Wednesday, March 12, 2014

PETER DAWSON TO RECEIVE LIFETIME 

ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
NEWS RELEASE
Peter Dawson, Chief Executive of The R and A, will be presented with a special Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2014 HSBC Golf Business Forum taking place at The Westin Abu Dhabi Golf Resort and Spa, Abu Dhabi, from April 28-30.
The award is to recognise outstanding contribution, achievement and leadership in both the game and business of golf.
Dawson, Aberdeen-born, became Chief Executive of The R and A, in 1999 having previously worked in the engineering industry. 
He was appointed President of the International Golf Federation in December 2010. 
Dawson, who plays to a handicap of three, is the most recent addition to a list of speakers at the three-day conference.

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EDINBURGH'S JAMES ROSS CHOSEN TO PLAY FOR EUROPE



European Amateur champion Ashley Chesters and fellow England international Ryan Evans (Wellingborough) have been selected to represent Europe against Asia/Pacific in the Sir Michael Bonallack Trophy at the Karnataka Golf Association course in Bangalore, India from March 26 to 28.
The 12-strong side, which will be seeking a fourth successive success in the biennial event, also includes three other Great Britain and Ireland Zone players in James Ross from Scotland and the Irish pair of Dermot McElroy and Gavin Moynihan.
The rest of the team is: Albert Eckhardt (Finland), Dominic Foos and Max Roehrig (Germany), Mario Galiano (Spain), Renato Paratore (Italy), Mads Soegaard (Denmark) and Robbie Van West (Netherlands).
Both England players have achieved significant victories in recent months. Chesters (Hawkstone Park), 24, achieved his biggest success when he won the European Amateur Championship at El Prat in Spain last summer. He is a former county boy champion, won the Lee Westwood Trophy in 2011 and finished runner-up in the Simon Bolivar Cup in Venezuela the same year.
Recently he finished equal fifth in the Portuguese Amateur.
Evans (image copyright Leaderboard Photography), who will turn 27 during the Bonallack Trophy, enjoyed a highly successful trip to Australia in recent weeks including victories in the Lake Macquarie International and the Avondale Medal. He also finished as leading qualifier for the Australian Amateur and ended ninth in the Australian Masters of the Amateurs.
Last year, when he finished seventh on the Titleist/FootJoy England Golf men’s Order of Merit, Evans won the Berkshire Trophy, the Biarritz Cup in France and the Scrutton Jug for the lowest aggregate from the Brabazon and Berkshire Trophies. He also finished runner-up in the St Andrews Links Trophy and the South of England Amateur and made his full England debut in the Home Internationals at Ganton.
The European players have been selected based on their RandA World Amateur Golf Ranking (WAGR) and high-level golfing performances. Special attention was paid to match play results, particularly those attained in the European Golf Association’s (EGA) international matches and European team events.
The format for the match in southern India will include five morning four-ball matches and five afternoon foursomes on days one and two and 12 single matches on the final day.
Europe has won the last three encounters and five of the seven played in the series. The Asia/Pacific successes came in 2002 and 2004. The scheduled 2010 match was cancelled.
Sir Michael Bonallack, who had an exceptional amateur record in golf, will be attending the match. Among many prestigious titles, he won the Amateur Championship five times and was a member of nine Walker Cup teams. He is known as one of the leading contributors in world golf development in the late 20th century.

David Hamilton

Press Officer
England Golf

pr@englandgolf.org
01526 354 500

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NORTH-EAST ALLIANCE TEE TIMES FOR PORTLETHEN NEXT WEDNESDAY



08.15 Craig Cassie, Brian Harper, Grant Leslie
08:22 Robert Masson, DerekTownsley, Patrick McKenna
08:29 Keith Shanks, Chris Law, Neil Macandrew.
08:36 Paul Lawrie, Craig Lawrie, Kris Nicol
08:43 Harry Roulston, Leslie Roger, Reece Mitchell.
08:50 Mike Rendall, John Hamilton, Hamish McNaughton.
08:57 David Mackay, Colin Nelson, Philip Anderson

09:04 Raymond Brown, Mike Brown, S Davidson.
09:11 Manson Merchant, John Duff, Robert Lamb
09:18 Jim Scott, George Paterson, Paul Cornfield Paul

09:25 Mike Winton, Derek McDougall
09:32 Joel Hopwood, Laura Murray, Keil Beveridge
09:39 Martin Forster, Jim Duncan, Gordon Milne

09:46 Ron Buchan Jackie Forrest, Norman Stewart.
09:53 Ben Lumsden, Gibbie McDonald, Brian Nicolson


10:00 Robert Orr, Brian Lawrie, Phil Craig

10:07 Alan Gall, Lee Vannet, Iain Clark

10:14 Billy Main, free, free
10:21 Sam Kiloh, Neill Young, Les Fowler

10:28 David Leslie, Willie Shaw, Gary Homer

10:35 I D Smith, Robert O'Donnell, Peter Walker

10:42 Billy Fyfe, Sean Lawrie, Mike Rogers.
10:49 Ryan MacRae, Mike Smith
10:56 Mike Duncan, David Fleming, Jim Emslie

11:03 John Jessiman, Alister Petrie, Ian Grant

11:10 John Borthwick, David Nelson, Alister Graham

11:17 Tommy Collie, Mark Lawrie
11:24 Willie Skene, Dave Lane, Robbie Duncan
11:31 Alister Clark, Gary Thom
11:38 Chris Brindley, Greig Hutcheon, Jim Murra
11:45 David Bisset, Fergus Bisset, Derek Randall

11:52 Stewart Finnie, David McKay, Mike Booth.
11:59  Adam Dunton, J Booth. 

12:06 Scott Mackie, Graham Allan, Graeme Moir. 
12:13 Steve Lawrie, Cameron Grant. 
12:20 to 12.48 Free times

+Although the two-round championship with its various category trophies will be decided at Portlethen next Wednesday, as will the
qualifiers for the NE Alliance scratch and handicap foursomes at Murcar links the follow week, there will be the usual scratch and
handicap one-round prizes based on the Portlethen scores alone.

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TIED FOR NE ALLIANCE CHAMPIONSHIP LEAD AFTER 65s AT BUCKPOOL

LAWRIE v HUTCHEON IN CLASH OF THE 

SCOTTISH TITANS AT PORTLETHEN

By COLIN FARQUHARSON
Colin@scottishgolfview.com
The stage is set for a clash of the Scottish golfing Titans in the second and final round of the North-east Alliance championship at Portlethen Golf Club next Wednesday.
At the end of today's first 18 holes of a beautiful sunny, windless day at Buckpool on the Moray Firth coastline, Paul Lawrie of European Tour fame and Greig  Hutcheon, Tartan Tour leading money and Order of Merit winner last year, were tied for the lead on five-under-par 65.
"That was my first competitive round since the European Tour event at Dubai a few weeks ago so I am pretty pleased with it," said Lawrie who is skipping this weekend's Tour event in Morocco to support the Dons in the Scottish League Cup final on Sunday.
"It hit it very well and kept it in play very well, considering I had not played 18 holes since the Dubai Desert Classic and I have been struggling with sore back and neck.
"So, all in all, I was very happy how I played. What a beautiful day and it is always nice to play at Buckpool." 
Paul later revealed:
"Only had eight clubs in the bag today and it was great fun manufacturing shots when in between clubs.
"Did I forget the others? Hahahahahahaha!
Only took eight on purpose. I  do that now and again. It's good for feel. Today I had in my bag .. driver, rescue, putter , four-iron, 68 degree wedge. pitching wedge and lob wedge."
Paul's playing attachment, by the way, is the Carnegie Club at Skibo Castle, not the Paul Lawrie Golf Centre as wrongly attributed to him in an earlier report.
Buckpool conjures up great memories for Paul. He had a 10 at one hole and still won the Alliance event at this venue in 1999 ... and that year, of course, he went on to win the Open at Carnoustie.
Lawrie, who cut his competitive teeth on the NE Alliance circuit as a PGA assistant at Banchory, won the championship in 1989 and 1991.
Hutcheon has never won it although he came pretty close 12 months ago when he and John
Duff had the lowest 36-hole aggregate and the Newmachar amateur was declared the title winner with the better second round.
Ironically, Hutcheon left his Banchory Golf Club tour attachment to play out of the Paul Lawrie Golf Centre only a few weeks ago.
"I'll have to watch what I am doing in the second round," quipped Greig. "Beating the boss is not good for one's career prospects!"
Hutch was hitting it vast distances off the tee. For instance, he drove the green at the 308yd par-5 12th and had an eagle 2 chance but had to be content with a two-putt birdie.
Greig also got home in two with two good hits at the 17th (529yd) for another two-putt birdie.
Hutcheon and Lawrie led by two shots from two more from the Paul Lawrie "stable" David Law and Jordan Findlay, both 67, but they will be absent from the Portlethen field next Wednesday when they will be in Egypt for a couple of German PGA developmental tour events.
That means that Meldrum House +1 amateur Greg Watson, whose 68 included the best inward half of the day, 31, will be in third place, three off the pace, when he tees it up in the second round.
Said David Law: "I played solid from tee to green. It was a joy to play on a course as good as Buckpool on a day which was perfect for golf. Yes we all leave on Saturday for Egypt so that's another alliance season finished for us."

The only other player to break 70 at Buckpool was Insch prospect Neil Young who had a 69.
Defending champion Duff had a 71.
There is no "leading lady" prize in NE Alliance events but a pat on the back for former Scottish women's amateur champion Laura Murray who came home in 32 today for a 70. 
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HANDICAP PRIZEWINNERS
Class 1 - N Young (Insch) (1) 68; C Grant (Portlethen) (scr) 69; R MacRae (Auchmill) (9) (bih), A Petrie (Oldmeldrum) (9), B Nicolson (Auchmill) (1) 70.
Class 2 - P Cornfield (Auchmill) (13) 68; G Leslie (Newburgh) (10) (bih), M Winton (Caledonian) (11) 69; J Scott (Peterculter) (10) (bih), G Thom (Murcar Links) (10) 71.

LEADING SCORECARDS
Par: OUT - 445 443 435: 35 
           IN - 444 343 544: 35

GREIG HUTCHEON 65
OUT: 444 443 433: 33 

   IN: 433 344 434: 32

PAUL LAWRIE 65
OUT: 344 443 443: 33
   IN: 433 343 444: 32

DAVID LAW 67
OUT: 444 443 334: 33
   IN: 434 443 453: 34

JORDAN FINDLAY 67
OUT: 344 453 434: 34
    IN: 433 343 544: 33

GREG WATSON 68
OUT: 445 544 434: 37
   IN: 533 233 444: 31
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NORTH-EAST ALLIANCE CHAMPIONSHIP FIRST ROUND SCOREBOARD

BUCKPOOL GOLF CLUB
Par 70
65 G Hutcheon (Paul Lawrie GC), P Lawrie (Carnegie Club, Skibo Castle).
67 D Law (Paul Lawrie GC), J Findlay (Paul Lawrie GC).
68 G Watson (Meldrum House).
69 N Young (Insch)
70 S Kiloh (Paul Lawrie GC), Laura Murray (Paul Lawrie GC), C Lawrie (Paul Lawrie GC), A Dunton (McDonald Ellon).
71 John Duff (Newmachar), N Macandrew (Royal Aberdeen), B Nicolson (Auchmill),  P McLean (Paul Lawrie GC).
72 C Grant (Portlethen), S Finnie (Caledonian), K Nicol (Paul Lawrie GC).
73 G Munro (Fraserburgh).
74 C Law (Kings Links), B Main (Murcar Links).
75 Sean Lawrie (Portlethen), J Nicolson (Auchmill).
76 L Vannet (Carnoustie), L Fowler (Royal Aberdeen), D Fleming (Portlethen)
77 G Milne (Newburgh), J Esmlie (Royal Aberdeen).
78 H Roulston (Stonehaven), D McDougall (Caledonian), B Lumsden (Northern), J Booth (Cruden Bay).
79 G Leslie (Newburgh), A J Smith (Turriff), R MacRae (Auchmill), A Petrie (Oldmeldrum), F Bisset (Banchory), M Duncan (Murcar Links), M Lawrie (Kemnay), D Wilson (Duff House Royal).
80 G Paterson (Bon Accord), K Zeynalov (Paul Lawrie GC), B Fyfe (Paul Lawrie GC), R O'Donnell (Oldmeldrum), C Duffus (Kemnay).
81 B Harper (Newburgh), J Scott (Peterculter), J Hamilton (Murcar Links), M Merchant (Newmachar), R Lamb (Newmachar), J Hopwood (Royal Aberdeen), P Craig (Kintore), Steve Lawrie (Portlethen), G Sutherland (Reay), P Cornfield (Auchmill), G Thom (Murcar Links), D Lane (Deeside).
82 R Masson (Auchmill), M Winton (Caledonian), B Lawrie (Kemnay), D Bisset (Banchory), G Moir (Auchmill).
83 J Forrest (Northern) 
84 W Shaw (Banchory), D Nelson (Aboyne), S Mackie (Auchmill).
85 C Cassie (Nigg Bay), M Forster (Cruden Bay), R Orr (Kemnay), P Walker (Cruden Bay), W Skene (Deeside)
86 D Mackay (Newmachar), L Roger (Royal Aberdeen), M Smith (Auchmill), J Murray (Banchory), T Collie (Kemnay), D McKay (Caledonian).
87 D Townsley (Peterculter), J Borthwick (Craibstone), G Allan (Auchmill).
88 C Brindley (Banchory)
90 G Homer (Northern)
91 H McNaughton (Cruden Bay), M Rogers (Kemnay), M Booth (Kemnay).
92 C Redman (Inchmarlo).
94 R Buchan (Northern), N Stewart (Northern), J Jessiman (Oldmeldrum)
98 R Duncan (Royal Aberdeen)
109 G McDonald (Auchmill)

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