NORTH CHIEF McKERRON WINS INVERNESS ALLIANCE

North District President Robert McKerron (Forres) won the top scratch award with a par round of 72 in the North Scottish Golfers' Alliance fixture at Inverness GC. He pipped former Forres clubmate and past international Bryan Fotheringham, now an Inverness GC member, at the headof a field of 71 competitors with a pitch-and-putt par at the last hole to Fotheringham's bogey. McKerron birdied the 13th and 15th in halves of 37 and 35. LEADING SCRATCH Par 72 72 R McKerron (Forres) 73 B Fotheringham (Forres) 74 K Stables (Elgin), D Hector (Elgin), R A L Cameron (Fortrose and Rosemarkie) 75 G Hay (Grantown), D D Bunker (Nairn Dunbar) 76 K Barnett (Torvean), J S D Campbell ( Grantown) 77 S Chisholm (Nairn), R Stewart ( Nairn Dunbar) 78 A Henry (Inverness), S Johnston ( Moray) 79 B Cruickshank ( Spey Bay), J Simpson ( Forres) 80 J K England ( Moray), H M Bunker (Nairn Dunbar) 81 D Johnston (Moray), M Douglas (Inverness), L MacBean (Boat of Garten) 82 I MacAuley (Elgin), A MacIntosh (Torvean), R H Stewart ( Torvean). LEADING HANDICAP Class 1 71 D Hector (Elgin) 72 K Barnett ( Torvean), D D Bunker ( Nairn Dunbar), A Henry (Inverness) 73 J K England (Moray), R Stewart ( Nairn Dunbar) Class 2 73 D MacLeod (Loch Ness GC), L MacBean (Fortrose and Rosemarkie) 74 W Rusk (Torvean), J MacDonald ( Inverness) 76 W J Donnelly (Fortrose and Rosemarkie) ]