Friday, August 19, 2011

GREIG HUTCHEON WINS DEESIDE PRO-AM

Banchory tour professional Greig Hutcheon did not have far to travel to win his latest top prize of £1,111 - only 20-odd miles along the road to Aberdeen to win the Deeside Golf Club pro-am at Bieldside with a six-under-par round of 64.
Hutch had a shot to spare over runner-up Stephen Gray (Hayston) who won £888 for a 65.
Third on 67 was Chris Kelly (Cawder) who earned £666.
Leading pro scoresPar 70
64 Greig Hutcheon (Banchory) £1,111.
65 Stephen Gray (Hayston) £888.
67 Chris Kelly (Cawder) £666.
69 Jason McCreadie (Buchanan Castle), Craig Gordon (Edinburgh Golf Centre) £450 each.
70 Mark Kerr (unatt), Paul McKechnie (Braid Hills) £311 each.
71 David Patrick (Elie Sports Club), Ross Cameron (McDonald Ellon), Graham Fox (Rowallan Castle), David Orr (East Renfrewshire) £202 each.

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JEFF SLUMAN LEADS ON US SENIORS TOUR WITH A 65

HARRISON, New York (AP) — Jeff Sluman shot a 6-under 65 on Thursday to take a one-stroke lead after the first round of the Senior Players Championship, the Champions Tour's final major of the season.
Sluman, the winner last month at Pebble Beach, had seven birdies and a bogey on Westchester Country Club's tree-lined West Course. Gary Hallberg and Peter Senior opened with 66s.
Jay Haas, the 2009 winner, and Corey Pavin and Michael Allen were two strokes back at 67, and Fred Couples, defending champion Mark O'Meara and Tommy Armour III had 68s.
Tom Watson struggled, shooting a 76.
Sluman had seven birdies in an 11-hole stretch from No. 4 to 14, including three in a row on Nos. 12-14. He bogeyed the par-3 16th, and then closed with two pars.
Sluman holed a 45-foot putt on the 12th, chipped in from 25 feet with a 9-iron on 13, then made a 3-footer on 14.
"I made one of those bombs," Sluman said. "I was just trying to two-putt and it fell into the hole. I followed it up on 13 from 25 feet. Making a 45-footer and following it up with a 25-footer is not something I'm used to."
Couples, playing in his first event since undergoing non-traditional back treatment six weeks ago in Germany, was 5 under through 11 holes, but dropped three strokes with bogeys on Nos. 12-14. He birdied No. 16 to get back to 3 under.
"If I hadn't gone to Germany, I wouldn't be playing right now," Couples said. "I'd still be trying to see if it would thaw out and I don't think it will. So that's basically why I'm here after going there."
Westchester Country Club was the site of a PGA Tour event from 1963-2007 and most players had fond memories of the course that has changed little since.
"Absolutely, you have a comfort zone," Sluman said. "Anytime you have played at a place and I would guess I've probably played 80 rounds here and I should have a pretty good idea of what you need to do under all conditions.
Haas agreed.
"There's nothing like the familiarity that we have on courses we've played many, many times," Haas said. "I've had that on the PGA but out here the courses are usually different and I've only been out six or seven years and there's just a tighter window that you have to learn the golf courses. So it's nice to come back to a course that we have played before."
O'Meara won last year at TPC Potomac in Maryland, beating Allen on the first hole of a playoff.

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QUINNEY AND GAINEY SHARE LEAD ON US PGA TOUR

GREENSBORO, North Carolina (AP) — If Jeff Quinney keeps this up, he might soon have a new US PGA Tour card - and a spot in the playoffs.
Quinney and Tommy Gainey shot 7-under 63s on Thursday to share the lead after one round in the Wyndham Championship.
Quinney had eight birdies, including five in a row early in his round, to start strong in his last chance to qualify for golf's postseason.
Gainey had five birdies and an eagle in matching his career-best round. Both players are chasing their first PGA Tour victory.
Stuart Appleby had a 64. Ten players - Paul Casey, Carl Pettersson, Ernie Els, Jason Bohn, Jimmy Walker, Tim Herron, Lee Janzen, Jim Furyk, Vijay Singh and George McNeill - shot 65s during another low-scoring day at Sedgefield Country Club.
Quinney arrived in 215th place in the FedEx Cup standings. A win - and the 500 points that accompany it - would put him in The Barclays.
"The only chance I get in the playoffs is probably winning this week, and coming with the attitude of 'all-in,'" Quinney said. "Basically, just push all your chips in, and this is what I got."
A year ago, a close-but-not-enough finish on this course left Quinney outside the playoff field. He wound up in 126th place, falling short of the postseason by three points.
He spent most of the first day of his return to the par-70 Sedgefield layout near the top of the leaderboard after his early flurry of birdies.
Starting on the back nine, Quinney birdied Nos. 12-16 to move to 5 under. After a bogey on No. 18, he added three more birdies on his final nine holes and closed by sticking his 140-yard approach shot within 3 feet and sinking that putt for his eighth birdie.
"It's my last chance, and don't hold back, try to get out of my own way," Quinney said.
Quinney, who has conditional status on the tour, is playing just his 11th tournament of the year.
"Once you do get in, you put a little pressure on yourself," Quinney said. "It's been frustrating. This is my first year I've been non-exempt for five years, and so I think you just expect it to be somewhere else, and it's a struggle mentally to fight that. I still got the game. I just need the opportunities and not to get in your own way and try to force things."
Gainey caught him during the afternoon, with four birdies and the eagle coming during the South Carolina native's front nine. He moved to 7 under with a birdie on the par-4 13th, but ran into trouble on No. 15 when he sent his tee shot into a creek and closed his round with five pars.
"I hit it terrible off the tee, hit my irons really good, made a lot of putts, but I left quite a few shots out there, so I've got to definitely work on the tee ball here, because it's starting to really frustrate me," Gainey said. "Any time you play and shoot 63 ... when you have no blemishes on a golf course like this - or any golf course, for that matter - it's a good day."
Gainey - who's at No. 40 on the points list - is safely in the playoff field.
Some others here this week aren't quite that secure.
Once again, the prevailing storyline was the list of players who came in search of a push into the playoffs. The Wyndham annually marks the final chance to crack the top 125 on the points list and qualify for the postseason, which starts next week in New Jersey.
Els, who arrived at No. 126, was part of a morning threesome of bubble players that also included No. 124 Cameron Beckman and No. 125 Camilo Villegas.
"I said to the guys, 'My playoffs started this week. If I don't play well this week, I'm not advancing,'" Els said. "Most of the other guys have four playoff events. I have five. I feel like I need to do well (to go to) The Barclays and keep going. It's hard not to think about it. There's quite a bit of pressure on us guys lower down the field. We need to perform well."
Fabian Gomez delivered the shot of the day - a double eagle on the par-5 No. 15. His 5-wood shot from 250 yards out went into the hole on the fly for the tour's third albatross of the year.
And Furyk had two eagles in a span of four holes, his second multi-eagle round this year.
Indeed, low scores once again were the norm at the Donald Ross-designed course. Since the tournament moved back here in 2008, two of the three winners have finished at 20 under or better.
"My caddie said 5 under every day is sort of the goal," Casey said.

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PETER LAWRIE LEADS CZECH OPEN WITH A 66

FROM THE EUROPEAN TOUR WEBSITE
Peter Lawrie’s bogey-free round of 66 was good enough to give him the first round lead at the Czech Open.
The Irishman was six under par after playing what he described as “lovely golf” at Prosper Golf Resort to lead by one shot from compatriot Damien McGrane, Spain’s Pedro Oriol and France’s Victor Dubuisson.
“I had no bogeys, which always helps,” said the former Open de España winner.
“Plus I made a couple of nice up-and-downs when I really needed them, on the second and third, which were my 11th and 12th holes. Other than that, I played lovely, solid golf, and every chance I gave myself from short range, I holed it – although I missed about a ten footer at the last.”
The 37 year old, a runner-up here to Peter Hanson 12 months ago, started on the back nine and birdied the 11th and 14th holes to turn in 34.
He pitched to six feet at the par five first for another gain, recorded consecutive birdies at the fifth and sixth holes – the latter from 25 feet – and rounded things off with an approach to five feet at the eighth.
“The course is playing totally differently this year to last year,” he added. “It’s much softer. You’re hitting your driver on pretty much every hole, and the ball’s not running out in any shape or form. The par fives are all out of reach for me, so my short game has to be good, and you have to be quite accurate around here.”
McGrane also had six birdies, with the best coming courtesy of a 40 foot putt on the seventh hole, but unlike Lawrie he registered a bogey at the 17th.
The former Volvo China Open winner began with back-to-back birdies, although it was two gains in his last three holes that propelled the 40 year old into contention.
“The scoring conditions are perfect, so it’s possible to create a lot of chances,” he said. “But creating them is one thing, converting them quite another. So to make six birdies and just the one bogey was very pleasing.
“The fairways are still very soft, so there’s no run on them at all. But every day the condition of the course is getting better, as it dries out. It’s probably going to be a low scoring week because the greens are in fantastic condition, so I’ll have to keep making those birdies.”
Rookie Dubuisson’s best finish so far on The European Tour came when he was ninth in Qatar, but the young Frenchman gave himself every chance of bettering that with four birdies in five holes around the turn helping him to a 67.
“It was a very good round,” said the 21 year old Qualifying School graduate. “I don’t always get off to the best of starts, so I’m very happy.
“It helped that my caddie and I arrived on Monday, so I played two rounds of golf before starting the tournament today, which was a big help because it meant I knew the course very well before teeing off this morning.
“I don't think I missed a fairway all day. I holed a ten metre putt on the seventh, and I haven't holed a putt from that distance for about four months – after that, I knew it was going to be my day!”
Dubuisson’s fellow Qualifying School graduate Oriol has found the going tough so far at the top level, making just two cuts so far this season.
But he mixed six birdies with a single bogey as he looks to improve on his season-best finish of 49th in Johannesburg.
Oriol’s round of 67 was all the more remarkable given that he played with a borrowed set of clubs after his went missing en route to the Czech Republic.
He explained:
 “I took a flight from Madrid to London and changed onto the charter flight to the Czech Republic, but my clubs never made it here. They still hadn’t arrived by this morning, and I was worried about my round, because even though I practised very hard for the past two weeks my confidence has been quite low, because I haven’t played well this season.
“The clubs I got from the Mizuno truck were a bit short for me, so I wasn’t feeling too confident. But then I go and shot a round of 67, which just goes to show what a crazy game golf is. I’m not sure I’m going to switch back to my own clubs now even if they arrive!”
Shane Lowry shot 68 on a good day for the Irish contingent, and he was joined by Swede Mikael Lundberg in a share of fifth place.
There was also a marked improvement for England’s Nick Dougherty. The 29 year old has missed 20 consecutive cuts so far this season, but a one under par 71 gave the three-time European Tour champion a great chance to earn his first cheque of the campaign.





Tournament Leaderboard


Pos Player nameNatHolePar
1LAWRIE, PeterIRL12:40-6
T2ORIOL, PedroESP2-5
T2MCGRANE, DamienIRL12:30-5
T4LOWRY, ShaneIRL13:10-4
T4LUNDBERG, MikaelSWE13:50-4
T6DRYSDALE, DavidSCO4-3

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PAUL O'HARA EARNS 2,500 EUROS FOR JOINT 2ND IN GERMANY

Paul O'Hara finished joint runner-up in this week's EPD (German PGA) Tour event - the Pfaffing Classic - withh a 14-under-par total of 202.
The Colville Park man finished only one shot behind the winner of the 5,000 Euros top prize, Maximilian Glauert, 24, from Dusseldorf. Last week Glauert won the German PGA championship.
Like O'Hara, Glauert had only one bogey over the three rounds of the Pfaffing Classic but he had one one more birdie than the Scot who birdied 15 holes and bogeyed only the 10th in the second round.
Germany's Allen John shared second place with O'Hara. They earned 2,500 Euros each
Glauert scored 66, 66 and 69 for 15-under 201.
O'Hara had rounds of 67,67 and 68 for 14-under-200 while John scored 66, 67 and 69.

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PAUL LAWRIE JUNIOR TOUR CALLS IN AT ELLON

 By IAIN POWELL
After a two-week break the Paul Lawrie Junior Tour resumed in sunny Ellon and the course was in excellent condition even after the rain we have had over the last few days.
Hazleheads Craig Leith took top honours with a fantastic 44 points two ahead of Oldmeldrums consistant perfomer Cameron Fraser who has had two previous second place finishes. We had a three way tie for third place with Chris Somers, Declan Addison and Dylan Smith.
CSS - 68
Craig Leith - Hazlehead (21) - 44 points
Cameron Fraser - Oldmeldrum (11) - 42 points
Chris Somers - Murcar Links (8) - 37 points
Declan Addison - Peterhead (6) - 37 points
Dylan Smith - Alford (8) - 37 points
Paul Morgan - Portlethen (13) - 36 points
Kieran Spence - Portlethen (10) - 36 points
Kyle Taylor - Turriff (6) - 36 points
Stephen Roger - Cruden Bay (12) - 36 points
Ross Powell - Deeside (10) - 36 points

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Iain Powell

Paul Lawrie Foundation
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FOUR-WAY TIE ON 71 AT MIDLAND ALLIANCE SEASON OPENER


The Midland Golfer’s Alliance held their first meeting of the 2011/12 season at Thornton Golf Club in Fife. The course was in excellent condition despite the awful weather of late.
There was a four-way tie for first place in the scratch,  Braehead pro Jamie Stevenson, Henry Wong, Wellsgreen assistant pro, Paul Brookes, Pitreavie pro, and Edzell pro Alistair Webster all shooting  one over par scores of 71. There was also a tie for the handicap prize. Gill Muir (Burntisland), who plays off eight, and Carnoustie 14-handicapper Alan McEwan both scoring net 67s.

Leading Scratch Scores
71 J Stevenson (Braehead) p, H Wong (Wellsgreen) ap, P Brookes (Pitreavie) p, A J Webster (Edzell) p.
72 D McKay (Wellsgreen) p. 
75 G Muir (Burntisland).
76 R Taylor (Crieff).
77 C Westland (Alloa), G Mitchell (Blairgowrie).
78 P Wytrazek (Burntisland) p.

Leading Handicap Scores 
67 G Muir (Burntisland) (8), A McEwan (Carnoustie) (14).
68 C Westland (Alloa) (9).
71 J Cree jun (Scotscraig) (11).
72 R Taylor (Crieff) (4)
73 M Niven (Alloa) (6), H Cowbrough (Muckhart) (6), G Mitchell (Blaiggowrie) (4).
74 R Redpath (Scotscraig) (5), J Barnet (Dunfermline) (10), D Hutchieson (Murrayshall) (6), H Hunter (Alloa) (10), B Beaumont (Crieff) (9), D Adams (Carnoustie) (8), G Smith (Scotscraig) (6).

Qualifiers for the J T C Kitchen Express Midland Golfer’s Alliance Championship in April at Carnoustie:
J. Stevenson (Braehead) p.
H Wong (Wellsgreen) ap. 
P Brookes (Pitreavie) p. 
A J Webster (Edzell) p.

Qualifiers for the JTC Kitchen Express McQueen Shield at Carnoustie in April
G. Muir (Burntisland) (8)
A. McEwan (Carnoustie) (14)

Next Week's Meeting
Thursday, August 25
Ballumbie Castle
8.30 – 12.30

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