HUTCHEON WINS AT STORMY OLDMELDRUM

PAUL LAWRIE GOLF CENTRE SPONSORED - NORTH EAST ALLIANCE

RESULTS FROM OLDMELDRUM

JOEL HOPWOOD REPORTING

Greig Hutcheon (PLGC) has won today's - Paul Lawrie Golf Centre Sponsored - North East Alliance fixture at Oldmeldrum Golf Club. 

Hutcheon's superb 6 under par 64 was made up of 7 birdies - at the 1st, 4th, long 6th, short 7th, 12th, 15th and 16th - against a single drop shot on the short 3rd. 

Hutcheon won by two clear shots of stablemates Laura Murray, Greg McBain, Sam Kiloh and Phil McLean. Murray and McBain had equal halves of 2 under for each nine, where both Kiloh and McLean had 4 under par front nines but covered the back nine in level par. 

On a day of fantastic overall scoring in gusting winds and heavy rain, the sponsors (Paul Lawrie Golf centre) should be proud to see their players dominate the top 5 and make up exactly half of the top 20 scratch scores! Their sponsorship this week added £10 to each of the top 5 prizes, in all 3 scoring sections. 

The excellent scoring also translated to each handicap section - Class 1 having been won by Fergus Bisset (Banchory) with a nett 66, giving him a single shot victory over John Borthwick (Craibstone). 

However, the outstanding score of the day was reserved for Class 2 winner - Sandy Davidson (Northern) - his nett 61 allowed him a three shot victory from S Ross (Hazlehead) who's nett 64 would be good enough almost every other week!

SCOREBOARD - FIELD OF 93
64 G Hutcheon (PLGC)
66 L Murray (PLGC), P McLean (PLGC), G McBain (PLGC), S Kiloh (PLGC) 
67 S Lawrie (PLGC)
69 T Mathieson (Murcar), F Bisset (Banchory) 
70 C Dempster (PLGC), C Lawrie (PLGC), A Campbell (Murcar), K Duncan (PLGC) 
71 P Mckenna (PLGC), D Leslie (Bon Accord), M MacDougall (Peterculter), C Grant (Portlethen), J Borthwick (Craibstone)  
72 J Duff (Newmachar), K Zeynalov (Portlethen), S Finnie (Royal Aberdeen) 
73 J Hopwood (Royal Aberdeen), S Hanson (PLGC), K Nicol (PLGC), R Blackmore (Tarland), D Brown (Kemnay) 
74 K Beveridge (Kippie Lodge)  
75 C Cassie (Nigg Bay), S Roger (Cruden Bay), S Davidson (Northern)
76 C Duffus (Royal Aberdeen), S Mackie (Kemnay), D Fleming (Portlethen), M Thomson (Meldrum House), J Duncan (Oldmeldrum)
77 B Mcpherson (Portlethen)
78 D Adam (Kemnay), C Nelson (McKenzie Golf), M Duncan (Murcar), J Murray (Banchory), M Merchant (Newmachar), G Milne (Newburgh), D Lane (Deeside)
79 A Graham (Aboyne), S Shand (Kemnay), G Homer (Northern), M Lawrie (Kemnay), D Mckay (Calidonian)
80 D Nelson (Aboyne), G Chalmers (Alford) 
81 M Forster (Cruden Bay), P Walker (Cruden Bay), D Craigie (Portlethen), S Ross (Hazlehead), D Booth (Tarland), B Harper (Newburgh), S Scott (Hazlehead)
82 W Beattie (Craibstone), R Reid (Tarland), L Fowler (Royal Aberdeen), R Ruddiman (Royal Aberdeen) 
83 P Cheyne (Northern), M Brown (Newburgh), D Mackay (Hazlehead), J Hosie (Kemnay), (Hazlehead), J Forrest (Northern), R Davidson (Caledonian), D Bisset (Banchory), W Skene (Deeside) 
84 M Winton (Calidonian), G Moir (Oldmeldrum), T Collie (Kemnay) 
85 R Brown (Newburgh), J Stewart (Banchory), G Allan (Newmachar), M Rogers (Kemnay)
86 N Parker (Murcar)
87 A Gall (Deeside), S Melvin (Newmachar)
88 A Clark (Newmachar)   
90 T Boyle (Portlethen), S Lawrie (Portlethen)
92 L Duncan (Craibstone), G Thom (Murcar)
93 D Lawrie (Aboyne)

NR D Wright (Northern), S Dunn (Deeside), H Macnaughton (Cruden Bay), K McGillvary (Craibstone), N Stewart (Northern), S Allison (Caledonian), G Mackie (Calidonian), R Duncan (Deeside), R McKen (Trump Int), D Townsley (Peterculter)

RTD: A Stuart (PLGC)

HANDICAP PRIZEWINNERS: 
Class 1: F Bisset (Banchory) 66; J Borthwick (Craibstone) 67 (BIH), D Leslie (Bon Accord) 67; R Blackmore (Tarland) 68; C Cassie (Nigg Bag) 69 (BIH)

Class 2: S Davidson (Northern) 61; S Ross (Hazlehead); 64; M Brown (Inverurie) 65; R Ruddiman (Royal Aberdeen) 68 (BIH); P Walker (Cruden Bay) 68 (BIH)

OLDMELDRUM GOLF CLUB
SCORECARD
4-5-3-4-4-5-3-4-4 (36)
4-3-4-4-4-4-4-3-4 (34) 70

BEST SCORECARDS

GREIG HUTCHEON (PLGC)
3-5-4-3-4-4-2-4-4 (33)
4-3-3-4-4-4-3-3-3 (31) 64

LAURA MURRAY (PLGC)
4-6-3-4-2-4-3-3-5 (34)
3-3-4-5-4-3-3-3-4 (32) 66

GREG MCBAIN (PLGC)
4-5-3-4-4-5-2-3-4 (34)
3-3-4-4-4-3-4-3-4 (32) 66

SAM KILOH (PLGC)
3-4-4-4-3-4-3-3-4 (32)
3-3-4-4-6-4-5-2-3 (34) 66

PHILIP MCLEAN (PLGC)
4-5-3-4-3-4-2-4-3 (32)
3-3-5-4-5-4-3-3-4 (34) 66

NORTH EAST ALLIANCE DRAW FOR NEWBURGH

NORTH-EAST ALLIANCE AT NEWBURGH GOLF CLUB DRAW

Wednesday 25th of November 2015

FULL DRAW BELOW

Please note the two - tee start

START TIME        TEE         PLAYER 1              PLAYER 2              PLAYER 3              PLAYER 4

0900                       1              A CAMPBELL      G ESSON              C CASSIE              B HARPER

0910                       1              D BOOTH             R BLACKMORE   R REID                   S ROSS

0920                       1              H ROULSTON     R LESLIE                M RENDALL        P MCKENNA

0930                       1              A STEWART         S DUNN                                S KILOH                K ZEYNALOV

0940                       1              P MCLEAN           J DUFF                  B RITCHIE             S ROGER

0950                       1              S MACKIE            G MOIR                                M FORSTER         M SMITH

1000                       1              L MURRAY           K BEVERIDGE     J DUNCAN           J HOPWOOD

1010                       1              D NELSON           A GRAHAM         D WRIGHT           P CHEYNE

1020                       1              R DAVIDSON      S ALLISON           G MACKIE           M WINTON

1030                       1              G HOMER            D LESLIE                D ADAM               D CRAIGIE

1040                       1              D BROWN            M LAWRIE           T COLLIE               G MILNE
1050                       1              D LANE                 W SKENE              R DUNCAN          G THOM

0900                       10           J SCOTT                B SKENE               K DUNCAN          A DUNTON

0910                       10           C DEMPSTER      G CHALMERS     S HANSON          R MCKEN

0920                       10           T MATHIESON   G MCBAIN          K NICOL                                D MACKAY

0930                       10           L DUNCAN          K MCGILVARY    W BEATTIE          J STEWART

0940                       10           S DAVIDSON      M BROWN          R BROWN            D LAWRIE

0950                       10           C NELSON            S LESLIE    H MACNAUGHTON     M THOMSON

1000                       10           A GALL                  I CLARK                 S SHAND              P WALKER

1010                       10           N STEWART        J FORREST           B LUMSDEN        N PARKER

1020                       10           S LAWRIE             B FYFE                   C GRANT              J HOSIE

1030                       10           M DUNCAN        D FLEMING         L FOWLER            M MERCHANT

1040                       10           P LAWRIE             C LAWRIE             S LAWRIE             M MACDOUGALL          

1050                       10           D BISSET               F BISSET               R RUDDIMAN    D TOWNSLEY

1100                       10           S FINNIE               J BORTHWICK    D MCKAY             P LOW

1110                       10           J NICOLSON        B NICOLSON       G ALLAN              S SCOTT

USGA SELECTS JOHN “SPIDER” MILLER AS 2017 USA WALKER CUP CAPTAIN

Press Release from USGA

46th Walker Cup Match Will Be Played at Los Angeles Country Club

FAR HILLS, N.J. (Nov. 17, 2015) – The United States Golf Association (USGA) today named John “Spider” Miller, of Bloomington, Ind., as the captain of the USA Team for the 2017 Walker Cup Match at Los Angeles (Calif.) Country Club.

Miller, 64, captained the USA Team in the 2015 Match at Royal Lytham & St. Annes Golf Club in Lancashire, England. He won the U.S. Mid-Amateur Championship in 1996 and 1998 and represented the United States in the 1999 Walker Cup Match.

“This year at the Walker Cup, I had the great honor to captain a team of our country’s most talented collegiate and mid-amateur players,” Miller said. “They lived up to every ideal and purpose that the Match has exemplified since it began more than 90 years ago. The lasting friendships with the players and their families and friends will endure a lifetime. I am indeed humbled and honored to have the opportunity to captain another group of such fine players and countrymen.”

“The members of the 2015 USA Walker Cup team were enthusiastic about their experience at Royal Lytham, and all cited Spider as the reason for their overwhelmingly positive comments,” said Diana Murphy, USGA vice president and Championship Committee chairman. “The USGA believes that Spider’s leadership, innate understanding of the values of the competition, and his good-natured spirit are critical to the same experience he can provide for the team in 2017. We are also excited to bring the Walker Cup to the George Thomas-designed Los Angeles Country Club for the Match’s first playing on the West Coast since 1981.”

The Walker Cup Match, which began in 1922, is a 10-man amateur team competition between the USA and a team comprised of players from Great Britain and Ireland. Great Britain and Ireland won the 2015 Match, 16½-9½. The USA leads the competition, 35-9-1.

In his U.S. Mid-Amateur victories, Miller defeated Randy Lewis, 3 and 2, in 1996 at Hartford Golf Club, in West Hartford, Conn.; and in, 1998, he became the oldest U.S. Mid-Amateur champion at the time, at age 48, when he scored a 1-up victory over Chip Holcombe in the final at NCR Country Club’s South Course, in Kettering, Ohio. As a result of those wins, he competed in the Masters Tournament in 1997 and 1999.

In the 1999 Walker Cup Match played at Nairn Golf Club in Scotland, Miller teamed with Hunter Haas to win a pair of foursomes matches before he lost to Paul Casey, 3 and 2, in singles. In 1997, he led Indiana to a tie for third in the USGA Men’s State Team Championship by carding a 54-hole score of 4-under-par 209.

Miller was inducted into the Indiana Golf Association (IGA) Hall of Fame in 2000. He twice was chosen IGA Player of the Year and is a two-time IGA Mid-Amateur champion. He and partner Jerry Nelson claimed five IGA Four-Ball championships, and he was the low amateur in the Indiana State Open three times.

A 1973 graduate of Indiana University, Miller owns Best Beers, Inc., based in his hometown of Bloomington. He and his wife, Kathy, have five children.