PAUL LAWRIE GOLF CENTRE LADIES TARTAN TOUR 2014 REPORT, SCORES

TRISH AND BECKY SHARE LEAD AT FAIRMONT 

England's Trish Johnson and Becky Brewerton from Wales,

the two biggest "names" in the field of 30 for the 

opening event of the PGA in Scotland Paul Lawrie Ladies

Tartan Tour, underline their class by sharing the lead

at the end of the first day of the £6,000 36-hole event.

Both former Solheim Cup and Curtis Cup players  matched

the par of 72 over the Torrance Course at

Fairmont St Andrews and it could be a battle royal for

the £2,500 first prize when uthey tee off together atJ

 2pm in the final round.

 There was a similarity about their first-round

scorecards. Both deviated from par only four times.

Johnson birdied the first and seventh, bogeying the

ninth and 17th in halves of 35-37.

Brewerton birdied the long sixth and 15th but bogeyed

the 12th and 17th for her 35-37.

Glasgow's Gemma Webster and Edinburgh's Vikki Laing

are spearheading the Scottish challenge on the 73 mark, 

alongside rookie Welsh pro Amy Boulden, daughter of the Conwy

Golf Club pro.

Webster's four birdies were twice as many as either of

the leaders managed but she also had five bogeys in 

halves of 37-36.

If Laing had parred the second instead of running up a

double bogey 6 she would have been the halfway leader

but she bounced back from that potentially demoralising

hole with a hat-trick of birdies from the fifth to the 

seventh and turned in 35. Her bogeys (three) outnumbered

her birdies (one) in an inward 38

Boulden, one of the heroines of the GB and I Curtis Cup

victory in June 2012 at Nairn, had two bogeys and three

birdies in halves of 36-37.

Charlotte Austwick from Fulford, Yorkshire is the leading

amateur in the field on 74, the same score as Edinburgh-

born Sally Watson, another one of several past Curtis

Cup players in the quality field.

 There is no admission charge nor car parking fee and

the organisers, not to mention the competitors, would 

be delighted to play in front of galleries.

The first players tee off at 12.30 and the last three - 

Johnson, Brewerton and Webster - at 2.30 

Why not go along and see how good these players really 

 are? It will be the best free entertainment on offer

to you this week!

FIRST ROUND SCOREBOARD

Par 72

72 Trish Johnson (Eng), Becky Brewerton (Wal)

73 Gemma Webster (Sco), Vikki Laing (Sco), Amy Boulden

(Wal)

74 Charlotte Austwick (Eng) (am), Sally Watson (Sco)

75 Michele Thomson (Sco), Jane Turner (Sco), Carly

Booth (Sco).

77 Heather Stirling (Sco), Laura Murray (Sco), Jess

Willox (Eng), Lauren Whyte (Sco) (am), Kelsey 

Macdonald (Sco), Heather MacRae (Sco), Martine Pow

(Sco)

78 Pamela Feggans (Sco), Katy McNicoll (Sco), Alyson

McKechin (Sco) (am), Tracey Boyes (Eng)

79 Emilee Taylor (Eng), India Clyburn (Eng) (am)

81 Jenny Potter (Sco) (am), Daisy Dyer-Brierley

(Eng), Emma Fairnie (Sco)

82 Lisa Shervill (Eng)

87 Kirston Scott (Sco)

89 Georgina Snow (Eng), Nicola Ferguson (Sco) (am) 

TEE TIMES FOR TUESDAY 

Round 2: Fairmont St. Andrews - Torrance Course 15/04/2014

 Tee  Time      Name

  1   12:30 AM  Nicola Ferguson (a)
                Georgina Snow
                Kirstin Scott

  1   12:40 AM  Lisa Shervill
                Emma Fairnie
                Daisy Dyer-Breierley

  1   12:50 AM  Jenny Potter (a)
                India Clyburn (a)
                Emilee Taylor

  1   1:00 PM   Tracey Boyes
                Alyson McKechin (a)
                Katy McNicoll

  1   1:10 PM   Pamela Feggans
                Martine Pow
                Heather MacRae

  1   1:20 PM   Kelsey Macdonald
                Lauren Whyte (a)
                Jess Wilcox

  1   1:30 PM   Laura Murray
                Heather Stirling
                Carly Booth

  1   1:40 PM   Jane Turner
                Michele Thomson
                Sally Watson

  1   1:50 PM   Charlotte Austwick (a)
                Amy Boulden
                Vikki Laing

  1   2:00 PM   Gemma Webster
                Becky Brewerton
                Trish Johnson

AMERICAN LEFT HANDER IS AUGUSTA ACE ONCE AGAIN

BUBBA WATSON REGAINS MASTERS TITLE WITH THREE SHOTS TO SPARE

FROM THE US PGA TOUR WEBSITE
AUGUSTA, Ga. -- The old adage at Augusta National is that the Masters doesn’t begin until the back nine on Sunday.
This year, it was decided before ever reaching it.
Jordan Spieth three-putted for bogey on the par-5 eighth, while Bubba Watson got up-and-down for birdie to tie him for the lead.
One hole later, the 20-year-old Spieth, playing in his first Masters and trying to become the youngest winner of the Green Jacket, left his approach below the flag and watched as his ball rolled back into the fairway to set up another bogey and a two-shot swing when Watson made a second straight birdie.
“I hit two great shots on eight,” Watson said. “Eight and nine were really the turning point where momentum kind of went my way.”
Watson never trailed again, adding a birdie on the par-5 13th after a 365-yard drive that narrowly missed the trees lining the left side and left him just a sand wedge into the green on the 510-yard hole.
He finished with his second 69 of the week and added a second Green Jacket in three years after an 8-under, 280-total gave him a three-shot win over Spieth and Jonas Blixt.
In doing so, Watson joins an impressive list of players with two Masters titles, including Ben Hogan, Byron Nelson, Tom Watson, Seve Ballesteros, Horton Smith, Bernhard Langer, Ben Crenshaw and Jose Maria Olazabal.
“It's overwhelming,” Watson said. “Small-town guy named Bubba now has two Green Jackets, it's pretty wild. I know my mom probably watched at home. I wish she was here.”
He gave her, and everyone else, quite a show. It just ended earlier than the last time he won at Augusta.
Two years ago, Watson rallied from three back on the final day before beating Louis Oosthuizen in a playoff with a shot out of the trees on the 10th hole to set up the winning putt.
This time, he was happy it wasn’t that close. He closed with five straight pars and tapped in the final one before dropping his hands to his knees and letting the emotion pour out.
 “The shot out of the woods made me famous,” he said. “But this one was a lot better for me and my nerves, my family, probably on (my caddie).”
Watson’s lead briefly shrunk to one after a bogey on No. 10 but no one got closer than three after the birdie on 13 with few roars so synonymous with Augusta National's back nine on Sunday.
 “The group in front of us and other groups, you could just tell, just nobody really caught fire,” Watson said. “There wasn't too many birdies after No. 10, I don't think.”
That included Spieth, who had one bogey and no birdies over his final nine holes. But it was his inexperience that cost him as much as anything, at least on the ninth hole.
“It's an underrated shot,” Spieth said of his approach. “It's not a standard, on-the-driving-range 9-iron. You really have to work towards being aggressive at the ball, and I may have just picked it up just a little early hoping to see it go right at the hole, and I just thought it caught it a little thin.”

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KUCHAR’S DEMISE: Matt Kuchar had a share of the lead early Sunday -- until an inexplicable four-putt and double bogey on the par-3 fourth.
“I can't recall the last time I four-putted,” he said. “But if there was ever a place to do it ... The first putt was a long, uphill putt. I came up six feet short, seven feet short, hit a great second putt that caught the top side and kind of one of those power lips and goes seven feet by.
“All of a sudden walk off with a double bogey, and I think I've hit some pretty good shots.”
It dropped him to even par on his round and he was never able to recover, adding another bogey at No. 9 before a bounce-back birdie on 11. He bogeyed 17 and 18, too, to shoot 74 and finish six back.
This marks the third straight year Kuchar has been in contention Sunday at the Masters Tournament.
In the final round of the 2012 Masters, Kuchar eagled the 15th to momentarily tie for the lead only to make bogey one hole later and eventually finish two strokes out of a playoff between Watson and Louis Oosthuizen. Last year, he trailed by three going into the final round but faded from contention with a 73 to tie for eighth.

LEADING FINAL TOTALS
Par 288 (4x72) players from USA unless stated
280 Bubba Watson 69 68 74 69
283 Jonas Blixt (Sweden) 70 71 71 71, Jordan Spieth 71 70 70 72
284 Miguel Angel Jimenez (Spain) 71 76 66 71
286 Rickie Fowler 71 75 67 73, Matt Kuchar 73 71 68 74
287 Lee Westwood (England) 73 71 70 73
288 Bernhard Langer (Germany) 72 74 73 69, Rory McIlroy (N Ireland) 71 77 71 69
SELECTED TOTALS
289 Justin Rose (England) 76 70 69 74, Adam Scott (Australia) 69 72 76 72 (T14)
290 Ian Poulter (England) 76 70 70 74 (T21)
294 Stephen Gallacher (Scotland) 71 72 81 70 (T34)

EDINBURGH EVENT CUT TO TWO ROUNDS BY BAD WEATHER

CRAIG WATSON WINS CRAIGMILLAR 

PARK  OPEN - 19 YEARS AFTER LAST WIN

Former British amateur champion Craig Watson (East Renfrewshire) turned the clock back in Edinburgh on Sunday to win the Craigmillar Park Open - an event he won 19 years ago in 1995, when he was in his prime.
Watson has rarely missed a Craigmillar Park Open down through the years and his loyalty was rewarded in very testing conditions.
Gale-forced winds made play impossible on Saturday and reduced the scheduled first event in the SGU Order of Merit 72-hole calendar to 36 holes.
The weather was not all that much better when the field did get started
Watson's opening  par round of 70 kept him in the mix behind joint leaders on 68, Benn McLeod (Musselburgh) and Chris Hutcheon (Monifieth) who held a one-stroke lead over Kenny Mail (West Linton), former winner Matthew Clark (Kilmacolm) and Craig Ross (Kirkhill)
Watson forged to the front with two-under-par second round of 68 for a two under total of 138.
That gave him victory by two shots from McLeod who drifted to a 72 in the second round but his 140 total was still three shots better than a bunch of players who shared third place on 143 - Scott Borrowman (Dollar) (76-67), winner of the Scottish Champion of Champions title at Leven the previous weekend, Keith Hamilton (Ayr Belleisle) (72-71), Michael Daily (Erskine) (73-70) and Graham Robertson (Silverknowes) (70-73).
Borrowmans 67 was the lowest round of the weather-truncated tournament.
LEADING TOTALS
Par 140 (2x70)
138 Craig Watson (East Renfrewshire) 70 68
140 Benn McLeod (Musselburgh) 68 72
143 Keith Hamilton (Ayr Belleisle) 72 71, Graham Robertson (Silverknowes) 70 73, Michael Daily (Erskine) 73 70, Scott Borrowman (Dollar) 76 67
144 Kenny Mail (West Linton) 69 75
145 Adam Dunton (McDonald Ellon) 75 70
146 Matthew Clark (Kilmacolm) 69 77, Paul Reilly (Kilmacolm) 74 72.
147 Jordyn Rhynd (Kingsknowe) 71 76, Alex Moir (Thorn ton) 71 76, Chris Hutcheon (Monifieth) 68 79, Craig Ross (Kirkhill) 69 78, Edward Shannly (Linlithgow) 77 70, GreIg Forrester (Lundin) 71 76, James Hendricks (Pollok) 73 74
148 Ryan Campbell (Falkirk) 72 76, Jef) 79 7f Wright (Forres) 74 74, Fraser Moore (Glenbervie) 76 72, Scott Brown (Turnberry) 73 75, Connar Cook (Caird Park) 72 76, Andrew Campbell (Dumbarton) 75 73, Connor Syme (Dumfries and Co) 74 74, Lee Morgan (Dumbarton) 76 72
149 Willem Kerr (Craigielw) 73 76, Hugh Nelson (Kilsyth Lennox) 73 74, Cameron Farrell (Cardross) 73 76, Daniel Kay (Dunbar) 76 73, Greg Marchbank (Thornhill) 74 75, Gordon Miller (Cawder) 74 75, Andrew Burgess (Nairn) 76 73
150 Steven Rennie (Drumpellier) 73 77, Nick Macandrew (Royal Aberdeen) 76 74, John Laurie (Glasgow) 74 76, Alasdair Simpson (North Berwick) 79 71, Thomas Forster (Eden) 72 78
151 Andrew Davidson (Charleton) 71 80, Davd Hulston (Dollar) 75 76, Mike Howard (Royal Birkdale) 76 75
152 Alasdair McDougal (Elderslie) 75 77, John Shanks (Irvine) 76 76, Oliver Armour (Mahrihanish) 76 76, Jordan Shaw (Boat of Garten) 76 76, Alan Sutherland (Ladybank) 74 78
153 Stuart Blair (Royal Musselburgh) 76 77, Rory Thompson (Dalbeattie) 76 77

154 David Gillie (Torwoodlee) 80 74, John Douglas (Aberdour) 77 77, Derek Gillie (Torwoodlee) 77 77, Anthony Blaney (Liberton) 78 76, John Duff (Newmachar) 77 77, Kyle McClung (Wigtownshire) 79 75
155 Sean Heads (Hexham) 75 80 Calum Cochrane (Marriott Dalmahoy) 77 78, Fraser Grant (Ralston) 80 75
156 Jackson Berry (Torwoodlee) 71 85, Paul Gault (Westerwood) 82 74, Jake Hogg (St Andrews New) 78 78, Stuart Drummond (Palacerigg) 80 76, Michel Bacigalupo (Longniddry) 78 78
157 Jamie Lamb (Lanark) 74 83
158 Stuart Haddow (Falkirk) 74 84
159 Steven Aitken (Leven GS) 76 83, Kenny Macaskill (Turnberry Staff) 74 81
162 Blair Gavin (Kilmarnock Barassie) 82 80
164 Tom Watson (St Andrews) 79 85
Withdrew: Allyn Dick (Kingsknowe) 74 wd, Tam Caldwell (Silverknowes) 76 wd.
No Returns: Andy Utterson (Craigmillar Park) 78 NR, Simon Fairburn (Torwoodlee) 73 NR, Sean McGarvey (Dunbar) 81 NR, Niall Young (Insch) 79 NR.

CRAIGMILLAR PARK OPEN FINAL TOTALS

Craig	Watson	East Renfrewshire	70	68	138
Benn	McLeod	Musselburgh	68	72	140
Keith	Hamilton	Ayr Bellisle	72	71	143
Graham	Robertson	Silverknowes	70	73	143
Michael	Daily	Erskine	73	70	143
Scott	Borrowman	Dollar	76	67	143
Kenny	Mail	West Linton	69	75	144
Adam	Dunton	McDonald Ellon	75	70	145
Matthew	Clark	Kilmacolm	69	77	146
Paul	Reilly	Kilmacolm	74	72	146
Jordyn	Rhind	Kingsfield	71	76	147
Alex	Moir	Thornton	71	76	147
Chris	Hutcheon	Monifeith	68	79	147
Craig	Ross	Kirkhill	69	78	147
Edward	Shannly	Linlithgow	77	70	147
Greg	Forrester	Lundin Links	71	76	147
James	Hendricks	Pollock	73	74	147
Ryan	Campbell	Falkirk	72	76	148
Jeff	Wright	Forres	74	74	148
Fraser	Moore	Glenbervie	76	72	148
Scott	Brown	Turnberry	73	75	148
Connar	Cook	Caird Park	72	76	148
Andrew	Campbell	Dumbarton	75	73	148
Connor	Syme	Dumfries & County	74	74	148
Lee	Morgan	Dunbar	76	72	148
Willem	Kerr	Craigielaw	73	76	149
Hugh	Nelson	Kilsyth Lennox	75	74	149
Cameron	Farrell	Cardross	73	76	149
Daniel	Kay	Dunbar	76	73	149
Greig	Marchbank	Thornhill	74	75	149
Gordon	Miller	Cawder	74	75	149
Andrew	Burgess	Nairn	76	73	149
Steven	Rennie	Drumpellier	73	77	150
Nick	Macandrew	Royal Aberdeen	76	74	150
John	Laurie	Glasgow	74	76	150
Alasdair	Simpson	North Berwick	79	71	150
Thomas	Forster	Eden	72	78	150
Andrew	Davidson	Charleton	71	80	151
Darren	Hulston	Dollar	75	76	151
Mike	Howard	Royal Birkdale	76	75	151
Alasdair	Mcdougal	Elderslie	75	77	152
John	Shanks	Irvine	76	76	152
Oliver	Armour	Machrihanish	76	76	152
Jordan	Shaw	Boat of Garten	76	76	152
Alan	Sutherland	Ladybank	74	78	152
Stuart	Blair	Royal Musselburgh	76	77	153
Rory	Thompson	Dalbeattie	76	77	153
David	Gillie	Torwoodlee	80	74	154
John	Douglas	Aberdour	77	77	154
Derek	Gillie	Torwoodlee	77	77	154
Anthony	Blaney	Liberton	78	76	154
Steven	Higgins	Gourock	78	76	154
John	Duff	Newmachar	77	77	154
Kyle	McClung	Wigtownshire County	79	75	154
Sean	Heads	Hexham	75	80	155
Calum	Cochrane	Marriott Dalmahoy	77	78	155
Fraser	Grant	Ralston	80	75	155
Jackson	Berry	Torwoodlee	71	85	156
Paul	Gault	Westerwood	82	74	156
Jake	Hogg	St Andrews New	78	78	156
Stuart	Drummond	Palacerigg	80	76	156
Michael	Bacigalupo	Longniddry	78	78	156
Jamie	Lamb	Lanark	74	83	157
Stuart	Haddow	Falkirk	74	84	158
Steven	Aitken	Leven Golfing Society	76	83	159
Kenny	MacAskill	Turnberry Staff	78	81	159
Blair	Gavin	Kilmarnock Barassie	82	80	162
Tom	Watson	Fancourt/St Andrews	79	85	164
Andy	Utterson	Craigmillar Park	78	NR	NR
Simon	Fairburn	Torwoodlee	73	NR	NR
Sean	McGarvey	Dunbar	81	NR	NR
Niall	Young	Insch	79	NR	NR
Allyn	Dick	Kingsknowe	74	WD	WD
Tam	Caldwell	Silverknowes	76	WD	WD