BRITISH AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP QUALIFYING SCOREBOARD

Seven  Scots from around 30 entries from this side of the Border are among the 72 players with 36-hole aggregates who have qualified for the match-play stages of the British men's amateur championship after the stroke-play eliminator at Royal Cinque Ports and Princes.
They are headed jointly by Scott Gibson (Southerness) and Graeme Robertson (Glenbervie) who share third place on141, one shot behind the joint leading qualifiers, Craig Hinton (Oxfordshire) and Adrian Meronk from Poland.

LEADING QUALIFIERS
Par 143 (72 71)
140 Craig Hinton (Oxfordshire) 73 67, Adrian Meronk Poland) 72 68.
142 Scott Gibson (Southerness) 73 68, Graeme Robertson (Glenbervie) 71 70.
142 Mads Soegaard (Denmark) 70 72, Paul Barjon (France) 74 68, Richard James (Aberystyth) 73 69, Paul Dunne (Greystones) 77 65, Brett Drewitt (Australia) 72 70.
143 Neil Raymond (Corhampton) 72 71, Jimmy Mullen (Royal North Devon) 75 69, Niclas Carlsson (Sweden) 72 71, Max Orrin (North Foreland) 73 70, Jack Hume (Rathsallagh) 71 72, Callum Shinkwin (Moore Park) 75 68, Haraldur Franklin Magnus (Iceland) 72 71.
144 Zander Lombard (S Africa) 76 68, Charlie Bull (Lake Nona) 70 74, Callan O'Reilly (Australia) 74 70, Cameron Smith (Australia) 74 70, Clement Sordet (France) 74 70, Aaron Kearney (Castlerock) 73 71, Zander Culverwell (Dunbar) 74 70.
145 Cormac Sharvin (Ardglass and Stirling U) 72 73, Benjamin Rusch (Switzerland) 74 71, Jordan Zunic (Australia) 75 7, Thomas Elissalde (France) 72 73, Fraser McKenna (Balmore) 73 72, Robbie Van West (Netherlands)73 72.

OTHER SELECTED QUALIFIERS (147 and better qualified)
146 Grant Forrest (Craigielaw) 72 74, Adam Dunton (McDonald Ellon) 74 72 (T30)
147 Eamon Bradley (Mount Ellen) 74 73, Mathias Eggenburger (Switzerland and Stirling U) 75 72.

SCOTS WHO MISSED THE CUT
148 Conor O'Neil (Pollok) 77 71, Greig Marchbank (Dumfries and Co) 77 71, Gordon Stevenson (Whitecraigs) 77 71 (T73)
149 James White (Lundin) 74 75, Bradley Neil (Blairowrie) 78 71, Daniel Young (Craigie Hill) 75 74 (T88)
150 Jack McDonald (Kilmarnock Barassie) 79 71, Anthony Blaney (Liberton) 77 73, Jamie Savage (Cawder) 76 74, Craig Howie (Peebles) 74 76.
 151 Chris Robb (Meldrum House) 77 74, Ewan Scott (St Andrews) 78 73, Scott Crichton (Aberdour) 79 72, Jordan McColl (Scotscraig) 73 78 (T132)
152 Ross Bell (Downfield) 80 72, James Ross (Royal Burgbess) 75 77
153 Neil Henderson (Renaissance) 79 784, Lawrence Allan (Alva) 73 80 (T190)

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ABERDEEN PENNANT LEAGUE SCOREBOARD

SPONSORED BY THE CULTS HOTEL

BON ACCORD 2, PORTLETHEN 3

Venue: Kings Links

Mat Greig and G Somers lost to S Lawrie and S Kiloh 4 and 3.

B Edmond and Mark Greig bt Ryan Donaldson and Keith Horne 3 and 2.

M Dunn and G Mitchell bt Stephen Cook and Robbie Murdoch 1 hole

D Grieve and P Coutts lost to Lewis Shand and K Daglish 5 and 4.

W Smith and S Murphy lost to C Brechin and G Innes 2 and 1.


HAZLEHEAD 2, CALEDONIAN 3
Venue: Hazlehead
D Ogston and S Main bt R Pirie and B Reid 2 and 1.
M Winton and L Prouse lost to A Doig and D Oliver 5 and 4.
K Ross and I Murray lost to S Finnie and A Strath 1 hole.
S Robertson and M Allan lost to S Smith and R Rimmer 2 and 1.
A K Pirie and A Macklin bt G Meade and C Gellie 5 and 4.

KINTORE WIN FUN DAY AT CLUBGOLF SCOTTISH HYDRO CHALLENGE

NEWS RELEASE

Sixty ClubGolf volunteers got the chance to experience being a tour professional for the day by taking part in the eighth annual ClubGolf Scottish Hydro Challenge Pro-Am at Macdonald Spey Valley Golf and Country Club.

Playing alongside an impressive field of distinguished European Challenge Tour players ahead of this week’s Scottish Hydro Challenge, 20 teams of three ClubGolf volunteers were welcomed to the Highland venue as a reward for their on-going commitment to Scotland’s junior golf programme.

Kintore Golf Club, represented by Iain Campbell, Graeme Lamont, and Neale Watson, and accompanied by American pro Daniel Im, emerged victorious on the day with a fine better-ball score of 59.

That tally was just good enough to edge out Nairn Dunbar for the first prize of a week-long stay at the Macdonald La Ermita Holiday Resort on the Costa del Sol by a single shot.

The Highland trio were suitably consoled with the generous runner-up prize of an overnight, bed and breakfast stay with golf at Macdonald Spey Valley G and CC, also donated by Macdonald Hotels.

They were followed closely in third by Dufftown who pipped both Stonehaven and Grange, fourth and fifth respectively, with a  stunning better inward half of 28.

Although they wrapped up the title in style with an 11-under-par total, things got off to a less than smooth start for the Kintore team, as they were left waiting on the first tee for their accompanying pro, who underestimated the travelling time from Edinburgh to Aviemore.

Arriving in just the nick of time, and after many of the other teams had already completed their first hole, Im stepped straight from car to tee and led his team to victory, challenging the notion that failing to prepare is preparing to fail.

“It was my first trip to Scotland and I had no idea how far Aviemore was from Edinburgh,” Im explained.

“We left at 10am but there was a construction on the [Forth Road] Bridge and we were stopped for a while and there were a lot of other constructions, so it took a while.”

During their round, all volunteers were given the opportunity to discuss the benefits of ClubGolf with their professional, and Im was just as impressed with Scotland’s national junior programme as he was with the golf of his playing partners on the day.

He added: “I had a lot of fun today. My partners were nice enough to wait for me, so it’s good that it turned out that we won. They’re all good players – that’s why we won. I didn’t play well today, I was late and I was stiff but these guys played good.

“From what the guys told me, I think ClubGolf is great. It’s great that you have these coaches for the kids and it’s great that they start early because it also teaches discipline.

“I was brought up that way. I had a coach and learned a lot through him and I turned out to be OK. It’s good for the kids and good for the future. I think these guys do a great job.”

The Kintore volunteers were equally full of praise for the example set by Im on the course and were pleased to have the chance to watch a tour player apply his trade, as he prepared for one of the major events of the European Challenge Tour season, played over the same course, from Thursday 

Kintore ClubGolf coach Campbell said: “We had a great day, the sun was shining and we were well treated with a bacon roll and coffee on arrival. We had to wait on our pro but he was well worth waiting for because he played well and was great company. We had a really fantastic day.

“It’s nice to rub shoulders with the pros because we all want to play like them. We don’t but we like to try and that’s the thrill for us, playing with the guys that are the top players and stars of the future.

“We have a guy at Kintore, Gael Carlier, who does a lot for ClubGolf and Fiona McLaren, she does a power of work too. Gael is the reason that I am here today because he is the one who introduced me to ClubGolf, so a big thank you to them as well!”

ClubGolf is indebted to the time and effort given by its volunteer coaches and the ClubGolf Scottish Hydro Challenge Pro-Am serves as thanks from ClubGolf in return for all of their work.

As ClubGolf Manager Jackie Davidson explained, the programme would not be possible without the involvement from these generous individuals. She said: “Today was a great opportunity for ClubGolf to say a big thank you to all of our volunteer coaches, without whom junior golf in Scotland wouldn’t be the success that it is.

“It is fantastic that we are able to invite 60 of these very important individuals to play such a terrific golf course and I’m sure they all had a fantastic day.

“Thank you to EventScotland and the European Challenge Tour for their continued support in creating a fabulous day for our coaches during the busy tournament week of the Scottish Hydro Challenge.”   

SCOREBOARD

ClubGolf Scottish Hydro Challenge Pro-Am

 Professional named first

59 KINTORE (Daniel Im, Neale Watson, Graeme Lamont, Iain Campbell)

60 DUNBAR (Darren Wright, Alan Finlay, Shaun Innes, Jim Gib

61 (better inward half) DUFFTOWN ( Duncan Stewart, David Smith, Robert Morrison, Derek Kelman)

61 STONEHAVEN (Dodge Kemmer, Barry McGillivary, Callum Mitchell, Neil Irvine).

61 GRANGE (Alan DUNBAR, Ron MacDonald, Andy McLaren, Bill Miller)

61 AIGAS (Rhys Enoch, Steve Sandilands, Calum McIntryre, Fiona Rice)

61 MUIR OF ORD (Jamie Abbott, Stewart Gillies, Norma Scrimgeour, Brian Davidson)

61 KINGSKNOWE (Wallace Booth, Gill Petrie, Mary Davidson, Graham Muir)

62 EAST KILBRIDE (Mark Kerr, Michael Law, David McEwan, Forbes Roulston)

 62 PITLOCHRY (Paul Doherty, Colin Milne, John Seaton, Bert Mackay)

64 McDONALD ELLON (Oliver Bekker, Michael Keith, Les Milne, Greg Reid).

65 ROSEHEARTY Ross KELLETT, Sandra Ross, Pearl Bartlett, Douglas Allan)

65 SALIGA (Callum Trahan, Nicol McNair, William Edgar, Brian Cowan)

65 WESTHILL (Jack Doherty, John Boyd, Joyce Boyd, Robert Gordon)

65 ROYAL DORNOCH (Chris Kelly,  Denise McBride, Moira Rennie, Fiona MacDonald)

16 Byeong-hun AN, Marion Downie, Suzanne Smith, Fiona MacPhee, Old Ranfurly - 66

17 Gavin DEAR, Kevin Chapman, Douglas McCarroll, Norman Taylor, Balbirnie - 67

18 Neil FENWICK, Stewart Cameron, Michele Abel, Frank Kelly, Bridge of Allan - 67

19 Shaun MCALLISTER, Angela Ford, Mike Turner, Willie MacKenzie, Ullapool - 68

20 Michael STEWART, Alan Greensheilds, Hazel Carpenter, Gareth Jack, Lothianburn - 68

 

NEIL RAYMOND SEEKING HISTORIC HAT-TRICK IN BRABAZON TROPHY

NEWS RELEASE FROM ENGLAND GOLF
Neil Raymond will make history if he can win the Brabazon Trophy for the third successive year when he defends the title at Formby Golf Club in Lancashire from June 26 to 29.
No player has completed a hat-trick of English Men’s Open Stroke Play Championships, the Brabazon’s official title, but Raymond (Corhampton, Hampshire) has the opportunity to do just that having triumphed at Burnham and Berrow in Somerset in 2011 and at Walton Heath 12 months ago.Now 27, Raymond has indicated this will be his final year as an amateur and nothing would give the long-established England international greater pleasure than to add another milestone to Brabazon history.Several players have won two-in-a-row while others have succeeded on four occasions but not consecutively. Philip Scrutton won three times in four years back in the 1950s, while Sir Michael Bonallack also has four titles but they were achieved between 1964 and 1971.“It would be fantastic to make it three-in-a-row,” says Raymond. “But I’m not going to put pressure on myself by thinking about it. I’m just going to treat it like last year and just like any other major tournament.”Raymond has found form at the right time. His recent victory in the St Andrews Links Trophy shows he could be peaking at the right time although he has never played Formby.“Many people have told me it is really good so I’m looking forward to going there and to get out and practise,” he adds. “I knew a win was close when I went to Scotland. I had a torrid time in Ireland and got blown off the course while I unfortunately made nine in the second round of the Lytham. But winning something like the Links Trophy builds confidence.”Raymond begins his defence at 1.20pm on the opening day alongside Sam Dodds (Coventry, Warwickshire) and boy cap Robert Burlison (Oxley Park, Staffordshire) and knows he will have to fight off his England colleagues as well as a host of talented golfers from home and abroad.This year’s field of 150 players contains all ten members of the England team that lost narrowly to Spain last month, as well as many boy internationals along with the top ten in the current Titleist/Footjoy England Golf Order of Merit.Raymond is the current leader of that ahead of Callum Shinkwin (Moor Park, Hertfordshire), winner of the South American Amateur Championship and the Hampshire Salver along with two runners-up spots. But Raymond’s greatest threat could come from another England team-mate in Garrick Porteous (Bamburgh Castle, Northumberland), third on the merit list and winner of the recent Scottish Open Stroke Play Championship.Nathan Kimsey, 20, (Woodhall Spa, Lincolnshire), currently fourth on the Order of Merit, is enjoying a successful year having won the Terra Cotta Invitational in Florida following three runners-up finishes in Australia, while he was second to Raymond at St Andrews.Max Orrin (North Foreland, Kent), fifth on the merit list, is also likely to contend following his back-to-back victories in the South East of England Links Championship and the Lagonda Trophy, while he was another runner-up to Raymond at St Andrews.Reigning English champion Harry Ellis (Meon Valley) is also in the field as are a number of junior internationals including Marco Penge (Worthing, Sussex), current leader of the England Golf Boys Order of Merit, following his victory in the Fairhaven Trophy.Local interest will lie with host club players Paul Kinnear, a boy international and former Lancashire boy champion, and James Bolton, while other players from Lancashire include Henry Tomlinson (Royal Lytham), runner-up to Ellis in last year’s English Amateur, Sean Towndrow (Southport and Ainsdale) and Michael Hunt (Pleasington).The other Home countries are well represented as are internationals from France, Germany, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Turkey and South Africa. The Welsh caps include Luke Thomas, Henry James and Alastair Jones, Scottish hopes lie with Jack McDonald, Fraser McKenna and Graeme Robertson while Irish caps include Brian Casey and Geoff Lenehan. Two qualifying competitions were staged last month with 30 players from each joining those who were exempt. Bobby Twiner (The London Club, Kent), Billy Britton (Pedham Place, Kent) and Edward Holland (Hartley Whitney, (Hampshire, IoW & CI) tied first in the Southern event at Enmore Park, Somerset, while Burlison and Jack Yule (King’s Lynn, Norfolk) shared top spot in the Northern qualifier at Pleasington.Formby has staged the Brabazon Trophy on three previous occasions. In 1951, Ronnie White was crowned champion, while 1965 saw a three-way tie between Michael Burgess, Clive Clark and Dudley Millensted. Then in 1998, the title was lifted by Swedish Ryder Cup player Peter Hanson.
The Brabazon has been won by other famous players including Sandy Lyle and Peter McEvoy and in 2002 by South Africa’s Charl Schwartzel, the 2011 US Masters champion.
Play begins at 7am on the first two days and 7.30am on the last two and admission is free. For those unable to attend, live scoring and news updates will available on the Championships Section of the England Golf website, www.englandgolf.org.
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SOUTHERNESS WIN KIRKCUDBRIGHT TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP

 

 

The Kirkcudbrightshire Team Championship was played on Monday evening at New Galloway.  Seven teams out of a possible 

eight  took part with the six best players from each club competing.  The course was in excellent condition and the main problem facing the players were "midges".  

Leading almost right to the end were the home team from New Galloway but the trophy was snatched from them when Ross Murray, finishing almost in the dark, came in with a 68 to clinch the championship for Southerness.  

All the players enjoyed an excellent meal after playing and the President Norman Russell (pictured) presented the winning team with their trophy.

The team scores were;

1 Southerness 284

2 New Galloway 287

3 Castle Douglas 294

4 Kirkcudbright 295

5 Dalbeattie 295

6 Gatehouse 297

7 Brighouse Bay 370.

Individual scores:

Scratch

68 Ross Murray(Sou)

69 Jonathan Dale (NG),  Dick Tulloch (NG) 

Handicap 

63 Ian Brown (NG) (9) 

63 Dick Tulloch (NG) (6)

63 Stuart Jamieson (NG) (12)

65 Jonathan Dale (NG) (4)

65 K Adams (Dal) (5)

JOHN HENRY INVITATIONAL - SEPTEMBER 30 - A DATE FOR YOUR DIARY

The John Henry Invitational

30/9/2013

 Bank Holiday Monday!!

Clydebank and District Golf Club

                                     Four-man Team Event

Yellow Ball Comp

On Course Prizes Nearest the Pin, and Long Drive and Beat the Pro

£100 to enter a team

(entry fee includes a 2 course meal)

Hole sponsorship available for £30

To enter a team or enquire about sponsoring a hole please call John on 07833918042 or email johnhenry92@hotmail.co

MILLER BARBER, THE MAN WITH THE UNORTHODOX SWING, DIES AT 82

FROM THE GOLFWEEK WEBSITE
Miller Barber, who made the most combined starts in the history of the PGA and Champions tours, died June 11, according to the US PGA Tour. He was 82. No cause of death was disclosed.
Barber had battled health issues in recent years. He had three bouts with pneumonia during the past winter and had been hospitalised at the Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale, Arizona, where in April he began undergoing chemotherapy sessions to treat stomach cancer.
“Golf has lost a great man and competitor,” Tour commissioner Tim Finchem said.
Born March 31, 1931 in Shreveport, La., Barber graduated from the University of Arkansas in 1954 and turned professional in 1958. He joined the US PGA Tour a year later, but failed in his first couple of attempts to make a living as a touring pro. Jim Ferree, who partnered with Barber to win the Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf Demaret Division in 2002 and '03, remembered the time he was paired with Barber at a tournament in New Orleans.
“Miller had played so terrible," Ferree said. "I’ll never forget, we were walking in to get something to eat afterwards and Mike Souchak put a friendly hand on his shoulder and said, ‘Son, you need to find yourself a new job someplace.’ ”
Through hard work and sheer tenacity, Barber perfected his unorthodox swing – once described as an octopus falling out of a tree – and went on to make a combined 1,297 starts on the US PGA and Champions tours.
“He became a wonderful driver of the ball and long-iron player, and he always was a wonderful putter,” said Don January, a friend and rival since their college days.
The late Sam Snead once said that Barber had the best balance of any player he’d ever seen. “That’s quite a statement right there,” Ferree said.
Barber, who didn't bother with a practice swing, notched his first of 11 US PGA Tour titles at the 1964 Cajun Classic Open Invitational and won 24 times on the Champions Tour, including three U.S. Senior Opens. He held the 54-hole lead at the 1969 U.S. Open, but shot 78 in the final round.
One off-season, January said they tried to remake Barber’s swing by taking the club back more inside and ridding Barber of the distinctive loop in his backswing. Barber worked hard at it, to no avail.
“He was the only one who could swing the way he did,” January said.
It worked. From 1963 until 1979, Barber finished among the PGA Tour’s top 60 money winners. When January arrived on what was then known as the Senior Tour in 1980, followed a year later by Barber, it was billed as the second coming of Frank and Jesse James. As a senior, Barber won at least one tournament every year from 1981 to 1989.
Barber kept on playing. It was all he knew. At the twilight of his career, Barber went to Jack Burke Jr. for a lesson. In his twangy, Texas tenor, Barber asked, “What do you think?”
Burke answered a question with a question of his own. “Do you have a hammer in the house?”
Barber said he did, drawing another peculiar question from Burke: “Do you have any big nails?” he wondered.
“Here’s what you do: When you go back home, you go to the hardware store and get yourself one or two nails and then go out to your garage and find a real good 2-by-4 post and take that hammer and that big nail and drive it in there real good and hang your bag up on it,” Burke said.
This was Burke’s unique way of saying it was time to call it quits. Barber took Burke’s words to heart. He played 10 events in 2004 and never made another official start on the Champions Tour.