GREIG HUTCHEON STARTS 2012 WITH A £4,000 WIN ON MAJORCA

  Optical Express's Davod Mousdale (left) hands over a big cheque to Greig Hutcheon.

Banchory’s Greig Hutcheon has begun 2012 with a three-stroke victory in the Optical Express Pro Golf Tour 36-hole championship over the Son Gual course in Majorca.
Hutcheon led throughout, adding a second-round par-matching 72 to his opening 69 for a three-under total of 141.
That won him the £4,000 first prize from former Walker Cup player Lorne Kelly (Pro Dream USA) who finished with the joint best second round of two-under 70 for a 144 total. He took the runners-up prize of £2,000.
Paul McKechnie (Braid Hills) also closed with a 70 for 145, a total matched by Lindsay Mann (Carnoustie Links), like Kelly a past Walker Cup player, who scored 73-72. McKechnie and Mann earned £1,000 each.
The t6tal prize fund was £10,000.

FINAL TOTALS
Par 144 (2x72)
141 Greig Hutcheon (Banchory) 69 72 (£4,000).
144 Lorne Kelly (Pro Dream USA) 74 70 (£2,000).
145 Paul McKechnie (Braid Hills) 75 70, Lindsay Mann (Carnoustie Links) 73 72 (£1,000 each).
146 Graham Fox (Rowallan Castle) 73 73 (£600).
147 Chris Currie (Caldwell) 71 76, James McGhee (Bishopbriggs GR) 73 74 (£450 each).
148 Craig Matheson (Falkirk Tryst) 73 75, Graeme Brown (Montrose Links) 74 74 (£250 each).
149 Neil Fenwick (Dunbar) 77 72, John Gallagher (Swanston) 71 78, John Henry (Clydebank and Dist) 74 75, Paul Wardell (Whitekirk) 75 74.
151 Lauren Mackin (Son Gual) 75 76.
153 David Roger (Windyhill) 75 78.
154 Mark Kerr (Murrayfield) 82 72.
157 Stewart Savage (Dalmuir) 76 81.
NR Scott Herald (Mearns Castle) 80 NR.
Retired: Steven Duncan (Loch Lomond).