TURNBERRY HOTEL ASSISTANT PRO EARNS £50 PRIZE

CIAR PORCIANI  IS TOP QUALIFIER FOR

GREENBURN M/PLAY CHAMPIONSHIP

Ayrshire's Ciar Porciani (Turnberry Hotel) won the £50 prize as leading qualifier for the Greenburn assistants' match-play championship when the eliminating stroke-play round was played at the West Lothian course today (Monday).

Girvan-based Porciani claimed first place among the 15 qualifiers with a round of four-under-par 67 - one shot ahead of Gullane's Keith McNicoll and three ahead of third-placed Louis Gaughan (Bathgate).

There was a card play-off for those finishing on the 75 mark to produce the precise number of 15 qualifiers. Michael Mackenzie (Edzell), Jordan Gallagher (Douglas Park) and Craig Haugh (Cawder) survived.
Paul O'Hara (Clydeway Golf) was awarded an automatic place in the field of 16 for the two-day championship at Greenburn on June 23-24 as last year's Scottish young professionals champion and winner of the young pros' Order of Merit.

QUALIFIERS

Par 71

67 Ciar Porciani (Turnberry Hotel)

68 Keir McNicoll (Gullane)

70 Louis Gaughan (Bathgate)

71 Scott Costello (Strathaven)

72 Ross Jack (Dumfries and Galloway), Callum Beveridge (West Kilbride)

73 Tom Dingwall (Kemnay), Sean Fay (Royal Dornoch), Sam McLaren (Blairgowrie), Tim Poyser (Renaissance).

74 Robert King (Carrick on Loch Lomond), Andrew Hutchison (Douoglas Park)

75 Michael Mackenzie (Edzell), Jordan Gallagher (Douglas Park), Craig Haugh (Cawder).

DID NOT QUALIFY

75 (after card countback) Alan Welsh (Cathkin Braes), Daiel Flannery (Caldwell)

76 Iain McNab (Dundonald Links), Paul Betty (Hamilton), Robert Rushford (unatt), Allan Todd (Prestwick), Ryan Stirling (Lanark).

78 Cameron Farrell (Cardross)

79 Ian Anderson (Colville Park), Ian Scanlan (unatt)

80 Mark Penny (Montrose Links)

81 Fraser Clarke (Newmachar)

82 Riccardo Scarafile (unatt), Ross McConnachie (Peterculter)

83 Ross Munro (Duddingston)

87 Richard Mackenzie-Smith (unatt)