FRASER MANN GETS 17th CAREER HOLE IN ONE AT GLENCRUITTEN

By COLIN FARQUHARSON
Colin@scottishgolfview.com
Senior pro Fraser Mann did not win the individual event in the £15,000 Glencruitten Golf Club 36-hole pro-am at the Oban venue at the weekend but the drinks were on the Carnoustie man who plays out of Musselburgh Golf Club.
Fraser achieved the 17th hole in one of his long career with a No 6 iron at the 13th hole as he chalked up a two-over-par 64.
Local amateur Ally McLean also had a hole in one on Saturday - at the seventh, making a total of three holes in one over the 36-hole two-day event.
Mann's ace did help his D and K Lafferty trio of Michael Kelly, Keith McCallum and Finlay O'Rourke win the pro-am team event with a net total of 14-under-par 48.
They pipped in a scorecard play-off the China Restaurant team piloted by Heather MacRae (Gleneagles Hotel) who also hit the 48 mark.
Both pros earned £120.
In the main event Ian McNab (Dundonald Links) earned £1,600 for finishing joint first on 122, alongside the better know and far more experienced Stephen Gray (Hayston) and Robert Arnott (Bishopbriggs).
McNab followed up an opening 64 over the sporting par-62 course, which measures less than 5,000yd, with a four-under 58.

He was out in 30 and home in 28 with birdies at the first, eighth, 14th, 15th and 16th. He had one bogey, at the short seventh

Gray shot 60-62 with his second-round card featuring an outward half of 29 while Arnott scored 61-61, with six successive 3s in an outward 28 in the second round, to make it a three-way tie on two-under-par 122.

The trio finished a shot ahead of joint third placed James McGhee (unattached) and Jason McCreadie (Buchanan Castle), both of whom returned scores of 61-62 for 123 to earn £1,100 each.

Heather MacRae, the only female pro in the field, did well to finish joint ninth on 127, considering she ran up a 9 at the par-4 12th in her second-round 63. 

She earned £362 for that.

LEADING PRO TOTALS

Par 124 (2x62)

122 Iain McNab (Dundonald Links) 64 58, Stephen Gray (Hayston) 60 62, Robert Arnott (Bishopbriggs) 61 61 (£1,600 each)

123 James McGhee (uinatt) 61 62, Jason McCreadie (Buchanan Castle) 61 62 (£1,100 each)

124 Jonathan Lomas (Caprington) 61 63, Greg McBain (Gamola Golf) 60 64 (£725 each)

126 Graeme Brown (Montrose Links) 62 64, David Orr (Mearns Castle ) 65 61 (£512 each).

127 Heather MacRae (Gleneagles Hotel) 64 63, Calum Lawson (Kirkcaldy) 65 62, Graham Fox (Clydeway Golf) 62 65, Christopher Currie (Caldwell) 64 63 (£362 each).

128 Craig Ronald (Carluke) 65 63 (£300)

129 Andrew Marshall (Houston) 67 62, Campbell Elliott (Haggs Castle) 65 64, David Patrick (Kingsfield) 64 65 (£250 each)

130 Craig Gordon (Edinburgh GC) 65 65, Mark King (Kingsfield) 66 64, Stephen McAllister (Renaissance Club) 68 62 (£175 each).

131 Christopher McMaster (Panmure) 63 68 (£125)

132 Fraser Mann (Musselburgh) 68 64, Keir McNicoll (Gullane) 66 66 (£125 each).

133 Christopher Russell (RAW golf course design) 63 70, Scott Herald (Mearns Castle) 68 65 (£125 each).

134 Craig Matheson (Falkirk Tryst) 66 68, Jonathan Sharp (Carrick on Loch Lomond) 69 65, Paul Robinson (Largs) 67 67 (£125 each)

135 Russell Weir (Cowal) 72 63 (£125)

136 Grant Smith (Gleneagles Hotel) 65 71, Jamie Fraser (unatt0 65 71 (£125 each)

137 Ross Dixon (Renaissance Club) 72 65 (£125)

138 Joseph McBrearty (Haggs Castle) 71 67 (£125)

140 Paul Wilson (Cawder( 67 73 (£125)

142 Stuart Reekie (Royal Troon) 67 75, Matthew Galley (Gleneagles Hotel) 71 71, Paul Gallacher (Bearsden) 73 69 (£125 each)(

143 Christopher Brown (Carrick on Loch Lomond) 70 73 (£125)

144 David Nicoll (Dundonald Links) 71 73 (£125)

152 Iain Nicholson (Kilmacolm) 75 77 (£125).