BIRTHDAY BOY GREG TIES WITH CHRISTOPHER AT BUCHANAN CASTLE

Aberdeen-based Greg McBain, pictured above, celebrated his 29th birthday in some style today (Saturday) by collecting a £1,042 prize for tieing for victory with Christopher Currie (Caldwell) as the leading pros in the Buchanan Castle pro-am.

McBain and Currie both shot six-under-par 64s, finishing two shots ahead of the field.

Greg, who represents Aberdeen golf store Gamola Golf on the Tartan Tour, posted his score with a superlative run of seven under par for his last 14 holes, during which he birdied the fifth, long sixth, short 10th, 11th, 12th, 14th and 15th.

Earlier he had bogeyed the second.

Currie proved that he too could be hot stuff when he returned a bogey-free cad with birdies at the short fourth, long sixth, short 10th, long 14th, 17th and 18th.
The team award went down to a card countback between two teams who both returns net 55s - Craig Matheson (Falkirk Tryst) team and that led by Montrose Links tour pro Graeme Brown.
Matheson's team won the countback. His amateur partners were Stewart McNeill (handicap 18), Colin McNaught (handicap 14) and Mark Blair (handicap 17). 

LEADING PRO SCORES

Par 70

64 Greg McBain (Gamola Golf), Christopher Currie (Caldwell) £1,042 each.

66 Paul McKechnie (Braid Hills), Craig Matheson (Falkirk Tryst) Graeme Brown (Montrose Links), Craig Ronald (Carluke) £495 each.

67 Jonathan Sharpe (Carrick on Loch Lomond), Chjristopher Russell (RAW Golf Course Design), Greig Hutcheon (Banchory), Graham Fox (Clydeway) £243 each.

69 Garry Forrester (St Andrews Golf School), Craig Gordon (Edinburgh Golf Centre), Mark Kerr (Marriott Dalmahoy), James McGhee (unatt) £156 each.

70 David Orr (Mearns Castle), Stephen Gray (Hayston) £121 each.

71 Paul Wardell (Whitekirk), Robert Arnott (Bishopbriggs), Steven Taylor (Bothwell Castle) £92 each.

72 Mark King (Kingsfield), Jason McCreadie (Buchanan Castle) £34 each.

73 Scott Henderson (Kings Links).

74 Iain Colquhoun (Dundonald Links), Grant Smith (Gleneagles), Neil Fenwick (Dunbar), Robert Collinson (Bearsden), Gordon Law (Uphall).