STEPHEN GRAY HAS HIS SIGHTS SET ON SOME TURKISH DELIGHT

FROM THE PGA WEBSITE
Tartan Tour stalwart Stephen Gray is next week aiming to bounce back from Tour School disappointment by being crowned the No.1 PGA player at the Titleist PGA Play-Offs in Turkey.
The Hayston Golf Club player missed out at Q-School recently but can still earn a number of European and Challenge Tour starts with success in the play-offs at Antalya Golf Club's PGA Sultan Course from next Monday to Wednesday, November 21-23.
Gray, pictured, who topped both the Order of Merit and money list ahead of fellow Scots Greig Hutcheon (Banchory) and David Patrick (Elie Sports Centre), is part of a 24-man field featuring the leading players from the PGA's seven regions who will contest the £15,000 event over 54-holes.

The consistent Gray, who credits Lanark coach and PGA Scottish chairman Alan White for his good form over the past five years, enjoyed a blockbuster season in which he ultimately cruised the Scottish Region's Order of Merit with two wins, a second, a third and a fourth place. He also had three top 10 finishes on the PGA Europro Tour.
"I don't think it has sunk in yet but it is something I will look back on with a lot of pride," he said of his Tartan Tour success.
Having enjoyed a well-deserved sunshine break in the Canary Islands, Gray is itching to get back into action but admits his rivals, plus the acclaimed PGA Sultan course, pose a stern test in the play-offs.
"I won a pro-am at the Sultan three years ago and it is a great test of golf," said Gray, pictured above by courtesy of Andy Forman.
"There are a lot of tough holes and if the wind blows there are some brutal ones. I like the 54-hole format. It gives you a chance to either catch up or stretch your lead and is not such a sprint as 36 holes but there is a lot of competition with the likes of Simon Lilly who has just shot a 59, Greig Hutcheon and Matthew Cort plus some other good players."
"The top 10 finishers also qualify for the BMW PGA Championship which is an added incentive for Gray.
"To qualify for the BMW PGA Championship would be fantastic because outside of the Open it is the biggest tournament in Europe."
Hutcheon meanwhile travels confidently as defending champion having capitalised on the spin-offs from that - to the tune of around €44,000 by making the cuts in the European Tour's Saab Wales Open, the Barclays Scottish Open and the BMW PGA Championship.
Former Walker Cup player Patrick completes the Scottish line-up in Turkey, having edged out Paul McKechnie by just five points in the OOM.
The tournament, being held overseas for the first time, features a field of 24, comprising the top three from each of the PGA's seven regions plus the Glenmuir PGA Professional champion and runner up and the Powerade PGA Assistants' champion.
Titleist, manufacturer of the world's No.1 golf ball, has signed a three-year deal to sponsor the tournament as an extension of its support of grass roots PGA professionals, reflected in its position as a long-standing supporter of the PGA's training programme.