Wednesday, February 02, 2011

SHOULDER INJURY PUTS WALLACE BOOTH ON SIDELINES

Wallace Booth is not having the best of luck as he tries to get his career as a tour pro off the ground. Having flown to the United States to play in some Hooters Tour events, the former Walker Cup player from Comrie, Perthshire had to withdraw from this week's event at Sugarloaf Mountain Golf Club in Florida.
Wallace told Scottishgolfview.com in an E-mail:
"My ongoing shoulder problem from last year forced me to pull out unfortunately. I will keep you updated."
Former Scottish junior international Robert McKnight, now based at Fort Lauderdale, Florida, is lying in joint 22nd position with one round to go in the 54-hole event.
The Scot has had rounds of 70 and 72 for 142.
American Matt Hill leads on seven-under-par 137 with scores of 68 and 69.
The group of five players on 138 include former British amateur champion Reinier Saxton from Amsterdam. He has scored 67 and 71.

US COLLEGE NEWS: James Byrne probably did well to salvage a two-over-par 74 in his first US college event of the year. Switch over to http://www.kirkwoodgolf.co.uk/ where we carry our American college golf service and we'll tell you more about the Arizona State University student's awful start to his round.
Maybe it just wasn't James' day. Earlier, he dropped from No 17 to No 18 in this week's revised RandA World Amateur Golf Rankings.

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COLD TURKEY HITS SECOND ROUND OF SUENO PINES CLASSIC

Who would have believed that the sunny Turkey Antalya region would be hit by  a severe ground frost that delayed the start of the second round of the EPD (PGA of Germany) Tour competition, the Sueno Pines Classic, at Belek for more than three hours?.
The third round is scheduled for Thursday but the second round has not been finished yet. A recipe for a bit of chaos on Thursday?


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NORTH-EAST ALLIANCE TEE TIMES FOR EDZELL

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9

08.15 A Smith - A Campbell - S Kennedy
08.22 C Carnegie - C Cassie - J Borthwick
08.29 B Harper - G Leslie - free (available) 
08.36 S Scott - G Geddes - C Ord
08.43 C Nelson - J Dalgarno - P Anderson
08.50 L Prouse – free - free
08.57 l Rodger- J Hamilton - M Rendall

09.04 B Nicolson- J Nicolson- P Cornfield
09.11 D McKay - G Allan - free
09.18 I Bratton - M Brown - R Fitzpatrick
09.25 R Brown - G Brown - S Davidson
09.32 J Mackintosh -T Slater – J McPherson
09.39 M Ord - D Bingham - S Higgins
09.46 D Phillip - J Duncan - P McIntosh
09.53 I Grant - M Smith - H McNaughton

10.00 J Forrest – N Stewart – D Leslie
10.07 G Homer - B Lumsden - B Lumsden junior
10.14 S Elrick - C Farquhar - J Lumsden
10.21 D A Fleming- A K Pirie- L Fowler
10.28 D Lawrie - D Nelson- I Strachan
10.35 A Graham - D Wood – M F R Rogers
10.42 M Forster - F Bisset - S Larkin
10.49 J Roberts - K Duncan -M Booth
10.56 J Murray - D Bisset – D Randall

11.03 S Chalmers - C Stewart - C Brindley
11.10 J Jessiman - A Petrie - R O’Donnell
11.17 T Collie – M Lawrie - R Orr
11.24 free - free - free
11.31 free - free - free
11.38 free - free - free
11.43 R Lamb - M Merchant - J Duff
11.52 D McKay - J Gall - S Finnie
11.59 N Parker - G Steadley - W Skene

12.06 free - free - free
12.15 Steve Lawrie - Sean Lawrie - K Beveridge.
12.22 D Wilson - C Law - free

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LLOYD SALTMAN GOES EIGHT SHOTS CLEAR ON SPANISH CIRCUIT

FROM THE SPANISH Hi5 PRO TOUR WEBSITE
Lloyd Saltman followed up his first round of 65 yesterday with a spectacular round of 64 over the Dave Thomas-designed course at Hacienda del Alamo Golf Resort at Fuenta Alamo in the Murcia province of south-east Spain.
The Scot's second round consisted of an eagle and six birdies without a single bogey on the card.
Conditions were perfect for the international field. The winds that were present yesterday vanished overnight and there were lots of birdies to be had by the 88 players representing 16 countries here this week.
Saltman now enjoys an eight-shot lead going into the final round of the 54 hole event on 15-under-par 129.
England's James Busby is his nearest challenger after a fine second round of 65 for 137.
Tied in 3rd place are Englishman Jamie Abbott and Ulsterman Gareth Shaw, both at five under par.
Lloyd Saltman's brothers Elliot and Zack made the cut with some ease. Players had to score 148 (four over par) or better to play in the third and final round. Elliot, playing while under suspension by the European Tour, improved by six shots for a 67 to be tied for seventh place on 140.
Zack is joint 14th on 142 after a second-round 70.
A fourth Scot, Craigielaw's Shaun McAllister also beat the cut with rounds of 77 and 69 for 146. He is sharing 28th place.
Three Scots did not make the cut.
John Gallagher missed out by four shots on 152, made up of rounds of 78 and 74.
Ian Redford missed out with a pair of 77s for 154
And former Scottish boys' match-play championship winner at Dunbar, Paul Doherty was 11 shots outside the qualifying mark with scores o 86 and 73 for 159.

LEADERBOARD
Par 144 (2x72)
129 Lloyd Saltman (Scotland) 65 64.
137 James Busby (England) 72 65.
138 Jamie Abbott (England) 69 69, Gareth Shaw (N Ireland) 72 66.
OTHER SCOTS' SCORES
140 Elliot Saltman 73 67 (T7).
142 Zack Saltman 72 70 (T14).
146 Shaun McAllister 77 69 (jt 28th).
MISSED THE CUT (148 or better qualified)
152 John Gallagher 78 74.
154 Ian Redford 77 77.
159 Paul Doherty 86 73.

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SCOTT LARKIN WINS NE ALLIANCE AT MONTROSE WITH PAR 68

By COLIN FARQUHARSON
With a little bit of luck Scott Larkin, leading amateur and runner-up to pro winner Greig Hutcheon in last year's Northern Open, would be in South Africa at the moment with the SGU Elite Squad.
But the +3 Royal Aberdeen player, pictured by Cal Carson Golf Agency, took advantage of the absence of other leading North-east amateurs who were selected for that eight-week trip to win today's North-east Alliance competition over the Montrose Links' winter course.
In quite windy but dry and latterly sunny conditions, Larkin was the only player in the field of 91 to match the testing par of 68 for the 5,508yd lay-out.
He birdied the first, fourth and 15th but bogeyed the eighth, ninth and 14th in par-matching halves of 33 and 35, with the straight hitting necessary to stay out of the punishing whins that line the Montrose fairways.
Larkin has a handicap of +3 while scratch runner-up, whom he pipped by a shot, was a Newburgh two-handicap member, Paul McIntosh who had halves of 35 and 34.
"The amazing thing was that I three-putted five times and still had a 69," said Paul who started bogey-bogey and then holed a 30ft putt for an eagle 2 at the fourth. At the previous hole missed from 2ft for a 2! He also birdied the 10th and the 15th.
Paul Lawrie's nephew Sean had another good finish. A one-handicapper at Portlethen, the teenager came home in 32 to share third place with professional Colin Nelson (Mackenzie Club) and Newmachar +2 amateur John Duff.
Sean's father Steve, older brother of Paul, was runner-up in Class 1 handicap with a net 67 off six. Winner of this section was Philip Morrison (Oldmeldrum) with a 66, also off six.

CLUBHOUSE SNIPPETS
Mike Booth (Kemnay), who shared the Class 2 handicap top prize with Mike Brown (Inverurie) (18) with a net 67, had an amazing outward half for an 11-handicapper ... out in 33, back in 45. And he had more than one three-putt! Time for a review of his handicap perhaps? (only jokking, Mike!).
Cruden Bay's John Roberts finished joint third in the Class 1 handicap prizelist with a net 68 off six.
"With all due respect to Buckpool, Montrose's winter condition beats anywhere we go. I would quite happily come down and play Montrose every Wednesday!" says John.
John Nicolson finished joint seventh in the scratch list and joint fifth in the Class 1 handicap with a gross 72 but he was not a happy man, even after coming home in 33.
"I hit the 17th green in two shots - and then four-putted for a double-bogey 6," moaned the Auchmill three-handicapper.

ALL THE SCRATCH SCORES
Par 68 (33-35). SSS 68. Yardage: 5,508
68 S Larkin (Royal Aberdeen).
69 P McIntosh (Newburgh).
70 C Nelson (Mackenzie Club), J Duff (Newmchar), Sean Lawrie (Portlethen).
71 F Bisset (Banchory).
72 P Morrison (Oldmeldrum), C Stewart (Kippie Lodge), D Brown (Kemnay), J Nicolson (Auchmill)..
73 C Carnegie (Kemnay), L Prouse (Hazlehead), B Nicolson (Auchmill), Steve Lawrie (Portlethen).
74 J Roberts (Cruden Bay).
75 A Campbell (Deeside), R Fitzpatrick (Inchmarlo), I Bratton (Newburgh).
77 B Harper (Newburgh), A J Smith (Turriff), S Scott (Auchmill), C Law (Kings Links), L Fowler (Royal Aberdeen), M Merchant (Newmachar), D McKay (Caledonian).
78 J Duncan (Newburgh), D Leslie (Westhill), M Forster (Cruden Bay), J Hopwood (Carnegie Club), R Lamb (Newmachar), M Booth (Kemnay).
79 D Nelson (Aboyne), S Chalmers (Banchory).
81 D Wilson (Duff House Royal), M Jenkins (Duff House Royal), K Lumsden (Craibstone)
82 J M Hamilton (Murcar Links), T Slater (Auchmill), J Borthwick (Craibstone), D Bisset (Banchory).
83 P Anderson (Deeside), G Homer (Northern), D A Fleming (Portlethen), H McNaughton (Cruden Bay).
84 S Kennedy (Craibstone), D Bingham (Newburgh), S Elrick (Kemnay), K Beveridge (Inchmarlo).
85 J Dalgarno (Hazlehead), C Ord (Auchmill), M Rendall (Stonehaven), M Ord (Royal Aberdeen), M Brown (Inverurie), J Forrest (Northern), N Stewart (Northern), A Graham (Aboyne), G Stevely (Murcar Links).
86 I Strachan (Royal Aberdeen), M F R Rogers (Kemnay).
87 R Brown (Inverurie).
88 D Phillip (Newburgh), D Randall (Banchory), A Petrie (Oldmeldrum) N Parker (Murcar Links).
89 P Farnan (Royal Aberdeen), I Grant (Insch), J Lumsden (Auchmill), J Gall (Caledonian).
90 G Leslie (Newburgh), T Collie (Kemnay).
91 J Mackintosh (Auchmill), J Murray (Banchory), R O’Donnell (Oldmeldrum).
92 C Buchanan (Newmachar), N Chisholm (Kemnay), J Jessiman (Oldmeldrum).
95 R Orr (Kemnay).
96 D Wood (Newburgh).
97 G Brown (Portlethen).
98 J McPherson (Auchmill), C Farquhar (Northern)..
100 B Lumsden jun (Northern).

HANDICAP PRIZEWINNERS
Class 1 (handicaps 0-9)
66 P Morrison (Oldmeldrum) (6).
67 Steve Lawrie (Portlethen) (6).
68 L Prouse (Hazlehead) (5), J Roberts (Cruden Bay) (6).

69 C Carnegie (Kemnay) (4), F Bisset (Banchory) (2), J Nicolson (Auchmill) (2).

Class 2 (handicaps 10-18)
67 M Brown (Inverurie) (18), M Booth (Kemnay) (11).
71 I Grant (Insch) (18), M F R Rogers (Kemnay) (15).
72 G Homer ( Northern) (11), M Ord (Royal Aberdeen) (13), D Bingham (Newburgh) (12), N Stewart (Northern) (13), H McNaughton (Cruden Bay) (11), M Rendall (Stonehaven) (13).

MONTROSE LINKS WINTER COURSE PAR 68
OUT: 4-4-3-4-4-4-3-3-4--33. IN: 4-4-3-4-4-5-3-4-4--35

SCOTT LARKIN 68
OUT: 3-4-3-3-4-4-3-4-5--33. IN: 4-4-3-4-5-4-3-4-4--35
PAUL McINTOSH 69
OUT: 5-5-3-2-4-5-4-3-4--35. IN: 3-4-3-4-4-4-3-5-4--34
COLIN NELSON 70
OUT: 4-4-4-6-4-4-3-3-5--37. IN: 4-4-2-4-3-4-3-5-4--33
SEAN LAWRIE 70
OUT: 5-4-3-6-3-6-4-3-4--38. IN: 3-4-3-3-3-4-3-5-4--32
JOHN DUFF 70
OUT: 4-3-3-4-3-4-3-4-4--32. IN: 5-4-3-4-4-5-3-5-5--38
FERGUS BISSET 71
OUT: 4-5-3-4-3-4-4-3-5--35. IN: 3-5-3-4-5-4-3-5-4--36

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US COLLEGE GOLF NEWS ON Kirkwoodgolf.co.uk

The second half of the United States college golf season has started. You will find our service of news and scores from the men's and women's student circuit over the next few weeks/months on www.kirkwoodgolf.co.uk

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REINIER SAXTON SHARES LEAD IN HOOTERS TOUR EVENT

Dutchman Reinier Saxton, who beat England's Tommy Fleetwood in the 36-hole final of the British amateur championship at Turnberry in 2008 and is now a professional, was one of four players sharing the lead on five-under-par 67 after the first round of this week's NGA Hooters Tour event at Sugarloaf Mountain Golf Club, Minniola in Florida.
The others were Americans Elliot Gealy, David Makle and Luca Leibel.
Former Scotland junior cap Robert McKnight, who now lives at Fort Lauderdale, Florida, was in joint 17th position with a 70 over a long par-72 course of some 7,107yd.

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LANCASHIRE'S JACK SENIOR WINS NSW MATCH-PLAY TITLE

Lancashire's Jack Senior, from Heysham Golf Club near Morecambe, boosted his chances of selection to play for Great Britain and Ireland in September's Walker Cup match at Royal Aberdeen when he won the prestigious New South Wales amateur match-play championship at New South Wales Golf Club, Sydney today.
Senior won the 36-hole final by 2 and 2 over another member of the England touring squad in Australia, Andrew Sullivan (Nuneaton, Warwickshire), who had already underlined his name in the selectors' notebooks by winning the New South Wales Medal stroke-play tournament over 72 holes last week.
Senior and Sullivan were all square after the first 18 holes.
Senior edged ahead after lunch and went two up at the 26th. Then won two of the next three holes to be four up after 29 and still four up with four to play.
Sullivan continued to fight, pegging back a hole at the 33rd before Senior finished the absorbing contest at the next hole to win by 3 and 2.
Understandably, Senior was thrilled with the win. "I'm just really pleased with the result. Match play is generally not my strength. I'm usually much stronger over 72-holes, so I was really pleased with how I progressed through the match play, and then to get the win just exceeded my expectations.
"It will give me real confidence going forward in match play events.
"It was great to play with Sully. Obviously we play together and against each other a lot, and it was nice to know that no matter who won it would be an English player".
Although it was an arm-wrestle over the first 18 holes, Senior felt he had it over the back 18.
" I got a few up on the second 18 and went on from there. I was really pleased with how I played over the back 18'.
The leading 32 players from last weeks NSW Medal were eligible to compete in the NSW Amateur Championship Match Play.
 The NSW Amateur Championship is the oldest major event conducted by Golf NSW, having first been played in 1898. The list of former winners contains a who’s who of NSW and Australian Golf greats including the likes of Bruce Devlin, Jack Newton, Tony Gresham, Brett Ogle, Peter O’Malley, Michael Campbell and Brendan Jones.

Results from all Match Play matches are available below.


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