SIXTY-SEVEN YEARS AFTER HIS VICTORY ...

THE OLDEST SURVIVING SCOTTISH BOYS' CHAMPION,

JOHN BRYDONE, IS VISITING CRUDEN BAY

By COLIN FARQUHARSON
 Colin@scottishgolfview.com 
John Brydone, the oldest surviving winner of the Scottish boys' golf championship, at the age of 1`7 in 1947, is visiting Cruden Bay this week, so his brother-in-law Edward Savage tells me by E-mail:

"For your records, here is an up to date photograph of John who is my brother-in-law and is visiting us in Cruden Bay although not playing a round of golf at the club!

Edward Savage"

A message from John:

“Colin,

Many thanks for your kind words. I am on a visit to Cruden Bay where my brother in law Edward Savage has kindly used his       technology.

"I am 84 3/4 years old and glad to say I am in good health.”

JUST TO REFRESH YOUR MEMORY, HERE IS AN 

EARLIER ARTICLE FROM SCOTTISHGOLFVIEW.COM

Friday, April 04, 2014

JOHN BRYDONE'S OUTSTANDING SERVICE TO THE GAME OF GOLF

Scroll back a day or two to read the article in which John McTear, himself a former winner, asked if anyone knew who is the oldest surviving winner

of the Scottish boys match-play championship which will be played at West Kilbride next week.

With the help of Michael Niven, we came up with the answer: Pitlochry GC member John Brydone, winner of the boys' title at the age of 17 at North Berwick in 1947, which makes John 84 or 85 today, alive and well.

Now we can add to the story line:

E-mail from Graeme Leggat

PGA advanced professional

Please find, on right,  a photo of John Brydone as he was in 1947 with the Scottish boys' championship trophy. Taken with ipad so not perfect. 

This photograph hangs in the clubhouse at Pitlochry Golf Club.

John doesn't play much golf now but does have the occasional nine holes.
 He is involved with the Pitlochry Golf Week which is played each June. John is an honorary member at Pitlochry.

Although John Brydone was the Scottish Boys’ Champion in 1947, he was to find his niche on the administrative side of the game. Playing for the Perthshire County team for some years he went on to serve for a total of 47 years. He was county delegate to the Scottish Golf Union and became Chairman of the Scottish Boys’ Championship Committee. 

Until 2006 he was the Highland Open Tournament Secretary and was Pitlochry Golf Club Secretary for 32 years.

Graeme Leggat   
 PGA Advanced Golf Professional     

Editor's comment: I think John Brydone deserves another trophy ... for outstanding services to golf over a long period.

Well done, John!

HIGHLAND OF YEAR FOR ANGUS GOLF

 

Carnoustie Country To Host Second Festival of Golf

CARNOUSTIE COUNTRY FESTIVAL OF 

GOLF FROM OCTOBER 4 TO 12

NEWS RELEASE

Following the success of last year’s Carnoustie Country Festival of Golf, plans are well underway for the 2014 Festival, which will take place in and around the county of Angus from  October 4 to 12. 

International golf tournaments and Texas scrambles are among the events being held on Carnoustie Country’s top-rated courses during the Festival of Golf, which aims to encourage people from near and far to play golf on Carnoustie Country’s 30 golf courses while also encouraging golfers who are residents in the area to join a local golf club.

The Alfred Dunhill Links Championship, which sees many of the world’s top golfers and best-known celebrities playing golf at Carnoustie, St Andrews and Kingsbarns, tees off the week of exciting golfing activities. 

The Dunhill concludes on October 5, just as hordes of hickory golfers descend upon Carnoustie Country, brandishing golf clubs and wearing golf attire similar to those of golfers from days gone by. 

The hickory golfers will be competing in the World Hickory Open, which is being played on Panmure Medal on October 7 and 8. 

This internationally-renowned tournament begins with a warm-up round at Forfar Golf Club on October 6 and ends with a Ryder Cup-style match on October 8, when a group of top American hickory specialists will take on a team of hickory golfers representing The Rest of The World at Monifieth Medal and Ashludie courses.

These major events will be interspersed with events aimed at visiting and local golfers on Carnoustie Country golf courses. There are already several golf tournaments in the Festival’s programme but the organisers are keen to include more – and also golfers’ dinners, golf-related talks and golf exhibitions and are currently appealing for golf clubs or golfing enthusiasts who would like to be involved to get in touch.

All events in the Carnoustie Country Festival of Golf programme will be supported by online and offline promotion and will be widely publicised, providing an excellent opportunity for clubs to hold membership drives or accommodation providers in the local area to provide special golfing stay and play packages during the Festival.

To get involved – and to ensure inclusion in the Carnoustie Country Festival of Golf 2014 programme - contact 01307 473226, email blackg@angus.gov.uk or submit details online at www.carnoustiecountry.com/FestivalEvents by 5 September.

 

CHALLENGE TOUR REPORT AND SCORES

    
LASSE LEADS BY ONE IN SWITZERLAND
 
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Overnight leader Lasse Jensen followed up his scintillating form of day one with a slightly more considered round on Thursday, carding a two under par 70 to lead at the halfway stage of the Rolex Trophy at Geneva, Switzerland.
The Dane went bogey free for his first 18 holes en route to a round of 61, and despite dropping a first stroke of the week at the par four sixth on day two, he countered that with red figures at the second, 13th and 16th holes to lead by one at 13 under par from South Korea’s Byeong-hun An at Golf Club de Genève.
Jensen has never won on the European Challenge Tour, but did finish second to South Africa’s Jake Roos at the Barclays Kenya Open in the opening event of this season, which matched his best result on the second tier at the same event in 2012.
He therefore remains ideally placed to pick up a maiden piece of silverware in Geneva through 36 holes, seemingly buoyed by an impressive European Tour showing on home soil last week, where he finished in a tie for seventh at Made in Denmark.
“I feel fairly neutral about my round,” said Jensen, who hails from Copenhagen. “I really tried to play my best but all the margins I got yesterday, I think I got the opposite today, as sometimes the ball took a bad break or bounced in the wrong direction.
"I felt like it was harder today, so to shoot two under and still move forward, I am actually quite happy with that. It was quite difficult to start out, so I tried to be calm.
"It is difficult when you have had a round like I did yesterday, every putt just dropped, and today they didn’t. You just have to focus on your next shot and then hopefully tomorrow, I can erase the past two days and then start over again.”
An started the day two strokes adrift of the leading Jensen, and his three under par 69  saw him halve that deficit, as he also looks for a first Challenge Tour triumph.
The Florida-based South Korean had a roller coaster opening round that saw him card a mere five pars, but on day two his play was a little more consistent.
SECOND-ROUND TOTALS
Par 144 (2x72)
131 L Jensen (Den) 61 70
132 B An (SKor) 63 69
134 M Lorenzo-Vera  (Fra) 64 70
135 C Bouniol (Fra) 67 68, A Johnston (Eng) 66 69, F Fritsch  (Ger) 68 67, D Ulrich (Sui) 67 68, B Hebert  (Fra) 67 68
136 S Hutsby  (Eng) 65 71, J Roos (RSA) 68 68
137 M Fitzpatrick  (Eng) 69 68, M Tullo (Chi) 69 68, P Relecom  (Bel) 69 68
138 A Bernadet  (Fra) 68 70, C Shinkwin (Eng) 69 69, J Garcia Pinto (Esp) 69 69, A Marshall (Eng) 71 67, S Brown (Eng) 68 70, E Espana (Fra) 67 71
139 T Linard (Fra) 71 68, R Coles (Eng) 70 69, B Åkesson (Swe) 68 71, C Arendell (USA) 72 67, T Pilkadaris (Aus) 68 71, L Gagli  (Ita) 70 69, J Lando Casanova  (Fra) 69 70
140 J Barnes (Eng) 70 70
141 P Widegren  (Swe) 71 70, A Hortal  (Esp) 68 73, W Harrold (Eng) 70 71, D Gaunt (Eng) 70 71
142 D Coupland (Eng) 71 71, J Huldahl (Den) 71 71
143 C Aguilar  (Esp) 74 69, J Palmer (Eng) 74 69,
144 A McArthur  (Sco) 70 74, O Farr (Wal) 72 72, F Bergamaschi (Ita) 71 73
145 J Fahrbring (Swe) 70 75, M Delpodio  (Ita) 70 75,
146 N Quintarelli (Ita) 76 70, A Tadini (Ita) 71 75, S Henry  (Sco) 69 77
148 P Oriol (Esp) 75 73
 

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EUROPEAN TOUR EVENT NEAR PRAGUE

Deadly Donaldson shows Ryder Cup selection 

class in Czech Masters

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Jamie Donaldson displayed the class and composure of a future Ryder Cup star as the Welshman stormed to the top of the leaderboard at the Czech Masters, edging one step closer to a place in Paul McGinley’s European team in the process.
The World Number 29 would seal his berth at the Gleneagles showcase with a win at the stunning Albatross Golf Resort outside Prague, and a six under par first round 66 handed him the perfect start as he moved one shot clear of Swede Mikael Lundberg.
Playing alongside fellow Ryder Cup hopeful Stephen Gallacher, who carded a two under 70 , Donaldson started the inaugural event with a bang as he birdied the first en route to a three under par front nine.
A bogey at the par four 11th knocked him back to two under before his world-class talent came to the fore on the home stretch, carding four birdies in the last seven holes to move into pole position.
Lundberg, a winner on The European Tour already this year at the Lyoness Open powered by .
SCOTSWATCH. Craig Lee is the top Scot with a 69, one ahead of Paul Lawrie, Stephen Gallacher, Peter Whiteford and Duncan Stewart. Scott Jamieson had a 71.
 
Key player quotes
Jamie Donaldson, 66 (-6)
“It’s a good start and I played nicely all the way really. I seemed to play the tougher holes better than the easy holes but I'm happy with how I played. It was always going to be a little bit of a low score if there wasn’t much wind and, while there was a little bit early on, it got easier as the wind dropped towards the end.
“It’s very important to get those approach shots in close and give yourself a lot of chances and I did that, the score reflected that.
“I generally like playing in wind or rain but today it was windy in places and those par threes play long out there so I was wearing my three iron out. But I'm in a good position and more of the same tomorrow.
“I know what I've got to do this week so it’s just a case of going out and doing it. It’s another golf tournament where you’ve got to go out there and play as well as you can and contend to win the tournament. I’m in a position to do that now, I just need more of the same over the next three rounds.
“You can’t go too heavily into it (Ryder Cup prospects), you have to go out there and it’s just one shot at a time like any other week. There are other things circling around this result but you have to get on with it and keep doing the same things you’ve been doing every week."
Mikael Lundberg, 67 (-5)
“I played really steady and really solid. I only made one mistake today and made some putts so it doesn’t get much better than that.
“I've worked a lot on the swing and it feels a little better but I wasn’t sure before the round. I was very uncertain, especially about my putting which hasn’t been great the last couple of days, but it came back to where it should be.
“This year, I've worked with my new coach and we've made big progress, there’s way more stability and control in the game. We make everything more simple so I'm very happy with what’s going on now, it feels nice.
“The hardest thing to do is keep it simple but you try to take away all unnecessary movements and make everything more simple but it’s not that easy to do.”
Kenneth Ferrie, 68 (-4)
“It was good. The golf course is pretty long. I didn’t see a great deal of birdies in practice but obviously I seemed to find them all early today, six birdies to start the day is always nice!
“They were all reasonable chances and shots to the greens and taking it from there. Overall it wasn’t too bad, disappointed not to finish at least where I was or push on but it’s tough out there, definitely not an easy course.
“Obviously I had a couple of rough years and lost my card and haven’t managed to get it back yet so I'm playing whenever I can, as a past champion of events and late invites. It’s my own doing, I didn’t play well enough two years ago or at Q-School and I haven’t been able to get on a sustained run to get back out.
“It’s nice that when I've been out this year I’ve proven I still can play. I played alright in Austria for a couple of days and OK for a round in Barcelona, it’s nice to know I'm still capable out here.”
Danny Willett, 68 (-4)
“It was a bit of a rollercoaster. I had nine birdies in the end, my good golf was brilliant today but my bad golf – I hit three bad tee shots and a couple of bad second shots that got punished. It was a very strange day but I would have taken four under this morning.
“My game is in nice enough shape and I’ve had a steady enough year but that was just a strange day. Every time I had a good number I hit it really close. I had 24 putts but I stuck it in there really close a lot of the time.
“I holed a nice long one there at the last which was a bit of a consolation prize for the double-bogey on eight. I don’t want to analyse it too much, it was just one of those days, that’s golf.
“The course can definitely bite back, I played it back nine and then front nine today which is probably the nicer way to play it. You try and get a score early and keep it through the last few holes on the front nine and then the front nine there are a lot of chances.
“I think it’s one of those courses where you’ll see guys coming out of the blocks quickly and then they’ll soon put the brakes on and maybe whack it in reverse but hopefully I can get the mistakes off the card and keep going forward."

FIRST-ROUND SCOREBOARD
Par 72
66 J Donaldson (Wal)
67 M Lundberg (Swe) 
68 L Slattery (Eng), D Willett  (Eng), M Nixon (Eng) , K Horne (RSA) , J Hahn (USA) , S Chowrasia (Ind) , S Kjeldsen (Den) , K Ferrie (Eng) , P Waring  (Eng) , B Dredge (Wal)
69 G Bourdy (Fra) , D Huizing (Ned) , A Sullivan (Eng) , J Colomo  (Esp) , C Lee (Sco) , D Lipsky (USA) , S Walker (Eng) , P Archer (Eng) , T Sluiter  (Ned) ,
70 P Lawrie (Sco) , J Morrison  (Eng) , P Hedblom (Swe) , E Pepperell (Eng) , R Kakko  (Fin) , R Karlberg  (Swe) , A Otaegui  (Esp) , S Webster (Eng) , P Whiteford (Sco) , G Porteous (Eng) , P Uihlein  (USA) , S Wakefield (Eng) , M Bremner (RSA) , J Hansen  (Den) , F Calmels  (Fra) , J Luiten (Ned) , S Thornton (Irl) , T Hatton (Eng) , H Otto (RSA) , D Stewart (Sco) , J Knutzon (USA) , S Gallacher (Sco) , R McGee (Irl)
71 J Lagergren (Swe) , D Im (USA) , E De La Riva  (Esp) , S Manley (Wal), A Saddier (Fra), M Grönberg (Swe) , R Bland (Eng) , S Jamieson  (Sco) , D Kemmer (USA) , C Paisley  (Eng) , S Kapur (Ind) , J Kruger (RSA) , E Dubois (Fra) , J Lima  (Por) , B Stone (RSA) , G Stal  (Fra) , O Stark (Swe) 
72 G Lockerbie  (Eng) , J Parry (Eng) , K Phelan (Irl) , F Praegant (Aut) , T Pieters  (Bel) , T Lee (USA) , A Wall (Eng) , F Andersson Hed (Swe) , D Frittelli (RSA) , A Pavan (Ita) , G Boyd  (Eng) , B Wiesberger  (Aut) , P Sjöland (Swe) , E Grillo (Arg) , G Bhullar (Ind) , N Elvira  (Esp) , M Baldwin (Eng) , G Maybin (Nir) , P Lawrie (Irl) , T Fleetwood  (Eng) , J Singh (Ind) 
73 M Jonzon (Swe) , J Heath  (Eng) , D McGrane (Irl) , B Ritthammer (Ger) , A Forsyth (Sco) , R Davies (Wal) , J Campillo (Esp) , J Lara (Esp) , A Hartø  (Den) , L Bjerregaard  (Den), J Doherty  (Sco), F Aguilar (Chi) , M Korhonen (Fin) , S Dodd (Wal) , N Holman  (Aus) 
74 B Evans  (Eng) , T Lewis (Eng) , H Porteous (RSA) , Z Scotland  (Eng) , S Dyson  (Eng) , S Kim (Kor) , R Santos  (Por) , C Hanson (Eng) , S Hansen (Den) , T Nørret (Den) , M Foster (Eng) , J Sjöholm (Swe) , A Hansen (Den), S Little (Eng) , R Gonzalez (Arg) , J Dantorp (Swe) , J Elson  (Eng) , C Del Moral (Esp) , C Doak (Sco)
75 A Kaleka  (Fra) , G Storm  (Eng) , E Goya (Arg) , B Paolini (USA) , J McLeary  (Sco) , D Horsey (Eng) , A Pavlov (Rus) , W Ormsby (Aus) , O Bekker (RSA) , L Tintera  (Cze) , R Finch  (Eng) , D Drysdale (Sco) , R Rock (Eng) , J Walters (RSA)
76 A Gee  (Eng) , V Riu  (Fra) , N Colsaerts  (Bel) , J Kingston (RSA) , X Ruiz Fonhof  (Ned) , D Higgins (Irl) , S Matus  (Cze) , D Brooks (Eng) , V Novak (am) (Cze)
77 O Fisher  (Eng) , L Kennedy  (Eng) , A Korinek (Cze) , K Eriksson (Swe) , N Dougherty  (Eng) , P Price (Wal)
78 A Rajmont  (Cze) , M Novy  (Cze) 
79 T Levet (Fra) , P Dedek (am) (Cze)
80 B Henson (USA) , R Hahn (Hun) , O Henningsson  (Swe)
81 Y Kafelnikov (Rus) , P Gal  (Cze)
82 D Suchan  (Cze)
83 R Gruber (Aut)

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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)

PGA EUROPRO TOUR REPORT, SCORES

FENWICK'S DOUBLE BOGEY 6 AT

LAST HOLE COSTS HIM PLENTY

By COLIN FARQUHARSON
Colin@scottishgolfview.com

It's a long haul back to Scotland from the Kent coast, giving Dunbar's Neil Fenwick plenty of time to reflect on a last-hole double bogey 6 which cost him over £1,000 in the third and last round of the  EuroPro Tour 54-hole tournament at Prince's Golf Club, Kent today (Thursday).

Fenwick, who has a very good record on this tour this season, had birdied the seventh, 10th and 15th, and looked set to join the quartet who earned £1,700 for sharing third place on 211.

But Fenwick's 6 meant he finished with a par 72, instead of a 70, for 213 and joint 17th place for which the pay-out was "only" £650. His earlier rounds were 69 and 72.

Winner of the £10,000 jackpot by two shots was Englishman Peter Tarver-Jones with 72, 67 and 69 for eight-under-par 208.

Ellon's Ross Cameron earned £307 for joint 27th place on 215 with scores of 72,73 and 70.

Ross Kellett (Kingsfield) shot 75, 70 and 7 for 216 and he earned £275 for a share of 33rd place.

Calum Macaulay (Tulliallan) had rounds of 72, 73 and 72 for joint 38th place on 217. He earned £255.

Anglo-Scot Mark Hillson (Tandridge) earned £210 for a share of 46th place on 219 (74-72-73).

Paul Shields (Kirkhill) scored 75, 70 and 77 for 222 and a pay-out of £177 for joint 54th place.

LEADING FINAL TOTALS
Par 216 (3x72)
208 P Tarver-Jones (Eng) 72 67 69 (£10,000)
210 M Collins (Eng) 70 71 69 (£5,000)
211 M McGeady (Ire) 75 68 68, S Fallon (Eng) 69 73 69, S Archibald (Eng) 70 70 71, K Harper (Eng) 68 71 72  (£1,700  each).

SCOTS' SCORES
213 N Fenwick 69 72 72 (£650)
215 R Cameron 72 73 70 (£307)
216 R Kellett 75 70 71 (£275)
217 C Macaulay 72 73 72 (£255)
219 M Hillson 74 72 73 (£210)
222 P Shields 75 70 77 (£177).

COLIN'S US SENIORS DISPLAYS OUTSHINE KNOX ON US PGA TOUR

MONTY LEADS THE SCOTS DOLLAR-

EARNERS WITH $1,865,121 IN 2014

By COLIN FARQUHARSON

Colin@scottishgolfview.com

Colin Montgomerie is a Johnny-come-lately in US golfing terms but he is laughing all the way to the bank as the biggest dollar-earner this year of all the Scots-born golf pros competing in America.

Senior major winner Monty is currently second to Bernhard Langer in the Champions Tour money table with $1,865,121.

Highlander Russell Knox comes next with $1.350,830. He's 66th in the US PGA Tour money table.

Martin Laird is having a poor season by his standards with "only" $583,663 and 138th place.

Catriona Matthew - $394,404 and 26th in the LPGA Tour money table - is fourth best Scottish money-maker in the States.

Sandy Lyle is fifth with $85,893 and 75th place in the Champions (Seniors) Tour while bringing up the year is Dornoch exile Jimmy Gunn who has not had a good season ont the Web.com Tour. His earnings in 2014 add up to $36,031 and 113th place in the US No 2 Tour's money list.

FIFE GOLFING ASSOCIATION BOYS' ORDER OF MERIT

Presented by www.MyGolfRanking.net

Positions after 21 events:

1 John Paterson (St Andrews New) 688pts

2 Sam Nicholson (Ladybank) 605

3 Niall McMullen (Lundin) 602

4 Callum Giffen (Burntisland) 360

5 Ryan Brown (Dunfermline) 317

6 Ben Kinsley (St Andrews) 280

7 Marcus Rickard (Cupar) 220

8 Hamish Gorn (Aberdour) 205.

The last counting events for the 2014 FIFE BOYS ORDER OF MERIT are the SGU UNDER-16 JUNIOR TOUR on August 30-31 at Forfar and the ROMAC TROPHY at Thornton on September 21

FIFE GOLFING ASSOCIATION ORDER OF MERIT, presented by www.MyGolfRanking.net, for The Mackay Bowl.

Positions after 15 events:

1 Alan Sutherland (Ladybank) 545pts,

2 Andrew Davidson (Charleton) 305

3 Alex Moir (Thornton) 300

4 Josh Jamieson (St Andrews New) 280

5 Greg Forrester (Lundin) 240

6 David Mitchell (Leven Thistle) 220

7 Steven Aitken (Leven GS) 210

8 Fraser Carr (Crail) 140.

The next counting events for the 2014 FIFE ORDER OF MERIT are the CANMORE GOLF CLUB 36 HOLE OPEN on 31 August and THE NORTH OPEN at Elgin on 23/24 August.