HUTCHEON WINS AT BANFF WITH HELP OF SUPERGLUE

By COLIN FARQUHARSON
Colin@scottishgolfview.com

Banchory's Greig Hutcheon scored his second win of the North-east Alliance season at Duff House Royal GC today despite a chronic sore back and a split thumb held together with superglue!

A classic case of "Beware the wounded golfer!" for the Tartan Tour pro was the only player in a field of 82 players to match the par of 68 in bright and breezy conditions at the Banff venue.

After winning the £100 first prize, Hutcheon said: "I split the skin on my thumb and the only way I could play golf was to find some way of sticking the two bits together. I had a great idea - superglue!

"I've still got a sore back but now the specialists are coming round to thinking that it's my feet where the problem starts. Apparently I've got fallen arches."

Hutcheon, who had an eagle 3 and a birdie 2 at the 12th and 13th to cancel out three bogeys won by a single shot from Murcar Links tour pro Terry Mathieson, Hazlehead-based pro Colin Nelson and Royal Aberdeen amateur Scott Larkin.
Laura Murray's ninth place finish with a 73 is worth a mention again. Remember, she plays off the same tees as the men. Speaking of the ladies, Hazlehead's Claire Prouse finished ahead of her dad Laurence with a 79 gross to his 81.
Willie McKenzie, the Berryhill Driving Range pro, kept an 8 off his card after last week's Scottishgolfview.com tip to "think positive" on the first tee. Which he did.
"The highest figure I had on my card was a 5," said a happy Willie.

LEADING SCRATCH
Par 68 (34-34). Yardage: 6007
68 G Hutcheon (Banchory) 36-32.
69 T Mathieson (Murcar Links) 35-34, C Nelson (Mackenzie Shop) 33-36, Scott Larkin (Royal Aberdeen) 36-33.
70 A Campbell (Deeside) 34-36, J Findlay (Fraserburgh) 35-35.
71 D Law (unatt) 37-34
72 D Macandrew (Royal Aberdeen) 37-35.
73 Laura Murray (Alford) 37-36.
74 R Fitzpatrick (Inchmarlo), E Kennedy (Newmachar), C Brown (Kemnay), D Brown (Kemnay), K Nicol (Fraserburgh), J Nicolson (Auchmill).
75 J Hopwood (Royal Aberdeen), S Finnie (Caledonian).
76 D Leslie (Northern), J Duff (Newmachar), B Nicolson (Auchmill).
77 B Harper (Newburgh), J Murray (Banchory), W McKenzie (Berryhill DR).
78 C Cassie (Nigg Bay), M Merchant (Newmachar).
79 A Gall (Deeside), Claire Prouse (Hazlehead), D Wilson (Duff House Royal).
80 P Cheyne (Northern), G Milne (Newburgh), M Duncan (Murcar Links), L Fowler (Royal Aberdeen), A K Pirie (Hazlehead), G Paterson (Northern), A Petrie (Oldmeldrum), D C Clark (Duff House Royal).
81 N K Parker (Murcar Links), L Prouse (Hazlehead), S Mackie (Auchmill) .
82 L Rodger (Royal Aberdeen), M Rendall (Stonehaven), C Carnegie (Kemnay).
83 D Nelson (Aboyne), J Forrest (Murcar Links), R O’Donnell (Oldmeldrum), A Graham (Aboyne), J Scott (Peterculter), J Dalgarno (Hazlehead), J Turner (Kemnay).
84 I D Smith (Hazlehead), W Shaw (Banchory).
85 M Smith (Inverurie), R Brown (Newburgh), H Roulston (Stonehaven), M Lawrie (Kemnay), D McKay (Caledonian), M Booth (Kemnay).
86 D Bisset (Banchory), N Chisholm (Kemnay), P Cornfield (Auchmill).
87 N Stewart (Northern), J Forrest (Northern).
88 H McNaughton (Cruden Bay).
89 C Adam (Aboyne).
90 D Randall (Banchory), G Allan (Newmachar).
91 B Lumsden (Northern), W Skene (Deeside)
92 D Wright (Northern), K Stephen (Northern), M Brown (Newburgh).
94 I Grant (Keith), T Collie (Kemnay).
97 G Homer (Northern).

HANDICAP PRIZEWINNERS
Class 1 - A Campbell (Deeside)(1) 69; L Murray (Alford) (3), J Nicolson (Auchmill) (4) 70; D Leslie (Northern) (5), P Cheyne (Northern) (9) 71.
Class 2 - J Murray (Banchory) (10) 67; M Smith (Inverurie), N K Parker (Murcar Links) (12) 69; A Petrie (Oldmeldrum) (10), L Rodger (Royal Aberdeen) (12) 70.

DUFF HOUSE SCORECARD 68
OUT: 4-4-4-4-4-3-4-4-3:34 IN: 4-3-5-3-4-4-3-4-4:34

THE DAY'S BEST FIGURES
GREIG HUTCHEON 68
OUT: 5-4-5-4-4-3-4-4-3:36 IN: 4-3-3-2-5-4-3-4-4:32
TERRY MATHIESON 69
OUT: 3-4-4-4-4-3-5-4-4:35 IN: 4-3-4-3-4-4-3-5-4:34
COLIN NELSON 69
OUT: 3-4-4-4-4-3-4-4-3:33 IN: 5-3-5-3-4-5-3-4-4:36
SCOTT LARKIN 69
OUT: 4-4-4-4-3-3-5-6-3:36 IN: 4-3-4-3-3-4-4-4-4:33
ANDREW CAMPBELL 70
OUT: 4-4-4-4-4-3-5-4-2:34 IN: 3-3-5-3-5-5-3-4-5:36
JORDAN FINDLAY 70
OUT: 4-4-4-4-4-3-5-4-3:35 IN: 5-3-4-3-5-4-4-4-3:35
DAVID LAW 71
OUT: 4-4-4-4-5-2-5-5-4:37 IN: 4-3-5-3-4-4-3-4-4:34
DONALD MACANDREW 72
OUT: 4-4-4-5-5-3-4-4-4:37 IN: 4-3-4-4-4-5-3-4-4:35
LAURA MURRAY 73
OUT: 4-4-4-5-4-3-4-5-4:37 IN: 4-3-4-3-5-5-3-5-4:36
TEE TIMES FOR FIRST ROUND OF NE
 ALLIANCE CHAMPIONSHIP

FRASERBUGH GC, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14

8.15  C Cassie - B Harper - K Watson.
8.22  D Clark - P Cornfield - J Nicolson
8.29  free
8.36  free
8.43  D Macandrew - M Lawrence - F Clarke
8.50  C Nelson - J Dalgarno - L Prouse
8.57  J Scott - G Paterson - J Borthwick

9.04  Claire Prouse - T Mathieson - G Nethercott
9.11  M Rendall - H Roulston - H McNaughton
9.18  J Hamilton - L Rodger - free
9.25  R Brown - M Brown - S Davidson
9.32  free
9.39  M Merchant - R Lamb - J Duff
9.46  free
9.53  M Duncan - J Forrest - N Stewart

10.00  L Vannet - P McIntosh - A Gall
10.07 L Fowler- A K Pirie - D Fleming
10.14   J Hopwood - R O'Donnell- L Graham
10.21  J Duncan - G Milne - M Forster
10.28  P McLean - K Nicol - D Law
10.35  G Hutcheon - S Larkin- F Bisset
10.42  K Beveridge - A Graham - D Nelson
10.49  J Jessiman - A Petrie - W Skene
10.56  B Lumsden - W Shaw - D Leslie

11.03  N K Parker - P Guthrie - M Rogers
11.10  P Cheyne - D Wright - K Stephen
11.17  I Grant- M Smith - M Booth
11.24  D Brow- M Lawrie - C Duffus
11.31  T Collie- J Turner - C Carnegie
11.38  D Randall - J Murray - D Bisset
11.45  W McKenzie - M May - P Leech
11.52  free
11.59  free

12.06  S Finnie - J Gall - D McKay
12.13  free
12.20  B Nicolson - G Allan- free
12.27  D Wilson - E Kennedy - R Fitzpatrick

+Although the North-east Alliance championship is over 36 holes, both the first round competition at Fraserburgh and the second round at Portlethen are stand-alone competitions with their usual weekly prizelists.  The prizelist for the 36-hole aggregates is over and above the two 18-hole ones.