SCOTTISH SUPER SENIORS SCOREBOARD AT LARGS KELBURN

FIRST ROUND
Par 70
Conditions: Dull and humid with little or no rain
DAVID SMITH (STIRLING) 76
TONY MCINTYRE (LUNDIN LINKS) 76
SCOTT MACDONALD (DUNFERMLINE) 76
TOM CARSON (LOCKERBIE) 76
DAVID DOODSON TEMPLE 77
KEITH HOWIE WEST KILBRIDE 77
JIM KINLOCH CARDROSS 79
SANDY PIRIE HAZLEHEAD 79
COLIN MOIR WORKSOP 80
COLIN CAMPBELL GULLANE 81
STANLEY SCOTT LINLITHGOW 82
PETER KINLOCH CARDROSS 82
BRIAN GRIEVE KING JAMES V1 82
KEN THOMSON BRAMALL PARK 82


+The Sandy Pirie Trophy - held by Sandy himself - is the prize for the 65+ years bracket. There is also the Over-70s Trophy.

FORFAR BOY IS YOUNGEST WINNER OF ANGUS MATCH-PLAY

Today at Kirriemuir 13 year old Gavin Petrie (pictured) of Forfar Golf Club became the youngest winner of the Angus boys matchplay championship.
In the morning semi final against Sean Grubb(Ballumbie), Gavin had built up a three-hole advantage through 10 holes, only to lose the next five in a row through some uncharacteristic wayward driving.
A par was good enough to win 16, followed by a pitch-in birdie from thick grass on 17 to square the match. On the difficult 18th both boys hit quality shots from 150 yards out, Sean to 3 feet and Gavin to 4 feet. Gavin converted and Sean missed.
In the other semi final, local favourite Ross Dallas overcame Downfield's Greg Urquhart by one hole after an up and down battle.
Gavin got off to a flyer in the final, winning the first four holes, Ross birdied the sixth, then with Gavin's tee shot a mere 6 inches from the hole at the 8th Ross calmly rolled his putt from 15 feet in for a half.
Solid play from Ross on the back nine had the match all square on the 17th tee, Gavin rolled his birdie putt dead. Then Ross missed from 5 feet for the half. Gavin missed the green to the right on the 18th and pitched to 8 feet, with Ross narrowly missing his 20 footer, Gavin calmly rolled in his difficult right to left putt for the victory.
County junior convenor Alex McKay was delighted with the standard of play and spotsmanship from both finalists who have both came through the Angus coaching progammes and predicts a great future for both boys.

ANDREW WILLEY WINS EUROPRO TOUR £10,000 PRIZE

NEWS RELEASE Andrew Willey has stormed to victory in the latest event in the PGA EuroPro Tour season. Willey, who turned 36 on Monday, finished three shots ahead of three golfers at the end of the World Snooker Association Golf Championship at Players Club in Bristol. He ended on -11 for the tournament after scores of 67 (-3) on Tuesday, 65 (-5) on Wednesday and 67 (-3) on the final day to scoop the £10,000 top prize. Willey (Notts Golf Club) has had great experience on playing on the EuroPro Tour and finished second in the Order of Merit in 2007 after a campaign that included a victory at the end-of-season Tour Championship event. He has been playing on the Challenge Tour ever since but returned to EuroPro Tour action this week after struggling in this year’s Challenge Tour, where he has only finished in a money position at one event since April. James Busby (The Shropshire), Tim Dykes (Penrith) and Jamie Abbott (Fynn Valley, Suffolk) all finished in tied second on eight-under. Busby started the final round in great style with five birdies in the opening six holes to give himself an outside chance of victory, although he could not keep this momentum going. Abbott, a winner earlier in the season at Wensum Valley, has inched himself closer to next season’s Challenge Tour. He now lies third in the Order of Merit where the top five at the end of the season will advance to the higher level on the Challenge Tour and one step away from playing alongside Europe’s elite on the main tour. Order of Merit leader Chris Hanson (Woodsome Hall, Huddersfield) continued his fantastic season as he was one of three players in tied fifth. Alex Belt (The De Vere Club), who began the final day at the top of the leaderboard, was also in tied fifth after a round of two-over (72) cost him a chance of victory. FINAL LEADERBOARD 1 Andrew Willey (Notts) 67 65 67 199 £10,000.00 T2 James Busby (The Shropshire) 69 68 65 202 £3,066.67 T2 Tim Dykes Penrith) 68 68 66 202 £3,066.67 T2 Jamie Abbott Fynn Valley 65 71 66 202 £3,066.67 T5 Chris Hanson Woodsome Hall 66 70 67 203 £1,200.00 T5 Billy Hemstock Teignmouth 66 67 70 203  £1,200. T5 Alex Belt The De Vere Club 67 64 72 203 £1,200.   SCOTS' SCORES and PRIZEMONEY Par 210 (3x70) 204 Shaun McAllister (Craigielaw) 70 64 70 (8th) £900. 206 Chris Kelly (Cawder) 71 66 69 (T10) £725. 208 Lee Harper (Archerfield) 71 70 67 (T16) £429 211 Stephen Gray (Hayston) 68 69 74 (T30) £287. 214 Duncan Stewart (Grantown on Spey) 64 77 73 (T42) £235.

ORDER OF MERIT AFTER EIGHT EVENTS1 Chris Hanson Woodsome Hall Golf Club £23,032.50
2 Graeme Clark Doncaster GC £21,434.17
3 Jamie Lee Abbott Fynn Valley £14,744.17
4 James Busby The Shropshire £13,304.17
5 Paul Reed Bristol & Clifton Golf Club £12,348.10
6 Stuart Archibald www.crspecialists.co.uk £11,313.75
7 Duncan Stewart Grantown on Spey £11,047.50

OHARA WINS A FEW EUROS MORE IN GERMANY

Paul O'Hara finished joint 16th even with a six-under-par total of 210 in this week's EPD (German PGA) Tour event, the Internetworld Open at Golfanlage Gut Thailing. The Motherwell man had rounds of 72, 67 and 71 to earn 471 Euros. He finished eight shots behind the German winner of the 5,000 Euros first prize, Daniel Wunsche who had rounds of 71, 68 and 65 for 12-under-par 204. Wunsche won by one shot from compatriot Christoph Gunther (69-69-67) and Dutchman Reinier Saxton (70-67-68) who each won 2,500 Euros.

DAVID LAW ON TRAIL OF A SCOTTISH AYRSHIRE REPEAT

FROM THE SCOTTISH GOLF UNION WEBSITE
By ROSS DUNCAN
Hazlehead’s David Law stayed on course for a tilt at his second Scottish Amateur Championship title on the Ayrshire coast after an impressive fifth round win over SGU Order of Merit No 2 Graeme Robertson.

Law, who won the championship two years ago at nearby Royal Troon, underlined his impressive match play credentials against University of Stirling student Robertson, winning a closely fought contest 2 and 1 to set up a quarter-final joust with Glen’s Neil Henderson.

The 20-year-old Aberdonian was never behind in the match, turning the screw with a crucial hole-winning up and down from the bunker on the 12th before a birdie at the short 13th stretched his lead to three. Robertson narrowed the gap to two with a par at 16, but a half in 5 at the 17th won the match for Law.

“It was quite a scrappy game and we both hit a few loose shots, but I stuck to my game plan and did what I needed to do,” admitted Law, winner of the Northern Amateur Match Play in South Africa earlier this season.

“My ball striking has been good all week and I feel really confident with my short game in match play. I’ve holed some really good putts which have kept me in games at crucial times. I spent a bit of time with Paul Lawrie last week working on my putting and that’s paid off.” he added.

Henderson, a former Junior Champion of Champions now studying at Old Dominion University in the States, ended the challenge of Southerness 18-year-old Scott Gibson with a one-hole win, while fellow Lothians man James Ross, now studying at Houston University, is also through after seeing off Bobby Rushford 2 and 1.

“I felt pretty relaxed early on and was four under through nine to be two up, so we were both playing well. Bobby hit back at me after the turn and it was nip and tuck after that. I got a great up and down from the bunker at the 16th to get a half which was really important,” said Ross.

McDonald’s Adam Dunton, a member of the North East team who reached the final of the Moneygate Scottish Area Team Championship at Prestwick earlier this season, will be Ross’s next opponent after he edged out Kyle McClung by one hole.

Former assistant professional Paul Alexander, by some way the oldest player left in the field aged 37, beat Conor O’Neil by two holes, to reach the quarter-finals on his first ever appearance in the championship. He’ll face Dunbar 18-year-old Daniel Kay, who put in an excellent performance to ease past Kingsknowe’s Greg Richards.

The fourth quarter-final will be between Scotland team-mates James White and James Byrne. White, who won the 2006 Scottish Boys Championship at West Kilbride in Ayrshire, played “solid, steady golf” in a 3 and 2 win over Scott Borrowman (Dollar) while Byrne enjoyed a great tussle with Turnberry’s Scott Brown, eventually carving out a 3 and 1 win after the game was delayed by an hour following Brown’s mammoth 23rd hole win earlier in the day.

“I played really well this afternoon as that’s been the most difficult conditions of the week. It’s a tough course with a wind like that and I had to be on my game as Scott played some really good golf,” said Byrne, who is eyeing a GB&I Walker Cup place when the side is announced next month.

“This course is all about position. It’s not a bombers course and key for me this week has been staying out of bunkers.”

Tomorrow’s quarter-finals commence at 0800 with the afternoon semi-finals teeing off at 1245 ad 1300.

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THURSDAY MORNING QUARTER-FINALS

James Ross (Royal Burgess) v Adam Dunton (McDonald Ellon)
Neil Henderson (The Glen) v DAVID LAW (Hazlehead).
Paul Alexander (Caldwell) v Daniel Kay (Dunbar).
JAMES WHITE (Lundin) v JAMES BYRNE (Banchory).

Seeded players in capital letters

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PAUL O'HARA ONLY THREE SHOTS OFF LEAD IN GERMANY

Paul O'Hara starts today's third and final round in the EPD (German PGA) Tour event at Golfanlage Gut Thailing in joint ninth place after a very good second-round of 67 (five under par) for a 36-hole tally of five-under 139.
The Motherwell man is only three shots behind the leader, England's Thomas Curtis who has put together scores of 66 and 70 for eight-under 136 and a one-shot lead from Poland's Maksymilian Saluda, Faycal Serghini of Morocco, former British amateur champion Reinier Saxton (Netherlands) and Germany's Sebastian Buhl.
With three shots spanning the top 10 or so players, it is, as they say, anybody's race over the final round.
Fingers crossed for Paul O'Hara!

BRABAZON TROPHY WINNER RAYMOND BEATEN IN FIRST ROUND

ENGLISH MEN'S AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP REPORT

FROM THE ENGLISH GOLF UNION WEBSITE
Neil Raymond’s hopes of adding the English Amateur Championship, supported by abacus, to the Brabazon Trophy he won last month were dashed in the first round when he was beaten by his England team-mate Paul Lockwood at Woburn.
The young Yorkshireman won 5 and 4 in what is his debut in the championship and he couldn’t have secured a bigger scalp following Tom Lewis’s shock late withdrawal on the eve of the event.
Lockwood, a former boy cap who made his full England debut against Spain in May, felt that Raymond hadn’t played badly but that he had had a lot of golf lately.
“This is my first English Amateur so you could say I have an unbeaten record,” he said. “I’m delighted to have beaten Neil but a few things went my way and it was closer than 5 and 4 while he missed a couple of putts near the end.
“I’ve not been ripping it recently but I just want to make myself difficult to beat. I hope it’s going to be a long week so the less holes I play the better.”
After both halved the first hole in bogeys, Lockwood won three holes in four from the third, two with birdies.
 A Lockwood bogey at ten cut his lead but when he holed from eight feet on the 12th and Raymond missed from six the 19 year old was 3-up again.
Raymond then three-putted 13 and the match ended at the 14th when Lockwood holed from 15 feet for par and Raymond found another bogey.
Darren Wright, Raymond’s county and England team-mate also made an early exit, going down 3 and 2 to Shropshire and Herefordshire’s Ashley Chesters.
Chesters was in good form on the front nine, being three under par and 4-up at the turn. Wright won the next three holes to get back to 1-down but Chesters took the 14th and 15th for a fine victory.
Last year’s runner-up Warren Harmston is looking to go one better this time and made a good start with a 2 and 1 win over Matt Hill from nearby Leighton Buzzard.
“It wasn’t pretty,” said the Wentworth man. “I got 3-up through eight but I bogeyed 13 and he birdied 14 to cut my lead to one. But I took the 16th with a concession and managed to hang on. I didn’t hit it great but you need a bit of luck in 18 holes.”
So how does Harmston rate his chances this time? “This is a totally different course to last year at Little Aston. It’s longer and more demanding,” he added.
Harmston’s victory sets up an all-Wentworth clash in round two after England cap Steven Brown got the better of Frilford Heath’s Ashley Walton, also by 2 and 1.
“There’s life in the old dog yet,” declared Mark Wharton, after his 3 and 2 victory over Elliot Groves from Hampshire.
At 48, Wharton is the oldest man in the field but has the experience to go all the way. He won the first three holes and despite losing that lead by the turn, rebuilt it by taking three holes in-a-row from the 12th and held that to go through.
John Kemp, probably the next eldest at 43, and one of three Woburn members in the field, set up a second round tie another England international in Stiggy Hodgson.
Kemp beat Kent’s Jerome Titlow 2 and 1, while Hodgson came out on top 4 and 3 over Yorkshire’s Jamie Harrison.
Sam Whitehead, also from Woburn, was staring defeat in the face when he trailed boy cap Greg Payne by one hole on the 18th tee. But Payne three-putted to send the match into extra holes and he repeated it on the 19th to see Whitehead through.
Dave Coupland from Lincolnshire ran up the biggest win of the day with a 7 and 5 victory over Kent’s Darren Timms. Coupland eased in front with a chip-in eagle-three at the second and he also won the next.
Unfortunately, Timms was distinctly off form and Coupland won five successive holes from the sixth and although the Kent man pulled one back at the 12th, another error at the 13th brought a concession and a shake of hands.
The all-Geordie battle between Philip Ridden of City of Newcastle and Northumberland’s Kris Gray whose clubs are just a quarter of a mile apart, went the way of the former by 3 and 2.
England international Jack Senior needed 20 holes to shake off Darren Renwick and now meets the United States-based Charlie Bull, who put out Ben Loughrey by 1 hole.

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