Monday, March 28, 2011

AMATEUR SCOTS BID TO FOLLOW LAWRIE'S EXAMPLE IN SPAIN

NEWS RELEASE ISSUED BY THE SCOTTISH GOLF UNION
By ROSS DUNCAN
Marketing, Media and Sponsorship Manager
Newly-crowned South African amateur champion Michael Stewart heads a quartet of Scots looking to emulate Paul Lawrie’s Spanish success when they line up in the European Nations Cup at Sotogrande this week (March 30 to April 2).
Stewart is joined by fellow GB and I Walker Cup squad players Ross Kellett (Colville Park) and Kris Nicol (Fraserburgh), with one of Lawrie’s North-east protégés Philip McLean (Peterhead) the fourth man in a strong line-up, all having recently returned from South Africa.
The Scotland team go into the event in confident mood following their recent successes in South Africa and in addition to the inspiration drawn from their countryman’s success in Malaga, the quartet will be aiming to follow in the footsteps of Wallace Booth, Scott Henry, Callum Macaulay and Keir McNicoll who won the title in 2008.
National coach Ian Rae believes the team has a good chance of victory:
“The players have had fantastic preparation for the season ahead with the training in the United Arab Emirates followed by the competitive trip to South Africa and they’re looking forward to competing in this week’s event,” he said.
“Both Paul and Martin Laird’s victories on Sunday have been a great boost for Scottish golf and our amateur players have also enjoyed success this season, so we go into this event in a very positive frame of mind. All four boys are playing well.” he added.
Defending champions England will be looking for a hat-trick of European Nations Championship victories, while reigning world champions France will also start among the favourites. The championship is played over 72 holes with the best three cards counting towards the team total each day, while an individual competition runs alongside it for the Amateur Masters Jacket.
The championship gets underway on Wednesday, concluding on Saturday at the Copa Real Club de Golf.





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Craibstone golf course, near Bucksburn on the northwest outskirts of Aberdeen.
By COLIN FARQUHARSON
Colin@scottishgolfview.com
Billy Sim, the Turriff-born director of golf and course manager at a variety of upmarket clubs in Portugal and latterly Spain over the past 20 years, is returning to the North-east to take on what might well be his toughest challenge.
Craibstone Golf Centre’s new owner, Charles Marshall of Marshall Trailers Ltd, has chosen Sim, pictured,  as the "ideal candidate" to put the 10-year-old club, based at Bucksburn, near Aberdeen, back on its feet.
The 18-hole woodland course, practice facilities and clubhouse have been closed for several weeks after the previous owners went into liquidation.
Mr Marshall, not a golfer but recognising "a first-class business opportunity on his doorstep," has bought the course and buildings for £450,000 and plans to refurbish the clubhouse and buy new greenkeeping machinery before the "open for business under new management" signs go up on May 1.
Billy said: “I am really excited about coming back to the North-east after so many years abroad. I had other offers but I have to say that Mr Marshall and his team are so full of enthusiasm for the future of Craibstone, it was an easy post to accept although I expect it to be a lot of hard work.
I have been lucky over the years, working mainly with former Ryder Cup player and now top course designer Dave Thomas and his son Paul, on several of their overseas design projects such as San Roque and Hacienda del Alamo in Spain .
“During that time I have met, played golf and become friendly with a lot of celebrities and famous names such as Sean Connery, Bruce Forsyth, Kenny Dalglish, Butch Harmon, Bob Torrance, Dean Robertson, Gordon Strachan, Miguel Angel Jimenez and Paul Lawrie, who incidentally has sent me a text of congratulations.
“All that experience and contacts I will take to the Craibstone post and help create what Mr Marshall is looking for from me in my job as Golf Operations Manager.”
A low-handicap golfer and brought up in Macduff, Sim, a life-long supporter of Highland League football team Deveronvale, served his time as a greenkeeper at Duff House Royal and later worked at Royal Tarlair.
When Dave Thomas designed the Newmachar Hawkshill course, Billy Sim was on his construction team and Thomas was so impressed with Sim’s work ethic that he took Billy with him on subsequent new golf course projects overseas.
Sim later branched out on his own with posts as course manager or director of golf on the Algarve at Salgados, Carvoeira, Penina and Parque da Floresta. He established a reputation as a “Red Adair” of golf clubs on the Iberian Peninsula – answering SOS’s to sort out their course problems.
“It was important that Craibstone Golf Club found the right person to head up the golf operations and I feel that in Billy I have secured the ideal candidate to make Craibstone a professional, well-run club,” said Charles Marshall.
“With Billy’s experience and the knowledge and expertise that my team can bring, we feel we have a winning formula – all we need now is for members to let us know if they intend returning.
“Billy is someone who is respected in the golfing world, who will assist us in making Craibstone truly special. We know what needs to be done to make all our members proud of their club. All we can ask is that they give us the time and support – and we will deliver. Billy Sim will make it happen and Marshalls will help him make it happen.
Sim's first task will be to persuade those who made up the membership of 450 to 500 before the club and course were shut down by the liquidators to rejoin the club.
During the hiatus, a fair number have joined other golf clubs and events such as the Aberdeen schools championships, regularly played at Craibstone, have been switched to other venues - organiser Derek Johnstone has taken the schools to Murcar Links - because there seemed to be a possibility that Craibstone Golf Centre would be closed for good.  
Billy, pictured right with Butch Harmon, former Tiger Woods' coach,  flew back to his Hacienda del Alamo Golf Resort villa in Spain at the weekend, having accepted Mr Marshall's offer to become the Golf Operations Manager.
He will return to Craibstone GC on Thursday to start work immediately. His wife Gina and three children, Daniel (15), Andrew (13) and Kelly Ann (10) will follow at the end of the Spanish school term in June.
All the Sim family speak Spanish fluently - and Billy can also converse in Portuguese .. not bad for a "Turra Loon."

+To access the Marshall Leisure website which carries up to date news about developments at Craibstone Golf Centre,

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Marshall Leisure is a subsidiary of the Marshall family who currently run and operate Marshall Trailers and Marshall Farms, two successful local companies in the North-east of Scotland.

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Martin Laird holds the Arnold Palmer Invitational Trophy aloft. Image by courtesy of David Cannon/Getty Images (c).

FROM THE GOLF.COM WEBSITE
The next stop for Martin Laird is the first major of the year. It will be his first trip to Augusta National for the Masters in two weeks, and he can't be any more prepared than he is now.
Not because he won at Bay Hill, but because it felt as if he won the U.S. Open.
"That was a tough fight out there," Laird said Sunday after his one-shot win over hard-luck Steve Marino.
It was a heavyweight bout, for sure, and the most obvious piece of evidence was that Laird closed with a 3-over 75, the highest winning score at the Arnold Palmer Invitational in the tournament's 33-year history.
The course was so dry and crusty, the pins in such perilous conditions, that for so much of the hot afternoon, players were in full retreat. In the final three groups, no one broke par, and those six players combined to go 19 over.
"No one is going to take a 75 going into the last round of a tournament," Laird said. "But I knew it was going to be this tough to win. I didn't know I would win it in this fashion."
Laird started the final round with a two-shot lead, which was gone when he made the turn. It only got worse from there. Marino took a one-shot lead on the 10th, then appeared to be in control when Laird hit into the water on No. 11 for double bogey.
The final hour was the wildest of all.
Laird walked off the 14th green with a bogey to fall three shots behind. Two holes later, he headed to the 17th tee with a two-shot lead. Nothing was safe until it was over, and even that kept a packed grandstand in suspense.
Needing two putts for a par to win the tournament, Laird was on the front of the green just under 90 feet away, nearly the length of a basketball court. It was only seven months ago when he needed a two-putt par to win The Barclays, only to three-putt and fall into a playoff that he eventually lost to Matt Kuchar.
Yes, he remembered.
"That made me extra motivated because I wasn't going to let a tournament like this slip through my fingers again by three-putting the last," Laird said.
He knocked it up to about 3 1/2 feet, calmly rolled in the par putt and had just enough strength left to jab the air with his fist.
"I think you can see how much it meant to me," Laird said. "That was a battle all day. And it almost makes it more sweet to win it the way I did. It's such a huge tournament. A couple of years ago, I wouldn't have thought I could have won a tournament like this. And to now be sitting here with the trophy ... obviously, it was a huge putt."
It even produced a dose of U.S. Open misery.
Marino, who already has had two close calls this year in search of his first PGA Tour victory, played flawless golf while taking advantage of Laird's early collapse. He still can't think of too many shots he would take over.
If only he could have listened to Phil Mickelson after the Masters champ finished his round at 73.
"The back-nine pins, they are all bogey and double-bogey pins - they are not birdie pins," Mickelson said. "The last eight holes are holes that you have to play 50 feet away if you're playing smart."

Marino went at the flag on the 15th with a 6-iron and posed as it covered the flag, only to see it come up a yard short and plug into the side of the bunker. The traps all had ample sand, and buried lies became the norm.

This one led to bogey, for the best Marino could do was blast some 35 feet past the hole for a bogey. He still led by two shots until Laird, playing in the group behind him, punched an 8-iron from the left rough away from the flag to the throat of the green, and holed a birdie putt from 20 feet.
Laird made an 18-foot birdie putt on the 16th, and before he could reach the 17th tee, calamity set in for Marino. He posed over another 6-iron on the par-3 17th until it again found sand, buried in a fried-egg lie. He blasted over the green, then hit a putt too hard up the slope and missed a 5-foot comebacker to take double bogey.
Just like that, Marino was two shots behind.
"If I had to do it all over again, I would love to have played that 17th hole," Marino said. "I thought I hit a really good shot in there. I thought it was going to be good, and came up short in the bunker and then plugged. That's pretty disappointing. I played so well all day, and you know, one hiccup on 17 cost me the tournament."
Laird finished at 8-under 280, the highest winning score at Bay Hill since Ben Crenshaw won in 1993.
Justin Rose closed with a 68 to finish at 6-under 282 with Marc Leishman and David Toms. Spencer Levin, who shot 41 on the front nine to seemingly fall out of contention, hung around to the end and shot 76 to tie for sixth.
Farther down the leaderboard was Tiger Woods, seven shots back, after going bogey-double bogey at the end for a 72. Bay Hill completes a full year since his return from a sex scandal, with not much to show for it - no wins, only three top 10s on the PGA Tour and not once in serious contention on the back nine.
Next stop: Augusta National.
Such is the state of his game that the six-time Bay Hill winner called this a "very good week, and a week I needed to see."
"It's getting better every week I've played," Woods said.
Is he whistling in the dark or does he really believe it?
Laird has never felt better. The 28-year-old from Glasgow - he became the first European to win at Bay Hill - came to America for college at Colorado State 10 years ago and never left. He hits the ball long and high, a trait he learned at  high altitude to compete, and started showing signs by winning in Las Vegas two years ago.

Now, he's starting to wonder how far he can go.

His victory completed a rare double for the home of golf. Scotland didn't have a single player inside the top 100 in the world at the end of 2009. Laird moves up to No. 21 in the world with his win at Bay Hill, which followed Paul Lawrie winning in Europe earlier Sunday.

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NORTH-EAST FOURSOMES LEAGUE FIXTURES FOR 2011

Friday 29th April CRUDEN BAY v FRASERBURGH
INVERALLOCHY Bye
ELLON v PETERHEAD
LONGSIDE v ROSEHEARTY
Friday 13th May
FRASERBURGH v ELLON
LONGSIDE v CRUDEN BAY
PETERHEAD Bye
ROSEHEARTY v INVERALLOCHY
Friday 3rd June
ELLON v LONGSIDE
CRUDEN BAY Bye
INVERALLOCHY v FRASERBURGH
PETERHEAD v ROSEHEARTY
Friday 24th June
LONGSIDE v INVERALLOCHY
PETERHEAD v CRUDEN BAY
ELLON Bye
ROSEHEARTY v FRASERBURGH
Friday 8th July
Greensome Knock-out 1st Round
LONGSIDE V CRUDEN BAY
INVERALLOCHY V ELLON
FRASERBURGH V ROSEHEARTY
PETERHEAD Bye
Friday 22nd July
ELLON v CRUDEN BAY
FRASERBURGH v LONGSIDE
INVERALLOCHY v PETERHEAD
ROSEHEARTY Bye
Friday 5th August
LONGSIDE Bye
CRUDEN BAY v INVERALLOCHY
PETERHEAD v FRASERBURGH
ROSEHEARTY v ELLON
Friday 19th August
Greensome Knock-out Semi-finals
Inverallochy/Ellon v Fraserburgh/Rosehearty
Longside/Cruden Bay v Peterhead
Friday 2nd September
INVERALLOCHY v ELLON
FRASERBURGH Bye
LONGSIDE v PETERHEAD
CRUDEN BAY v ROSEHEARTY

+Results of the above matches, when played, can be E-mailed to Colin@scottishgolfview.com for display on www.scottishgolfview.com

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FIFE TEAM TO PLAY P AND K IN PROVAN SALVER TIE

Fife Team to play Perth and Kinross at Pitlochry on Sunday (April 3) in the second series of Provan Salver matches is:


Gary Sharp St Andrews GC
Colin Martin Balbirnie Park GC
Gary Page Balbirnie Park GC
Ally Hain Ladybank GC
Alan Anderson Burntisland GC
David Mitchell Leven Thistle GC
Keith Anderson Charleton GC
Kevin Blyth Lundin GC




Bill Dickson Fife GA



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PAUL LAWRIE GETS INVITE TO VOLVO WORLD MATCH-PLAY

Paul Lawrie's victory in the Andalucia Open is already opening "new" doors for him - he is one of the first 13 qualified players to accept an invitation to compete in the Volvo world match-play championship at Finca Cortesin from May 19 to 22.
Lawrie is guaranteed a cheque for £61,000, more or less just for turning up. If he were to win the title he would win £702,000. The beaten finalist will received £368,000.
The total field will number 24 and other qualifiers so far include Martin Kaymer, Lee Westwood, Ian Poulter, Francesco Molinari, Graeme McDowell, Y E Yang, defending champion Ross Fisher, Soren Kjeldsen, Rory McIlroy, Paul Casey, Johan Edfors.
On arrival at Finca Cortesín in May the players will be divided into eight groups of three players to be played out on Thursday and Friday with 16 players progressing to Saturday in a knock-out format. The semi-finals and final will be played on the Sunday.
For more information please visit www.volvoworldmatchplay.com









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NAIRN GOLF FESTIVAL BESPOKE BOOKING SERVICE



NEWS RELEASE
Organisers of the inaugural Nairn Golf Festival (www.nairngolffestival.co.uk) have launched a bespoke booking service designed to help visitors tailor their stay during the much-anticipated gala event. With expectation building towards a milestone golfing season, the move is one of the final preparations being made ahead of the landmark event.
“We’re looking forward to what will be a season to remember,” said Alister Asher, chairman of the Nairn Golf Festival Committee. “The Barclays Scottish Open at Castle Stuart and the launch of the Nairn Golf Festival will undoubtedly attract even more visitors to the Highlands, but we want to make sure everyone can experience the incredible Moray coastline and our stunning golf courses. That’s where the new booking service can help.”
Timed to coincide with the start of the golfing season, the Nairn Golf Festival runs between April 11 and 15 and includes a series of enlightening coaching sessions and helpful seminars.
The tailored booking service is designed to assist those looking to attend with a concierge facility that will match their expectations and budget with suitable accommodation providers.
As Asher notes, the initiative was conceived to respond to individual enquiries. “It’s going to be a busy week that will certainly get everyone’s golf juices flowing, but we recognise that flexibility is as important as the quantity and quality of the events on offer. We therefore wanted to create a range of options for visitors who perhaps could only make it for a couple of days. The best way of doing that was through a bespoke service, tailored around each enquiry.”
Including a busy schedule of social fixtures, practical advice and opportunities to play two of the finest courses in the Highlands, the Festival combines fun, play and tuition. Of particular note is an evening with Karl Morris, the mind coach to Ryder Cup hero Graeme McDowell and Open Championship winner Louis Oosthuizen who claims he can lower your score without changing your swing.

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LATEST WORLD RANKINGS: LAIRD No 21, LAWRIE No 150

Martin Laird has risen from No 40 to No 21 in the updated men's World Pro Rankings following his win in the Arnold Palmer Invitational on Sunday. It's his highest ever ranking.
Paul Lawrie, winner of the Andalucia Open on Sunday, has soared to No 150, a jump of around 100 places from last week. It's not his highest by any means - his 1999 Open championship victory elevated him from No 159 to No 48 and his highest ever ranking was No 29 the week before his Open title defence in July 2000.

LATEST RANKINGS
1 Martin Kaymer, Germany 7.87.
2 Lee Westwood, England 7.54.
3 Luke Donald, England 6.55.
4 Graeme McDowell, N Ireland 6.19.
5 Tiger Woods, USA 5.82.
6 Phil Mickelson, USA 5.70.
7 Paul Casey, England 5.63.
8 Rory McIlroy, N Ireland 5.44.
9 Matt Kuchar, USA 5.33.
10 Steve Stricker, USA 5.24.
11 Jim Furyk, USA 5.04.
12 Dustin Johnson, USA 5.00.
13 Ernie Els, S Africa 4.73.
14 Nick Watney, USA 4.65.
15 Francesco Molinari, Ita 4.48.
16 Ian Poulter, Eng 4.47.
17 Bubba Watson, USA 4.35.
18 Hunter Mahan, USA 4.18.
19 Retief Goosen, S Africa 4.17.
20 Robert Karlsson, Swe 4.08.
21 Martin Laird, Sco 3.86 
22 Louis Oosthuizen, S Africa 3.70
23 Tim Clark, S Africa 3.67
24 Miguel A Jimenez, Esp 3.66
25 Alvaro Quiros, Esp 3.63 
26 Justin Rose, Eng 3.60 
27 Edoardo Molinari, Ita 3.52
28 Adam Scott, Aus 3.45
29 Charl Schwartzel, S Africa 3.4
30 Robert Allenby, Aus 3.39
31 Rickie Fowler, USA 3.19
32 Geoff Ogilvy, Aus 3.15
33 Y.E. Yang, SKor 3.11
34 Zach Johnson, USA 3.07
35 Kim Kyung-Tae, SKor 2.97
36 Padraig Harrington, Irl 2.95
37 Peter Hanson, Swe 2.94
38 Jason Day, Aus 2.94
39 Ben Crane, USA 2.94
40 Ryan Moore, USA 2.92
41 Anthony Kim, USA 2.82 
42 Anders Hansen, Dnk 2.72
43 Ross Fisher, Eng 2.72

44 K.J. Choi, SKor 2.69
45 Ryo Ishikawa, Jpn 2.61
46 Bill Haas, USA 2.54
47 Mark Wilson, USA 2.51
48 Bo Van Pelt, USA 2.47  
49 Yuta Ikeda, Jpn 2.46 
50 Camilo Villegas, Col 2.41
Other Scots' ranking
74 Stephen Gallacher 1.81
139 Richie Ramsay 1.16
150 Paul Lawrie 1.09.
233 David Drysdale 0.71
258 George Murray 0.65.
290 Scott Jamieson 0.59.
296 Peter Whiteford 0.57.
398 Raymond Russell 0.39.
422 Colin Montgomerie 0.36.
458 Simon Yates 0.32.
469 Steven O'Hara 0.31.
472 Marc Warren 0.30.
497 Gary Orr 0.27.
536 Andrew Coltart 0.23.
542 James Mceary 0.23.
613 Lloyd Saltman 0.18.
636 Alastair Forsyth 0.17.

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HUGH HUNTER'S CLACKMANNAN COUNTY NEWS

CLACKMANNAN COUNTY GOLF TEAM STARTS WELL

In the first of their three matches in the Provan Salver, the holders Clackmannanshire started well with a hard-fought draw at Strathmore Golf course against a strong Perth and Kinross team.
It’s never easy playing an away match, but there were first-class performances from some of the Clackmannan golfers. Every club in the County Golf Union was represented incidentally.
Scott Moffat took the first two holes in his match, never looked back and won with a three under par score for his 16 holes.
Veteran campaigner Steve McIvor had a closer match, but sealed it with a good five foot putt on the last green.
John Maxwell built on his one hole lead at the turn winning on the 16th. And Ian Guthrie fought back strongly from a one hole deficit at the turn to win also ion the 16th with a fine 20 foot birdie putt.
Although losing his match, young Scott Hunter put in a good performance which drew praise from his experienced opponent Scott Michie.
Team captain Bill Hatley was delighted with the day “ It was good to see strong performances from some of the team over a testing golf lay-out, and must give everyone some confidence for the next two games and the Area Team Championship coming up in May”

MATCH RESULTS
(Clackmannan names first1 Scott Borrowman (Dollar) lost to Glenn Campbell (Blairgowrie) 3 and 2.
2 Darren Hulston (Dollar) lost to Tom McLevy (Blairgowrie) 5 and 4.
3. Scott Moffat (Braehead) beat Liam Barn (Craigie Hill) 3 and 2.
4. Steve McIvor (Alva) beat George Brass (Blairgowrie) 1 hole.
5. Michael Robertson (Alva) lost to Alan Easton (Strathmore) 6 and 4.
6. John Maxwell (Tulliallan) beat Thomas White (Milnathort) 4 and 2.
7. Ian Guthrie (Alloa) beat Connor Neil (Blairgowrie) 3 and 2.
8. Scott Hunter (Tillicoultry) lost to Scott Michie (Kinross) 3 and 2.


Clackmannan 4 Perth and Kinross 4


The next match is at Dollar against Angus on Sunday, April 3, starting time 11.00.

CHAMPION OF CHAMPIONS
The traditional start to the National Golf season is the 72 hole event played over Leven Links this weekend, and featuring the top Scottish golfers. Clackmannan is represented by County Champion Steven Horne (Tulliallan) and County Match Play Champion Michael Robertson (Alva) Steven tees off at 9.12 ; Michael at 10.24.
Clackmannanshire had early success in the event with Steven’s father Sandy winning the very first event in 1970, followed by Alloa’s Michael Niven in 1974.


SCOTTISH JUNIOR TOUR
The first Junior tour event of 2011 was played at Arbroath over 54 holes at the weekend. Lawrence Allan (Alva) did not find his best form finishing in 21st position with a three round total of 224 (77,72,75) on the par 70 links course The event was won by Ewan Scott (St Andrews) with a two under par total.



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MARTIN LAIRD FIRST EUROPEAN TO WIN PALMER INVITATIONAL

FROM THE DAILY TELEGRAPH WEBSITE
By OLIVER BROWN
After a decade spent chasing the American dream, Scotland’s Martin Laird struck a decisive blow for Tartan pride on Sunday as he became the first European winner in the 33-year history of the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill.
Despite several stutters during a final round of three-over-par 75, Laird prevailed to thwart American Steve Marino and a late-charging Justin Rose. At times the 82-degree Florida heat appeared to be addling Laird, who frittered away a three-shot cushion as some of his putting jitters resurfaced.
But Laird’s powers of concentration at the 18th, where he took two putts from more than 50 feet to claim the trophy, were formidable. He could be thankful his earlier choke had not been as extreme as that of Marino, who twice found himself plugged in bunkers when within reach of the title.
Laird had left the 14th green two behind, but walked off the 16th two ahead. Such were the sudden switches in momentum.
Laird lived to dispel doubts over his mettle for the grand occasion. Twice before he had led after three rounds and he could not have recalled with much pleasure the previous time, when he had let slip a three-shot cushion in New Jersey to lose to Matt Kuchar in a play-off.
There was to be no let-down this time. The Glaswegian steadied himself with three closing pars, winning by one to seal his second US PGA Tour title.
With Tiger Woods out of the equation, Laird knew how to plot the path to a win, having secured his first tour trophy at the Justin Timberlake Open in Las Vegas. But brushes with celebrity — he had to have his photograph taken afterwards with Timberlake — had not caused him to forsake his Scottish roots.
Having emblazoned the Saltire upon his bag, his belt buckle and his shoes, the Glaswegian needed only to don a kilt here at Bay Hill to remind the curious galleries of his birthplace. He is being touted, with good reason, as Scotland’s best hope of a Masters victory next month since Sandy Lyle wore the green jacket 23 years ago.
To paint Laird’s rise as a tribute to all things Scottish is a touch misleading. He was just 18 when, having never visited the US before, he enrolled on a golf scholarship at Colorado State University for the move that would define his future. As he clutched an £800,000 winner’s cheque in Orlando, the Scottsdale, Arizona-based Scot was unlikely to be heading back to Glasgow any time soon.
Laird always expresses a fondness for his alma mater, arguing that his four years at altitude in Fort Collins, Colorado, were perfect for a man inured to bracing Scottish temperatures.
The 28 year-old has since fashioned a game that is quintessentially American: long off the tee, and attacking on the par-fives.
Rose, whose back nine of 31 propelled him to an unlikely runner-up’s finish, adopted a rather more outlandish method — putting with his eyes closed.
Bolting from the field to finish only two adrift of Laird, Rose said: “It’s a drill I do a lot on the putting green and I make more than I miss. I figured, I’ve been making nothing, so why not give it a try?”
Laird, admirably, kept his composure, though, to win on a day of high drama.

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