McIlroy wins Cadillac World Match-play final

Rory McIlroy lived up to his World No 1 ranking by beating American Gary Woodland 4 and 2 in the Cadillac World Match-play Championship final at Harding Park, San Francisco.
McIlroy took control of the match early on and was never in danger of losing.
Earlier, the Ulsterman had taken only one more hole to notch a 22nd hole victory over England's Paul Casey, a tie that was unfinished on Saturday evening because of fading light.
Then McIlroy beat Jim Furyk (USA)_ by one hole in the semi-final while Woodland was registering a 3 and 2 win over England's Danny Willett.
Willett, who had a fantastic tournament for a comparative unknown in this elite company, capped his week by beating Furyk in the play-off for third place.

QUARTER-FINAL RESULTS
Rory McIlroy (N Ireland) bt Paul Casey (England) at 22nd.
Jim Furyk (USA) bt Louis Oosthuizen (S Africva) 4 and 2.
Gary Woodland (USDA) bt John Senden (Australia) 5 and 3.
Danny Willett (England) bt Tommy Fleetwood (England) 4 and 3.

SEMI-FINALS
McIlroy bt Furyk 1 hole.
Woodland bt Willett 3 and 2

FINAL
McIlroy bt Woodland 4 and 2.

3rd PLACE PLAY-OFF
Willett bt Furyk 3 and 2.

 

Monifieth's McKay wins Falkirk Tryst Trophy

 

Calum McKay, 20, from Monifieth won Falkirk Tryst Golf Club's open tournament for the Tryst Trophy today.

Calum, pictured, battled cold driving rain and high winds for a two-over-par 72 and a one-stroke victory over Crow Wood's Ed Wood.

The competition was cut to 18 holes due to the bad weather.
Leading scores 

par 70

72 C McKay (Monifieth)

73 E Wood (Crow Wood).

74 D Buchanan (Falkirk Tryst).

76 R Johnston (Glenbervie).

Paul Lawrie Foundation Abedeen and District Junior Pennant League

 Deeside tee off with home win over Ellon

Deeside won their opening Paul Lawrie Foundation Aberdeen and District Junior Pennant League tie at home by a 3.5-1.5 margin over McDonald Ellon on a very wet day.

Details (Deeside names first):

Benjamin Henderson and Dylan Smith halved with Grant Pirie and Jamie Seater

Henri Charles and Finley Symon bt Kieran Moran and Andrew Imray 6 and 5.

Connor Forbes and Matthew Fraser lost to  Jed Mutch and Finley Smith 3 and 1

Aaron Ritchie and Chloe Henderson bt Matthew Long and Andrew Yule 3 and 2

Alastair Sutherland and  Michael Black bt Ross Connon and Ross Whyte 6 and 5.

OTHER MATCHES
Section A
Peterculter v Inverurie
Peterhead v Murcar Links
Section B
Oldmeldrum v Kemnay
Cruden Bay v Banchory
Section C
Hzlehead v Inverallochy
Portlethen v Aboyne
Section D
Deeside 3.5, McDonald Ellon 1.5
Stonehaven v Royal Aberdeen.

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    Deeside Golf Club's junior pennant league team for the first match. Back row (left to right) Matthew Fraser, Harry McLeod (reserve), Dylan Smith, Finlay Symon, Henri Charles, Alasdair Sutherland
Front row (l to r) Conor Forbes, Chloe Henderson, Benjamin Henderson, Michael Black, Aaron Ritchie

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Lundin pip St Andrews New for Fife boys' title

Lundin Golf Club pipped defending champions St Andrews New on a tie-breaker to win the Fife boys' team golf championship for the T B Lightbody Trophy, played in horrendous conditions of wind and rain at Kinghorn Golf Club today (Sunday).]

Lundin and St Andrews New both totalled 336 with Lundin prevailing through having the best three-score total.

LEADING TOTALS

CSS 69 Reduction only

336 Lundin (S. Philp 77, S. Nicholson 78, S. Paterson 84, D. Robertson 97) won on tie-breaker.

336 St Andrews New (J. Paterson 80, K. Bowman 81, K. Reid 86, M. MacAnaw 89)

353 Canmore (M. Wood 80, C. Hutchison 88, O. Parker 88, H. Wood 97)

Thornton win Fife team title on tie-breaker 

over Aberdour

Thornton Golf Club, represented by A Moir, M Buchan, D Gorman and J Penman) won the Fife men's team championship for the G Gibson Trophy on a cold, windy wintry day at Kirkcaldy Golf Club on Saturday.

They had a four-man total of 303 which was equalled by Aberdour's S Meiklejohn, A Travers, S Oliphant and P Brown) who lost out in the tie-breaker - total of best three scores.

C. Bradley (Pitreavie), G. Forrester (Lundin) and C. Wallace (Balbirnie) should be commended for breaking par. 

LEADING TEAM TOTALS

CSS 73 (reduction only)

303 Thornton (A. Moir 71, M. Buchan 75, D. Gorman 76, J. Penman 81) (won on tie-breaking rule)

303 Aberdour 303 (S. Meiklejohn 75, A. Travers 75, S. Oliphant 76, P. Brown 77)

305 Pitreavie (C. Bradley 70, T. Dillon 74, A. Hunter 78, B. Hynd 83); Dunfermline (R. Brown 75, A. Anderson 75, E. Malcolm 76, A. Brown 79).

 McIlroy v Furyk, Woodland v Willett semi-finals

 Rory McIlroy beat Paul Casey at the 22nd hole of their held-over quarter-final match at San Francisco this morning (USA time) and is now playing American Jim Furyk in the first semi-final.
The other tie is between American Gary Woodland and Danny Willett from England.
QUARTER-FINAL RESULTS
Rory McIlroy (N Ireland) beat Paul Casey (England) at 22nd.
Jim Furyk (USA) bt Louis Oosthuizen (S Africva) 4 and 2.
Gary Woodland (USDA) bt John Senden (Australia) 5 and 3.
Danny Willett (England) bt Tommy Fleetwood (England) 4 and 3.

SEMI-FINALS
McIlroy v Furyk
Woodland v Willett

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Swede wins Lytham Trophy by 8 shots with 

Walker cup candidates down the field 

The Lytham Trophy has gone overseas again with Sweden's Marcus Kinhult winning the prestigious title - and in a Walker Cup year! - by eight strokes with a level par aggregate of 280 at Royal Lytham and St Annes, Lancashire.
On a bad-weather weekend when the CSS was up in the high 70s, Kinhult took advantage of some tee tees when the conditions were not quite as bad as others to post scores of 68, 69, 71 and 72.
At one stage he led by nine shots over the Open championship venue links.
Stirling student and former Irish amateur champion Cormac Sharvin (Ardglass) finished in a triple tie for second place on 288 with Wales' Richard James (Aberyswyth) and Frenchman Robin Roussel..
Leading home-based Scot was British amateur champion Bradley Neil (Blairgowrie) in ninth place on 293 - two shots ahead of Jack McDonald (Kilmarnock Barasse), Scott Gibson (Southerness) and another Stirling student, Swiss international Mathias Eggenberger.

LYTHAM TROPHY
Royal Lytham and St Annes GC, Lancashire
LEADING FINAL TOTALS
Par 280 (4x70) CSS 76 79 76
280 M Kinhult (Swe) 68 69 71 72
288 C Sharvin (Ardglass) 68 74 75 71, R James (Aberyswyth) 73 71 76 68, R Roussel (Fra) 74 71 73 70.
290 L Lipold (Aut) 69 77 73 71
291 D Brown (Bedale) 73 77 73 68, A Turner (Kenwick Park) 69 79 68 75

SCOTS' TOTALS
293 B Neil (Blairgowrie) 71 76 71 75 (9th)
295 J McDonald (Kilmarnock Barassie) 70 77 76 72, S Gibson (Southerness) 75 75 73 72, M Eggenberger (Stirling Univ) 71 77 74 73 (T13).
297 C Ross (Kirkhill) 71 77 72 77 (T26)
298 E Ferguson (Bearsden) 75 73 77 73 (T30)
300 G Marchbank (Thornhill) 73 76 73 78 (36th)
301 Barry Hume (Haggs Ca\stle) 73 76 76 76 (T37).

MISSED THE CUT
153 M Smyth (Royal Troon) 75 78
155 M Clark (Kilmacolm) 8174, C Howie (Peebles) 74 81
157 D Young (Craigie Hill) 78 79, JU Savage (Cawder) 75 82.
159 N Macandrew (Royal Aberdeen) 79 80, C Syme (Drumoig) 78 81, F Moore (Glenbervie) 77 82, G Robertson (Glenbervie) 75 84.
162 D Butler (Monifieth) 81 81


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No play Sunday: Gleneagles Scottish pro 

championship cut to three rounds over King's

Due to heavy overnight and continuing rain at the Perthshire golf resort, the King's Course was too wet for the £40,000 Gleneagles Scottish professional championship to start today.

The 72-hole event has now been reduced to 54 holes and will end on Wednesday as scheduled. 

It's 49 years since the Scottish professional championship was last decided over fewer than 72 holes.

In 1966 John Panton and Eric Brown tied over 36 holes for the title at Cruden Bay. For some reason, there was no play-off. They shared the title with 137 aggregates

 PGA in Scotland secretary Brian Mair said:

"Despite the marvellous efforts of the greenkeeping staff, there was no way we could get play underway today. The decision has been taken to cancel play for the day and resume on Monday with the original Monday Round 2 tee times. 

"The plan is to complete 18 holes on Monday and then commence Round 2 immediately, with the completion of Round 2 expected on Tuesday. At this point, we will make a cut to Top 50 and ties and complete the championship on Wednesday over the remaining 18 holes."

Rain delays start at Gleneagles Scottish pro championship

Nationwide rain is hitting Sunday's busy golf schedule.
The Gleneagles Scottish professional championship is one of the victims.
No play so far today (Sunday) and waiting for a lunchtime decision about whther there is going to be any play today at all

 Allen leads by one on Champions Tour

FROM ESPN.COM
THE WOODLANDS, Texas -- Michael Allen birdied the final two holes for a 4-under 68 and a one-stroke lead Saturday after the second round of the Champions Tour's Insperity Invitational.
The 56-year-old Allen has a 10-under 134 total at The Woodlands Country Club. He has seven victories on the 50-and-over tour, winning twice last season.
"If you haven't won for a while, it just seems like you're never going to do it again," Allen said. "To win again tomorrow would be really important to me. I love playing here. I think they've had a lot of great champions. I would love to be a part of it."
Joe Durant was second after a 68. He had a double bogey in the par-4 17th and rebounded with a birdie on the par-4 18th. Last week, he teamed with Billy Andrade to win the Legends of Golf in Missouri for his first Champions Tour title.
Durant wanted to quickly put the double bogey behind him.
"I just blanked out for a minute on 17," Durant said. "As a result, I hit it in the water and made double. Came back with a nice birdie on 18. I hit a bad shot on 17, but so what? You're going to hit bad shots from time to time."
Scott Dunlap, Woody Austin and Tom Lehman were 8 under. Dunlap had a 65, the best round of the day. Austin and Lehman shot 66.
"I didn't hit the ball super great," Lehman said. "In fact, I hit the ball much better yesterday. I seemed to always manage to get it in the right places and shot a good score."
Defending champion Bernhard Langer was 7 under after a 66. Marco Dawson, tied for the first-round lead with Allen after a 66, had a 72 to drop into a tie for 10th at 6 under.

British scores:
par 72
137 Ian Woosnam (Wales) 71 66 (T6)
139 Colin Montgomerie (Scotland) 67 72 (T15)
143 Sandy Lyle (Scotland) 70 73 (T35)
144 Roger Chapm,an (England) 70 74 (T42)

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Cadillac World Match-play

McIlroy v Casey play-off continues Sunday morning, Willett through to semi-final

Rory McIlroy and Paul Casey will return to the TPC Harding Park on Sunday morning (local time) to complete their WGC – Cadillac Match Play quarter-final sudden-death play-off after darkness called a halt to their match on the third extra hole.
McIlroy had a six foot putt to seal the match on the 16th green (the third extra hole of the play-off) but it slid wide and both players agreed the light was too poor to continue. They will resume on the first hole at 06:45am (local time) on Sunday morning.
While McIlroy and Casey have still to settle their quarter-final, the winner of which will face Jim Furyk in the semis, Danny Willett continued to enjoy his dream debut as the Englishman saw off compatriots Lee Westwood and Tommy Fleetwood en route to a semi-final clash with American Gary Woodland.
Woodland defeated Australian pair Marc Leishman and John Senden to reach the semis, while Furyk took down J B Holmes and Louis Oosthuizen.
Before Casey and McIlroy went head-to-head they respectively beat Hideki Matsuyama and Charl Schwartzel. The semi-finals and final will take place on Sunday.

Player Quotes

Rory McIlroy: "I made a couple of key up and downs when I needed to coming down the stretch. I had a couple of opportunities to close it out, one on 18 and one there and could not quite convert. It was getting pretty dark so we will come back in the morning and try again."

Paul Casey: “I dodged a couple of bullets but felt I gave him one or two. I am glad we are teeing up tomorrow, simple as that. I thought I was done for the day and the week on this green (the 16th). The beautiful thing is we hit the reset button, come back at 6:45am and start again. We looked at each other on the 15th (the second extra hole) and said 'One more'. It really was dark, whatever the TV cameras are showing, and both of us agreed."

Danny Willett: “I swung it really well today. I hit some good golf shots, putted nicely. It was a good, solid match against Tommy. You have to feel comfortable in this format - everyone is a good player. And everyone can win if they play good golf. I’m obviously delighted with how the week has gone so far.”

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Heavy rain hits Fairhaven Junior Open final day

Due to the heavy rain overnight and it is raining heavily this morning, start of play has been delayed until 10.30am in the Fairhaven Trophies Junior International Open at the Lytham St Annes venue, Lancashire.

Play will be in the same order – add 3 ½ hours to your start time.

Because of the delayed start the final day will be reduced to 18 holes.

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