Lanarkshire county match-play championship

Wood v Woodhouse in final at East Kilbride
 

Ed Wood (Crow Wood) will play John Woodhouse (East Kilbride) in Thursday eveing's final of the Lanarkshire county match-play championship at East Kilbride (6.15pm)
Wood beat American college student Cameron Boomer  by 4 and 3 in the first semi-final. Ed was a few shots under par.

 There was a dramatic finish in the other semi-final between Danny Keeney, 1990 Scottish boys finalist, now aged 44,  and 18 year old John Woodhouse, a junior member at East Kilbride.

John was one up playing the par five last hole and 15 feet away in three whereas Danny was 10 yards short of the green. Danny holed his pitch shot bu young John held his nerve to hole the birdie putt for a one-hole victory. Danny and John are pictured above.

The final is on Thursday at East Kilbride with a 6.15pm tee-off.

Willie Sharpe  
Lanarkshire Golf Association

LANARKSHIRE  GOLF  ASSOCIATION

COUNTY  MATCH  PLAY  CHAMPIONSHIP  2015  -  EAST KILBRIDE  G. C.

                        1^ST Round                               Semi-final                               Final

                        14^th July                                  15^th July                                  16^th July                     

5.00                 K GALLACHER

                        East Kilbride

                                    v                                  D KEENEY  2/1

                        D KEENEY               

Hamilton        

                                                          v                                J WOODHOUSE  1 hole

5.07                 J WOODHOUSE     

                        East Kilbride                                     

                                    v                                  J WOODHOUSE  2/1

                        L SCOTT                             

                        Bellshill

                                                                                                                        v                     

5.15                 C BOOMER

                        East Kilbride                           C BOOMER    19th

                                    v                                 

                        J McMORRIS

                        East Kilbride                                                                                     

                                                                                   v                                    ED WOOD      4 and 3

5.22                 ED WOOD   

                        Crow Wood                           

                                    v                                                                                                                     

                        R HINSHELWOOD              ED WOOD     5 and 4

                        East Kilbride                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  

                                   

McKechnie's good start in chase for £10,000 

prize at Mar Hall, Bishopton

A four-birdie, bogey-free round of 66 by Paul McKechnie has the Braid Hills man in joint fourth place in the chase for the £10,000 first prize in the Glenfarclas Open, this week's PGA EuroPro Tour 54-hole tournament at Mar Hall, Bishopton to the west of Glasgow.

 LEADING SCORES

FIRST ROUND

Par 70

64 A Rai (Eng)

65 A Wootton (Eng), C Hinton (Eng)

66 H McCullen (Eng), P McKechnie (Braid Hills), G Wright (West Linton),

OTHER SCOTS' SCORES

68 G Forbes, G McBain, N Fenwick, L Saltman )T7)

69 M Stewart, C Currie, Z Saltman (T18).

70 P Doherty, D Kay, R Cameron, S Crichton, S Binning, Shaun McAllister (T34)

71 M Hillson, P Shields, C Doak (T54)

72 G Hay (T72)

73 M Patterson, K Duncan, C O'Neil, S Kiloh (T90)

74 F McKenna, J Steven, N Henderson, P Robinson, P McLean, S Borrowman (T109)

75 K Nicol, J Findlay (T122)

76 G O'Neill, A Forsyth (T129)

77 C Macaulay, M Isaacs, I Redford (T139).

78 R Colsh, C Lawrie, J Duff, C Smith (T149)

79 R Bell (T157).

 

Wolverhampton man sets pace wth

 

 six-under 64 at Mar Hall

By NICK TEALE

Wolverhampton-based Aaron Rai leads The Glenfarclas Open by one shot after carding a six-under-par 64 for his opening round in the HotelPlanner.com PGA EuroPro Tour event at Mar Hall Golf and Spa Resort near Glasgow..

Adam Wootton and Craig Hinton, both from Oxfordshire, share second on five-under-par while Paul McKechnie is the leading Scot, sat among the trio of players on four under.

Rai (DCD Group) started his first 18 on the 10^th tee of the Earl of Mar Golf Course. A par there was followed by a birdie at 11 and an eagle at the 15^th. At 16 he moved four under with a three and further birdies followed at 2 and 3. 

He avoided the dangers posed by the remaining holes to return to the clubhouse six under par with a 64.

All six of the players four under or better started their first round at the 10^th. Hinton (LJD Technology Services) was five under at the turn after birdies at 13, 17 and 18 and like Rai he eagled the 15^th.

He went further below the card with a birdie at 3, but fell back when he double-bogeyed the 4^th. A birdie at 7 saw him return to five under, where he concluded the round.

Wootton (Oxford Golf Centre) ended his first nine with three birdies on the last four holes, a par at 17 sandwiched between birdies at 15, 16 and 18 to see him turn three under. 

 Another birdie came at the 1^st before three pars and birdies at 5 and 6. He dropped a shot at 7 but claimed a share of second when he made three down the 8^th. 

Haydn McCullen (Delamare Forest), Gareth Wright (West Linton Golf Club) and McKechnie (Braid Hills Golf Centre) share fourth on four under, two behind leader Rai. There are 11 golfers a further two back in seventh, including Marcus Armitage, who won at Cumberwell Park last month and Mar Hall representative Graham Forbes.

Neil Fenwick (Dunbar Golf Club), Greb McBain (Paul Lawrie Golf Centre) and Lloyd Saltman (Archerfield Links golf Club) are the other Scottish players at two-under-par.

The Glenfarclas Open is a 54-hole stroke-play event with a cut to the leading 50 players plus ties to be made after Thursday’s second round.

 The final round will be filmed for a two-hour highlights show to be aired on Sky Sports on Tuesday, July 28. Spectator entry is free throughout and live scoring can be found at www.europrotour.com.

Golf Data Lab Scottish youths championship at Irvine GC

MacIntyre lets lead slip over final round - 

Norwegian wins title by five 

Jarand Arnoy from the Fana Golf Club, Norway kept his head while his rivals were faltering over the final round and he finished up winning the Golf Data Lab Scottish youths championship by the resounding margin of  five strokes at Irvine Golf Club.
He is the first Norwegian to win the title.

He signed off with a steady one-under-par 70 for a 72-hole aggregate of three-under-par 281. He was the only player to finish under par

With 18 holes to go, Oban left-hander Robert MacIntyre looked well on the way to regaining the title he won in 2013.

He shot an excellent morning third round of four-under-par 67 to lead the field by a shot from Arnoy as first and second-round leader Alastair Thurlow (Murrayfield) dropped out of the hunt with a 78, which was followed by a 77. He finished 10th.

But MacIntyre's hopes surprisingly slumped in the final round. He could not conjure up a single birdie and had a double bogey 5 at the short eighth and also bogeyed the fourth, ninth and 12th in disappointing halves of 40 and 36.

The Glencruitten player's five-over 76 for 286 saw him drop into a three-way tie for second place alongside another Norwegian, Lars Sandvoll and Lancashire's Sean Blinkhorn.
Blinkhorn secured the silver medal by way of a better last round, with the other two players picking up bronze.
Liberton’s Kieran Cantley took fifth place on four over par, with last year’s SGU Boys Order of Merit champion, Calum Fyfe from Cawder, a stroke further back.

The general rise in the fourth-round scores was reflected in the CSS, which had been 73 for the first three rounds, going up to 74.

FINAL TOTALS
Par 284 (4x71) CSS 73 73 73 74
281 J E Arnoy (Norway) 71 69 71 70
286 R MacIntyre (Glencruitten) 69 74 67 76, L M Sandvoll (Norway) 74 68 73 71, S Blinkhorn (Southport and Ainsdale) 72 71 72 71
288 K Cantley (Liberrton) 69 74 72 73
289 C Fyfe (Cawder) 72 71 73 73
291 J Rooney (W Lancs) 75 74 66 76
292 A Stone (Lancaster) 74 72 70 76, C Cochrane (Marriott Dalmahoy) 71 71 79 71
293 A Thurlow (Murrayfield) 65 73 78 77
294 R Franssen (Inverness) 75 71 71 77, A Thomson (Lanark) 69 75 75 75, A Carrick (Douglas Park) 69 75 73 77, B Thalmayr (Germany) 72 72 74 76
296 J Knox (Elsham) 74 73 76 73, C Maclean (Balmore) 75 74 72 75, J Banks (W Lancs) 73 70 74 79, J Holt (Wilpshire) 71 73 74 78
297 B Murray (Portlethen) 72 70 79 76
299 S Easton (Irvine) 69 78 76 76, T Thurloway (Mannings Heath) 72 75 73 79, O White (Pannal) 78 71 71 79, C Edgar (Cochrane Castle) 71 73 74 81, N Ward (Royal Eastbourne) 74 71 75 79
300 E Farquharson (Auchterarder) 72 77 74 77, S Roger (Cruden Bay) 74 74 73 79
301 C McGuigan(Comrie) 69 76 80 76, C Blinkhorn (Southport and Ainsdale) 75 74 73 79, C Handy (S Moor) 73 71 80 77
302 S Donald (Eaglescliffe) 73 75 79 75, G Burrett (Haggs Castle) 75 70 82 75
303 D McNeill (Powfoot) 71 74 82 76, N McMullen (Lundin) 72 76 70 85
305 L Fenn (Dunbar) 78 71 79 77
306 J Floydd (Haywards Heath) 76 72 79 79, S McCandless (Bathgate) 70 75 80 81
307 G Trew (Wentworth) 74 73 80 80, J Shaw (Boat of Garten) 73 74 78 82
308 L Bain (Musselburgh) 74 72 82 80
310 F Kane (Kirkhill) 71 75 88 76

Retired: W Porter (Carnoustie) 77 71 ret

Strickland is three clear at McGregor Trophy Sussex teenager Charlie Strickland has bounced back from injury to take a three-stroke lead at the halfway stage of the McGregor Trophy at Wallasey, Cheshire.  The 16-year-old (image © Leaderboard Photography) had to withdraw from his last major event with a back injury – but he proved his return to fitness by adding four-under 68 to his opening 69 in the English U16 boys’ open stroke play championship.  He had five birdies, and just one bogey, and commented: “I kept the ball in play, kept patient and let the birdies come on the holes where I could take advantage.”  Strickland (Ham Manor) has played in this event on three previous occasions and has never made the cut until now. His plan for tomorrow’s final 36 holes is simple: “I’ll stick to my game plan, try and focus on my game and see where it goes.”  He’s enjoying good form this season, having been third in the South Eastern junior championship, and fifth in the Peter McEvoy Trophy. He also played in this year’s U16 international against Spain, winning both his matches on the second day. His closest rival is Norfolk’s Toby Briggs (Dunston Hall) who also scored 68, adding it to his opening score of level par 72.  Briggs, another U16 international, had an eagle three on the long 14th as well as four birdies, including one on the 18th to sign off his round.  His score achieved his aim of getting well into contention in the championship. “After yesterday a lot of players were quite far ahead and I felt there was a bit of pressure that shouldn’t have been there. I had to get all those shots back today,” said the 15-year-old.  Ireland’s Thomas Mulligan currently holds third place on three-under (70 71) while Jack Ainscough (Hartlepool) is a shot behind (72 70) and Benjamin Jones (Brampton Heath) is level par (72 72).  Click here for full scores Lyndsey Hewison Press Officer England Golf pr@englandgolf.org 07825 752 193  Howie and Munro from Reay only  Scots to make last day   Only two Scots - Darren Howie (Peebles) and Euan Munro from Reay - beat the halfway cut in the English Under-16 boys' open stroke play championship for the McGregor Trophy at Wallasey Golf Club on Merseyside, writes Colin Farquharson. Howie shot 74 and 71 to be joint sixth on 145 - eight behind the leader by three, Charlie Strickland (Ham Manor). Long-distance traveller Munro had scores of 77 and 71 for 148 and a share of 20th place. The cut fell at 150 and Scots who missed out were: 153 Keith Bowman (St Andrews New) 77 76 154 Kyle Reid (Balmore) 79 75 155 Calvin Duffton (Aboyne) 78 77 157 Andrew Moir (Elgin) 76 81 159 Callum Burns (Balmore) 76 83 160 Jamie Stewart (Old Ranfurly) 81 79 161 John Patterson (St Andrews New) 80 81.

Scottish senior amateur match-play championship at Stirling

Gardner KOs Brotherston on last green in 

battle between former champions

By GORDON THOMSON 

The perfect weather conditions were matched by the high quality golf on show as the Scottish senior amateurs' match-play championship got down to the sudden-death stages at Stirling Golf Club today.

The tie of the round was the clash of two former champions, David Gardner (Broomieknowe) and Ian Brotherston (Dumfries and County) in which the Lothians man prevailed on the last green after a close contest.

In an epic struggle Gordon MacDonald overcame last year’s beaten finalist, Stewart Millar (Cochrane Castle) at the 25th hole, having been two down with four to play. 

The leading qualifiers, Joe McManus (Uphall), Robin Craw (Glenbervie) and Laurie Chancellor (Inverness), pictured, advanced to the next round but only after tough tests.
Bob Stewart (Tulliallan) was beaten by George Crawford (Williamwood).

Graham Bell (Downfield) was in commanding form as he beat Alister Raphael ( St Andrews ) but many of the matches were very tight with John Fraser (Royal Burgess) also being taken to extra holes.

The Super Seniors event saw four very good matches. John Broadfoot (Turnberry), who led the qualifiers in this competition, was beaten by Jim Kinloch (Cardross) and second placed, Tom Sirel (Largs) was beaten by last year’s runner-up, David Millar (St Andrews  New).

FIRST ROUND RESULTS

CHAMPIONSHIP 
Upper half of draw

Joe McManus (Uphall) bt John Johnston (Lanark) 2 and 1 

Tom McLevy (Blairgowrie) bt Alan Hogg (Turnhouse ) 2 and 1

Gordon Macdonald (Glenbervie) bt Stewart Millar (Cochrane Castle) at 25th 

 Lindsay Blair (Grangemouth) bt  Keith Bruce (Edzell) 4 and 3

David Gardner (Broomieknowe) bt Ian Brotherston (Dumfries and Co) 1 hole 

Angus Lamond (Glasgow ) bt Phil Dempsey (Tulliallan) 2 and 1

Graham Bell (Downfield) bt  Alister Raphael  (St Andrews) 8 and 7

John Fraser (Royal Burgess) bt Ian Dickson (Gullane) at 20th 

 Lower half of draw

Robert Craw (Glenbervie) bt David Miller (Kilmarnock Barassie ) at 19th

Henry Anderson (Glenbervie ) bt Jalil Aman (Grangemouth) 5 and 3 

Muir Townsley (Dumfries and Co) beat Ian Taylor (Eyemouth) 2 and 1

Ian Gillan (Bishopbriggs) bt  Duncan Hamilton (Mortonhall ) 2 holes 

Laurie Chancellor (Inverness) bt  Gordon Rennie (Cathkin Braes) 1 hole

Ian Angus (Duff House Royal) bt  Ian Jeen (Scotscraig) 5 and 3

George Crawford (Williamwood ) bt  Bob Stewart (Tulliallan) 3 and 2

Colin Halcrow (Windyhill ) bt Lindsay Gordon (Turnhouse ) 1 hole

  

SUPER SENIORS

Jim Kinloch (Cardross)  bt John Broadfoot (Turnberry) 1 hole.

Ian R Dickson ( Lundin)  bt Alasdair MacLennan (Stirling ) 3 and 2

Alan Harrington (Western Gailes) bt George Rodaks (Pitreavie ) 2 holes.

David Millar (St Andrews New) bt Tom Sirel (Largs) 1 hole.

 

Robert MacIntyre leads Golf Data Lab Scottish youths championship

Robert MacIntyre, the left-handed 2013 winner, has hit the front again to lead by one shot after three rounds of the Golf Data Lab Scottish youths championship at Irvine Golf Club, Ayrshire.
The young man from the Glencruitten GC, Oban shot a four-under-par 67 for a 54-hole tally of three-under-par 210.
Second, a shot behind, is Norwegian Jarand E Arnoy who had a par 71 this morning.
LEADING THIRD-ROUND TOTALS
Par 213 (3x71) CSS 73 73 73
210 Robert MacIntyre (Glencruitten) 69 74 67
211 Jarand E Arnoy (Norway) 71 69 71
215 James Rooney (W Lancs) 75 74 66, Lars M Sandvoll (Norway) 74 68 73, Sean Blinkhorn (Southport and Ainsdale) 72 71 72. Kieran Cantley (Liberton) 69 74 72
216 Adam Stone (Lancaster) 74 72 70

Late entries for Seniors Open at Newburgh on July 23 - Call 01358 789058

Late entries are being accepted for the Newburgh-on-Ythan enior Open on Thursday, 23^rd July.  The Entry Fee is £12 and entries can be made by calling 01358 789058 or book on-line at www.newburghgolfclub.co.uk.

 

Shona Reid

TEE TIMES AT NEWBURGH SENIORS
Players leave the tee in threes at ten-minute intervals.  Competitors from the home club unless otherwise stated.

Abbreviations:-   A, Aboyne; Al, Alford; B, Banchory; C, Caledonian; CB, Cruden Bay; D, Deeside; E, Elgin; F, Forfar; H, Hazlehead; Hu, Hull; I, Inverurie; K, Kemnay; M, Murcar; Mo, Moray; N, Newmachar; NB, Nigg Bay; Nor, Northumberland; O, Oldmeldrum; P, Peterculter; Po, Portlethen; P and K, Pyle and Kenfig; RA, Royal Aberdeen; T, Tarland. 

07.10 J Allan, B Harper, G Leslie; RJ Smith, S Cooper, A Penny.
07.50 J Murison (K), J Fraser (K), S Stevenson (K).
08.10 J Stewart, N Walker (No) and partner; R Crofts, M Collie, P Scott; G Watson, R Clifton, J Turnbull; S Hepburn, W Grant (Po), D Philip; J MacNaughtan (RA), N Kerr (D) and partner.
09.0 F G Gray (N), R L Nicoll (B), A Wilson (M); M Fyfe, N Donald, G Chalmers; R Usher (B), J Guthrie (F) and partner; A Gall (D), I Clark (D), D Scholey (Hu); S Smith (O), W Shanks (O), J Blake (O); C Henderson (H), D Walker (P), B Mitchell (D).
10.0 A Low (N), N Hepburn (N), A Fraser (NB); J Low (N), D Hughes (P and K) and partner; B Duguid (I), D Fraser (CB), M Hodder (M); R Roxburgh (D), A Imray (RA), A McNiven (RA); E Brown (H), A Duncan (H) and partner; R Wilson (H), D Lawrie (A), G Duncan (H).
11.00 T Fitzgerald (C), B Anderson (A), W Smith (K); G Wilson (K), I Valentine    (M), D Bisset (B); W Porter (Al), B Morocco (M) and partner.
11.40 J Murray (B), M Flanagan (N), I Brown (N); R Duncan (O), B Aitken (O), I Barton (T); R Beattie (P), M Baldwin (D), P Rowson (D).
12.30 J Murdoch (Mo), A Marsh (E) and partner.
13.00 I Ross, J Gray, A Ross (Nor).