Monday, June 04, 2012

HUGH HUNTER'S CLACKMANNAN COUNTY NEWS


DISAPPOINTMENT FOR LOCALS IN STROKE PLAY
  

BUT SCOTTISH ELITE SQUAD DID BADLY TOO
 
The three Clackmannan golfers in the Scottish stroke-play championship at Kilmarnock Barassie at the weekend missed out on good performances.   Best chance came from Dollar's Scott Borrowman who made the cut with rounds of 70 and 76.
However, a third round of 85 sent him down the field and although he recovered with a 75, his four round total of 14 over par, was well behind the  French winner on 10 under.  
Lawrence Allan(Alva) just missed the cut with rounds of 76 and 73. His first round left him too much to do. Alloa's Jamie Aitken, joining the field as a last minute entry, started with a one-over-par 74, which was pretty good in the circumstances, but he then fell away in the second round.  
While all three must have been disappointed, it was even worse for the Scottish elite golfers  with many missing the cut and only one finishing in the top ten.

GREAT GOLF IN THE COUNTY MATCH PLAY

The spectators who watched the first and second round ties were treated to some quality golf in the Clackmann county match-play championship.  In the first round, three ties went past the 18th with nerves being tested to the full. Last year's champion Scott Moffat (Braehead) had a close game against clubmate Jim Muir. 
All square after 16 and when Scott went one up at the 17th when Jim hit trouble, and then reached the putting surface, it looked all over but a three- putt by Scott took the match to extra holes, and he won through at the 21st with a good up and down from a greenside bunker. 
In the all-Braehead battle, Ross Benvie won easily against county boys' champion Rikky Alexander, and there was another titanic battle between experienced campaigner Steven Horne and Allan Watson. Watson won at the 20th.
Darren Hulston was three up after six against Ian Guthrie and won on the 15th. The in–form county captain Jamie Aitken cruised into the second round with a 5 and 3 win.
In the second round, Scott Moffat had another marathon, winning at the 23rd, and Braehead’s David Findlay recorded his second win by one hole.
 The Championship is completed this week with the semi-finals and final.

FULL RESULTS--- ROUND 1 (Braehead)

 Ross Benvie (Braehead) bt Rikky Alexander (Braehead) 5 and 3
 Jamie Aitken (Alloa) bt Sandy Douglas (Alloa) 5 and 3
 Allan Watson (Braehead) bt Steven Horne (Tulliallan) at 20th
 Scott Moffat (Braehead) bt Jim Muir (Braehead) at 21st
 Darren Hulston (Dollar) bt Ian Guthrie (Alloa) 4 and 3.
 Barry Cousins (Alloa) bt David Beaton (Braehead) at 19th
 Peter Shearer (Dollar) bt Michael Robertson (Alloa) 2 and 1. 
 David Findlay (Braehead) bt David Milloy (Alloa) 1 hole

ROUND 2  (DOLLAR)

 Aitken w.o. Benvie scr
 Moffat beat Watson at 23rd
 Hulston beat Cousins 2 and 1.
 Findlay beat Shearer 1 hole

 Semi-final line up, to be played at Tillicoultry


  Aitken v Moffat,   Hulston v Findlay.

Final at Alloa.

  LOCAL EVENT COMING UP

 June 9: Campbell Stoddart Trophy (Tulliallan)

   Regretfully Alloa had to cancel the Patton Trophy Mixed Foursomes last weekend (the Jubilee) due to lack of entries.

  
 


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KELLETT FINISHES WELL TO SHARE THIRD PLACE IN ALPS TOUR EVENT IN CARIBBEAN

Ross Kellett boosted his Alps Tour earnings to 8,121 Euros in his rookie pro season by finishing third in the Guadeloupe Open in the Caribbean on Sunday.
The Motherwell man, who had dropped to sixth after a third-round 73, came surging up the leaderboard again with a closing score of four-under-par 67 (32-35).
He started with an eagle 3 and addeded birdies at the fourth, sixth, 15th and 17th for a nine-under-par total of 275.
Kellett's earlier scores were 67 and 68.
The only other Scot in the field, another rookie, Kris Nicol (Fraserburgh), who won the Alps Tour Qualifying School several months ago, finished joint 34th on 292. He had rounds of 69, 73, 76 and 74.
Jack Senior (Heysham, Lancashire), a Walker Cup hero at Royal Aberdeen in September (team-mate Steven Brown from Wentworth tied with Kellett for third) chalked up his second Alps Tour win with an impressive 21-under-par 263. He had rounds of 65, 68, 64 and 66 to win by the runaway margin of 10 shots from Frenchman Thomas Fournier.
Senior leads the Alps Tour Order of Merit with earnings of 18,245 Euros. Kellett is now fifth on 8,121 Euros and Nicol is 24th on 2,848 Euros.

ALPS TOUR - GUADELOUPE OPEN
Guadeloupe, Caribbean
LEADING FINAL TOTALS
Par 284 (4x71)
263 Jack Senior (Eng) 65 68 64 66
273 Thomas Fournier (Fra) 71 70 68 61
275 Ross Kellett (Sco) 67 68 73 67, Steven Brown (Eng) 67 68 71 69
277 Thomas Linard (Fra) 67 70 70 70, Tom Sherreard (Eng) 67 70 68 72.

OTHER SCORE
282 Kris Nicol (Sco) 69 73 76 74 (T34)

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SCOTT HENRY FIINISHES JOINT THIRD ON CHALLENGE TOUR

FROM EUROPEAN TOUR COMMUNICATIONS
Spaniard Eduardo de la Riva claimed a memorable home victory in the Fred Olsen Challenge de España, firing a flawless closing round 65 at Tecina Golf in La Gomera.
De la Riva finished one stroke clear of Englishman Simon Wakefield with a winning total of 19 under par to claim his maiden Challenge Tour victory at the €160,000 event, while the total of 265 (-19) is the lowest winning score so far this season.
Beginning the day three shots behind overnight leader, Argentina’s Daniel Vancsik, de la Riva got his final round off to the perfect start with a 40 foot putt for three at the first before capitalising on both of the front nine’s par fives with further birdies at the third and seventh, before reaching the turn in 32 shots thanks to a superb bunker shot at the ninth.
A further two birdies followed on the back nine at the par four 12th and long 17th to complete a blemish free final offering from the 29 year old, and he was understandably delighted.
He said: "I started very calmly and holed a 12 meters putt to get me in the game, then I chipped close on the third for birdie and after that I just let my game go because I knew there would be birdie chances on the way.
“I felt very comfortable out there, especially with my putter. I started playing with it last week where I had two bad rounds but was not the putter’s fault. This one is going to stay in my bag for a while.
After so many years with belly and long putters now I feel I am a better player with the regular one.” 
De la Riva also spoke of overcoming a long-standing back injury and his ultimate aim of making it back onto the top tier of European golf.
“I’m not sure of my schedule now. I have been diagnosed with two disk protrusions in my back and I have to treat them, and then I will decide,” he said. “My goal has always been The European Tour. Since I got the card nine years ago I have grown up as a player, as a person and in every sense.
“Now everything is going perfect and I want to play. I made the right fitness preparation and it has worked. I have been close to a win on the main Tour a couple of times lately, I know I can trust on my game and trust myself, I just have to hole the putts the way I did today."
England’s Simon Wakefield narrowly missed out on victory on the Canary Island after following up a superb 63 in Saturday’s third round with a five under par 66 to fall one shot short of de la Riva.
"I made a slow start with a bogey where I made eagle yesterday so that was disappointing,” said Wakefield. “It was difficult to catch up so I settled down and let my experience not to rush and be patient and it came. I knew I needed to birdie the 18th to catch Eduardo but couldn’t. Overall I am very happy with the tournament."
Two shots further back were the trio of Scotland’s Scott Henry, Spain’s Luis Claverie and France’s Alexander Levy, while Englishman Charlie Ford had earlier shot a course record 61 – ten under par – a superb performance featuring 11 birdies and just the one bogey that propelled him 38 places up the leaderboard into a tie for sixth at 15 under par.
"That was my first course record in competition,” said Ford. “I felt really good. Yesterday I played very well from tee to green but terrible on the greens; today I tried to do the same but hole some putts and made all the short putts. I’m very happy".
Overnight leader Vancsik joined Ford and Italian Domenico Geminiani in a share of sixth place after closing with a one over par 72.

FINAL TOTALS
 Par 284 (4x71)
265 E De La Riva  (Esp) 68 63 69 65,
266 S Wakefield (Eng) 69 68 63 66,
268 S Henry  (Sco) 66 70 68 64, A Levy (Fra) 66 68 68 66, L Claverie (Esp) 66 65 71 66,
269 D Vancsik (Arg) 65 64 68 72, D Geminiani (Ita) 65 68 67 69, C Ford (Eng) 69 68 71 61,
270 S Garcia Rodriguez (Esp) 65 65 74 66, M Rominger  (Sui) 63 69 66 72,
271 N Kearney (Irl) 71 65 69 66, J Abbott (Eng) 67 67 67 70,
272 G Dear (Sco) 67 71 67 67, D Brooks (Eng) 69 67 68 68, S Jeppesen  (Swe) 69 66 71 66, I Elvira  (Esp) 73 67 70 62, M Lorenzo-Vera  (Fra) 66 66 71 69, A Maestroni  (Ita) 71 68 64 69, S Garcia (Esp) 67 64 68 73, B Evans  (Eng) 71 69 67 65,
273 A Hortal  (Esp) 70 66 68 69, J Hansen  (Den) 66 67 72 68, M Tullo (Chi) 68 69 69 67, M Ford (Eng) 70 68 69 66, J Garcia Pinto (Esp) 67 70 68 68,
274 M Kieffer (Ger) 71 66 67 70, M Cryer (Eng) 69 66 70 69, J Legarrea (Esp) 66 67 69 72,
275 C Aguilar  (Esp) 68 67 72 68, F De Vries  (Ned) 69 66 69 71, J Grillon  (Fra) 69 70 69 67,
276 R Echenique (Arg) 67 69 69 71, R Quiros  (Esp) 70 70 68 68, E Kofstad (Nor) 70 69 68 69, W Ormsby (Aus) 71 66 66 73, C Brazillier  (Fra) 68 71 67 70, J Busby (Eng) 66 68 70 72, L Saltman (Sco) 71 68 69 68,
 277 J Doherty  (Sco) 67 70 70 70, C Suneson (Esp) 70 67 72 68, S Tiley (Eng) 71 69 67 70, R Steiner (Aut) 68 71 69 69, M Glauert (Ger) 69 69 70 69,
 278 P Oriol (Esp) 68 69 69 72, F Calmels  (Fra) 71 69 69 69, C Garcia Simarro (Esp) 69 71 71 67, J Gibb (Eng) 67 70 69 72, S Davis (Eng) 71 68 69 70, C Moriarty (Irl) 69 71 68 70,
 279 O Whiteley (Eng) 68 71 70 70, N Dougherty  (Eng) 68 70 67 74, F Delamontagne  (Fra) 73 65 70 71, J Bragulat  (Esp) 72 67 67 73, P Edberg (Swe) 69 69 68 73, S Walker (Eng) 71 67 71 70,
 280 C Monasterio (Arg) 69 68 70 73,
 281 F Ojeda  (Arg) 71 67 73 70, C Russo (Fra) 69 69 70 73, B An (Kor) 68 69 72 72, M Delpodio  (Ita) 68 69 73 71, A Rota (Ita) 71 65 71 74,
 282 P Fendt (Aut) 69 68 70 75, A Perrino  (Ita) 71 69 68 74, S Benson (Eng) 74 65 74 69, T Whitehouse  (Eng) 70 68 72 72,
 283 G Houston (Wal) 68 67 77 71,
 286 S Piaget  (Mon) 74 66 75 71,
 287 R Hjelm (Den) 71 69 75 72,
 292 B Chapellan (Fra) 73 67 72 80,

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