It's a Clydeway Golf 1-2 as O'Hara beats 

Fox in P and H play-off at Renaissance

       Paul O'Hara with the P and H Championship Trophy. Picture by courtesy of Brian Stewart

By COLIN FARQUHARSON
Clydeway Golf players Paul O'Hara and Graham Fox fought out an unexpectedly close finish to the Tartan Tour's £40,000 P and H Championship over 54 holes at the Renaissance Club, near Gullane, East Lothian.
Unexpected, because O'Hara led the field by three shots after two rounds and was six shots ahead of Fox with 18 holes to play.
In the end, Fox caught O'Hara with a final round of 68, birdieing the long third, short sixth, long seventh and long 16th, for a total of three-under-par 210, the same mark as O'Hara who needed a par at the last to win by one but bogeyed it for a 74.

O'Hara had earlier bogeyed the fourth, eighth and ninth, which allowed the charging Fox, to close the gap to one with an outward half of 34 to O'Hara's 39.
But it all came right for O'Hara in the end. He won the play-off with a par at the first extra hole for the title and the £5,600 prize, having already won £1,000 for being the leading trainee after two rounds.
Fox earned £4,200.

Paul parred the first extra hole (the first hole on the course), getting up and down from s greenside bunker. He lipped out from bunker and holed a 2 footer. Graham had been in a bunker off the tee, couldn’t reach the green in two and missed his 10 foot par putt.

 

Greig Hutcheon (Paul Lawrie Golf Centre Inchmarlo) finished third on 213 and earned £3,500. He later flew south from Edinburgh and will be on the tee tomorrow afternoon  at Wentworth in the BMW PGA championship. 
Irishman Brendan McGovern (Headfort), joint second overnight, crashed to a final round of 78 (bogey 14, bogey 17, double bogey 18) and tied for seventh place on 217.
McGovern, who earned £1,040, had won an additional £1,000 for being the leading senior after two rounds. 
Last year's winner, Paul Robinson (Largs) finished last of the final-day qualifiers with an 81 for 228. 
Iain Stoddart (Greenburn) won £1,000 for leading the club pro category after two rounds. He finished tied 17th in the three-round tournament and earned £640 for that.


P AND H CHAMPIONSHIP
Renaissance Club, East Lothian
FINAL TOTALS
par 213 (3x71)
210 P O'Hara (Clydeway Golf) 68 68 74 (£5,600), G Fox (Clydeway Golf) 69 73 68 (£4,200). O'Hara bt Fox at first hole of play-off.
213 G Hutcheon (PLGC Inchmarlo) 71 69 73 (£3,500)
214 C Kelly (unatt) 71 73 70, C Currie (Caldwell) 69 70 75 (£2,750 each).
215 R Munro (Duddingston) 68 73 74 (£2,000).
217 S Henderson (Kings Links) 71 74 72, G Hay (Grantown on Spey) 71 73 73, S Maxwell (Wastwood) 71 73 73, DGilford (Greenway Hall) 74 69 74, B McGovern (Headfort) 74 69 78 (£1,040 each).
218 L Gaughan (Bathgate) 66 79 73 (£650)
219 P Wardell (North Berwick) 73 75 71, C Marr (Musselburgh) 73 73 73, A Forsyth (Mearns Castle) 71 72 786, M Owenson (Gullane) 68 73 78 (£600 each).
220 K McNicoll (Gullane) 72 74 74, J McGhee (Whitehill House) 72 74 74, I Stoddart (Greenburn) 69 74 77 (£540 each). 
221 G Brown (Montrose Links) 73 73 75, S Gray (Lanark) 74 74 73, M Hillson (Kilonquhar Castle) 73 72 76, S MAllister (S McAllister Golf) 74 71 76, R Rafferty (Monte Rei) 70 74 77 (£480 each). 
222 D Orr (Eastwood) 76 72 74, G Robertson (Airdrie) 73 74 75, F Mann (Carnoustie) 73 70 79  (£420 each).
223 C Ronald (Carluke) 75 71 77, L Mann (Carnoustie 73 72 78 (£390 each).
224 C Mathison (Falkirk Tryst) 72 76 76, S Dodds (Coventry) 75 73 76, J McCreadie (Largs) 75 72 77, D Stein (Ranfurly Castle) 76 70 78, C Gordon (Ednburgh GC) 73 73 78 (£335 each).
225 M Kerr (Marriott Dalmahoy) 74 74 77, S Grieve (Turnhouse) 72 76 77, K Kelsall (Quin Direct) 75 73 77, P McKechnie (Braid Hills) 70 73 82 (£310 each).
226 G McDougall (Elderslie) 77 71 78, G Forbes (Mar Hall) 75 73 78, R Arnott (Bishopbriggs) 75 72 79, A Welsh (Cathkin Braes) 72 75 79 (£273 each).
227 M Isaacs (Gamola Golf) 72 76 79, C Robinson (Elderslie) 74 74 79 (£257 each).
228 P Robinson (Largs) 75 72 81 (£250).



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