IMPRESSIVE O'HARA WINS PIPEY YOUNG MASTERS BY FOUR SHOTS

Left to right in the Royal Dornoch clubhouse: Don Greenberg (sponsor), Dennis Bethune (club president), Paul O'Hara with trophy, Keir McNicoll, Greg Paterson, and Kenny Hutton (PGA Scotland captain). Pictures by Robin Wilson.

By COLIN FARQUHARSON

Colin@scottishgolfview.com

It will certainly be a Happy 27th Birthday for Paul O'Hara tomorrow (Tuesday). The Clydeway Golf, Uddingston assistant pro, in his first year of PGA training, followed up his recent success in the Scottish Young Professionals' Championship by winning the Sandy Pipey Young Masters title by four shots over the classic Royal Dornoch links today.
O'Hara, pictured, earned the £1,050 first prize with rounds of 70 and 66 for four-under-par 136.
In his first round, Paul had two birdies, two bogeys and 14 pars. In his second circuit, he eliminated the negative completely with 14 pars and four birdies, at the first, eighth, short 13th and 16th.
Runner-up on 140 was another former Scotland amateur internatonal, Keir McNicoll (Gullane), with scores of 71 and 69 for level par 140 for which he received £800.
The Carnoustie man birdied the short sixth, seventh and long 12th, but offset that with bogeys at the short 10th and 18th.
Greg Paterson (St Andrews Links Golf Academy) earned £650 for third place on 144 with rounds of 73 and 71.
He had the same amount of birdies (four) as the winner but had a costly run which saw him bogey the sixth and seventh before running up a double bogey at the eighth. He also bogeyed the 17th.
Two of the three female young professionals in the field, Emma Fairnie (Gullane) and former British women's amateur champion Julie (Hall) Otto (Elie Sports Centre) finished in the money.
Fairnie earned £155 for a total of 152 (78-74) while Otto slashed 11 shots off her opening effort (81) with a second-round 71 for 153 and a £118 payslip.
SANDY PIPEY YOUNG MASTERS
Royal Dornoch Golf Club.
TOTALS
Par 140 (2x70)
136 P O'Hara (Clydeway Golf) 70 66 (£1,050)
140 K McNicoll (Gullane) 71 69 (£800)
144 G Paterson (St Andrews Links Golf Academy) 73 73 (£650)
145 P Robinson (Largs) 76 69, C Marr (Musselburgh) 76 69, N Christie (Carnoustie Links) 72 73 (£458 each).
146 R McConnachie (Peterculter) 76 70, O Huish (North Berwick) 
75 71 (£387 each).
147 K Zeynalov (Paul Lawrie GC) 76 71, F Clarke (Newmacahr) 76 71, J Fraser (unatt) 73 74 (£325 each).
148 C Armstrong (Burntisland) 80 68, S McGrenaghan (Cochrane Castle) 75 73 (£262 each).
149 D Addison (Kilmarnock Barassie) 77 72, S Fay (Royal Dornoch) 77 72, C Robinson (Prestonfield) 74 75, D Flannery (Caldwell) 72 77 (£225 each).
150 R Munro (Duddingston) 78 72, T Dingwall (Nairn Dunbar0 74 76 (£195 each).
151 C Tortolano (Gleneagles Hotel) 77 74 (£180).
152 A Hutchison (Douglas Park) 79 73, P Betty (Hamilton) 78 74, K Moran (Balbirnie Park) 76 76, Emma Fairnie (Gullane) 78 74 (£155 each).
153 Julie Otto (Elie SC) 82 71, C Haugh (Linlithgow) 81 72, G Robertson (Airdre) 81 72, M Shaw (Whitecraigs) 75 78 (£118 each).
154 E Macpherson (Auchterarder) 81 73, C Brown (Carrick on Loch Lomond) 78 76, A Munro (Musselburgh) 77 77, G Smith (Gleneagles Hotel) 74 80, A McIntyre (Carrick on Loch Lomond) 75 79 (£41 each).
155 S Costello (Strathaven) 81 74, L Burnett (Mearns Castle) 769 76, J McBrearty (Haggs Castle) 79 76, M Thomson (Panmure) 73 81
156 R Leeds (Turnberry Hotel) 84 71, I Lowdean (Murrayfield) 84 72, J Mackay (North Gailes) 83 73, S Watters (Balbirnie Park) 82 74, C Lawson (Wellsgreen) 82 74, R King (Carrick on Loch Lomond) 81 75, R Penny (Kings Links) 79 77, C Porciani (Turnberry Hotel) 78 78, N Cameron (Hamilton) 76 80.
157 F Robertson (Elie SC) 77 80
158 G Nethercott (Deeside) 81 77, J Gallagher (Douglas Park) 79 79. R Stirling (Lanark) 78 80.
160 I Anderson (Colville Park) 81 79.
161 F Smith (unatt) 82 79, S Bissett (unatt) 81 80, R Holt (unatt) 79 82
1652 A McCandlish (Kingsbvarns0 82 80
163 A Todd (Prestwick) 78 85.
167 F Thomson (Turnberry Hotel) 83 84, T Poyser (unatt) 81 86
169 J Brown (Cathcart Castle) 90 79.
170 M Mackenzie (Edzedll) 94 76
171 C Dick (Royal Burgess) 87 84
175 G Wright (Ladybank) 92 83
179 Kirstin Scott (Gleneagles Hotel) 90 89.