Monday, March 23, 2015

Entries for the 2015 Craigmillar Park Open close this Friday! 
The Annual Competition of the Craigmillar Park Open Tournament will take place over Craigmillar Park Golf Course on Saturday, April 11 and Sunday, April 12.   
Entry is limited to a field of 76 players, plus two places reserved for the home club.  Should the entries received exceed this number by the entry closing date, there will be a ballot of the highest handicapped players to reduce the field to 76. 
Previous winners of the Tournament will be exempt from the ballot.

http://www.scottishgolf.org/events/listings/craigmillar-park-open

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STENSON NOW WORLD NUMBER 2

FROM GOLFWEEK.COM
Matt Jones' third-place finish at Bay Hill improved the Australian's  chances of qualifying for the Masters (April 9 to 12).
The top 50 in the Official World Golf Ranking earn Masters invitations if they are not yet in the field, and Jones jumped from 78th to 62nd in the latest world rankings.
Jones, who won last year's Shell Houston Open to qualify for the 2014 Masters, will be hoping for some more Texas magic again this year. He'll start by playing in this week's Valero Texas Open, as will Harris English, who is currently without a Masters invite but is ranked No. 53.
Not playing in San Antonio is England's Paul Casey, who missed the cut at Bay Hill  to drop to 49th. Casey is not in the Masters field as of now.
Other players just outside the top 50 who are still trying to earn a trip to Augusta National:

Marc Warren (52)
Alexander Levy (54)
Andy Sullivan (61)
Francesco Molinari (63)
Tommy Fleetwood (66)
 
Graham DeLaet (67)
 Marcel Siem (68)
 George Coetzee (69)
 Daniel Berger (70)

Molinari, DeLaet and Berger will play this week at TPC San Antonio. Levy, Sullivan, Fleetwood and Siem will tee it up in the European Tour's Trophee Hassan II in Morocco.

Other world rankings news includes API runner-up Henrik Stenson passing Bubba Watson for the world's No. 2 ranking. The Bay Hill winner, Matt Every, jumped from 96th to 40th, earning his Masters invite in the process.3, 2015
Rory McIlroy is settled into his 73rd week as No. 1 in the world rankings

Marc Warren: Masters invitation would

 crown great start to 2015

Marc Warren is excited about the prospect of a first invite to the Masters but says recent steady form pleases him more.
The Scot, currently ranked 52nd, must be in the world's top 50 by the end of this week's Valero Texas Open to make Augusta on April 9
"From the middle of last year I've been as consistent as I've ever been," Warren told BBC Scotland.
"I just want to go and perform well in Texas and feature on the leaderboard."
World number 38 Stephen Gallacher, 1988 winner Sandy Lyle and top amateur Bradley Neil are Scottish golfers already on Masters invitation list this year.
"There's a letter which looks pretty cool - I've seen Paul Lawrie's and Stephen Gallacher's before. It would be nice, at one stage, to get some of those and get them framed up."
Warren has three European Tour titles to his name, the most recent of which came at the Made In Denmark tournament last August.
At the end of 2014, the 33-year-old was placed at 69th in the world and strong finishes at the Qatar Open (2nd), Malaysian Open (9th) and WGC Cadillac Championship (17th) have nudged him up the rankings.
Finishing in the top 20 in San Antonio might well be enough to make the Masters, but the Scot feels it would "not do him any good" to try and work out the permutations.
"Once you get close to the top 50 it can play on your mind a little bit," said Warren.
"But it's been a big positive for me that it hasn't been on my mind. I've just kept doing what I'm doing.
"Fortunately the people at the Valero Texas Open have given me an invite for this week, which gives me a great opportunity to get into the Masters.
"But this event in Texas is a massive event in its own right, so to be brutally honest, my focus is all on that at the minute. The Masters is always going to be there next year, so if I get in or not, it's not the be all and end all at such an early stage of the season."

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Merchiston Castle lying second in ISGA Home Internationals

 Merchiston Castle School team: left to right - Alex Meunker, Morgan White, Angus Roberts and Andrew White.

Merchiston Castle School, Edinburgh - representing Scotland - were lying second at the end of the first day of the ISGA Home Internationals at St Pierre, Chepstow.

234 England (Whitgift School).
242 Scotland (Merchiston Castle School)
3rd Ireland (Campbell College)
4th Wales (Monmouth College).

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FOX WINS AGAIN - WITH NEW PARTNER

Graham Fox had to find a new partner for today's PGA in Scotland Winter Series of four-ball, better-ball competitions with his regular partner,  Alan Reid (West Lothian), a flu victim, writes Colin Farquharson.
But it made no difference to the Clydeway Golf pro's remarkable run of success in this event which has been held every Monday since February 2.
Fox's stand-in partner, Ross Dixon (Renaissance Club) played his part as the pair dovetailed splendidly for a nine-under-par round of 61 at Panmure Golf Club. It was Fox's fifth victory, having won four times with Reid earlier.
Fox and Dixon headed a field of 22 pairs by four strokes to win the top prize of £600.
Their bogey-free round had birdies at the first, second, third, eighth, ninth, 11th, 12th, 14th and 16th in halves of 30 and 31.
Runners-up on 65 were Christopher Currie (Caldwell) and Michael Patterson (Kilmacolm). They earned £450 between them.
The Turnberry Hotel pairing of Sven Nielsen and Ross Leeds won the third prize of £350 with a 66.


SCOREBOARD
Par 70
61 G Fox (Clydeway Golf) and R Dixon (Renaissance Club|) (£600).
65 C Currie (Caldwell) and M Patterson (Kilmacolm) (£450).
66 S Neilsen and R Leeds (Turnberry Hotel) (£350).
67 Fraser Mann (Carnoustie) and L Mann (unatt) (£250).
68 G McBain (Paul Lawrie GC) and Terry Mathieson (Murcar Links), K McNicoll (Gullane) and J Fraser (Renaissance Club), S Syme (Drumoig) and P Wytrazek (Burntisland) (£116 each pair).
69 S Gray (Hayston) and G Lister (Nairn Dunbar), R McConnachie (Peterculter) and L Gaughan (Bathgate), R Rafferty (Monte Rei) and Brian Marchbank (unatt).
70 C Billows and K McNiven (Gleneagles Hotel), K Hutton and B Smith (Downfield), G Law (Uphall) and C Ronald (Carluke), A White (Lanark) and C Kelly (unatt).
71 J Hopwood and D Ross (Royal Aberdeen), G McSporran (Kinross) and J Sharp (Carrick on Loch Lomond), R Stewart (Newburgh on Ythan) and N Murray (Cruden Bay)..
73 C Goodwin (Duff House Royal) and J Calam (Turriff), I Howieson (Howieson GS) and G Leggat (Pitlochry).
74 A Hutchison (Douglas Park) and O Robertson (Dunblane New), A Munro and C Robinson (Elie SC).
76 D Knapp and M Pottinger (American Golf).

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DAWSON WINS FIRST SENIOR TOUR 

TITLE,  MONTY (T9) EARNS $40,800

FROM CBS SPORTS.COM
TUCSON, Arizona -- Marco Dawson won the Tucson Conquistadores Classic on Sunday for his first Champions Tour's title, breaking a tie with a 20ft birdie putt on the par-4 16th hole and closing with two pars for a two-stroke victory and the $255,00 top cash prize..
The 51-year-old Dawson shot a 3-under 69 to finish at 13-under 203 in the first-year event at Tucson National, the longtime home of the US PGA Tour's defunct Tucson Open. He opened with back-to-back 67s to take a one-stroke lead into the final round.
"I'm just thinking about all the work I put in over the years, especially the last few years -- more mental work than anything," Dawson said. "I'm really happy with the way I played. I'm just glad I played the game that I wanted to play."
Dawson won in his 21st start on the 50-and-over tour. He's winless in 412 US PGA Tour starts and has one victory in 161 events on the Web.com Tour.
Dawson bogeyed the par-4 15th to fall into a tie with Bart Bryant at 12 under. On the 16th, Dawson's birdie putt barely tumbled in, and Bryant made a bogey after driving into a bunker. Bryant earned $149,00.
"I just wanted to make sure the speed was right," Dawson said. "I knew there wasn't going to be much break, but the speed had to be right. And the speed was just perfect. It just fell in."
Bryant had a 70 to finish second for the second straight event. He lost a play-off to Lee Janzen last month in Naples, Florida.
"I didn't hit my irons as well as I need to, but Marco played well," Bryant said. "It's a tough course to bring it home on because you have a few white-knuckle shots and the greens are firm. So, I give him all the credit. He handled it better than we did."
Mark O'Meara was third at 10 under after a 66. He earned $122,400.
Tom Pernice junior was another stroke back after a 68.

Colin Montgomerie (67-72-70) and Bernhard Lanager (69-71-69) tied for ninth place on 209 and earned $40,800 each.
Monty was the first-round leader when he should have shot in the low 60s, missing countless birdie opportunities.
The Scot's caddie told him to be patient, to which Monty said later:
"This is what caddies are paid for, to actually tell you to be patient," Montgomerie said. "Then you almost hit them over the head because you've got three rounds, not four, and patience never won a bloody thing, not in a three-round event. A four-round event is different, but not a three-round event. You can't afford to be patient, you've got to go for it."
Sandy Lyle, sadly, earned $731 for finishing last of 80 with scores of 79, 83 and 79 for 25-over-par 241. Time to hang up his clubs? Probably not, with the money that can be earned, even for modest scores on the US Champions' Tour
Jesper Parnevik struggled in his Champions Tour debut, shooting 71-74-71 to tie for 42nd at even par. The five-time US PGA Tour winner turned 50 on March 7. He missed the cut two weeks ago in the US PGA Tour's Puerto Rico Open after injuring his back in a fall during a practice round.

 LEADING FINAL TOTALS
 Par 216 (3x72) Yardage 7,143
Players from USA unless stated
203 Marco Dawson 67 67 69 ($255,00)
205 Bart Bryant 68 67 70 ($149,000)
206 Mark O'Meara 71 69 66 ($122,400)

SELECTED TOTALS
209 Bernhard Langer (Germany) 69 71 69, Colin Montgomerie (Scotland) 67 70 70 (T9) ($40,800 each)
241 Sandy Lyle (Scotland) 79 83 79 (last of 80) ($731)

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