Sunday, August 24, 2014

EXCITING NORTH DISTRICT OPEN AMATEUR STROKE PLAY


Stuart Tatters with the David Blair Trophy. Picture by courtesy of the North District SGU

TATTERS BEATS GODSMAN IN 

ALL-MORAY PLAY-OFF AT ELGIN

By COLIN FARQUHARSON
Colin@scottishgolfview.com

The North District Open Amateur Stroke-play Championship for the David Blair Trophy boiled down to a play-off between two members of Lossiemouth's Moray Golf Club which is not many miles distant from the tournament venue of Elgin Golf Club.
Stuart Tatters beat Kyle Godsman, third in the previous weekend's North-east District Open at Peterhead, in a two-hole aggregate play-off - the first and the 18th - winning with eight shots (4-4) to Godsman's nine (4-5).
So Tatters landed the David Blair Trophy and a £400 voucher. Godsman received a £300 voucher.
Godsman, who played on the US college golf circuit for the past four years as a student at the University of South Carolina-Aiken, should have won the title within the regulation 72 holes of this SGU Order of Merit event.
But Kyle double-bogeyd the last hole for a two-under 67 and and five-under total of 271, the same as Tatters who, despite a a double bogey 6 at the first hole, had shot into a share of the third-round lead with North-east District Open winner Connor Syme (Drumoig) with a  63 (joint lowest of the weekend), and, like Godsman,  closed with a 67 for 271.
Godsman missed the green at his 72nd hole, landing on the downslope of a grass hollow. He was able to move the ball only a few feet. He then chipped on but missed the putt and a double bogey 6 set up the play-off.
Four players finished joint third on 273 - two shots behind the play-off participants
They were Fraser Moore (Glenbervie),  Jeff Wright (Forres) , Scott Borrowman (Dollar) and Matthew Clark (Kilmacolm).
The best last round of the four - a 67, earned Moore third prize of a £200 voucher with Wright being placed fourth, Borrowman fifth and Clark sixth.
In one of the most exciting David Blair Trophy tournament finishes for years, any one of 10 players could have won.
Lowest last round of the tournament was a six-under-par 63 by Gordon Munro (Fraserburgh). 
He had not managed to get under 70 in his first three rounds but, finishing on 277, he was officially placed ninth ahead of former Scottish champion Alexander Culverwell (Dunbar), Nairn youngster Sandy Scott,  Ryan Campbell (Falkirk) and Kevin Duncan (Cruden Bay), all of whom  also totalled 277.
There were 18 scores of par 69 or better over the pot-boiler of a final round. 
+Stuart Tatters and Kyle Godsman have more in common than being Moray GC clubmates. They both spent four years at US universities, Tatters at Pfeiffer in the late 1990s, Godsman, the past four years at South Carolina-Aiken. Tatters stayed on in America, turned professional and married an American girl.  

FINAL TOTALS
Par 276 (4x69) CSS 70 70 71 70
271 Stuart Tatters (Moray) 71 69 63 67, Kyle Godsman (Moray) 65 68 71 67 (Tatters won two-hole aggregate play-off).
273 Fraser Moore (Glenbervie) 68 69 69 67, Jeff Wright (Forres) 67 68 70 68, Scott Borrowman (Dollar) 72 68 64 69, Matthew Clark (Kilmacolm) 66 69 69 69
275 Connor Syme (Drumoig) 66 72 65 72.
276 Nick Macandrew (Royal Aberdeen) 67 72 70 67
277 Gordon Munro (Fraserburgh) 70 72 72 63, Alexander Culverwell (Dunbar)72 71 69 65, Ryan Campbell (Falkirk) 72 67 71 67. Sandy Scott (Nairn) 75 64 71 67, Kevin Duncan (Cruden Bay) 71 72 66 68
278 Christopher Maclean (Balmore) 70 68 72 68
279 Bryan Fotheringham (Inverness) 72 66 69 72. David Joel (Inverness) 70 69 70 70
280 Adam Dunton (McDonald Ellon) 70 70 70 70284 Jack Harling (Banchory) 71 67 76 70, Jordan Milne (Elgin) 70 72 73 69
285 Ben Kinsley (St Andrews New) 71 67 73 74
286  John D Forbes (Inverness) 73 69 73 71, Andrew Davidson (Charleton) 70 77 72 67
287 Adam Fisher (Newmachar) 67 76 70 74, R Tinker (Strathmore) 77 72 69 69
288 Alan Sutherland (Ladybank) 77 72 69 70, Rory Franssen (Inverness) 74 71 74 69
290 Chris Gaittens (Fortrose and Rosemarkie) 72 74 73 71, Daniel Kay (Dunbar) 70 78 71 71, John Duff (Newmachar) 70 76 72 72
291 Tom Watson (S Africa) 70 76 67 78, Malcolm Pennycott (Whiting Bay, Arran) 71 77 72 71, Alastair S Thurlow (Murrayfield) 76 69 78 68
292 Jordan Shaw (Boat of Garten) 69 71 81 71
294 Cameron Franssen (Inverness) 75 73 75 71
295 Benjamin Henderson (Deeside) 73 72 76 74, Gordon Grimmer (Nigg Bay) 77 71 74 72
297 Allan L Cameron (Fortrose and Rosemarkie) 72 75 71 79
298 Blair Carnegie (Glenbervie) 70 74 78 76, Duncan Cairnie (Carnoustie Caledonia) 78 70 81 69
301 Steve Jamieson (Nigg Bay) 70 73 80 78, Corin Stewart (Murcar Links) 70 77 77 77
 Leading prizewinners and officials at the conclusion of the North District Open Amateur Championship at Elgin. Picture by courtesy of the North District SGU.

Left to right: Connor Syme, Ian Howarth (SGU President), Ian Stewart (Elgin GC captain), Stuart Tatters, Alister Paterson (North District President), Kyle Godsman, Jeff Wright.

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