Wednesday, April 13, 2011

ANDREW OLDCORN WINS TARTAN TOUR OPENER AT CASTLE STUART

FROM THE PGA WEBSITE
Andrew Oldcorn opened the Tartan Tour season with victory in the Castle Stuart Invitational.
The former PGA champion, who led by a shot overnight, closed with a two-under 70 for a five-under 139 and won by three shots from Alan Tait and last year's Scottish PGA No 1 Greig Hutcheon.
European Senior Tour player Oldcorn slipped to a brace of bogeys on his opening two holes but a bag of five birdies helped repair the damage as he banked the top prize of £2,000.
Deeside's former Northern Open champion Peter Smith took fourth on 143 while Ronan Rafferty, Europe's No 1 in 1989, shared seventh on 149.

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McDONALD, LAWRIE PROGRESS BUT EWAN SCOTT IS BEATEN

FROM THE SCOTTISH GOLF UNION WEBSITE
 Last year’s beaten semi-finalist Jack McDonald (Kilmarnock Barassie) wasted no time in booking his spot in the second round of this year's Scottish boys' championship after emerging victorious in one of the last opening round ties at a sun-kissed Dunbar.
McDonald, pictured, a first year Applied Maths student at the University of Stirling, cruised past Fergus Sanderson (Blairgowrie) 6 and 4 to remain on course for his second national title, having won the Scottish Boys Stroke Play Championship at Ladybank in 2008.
“I played pretty solid today and was round level par for my round. I’ve had plenty of practice in the wind lately having played in the Scottish Universities Championship at Moray recently, so I’m used to these conditions,” said McDonald, a member of the highly successful Stirling golf team.
Craig Lawrie, son of 1999 Open Champion Paul, also got off to a winning start on his Scottish Boys’ debut with a well earned 2 and 1 first round win over Renfrew’s Lewis Kerr. With dad watching on from the sidelines, the three-handicapper opened with a birdie four at the first to ease the nerves and played some impressive golf in front of the galleries, closing out the match with a delicate up and down for par on the seventeenth green.
Dunbar green keeper Blair Shearer made his local knowledge count with a 3 and 2 first round win over Andrew Carrell (Peterculter) although the host club’s Michael Boddie made an early exit at the hands of Jack McCluskey (Ayr Belleisle).
As the second round got underway this afternoon, defending champion Grant Forrest continued his good start to the week with his second consecutive 3 and 2 win to reach the last 64, while Cameron Farrell – son of Cardross professional Robert – raced to an emphatic 8 and 7 win against Ross McLeish (Torrance House) to book his place in the third round.
Kirkhill’s Craig Ross, winner of the recent Junior Champion of Champions at The Duke’s, is also through to the third round after powering past Scott Murray (Stonehaven) 6 and 5. Fraser Davren, who at 14 became the youngest player to win the Williamwood club championship, fought back to pip Bathgate’s Greg Miller at the first extra hole to earn a third round match with Gleddoch’s Martin McCorkell.
Reigning Scottish and English Boys Under-14s champion Bradley Neil (Blairgowrie) maintained his title charge, reeling off three front nine birdies en route to a 4 and 2 win against Millport’s Craig Pirie.
“I played much better than I did yesterday and my putting was really on song. The wind had died down a bit this evening and that made judging my long putts much easier,” said Neil. “I made birdie on the second hole, which was playing really long and that got me off to a good start and managed to get up and down from a few tricky bunkers which helped maintain my lead at crucial holes.”
Meanwhile, the biggest casualty of the second round so far was former English Boys Under-14s champion Ewan Scott (St Andrews) who went down 3 and 2 to an excellent performance from Conor Syme. (Dumfries and County).


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