No place like home for Spaniards Romero and Hospital in Senior Golf Circuit Doubles

Spain's Jose Romero and Domingo Hospital made the most of home field advantage to win the Senior Golf Circuit doubles competition at Desert Springs Golf Club, Almeria in Spain today.
They shot 62-66 for 128 and a three-stroke victory margin from runners-up Fraser Mann and Graham Bannister (66-65).

FINAL TOTALS
128 Jose Romero and Domingo Hospital (Spain) 62 66
131 Graham Bannister (Eng) and Fraser Mann (Sco) 66 65.
132 Nick Mitchell and Mark Wharton 65 67
135 Shaun Ball and James Murlphy 66 69
136 Michael Lord and Richard Adams 69 67
137 Matt Briggs and David Ray 69 68
138 Karm El Baraide and Trevor Wilson 69 69, Tony Cuppello and John Twissell 68 70
141 David James (Sco) and Chris Harrison (Eng) 72 69, Guy Benhamou and Yoav Shenav 71 70, Doug Young and Scott Davidson 70 7l.
144 Gary Pike and Alan Jarrett 70 74
145 Tomi Tirkkonen and Chris Lavery 70 75
146 Yapa Rathnayake and Karsten Pedersen 72 74, Fleming Maas and Rolf Kefeiste 72 74, Neil Evans and J J Serrano 70 76
148 Marcel Capuel and Todov Bouba 74 74
153 Richard Fuller and Chris Cole 81 72
161 Pierre Puisset and Gaetan Bikindro 79 82
162 Mike Lester and Richard Naas 80 82. 

+The Senior Golf Circuit, run by Scot David James, is for professionals and low handicap amateurs aged 48 and over.

Amateurs lead way at last Midland 

Alliance of 2015 at Charleton

Amateurs led the way at Charleton golf course, Fife in the last Midland Golfers' Alliance competition of the year.
There was a tie for first place in the scratch scores between Edzell one-handicapper Bill Taylor and Monifieth scratch player Fraser Campbell, who both scored two-under-par 70. They finished a shot ahead of Montrose Links assistant professional Graeme Brown.
Chris Westland (Alloa) won the handicap section with a fine net score of 65 off 11. 
LEADING SCRATCH
par 72
70 Bill Taylor (Edzell), Fraser Campbell (Monifieth)
71 Graeme Brown (Montrose Links) ap.
72 Stuart McKendrick (Dunkeld and Birnam), Willie Hutton (Pitlochry), Rory Tinker (Piperdam Osprey) ap.
73 Gary Tough (Edzell)
74 Scott Graham (Arbroath), Sam McLaren  (Blairgowrie) ap.
75 Alister Ferguson (Dunfermline), Steve Craig (Archerfield Links) p.

LEADING HANDICAP
65 Chris Westland (Alloa) (11). 69 Bill Taylor (Edzell) (1). 70 Fraser Campbell (Monifieth) (scr). 71 Willie Hutton (Pitlochry) (1), Graham R Milne (Aberdour) (6). 72 Stuart McKendrick (Dunkeld and Birnam) (scr), Ian White (Lundin) (7). 73 Marc Foster (Milnathort) (5). 74 Scott Graham (Arbroath) (scr), Alister Ferguson (Dunfermline) (1)
 Qualifier for the Perla Shower Panels McQueen Shield in March at Scotscraig 
Ian White (Lundin), Marc Foster (Milnathort), Kevin Lawer Crail GS, 5 Qualifiers for the Perla Shower Panels Alliance Championship in March at Scotscraig 
Bill Taylor (Edzell)

Next meeting: Tuesday, January 19 @ Lundin GC (9am to noon).

 

Lee Sutherland

Link to Scottish Seniors Golfing Society 2016 competition dates and venues

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CT Sports Academy Pro Winter Series

Paul McKechnie wins at 

West Kilbride with a

one-under 70

Paul McKechnie (Braid Hills), pictured, won the fourth event  of the CT Sports Academy Pro Winter Series at West Kilbride with a great score of one-under-par 70 in very challenging conditions. 

James Hendricks and Ben Kinsley both shot 72s for a share of second place. 

A huge thank you to the club captain and all the staff at West Kilbride GC for their help during the day. The course was prepared fantastically well by Jim and his green staff; the clubhouse staff kept us entertained with food, hot drinks and a healthy dose of Christmas classics. 

LEADING SCORES

Par 71

70 Paul McKechnie

72 James Hendricks, Ben Kinsley.

75 John Henry.

76 Cameron Farrell, Michael Stewart, Cameron Marr, Chris Kelly.

Fraser Robertson. 

78 Ryan Campbell, Norman Huguet

Kevin Cademy-Taylor

Two-tee start at Wednesday's North-east 

Alliance competition at Portlethen

 STARTING AT FIRST TEE
9-00 D Fleming, P Morrison, A Campbell, S Mackie
9-10 S Hanson, C Dempster, P McKenna, G Chalmers.
9-20 H Roulston, M Rendall, L Roger, J Scott
9-30 S Davidson, D Lawrie, M Brown, R Brwon
9-40 W Beattie, L Duncan, J Stewart, K McGillivary
9-50 L Fowler, M Duncan, A Gall, A Stuart
10-00 D McKay, S Finnie, D Townsley, S Shand
10-10 Michele Thomson, R Cameron, B Ritchie, J Duff
10-20 K Zeynalov,  S Kiloh, D Nelson A Graham
10-30 J Forrest, N Stewart, B Lumsden, C Lamb
10-40 D Brown. T Collie, M Lawrie, G Cochran
10-50 G Thom, D Lane, R Duncan, W Skene
11-00 L Vannet, P Walker, B McPherson


STARTING AT 10th TEE
9-00 C Cassie, B Harper, C Nelson, S Ross
9-10 R Blackmore, D Booth, R Reid, T Boyle
9-20 D Mackay, K Nicol, G McBain, T Mathieson
9-30 J Borthwick, P Low, D Buchan
9-40 J Hopwood, K Beveridge, Laura Murray, G Riley
9-50 J Sunley, D Wright, P Cheyne, N K Parker
10-00 P Lawrie, C Lawrie, S Lawrie, M MacDougall
10-10 B Fyfe, C Grant, D Craigie, D Adam
10-20 R Davidson, S Allison, G Mackie, M Winton
10-30 D Leslie, G Homer, M Merchant, R Lamb
10-40 D Bisset, F Bisset, J Murray, G Hutcheon
10-50 G Allan, J Nicolson, S Scott, G Milne
11-00 K Duncan, R McKen, M Patterson, J Duncan

Spanish pair lead Senior Golf Circuit doubles on home ground

Spain's Jose Romero and Domingo Hospital opened up a three-shot lead with a better-ball round of 62 in the Senior Golf Circuit's double competition at Desert Springs.

To view all the scores and the second-round tee times

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+The Senior Golf Circuit is organised by Scot David James, who also plays in the events - and wins a few! It stages tournaments all over Europe (and the Aberdeen Masters) and is open to all professionals and low handicap amateurs aged 48 and over. 

To find out more go on to the Senior Golf Circuit website

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