TOMATIN SINGLE MALT 54-hole PRO-AM FINAL TOTALS

Par 213 (Royal Dornoch 70, Nairn 71, Castle Stuart 72)

207 G Hay (Nairn Dunbar) 68 68 71 (£6,000)
208 N Fenwick (Dunbar) 63 70 75, S Gray (Hayston) 70 67 71 (£4,500 each)
209 P O'Hara (Clydeway Golf) 68 69 72 (£3,000)
212 D Orr (Mearns Castle) 69 69 74. G Hutcheon (Paul Lawrie GC) 70 70 72 (£2,400 each)
213 C Lawrie (Paul Lawrie GC) 73 69 71, G McBain (Paul Lawrie GC) 69 72 72 (£1,900 each)
214 C Currie (Caldwell) 71 71 72, G Fox (Clydeway Golf) 71 73 70, L Saltman (Archerfield Links) 72 71 71 (£1,400 each).
216 G Wright (West Linton) 74 69 73, S Taylor (Bothwell Castle) 71 73 72 (£950 each)
217 C Matheson (Falkirk Tryst) 71 70 76, G Brown (Montrose Links) 71 71 75, M Kerr (Marriott Dalmahoy) 73 68 76 (£700 each)
218 S Henderson (Kings Links) 69 74 75, R Arnott (Bishopbriggs) 71 71 76 (£450 each)
219 N Walton (Glasgow) 73 72 74, G Shoesmith (West Hill, Surrey) 77 72 70, M Isaacs (Newmachar) 73 73 73 (£166 each). 
220 C Ronald (Carluke) 72 74 74
221 A Scrimshaw (Close House) 77 70 74
222 J Lomas (Caprington) 71 75 76, B McColl (Scotland for Golf) 74 70 78
223 J McCreadie (Buchanan Castle) 73 73 77, W de Vries (Netherlands) 73 74 76
225 K Hutton (Downfield) 72 78 75
226 F Cromarty (Nairn) 79 70 77
227 G Forbes (Murcar Links) 75 72 80,  P Wardell (Whitekirk) 75 77 75, M Urquhart (Spey Valley) 72 79 76
229 N Lythgoe (Royal Norwich) 76 72 81
230 C Elliott (Haggs Castle) 73 72 85, G Dingwall (Royal Dornoch) 70 76 84 
231 J Martin (unatt) 75 75 81, S Mitchell (Golf at Goodwood) 80 72 79
232 B Davidson (River Oaks CC, Texas)
234 G Nethercott (Deeside) 79 76 79, R Harrower (Boat of Garten) 78 79 77, S Morrison (Tain) 71 80 83
235 I Colquhoun (Loch Lomon) 82 78 75, P Cairns (unatt) 81 77 77
236 R King (Carrick on Loch Lomond) 79 79 78
237 C Everett (Caldwell) 81 77 79
242 T Dingwall (Kemnay) 82 82 78
255 Simone Minjuto (unatt) 84 83 85
260 D Thomson (Carnegie Club) 90 83 87

LEADING TEAMS
Stableford points totals
258 W de Vries (£600) and High Clay: Edwin Clave (4), Bastiaan Geurtsen (10), Roy Van Vessen (18) 88 88 82
257 L Saltman (£500) and Sectorwide Security: Gordon Gilhooley (3), David Hill (7), Graham Hillan (4) (better inward half);  G Shoesmith (£400) and West Hill, Surrey 90 80 87
252 Neil Fenwick (£300) and Surprise Winners 90 84 78

CHEERS, GAVIN! HAY SHOWS THE RIGHT SPIRIT TO

WIN THE TOMATIN £6,000 FIRST PRIZE

                                                                       By COLIN FARQUHARSON

Colin@scottishgolfview.com

Nairn Dunbar's Gavin Hay capped a breakthrough season - he won the Scottish young professionals' title earlier and finished runner-up, beaten in a play-off, at the Paul Lawrie Invitational a couple of weeks ago - by winning the lucrative Tomatin Single Malt 54-hole pro-am over the classic links of Royal Dornoch, Nairn and Castle Stuart.

A five-under par total of 208 with a three-under 68 at Nairn, a four-under 68 at Castle Stuart  and a one-over 71 to close at windy Royal Dornoch earned the 23-year-old (pictured above) victory by one shot and with it a £6,000 prize.

Hay's glory run actually began in the second round on Wednesday when he covered the last nine holes at Castle Stuart in 31 shots.

Conditions much more difficult at all three venues for the final round but Gavin, who hails from Grantown on Spey, kept calm under mounting pressure.

Joint runners-up Neil Fenwick (Dunbar) and Stephen Gray (Hayston), winner of the tournament for the past two years, had already posted their totals of five-under-par 208 while Hay was birdieing the fifth, sixth and ninth to be out in 33 at Royal Dornoch.

Then came a potentially catastrophic triple bogey 7 at the 11th followed by bogeys at the 13th and 16th. Hay probably did not know it at the time but that put him one shot behind Fenwick and Gray, needing a birdie-birdie finish to leapfrog of them.

Which is precisely what he did. Birdie at 17 ... level in the lead. Birdie at 18 ... winner by a shot!

Fenwick and Gray had the consolation of earning £4,500 for their good, but not quite good enough efforts.

Dutchman Wouter de Vries and the High Clay team of four-handicapper Edwin Clave, Bastiaan Geurtsen (10) and Roy Van Vessen (18) won the three-round pro-am with 258 Stableford points. That earned de Vries £600

They won by a shot from Lloyd Saltman ande the Sectorwide Security trio of Gordon Gilhooley (3), David Hill (7) and Graham Hillan (4). Saltman earned £500, his team's better inward half earning them second place ahead of Guy Shoesmith's West Hill, Surrey trio who also totalled 257.