Munro wins Sandy Pipey Young Masters by two 

strokes at Royal Dornoch 

By COLIN FARQUHARSON

Duddingston's Ross Munro made all the running to win the £12,000 Sandy Pipey Young Masters 36-hole tournament by a comfortable two strokes at Royal Dornoch Golf Club today (MONDAY).

Munro had rounds of 65 and 69 for a six-under-par total of 134, which earned him £1,659

In the second round, Munro reached the rutn in one-under 34, birdies at the eighth and long ninth having cancelled out a bogey at the third.

He also bogeyed the short 10th but back to back birdies at the 14th and 15th steadied the ship and he had enough in hand to bogey the 17th in 35 home, and still win by two.

Cameron Marr (Musselburgh) shot the best second-round of four-under 66, four better than his opening effort, and an inward half of four-under 31 enabled him to climb into second place and earn £1,300.

His run of five birdies actually started with a 4 at the long ninth before he birdied the 11th, long 12th, 13th and 18th.

Paul O'Hara (North Lanarkshire Leisure), bidding to win the tournament for the fourth time in a row, had to settle for fifth place on 139 with scores of 71 and 68. He had a bogey-free second round, highlighted by birdies at the third and 13th. Paul earned £696.

The O'Hara brothers both finished in the top 10 with Steven, the elder, also having a second-round 69 for 142 and a £455 payslip.

O'Hara was heading for the score of the day when he birdied the first, third, 11th, 13th and 15th to be five under par on the 17th tee.

Then a disastrous finish for Steven - a double bogey 6 at the 17th and a bogey at the 18th. Had he parred these two holes instead of dropping three shots, Steven would have finished alongside his kid brother on 139.

FINAL TOTALS
Par 140 (2x70)
134 R Munro (Duddingston) 65 69 (£1,650).
136 C Marr (Musselburgh) 70 66 (£1,300).
137 G Forbes (Mar Hall) 71 66, A Welsh (Cathkin Braes) 71 66 (£994 each).    
139 P O'Hara (North Lanarkshire Leisure) 71 68 (£696)         
140 S Maxwell (Eastwood) 69 71 (£535).
142 M Owenson (Gullane) 75 67, S O'Hara (North Lanarkshire Leisure) 72 68 (£455 each).
143 J Gallagher (Westernwood) 74 69, E MacDonald (Musselburgh) 73 70 (£364 each).
144 R Clarke (Golf Dedication Centre) 74 70 (£332).
145 G Hay (Grantown on Spey) 75 70, C Billows (Gleneagles) 72 73 (£302 each).
146 S Binning (Mearns Castle) 74 72, S Speirs (Swanston New) 71 75 (£270 each).
147 C Adam (unatt) 72 75, R Tinker (Piperdam) 72 75 (£241 each).
148 S Ross (Aberdour) 73 75, J Bell (Lanark) 72 76 (£219 each).
149 I Anderson (Colville Park) 79 70, C Goodwin (Duff House Royal) 75 74 (£198 each).
150 J Treasurer (Loch Ness) 74 76, R Black (Inverness) 74 76 (£177 each).
152 C Porciani (Trump Turnberry) 77 75, M O'Donnell (unatt) 75 77, D Stein (Ranfurly) 75 77, K Zeynalov (Portlethen) 74 78 (£158 each).
153 G McDougall (Elie Links) 79 74, J Fraser (unatt) 79 74, C Robinson (Elderslie) 77 76, P Mitchell (Stirling) 76 77, O Robertson (Panmure) 75 78 (£83 each).    
154 A Hutchison (Douglas Park) 77 77.
155 S Milne (Balbirnie Park) 77 78.
156 A Pillans (unatt) 79 77, D Ramsay (Moray) 77 79.
157 C Beveridge (Gailes Golf) 82 75, N Gardiner (Kilmacolm) 77 80, S Gillies (Craigielaw) 76 81, T Ogilvie (Duke's) 75 82.
158 P McKenna (Paul Lawrie GC) 82 76, C Nairn (unatt) 81 77, G Foley (Royal Troon) 77 81, C Farrell (Cardross) 77 81, R McKen (Trump International 76 82, E Bowden (North Berwick) 76 82.
159 D Lee (unatt) 83 76, S Watters (Balbirnie Park) 80 79.
160 K McNiven (Gleneagles) 82 78, K Moran (Balbirnie Park) 80 80, D Grindell (Inverness) 79 81.
161 S Rose (Aberdour) 83 78
163 S Smith (Loretto School) 81 82
164 A Todd (Downfield) 82 82
166 R Delaney (Ladybank) 84 82, S Wilson (Carrick on Loch Lomond) 83 83
168 Linzi Allan (West Kilbride) 88 80
169 J Ferrie (Hilton Park) 80 89.
178 D Flannery (Caldwell) 92 86.
186 Jennifer Potter (Cawder) 96 90.