Tuesday, August 26, 2014

ENGLISH BOYS' COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIP



Essex on title trail again with win over Durham while Derbyshire and Wiltshire tie

Essex laid the foundations for their third English boys' county championship success when they beat Durham while Derbyshire and Wiltshire finished all square on the opening day at Sandiway Golf Club, Cheshire.
The South-east champions gave a hint of what was to come when they took all three morning foursomes.
They made further inroads when Braintree’s Todd Clements (image © Leaderboard Photography) romped to a 5 and 3 win over Aaron McManus, Clements being level par when the game finished on the 15th.
The top single saw Louis Lazarus gain an early lead only for Durham’s Chris Handy to hit back and go two up through seven holes. 
Although Lazarus gained a winning birdie at the eighth, the Essex lad still trailed with two to play. But he birdied the 17th to square the match and they halved the last for half a point each.
Durham gained their lone victory when Sam Donald beat Mitch Sarling despite losing the first three holes. 
Sarling covered those in one under but a Donald birdie at four started the comeback and the Durham lad went all square again with a birdie four at the seventh. Successive pars at eight and nine saw him 2up and another at 11 increased his advantage. 
Sarling battled back with a 12th hole birdie and a par at 14 but Donald stayed just clear to claim a one hole success.
However, Elliot Fullalove maintained Essex momentum in his game with Durham’s James Rogers.
The Essex teenager went out in 37 to be 4up and went further in front at the tenth. Rogers then produced a superb run of par-birdie-birdie to cut the lead to three while a further birdie at 15 reduced Fullalove’s advantage to 2up. But end came at 17 when Rogers conceded the hole and the game to see the Essex lad home 3 and 1.
This ensured Essex their overall victory but Bradley Bawden and Taylor Carter added to their coffers with victories over James Wilson and Jack Ainscough respectively.
Essex manager Brian Collins was delighted with his side’s success. “It was an excellent performance,” he said. “We probably achieved more than we thought we were capable of but we have prepared well for this week and I have a great backroom staff.
“All my players are of equal ability and this is a solid foundation for the rest of the tournament. Having said that Durham put up a great challenge and they have a good team in the making.”
The other match couldn’t have been much closer. The morning foursomes were shared as were the singles although at one stage it seemed that Derbyshire would edge it.
The Midlanders gained an early point when Will Davidson got the better of Charles Dunn 4 and 2 in the second single after reaching the turn two up. Although Dunn battled hard he fell further behind when Davidson birdied the short 11th while a par at the 12th saw him four up. Dunn pulled a hole back but Davidson got home with another par at 16.
The top single between Derby’s Will Painter and James Wiltshire proved a see-saw affair. Painter won four holes on the trot from the fourth to be four up, only one with a birdie, but he lost the following five with some erratic play while Wiltshire birdied the short 11th to square the contest. 
 However, Painter steadied the ship and both players covered the last seven holes in one under par to finish with a half.
Derby’s Josh Ashton was never in front against Jamie Amor after losing the first hole and at the turn was two down. But he battled back to be all square playing the last where he chipped in from in front of the 18th green for a winning birdie to snatch the point. That left Derbyshire needing one more win to achieve an overall victory but it eluded them.

Rhys Edwards pulled a point back for Wiltshire with a two-hole win over Josh Thorley and after Dom Patton secured a half in another tight tussle with Matt Bailey it seemed that Derby might still get home.
But Tom Law denied them by beating Josh Williams on the final green. Although Law won two of the first three holes, pars were good enough to see Williams back level and it was nip-and-tuck for most of the way, Law birdieing the 17th to get all square again.
At the last, Williams pulled his tee shot left and failed to get up-and-down while Law took two putts from around 20 feet for a par and a vital win that squared the whole affair.
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BISHOPBRIGGS SENIOR'S COSTLY LAST HOLE DOUBLE BOGEY


HUTCHEON BEATS ARNOTT IN PLAY-OFF

FOR NINTH WIN AND £1,500 PRIZE

Greig Hutcheon's ninth win of the Tartan Tour season was probably the tightest of them all so far. 
The Paul Lawrie Golf Centre man beat a senior opponent, Robert Arnott (Bishopbriggs), with a birdie at the first hole of a sudden-death play-off at the conclusion of the 36-hole Hayston/Cawder Challenge, sponsored by Clyde Scaffolding Ltd.
They both had rounds of three-under-par 67 at Hayston yesterday (Monday) and four-under 66 at Cawder today (Tuesday) for seven-under aggregates of 133.
In a dramatic finale to the regulation rounds, Arnott was leading by one shot playing the short 18th. But his tee shot was carried by the wind into the trees and the hole cost him a double bogey 5, dropping him into a play-off with Hutcheon who had a bogey 4 at the same hole.
The duo returned to the short 18th to start the play-off and it ended there with a birdie 2 by Hutcheon
Feature of Arnott's final round was a run of six consecutive birdies from the seventh to the 12th. 
He also birdied the fifth and 15th. Arnott earned £1,200.
Hutcheon birdied the third, sixth, eighth, 12th and 17th.
Christopher Currie (Caldwell) finished third, only a shot behind Hutch and Arnott, with scores of 69 and 65. With an eagle and five birdies in his first 13 holes of the final round, Currie was certainly hot stuff. Bogeys at the 14th and 18th cost him dearly. He earned the £900 third prize.
Heather MacRae is worth a mention for a joint seventh finish on 137. Her final round of 68 started with bogeys at the first and second but she later had an eagle at the 11th and birdies at the fifth, seventh, 10th, 13th and 17th.
Three consecutive bogeys on the inward half, at the 14th, 15th and 16th, cost her the chance to finish much closer to the leaders. Heather, who will be defending the Paul Lawrie Ladies Tartan Tour Championship over two rounds at Marriott Dalmahoy on September 10-11, earned £331.

Overnight leader by two shots, Keir McNicoll (Gullane) let it slip with a par 70 (two birdies-two bogeys) for a total of 135 and joint fourth place with Scott Henderson (Kings Links) (69-66). They both earned £552.
FINAL TOTALS
Par 140 (70 at Hayston; 70 at Cawder)
133 G Hutcheon (Paul Lawrie Golf Centre) 67 66, R Arnott (Bishopbriggs) 67 66 (Hutcheon, £1,500, bt Arnott, £1,200, at the first hole of a play-off).
134 C Currie (Caldwell) 69 65 (£900)
135 S Henderson (Kings Links) 69 66, K McNicoll (Gullane) 65 70 (£552 each)
136 C Kelly (unatt) 68 68 (£378)
137 S Gray (Hayston) 70 67, C Robinson (Portpatrick Dunskey) 70 67, Heather MacRae (Gleneagles) 69 68 (£331 each)
138 J McKinnon (Irvine) 71 67, M Kerr (Marriott Dalmahoy), S Catlin (Greenburn) 69 69, G Brown (Montrose Links) 67 71 (£278 each)
139 D Orr (Mearns Castle) 69 70 (£252)
140 S Savage (Dalmuir) 72 68, G Fox (Clydeway Golf) 71 69, K Hutton (Downfield) 70 760, G Wright (West Linton) 69 71 (£232 each)
141 A Tait (Marriott Dalmahoy) 72 69, C Mathison (Falkirk Tryst) 72 69, J Cliff (Murrayfield) 71 70 (£207 each)
142 J McCreadie (Buchanan Castle) 75 67, D Watters (Gourock) 73 69, L Gaughan (Bathgate) 68 74 (£172 each)
143 J Gallagher (Douglas Park) 75 68, G Paxton (Ralston) 73 70, C Gordon (Edinburgh GC) 72 71, J Lomas (Caprington) 72 71, G Hay (Nairn Dunbar) 70 73 (£132 each)
144 G McBain (Paul Lawrie GC) 71 73, D Patrick (Kingsfield) 70 74 (£109 each).
OUT OF THE PRIZE MONEY
145 G Smith (Gleneagles) 77 68, T Mathieson (Murcar Lionks) 76 69, C Ronald (Carluke) 75 70, G Robertson (Airdrie) 72 73
146 C McMaster (Panmure) 66 69, C Elliott (Haggs Castle) 74 72, G McFarlane (Clober) 73 73.
147 R Leeds (Turnberry Hotel) 76 71, A Hutchison (Douglas Park) 76 71, S Herald (Mearns Castle) 74 73, J McGhee (Bishopbriggs) 74 73, C Tierney (Carrick on Loch Lomond) 72 75, G Hardy (Ayr Belleisle) 72 75, S Taylor (Bothwell Castle) 71 76
148 P Walker (Ballumbie Castle) 79 69, M King (Kingsfield) 79 69, R Rushford (Glenbervie) 78 70, I Stoddart (Uphall) 74 74, K McNiven (Gleneagles) 73 75, R Buckley (Royal Musselburgh) 73 75
149 J Sharp (Carrick on Loch Lomond 73 76, N Huguet (Musselburgh) 73 76
150 J Porteous (Craigielaw) 79 71, J Fraser (Renaissance) 74 76
151 G Mackay (Melville GR) 75 76, R McConnachie (Peterculter) 7477
152 A Brown (Archerfield) 77 75, P Brookes (Pitreavie) 77 75, J Hopwood (Royal Aberdeen) 76 76, P Malone (Braid Hills) 75 77, A Waugh (Clydebank and Dist) 75 77.
153 N Cameron (Blairgowrie) 82 71, M Patterson (Kilmacolm) 79 75
155 M Mackenzie (Edzell) 77 78, S Craig (Craig Golf) 75 80
156 R Dixon (Renaissance) 76 80
158 G Sneddon (Greaves Sports) 83 75
160 M Burt (Helensburgh) 80 80
161 M Laughtland (Bishopbriggs) 87 74
162 F Thomson (Turnberry Hotel) 78 84
164 C Boyle (Lanark) 79 85.

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McLEAN AND KILOH DOWN FIELD IN EPD TOUR EVENT

NORTH-EAST MEN FACE FIGHT TO

 BEAT CUT IN GERMANY


Paul Lawrie Golf Centre pair Philip McLean from Peterhead and Portlethen's Sam Kiloh will have their work cut out to survive the second-round cut in the German PGA Development Tour event, the Gut Bissenmoor Classic at Bad Bramstedt.
Over a par-71 course, McLean shot a 76 (38-38) for a share of 81st place while Kiloh returned an 80 (43-37) for joint 96th position in a field of 110 players.
Both North-east men ran up triple bogey 7s at the same hole - the sixth. McLean had birdies at the eighth and 16th, Kiloh at the 16th.
Germany's Marcel Sneider and Reinier Saxton (Netherlands), who beat Tommy Fleetwood in the British amateur championship final at Turnberry in 2006, share the lead on seven-under 64.
LEADERBOARD
par 71
64 M Sneider (Germany), R Saxton (Netherlands)
65 J Kunsenbacher (Germany)
66 A Kirstein (Germany)

SCOTS' SCORES
76 P McLean (T81)
80 S Kiloh (T96)



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ANOTHER STEP UP THE LADDER FOR ST ANDREWS-BORN PRO





                              David Scott: Born in St Andrews
OLD COURSE HOTEL DIRECTOR OF 

OPERATIONS POST FOR DAVID SCOTT

NEWS RELEASE
The five red star Old Course Hotel, Golf Resort and Spa in St Andrews has confirmed the appointment of David Scott as its Director of Operations. 
St Andrews born, David has worked for the resort since 2008 and is "thrilled and honoured" to take on the role. David says: "I grew up on Hope Street - just a nine iron from the Old Course's 1st tee - and am very proud to be able to take on such a great role at this iconic and world-leading hotel resort." 
David studied at Madras College and worked in the school holidays in the Tom Morris Golf Shop and the Pancake Place in South Street. "I left school to train as a quantity surveyor, but golf was obviously in my blood and I passed on the surveying to take the role as head assistant professional at Blairgowrie Golf Club in Perhshire."
In 1987, David was appointed Head Professional at Letham Grange in Arbroath - just at the time that his playing career took off. David explains: "As the club's pro, I was managing the membership, retail and coaching elements - at the same time as playing on the Tartan Tour." 
In 1990, David represented Great Britain and Europe in the biennial PGA Cup Match and over the next few years saw his game develop - qualifying for two Scottish Opens and the PGA Championship at Wentworth. He won the Granite City Championship, five Midland Alliance Golf Championships as well as the Valderrama International Pro-Am. He was also runner-up in the Scottish Professional Matchplay Championship
David says: "I really enjoyed competing - and a real highlight was being runner-up to Brian Barnes in the British Club Professional’s Championship in 1989.
In 1996, David's next move took him to Balbirnie Park Golf Club in Fife as head professional. Three years later he was offered the chance to head up the new team as Director of Golf at Kingsbarns Golf Links which opened in 2000.
David says: "It was a fantastic opportunity - building a highly motivated and professional team and assisting with the marketing of a brand new course."
In 2008, with the Old Course Hotel, Golf Resort and Spa under the new ownership of Kohler Co., David made his next career move.  
David says: "Kohler Co had bought the hotel including the Duke's Golf Club and committed to a significant programme of investment. I joined The Duke's as manager in 2008 - overseeing the running of the club facilities, membership and course's maintenance." 
David's unrelenting ethos to deliver a quality experience for both members and visitors rubbed off on the Duke’s team. David explains: "I have been very fortunate to work with some fantastic people - and the Duke's was no exception - golf professionals, club and greenkeeping staff whose hard work greatly helped the Duke's climb numerous golf course rankings and win the Golfers Choice, Best Club in the UK in 2010 and 2013."
David is an advanced Fellow Member of the PGA. He is married to Yvonne. They have two children - Jenna and David - and live in St Andrews. Last year, David was appointed interim Director of Operations for the entire resort, a position that has now been made official. David concludes: "I have been extremely lucky in my career. For anyone with a love of golf, there is nowhere better to be than St Andrews. And for anyone with a love of hospitality, there is no better place than the Old Course Hotel, Golf Resort and Spa."




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