Fife Boys Golfing Association Order of Merit

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Positions after two events: 

1 John Paterson (St Andrews New) 110 pts 

2 Niall McMullen (Lundin) 60

3 Ryan Brown (Dunfermline) 50

T4 Conor MacCallum (St Andrews), Marcus Rickard (Cupar) 40.

WILL PORTER LEADS CARNOUSTIE BOYS TO ANGUS JUNIOR TEAM TITLE
The Carnoustie No, 1 team spearheaded by Scottish boys champion Will Porter today (Sunday) won the Angus boys' team golf championship at Edzell.
Carnoustie team scores:
 Will Porter 72, Craig Adamson 75, John Porter 82, Jamie Connelly 85.
Monifieth won the handicap prize.
Final totals
Carnoustie No.1 314, Downfield 326, Monifieth 353, Montrose Caledonia 373, Carnoustie No. 2 374.
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Lanarkshire win boys' match at Thornton

Lanarkshire defeated Fife 5 1/2-4 1/2 at Thornton Golf Club in their annual boys' friendly match today

Best comeback of the day was from debutant Scott Thomson (Mount Ellen) who recovered from four down after seven to get a half on the last hole

Results

Fife  boys first)

Lewis Ballantyne (Ladybank) halved with Scott Thomson (Mount Ellen)

Jack Lockhart  (Pitreavie) lost to Liam Martin (Bothwell Castle) 2 and 1.

Connor McKimmie (Pitreavie) lost to Jonathan Torrance   (Drumpellier) 4 and 3.

Sam Nicholson (Ladybank) bt Zac Geddes (Cambuslang) 3 and 2.

Matthew  McAnaw (Ladybank) bt Kieran McAllister (Easter Moffat) 5 and 4.
Greg  Cessford  (Balbirnie Park) lost to Callum Paterson   (Strathaven) 1 hole

Keith Bowman  (St Andrews New) lost to Greg Dalziel (Kirkhill)    2 and 1

John Paterson (St Andrews New) bt Lewis Irvine (Kirkhill) 4 and 3.

Callum Giffen (Dunfermline) bt Mitchell Ronald (East Kilbride) 3 and 2.

Niall McMullen (Lundin) lost to David Fair (Strathaven) 3 and 2.

Willie Sharpe 

Lanarkshire Golf Association

Press Officer     

Glasgow too strong for Fife in friendly at Lundin

Glasgow beat Fife 5-1 in a men's inter-area friendly golf match at Lundin Golf Club today (Sunday).

Details (Fife names first):

Alfie Brown (Dunfermline) lost to Barry Hume (Haggs Castle) 2 and 1

Ryan Brown (Dunfermline) lost to Glen Burrett (Haggs Castle) 3 and 2.

Kev Blyth (Lundin) lost to Callum Fyfe (Cawder) 3 and 2.

Ryan Walsh (Kirkcaldy) beat Blair Dalglish (Ralston) 1 hole.

Brian Erskine (Ladybank) lost to Fraser Grant (Ralston) 3 and 2.

Ally Hain (St Andrews) lost to Gordon Sangster (Cathkin Braes) 5 and 4.

Daniel Trophy comes from eight shots in 

arrears to win Battle Trophy
 
By Bernie McGuire, Crail
(Secretary, Association of Golf Writers)
Craigiehill's Daniel Young has now set his sights on Walker Cup selection later this year after coming from eight shots behind to capture the 2015 Battle Trophy at Crail today.

Young, who is also the reigning South African Amateur champion, shot a final round five under par 67 in bright but windy conditions to win by a shot with a nine under par 272 total on the Craighead Links course.
Young's good friend Connor Syme, who had led the event for three rounds, posted a disappointing 7while current British Amateur title-holder Bradley Neil (Blairgowrie) posted a 72 for both to share second place on eight under par.
"I am very pleased with my final round as I made a lot of birdies and that's what I said to myself going out in the fourth round," said Young who spent four years playing on the US college golf circuit and won the Cameron Corbett Vase SGU Order of Merit tournament in 2013
"I thought if I could do that it might put a little bit of pressure on the guys behind me.
"I noticed that Connor had struggled in the third round and his score did open the door a little bit but again he was still eight shots ahead of me with a round to play.
"So I had to go out and post a really good score. My target was 10-under par and I thought if I could get to 10-under par that might be good enough".
The 23-year old Young was competing in the event for a second straight occasion and had fond memories of a year ago in setting a then new course record of an eight under par 64 on the last day before being overhauled by Kilmarnock Brassie's Jack McDonald who lowered the mark with a 63.
Young arrived at Crail Golfing Society not only on the back of his stunning success in winning the South African Amateur trophy in Johannesburg but he was runner-up in the recent SGU Scottish Champion of Champions at Leven and shared eighth place in last week's Craigmillar Park Open Championship.
His next event will be next fortnight's Lytham Trophy and co-incidentally the 2015 Walker Cup is to be staged later this year on the same course.
And it's qualifying automatically for the GB amd I Walker Cup team that is now very much on Young's golfing horizon.
"I'm not in the (provisional) Walker Cup squad but after this Battle Trophy win and some good results in recent weeks it's getting more and more that way.
"It was something in the back of my mind but then I knew I needed to keep winning and I've taken another big step this week here at Crail in capturing the Battle Trophy.
"My next event is the Lytham Trophy where they're playing the Walker Cup this year so to win the South African Amateur title and to win here in Crail is certainly going to do my Walker Cup chances good."
Neil was returning to competition for a first time since the high of contesting last week's Masters at Augusta National.
The 19-year old had posted a superb first round 66 before a pair of 71s.
However Neil could look back to three-putt bogeys at the par four 16th and then at the last on day four as pivotal in not securing victory at Crail.
"I am a little disappointed of course to come up one stroke short of forcing a play-off," he said.
"But then in the bigger picture a share of second is a good confidence lift going forward to the other events I will contest this year."
Among those events are invitations into next month's Jack Nicklaus hosted PGA Tour Memorial event in Ohio and the Dubai Duty Free Irish Open later in May and being hosted by World No. 1 Rory McIlroy.
In fact, McIlroy had spoken with Neil during a Monday practice round at Augusta National in the young Scot teeing-up at Royal County Down.
Syme was among the first to congratulate Young but was left disappointed in shooting a third round 73 after having stormed his way to 13-under par with earlier rounds of 64 and 67.
Drumoig-based Syme then rounded off his Battle Trophy campaign with a 76.
FINAL TOTALS
par 288 (4x72)
279 Daniel Young (Craighiehill) 71 71 70 67
280 Bradley Neil (Blairgowrie) 66 71 71 72, Connor Syme (Drumoig) 64 67 73 76
281 Greig Marchbank (Thornhill) 70 70 70 71
283 Ewen Ferguson (Bearsden) 68 70 74 71
285 Craig Ross (Kirkhill) 70 71 71 73, S Gibson (Southerness) 73 72 72 68
288 Jeff Wright (Forres) 69 75 72 72
291 Fraser Davren (Williamwood) 69 69 75 78, Henry Tomlinson (Royal Lytham) 68 73 75 75
292 James Bunch (Prestwick) 71 75 72 74.
294 Ryan White (Leven GS) 70 72 74 78, Andrew Davidson (Charleton) 73 73 77 71, Darren Watson (Cruden Bay) 73 69 78 74, Andrew Campbell (Dumbarton) 72 72 78 72, Graeme Robertson (Glenbervie) 68 71 79 76
295 Marco Iten (Rheinblick) 77 71 73 74, Luke Robinson (Bundoran) 72 74 75 74, Steven Aitken (Leven GS) 70 77 75 73, Jamie Savage (Cawder) 69 77 76 73
296 Scott Robertson (Hazlehead) 69 72 80 75
298 Fraser Carr (Crail) 73 70 76 79, Chris Maclean (Balmore) 74 73 76 75, Scott Grant (Downfield) 74 73 76 75, Allan Cameron (Fortrose and Rosemarkie) 75 70 77 76
300 Malcolm Pennycott (Whiting Bay, Arran) 73 72 81 74, Olive4r Roberts (Hong Kong0 70 71 83 76.
301 Colin Edgar (Cochrane Castle) 73 74 78 76, John Mathers (Haggs Castle) 78 68 79 76, Angus Carrick (Douglas Park) 71 73 79 78
302 Michael Bacigalupo (Longniddry) 74 74 77 77, Sandy Scott (Nairn) 74 74 78 76, James A Wilson (Balmore) 71 75 79 77
303 A Moir jun (Thornton) 76 70 79 78, Steven Rennie (Drumpellier) 74 72 80 77
306 Matthew Clark (Kilmacolm) 74 74 77 81, Gordon Munro (Fraserburgh) 76 73 80 77
308 Alexander Culverwell (Dunbar) 71 72 82 83
314 Jack Harling (Banchory) 77 72 81 84
Withdrew: Jack McDonald (Kilmarnock Barassie)

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Troy Merritt leads by three at RBC Heritage

Unheralded American Troy Merritt moved one step closer to his first US PGA Tour title by going  three strokes clear after Saturday's third round of the RBC Heritage in South Carolina.
Merritt, ranked 249th in the world and making his 86th tour start, followed his course record-tying 61 in the second round with a 69 for a 54-hole total of 14-under-par 199 on the Harbour Town Golf Links on Hilton Head Island.
The 29-year-old began the round with a four-shot lead and birdied the second and third before running into trouble at the par-four eighth.
"I was hitting the ball just fine all day and then I tugged a six-iron and watched it sail into the water and make a sensational splash," said Merritt, who made double-bogey.
"I felt good over the putts and I hit some good ones that didn't go in. It was pretty stress free for the most part."
Tied for second on 11 under par were defending champion Matt Kuchar, who shot a 68, and fellow Americans Brendon Todd (63) and Kevin Kisner (67).
Kuchar, who made six birdies, was held back by a bad ricochet at the par-three seventh.
"I played some pretty good golf but got a bad break," he said. "I hit a beautiful shot in but it caught a limb and it ended up costing me a double bogey."
One more shot back were 2010 winner Jim Furyk (68), Brice Garnett (65) and Branden Grace of South Africa (66).
Masters champion Jordan Spieth stayed in the hunt, shooting a 68 for a 204 total, five shots off the pace along with Bo Van Pelt (67), despite starting the tournament with a 74.
"I came back strong and (am) glad to be here having a chance tomorrow," said the 21-year-old Texan.
Spieth said he spent some of his off time answering hundreds of messages after his Masters triumph.
"It was really nice to have so much support and to see the non-golf community is so interested in the Masters," he said, noting well wishes from NBA stars including Dirk Nowitzki and Steph Curry and former Cowboys quarterback Troy Aikman.
Seven players were tied at 205, including England's Luke Donald, Brendon de Jonge of Zimbabwe, Northern Irishman Graeme McDowell and South African Louis Oosthuizen.
Due to forecasts of bad weather, final-round play will feature a two-tee start.