Scottish Senior Golfing Society Spanish Festival
sponsored by McCrea Financial Services
Venue: Hacienda del Alamo Golf Club, Murcia.   

     
Day 1 - First Round Doubles

A beautiful sunny day greeted the participants in Monday's opening competitive round where 28 teams of two played better-ball around the challenging  and well-presented Hacienda Del Alamo, Murcia track.
The local pair of  Allen and Higgins recorded an impressive nett 63.5 (gross 74),

Scratch honours at the halfway stage are shared by the pairings of Craw/Will and Bruce/Jeen on 4-under par 68. The second and final round (greensomes) will be played on Friday

Day 2 - First Round Singles
The day got off to a very unfortunate start as Gordon and Heather MacDonald had to return to Scotland after hearing that Heather's mother had taken ill.. 

Once more scoring was low and lowest of all with a 2-under par 70 was Nick Robson (Meldrum House)

Defending champion Ian Brotherston, however is not about to hand over the trophy quite yet as he is tucked behind on 71
 Other notable scratch scores included fine 73s by Rob Craw and Muir Townsley

On the net front, leading the way after the first round, all with a net score of 71, are
Craw, Townsley, Robson and A. Ross.


Day 3- Second day of Singles

Highlight of the day was Andy Campbell's fine 71 followed closely by Nick Robson on 73 then Rob Craw and the consistent Muir Townsley on 74.


Best net scores of the day were:

70 - Andy Campbell
71- Mike Pearce
72- Rob Craw, Muir Townsley, Andy Ross, Stewart Drysdale and Alan Harrington


Going into the final day of the singles on Thursday the leaders are

Gross
143- Nick Robson
146- Ian Brotherston
147- Rob Craw, Muir Townsley
149- Andy Campbell
Net
139 - Andy Ross
141 - Rob Craw, Muir Townsley, Alan Harrington, Brian Kidd and Jim Fealey
142- Jim Paterson
145- Jim Johnston, Kevin Will, Stewart Drysdale, Gordon Gray and Neish Chisholm

Pro Andrew Marshall from Norfolk wins 

World Hickory Open championship

Andrew Marshall with Carnoustie Lady Provost Helen Oswald and the championship trophies.
Picture by Gillian Kirkwood

Former European Tour professional Andrew Marshall from Dereham, Norfolk is the new World Hickory Open champion.

He won the title at Carnoustie today with a 36-hole total of 143, comprising a 67 over the Buddon course and a 76 at the championship links.

Major prizewinners

 

World Hickory Open Champion: Andrew Marshall (Dereham)  67 76 - 143

Second pro:   Fraser Mann (Carnoustie GC) 71 75 = 146

Third pro:  Johan Moberg (Norrkoping GC)  71 76 - 147

Fourth pro:  Paolo Quirici 76 76 - 152

Fifth pro: Alastair Good (Gullane) 77 81 - 158

Amateur Champion: Cliff Martin (USA) 69 75 - 144

Second Amateur:  Claus Muhlfeit  78 78 = 156

Third Amateur: Rymer Smith 75 81 = 156

Best lady scratch:  Brita Nord 81 94 = 175

Second lady scratch: Claire Penman (Montrose)  86 95 = 181

Best lady handicap:  Christina Lundstrom 83 81 = 164

Second lady  handicap:  Mary Summers (Carnoustie)78 90 =168

 

Best handicap: Jake Anema (10)  66 75 = 141

Second handicap:  Brian Schuman (10) 72 72 = 144

Third handicap: Hugh Cameron (11) 71 73 = 144

 

Players with handicaps 13+ played Stableford, first on championship course, then on the Buddon.

First: Willie Tanner (24) 39 41 = 80pt

Second Geoff Bleasby (18) 38 35 =73pt

Third: Paul Adams (South Africa) (21) 38 33 = 71pt

 

 

North-east Alliance report and scores

DAVID LAW WINS  AT BANCHORY WITH AN EXCELLENT SIX-UNDER-PAR 63

On a day that would have surpassed most this summer for weather, the North East Alliance saw its best scoring of the season so far. 
Challenge Tour player David Law (Paul Lawrie Golf Centre) headed the field with an excellent round of six-under-par 63.
He won by two shots from Kevin Duncan (Cruden Bay).
Greg McBain (Paul Lawrie Golf Centre) finished third with a 66, a shot ahead of stablemate Philip McLean and the leading amateur of the day, Michael Lawrie, the Deeside Golf Club junior captain.

NORTH-EAST ALLIANCE
Banchory Golf Club
LEADING SCRATCH 
par 69
63  D.Law (Paul Lawrie GC)
65 K.Duncan (Cruden Bay)
66  G.McBain (Paul Lawrie GC)
67  P.McLean (Paul Lawrie GC), M.Lawrie (Deeside)
68 C.Lamb (Newmachar)
69 D.Brown (Kemnay), K.Nicol (Paul Lawrie GC)), J.Duff (Newmachar), B.McHattie, S.Kiloh (Paul Lawrie GC)
70 S.Finnie (Royal Aberdeen), B.Ritchie (Inverallochy)
71 N.Macandrew (Royal Aberdeen), R.Cameron (Paul Lawrie GC)
72 S.Lawrie (Paul Lawrie GC)
73 L.Fowler (Royal Aberdeen Golf Club), C.Grant (Portlethen)
74 W.Skene (Deeside), R.Reid (Tarland), S.Mackie , B.Fyfe (Paul Lawrie GC), S.Macneil (Aboyne)
75 K.Daglish, D.Leslie (Northern), C.Dempster (Paul Lawrie G C), R.McKen (Trump International), N.Young (Insch), F.Bisset(Banchory), A.Stuart (Paul Lawrie GC)
76 B.Nicolson (Hazlehead), D.Craigie (), M.Forster (Newburgh), B.McPherson ()
77 S.Shand (Kemnay), J.Emslie (Royal Aberdeen), K,Zeynalov (Portlethen), S.Dunn (Deeside), D.Adam
78 C.Cassie (Nigg Bay), J.Borthwick (Craibstone), J.Duncan (Newburgh), H.Roulston (Stonehaven)
79 R.Lamb (Inchmarlo), D.McKay (Hazlehead), D.Bisset (Banchory), J.Murray (Banchory), P.Low (Craibstone), G.Chalmers (Alford), D.Mackay (Hazlehead), G.Milne
80 C.Lawrie (Paul Lawrie GC), P.Walker

HANDICAP PRIZEWINNERS
Class 1: B McHattie (4) 65; L.Fowler (7) 66; W.Skene (7) bih. D.Craigie (9) 67 bih B.Ritchie (3) 67
Class 2: P.Walker (13) 67; P.Low (11) 68; D.McKay (10) bih, D.Bisset (10)  bih, J.Murray (10) 69

Lutton finishes top Scot in Oman

Aberdeen's Clarke Lutton finished as the leading Scot in this week's
MENA Tour event in Oman, the Muscat Hills Golf Citizen Championship at Muscat Hills Golf and Country Club.
Lutton, who won last week's event, tied for 24th place on two-under 214 with rounds of 69, 76 and 69
Amateur Ben Alexander (Renaissance), joint first round leader with a 67,  subsided to a share of 40th place on 217 with subsequent scores of 76 and 74.
Ted Innes-Ker finished on 219 and a share of 44th place with scores of 74, 70 and 75.
Paul Doherty, who was leading the MENA Tour Order of Merit only a couple of weeks ago, had another disappointing tournament with rounds of 76, 72 and 72 for 220 and joint 46th place.
Sweden's Chrisfofer Blomstrand won the US$ 5,400 first prize with an 11-under-par aggregate of 205 made up of rounds of 67, 68 and 70
He won by a single shot from Germany's Julian Kunzenbacher (70-67-69 for 206)

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