CONSISTENT HAMISH LEADS NE ALLIANCE CLASS 2 

ORDER OF MERIT

By COLIN FARQUHARSON
Cruden Bay's Hamish McNaughton is one of the most consistent players on the North-east Golfers' Alliance circuit, which is why he is heading the Class 2 Order of Merit table, sponsored by teaching professional Willie McKenzie's WLM Golf company.

Hamish (pictured below) has 1,650pt to his credit and has a 300pt lead over the second-placed Ben Lumsden (Northern).
McNaughton had 13 of a handicap earlier in the season; now it's down to 11 and I hear on the grapevine there might be a further cut in the pipeline for Hamish! That's the price of success.
It looks a two-horse race between McNaughton and 10-handicap Lumsden for the top Class 2 prize when the Order of Merit schemes, devised and calculated by Alliance captain Joel Hopwood (Royal Aberdeen) end at the two-round championship at Craibstone in late March.

The final meeting of the 2014-2015 Alliance season at Newburgh does not count for Order of Merit purposes.
The end right column on the table below indicates if a player has 
remained in the same position as he was the week before with a "O."
Players who have improved a place or places had a minus "-" before
the figure. Players who have gone down a place or places have a simple figure (without plus or minus in front of it). 
Only the top five finishers each week in Class 1 and Class 2 of the Handicapreturns earn points as follows: 
1st 250pt; 2nd 200pt; 3rd 150pt; 4th 100pt; 5th £50pt.
In the event of a tie, the points are shared, eg if two players tied for second (and third) place, they would each receive 175pt (200+150 divided by 2) 

	2014 - 15		POSITION CHANGE
		POINTS	DOWN
	PLAYER	TOTAL	UP (-)
1	HAMISH McNAUGHTON	1650	0
2	BEN LUMSDEN	1350	0
3	GRAHAM ALLAN	900	2
4	DEREK CRAIGIE	850	-1
5	LES ROGER	775	-1
6	GRAHAM MACKIE	625	0
7	NIGEL PARKER	550	0
7	MIKE  SMITH	550	0
9	ALAN BENTON	500	0
9	MIKE WINTON	500	0
9	L.DUNCAN	500	0
12	GARY HOMER	450	0
13	PETER WALKER	400	0
14	STEVEN DILLON	350	0
14	G.LESLIE	350	0
16	CHARLIE TAWSE	250	0
16	DON LAWRIE	250	0
18	WILLIE SKENE	225	7
18	JOHN JESSIMAN	225	0
18	DEREK TOWNSLEY	225	0
21	JOHN SUNLEY	200	-1
21	DICK WRIGHT	200	-1
21	PAUL CORNFIELD	200	-1
24	MANSON MERCHABT	175	-1
24	STUART MELVIN	175	-1
26	JIM MURRAY	150	NEW
27	JOHN SMITH	125	-2
27	GRAHAM THOM	125	-2
29	ALISTAIR CLARK	100	-1
29	GRAHAM MOIR	100	-1
29	ROBBIE DUNCAN	100	-1
29	MIKE BROWN	100	-1
29	SANDY DAVIDSON	100	-1
34	NEISH CHISHOLM	75	-1
35	R.BROWN	50	NEW

35          PETER LOW                                        50    -1