GORDON MACDONALD WINS NORTH ALLIANCE AT SPEY BAY

By ALAN COWIE
North Scottish Golfers Alliance secretary
With one exception, handicap players swept the board in the scratch section of Saturday’s North Scottish Golfers’ Alliance fixture at Spey Bay.
Five-handicapper Gordon Macdonald from Torvean led the way after a closing four birdies gave him a one over par 71, a score which looked unlikely after a double bogey at the first.
Six-handicap Graham Donaldson from Elgin had even halves of 36 to finish runner-up.
Allan Cameron (Inverness) ran up a 9 at the 12th and John Campbell (Grantown) finished 6-7 when both were in good position to claim the top honours.
LEADING SCRATCH
71 G.S. Macdonald (Torvean)
72 G. Donaldson (Elgin)
73 R. Harrower (Boat of Garten) pro, G. Mckenzie (Moray), P. Masson (Rothes), B. Mellis (Rothes)
74 J.S.D. Campbell (Grantown), K. Barnett (Torvean)
75 N. McWilliam ( Elgin ), G. Hay (Grantown), R. Stewart (Nairn Dunbar), A. Cameron (Inverness), L. Duncan (Elgin), A.J. England (Moray), V. Tilman (Muir of Ord)
76 J.R. Ingram (Boat of Garten), R. McKerron (Forres), M. Macdonald (Grantown), A. Henry ( Inverness ), W. Donnelly (Fortrose and Rosemarkie)
77 W.R. Duncan (Moray), I. Findlay (Grantown)
78 R. Laing (Grantown), J.A. Grant (Grantown), J.C. Milne (Moray), A. Hutchison (Torvean), R. Mellis (Rothes)
79 R. Mackie (Rothes), A. Cowie (Moray), M. Lyall (Torvean), D. Johnston (Moray), L. MacBean (Boat of Garten), A. Waterson (Grantown), R. Mackay (Fortrose and Rosemarkie), W. Hutchison (Inverness)
80 S. Wilson (Inverness), C. Dixon (Moray), I. Hamilton (Elgin), J.K. England (Moray)

LEADING HANDICAP
Class 1 (7 and under)
66 P. Masson (Rothes) (7), B. Mellis (Rothes) (7)
68 L. Duncan (Elgin) (7)
70 V. Tilman (Muir of Ord) (5), W. Donnelly (Fortrose and Rosemarkie) (6)
Class 2 (8 to 14)
68 L. Hutchison (Inverness) (14)
69 R. Mackie (Rothes) (10), R. Laing (Grantown) (9), R. Mellis (Rothes) (9)
70 M. Lyall (Torvean) (9)