TAYLOR WINS PLAY-OFF FOR LAST SPGA PLACE

FENWICK FIRST WITH A 66 AT CRIEFF

By COLIN FARQUHARSON
Colin@scottishgolfview.com

Dunbar tour pro Neil Fenwick shot a five-under-par 66 at Crieff today to win the £100
first prize in the Gleneagles Scottish PGA Championship Qualifier 2 over 18 holes.
Fenwick, pictured, headed the 17 qualifiers who will go forward to the main event at the Perthshire venue from May 5 to 7. It has been brought forward several months because of the Ryder Cup at Gleneagles in September.
Fenwick started inauspiciously with a bogey 5 and was still one over par standing on the fifth tee. But 
it was a different story over the next 11 holes with a six-under-par bogey-free run studded with birdies at the fifth, sixth, eighth, ninth, 10th and 15th.
He finished thre shots ahead of Paul Shields (Kirkhill), Michael Patterson (Kilmacolm) and Newmachar's Malcolm Isaacs who bounced back from a double bogey 6 at the second to birdie five holes between the third and the 10th.
Shields had four birdies and two bogeys; Patterson five birdies and three bogeys.
There was a six-way play-off, featuring the players who returned two-over-par 73s, for the last qualifying place. It lasted one hole, thanks to a birdie by Ian Taylor (Drumpellier).

GLENEAGLES SCOTTISH PGA CHAMPIONSHIP
Qualifying Competition No 2
Crieff Golf Club
QUALIFIERS 
par 71
66 N Fenwick (Dunbar)
69 P Shields (Kirkhill), M Isaacs (Newmachar), M Patterson (Kilmacolm)
70 G Paxton (Ralston)
71 N Huguet (Musselburgh), P Edgecombe (Forrester Park), A Hutchison (Douglas Park), G Hay (Nairn Dunbar), C Sutherland (Cherry Lodge).
72 A Brown (Archerfield Links), C Beveridge (West Kilbride), G Law (Uphall), A Reid (West Lothian), D Watters (Gourock), N Scott-Smith (Palacerigg)
73 (after play-off) I Taylor (Drumpellier)
DID NOT QUALIFY
73 (after play-off) D Anderson (Murrayfield), S Rettie (Callaway Golf), J Erskine (Portpatrick Dunskey), M Rae (Alyth), S Savage (Dalmuir).
74 C McMaster (Panmure), C Brown (Carrick on Loch Lomond), P Jamieson (Dunblane New), L Mann (unatt), D Stein (Ranfurly Castle), G Hardy (Belleisle), P Betty (Hamilton), S Costello (Strathaven), D McKay (Wellsgreen), R McConnachie (Peterculter), J Porteous (Craigielaw), D Andrews (Bonnyton).
75 R Buckley (Royal Musselburgh), H Wong (Wellsgreen), D Williamson (Kirkhill), M Burtt (Helensburgh), G Smith (Gleneagles Hotel), P Malone (Braid Hills), R Jack (Dumfries and Galloway).
76 C Armstrong (Burntisland), P Robinson (Largs), K Moran (Balbirnie Park), S Gillespie (Burntisland), S McAllister (S McAllister Golf), C Elliott (Haggs Castle), N Colquhoun (Merchants of Edinburgh)
77 K Campbell (Greenock), S McLaren (Blairgowrie), M King (Kingsfield), D Flannery (Caldwell), C Haugh (Cawder)
78 G Stewart (Cawder), D Leslie (Piperdam), G McFarlane (Clober), F Thomson (Turnberry Hotel).
80 L Burnett (Mearns Castle)
81 J Smallwood (Affordable Golf), F Clarke (Newmachar), S Rennie (Brechin)
82 R Irvine (Douglas Park), C Robinson (unatt)
83 S Watters (Balbirnie Park)
84 I Donaldson (Meldrum House), K Baxter (Buchanan Castle)
85 C Fountain (Buchanan Castle).