JOHN DUFF WINS NORTH-EAST ALLIANCE AT INVERALLOCHY

By COLIN FARQUHARSON
Colin@scottishgolfview.com
Newmachar +2 amateur John Duff scored his third win of the North-east Golfers' Alliance season with a par round of 63 over the short winter course at Inverallochy today.

Duff, pictured, who also tied for first with Craig Lawrie at Kemnay on September 18 and won outright the Montrose fixture on November 20, finished a shot ahead of two players from the Paul Lawrie Golf Centre stable, Northern Open champion David Law and Philip McLean (Peterhead) and Law's regular tour caddie, Elie-based Keith Shanks.
Duff collected a £100 amateur voucher for his good effort on a day when a Buchan breeze meant that
nobody in the field of 74 was able to beat the par of 73.
Duff, who had a pro playing partner in Colin Nelson today, said:
"My round was pretty steady. After bogeying the first from just short of the green and then hitting a wedge close on the fourth for birdie, I felt like I parred virtually every hole after that (a couple holes near the end were difficult to tell if they were par 3s or 4s). 
"I did three-putt the 11th but I then made a birdie 2 at the next hole."
Alliance joint secretary Dave Wilson (Duff House Royal), making a comeback to the playing side of the game, had his lowest net score for many a long day - a 60 off seven of a handicap - to win Class 1 by a stroke.
David Lane (Deeside) won Class 2 with a net 57 off 11.

HANDICAP PRIZEWINNERS
Class 1 - D Wilson (Duff House Royal) (7) 70; C Duffus (Kemnay) (5) (bih), M Duncan (Murcar Links) (7) 61; S Mackie (Auchmill) (3) 62; D Mackay (Caledonian) (9) 63.
Class 2 - D Lane (Deeside) (11) 57; P Walker (Cruden Bay) (12) 59; M Booth (Kemnay) (13) (bih), J Scott (Peterculter) (10) 61; J Jessiman (Oldmeldrum) (14) 62.

LEADING SCRATCH 
Par 63
63 John Duff (Newmachar)
64 P McLean (Paul Lawrie GC), D Law (Paul Lawrie GC), K Shanks (Elie).
65 S Finnie (Caledonian), S Kiloh (Portlethen), S Mackie (Auchmill), N Young (Insch).
66 B Main (Murcar Links), C Lawrie (Paul Lawrie GC), C Duffus (Kemnay), A Dunton (McDonald Ellon), Justin Duff (Fraserburgh).
67 C Nelson (Mackenzie Shop), D Wilson (Duff House Royal), M Duncan (Murcar Links).
68 A J Smith (Turriff), D McDougall (Auchmill).
69 A Gall (Deeside), G Watson (Meldrum House), D Leslie (Northern).
70 J Duncan (Newburgh), C Grant (Paul Lawrie GC), B Fyfe (Paul Lawrie GC).

DRAW FOR MURCAR LINKS
NEXT WEDNESDAY
8.15 C Cassie, A J Smith, B Harper, P Morrison.
8.23 B Fyfe, S Lawrie, C Grant, free.
8.31 C Law, D Law, K Shanks, N Macandrew.
8.39 A Duncan, G Watson, J Booth, free.
8.47 J Hamilton, L Roger, M Rendall, H Roulston.
8.55 R Masson, J Scott, M Winton, S Thomson.

9.03 M Brown, R Brown, S Davidson, D Lawrie.

9.11 A Gall, L Vannett, C Nelson, N Young.
9.19 J Hopwood, C Adam, Laura Murray, K Beveridge.
9.27 K Zeynalov, R Mitchell, S Kiloh, C Dempster.
9.35 L Fowler, A K Pirie, J W Johnston, B Main.
9.43 N Stewart, J Forrest, P Leech, free.
9.51 B Lumsden, P Cheyne, C Redman, P Walker.
9.59 P Craig, B Lawrie, R Orr, G Thom.

10.07 J Findlay, C Lawrie, K Nicol, P McLean.

10.15 A Clark, W Skene, R Duncan, D Lane.
10.23 R McRae, M Smith, A Graham, D Nelson.
10.31 W Shaw, G Homer, B Leslie, H McNaughton.
10.39 J Jessiman, I Grant, M Rogers, free.

10.47 J Duncan, G Milne, D Fleming, J Emslie.

10.55 D Brown, T Collie, T Dingwall, free.

11.03 D Bisset, F Bisset, J Murray, free.

11.11 S Finnie, D McKay, M Booth, free.

11.19 G Allen, J Nicolson, B Nicolson, J Borthwick.

11.27 John Duff, M Merchant, R Lamb, C Lamb.11.35 D Wilson, S Mackie, P Cornfield, C Duffus.