENIORS WINTER ORDER OF MERIT COMP

By DREW WILSON
The first event of the five Scottish Senior Golfing Society Winter Order of Merit competitions was held at Stirling Golf Club last Friday with a stiff breeze making scoring difficult.
The Stirling course was heavy underfoot due to heavy overnight rain and the greenstaff must be thanked as the greens were in excellent condition and the course played well.
Three players shared the lead on 38 Stableford points, all 20pts for the first nine holes, 18 for the second nine, with Jalil Aman (Grangemouth) winning on the best last six holes from Drew Wilson (Clober) and Ian Jeen (Milngavie).
Four players narrowly missed out on 37pts - Keith Ross (Beith), Andrew Brodie (Glasgow), Wilson Butler (Carluke) and Tom Allan (Dunblane).
Allan had a best of the day back-nine of 21pt with Keith Ross and Stuart Black having 21pt on the front nine.
Birdies were hard to come by 2 eagles were scored by David McClelland (16th hole) and Tony Clark (2nd hole).
This was the best attended event so far and we now look forward to the next event at the Glen on Friday, March 9, 2012

STABLEFORD POINTS SCOREBOARD
38 Jalil Aman (Grangemouth) , Drew Wilson (Clober), Ian Jeen (Milngavie).
37 Keith Ross (Beith), Andrew Brodie (Glasgow), Wilson Butler (Carluke), Tom Allan (Dunblane).
36 David Smith (Stirling). Bill Hunter, Norman Kelly (Glasgow), Jim Kinloch (Cardross)
35  Neil McGarva, David McLelland, Malcolm Sim, Tony Clark.
34 Fraser Sharp, Derek Murphy, Murray Lyle, Derek Sim. Stuart Black (Cathcart Castle).
33 Robert Gordon, Denis McQuade.
32 Albert Smith (Turriff).
31 Kenny Harrison, Billy Wallace, Gordon MacDonald, Alan Nelson, David Gardner, Len Grindod
30 John Johnstone, Gordon Gray, Peter Kinloch, Brian Kidd, Charles Brown, Gordon Doig, Brian Smith
29 Keith Howie
28 Richard Goodale, Colin Halcrow
27 Sandy Pirie, Ian Dickson, Jim Roy, David Millar.
26 Donald Lie
24 Dougal Chalmers
23 Neish Chisholm, Bill Miller