Monday, April 06, 2015


Fog reduces Ladies Tartan Tour 

event to one round on Tuesday

By COLIN FARQUHARSON

The East Coast fog that delayed the start of the opening day of the Scottish boys golf championship at Dunbar also forced the cancellation of the first-round play in the Ladies Tartan Tour event at Montrose Links.
It was now been reduced to an 18-hole competition, teeing off at 9am Tuesday.
Tour Director Nicola Melville said:

"Everywhere else nearby to Montrose has been fine but the fog hasn't lifted here all day. So I have cancelled round one and we will play 18 holes on Tuesday, hopefully!"
Solheim Cup player Trish Johnson, who has finished first and third in her two outings on the Ladies Tartan Tour, has withdraw, as has another English-based player Emilee Taylor.
First prize at Montrose Links will remain at £1,575 with the top 10 finishers winning money.
Tee times for Tuesday are:
(a) denotes amateur

  9:00am  Jane Turner
          Gillian Paton (a)

  9:10   Laura Murray
         Alyson McKechin
         Gabriella Cowley

  9:20  Rachel Drummond
        Chloe Rogers
        Kiran Matharu

  9:30  Laura Harvey
        Sarah Attwood
        Jess Wilcox

 9:40  Jennifer Potter
       Nastja Banovec (a)
       Heather MacRae

 9:50 Jorden Ferrie
      Michele Thomson
      Ailsa Bain

10:00   Gemma Webster
          Keely Chiericato
          Annabel Dimmock

10:10   Maria Tulley
          Kirstin Scott
          Tracey Boyes

10:20   Kelsey MacDonald
          Lucy Goddard
          Jamie-Lee Casling

10:30   Beth Allen
          Nichola Ferguson
          Becky Brewerton

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Orrin favourite for this week's Kenya Open

as David Law looks for Scottish challenge 

FROM THE EUROPEAN TOUR
Nairobi's Karen Country Club will once again play host this week  to the great and good of the European Challenge Tour as the next generation of golfing superstars prepare to tee it up in the longest-running event on the circuit, the Barclays Kenya Open.
One of the names on many people’s lips ahead of this campaign will be England’s Max Orrin, thanks in part to his victory in the penultimate event of last season at the National Bank of Oman Golf Classic.
The former amateur star will headline a field chocked full of talent, including Belgium’s Pierre Relecom, Englishman William Harrold and Thomas Linard of France. They will be joined by Ricardo Gouveia, who not only won the first tournament of his professional career at last October’s EMC Golf Challenge Open, but has gone on to collect two victories already this season in his native Portugal.
Those results will give him great confidence for his first full campaign on the second tier, and he will look to cash in on the promise he has already shown by claiming a place among the top 15 who will graduate from the season-long Rankings come November.
Aberdeen's Northern Open champion David Law is among the Scots in the field

Cyril Bouniol and Lasse Jensen both came close to earning their place among the elite last season, before putting their narrow miss to one side and earn European Tour cards through the Qualifying School Final Stage soon after. The latter has also shown an affinity for the African nation, finishing runner-up in Kenya last year and in 2012.
Spain’s Borja Virto Astudillo also gained a place on The European Tour this season at PGA Catalunya Resort last November, and he will tee it up on the Challenge Tour this week looking to build some momentum.

Inaugural Graduate of the Year Justin Walters will be in Nairobi looking to regain the form that earned him a 64th place finish on The Race to Dubai in 2013. The South African will hope to kick-start his campaign in the style of compatriot Jake Roos 12 months ago, when he edged a tight encounter in Kenya’s capital.
Lukas and Tobias Nemecz will also tee it up at Karen Country Club hoping to emulate another pair of golfing brothers – the Molinaris – after Edoardo took the title in Kenya back in 2007.

Read more at http://www.europeantour.com/challengetour/season=2015/tournamentid=2015728/news/newsid=252702.html#cU2kfbUCqdfvZTHU.99



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Holmes now No 12 in World Pro Rankings
 
J B Holmes has moved up to No 12 in the world pro rankings followmg his play-off victory in the Shell Houston Open.
Top Scots are Stephen Gallacher at No 38 and Marc Warren at No 50

WORLD RANKING LEADERS
1 Rory McIlroy
2 Henrik Stenson
3 Bubba Watson
4 Jordan Spieth
5 Jason Day
6 Adam Scott
7 Dustin Johnson
8 Jim Furyk
9 Sergio Garcia
10 Jimmy Walker
11 Justin Rose
12 J B Holmes
13 Rickie Fowler
14 Martin Kaymer
15 Patrick Reed
16 Matt Kuchar
17 Hideki Matsuyama
18 Billy Horschel
19 Brooks Koepka
20 Victor Dubuisson

SELECTED OTHERS
38 Stephen Gallacher (Scotland)
50 Marc Warren (Scotlamd)

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Scottish Deaf Championships at Aviemore

NEWS RELEASE

 Scottish National Deaf Championships will be held at Spey Valley GC from June 12th-14th  (Fri-Sun). If you are interested in playing the event, fill in application/membership form on www.scottish-deaf-golf.com and send to Secretary David Wilson.
Cost is £140 including Membership fee of £20 if paid before 1st May, £150 after. 1st Come, 1st Served.

Open to ALL amateur golfers with any form of hearing loss. Scratch and Handicap trophy for the winners including SGU Vouchers.

Check our website and Facebook page for updates!-

 
      Spey Valley golf course, Aviemore, designed by the late Dave Thomas

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Start of Scottish boys championship fog delayed

PLAY DELAYED BY 3 HR 30 MIN DUE TO FOG - PLAY COMMENCED AT 10.15am


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 LADIES TARTAN TOUR
36 HOLE STROKE PLAY
AT MONTROSE LINKS

MONDAY - FIRST ROUND

Play did not start until 11am.

Scores will appear later afternoon if you

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 Holmes wins Houston Open 3-man play-off

FROM GOLF.COM
By WILL GRAY
HUMBLE, Texas – J.B. Holmes has been knocking on the door for weeks.
First came San Diego. Then came Miami.
This time, Holmes broke the door down by bombing his way around the Golf Club of Houston, firing the low round of the day and emerging from a three-man playoff to win the Shell Houston Open.

The victory is the fourth of his career, his second in less than a year and puts a stamp on the long-hitter as one of the players to watch – both next week at the Masters and beyond.
While Holmes was unable to hold the lead last month at the WGC-Cadillac Championship, squandering a five-shot advantage over Dustin Johnson, his role was reversed in Houston. He began the day six shots behind Jordan Spieth, but was able to move to the top of the standings with an 8-under 64 that he began with five straight birdies.
“I mean, when you got it going, you keep doing what you’re doing. Don’t change anything,” Holmes said. “I thought it was going to take a low number to have a chance.”
On a day when cold rain and shifting winds made scoring difficult, the long-hitting Holmes tied a tournament record with a front-nine 29, at one point amassing a three-shot lead. After 72nd-hole putts from Spieth and Johnson Wagner forced overtime, Holmes was thrust into a familiar situation.
Two months earlier, he had lost a playoff to Jason Day at the Farmers Insurance Open, and six years ago he lost in extra time to Paul Casey at this same event. This time around, he came out on top.


The key, he explained, was a commitment to “staying present.”
“Just focus one shot at a time,” Holmes said. “I know you say that, but really it’s that simple and that difficult.”
Holmes has been working with sports psychologist Jim Murphy for two years, and he credits their work on his mental game as the difference in his emergence this season, a campaign that now includes four top-10 finishes in his last six starts.
“Just mentally, I feel like I’ve been able to control it better, kind of let go a little bit and not get in my way as much,” he said. “Focus on the things I can control. I can go out every day and have fun. I can do my routines properly, and I can try to stay present the best I can. And those are my three goals every day.
“Whatever the score is, the score is. But if I do those three things, I consider it a successful day.”
Holmes checked off every box with his final-round effort, which was two shots clear of the rest of the field on a dreary afternoon. Longtime caddie Brandon Parsons saw that his boss was ready from the opening tee shot.
“I think that he was just comfortable,” Parsons said. “We weren’t really trying to do anything differently, we were just breathing well, staying present in the moment, and just continued that all day.”
Spieth, who began the day with a one-shot lead, quickly took notice of the round Holmes was compiling ahead of him.
“What a round of golf,” said Spieth, who was eliminated on the first extra hole. “That’s an incredible round of golf today given the conditions, the rain and mist and the course is playing longer, which doesn’t mean anything to him. I was aware.”
Holmes won when Wagner’s six-foot par putt lipped out on the second extra hole. He was quick to point out that while his 64 yielded the desired result, it wasn’t even his best round of the season – that would be his 10-under 62 last month at Trump National Doral.
Despite a number of close calls in recent weeks, most notably in Miami, Holmes has had no trouble focusing on the positives from those results while rocketing to a career-best position in the world rankings.
“Those are great weeks when I got runner-up,” he said. “Anytime you get a chance to win, I just looked at it as a great week, and I’ve got to keep getting up there and get in position to have a chance to win.”
Holmes admitted that he didn’t tee off today expecting to win, but once the opportunity arose he didn’t pass it up. Now he heads to the Masters for just the second time, and first time since 2008, with unbridled momentum.
“Just to be able to walk around that place is pretty amazing,” Holmes said. “I’m really excited to get there and play. My game is in good shape right now, and I’m looking forward to it.”
Holmes’ game has been in “good shape” for a while. The only difference now is that he has the trophy to prove it.

LEADING FINAL TOTALS
Par 280 (4x70)
272 J B Holmes (USA) 65 70 73 64, Johnson Wagner (USA) 69 68 66 69, Jordan Spieth (USA) 69 66 67 70
274 Russell Henley (USA) 69 68 68 69

SELECTED TOTAL
276 Paul Casey (England) 68 69 68 71 (9th)

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