NORTH-EAST ALLIANCE REVISED DRAW
FOR NEWBURGH TOMORROW

+Switched from Murcar Links 

8-00 G. Esson C. Campbell A. Campbell A. Smith
08-08 C. Cassie B. Harper R. Masson R. O'Donnell
8-16
8-24
8-32 B. Nicholson J. Nicolson G. Allan S. Mackie
8-40 H. ROulston M. RendalL L. Roger
8-48 R. Brown S. Davidson A. Benton M. Brown
8-56

9-04 R. Stewart K. Duncan T. Dingwall
9-12 K. McGillivary L. Duncan W. Beattie D. Mackay
9-20 G. Craig J. Duff D. Lawrie M. Smith
9-28
9-36 S. Shand K. Stewart G. Angus
9-44 K. Beveridge K. Beveridge J. Hopwood L. Murray
9-52 J. Forrest N. Stewart L. Fowler M. Murray

10-00 D. Craigie C. Grant N. Parker
10-08 J. Scott B. Skene R. McConnachie M Forster
10-16 M. Duncan D. Fleming L. Vannet A Gall
10-24 B. Lumsden T. Robertson D Wright G. McDonald
10-32 D. Leslie G. Homer W. Shaw H. McNaughton
10-40 G. Milne J. Duncan A. Graham D. Nelson
10-48 P. Walker R. Davidson S. Allison C. Tawse
10-56 G. Thom R. Duncan A. Clark

11-04 J. Murray P. Low J. Borthwick C. Duffus
11-12 S. Finnie D. Mckay
11-20
11-28
11-35

First USGA tournament at quaintly named venue since 1910 U.S. Open

PHILADELPHIA CRICKET CLUB AWARDED 2020             

U.S. AMATEUR FOUR-BALL CHAMPIONSHIP

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FAR HILLS, New Jersey. The Philadelphia Cricket Club has been selected by the United States Golf Association as the host site for the 2020 U.S. Amateur Four-Ball Championship.

The dates for the championship, which will be the first USGA championship hosted by the club since the 1910 U.S. Open, are May 23-27.

“To return to Philadelphia Cricket Club, with its three outstanding golf courses, for the first time since the 1910 U.S. Open is truly historic,” said Daniel B. Burton, USGA vice president and Championship Committee chairman. 
“The restoration work that was recently completed there is outstanding and our Four-Ball teams will see their skills tested at the highest level. We are very happy to return to this classic American golf club.”
The 2020 U.S. Amateur Four-Ball will be the third USGA championship conducted at Philadelphia Cricket Club, which is home to three courses: St. Martins (now nine holes), Wissahickon and Militia Hill (each 18 holes).
The Wissahickon Course, which will host both the stroke-play qualifying and match-play portions of the championship, was designed by A.W. Tillinghast, who was a club member, and opened for play in 1922. 
In 2013-2014, the course was restored by Keith Foster to highlight the strategic bunkering, contoured greens and narrow fairways of Tillinghast’s original design.
The Militia Hill Course, named for the deep Revolutionary War roots of the area, was designed by Dr. Michael Hurdzan and Dana Fry and opened in 2002. It will be used during the championship for stroke-play qualifying only.
The US PGA Professional National Championship will be played on Wissahickon in 2015, with Militia Hill also utilised for the first two rounds of the 72-hole event.
The St. Martins Course, built by Willie Tucker in 1895, was the site of the 1907 and 1910 U.S. Open Championships. In 1907, Alex Ross, brother of legendary architect Donald Ross from Dornoch, won by two strokes (302-304) over Gilbert Nicholls. 
In 1910, Alex Smith shot 298-71 to win in a 18-hole play-off over Macdonald Smith and Philadelphia’s own John J. McDermott, who went on to win the next two U.S. Opens. 
The club’s Scottish-born professional, Willie Anderson, a four-time U.S. Open champion, finished 11th in 1910.

“Philadelphia Cricket Club, the oldest country club in the U.S., is excited to welcome the 2020 U.S. Amateur Four-Ball Championship,” said Michael J. Vergare, Philadelphia Cricket Club president. “The recent renovation of our Wissahickon Course, designed and played by ‘Tilly’ in 1922, promises challenges a century later."

The club was founded in 1854 by a group of English-born cricket players who attended the University of Pennsylvania and is one of the oldest clubs dedicated to sports in the U.S.

 The club was also a founding member of the American Lawn Tennis Association and hosted the National Women’s Tennis Championship from 1887 to 1921, when it moved to Forest Hills, New York

Philadelphia Cricket is one of the four founding clubs of the Golf Association of Philadelphia, which was organized in 1897.

The first U.S. Amateur Four-Ball will be contested May 2-6, 2015, at The Olympic Club in San Francisco, California, with a field of 128 sides (256 players). 

The 2016 championship is scheduled for May 21-25 at Winged Foot Golf Club in Mamaroneck, New York, with the 2017 championship set for May 27-31 at Pinehurst Resort and Country Club in the Village of Pinehurst, North Carolina.

Eligibility for the U.S. Amateur Four-Ball Championship is limited to amateurs, with no age restrictions. Partners comprising teams or sides are not required to be from the same club, state or country. Entry is limited to individuals with a Handicap Index® not exceeding 5.4.

ROSS CAMERONFIRST-ROUND LEADER WITH A 

SIX-UNDER 66 IN RED SEA EGYPTIAN CLASSIC

Ellon's Ross Cameron led with a six-under-par 66 at the end of the opening day at the first German PGA EPD Developmental Tour event of the year - the 30,000 euros Red Sea Egyptian Classic at Sokhna Golf Club, writes Colin Farquharson.

Cameron, pictured by Cal Carson Golf Agency, had an eagle 3 at the par-5 17th and birdies at the long third, fourth, long seventh, 10th, short 13th, 15th and 16th.
All of which represented a brilliant recovery from a potentially demoralising double bogey 5 at the short fifth. He also had a bogey at the 14th in halves of 35 and 31.
The Saltire Energy-sponsored player had a two-stroke lead for most of the day but it was cut to one shot late on by former British Amateur champion Reinier Saxton from the Netherlands and David Antonelli who had an eagle 3 at the 17th.
Generally, it was a good day for the Scots competitors. 
Paul Lawrie Golf Centre stablemates David Law, the Northern Open champion, and young rookie Sam Kiloh are sharing ninth place on two-under 70
Law had a bag of five birdies and three bogeys, two of them in the early stages.
Kiloh also dropped two shots at the early holes but made up for it with four birdies in six holes, between the eighth and 13th. 
Scottish amateur champion Chris Robb (Meldrum House), a rookie pro, is joint 16th with Fraserburgh's Kris Nicol (Paul Lawrie Golf Centre on 71.
Robb birdied the seventh, 12th, 13th and 17th but bogeyed the fifth, 10th  and 14th.
Nicol (Paul Lawrie Golf Centre) also had four birdies (first, second, 10th and 17th). A double bogey 5 at the short third marred his card. 
Philip McLean and Ted Innes-Ker did not do so well. Both shot four-over 76 to be sharing 58th place in a field of 87 players.

FIRST-ROUND LEADERBOARD
Par 72
66 Ross Cameron (Sco)
67 David Antonelli (Ita), Reinier Saxton (Neth)
68 Martin Mejow (Ger), Philipp Mejow (Ger), Benjamin Rusch (Swi)
OTHER SCOTS' SCORES
70  Sam Kiloh, D Law (T9)
71 Chris Robb, Kris Nicol (T16) 
76 Philip McLean, T Innes-Ker (T58)

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NORTH-EAST ALLIANCE SWITCH TO NEWBURGH
 
Wednesday's North-east Golfers' Alliance competition has been switched to Newburgh-on-Ythan GC from Murcar Links where winter greens are being used because of the threat of frost.
Tee times reserved for Murcar Links will be transferred to the alternative venue.
We will have an updated draw on display later this afternoon.

REED RALLIES AND WINS HAWAII 

PLAY-OFF AGAINST WALKER

CBSSports.com wire reports

KAPALUA, Hawaii -- Four shots behind with four holes to play, Patrick Reed made two birdies and holed out from 80 yards for an eagle Monday, and then closed out his unlikely rally by making an 18-foot birdie putt to beat Jimmy Walker in a playoff at the Hyundai Tournament of Champions.
The US PGA Tour started a new year without a host of big names, but got a compelling finish at Kapalua.

Reed charged back into the picture with his eagle on the 16th hole, a shot that spun back toward the hole and hit the pin before dropping. After three-putting from 100 feet just off the green for bogey on the 17th, he two-putted from 80 feet for birdie on the par-5 closing hole for a 6-under 67.
Then it was up to Walker, trying to become the fifth player to win both US PGA Tour events in Hawaii.
For the second straight day, Walker didn't make birdie after the 10th hole, and this time it cost him. 
The only big mistake in regulation was trying to play it safe off the short par-4 14th and hitting 4-iron into a bunker. He went over the green and made bogey, his first bogey in 33 holes.
Walker missed birdie putts inside 10 feet on the next two holes. He then wasted a good shot at birdie on the 18th when his chip came out soft and he was short on an 18-foot birdie putt. He shot 69 and joined Reed at 21-under 271.
In the play-off, Walker again had the advantage when Reed couldn't come close to reaching the green.
 Walker, however, hit it well right into the rough, and this time the chip came out hot and went over the green. He chipped to 6 feet and never had to putt.
Reed hit wedge into 18 feet and holed the putt, giving the 24-year-old his fourth PGA Tour victory and second in a playoff.
''It was there for me to win,'' Walker said. ''It was a bummer I didn't close the door on it.''
It was Reed's first victory since the World Golf Championship at Doral, where he caused a stir by saying he was among the top five players in the world. This should move him to a career-best No. 14 in the world, though he was more interested in what he could do get better.
Four wins before turning 25 puts him in elite company.
Jason Day became the second player on Monday to tie the Plantation Course record with a 62 - Chris Kirk shot 62 earlier in the day as the first player out. Day posted at 20-under 272, though that score never looked as though it would be enough. Russell Henley closed with five straight birdies for a 67 to join Day at 272.
They were joined by Hideki Matsuyama, tied with Walker at the start of the final round. The 22-year-old from Japan also felt as though he lost a good chance to win. He missed birdie chances on the last four holes and missed them all to shoot 70.
Walker and Matsuyama were locked in a spirited duel over the front nine until Walker landed what appeared to be a knockout punch. He holed a 20-foot birdie putt on No. 8, hit a great fairway metal from a downhill lie onto the green at the par-5 ninth for a two-putt birdie, and then made a 10-foot putt at the 10th for his third straight birdie.
That gave him a three-shot lead, and he kept that margin with six holes to play.
It all changed so quickly.
Walker ended his streak of 32 holes without a bogey when he tried to play conservatively off the tee at the 14th and missed a short par putt. In the group ahead of him, Reed birdied the par-5 15th and suddenly took a share of the lead by holing a wedge from 80 yards out for eagle on the 16th hole.
Just like that, it was a sprint to the finish.
Reed looked as if he had wasted his big surge when he three-putted for bogey from just off the green 100 feet away, lipping out his 4-foot par attempt. But he reached the front of the 18th in two shots for a two-putt birdie.
It gave him a chance, and that was all Reed needed. 

LEADING FINAL TOTALS
Par 292 (4x73)
271 Patrick Reed 67 69 68 67 ($1,140,000), Jimmy Walker 67 68 67 69 ($665,000). Reed won play-off at first extra hole.
272 Jason Day (Australia) 70 69 71 62, Russell Henley 65 70 70 67, Hideki Matsuyama (Japan) 70 66 66 70 ($332,667 each).
274 Sang-Moon Bae (S Korea) 66 69 69 70 ($213,000)
275 Zach Johnson 68 67 73 67 ($190,000).

SELECTED TOTAL
277 Bubba Watson 70 69 68 70 (10th) ($160,000)

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