BRORA VERSUS DEESIDE IN SENIOR NORTHERN COUNTIES CUP FINAL

By ROBIN WILSON

Home course specialists, Brora, are on course to win the B D Fraser Senior Northern Counties Cup  for a third time when they line up against Deeside in Friday's final over the Sutherland course.

The home line up of Jim Miller, Iain Grant, Ronnie Sim and Robin Wilson were all on form to beat Inverness in the quarter finals by five holes then in the semi-finals beating Strathpeffer Spa, the club they beat  in the final to win the cup for the first time in 2003.
The North v East final will feature Deeside who saw off Nairn Dunbar's second team by four holes then followed up with a win over Duff House Royal in the semi-final by a narrow one hole margin. Deeside's second string of Hector Morrison and Richard Bickerton won Brora's final par three 18^th hole to finish three up and take their club mates  through by one hole to play the local club in this morning’s final.

Results

Round 3

Strathpeffer Spa bt Fortrose and Rosemarkie by 9 holes

 (D Kryzanowski and  B Mackenzie 5, J Hearman and W Donnelly 0; P Bannerman

and M Wilson 4,  A Tait & L Patience 0)

Brora bt Inverness by four holes.

 (J Miller and I D  Grant 1, L Chancellor and  D Rae 0; R J Wilson and R G Sim 3, W Hutchen and J Elliot 0)

 Duff House Royal bt Royal Dornoch by seven holes

.(M Jenkins and J Sim 0, B Nicholson and  P  Lee 2; D Clark and A Kennedy 9, R Murray and A Ramsay 0)

Deeside beat Nairn Dunbar (2) by four holes

(N Harper and A Gall 4, J Westwood and K Campbell 0; H Morrison and R Bickerton 0. G Anderson and Kettels 0.)

Semi finals

Brora bt Strathpeffer Spa by six holes.

(Miller and Grant 6, Kryzanowski and Mackenzie 0; Wilson and Sim 0 Bannerman and Wilson 0)

Deeside bt Duff House Royal by one hole.

( Harper& Gall 0, Jenkins & Sim 2, Morrison and Bickerton 3 Clark and Kennedy 0)