NORTH EAST ALLIANCE TEE TIMES FOR WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 27

+There is no NE Alliance next week because of the Scottish Alliance championship - Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday - at Monifieth and Arbroath.

The next NE alliance competition is at Ballater on Wednesday, October 17. Here are the provisional tee times:

1 08:15 1 Watson, Keith Cassie, Charlie Leslie, Grant

Deeside Nigg Bay Newburgh-on-Ythan

2 08:22 1 McAndrew, Donald Munro, Gordon Clark, Fraser

Royal Aberdeen Fraserburgh Newmachar

3 08:29 1 Nicolson, John Allan, Graham Allan, Edd

Auchmill Newmachar Inchmarlo

4 08:36 1 Manson, Ritchie Brown, David Morgan, Lewis

Kemnay Kemnay Kemnay

5 08:43 1 ............................ ............................ ............................

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6 08:50 1 Taylor, Ian Mitchell, Graham Harling, Mike

Inchmarlo Braemar Inchmarlo

7 08:57 1 Prouse, L Dalgarno, John Nelson, Colin

Hazlehead Hazlehead Mackenzie golf

8 09:04 1 Roulston, Harry Rendall, Michael Prouse, Clair

Stonehaven Stonehaven Hazlehead

9 09:11 1 Hamilton, John Roger, Leslie ............................

Murcar Royal Aberdeen ................

10 09:18 1 ............................ ............................ ............................

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11 09:25 1 Lamb, Christopher Lamb, Robert Christie, Stephan

Newmachar Newmachar Default

12 09:32 1 Merchant, Manson Kennedy, Euan Paterson, George

Newmachar Newmachar Northern

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Start Sheet - North East Alliance

Game No. Start Time Tee

13 09:39 1 Brown, Raymond Brown, Mike Davidson, S

Newburgh-on-Ythan Newburgh-on-Ythan Northern

14 09:46 1 ............................ ............................ ............................

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15 09:53 1 Fleming, David Fowler, Les ............................

Portlethen Royal Aberdeen ................

16 10:00 1 Forrest, Jackie Stewart, Norman Gall, Alan

Northern Northern Deeside

17 10:07 1 Leslie, David Homer, Gary Shaw, Willie

Northern Northern Banchory

18 10:14 1 Lumsden, Ben Adams, Eric Chisholm, Neish

Northern Ballater Kemnay

19 10:21 1 Wright, Dick Cheyne, Peter McNaughton, Hamish

Northern Northern Cruden Bay

20 10:28 1 Forster, Martin Duncan, Jim Milne, Gordon

Cruden Bay Newburgh-on-Ythan Newburgh-on-Ythan

21 10:35 1 Winton, Mike George, David Lawrie, Donald

Caledonian Kemnay Inchmarlo

22 10:42 1 Jessiman, John Petrie, Alister Leech, Peter

Oldmeldrum Oldmeldrum Oldmeldrum

23 10:49 1 Duff, John Duncan, Keven Dunton, Adam

Newmachar McDonald McDonald

24 10:56 1 Grant, Ian Smith, Mike Brindley, Chris

Keith Inverurie Banchory

25 11:03 1 Bisset, David Murray, Jim Randall, Derek

Banchory Banchory Banchory

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Start Sheet - North East Alliance

Game No. Start Time Tee

26 11:10 1 Guthrie, Peter Parker, Nigel Smith, I.D.

Peterculter Murcar North east of Scotland Golfing

Alliance

27 11:17 1 Albiston, Mark Scott, Steve Rogers, Mike

Auchmill Auchmill Kemnay

28 11:24 1 ............................ ............................ ............................

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29 11:31 1 Lawrie, Mark Collie, Tommy Nelson, David

Kemnay Kemnay Aboyne

30 11:38 1 ............................ ............................ ............................

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31 11:45 1 ............................ ............................ ............................

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32 11:52 1 ............................ ............................ ............................

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33 11:59 1 ............................ ............................ ............................

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34 12:06 1 Nicol, Kris Reid, Nick Findlay, Jordan

Fraserburgh 19th Hole Fraserburgh

35 12:13 1 Finnie, Stewart Mckay, David ............................

Calidonian Calidonian ................

36 12:20 1 cornfield, Paul Nicolson, Brian Mackie, Scott

Auchmill Auchmill Auchmill

37 12:27 1 Wilson, David Booth, Mike ............................

Duff House Royal Kemnay ................

WEST OF SCOTLAND ALLIANCE REPORT
By MARGARET CARRELL
 

The West held their third outing of the year at Cathkin Braes Golf Club today.

Early morning rain did not dampen the golfers spirits on what ended up a very pleasant day’s golf.

Scratch winners were:

1^st Robert Jenkins, Crowwood, 68

2^nd Ian Robertson, Dalmilling, 69

3^rd equal  Hugh Burns, Troon Welbeck, John Fowler, Hayston & Len Grindrod , Cawder all  71

Handicap winners were:

1^st Dougie Martin, Crowwood, Gross 75 H/Cap 10 Net 65

2^nd equal James Kinloch, Cardross Gross 72 H/Cap 3 Net 69,

Peter Kinloch, Cardross, Gross 75 H/Cap 6 Net 69,

Hugh MaCartney, Cathkin Braes, Gross 76 H/Cap 7 Net 69

 and Michael McPherson, Dullatar, Gross 76 H/Cap 7 Net 69

Seniors winners were:

1^st John Greene, Cowglen Gross 84 , H/cap 12, Net 72

2^nd Andrew Sturton, Forrester Park, Gross 82, H/Cap 9 Net 73

Next event Thursday 18^th October at Dundonald

Regards

Margaret

DUNCAN STEWART TOP 10 FINISH IN ABU DHABI

Duncan Stewart was tonight rueing a nightmare first-round 78 in the second event on the MENAH Tour, the Abu Dhabi Golf Citizen Open at Saadiyat Beach Club, Abu Dhabi. Subsequent rounds of 67 and 69 enabled him to surge up the cosmopolitan field and finish tied eighth on 214. If he had shot sub-70 round at the first time of asking he would finished only one stroke behind the winner, England's Ross McGowan who had rounds of 68, 69 and 67 for 12 under par 204 to win the US$9,000 first prize. Murrayshall's Gavin Dear, the leading joint in a share of fifth place going into the final round, plummeted to joint 17th in the final standings after a disappointing 75 for level par 216. Greg Nicolson (Mortonhall) finished T33 after rounds of 73-72-74 for 219. Zane Scotland, the Englishman who won the first event on the MENAH Tour, finished T38 on 220 with scores of 74, 72 and 74. Welshman Stephen Dodd, the leader after 36 holes, cracked under pressure to sign off with a 77 - after earlier rounds of 66 and 67, to finish fifth on 212. MENAH TOUR - Abu Dhabi Golf Citizen Open Saadiyat Beach Club, Abu Dhabi LEADING FINAL TOTALS Par 216 (3x72) 204 Ross McGowan (Eng) 68 69 67 210 Roland Steiner (Aut) 68 69 73 211 Tyler Hogarty (Eng) (am) 68 72 71, Mitchell Slorach (Sing) 72 69 70 212 Stephen Dodd (Wal) 77 67 77 213 William Harrold (Eng) 75 67 71, Fredrik Quicker (Swe) 70 73 70 SELECTED TOTALS 214 Duncan Stewart (Sco) 78 67 69 (T8) 215 Simon Dunn (Sco) 73 69 73 (T12) 216 Gavin Dear (Sco) 72 69 75 (T17) 217 Patrick Walker (Eng) 73 72 72 9T22) 218 Steven Munro (Sco) 70 76 72, Callum Nicoll (Sco) 72 74 72 (T28) 219 Greg Nicolson (Sco) 73 72 74 (T33) 220  Zane Scotland (Eng) 74 72 74, Tom Buchanan (Sco) 72 72 76 (T38) 222 Clarke Lutton (Sco) 75 70 77 (T42) ends

KRIS NICOL WINS WITH 63 AT INCHMARLO

Fraserburgh's Kris Nicol spreadeagled the North-east Golfers Alliance field today  with an excellent round of seven-under-par 63 at Inchmarlo Golf Centre, Banchory. Nicol's bogey-free round was highlighted by an eagle at the 16th, backed up by birdies at the fifth and ninth in an outward 33 and also at the 11th, 13th and 17th in an inward 30 shots. Distant runner-up on 70 was Callum Trahan (Meldrum House) who would have finished three shots closer than he did but for a triple bogey 7 at fourth in halves of 38 and 2. Newmachar youngster Christopher Lamb was third with a 71 which included a hole in one at the 11th, an ace that earned him a £50 voucher bonus. Well played, Christopher! NORTH-EAST GOLFERS ALLIANCE Inchmarlo Golf Centre LEADING SCRATCH SCORES Par 70. SS 70. CSS 70 63 K Nicol (Fraserburgh) 70 C Trahan (Meldrum House) 71 C Lamb (Newmachar) 72 S McNeil (Inchmarlo), E Kennedy (Newmachar), K Duncan (McDonald Ellon) 73 J Findlay (Paul Lawrie Golf Centre), John Duff (Newmachar). 74 C Dempster (Inchmarlo), J Nicolson (Auchmill), S Mackie (Auchmill). 75 R Fitzpatrick (Inchmarlo), C Nelson (Mackenzie Shop), D Brown (Kemnay), B Nicolson (Auchmill).C 76 D Macandrew (Royal Aberdeen), P McLean (Paul Lawrie Golf Club), N Reid (unatt), G Munro (Fraserburgh). 77 K Beveridge (Inchmarlo), G Mitchell (Braemar), F Clark (Newmachar), K Watson (Deeside), D Bisset (Banchory). 78 A Dunton (McDonald Ellon), J Emslie (Royal Aberdeen), C Carnegie (Kemnay), S Finnie (Caledonian). 79 A Gall (Deeside), J Hamilton (Murcar Links), J Murray (Banchory), C Moir (Ballater), S Mann (unatt) 80 J Duncan (Newburgh), D Nelson (Aboyne), D Fleming (Portlethen), J Hopwood (Royal Aberdeen), M Harling (Banchory), G Paterson (Northern). 81 D Leslie (Northern), D Laing (Inverurie), Claire Prouse (Hazlehead), L Morgan (Kemnay), J Borthwick (Craibstone). 82 L Prouse (Hazlehead), P Cheyne (Northern), C Cassie (Nigg Bay) 83 L Fowler (Royal Aberdeen), P Guthrie (Peterculter), D Mackay (Newmachar) 84 D Wilson (Duff House Royal), I Taylor (Inchmarlo), S Thomson (Caledonain) 85 M Lawrie (Kemnay), W Shaw (Banchory), G Milne (Newburgh). 86 M Merchant (Newmachar), C Brindley (Banchory), M Forster (Cruden Bay), E Allan (Inchmarlo). 87 M Rendall (Stonehaven), N K Parker (Murcar Links), N Chisholm (Kemnay), J Dalgarno (Hazlehead). 88 G Homer (Northern) 89 M Smith (Invrurie), L Rogers (Royal Aberdeen), D Randall (Banchory), J Forrest (Northern). HANDICAP PRIZEWINNERS Class 1 - D Bisset (Banchory) (8), S Mackie (Auchmill) (5) 69; J Murray (Banchory) (9) 70; J Nicolson (Auchmill) (3) 71; D Laing (Inverurie) (9) 72. Class 2 - M Harling (Banchory) (11) 69; M Rendall (Stonehaven) (15) 72; S Thomson (Caledonian) (11) 73; N K Parker (Murcar Links) (13) 74; M Rogers (Kemman) (15) 75.

STEPHEN GRAY IS CHAMPION OF THE LINKS

Hayston's Stephen Gray won the £7,000 top prize in the Tomatin Single Malt 54-hole pro-am over three North of Scotland links courses - Royal Dornoch, Castle Stuart and Nairn. Gray had a three-under-par 67 at Royal Dornoch, a three-under-par 69 at Castle Stuart and a brilliant closing round of six-under 66 at Nairn for a grand total, a really grand total, of 12-under-par 202. Gray has put in many fine performances since he came to the forefront on the Tartan Tour. This must rank as just about his best for a sustained qualify of performance over three of the best links courses, not only in Scotland but in the world. Stephen bogeyed the first and then moved into top gear, covering the remaining holes in seven under par - birdies at the long second, long seventh, eighth - an eagle 3 at the long 10th, and birdies at the 15th and 17th. Great stuff! Banchory's Greig Hutcheon started the final day level with Gray but could not live with him over the final 18 holes which for Hutch were at Castle Stuart. He had a three-under-par 69 - covering his last 12 holes in four under par after bogeying the fourth and fifth - there after a 70 at Nairn and a 77 at Royal Dornoch to finished runner-up, beaten by three shots, on nine-under 205 - another quality performance. He earned £5.500. Graham Fox (Rowallan Castle) earned £4,200 for third place on 206 with scores of 69 at Nairn, 69 at Royal Dornoch and 68 at Castle Stuart for a total of 206. Paul McKechnie spearheaded the winning team effort of the "Geason" trio who had a Stableford points total of 255, scoring 85pt at each venue (two from three to count per holes). The winning amateurs were Ian Kilpatrick (handicap 9, Ian Leadbetter (8) and Daniel Reilly (9). TOMATIN SINGLE MALT 54-HOLE PRO-AM Castle Stuart, Royal Dornoch and Nairn links FINAL TOTALS Par 214 (Castle Stuart 72, Nairn 72 Royal Dornoch 70) 202 Stephen Gray (Hayston) 67 69 66 (£7,000). 205 Greig Hutcheon (Banchory) 70 66 69 (£5,500). 206 Graham Fox (Rowallan Castle) 69 69 68 (£4,200). 208 Chris Kelly (Cawder) 70 67 71, Jonathan Lupton (Close Hill) 72 69 67 (£3,225 each). 211 Jonathan Lomas (unatt) 71 68 72, Mark King (Kingsfield) 74 69 68, Gareth Wright (West Linton) 70 71 70, Philip Waugh (Close House) 70 70 71 (£2,050 each). 212 Greg McBain (Gamola Golf) 67 71 74 (£1,400). 214 Robert Arnott (Bishopbriggs) 76 67 71, Kenny Hutton (Downfield) 75 70 68 (£1,100 each). 215 Alan Lockhart (Ladybank) 73 71 71, Scott Henderson (Kings Links) 73 70 72, Elliot Saltman (Archerfield Links) 73 71 71 (£800 each) 216 Andrew Scrimshaw (Close House0 68 78 70, David Orr (Mearns Castle) 75 69 72, David Patrick (Elie SC) 76 70 70 (£600 each) 217 Gary Dingwall (Royal Dornoch) 73 70 74, Neil Fenwick (Dunbar) 69 75 73 (£475 each) 218 Peter Smith (Deeside) 71 74 73 Alan Reid (West Lothian) 74 75 69, Andrew Oldcorn (Kings Acre) 77 73 68 (£350 each). 220 Paul McKechnie (Braid Hills) 75 72 73 (£250). 221 Gordon Stewsart (Cawder) 73 72 76, Craig Ronald (Carluke) 77 75 69, Paul Wardell (Whitekirk) 70 74 77 (£66.67 each). 222 Malcolm Isaacs (Paul Lawrie Golf Centre) 73 74 75, James McKinnon (Irvine) 78 73 71. 223 Gary Murphy (Ireland) 74 77 72, AlanTait (Marriott Dalmahoy) 72 73 78, Stuart Morrison (Tain) 73 77 73, Graeme Brown (Montrose Links) 73 73 77, Chris Currie (Caldwell) 78 72 73 224 Jason McCreadie (Buchanan Castle) 74 71 79, Matthew Hazelden(Cottesmore) 78 76 70 225 Albert Mackenzie (Saunton) 80 73 73, Michael Bradley (Notts) 76 73 76, Ross Cameron (Saltire Energy) 78 68 79, Gary Forbes (Murcar Links) 74 77 74, Campbell Elliott (Haggs Castle) 76 75 74. 226 Stuart Kerr (Strathaven) 77 72 77, Murray Urquhart (Spey Valley) 72 76 78 227 Andrew Crerar (Panmure) 78 76 77 228 Fraser Cromarty (Castle Stuart) 78 75 75, Jonathan Cliff (Murrayfield) 76 75 77 229 Chris Campbell (Trump International) 79 72 78 230 Craig Everett (Caldwell) 77 78 75 231 Richard Reed (Notts) 76 77 78, Iain Colquhoun (Dundonald Links) 76 77 78 234 Thomas Dingwall (Nairn Dunbar) 79 76 79, Ron Walker (Lundin) 87 73 74 235 KenStrachan (Hardelot, France) 75 83 77 239 Gary Lister (Alness) 82 82 75 Disqualified - Jody Rostock (Carnegie Club);

CHALLENGE TOUR EVENT SWITCHED FROM ITALY TO COPENHAGEN

MEDIA RELEASE FROM EUROPEAN TOUR
The penultimate tournament of the European Challenge Tour season has been relocated and will now be titled the Crowne Plaza Copenhagen Challenge hosted by Royal Golf Club, taking place at the picturesque Danish venue.

The original venue, Poggio Dei Medici Golf Club in Tuscany, Italy, has been severely affected by a drought and despite the tireless efforts of staff, the high temperatures and lack of water in recent months have rendered the golf course unsuitable to host the Mugello Tuscany Open from October 18-21.

With only a fortnight to go until the tournament is due to begin, options for a replacement venue were limited, and the search for another course in Italy proved unsuccessful.

Royal Golf Club in Copenhagen, however, will provide the perfect setting to stage the final tournament in the battle for the 45 spots which qualify for the lucrative season-ending Apulia San Domenico Grand Final the following week.

The 96-strong field at the Crowne Plaza Copenhagen Challenge hosted by Royal Golf Club will comprise 85 Challenge Tour players and 11 national players.

Alain de Soultrait, Director of the European Challenge Tour, said: “We must thank the people at Poggio Dei Medici Golf Club, who stopped at nothing in their efforts to make the Mugello Tuscany Open happen.

“Unfortunately, through circumstances out of their control, the golf course was not fit to host an event of this stature. We look forward to returning next year for what is always a fantastic tournament.

“We are extremely grateful to Royal Golf Club in Copenhagen for stepping in at such late notice and providing an ideal replacement venue. We know that preparations have already begun and, having spoken to several Challenge Tour players familiar with the course, we are sure it will be above and beyond the standards that we set for our tournaments and will prove a great success.”

Morten Sundberg, CEO of Royal Golf Club in Copenhagen, said: “We are very honoured to be given this opportunity to host a Challenge Tour event and to support the Danish players in their quest for a European Tour card.

“We are sure all the players will enjoy not only our very challenging course and first class facilities, but also the fact that it is situated literally five minutes from the centre of the Danish capital, Copenhagen.”

It will be the second Challenge Tour event to be held in Denmark this season after the ECCO Tour Championship hosted by Thomas Björn and Mercedes-Benz in September, which was won by Italian Alessandro Tadini.

With three Danish players – Andreas Hartø, Joachim B Hansen and Morten Orum Madsen - currently in the top 20 of the Challenge Tour Rankings and Lasse Jensen just outside the cut-off point for a European Tour card for the 2013 season, in 21^st place, this year has been extremely fruitful for the Nordic nation on Europe’s top developmental tour.

ENDS

EUROPEAN TOUR CO

RYDER CUP - YOUR VIEWPOINT

FROM STEVE MORGAN

 

I like the current format of the Ryder Cup, but agree with Paul Lawrie comments that if everybody played every session then that would improve things, it must be frustrating for guys to wear the team colours for the pomp and ceremony and then not play until the last day - arguably the match could be over before a player gets the chance to make any sort of influence. On other matters I disagree with the home captain setting up the course to their liking though, not that I think it should be US Open style rough, but the non existence of any penalty for wayward driving at Medinah spoiled things for me a little bit this time around. In the first two days we saw the USA team drive it miles left or miles right only to find they had a great lie and a shot to the green, thats not really a great advert for golf - we all want to see huge drives and great birdies but not 50 yards off the fairway. The course should be set up as it would be for a normal tour event, to penalise bad shots as well as reward good.

 Finally I always find it dissappointing the a certain Mr Lyle has never beeen given the honour of captaining the team. He was one of the great European players of his era and all the others have been given the honour, but never Sandy.

 In this years Ryder Cup match much was made of Seve's inspiration and influence and rightly so, he was a remarkable character, but even in his words when everybody played their best game Sandy was the top man. I think if Sandy wants the job he should get it in his native land in 2014.

 

Steve Morgan

LANARKSHIRE COUNTY NEWS

Lanarkshire A   v   Stirlingshire  A  at Dunblane

On Sunday  October  7

    Robert Jenkins  Crow Wood                   

       Ross Hinshelwood  East Kilbride    

     Steven Rennie  Drumpellier            

    James Steven Bothwell Castle        

.    Alan Butler   Carluke                         

     Jamie Lamb  Lanark                          

      Kevin Loughrie  Cambuslang         

      Graham Cross  Kirkhill                    

      Scott Douglas  Strathaven              

            Mark Lutton  Bellshill             

Team Manager          

William Sharpe

Lanarkshire manager.....................................................