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GREAT SCOTT IS CASTLE STUART 

LOCAL OPEN WINNER

 NEWS RELEASE

The fifth annual Castle Stuart Local Open has been won by Scott MacDonald from Boat of Garten who topped a 12-strong field at the weekend event.

Scott finished with a Stableford score of 37 points in the competition held over the Moray Firth links which will host the Aberdeen Asset Management Scottish Open for the fourth time in six years next July.

As part of his prize, Scott, on the right of the above picture with director of golf Jeremy Matte,  has secured two tickets to the Sunday finale of the Scottish Open with Castle Stuart hospitality.

The Castle Stuart Local Open is the traditional end of season event at the links. It has grown steadily since being launched in 2011 and this year attracted a capacity entry of 208 golfers living in the Highland postcode areas IV, KW and PH19 – PH41.

Qualifying events were held on Saturday 7 November and Sunday 8 November, with the finalists matching up on Saturday 14 November.

Jeremy Matte, Castle Stuart Golf Links’ Director of Golf, said: “The Local Open is a keenly-anticipated event in our calendar and is a great way to end our season.

“Capacity has increased every year and it is always a fiercely-fought event .This year was no different and Scott has emerged as a worthy winner from a very strong field.”

This year’s other qualifiers were –

Stephen Gray,  Nairn; Stephen Davidson,  Inverness; Graeme Anderson,  Nairn Dunbar; Kevin Dick, Inverness; David Sanderson, Inverness; Peter Rawlinson.  Fortrose and Rosemarkie; James Burns, Fortrose and Rosemarkie; Brian Gilchrist, Inverness ; Andy Webster, Nairn Dunbar; David Fraser, Torvean; and Ian Patience, Boat of Garten;

During 2015 more local four-ball groups played at Castle Stuart Golf Links than any previous year. A £200 local rate will continue when the course opens for the 2016 season on  March 25.

• The Scottish Open will be held at Castle Stuart Golf Links from 7-10 July 2016. More than 65,000 people attended the event in 2013 when it was last held at the course and it is hoped attendances will top 70,000 next year.

           Tickets can be bought at - http://www.castlestuartgolf.com/scottish-open-2016

http://tickets.europeantour.com/event/castle-stuart-golf-links/aberdeen-asset-management-scottish-open/898271/

McDowell beats Knox and  Bohn in Mexico play-off

FROM GOLF WEEK
Graeme McDowell had to cancel his original plans for Monday, the conference call to announce the expansion of his restaurant business.
Turns out he had designs on expanding his golf career.
That rare mix of brilliant performer and perceptive observer, McDowell on Monday morning in Mexico was at his very best. He stuffed a 5-iron from 206 yards to 2 1/2 feet to win a playoff over Russell Knox and Jason Bohn at the OHL Classic at Mayakoba. Minutes later, in explaining what his third US PGA Tour victory and 14th worldwide — and his first anywhere since the 2014 French Open — meant, the Northern Irishman was nearly as impressive.
“It really gives me something to grab onto,” said the 36-year-old whose world ranking had dropped from 15th at the end of 2014 to 85th. Such a dose of reality led him to ask himself, “Am I finished? Am I good enough? We’ve all been there.”
His soul-searching came to an end at a tournament that never appeared ready to finish. Hampered by massive rain delays from the outset, the tournament on the El Camaleon course at the Mayakoba Resort on the Yucatan Peninsula in southeast Mexico was dragged into Monday. 
When play resumed in wet and windy conditions, Knox appeared ready to win for the second straight week, armed with a one-stroke lead over McDowell and Bohn.
But Knox bogeyed the 18th to shoot 66 and finish at 18-under 266 with McDowell (66) and Bohn (68).
The play-off was over swiftly and continued a trend for all three. McDowell is now 2-0 in US PGA Tour playoffs, and Knox and Bohn are 0-2. It’s also the seventh runner-up finish for Bohn since he last won, in 2010.
“I’ve been dreaming of this day and told myself that I would appreciate it when it comes — and I’m going to appreciate it,” McDowell said, just moments after he pulled down the curtain in dramatic fashion, winning $1,116,000 in the process.
Sticking to his conservative move to hit 3-wood at the tight-driving par-4 18th, the 2010 U.S. Open champion conceded a slight advantage to Bohn and Knox, both of whom hit driver past him. No matter, though, as McDowell validated his reputation for being a big-time player when he laced a laser of a 5-iron.
“Get tight. Get tight,” McDowell shouted, and it did, bringing a smile to his face. “As good as I can hit it.”
The shots for Bohn (from 188 yards) and Knox (173) were exponentially more difficult, and neither could pull off the magic. Bohn left himself with a 20-footer for birdie, and Knox missed the green hole-high but in the rough. They missed their birdie chances, but McDowell did not.
Nor did McDowell fail in his quest to re-establish himself among the world’s top-ranked players. His exempt status on the PGA Tour was going to expire at the end of this season, and the victory assures McDowell of an eighth consecutive berth in the Masters. When the Official World Golf Ranking was released a short time later, he had jumped to No. 62.
Not nearly in the stratosphere where he sat for so long — inside the top 20 — but “it’s a nice step back to where I want to be,” he said.
Having got married and had a child with his wife, Kristin, McDowell has seen his life on a different landscape and admittedly has been learning to adjust. It hasn’t been easy.
“It’s been a rough year for all the right reasons,” he said.
But committed to his style of play and determined to work his way back into his world-class form, McDowell returned to the European Tour after finishing 160th in the FedEx Cup standings and being left out of the playoffs. He played five times, and though the overall finishes weren’t memorable, he made the cut each time and thought he was advancing.
Adding Mayakoba to his schedule was in reaction to his good feelings and so, no, he didn’t surprise himself by shooting 67-63-70-66, nor by hitting nothing but pure shots down the stretch.
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AND NOW, SOME REST: Only one player can lay claim to having played in each of the first five weeks of the 2015-16 season, but Knox will not try and keep his perfect attendance intact.
“I look forward to putting my feet up next week,” said Knox, whose loss to McDowell in the first hole of a playoff in the OHL Classic at Mayakoba concluded a stretch of four countries in four weeks: America, Malaysia, China and Mexico.
True, this week's RSM Classic in Sea Island, Georgia., isn’t far from Knox’s home in Jacksonville Beach, Florida., but who can blame the 30-year-old Scot from Inverness for resting? 
After having missed the cut in the Frys.com Open, Knox has finished T-38 in Las Vegas, T-21 in Malaysia, won his first tournament (the HSBC Champions in China), and played beautifully in Mexico.
How well have things gone? Knox has earned $2,052,160 in this five-week stretch; he earned $1,916,666 in 28 tournaments all of last season, his best on Tour.
And no one else had played more than four times in this five-week stretch. But the stop sign is up.
“I’m tired, obviously, but kind of running on fumes," Knox said, "and my adrenaline of playing well is helping me keep going.”

ELSEWHERE IN THE TOP 10: Derek Fathauer was an afterthought to many, given that his mates in the final pairing, Russell Knox and Jason Bohn, made it into a playoff. But when Fathauer birdied the 18th to shoot 71, he was assured of solo fourth, his best PGA Tour finish. ... The world’s top-ranked amateur, Jon Rahm, had a fourth-round 70 to finish T-10. But being an amateur, Rahm, a Spaniard who is a senior at Arizona State, is not eligible for a top-10 exemption into this week’s RSM Classic. ... Keegan Bradley finished T-8, his first top-10 since last year’s Memorial. ... Johnson Wagner continued his fine play at the Mayakoba. He won in 2011, was T-16 last year and nailed down a T-8 this time around. ... Harold Varner III, in just his seventh PGA Tour start, had his first top-10. His Monday finish included a massive birdie putt in a pouring rain at the par-4 14th, one that was more than 70 feet. Varner closed with 70 for 14 under and T-5.
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THE BOHN EXPRESS: So, it’s a young man’s Tour? Try telling that to Bohn, whose 2015-16 season continued to shine in Mexico.
With rounds of 70-63-65-68, he finished T-2, his second runner-up finish and third top-5 in four starts.
Last year was Bohn’s most lucrative, money-wise, with $2,337,580, an average of $86,577 per start. Thus far in 2015-16, he has averaged $306,934 in his four starts.
In 16 rounds this short season, Bohn is 55 under, with 10 rounds in the 60s.
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Swedish amateur Kinhult joins Austrian Nemecz in lead at Q School halfway point

 EUROPEAN TOUR COMMUNICATIONS
Lukas Nemecz retained the lead of The European Tour’s Qualifying School Final Stage but was joined at the top of the leaderboard on 14 under par by teenager Marcus Kinhult at the halfway point of this six round marathon.
With the top half of the field playing the less challenging Tour Course at PGA Catalunya Resort – a European Tour Destination – the leading players took advantage of perfect scoring conditions in the third round, with 84 players now at par or better for the week.
Austrian Nemecz made an early move, four birdies in his first seven holes stretching his lead before a double-bogey on the 18th hole, his ninth, brought him back in range of the chasing pack.
The 26 year old found two more birdies coming home to shoot a four under par round of 66 but he admitted he is surprised by his lofty position in Girona.
“I’m very happy, I couldn’t have expected that,” he said. “I didn’t play very well this season but I know that I’m playing very well now so it makes it fun. I’m enjoying playing, and it’s really good to be there right now.
“I always used to have a good long game and was struggling with that a bit this year, so I had to do some technical things this summer which is not great to have to do in the middle of the season. It looks like it’s starting to pay off now though.
“Tomorrow will definitely be more difficult but I don’t think that the Tour Course is that easy, you still have to make a lot of good shots and I like the course. I hit two bad shots today and went out of bounds but the rest was really good.
“It’s nice to be leading now but there are still three more rounds and there is so far to go that I don’t really even think about it. You have to think about playing under par and then see what happens after 108 holes.
“Our coach has rented a house so there are eight of us there and it’s great fun, doing some cooking and talking, so it’s good to get off the golf course and have fun.I It’s very important to be able to do that to save energy over all these days – we’ve played three rounds but there are still three more to go so it will definitely be challenging.”
His playing partner Kinhult – still an amateur – was also pleased with his bogey-free third round of 65 that has put him in a strong position with 54 holes still to play.
“It was good today,” said the 19 year old Swede. “I struck it pretty good today tee to green and didn’t miss many greens so it was really solid. I left a few out there on the greens, missed a few putts, but I’m happy with a good score.
“It would mean a lot to get a European Tour card, obviously, but we’re only halfway through so it’s a long way to go, but it’s a good start and it’s going to be three nice rounds on the Stadium Course, hopefully, and I’m looking forward to it.
“I try not to change my mindset. I just need to stick to the gameplan, hit fairways and greens and hopefully make a few putts.”
One shot behind the leading duo are Spaniard Adrian Otaegui, who had the low round of the day with an eight under par 62, and England’s Chris Hanson, with Hanson’s compatriot Gary King one shot further back alongside Australian Nick Cullen.
Frenchman Clément Sordet briefly raised hopes of a round of 59 or better when he went out in just 28 strokes but faltered slightly coming in to shoot a six under par 64 and sit alongside American Jason Knutzon on 11 under par.
Of the players on the Stadium Course, traditionally seen as slightly tougher than the Tour Course, it was Scotland’s Peter Whiteford who caught the eye, a five under par round of 67 taking him to three under par overall.
Tomorrow the field swaps courses for the fourth round, after which a cut will see the top 70 and ties make it through to battle it out for two more rounds on the Stadium Course.
At the end of the six rounds the top 25 players and ties will earn places on The European Tour for next season.

THIRD-ROUND SCORES
 198 L Nemecz (Aut) 67 65 66; M Kinhult (am) (Swe) 66 67 65;
 199 A Otaegui  (Esp) 74 63 62; C Hanson (Eng) 70 63 66;
 200 G King (Eng) 64 72 64; N Cullen (Aus) 61 73 66;
 201 C Sordet  (Fra) 71 66 64; J Knutzon (USA) 67 68 66;
 202 D Papadatos (Aus) 67 70 65; R McGowan  (Eng) 69 69 64; U Van Den Berg  (RSA) 72 64 66; D Gavins (Eng) 71 65 66; M Palmer (RSA) 63 71 68;
 203 F Fritsch  (Ger) 68 69 66; J Hugo  (RSA) 65 71 67; K Ferrie (Eng) 70 69 64; D Im (USA) 70 68 65; C Berardo (Fra) 76 64 63; L Jensen (Den) 70 66 67; M Jonzon (Swe) 68 70 65; S Fernandez (am) (Esp) 64 72 67;
 204 H Joannes  (Bel) 66 70 68; F Laporta (Ita) 69 68 67; D Dixon (Eng) 72 68 64; L Canter (Eng) 67 69 68;
 205 J Guerrier  (Fra) 69 70 66; N Ravano (Ita) 75 65 65; R Finch  (Eng) 69 66 70; E Goya (Arg) 73 63 69; P Shields (Sco) 67 70 68; J Robinson (Eng) 72 69 64; M Lafeber (Ned) 74 66 65; D McGrane (Irl) 71 68 66; N Bertasio (Ita) 71 68 66;
 206 M Pavon (Fra) 67 68 71; M Foster (Eng) 71 68 67; D Huizing (Ned) 68 72 66; M Southgate  (Eng) 72 66 68;
 207 J Sarasti  (Esp) 69 68 70; J Sjöholm (Swe) 72 67 68; D Law (Sco) 67 72 68; K Samooja (Fin) 66 74 67; F Bergamaschi (Ita) 67 65 75; J Scrivener (Aus) 65 72 70; W Besseling  (Ned) 68 71 68; C Costilla (Arg) 68 71 68; D Lloyd (RSA) 64 74 69;
 208 M Brown (Nzl) 69 72 67; A Hartø  (Den) 72 68 68; P Howard  (Eng) 73 67 68; M Delpodio  (Ita) 72 67 69; S Hansen (Den) 67 74 67; J Dantorp (Swe) 66 71 71; K Phelan (Irl) 70 72 66;
 209 R Johnson (Swe) 71 70 68; R McEvoy  (Eng) 66 74 69; A Karlsson  (Swe) 67 73 69; S Manley (Wal) 66 74 69; P Dunne (Irl) 71 68 70; G Green  (Mas) 69 70 70; R Evans  (Eng) 67 72 70;
 210 S Arnold  (Aus) 70 71 69; S Henry  (Sco) 71 69 70; D Burmester (RSA) 74 67 69; T Murray (Eng) 69 72 69; J Walters (RSA) 68 73 69; R Kellett (Sco) 75 65 70;
 211 P Whiteford (Sco) 74 70 67; D Gaunt (Aus) 68 74 69; H Porteous (RSA) 65 72 74; S Thornton (Irl) 71 67 73;
 212 M Crespi  (Ita) 74 67 71; F Mruzek (Cze) 68 71 73; R Santos  (Por) 75 63 74; F Andersson Hed (Swe) 73 68 71; P Oriol (Esp) 70 73 69; O Henningsson  (Swe) 73 67 72;
 213 D Foos (Ger) 74 70 69; T Gornik (Slo) 68 72 73; J Loughrey (Eng) 72 72 69; J Lara (Esp) 71 71 71; C Koerbler  (Aut) 73 69 71; O Stark (Swe) 77 65 71;
 214 E Molinari  (Ita) 66 77 71; J Hahn (USA) 71 74 69; J Sandelin (Swe) 71 71 72; L Gagli  (Ita) 71 71 72; R Coles (Eng) 72 68 74;
 215 C Ford (Eng) 71 71 73; J White (Eng) 68 74 73; C Del Moral (Esp) 74 69 72; S Brown (Eng) 73 71 71; D Bransdon (Aus) 72 71 72;
 216 P Angles  (Esp) 63 80 73; J Lima  (Por) 74 70 72; J Senior (Eng) 74 68 74; R Fox (Nzl) 68 77 71; A Tadini (Ita) 73 71 72; P Widegren  (Swe) 71 73 72; P Hedblom (Swe) 69 74 73; S Soderberg (Swe) 74 69 73; A Chesters  (Eng) 73 69 74; M Nixon (Eng) 72 76 68; R Roussel (am) (Fra) 70 72 74;
 217 B Pettersson (Swe) 73 72 72; R Saxton (Ned) 74 72 71; D Kataoka (Jpn) 76 68 73; P Mejow (Ger) 74 69 74; D Van Tonder  (RSA) 72 70 75; G Axell (Swe) 74 68 75; J Doherty  (Sco) 69 73 75;
 218 B Neil (Sco) 73 69 76; S Walker (Eng) 68 76 74; J Mullen  (Eng) 74 69 75;
 219 J Smith (Eng) 76 71 72; B Hafthorsson (Isl) 74 72 73; V Riu  (Fra) 74 71 74; M Welch  (USA) 75 73 71; B Ritthammer (Ger) 70 77 72; M Wallace (Eng) 71 76 72; R Gonzalez (Arg) 79 68 72; J Rutherford (Eng) 71 71 77;
 220 B Casey  (Irl) 76 69 75; A Wejshag (Swe) 71 75 74; J Huldahl (Den) 66 80 74; A Saddier (Fra) 73 71 76; C Pigem (Esp) 70 75 75; S Jeppesen  (Swe) 78 71 71; J Wrisdale (Eng) 74 72 74; N Holman  (Aus) 70 72 78; T Sinnott (Aus) 82 68 70;
 221 M Orrin (Eng) 76 66 79; J Cafourek (Cze) 69 77 75; C Blomstrand (Swe) 75 73 73; J Higginbottom (Aus) 75 74 72;
 222 M Laskey  (Wal) 72 74 76; N Lemke (Swe) 76 70 76; M Lundberg (Swe) 75 68 79; M Søgaard  (Den) 70 78 74; D Woltman (USA) 76 72 74;
 223 D Vancsik (Arg) 70 77 76; E Kofstad (Nor) 67 78 78;
 224 P Martin Benavides (Esp) 74 76 74; J Edfors (Swe) 76 69 79; K Eriksson (Swe) 68 83 73; R McGee (Irl) 64 87 73; M Wiegele  (Aut) 69 75 80;
 225 P Tarver-Jones (Eng) 74 75 76; J Lucquin (Fra) 72 77 76; G Murray  (Sco) 76 70 79; N Dougherty  (Eng) 76 74 75;
 226 C Feldborg Nielsen (Swe) 72 78 76;
 227 G Piris Mateu (Esp) 70 77 80; A Murdaca (Aus) 72 74 81;
 232 E Cuartero Blanco  (Esp) 74 80 78;
 Disqualified: P Lawrie (Irl) 76 69 DQ
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£500 to winner of CT Sports Pro Winter Series event at Leven Links tomorrow

FROM KEVIN CADEMY-TAYLOR

Tomorrow (Tuesday) sees No 3 in our schedule of CT Sports Pro Winter Series. This one is at Leven Links. 
Entry is open to male and female professionals and amateurs.

The draw is:

Leven Links - 17 November 2015

Time	Player A	Player B	Player C
09.30
09.38
09.46	James White	Brian Souter
09.54	Ryan Campbell	Jake Hogg
10.02	James Hendricks	Eric Walker	Matthew Miller
10.10	Fraser Robertson	Ben Kinsley	Fraser Carr
10.18	Jamie McLeary	Daniel Young	Ben Craggs
10.26	Jane Turner	Rachel McQueen	Iona Stephenson
10.34	Lewis Reid	Cameron Farrell	Euan Bowden
10.42	Scott Borrowman	Paul McKechnie	Andrew Oldcorn
10.50	Zander Culverwell	Chris Kelly	Nick Gardiner
10.58	Rodger Clarke	Alan Sutherland	Sandy Scott
11.06	Jordan McColl	Neil Henderson	Kyle Godsman
11.14	Cameron Marr	Norman Huguet	Gareth Wright

It is also displayed on the website www.ctsportsacademy.co.uk

I’m looking forward to the third event and hopefully a better day with the weather. You’ll find the tournament registration desk in the Leven Thistle Golf Club clubhouse.

Due to the field not being full on this occasion Section 4 of the Terms and Conditions has been applied. The breakdown is shown below. 

On this occasion the first prize remains at £500. The minor places will be 80% of the original amount. 

Terms and Conditions - Prize Money 

• Prize money will be distributed in accordance with the official breakdown of the prize fund at each event. If the event field is not full, a percentage differential will reflect in the prize money distribution. Prize money will be paid to the top 4 places and ties.

• 1st place - £500
• 2nd Place - £240
• 3rd Place  - £120
• 4th Place - £40

Tomorrow (Tuesday) I will be accepting Pro Winter Series entries for the competition at West Kilbride Golf Club on Tuesday, December 8.

Entry payment will be accepted at the tournament desk (cash or cheque only).

Lastly, please enjoy the day and have a great game.

Kevin Cademy-Taylor

Manager CT SPORTS ACADEMY

Email: ctsportsacademy@btinternet.com

Website: www.ctsportsacademy.co.uk

Twitter: @CTsportsacademy

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