MONTROSE LINKS MAN'S 67 WINS FOUR-FIGURE PRIZE

Graeme Brown: in form this week. Picture by Cal Carson Golf Agency.

GRAEME BROWN SCORES FIRST WIN

OF SEASON AT DOUGLAS PARK

Graeme Brown (Montrose Links) scored his first win of the Tartan Tour season with a two-under-par 67 in the Douglas Park Golf Club pro-am at the Bearsden, Glasgow venue today (Thursday).
Scoring was relatively high because the heavy rainfall over the past week or so meant little or no run on the ball
Brown, 34, a Scotland amateur international in 2004 and a former US college circuit player, collected only his second four-figure cheque of the season, the other being for a top-10 finish in the Gleneagles Scottish PGA championship.
Brown's joint third finish in the BEN shotgun pro-am at Archerfield earlier in the week suggested that a first win was not all that far away.
He birdied the second, third, 11th and 16th, bogeying the fourth and 18th to win by one shot from long-time leader Craig Ronald (Carluke), Greg McBain (Paul Lawrie GC), a winner already this week, and home-course player Jordan Gallagher.
McBain led the winning trio of John McGowan (6), Ernie Bevan (7) and Scott Wallace (8) to victory with an 11-under-par team score of 127. Chris Kelly's team had  the same total but McBain's team had the better inward half to win the card play-off.

DOUGLAS PARK PRO-AM
Douglas Park GC, Bearsden, Glasgow
LEADING PRO SCORES
Par 69
67 G Brown (Montrose Links)
68 C Ronald (Carluke), G McBain (Paul Lawrie GC), J Gallagher (Douglas Park)
69 S Gray (Hayston)
70 D Orr (Mearns Castle), C Currie (Caldwell)
71 C Robinson (Portpatrick Dunskey)
72 C Kelly (unatt).
73 S Taylor (Bothwell Castle), G Fox (Clydeway Golf), M Kerr (Marriott Dalmahoy).
74 G Paxton (Ralston),  J Lomas (Caprington).
75 C Matheson (Falkirk Tryst), P McKechnie (Braid Hills), S Henderson (Kings Links), P O'Hara (Clydeway Golf), M King (Kingsfield), J McCreadie (Buchanan Castle).
76 J McGhee (Bishopbriggs), J McKinnon (Irvine), G Robertson (Airdrie), G Niven (Ping).
77 G Hardy (Ayr Belleisle)
78 J Sharp (Carrick on Loch Lomond).
79 A Hutchison (Douglas Park)
81 K Campbell (Greenock)
82 A McCabe (G Sherry Golf)
85 R Irvine (Douglas Park)