STEPHEN GALLACHER LOSES AT 19TH TO ERNIE ELS

ACCENTURE WORLD MATCH-PLAY CHAMPIONSHIP
Venue: Dove Mountain, Marana, Arizona

 BOBBY JONES BRACKET
H Stenson bt Aphibarnrat 2 and 1.
L Oosthuizen bt N Watney 1 hole.
B Snedeker bt D Lynn at 20th.
W Simpson bt T Jaidee 3 and 2.J Day bt T Olesen 2 holes.
B Horschel bt J Dopnald 6 and 5.
G Coetzee bt S Stricker 3 and 1.
P Reed bt G DeLaet 1 hole. 

GARY PLAYER BRACKET
J Rose bt S Piercy 1 hole.
E Els bt S Gallacher at 19th.
J Dufner bt S Stallings at 19th
M Manassero bt L Donald 5 and 4.M Kuchar bt B Wiesberger 3 and 2.
R Moore bt J Luiten 1 hole.
J Spieth v P Larrazabal 2 holes
T Bjorn bt F Molinari 2 and 1. 

SAM SNEAD BRACKET
R Sterne bt Z Johnson 5 and 4.
H Mahan bt Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano 3 and 2.
G McDowell bt G Woodland at 19th
H Maysuyama bt M Kaymer 2 and 1
P Hanson bt D Johnson 4 and 3.
V Dubuisson bt K Streelman 5 and 4.
B Watson bt M Ilonen 2 and 1.
J Blixt bt K Bradley 2 and 1. 

BEN HOGAN BRACKET
R McIlroy bt B Weekley 3 and 2.
H English bt L Westwood 5 and 3.
C Schwartzel bt K Stadler 3 and 2.
J Furyk bt C Kirk 2 and 1.
S Garcia bt M Leishman at 22nd
B Haas bt M Jimenez 4 and 3.
R Fowler bt I Poulter 2 and 1.
J Walker bt B Grace 5 and 4. 

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26 TOURNAMENTS ACROSS 20 DIFFERENT COUNTRIES

CHALLENGE TOUR EVENT FOR NORTH-

EAST OF SPAIN VENUE

The Challenge Tour will return to Spain’s north eastern coast from April 24-27 when Lumine Golf and Beach Club stages the second edition of the Challenge de Catalunya.

Situated south of Barcelona on the Costa Daurada, Lumine offers 45 holes of Championship golf with the Greg Norman-designed Lakes Course set to host the €160,000 event for the first time.

This latest addition to the ever-strengthening 2014 Challenge Tour Schedule sees the list of tournaments increase to 26 across 20 different countries.

PERTHSHIRE PLAYER'S FIRST COMPETITIVE OUTING OF 2014

WALLACE BOOTH MAKES TOP 30 ON 

SPANISH GECKO TOUR

Comrie's Wallace Booth had rounds of 76 and 73 for a seven-over-par total of 149 in the Spanish Gecko Pro Tour 36-hole event at La Canada Golf Club in south-east Spain today (Wednesday).

Booth, making his first competitive appearance of 2014, birdied the fifth, ninth and 16th but bogeyed the first, seventh, eighth, 11th and 15th  in his second round over the par-71 course.

He finished joint 26th, 10 shots behind the English winner Jason Kelly (Wentworth) who had rounds of 71 and 68 for three-under 139 and a one-shot victory from two Spaniards.

LEADING FINAL TOTALS
Par 142 (2x71)
139 Jason Kelly (England) 71 68
140 Daniel Osorio Valencia (Spain) 70 70, Gabriel Canizares Gomez (Spain) 68 72

SELECTED SCORES
142 Jason Timms (England) 72 70, James Robinson (England) 71 71 (T5)
143 Rhodri Fieldhouse (Wales) 72 71 (T10)
147 Scott Hudson (England) (am) 72 74, Joey Lamb (England) (am) 72 75, Dan Gavins (England) 71 76 (T16)

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THIS BODES WELL FOR FUTURE OF SCOTTISH AMATEUR GOLF - COACH RAE

THE PRIDE OF SCOTLAND - National coach Ian Rae (end right) with his Leopard Trophy heroes

FAMOUS 14-10 VICTORY FOR SCOTS IN 

SOUTH AFRICA TEST MATCH

Scotland scored morale-boosting victory over South Africa in the two-day golf Test match at Leopard Creek near Malelane today (Wed).
The Scottish Golf Union squad, level at 6-6 at the start of play, powered ahead for a 14-10 victory.
The Scots took control in the morning foursomes and handed the local heroes a 4-0 drubbing, then shared the singles 4-4
Zander Lombard and Louis Taylor, the two stalwarts of the victorious South African side last year, were among the first to fall. Craigie Hill's Daniel Young beat Lombard 3 and 1, while Connor Syme from Dumfries and Co dispatched Taylor 4 and 3.
Cawder's Jamie Savage, out on his second trip to South Africa, picked up the team's third point when he downed N J Arnoldi 2 and 1.
"The new caps all performed well and this bodes well for the future of Scottish golf," said Scottish national coach, Ian Rae (pictured).

"We are obviously delighted with the victory, but I don't think one should lose sight of the experience that both teams gained here this week. For us, to come out to a magnificent course like this each year and to expose our players to this type of course, the grass and weather is invaluable.
"But for the South Africans the chance to play against international competition is equally important.
"Irrespective of the result, and who lifted the magnificent Leopard trophy, both teams are winners."
South African No. 1 Christiaan Bezuidenhout went up against Blairgowrie's Scottish boys champion Bradley Neil in a tightly-fought contest. Neil lost on the 18th green.
Reigning South African Amateur champion Thriston Lawrence beat British boys champion Ewen Ferguson from Bearsden 2 and 1, while Werner van Niekerk secured South Africa's third point when he downed Scott Gibson from Southerness 3 and 2.
Ben Kinsley (St Andrews) and Gr-aeme Robertson (Glenbervie) halved their matches against Philip Kruze and Matthew Space respectively.
The Leopard Trophy match forms part of their annual eight week winter training programme, which is supported by Leopard Creek proprietor Johann Rupert and Aberdeen Asset Management. 
While Neil and Robertson will be departing for Scotland early next week, the remainder of the side will be travelling to the Western Cape to play in the South African Amateur Championship at Hermanus Golf Club from  February 25 to 28.

RESULTS
SOUTH AFRICA 10, SCOTLAND 14
Day 1: South Africa 6, Scotland 6
Day 2: South Africa 4, Scotland 8
South African names first
FOURSOMES (0-4)
Zander Lombard and Thriston Lawrence lost to Bradley Neil and Daniel Young 3 and 2
N J Arnoldi and Christiaan Bezuidenhout lost to Connor Syme and Ben Kinsley 1 hole
Louis Taylor and Matthew Spacey lost to Ewen Ferguson and Jamie Savage 3 and 1
Philip Kruze and Werner van Niekerk lost to Graeme Robertson and Scott Gibson 2 and 1
SINGLES (4-4)
Bezuidenhout bt Neil 1 hole.
Lombard lost to Young 3 and 2
Lawrence bt Ewen Ferguson 2 and 1
Arnoldi lost to Jamie Savage 2 and 1
Taylor lost to Syme 4 and 3
Kruze halved with Kinsley
Van Niekerk bt Gibson 3 and 2
Spacey halved with Robertson

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NICOL, McCOLL, HENRY MISS CUT, GALLAGHER RETIRES

ROSS KELLETT NOW LEADING SCOT IN 

EGYPT AFTER SECOND-ROUND 68

Motherwell's Ross Kellett took over as leading Scot with a four-under-par 68 in the second round of the Red Sea El Ein Bay Open at Sokhna Golf Club, Egypt.
Kellett, pictured by Andy Forman, had six birdies in all, his last three, at the 15th, 17th and 18th, following bogeys at the 10th and 13th. He hard turned in 32 with birdies at the first, fifth and seventh. He is now in joint eighth place, four shots behind the front-running Spaniards, Borja Virto (70-67) and Borja Etchart (68-69.
Ellon's Ross Cameron responded to a double bogey 6 at the 12th with birdies at the 14th, 15th, 17th and 18th
Cameron, who had earlier birdied the fifth and ninth, finished with a 71 for level par 144 and joint 15th place with one round to go in this Alps Tour event.
Fifer James White and Michael Stewart from Troon are bracketed in 25th place on 145. White has had scores of 72-73, Stewart 74-71.
Fraserburgh's Kris Nicol (Paul Lawrie Golf Centre) missed the cut by four shots with a pair of 75s.
Dundee rookie pro Jordan McColl was eliminated on 151 (74-77), the same mark as John Henry (Clydebank and Dist) who scored 76-75.
Edinburgh's John Gallagher retired during his second round after a first-day 73.

LEADING SECOND-ROUND SCORES
Par 144 (2x72)
137 Borja Virto (Spa) 70 67, Borja Etchart (Spa) 68 69
138 Tobias Nemecz (Aut) 69 69
SELECTED SCORES
140 Steven Brown (Eng) 70 70 (T5)
141 Ross Kellett (Sco) 73 68 (T8)
144 Ross Cameron (Sco) 73 71 (T15)
145 James White (Sco) 72 73, Michael Stewart (Sco) 74 71 (T25)
MISSED THE CUT (146 and better qualified)
147 Alex Christie (Eng) 79 68
147 Lawrie Canter (Eng)73 75, Jason Palmer (Eng) 74 74, Will Johnson (Eng) 74 74.
150 Kris Nicol (Sco) 75 75, Andrew Cooley (Eng) 76 74, Ryan Newman (Eng) 74 76, Simon Ward (Ire) 77 73.
151 Jordan McColl (Sco) 74 77, John Henry (Sco) 76 75, Martin Edge (Eng) 76 75, Matt Wallace (Eng) 74 77.
156 Jack Clarke (Eng) 76 80
159 Andrew Hogan (Ire) 78 81
Retired John Gallacher (Sco) 73 ret.

NEWMACHAR AMATEUR STRIKES AGAIN TO HEAD FIELD OF 77

JOHN DUFF WINS FOURTH 

NE ALLIANCE WITH AN

EIGHT-UNDER 61 AT INSCH

By COLIN FARQUHARSON
Colin@scottishgolfview.com
Newmachar +2 amateur John Duff chalked up his fourth win of the North-east Golfers' Alliance season with a brilliant score of eight-under-par 61 at Insch Golf Club today.
At 5,371yd, Insch is the shortest course on the circuit but that does not detract from Duff's bogey-free halves of 30 (five under par) and 31 (three under), compiled with birdies at the second, third, fourth, sixth, eighth, 10th,15th and 16th.
"It equals my lowest ever round but was an 11-under-par 61 for a course record over the Newmachar Swailend course," said Duff who hit every green in regulation and putted well. He might even have hit the magic figure of 59 had not a few birdie putts lipped out.
"I was very pleased with how I played as I have been focusing on how
best to manage my game, depending on the condtions, so it is quite satisfying when it all comes together like this."
John's earlier victories on the 2013-2014 schedule are as follows:

September 11 - Joint winner at Kemnay.
November 20 - Outright winner at Montrose
January 8 - Outright winner at Inverallochy

Duff, who had not played the Insch course since he was a junior, earned a £100 voucher for heading a field of 77 players by three strokes From another amateur, Scotland international Adam Dunton, who plays off +3 at McDonald Ellon. Dunton had halves of 33-31 for his 64.
The leading professional was Colin Nelson, who plays out of the MacKenzie Shop at Hazlehead. He shot a 65 with halves of 33-32, oneahead of the second-placed pro Keil Beveridge (Kippie Lodge) who had inward half of 31.
PRIZEWINNERS AT INSCH

SCRATCH
61 J Duff. 64 A Dunton. 65 C Nelson. 66 K Beveridge. 68 S Kiloh
HANDICAP
Class 1 - D Nelson (8) 62; C Grant (3) (bih), C Duffus (5) 64; J Nicolson (4) 67; R Lamb (5) 68.
Class 2 - M Booth (13) 62; P Cornfield (14) (bih), M Smith (13) 63; M Rendall (14) (bih), N Stewart (13) 67.

 LEADING SCORECARDS AT INSCH
Par 69: OUT: 444 443 435: 35
                IN: 444 344 533: 34

JOHN DUFF (61)
OUT: 433 342 425: 30
    IN: 344 343 433: 31
ADAM DUNTON (64)
OUT: 533 443 335: 33
    IN: 444 334 432: 31
COLIN NELSON (65)
OUT: 444 443 325: 33
    IN: 443 343 623: 32
KEIL BEVERIDGE (66)
OUT: 344 453 435: 35
    IN: 334 443 433: 31

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TEE TIMES FOR MONTROSE NEXT WEDNESDAY

8.15  c.cassie  a.smith  a.campbell

8.22  free  free  free

8.29  r.masson  d.townsley  free

8.36  c.law  k.shanks  free

8.43  d.law  n.mcandrew  free

8.50  d.mackay  s.kiloh  p.mckenna

8.57  m.brown  s.davidson  free

9.04  r.brown  d.lawrie  free

9.11  h.roulston  l.roger  j.scott

9.18  j.hamilton  m.rendall  free

9.25  j.duff  c.lamb  m.merchant

9.32  a.gall  i.clark  free

9.39  l.vannet  c.nelson  p.anderson

9.46  s.lawrie  b.fyfe  c.grant

9.53  r.buchan  n.stewart  j.forrest

10.00 b.lumsden  p.cheyne  d.wright

10.07 m,winton  s.thompson  d.mcdougall

10.14 w.skene  d.lane  l.fowler

10.21 a.clark  r.duncan  i.d.smith

10.28 m.duncan  n.chisholm  d.fleming

10.35 d.leslie  w.shaw  h.mcnaughton

10.42 i.grant  j.jessiman  a.petrie

10.49 j.hopwood  k.beveridge  l.murray

10.56 m.smith  r.macrae  m.rogers

11.03 .graham  d.nelson  j.borthwick

11.10 t.collie  m.lawrie  b.lawrie

11.17 d.bisset  f.bisset  d.randall

11.24  j.duncan  g.milne  free

11.31 s.finnie  d.mckay  free

11.38 free  free  free

11.45 free  free  free

11.52  free  free  free

11.59  free  free  free

12.06  p.mclean  c.lawrie  k.nicol

12.13  d.wilson  j.findlay  free

12.20  j.nicholson  g.allan  p.cornfield

+An additonal North-east Alliance fixture has been added to the schedule - Wednesday, March 26 at a venue still to be arranged. The Alliance pro-am foursomes will follow on March 27-28 at Murcar Links.

 

ALL TODAYS 'NORTH-EAST ALLIANCE SCORES

Insch Golf Club

SCRATCH
Par 69 (35-34) Yardage: 5,371
61 John Duff (Newmachar) 30-31
64 Adam Dunton (McDonald Ellon) 33-31
65 Colin Nelson (Mackenzie Shop) 33-32
66 Keil Beveridge (Kippie Lodge) 35-31
67 Cameron Grant (Portlethen) 36-31
68 Sam Kiloh (Paul Lawrie GC) 35-33
69 Keith Shanks (Elie) 36-33
70 Christopher Lamb (Newmachar), David Nelson (Aboyne), Colin Duffus (Kemnay).
71 Niall Young (Insch), Lee Vannet (Carnoustie GL), John Nicolson (Auchmill).
72 Joel Hopwood (Royal Aberdeen).
73 Chris Law (Kings Links), Robert Lamb (Newmachar), Billy Fyfe (Paul Lawrie GC), Stewart Finnie (Caledonian), Brian Nicolson (Auchmill).
74 John Hamilton (Murcar Links), Les Fowler (Royal Aberdeen), David Fleming (Portlethen), John Borthwick (Craibstone).
75 George Paterson (Bon Accord), Mike Booth (Kemnay)
76 Manson Merchant (Newmachar), Alan Gall (Deeside), Mike Smith (Inverurie), Jim Duncan (Newburgh)
77 Brian Lawrie (Kemnay), Mike Duncan (Murcar Links), Alister Petrie (Oldmeldrum), Gordon Milne (Newburgh), Fergus Bisset (Banchory), Alister Graham (Aboyne), Paul Cornfield (Auchmill).
78 Harry Roulston (Stonehaven), Ian Clark (Deeside), Steve Lawrie (Portlethen), Bill Shaw (Banchory), Jim Murray (Banchory).
79 Philip Anderson (Deeside), David Bisset (Banchory), Scott Mackie (Auchmill)
80 Phil Craig (Kintore), Jack Forrest (Northern), Charlie Cassie (Nigg Bay), Les Roger (Royal Aberdeen), Neish Chisholm (Kemnay), Robbie Duncan (Royal Aberdeen).
81 Norman Stewart (Northern), Mike Rendall (Stonehaven)
82 Jim Scott (Peterculter)
83 Mike Winton (Caledonian), Peter Cheyne (Northern), Peter Walker (Cruden Bay).
84 Patrick McKenna (Aboyne), Robert Masson (Auchmill)
85 Derek Townsley (Peterculter), Graham Thom (Murcar Links)
87 Ben Lumsden (Northern), Hamish McNaughton (Cruden Bay).
88 Raymond Brown (Northern), Alistair Clark (Newmachar)
90 Mike Brown (Newburgh), Ian Grant (Fyvie), Derek Randall (Banchory), Mike Rogers (Kemnay).
93 Donald Lawrie (Aboyne)
99 Loren Graham (Aboyne)

LOW SCORING ON ALL-AMERICAN GATEWAY TOUR

PAUL SHIELDS SHOOTS 67 BUT ONLY 

JOINT 20TH IN ARIZONA

FROM WILLIE SHARPE

Kirkhill's Paul Shields shot a three under par 67 in the first round of the 54 hole All-American Gateway Tour at Wigwam Golf Club near Phoenix, Arizona. 

So high is the standard of play on this circuit that Paul's very good round sees him in "only" joint 20th place, five shots behind the joint leaders on 62: Americans Riley Arp and Brock Mackenzie plus Canadaian Kevin Spooner.

Other Scots in the field are Jimmy Gunn who is sharing 32nd place after a 68 and California-based Andrew Gunson who is T44 on 69 and in danger of not making the 36-hole cut.. 

The top 25 and ties will make the  cut which is forecast at two-under-par 138.