SCOTS SENIORS LOSE OPENER 5-4 TO TITLE-HOLDERS IRELAND

Scotland were a shade unlucky to lose 5-4 to defending champions Ireland on the opening day of the Senior Men's Home Internationals at Woodhall Spa, Lincolnshire today.
England had a similar narrow win over Wales.
Day 2 will see Scotland play England, and Wales meet Ireland.


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Q SCHOOL FIRST DAY ABANDONED AT DUNDONALD LINKS

European Tour Qualifying School – First Section A

By MICHAEL GIBBONS
mgibbons@europeantour.com

Play at the Tour School’s Scottish venue for the week – Dundonald Golf Links in Ayrshire  – was abandoned for the day due to high winds. Round 1 is scheduled to start at Dundonald tomorrow morning (Wednesday).

First Round Scores from
Golf Club Schloss Ebreichsdorf, Austria
Par 72.
64 D Slott Mogensen (Den)
65 J McLister (USA)
66 U Weinhandl (Aut); P Erice Ibanez (Esp)
67 M Hill (Can); M Hu (Chn); C Garcia Simarro (Esp); I Giner (Esp); M Veijalainen (am) (Fin); D Geminiani (am) (Ita)
68 N Bruzelius (Swe); J Kaske (Fin); S Hong (Kor)
69 M Molina (Arg); N Johansson (Swe); N Taylor (Can); J Habig (USA); J Relecom (Bel); K Eriksson (Swe); L Tintera (Cze); T Pulkkanen (am) (Fin);
70 H Norlander (Swe); P Karantzias (Gre); S McHenry (Aus); J Fahrbring (Swe); S Alvang (Den); R Sebastian (am) (Esp); B Neumayer (am) (Aut)
71 E Chaudouet (Fra); J Choi (Kor); J Bragulat (Esp); R Harris (Eng); J Buenestado (Esp); R Han (Chn); P Svajlen (Svk); G Canizares (Esp); J Kucera (Cze); T Reid (Eng); M Johnston (Can); J Walters (RSA); K Brink (Swe); R Goger (am) (Aut)
72 M Cobo (Esp); F Gustavsson (Swe); A Rosen (USA); J Maurer (Aut); C Aguilar (Esp); A Bruschi (Ita); M Tschinkel (Ger); N Henriques (Por); M Gojcic (Slo); L Astl (Aut); J Altonen (Fin)
73 J Choi (Kor); A Signor (Ita); N Lombardi (Ita); H Bacher (Aut); P Gal (Cze); D Alonso (Esp); C Rodiles (Esp); A Parr (Can); C Godson (Ger); V Crous (am) (Esp)
74 M Raven (Eng); P Relecom (Bel); M Dearden (Wal); J Legarrea (Esp); T Leon (USA); J Gallagher (Sco); M Prihoda (Cze); J De Lope (Esp)
75 R Surber (USA); F Pogatschnigg (Aut); E Rodriguez Jnr (Esp); W Rieder (Aut); J Arnette (USA); I Urquizu (Esp); T Curtis (Eng); V Dostál (am) (Cze)
76 A Messiqua (Sui); E Grillo (Arg); N Murtagh (Eng)
77 R Gruber (Aut); M Greil (Ger)
78 S Matus (Cze); R Hahn (Hun)
79 A Mayer (Aut); L Tupa (Cze); B Palanszki (Hun)
81 C Birch (Eng)

Michael Gibbons
Deputy Chief Press Officer
European Tour

HENDERSON, GRAY SHARE SKIBO CASTLE LEAD

GOLF COPY AND SCORES CREDIT CAL CARSON GOLF AGENCY FROM COLIN FARQUHARSON IN BELFAST     Scott Henderson (Kings Links) and Hayston's Stephen Gray share the lead on two-under-par 69 at the halfway stage of the pounds 44,200 Carnegie Invitational in the grounds of Skibo Castle near Dornoch. It looked as if Aberdonian Henderson was letting a good score slip away when he bogeyed the 14th, 15th and 16th after following a bogey at the opening hole with birdies at the second, fifth, sixth and eighth. But he raised his game in spectacular fashion to get an eagle 2 at the 17th. Gray, making money hand over first on the Tartan Tour this season, birdied the first and 15th, bogeyed the 16th but birdied the 17th to cbe alongside Henderson in the pole position overnight. They two shots clear of Alan Tait (Marriott Dalmahoy) who does not play nearly as regularly as his peers in the Scottish PGA ranks.   CARNEGIE INVITATIONAL Carnegie Links, Skibo Castle. FIRST-ROUND SCORES Par 71 69 Scott Henderson (Kings Links), Stephen Gray (Hayston). 71 Alan Tait (Marriott Dalmahoy). 72 Jason McCreadie (Buchanan Castle), Colin Gillies (Kingsfield). 73 Greig Hutcheon (Banchory). 74 Craig Ronald (Carluke). 75 Peter Smith (Deeside), Mark King (Kingsfield). 76 Gordon Law (Uphall), Jody Rostock (Carnegie). 77 Fraser Mann (Musselburgh), David Thomson (Carnegie). 78 Stephen McAllister (Renaissance Club), Joel Hopwood (Carnegie). 82 Fraser Cromarty (Castle Stuart). ends

HUGH HUNTER'S CLACKMANNAN COUNTY NEWS

NOT A MEMORABLE WEEKEND FOR COUNTY GOLF TEAMS

While the GB and I Golf Team had a memorable victory in the Walker Cup at Royal Aberdeen, it was a different story for the Clackmannan County Golf Teams. In the GARY HARVEY Boys event held a Braehead, the County Boys failed to make an impact on the other three Counties-----1st Perth and Kinross, 2nd Fife 3rd Angus, 4th Clackmannan. Best performances came from Kevin Ross (Tillicoultry) 2 wins, Calum Graham (Alva) 1 win, 1 halved match; Steven Watson (Tillicoultry) and Scott Beattie (Braehead) both 1 win ; Rikky Alexander (Braehead) 1 halved match.
The Junior Team members can all hit good shots, but they do lack some consistency and experience….. Hopefully their Braehead experience will encourage them to move their golf games on a bit.
The County Junior Boys team will be in action this weekend at Gleneagles in the Frank Thomson Trophy.

At the MIDLANDS TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP held over the Lansdowne course near Blairgowrie, the County Men’s team were unable to retain their trophy, finishing 16 shots behind the winners. County Team Captain Jamie Aitken led the way with a one over par score of 73.

RESULTS (seven out of eight scores to count) 1 Perth& Kinross 517; 2 Fife 527,
3. Angus 528, 4 Clackmannan 533 ( Jamie Aitken 73; Darren Hulston 74, Michael Robertson 75, Ian Guthrie 76, Scott Borrowman 77, John Maxwell 78, Ross Benvie 80).

CAPTAIN ALLAN DOES THE BUSINESS

It was a bit better at the Scottish Schools International against England on Monday… in horrendous gale force conditions, both Girls Team and Boys Team defeated their English counterparts… the girls won 5 matches to 1 and the boys won 8 matches to 4. The Boys Team Captain Lawrence Allan (Alva) was part of a historic occasion--- the first double win in the history of the event which goes back to 1979. Lawrence himself had a good win (which incidentally sealed the team win) in the testing conditions. Down in his match against Dean Newbold most of the way and two down with four to play, he snatched a win on the last green.

Lawrence’s World Ranking continues to improve and is now up to 1618, and close to breaking into the top 50 golfers in Scotland.


A LITTLE SUCCESS FOR CALLUM IN KAZAKHSTAN.

Tulliallan’s Callum Macaulay looked good after a couple of rounds in the Challenge Tour event at 6 under par with a pair of 69’s and a sixth equal position. He fell back a bit in Round 3 with a 76, but finished with a 71 for a four round aggregate of 285 ( 3 under par) and winnings of around 3000 euros.

This week Callum travels to Moscow for the M2M Russian Challenge at the Tseleevo Golf and Polo Club.