DAVID LAW'S FLAWLESS 69 PUTS HIM THREE SHOTS OFF THE MOROCCO LEAD

By COLIN FARQUHARSON
Colin@scottishgolfview.com
Defending champion David Law closed to within three shots of the lead with a flawless four-under--par second round of 69 in the German PGA's Developmental Tour's Dar Es Salam Open at Royal Golf Dar Es Salam, Rabat in Morocco today.
Law made a brilliant start at the 10th hole on Day 2. He got an eagle 3 at the long 10th to put himself in the mood for the kind of round he needed to give himself a chance of a repeat victory.
He went on to get a birdie 2 at the short 11th and turned in three-under 34.
On his inward journey - the outward half of the Red Course - the Aberdonian, who plays out of the Paul Lawrie Golf Centre, had eight solid pars and a birdie 3 at the eighth for one-under 35.
Coupled with his opening par round of 73, Law will start the final round on four-under-par 142, three shots behind the Swiss leader Damian Ulrich who scored 72-67 for seven-under 139.
Law's team-mate Philip McLean from Peterhead missed the cut by three shots with rounds of 78 and 75 for 153. He had 15 pars, no birdies and two bogeys.

DAR ES SALAM OPEN
Royal Golf Dar Es Salam, Rabat, Morocco
LEADING SECOND-ROUND SCORES
Par 146 (2x73)
139 Damian Ulrich (Swi) 72 67
142 David Law (Sco) 73 69.
143 Francois Delamontagne (Fra) 71 72, Chris Movis (Bel) 72 71
144 Bernd Ritthammer (Ger) 74 70, Nuno Henriques (Por) 74 70, Daan Huizing (Net) 70 74, Ken Benz (Swi) 71 73, Ahmed Mariane Mor) (am) 72 72.
 
SELECTED SCORES
146 Darren Wright (Eng) 73 73

MISSED THE CUT (150 and better qualified for final round)
153 Philip McLean (Sco) 78 75.

   

SHAMASH TROPHY DRAW FOR SUNDAY AT PORTPATRICK DUNSKEY

ABBREVIATIONS:
                      W county        Wigtownshire County

                      N S                  NEWTON STEWART

                      PORT              PORTPATRICK DUNSKEY

                      STR                 STRANRAER

                      S NESS            SOUTHERNESS

                      DandG              DUMFRIES and GALLOWAY

                      DandC               DUMFRIES and COUNTY

                     LOCH              LOCHMABEN

                     POW                POWFOOT

                     THORN           THORNHILL

                      DBT               DALBEATTIE

                      KBT                KIRKCUDBRIGHT

                      PINES             PINES

                      WandB               WIGTOWN and BLADNOCH

 

08.00 and 12.30       W. Milby (w county)  C .Bennawith (N S)

08.08 and 12.38       C . Milby  ( w county)  S. Whannel    ( N S)

08.15 and  12.46

08.23 and 12.54

08.30 and 13.02     M   Robb (STR)   Rory Brunton  (Port)

08.38 and 13.10      R   Hughan (N S)   J McWilliam  (Port)

08.45 and 13.18      L   McColm   (Str)   F   Hughes  (N S)

08.53 and 13.26       Rory   Thompson (D and G)   S Fisher (Port)

09.00 and 13.34       R Murray (S Ness)  R Harries (W and B)  M McCullough (Port)

09.08 and 13.42        M Robinson  (W&B)   J McGhie  (Str)   S  McPhail (East Renfrewshire)

09.15 and 13.50        G  Cannon (W&B)    Gary  King (kbt)

09.23 and13.58        S  Gourlay  (Kbt)   I  Johnston (Glenluce)  B Smith (Dbt)

09.30 and 14.06      

09.38 and 14.14        C  Smith  (Dbt)  N Hamilton  (Pow)

09.45 and 14.22        M McNae   (Loch)  D McNeil  (Pow)  D  Samson (Loch)

0953 and 14.30          D Armstrong (Loch)   M Grunwell (Pow)   I Thomson (Pow)

10.00 and 1438          S Henderson (Loch)  I Inman (Pines)  L Carruthers (Pow)

10.08 and 14.54         C   Riddick  (S ness) JRG Lennox  (Loch)  C  Hill  (Pines)

10.15 and 14.54           B Scott (Loch)  R McBeth  (Pines)  B Burgess (D and G)

10.23 and 1502           P Watret (Pines)  C Shearman  (Loch)  A Scott (Thorn)

 10.30 and 15.10         I Reid  (D&G)   S Renwick  (Thorn)   J Mc Innaly  (Sness)

 10.38 and 15.18          G Hodgson (Sness)  A Makie  (Pow)   J Brown  (D and C)

10.46 and 15.26           D  Brodie  (Port) 

   For late entries phone G Sharp  01387 266122

CRAIG MATHESON IN FITNESS RACE FOR BLAIRGOWRIE ON APRIL 29

              CRAIG MATHESON .... fitness race for Glenmuir qualifier at Blairgowrie

        Image by Cal Carson Golf Agency 

FROM THE PGA WEBSITE
Former PGA Cup player Craig Matheson is facing a battle to be fit for the Glenmuir PGA Professional Championship Scottish qualifier at Blairgowrie Golf Club.
Matheson is due to be among a field of Scottish PGA professionals who will line up for the Peugeot-supported event on April 29 but is recovering from damaged ribs sustained in a gym mishap.
The Falkirk Tryst professional achieved the biggest moment of his career when he qualified for the Great Britain and Ireland PGA Cup team that was defeated by the United States in 2009.
And now he is hoping for another shot at making the team through the £78,000 Glenmuir showpiece final being held on June 11-14 at De Vere Slaley Hall in Northumberland where the PGA Cup will also be staged in September.
"I was in the gym a few weeks ago and working on a leg press and let the weights drop two quickly and ended up getting the rib injury," he said.
"I found out after that there was ligament damage too so I'll have to work hard to make sure that I'm ready in time.
"It'll be a shame if I can't make it. All this because I was actually trying to get into shape for the new season!"
"I knew the Glenmuir event would be coming early this season and I want to do well in it.
"Playing in the PGA Cup in 2009 has been the highlight of my career so far and I knew my form had to be good from the start.
"I've come close to qualifying for The Open Championship, but nothing has matched the PGA Cup, it was a fantastic experience."
Scott Herald ( Mearns Castle Golf Academy), Ken Hutton (Downfield Golf Club), Norman Huguet (Musselburgh Golf Club), Campbell Steven (Strathclyde Park Golf Centre) and three-time PGA Cup player and former Glenmuir champion Gordon Law (Uphall Golf Club) are among other players set to tee off at Blairgowrie.

TAIN VOTED 13th BEST GOLF CLUB FOR VISITORS IN SCOTLAND

NEWS RELEASE FROM TAIN GOLF CLUB

Tain Golf Club has received an accolade from Scottish golf magazine “Bunkered” for achieving 13^th place out of the top twenty golf clubs in Scotland. 
The competition was launched last year, in association with Visit Scotland. The purpose of the competition was to have members of the public identify which golf clubs and resorts across Scotland gave them the best golfing experience. They were not looking to create a list of the country’s top courses, rather to celebrate the places that put a smile on the faces of golfers from the moment of arriving to long after they had left.

Everyone who voted was asked firstly to pick the club that they believed offered Scotland’s best experience. They then had to score the club out of ten across six specific categories, friendliness, standard of food, quality of pro shop, quality of the course, quality of facilities and value for money. There were thousands of votes recorded.

Tain Golf Club was delighted to be placed ahead of some of the most prestigious courses in Scotland, Open venue Carnoustie, Cruden Bay and the Five-Star Resort at Fairmont St Andrews.

Mary Hayden, marketing convener for the club, said:

“It’s a fantastic result to find Tain Golf Club ranked so high. We have 

been working really hard as a club to improve our course and the 

service we provide especially when it has to be done on a very 

limited budget. It’s a great achievement and can only help promote

Tain and  the Highlands as a destination for golfers and holiday 

makers alike.”

ADAM SCOTT HAS SCOTTISH BLOOD IN HIS VEINS

By COLIN FARQUHARSON Colin@scottishgolfview.com New Masters champion Adam Scott's success at Augusta National brought golden memories flooding back for Aberdeen hotelier Stewart Spence. Mr Spence, pictured right, was chairman of the Doug Sanders world boys championship which was always played at an Aberdeen venue from the late 1980s until lack of funding from Aberdeen Town Council brought about its demise just a few years after Adam Scott won the Under-18s title at Newmachar in 1997. The Australian demonstrated his terrific potential as a teenager by winning the Doug Sanders world boys championship by eight shots with rounds of 71, 70, 70 and 70 for seven-under-par 281 over the Dave Thomas-designed Swailend course. Runner-up on 289 was Italy's Massimiliano Secci with Scott's Aussie team-mate Aaron Baddeley third on 291 (74-73-72-72). Scott and Baddeley won the tournament's team title for Australia by the runaway margin of 25 strokes ahead of runners-up Europe (Secci and Tim Nijeenhuis). Both players now live in America and play on the US PGA Tour. one but Adam is descended from Scottish stock who emigrated to Australia in the last Century. "I met Adam Scott and his dad at the Masters a few years ago,"recalls Stewart Spence. "His father remembered well the trip to Aberdeen as the Scott family originated from Scotland, only a couple of generations earlier. "It is great to see the 'Sanders Boys' continuing to do well over the years. Doug will be very proud!"

ADAM SCOTT IS CADDIE STEVE WILLIAMS' 14TH MAJOR CHAMPIONSHIP WINNER

FROM THE DAILY TELEGRAPH WEBSITE
By JONATHAN LIEW
Controversial Kiwi caddie Steve Williams has now carried the bag during 14 major championship wins, but Sunday's at the Masters was the one he truly earned.

It was Williams' read on Adam Scott’s crucial winning putt at the second play-off holethat decided the destination of the Green Jacket and the first Major of 2013.
Without Steve's input, both Scott and Angel Cabrera might have been back out on the course on Monday. 
“He was my eyes on that putt,” Scott, 32, said.

Despite previously winning 13 major titles, including three Masters between 1999 and 2011 with Tiger Woods, and caddieing for the likes of Peter Thomson, Ian Baker-Finch, Greg Norman and Ray Floyd, Williams declared this latest experience the best.

“The winning putt might be the highlight putt of my career,” the New Zealander said. The light was fading and the rain continuing to fall as Scott lined up his birdie putt at the 10th hole. 
Unable to read the break in the murky twilight, he summoned Augusta veteran Williams.

“I don’t get him to read too many putts,” Scott said. “I could hardly see the green in the darkness. He’s seen a lot of putts at this golf course. Somewhere he might have been able to recall that one.”

Scott thought the 12ft putt would break maybe one cup’s width from right to left. Williams disagreed. “We knew it was a right-to-left putt,” Williams said. “He said he thought it was a cup outside, but I told him it broke more than he thought. It was at least two cups outside the hole.”

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“Credit where credit is due for Steve Williams,” said Norman on Monday. “I could see Steve shaking his head. I said: ‘Steve’s overruling Adam on the read here, and rightly so.’ And then – boom – in it goes.”
Williams, 49, said: “To caddie for a friend for his first major is pretty special. To have the opportunity to caddie for the first Australian to win the Masters, I’m just so fortunate. ”
But after caddieing since he was 15 – a 35-year career that has made the New Zealander a multi-millionaire without ever having to swing a club – Williams admits he is looking forward to retirement. 
“As caddies, we all love the Masters more than any other,” he said. “But it’s a strenuous week. As much as I love coming here, I also can’t wait to leave. At some point in the near future, my career is going to end.”
There was genuine warmth between Scott and Williams as they high-fived on the 10th green. Yet canvass opinion inside and outside the game, and it is clear that Williams remains a deeply divisive figure.
More accurately, he is liked by a few and despised by many more. Some argue that you or I could have caddied Woods to major success in the 2000s. Others maintain he is a racist, citing his reprehensible comment about Woods in 2011.
The question worth asking, then, is what binds the disruptive Williams and the conciliatory, altogether more unassuming Scott? Perhaps it is a measure of Scott’s loyalty to his close friends. 
Perhaps Scott feels that the pair’s counter-intuitive dynamic generates a healthy creative tension. Or perhaps the answer is a good deal less complicated than that, and was demonstrated in the simple shake of a caddie’s head as a golfer lined up the most important putt of his life. 

EX-PR0 BARRY HUME BACK ON AMATEUR CIRCUIT AT CRAIL THIS WEEKEND

By COLIN FARQUHARSON Colin@scottishgolfview.com Former Walker Cup reserve and Scottish amateur champion at Downfield in 2001, Barry Hume is in the field for this week's Battle Trophy 72-hole SGU Order of Merit tournament, organised by Crail Golfing Society. Now 31, Hume is also understood to be among the entries for the Glasgow Golf Club's Edward Trophy tournament over 36 holes at Glasgow Gailes, Ayrshire on April 27.  The entry list for that event only closed yesterday and no draw has been published yet. A successful career as a tournament professional was forecast for the Haggs Castle Golf Club member when he left the amateur ranks but it never got off the ground and he was reduced to playing in events such as the American Hooters Tour, having failed to gain playing rights on the European Tour or the Asian Tour. Hume had an outstanding career as an amateur before he turned professional. In 1999, he won the Scottish boys' open stroke-play championship at Nairn Dunbar. In 2001, he beat Craig Watson by 5 and 4 in the 36-hole final of the Scottish amateur championship at Downfield. In the semi-finals, Hume beat Martin Laird. In the previous year's "Scottish," Hume had lost to eventual champion Steven O'Hara in the semi-finals at Royal Dornoch. In 2002, Hume won the Scottish amateur stroke-play title at Southerness.