David Joel wins North Scottish Alliance at 

Muir of Ord by three with two-under 66

Inverness amateur David Joel (Inverness) scored his first win of the season in today's North Scottish Golfers' Alliance fixture at Muir of Ord Golf Club with a two under par 66.
 His cause was greatly aided by an eagle 2 at the third. Birdies were secured at the first,  11th and 15th, bogeys at the second, seventh and 17th. 
Joel headed a field of 73 competitors by three strokes

Early starters  had difficulty with the bounces in frosty conditions. Bryan Fotheringham (Forres) started with three bogeys and had another at the fifth after a birdie at the fourth.
Out in 38, he came home in two-under 31 with birdies at the 14th, 15th and 17th as well as a bogey at the 16th

In contrast, John Campbell (Grantown on Spey), third off the tee, birdied his opening two holes  but bogeyed the eighth and ninth for 36 to the turn. He had three bogeys and one bogey after the turn.
Fotheringham and Scott Mullen (Elgin) tied for second place on 69 with Campbell fourth on 71.

LEADING SCRATCH 

par 68

66 D Joel (Inverness)

69 B R Fotheringham (Forres), S Mullen (Elgin)

71 J S D Campbell (Grantown on Spey)

72 J Wright (Forres)

73 B J Thomson (Torvean), R H Stewart (Torvean), D Gordon (Inverness)

75 R McKerron (Forres), D Hector (Elgin), A Hutchison (Inverness), F Hutchison (Inverness)

76 G H Hay (Grantown on Spey), J Shaw (Boat of Garten), S Wilson (Inverness), L Duncan (Elgin)

77 B Rennie (Inverness), D McGrouther (Inverness)

78 W Hutchison (Inverness)

79 N McWilliam (Elgin), R Harrower (Boat of Garten) p, I Murray (Boat of Garten)

80 I Hamilton (Elgin), A Henry (Inverness)

81 L Stewart (Grantown on Spey)

82 W Donnelly (Moray), D Macleod (Grantown on Spey), M Lyall (Torvean), L Hutchison (Inverness)

83 G Mackenzie (Moray), G Hamilton (Moray), W Rusk (Nairn), A Thom (Grantown on Spey), P Masson Rothes)

HANDICAP PRIZEWINNERS

Class 1

66 S Mullen (Elgin) (3)

68 A Hutchison (Inverness) (7), F Hutchison (Inverness) (7), D Gordon (Inverness)(5)

69 L Duncan (Elgin) (7)

Class 2

69 A Thom (Grantown on Spey) (14), B Rennie (Inverness) (8)

71 L Hutchison (Inverness) (11), M Lyall (Torvean) (11), A Boxx (Boat of Garten) (14), I Hamilton (Elgin) (9)

Handicapped Scots do well to finish fifth of 16 

in Men's Nations Cup at Sotogrande

By COLIN FARQUHARSON

Scotland, handicapped by the disqualification of Ewen Ferguson in the first round, finished a creditable fifth of 16 teams in the Men's Nations Cup amateur golf tournament at Sotogrande on Spain's Costa del Sol today.

Ireland (882), spearheaded by Jack Hume who won the individual title by six strokes,  won from France (892), Wales (895), England (906) and Scotland (908).

Ferguson's dismissal from the tournament for failing to sign his first-round card put the pressure on his team-mates, all of whose scores had to count. The rest of the teams were able to discard their worst score per round.

TEAM TOTALS

882 IRELAND

892 FRANCE

895 WALES

906 ENGLAND

908 SCOTLAND

910 DENMARK

911 SPAIN, GERMANY, NORWAY

918 AUSTRIA

920 ITALY

938 NETHERLANDS, PORTUGAL

940 SWEDEN

947 FINLAND 

951 BELGIUM

LEADING INDIVIDUAL FINAL TOTALS
285 Jack Hume (Ireland) 72 64 74 75
291 Romain Langasque (France) 75 75 69 72, Owen Edwards (Wales) 76 73 68 74.

SELECTED TOTALS
297 Bob MacIntyre (Sco) 70 80 69 78 (T6)
300 Ashton Turner (Eng) 75 78 75 72 (T9)
302 Marco Penge (Eng) 77 78 73 74, Jack McDonald (Sco) 78 75 71 78 (T14)
303 Alex Gleeson (Ire) 74 78 75 76 (18th)
304 Evan Griffith (Wal) 77 76 76 75, Dermot McElroy (Ire) 77 79 71 77 (T19)
305 Stuart Grehan (Ire) 72 86 71 76 (22nd)
307 James Allan (Eng) 76 78 77 76 (T25)
309 Grant Forrest (Sco) 77 83 75 74, Jack Davidson (Wales) 79 75 72 83
312 Adam Chapman (Eng) 77 81 74 80 (T40)
315 Joshua Davies (Wal) 79 85 77 74 (T47)
Disq - Ewen Ferguson (Sco)
Field of 72 players

Scotland did not enter a team in the Women's Nations Cup won by hosts Spain (594) from Austria (602) and France (604). England (641) finished ninth in a field of 10 teams.

ends

Oosthuizen leads by three in Perth, Australia

FROM THE EUROPEAN TOUR WEBSITE
Louis Oosthuizen will take a three-shot lead into the final round of the ISPS HANDA Perth International on Sunday after taking advantage of good scoring conditions today
The South African fired a brilliant 64 on Friday, and said following that round that he thought another low one was possible at Lake Karrinyup Country Club.
He was on course for a potential repeat as he briefly opened up a five-shot advantage on the back nine but two late bogeys - after going 40 holes without a dropped shot - saw him sign for a 67 and a 54-hole tally of 15-under-par 201 and left the door ajar for the chasing pack.
That will be led by American Peter Uihlein and France's Romain Wattel, who are both 12 under 204 and a shot clear of Australian Jason Scrivener.

World Number 21 Oosthuizen is seeking his first European Tour win in two years after a winless 2015 broke a run of five consecutive seasons with a victory.
"I think anyone will expect to win, but there's a lot of golf to be played," said Oosthuizen. "You need to still hit the shots. Around this golf course especially, someone can go three, four under in the first five holes and it changes everything.

"I played pretty solid the last two rounds, I drove it beautifully. Today was not great off the tee, but iron play was pretty good. The putter is behaving. I'm reading the greens very well and I feel like I'm making great strokes.
"I'm looking forward to tomorrow."
Uihlein's overnight one-shot advantage was quickly gone and when Oosthuizen rolled in a 30-foot putt for birdie on the sixth and nestled his eagle putt on the seventh right up to the hole, he had a two-shot lead.

That would not last for long, though, as Uihlein got up-and-down from the back of the green to birdie the seventh and then put his tee shot on the eighth inside four feet for another gain.
Another brilliant approach to the ninth made it three birdies in four holes for the 2010 Open Championship winner and after a poor tee-shot on the 12th, Uihlein needed three attempts to find the green and signed for a triple-bogey.
Oosthuizen made a remarkable up-and-down from the back of the 14th green and followed it with another birdie to get to 17 under, but Uihlein also took advantage of that gettable duo and when a poor putt on the 16th coupled with a misjudged tee-shot on the next saw Oosthuizen go bogey-bogey, the lead was back down to two.

A bogey on the last then saw Uihlein sign for a 71 and join Wattel at 12 under.
Wattel recorded a flawless 65 with the help of a run of four birdies from the second, while Scrivener had an eagle on the 14th and two birdies but dropped his only shot of the day on the last.
Perth native Brett Rumford had been four over for the day after 13 holes but went eagle-eagle with the help of a brilliantly holed bunker shot on the 14th and goes into the weekend ten under
SCOTSWATCH: David Drysdale is T11 on 208; Aberdeen-born Michael Sim T15 on 209, and Jamie McLeary T26 on 211
 

.THIRD ROUND SCOREBOARD
par 216 (3x72)
1  Louis Oosthuisen        70  64  67  201

T2	Romain Wattel	66	73	65					204
T2	Peter Uihlein	65	68	71					204
4	Jason Scrivener	69	67	69					205
5	Brett Rumford	68	65	73					206
T6	Marcus Fraser	69	73	65					207
T6	Mikko Korhonen	71	70	66					207
T6	Richard T. Lee	68	71	68					207
T6	Mardan Mamat	69	69	69					207
T6	Alexander Levy	70	67	70					207
T11	Matthew Griffin	72	71	65					208
T11	Peter Senior	69	73	66					208
T11	Benjamin Hebert	70	70	68					208
T11	David Drysdale	69	70	69					208
T15	Gregory Bourdy	73	71	65					209
T15	Andrew Johnston	70	71	68					209
T15	Michael Sim	69	72	68					209
T15	Jens Fahrbring	72	68	69					209
T15	Scott Arnold	68	71	70					209
T20	Stephen Leaney	71	72	67					210
T20	Masahiro Kawamura	70	72	68					210
T20	Robert Dinwiddie	70	71	69					210
T20	Panupol Pittayarat	73	67	70					210
T20	Shiv Kapur	66	73	71					210
T20	Magnus A. Carlsson	68	71	71					210
T26	Nick Cullen	68	76	67					211
T26	Ricardo Gouveia	72	71	68					211
T26	Ryan Evans	72	70	69					211
T26	Julien Quesne	73	69	69					211
T26	Daniel Nisbet	70	70	71					211
T26	Jamie McLeary	71	69	71					211
T26	David Lipsky	72	67	72					211
T33	Terry Pilkadaris	73	69	70					212
T33	Richard McEvoy	75	67	70					212
T33	Ashley Hall	69	73	70					212
T33	Wade Ormsby	69	73	70					212
T33	Daniel Valente	71	70	71					212
T33	Brad Kennedy	70	71	71					212
T33	Adilson Da Silva	72	67	73					212
T33	David Bransdon	71	68	73					212
T41	Soo-Min Lee	74	70	69					213
T41	Javi Colomo	72	71	70					213
T41	Michael Wright	71	70	72					213
T41	Rhein Gibson	67	68	78					213
T45	Josh Geary	72	72	70					214
T45	Thitiphun Chuayprakong	73	71	70					214
T45	Steve Dartnall	73	69	72					214
T45	Aron Price	71	71	72					214
T45	Adrian Otaegui	71	71	72					214
T45	Anthony Houston	68	73	73					214
T45	Himmat Singh Rai	74	67	73					214
T45	Ulrich Van Den Berg	72	69	73					214
T45	Jeung-hun Wang	71	68	75					214
T54	Adam Bland	73	71	71					215
T54	Gaganjeet Bhullar	77	67	71					215
T54	Cormac Sharvin	68	75	72					215
T54	Ryan Fox	72	70	73					215
T54	Steven Jeffress	69	72	74					215
T54	Scott Strange	70	70	75					215
T60	Anthony Summers	73	71	72					216
T60	Mathew Goggin	70	74	72					216
T60	Peter Lonard	72	72	72					216
T63	Gary Stal	72	72	73					217
T63	Stuart Manley	72	72	73					217
T63	Chiragh Kumar	71	72	74					217
T63	Matthew Guyatt	71	70	76					217
T63	Todd Sinnott	68	71	78					217
T68	Max McCardle	73	71	74					218
T68	Nino Bertasio	69	75	74					218
T68	Peter O'Malley	76	68	74					218
T68	David McKenzie	74	69	75					218
T72	Chien-yao Hung	73	71	76					220
T72	Greg Chalmers	72	72	76					220
74	Rory Bourke	72	72	78					222

MEN'S NATIONS CUP INDIVIDUAL TOTALS 
AFTER THREE ROUNDS
par 216 (3x72) at Sotogrande
 
1 IRLA HUME, JACK 210 72 64 74
2 WALES EDWARDS, OWEN 217 76 73 68
T3 FRA LANGASQUE, ROMAIN 219 75 75 69
T3 SCOT MACINTYRE, ROBERT 219 70 80 69
T5 SPA GOROSPE GURIDI, XABIER 220 75 73 72
T5 AM11343014 GALIANO AGUILAR,MARIO 220 71 77 72
7 ALEM000001 MEHLES, MAXIMILIAN 221 79 76 66
8 FRAN000001 CAUSSAUD, UGO 222 77 72 73
9 AM16700699 BJORLOW , VICTOR 223 75 76 72
T10 HOLA000003 ALBERTUS, MAX 224 75 76 73
TESCO000003 McDONALD, JACK 224 78 75 71
T12 NORU000001 HOVLAND, VKTOR 225 73 76 76
T12 SUEC000001 BERGQVIST, OSKAR 225 81 72 72
T14 GALE000003 DAVIDSON, JACK 226 79 75 72
T14 FRAN000004 ROUSSEL, ROBIN 226 77 76 73
T14 PORT000004 LONDOT LOPES, VITOR 226 73 80 73
T14 AUST000001 LIPOLD, LUKAS 226 74 77 75
T18 CMA8429962 LOPEZ FERRER, SIGOT 227 74 80 73T
T18 IRLA000004 McELROY, DERMOT 227 77 79 71
T18 IRLA000001 GLEESON, ALEX 227 74 78 75
T21 NORU000002 REITAN, KRISTOFFER 228 75 81 72
T21 INGL000002 TURNER, ASHTON 228 75 78 75
T21 INGL000004 PENGE, MARCO 228 77 78 73
T21 DINA000002 AXELSEN, JOHN 228 72 81 75
T25 GALE000004 GRIFFITH, EVAN 229 77 76 76
T25 IRLA000002 GREHAN, STUART 229 72 86 71
T25 203325891 CANTERO, IVAN 229 76 81 72 
T28 AM51359858 HIDALGO, ANGEL 230 80 75 75 
T28 LEM000002 YANNIK, PAUL 230 76 77 77
T30 CB05407212 LARRAZABAL , ALEJANDRO 231 78 74 79
T30 DINA000003 SOGAARD, EMIL 231 81 77 73
T30 ALEM000003 GEISSLER, RAPHAEL 231 79 77 75 
T30 ITAL000001 CIANCHETTI, LUCA 231 84 74 73
T30 INGL000003 ALLAN, JAMES 231 76 78 77
T35 VB04234646 SAINZ DELGADO, JAVIER 232 76 80 76
T35 DINA000004 SIXTEN, JENSEN 232 78 77 77
T35 INGL000001 CHAPMAN, ADAM 232 77 81 74
T38 HOLA000001 VAN VEEN, VINCE 233 78 82 73
T38 FRAN000003 PENDARIES, ADRIEN 233 76 82 75
T38 AUST000004 MAUKNER, MARKUS 233 76 82 75
T38 AUST000002 LUDWING, MICHAEL 233 75 81 77
T42 FINL000001 KOIVLV, KIM 234 77 82 75
T42 TITAL000002 VECCHI FOSSA, JACOPO 234 76 80 78
T44 SUEC000002 WIDING, TIM 235 85 75 75
T44 ESCO000002 FORREST, GRANT 235 77 83 75
T46 NORU000003 BRAADLIE, MARKUS 236 77 79 80
T46 ITAL000004 CEA, MICHELE 236 80 80 76T46
T46 ALEM000004 HIRMER, MICHAEL 236 86 75 75
T49 FINL000003 SIMBERG, CASPER 237 79 79 79
T50 PORT000001 GIRAO, JOAO 238 83 79 76
T50 AUST000003 BALTL, TIMON 238 81 81 76
T50 ITAL000003 MIGLIOZZI, GUIDO 238 78 77 83
T53 CB05332583 PANES CAPDEVILA, JORDI 239 80 84 75
T53 FINL000002 KARLSSON, RASMUS 239 79 81 79
T55 BELG000002 TADIOTTO, GIOVANNI 240 89 76 75
T55 BELG000001 DUMONT , ADRIEN 240 83 80 77
T55 HOLA000002 KRIETEMEIJER, JEROEN 240 83 78 79
T58 BELG000004 PEERBOOMS, MASC 241 85 77 79
T58 BELG000003 ULENAERS, KRISTOF 241 87 80 74
T58 GALE000002 DAVIES, JOSHUA 241 79 85 77
61 AMH6342457 MATEO MATEO, JOSE 242 79 83 80
T62 PORT000003 SILVA, TOMAS 243 86 86 71
T62 NORU000004 STAVNAR, SANDER 243 86 80 77
64 DINA000001 BRING, CHRISTOFFER 244 84 82 78
65 1106366285 FERNANDEZ, ALVARO 245 76 85 84
66 PORT000002 BESSA, THOMAS 246 85 85 76
67 CM11089454 VEGA, SANTIAGO 248 81 78 89
T68 SUEC000003 HJORT, BENJAMIN 249 87 82 80
T68 SUEC000004 AHLUND, JOACIM 249 87 81 81
70 FINL000004 JONES, DOMINIC 253 86 85 82
71 HOLA000004 HORTERS, MARTIJN 267 88 88 91
72 CM01068764 CORSINI GARCIA-SAN MIGUEL, EDUARDO Ret
Disqualified: FERGUSON, Ewen (Scotland) at end of Round 1

MEN'S NATIONS CUP THIRD-ROUND TOTALS
Teams discard their worst individual score each round
 
655 IRELAND
GLEESON, ALEX 74 78 75
GREHAN, STUART 72 86 71
HUME, JACK 72 64 74
McELROY, DERMOT 77 79 71
666 FRANCE
CAUSSAUD, UGO 77 72 73
LANGASQUE, ROMAIN 75 75 69
PENDARIES, ADRIEN 76 82 75
ROUSSEL, ROBIN 77 76 73
672 WALES
EDWARDS, OWEN 76 73 68
DAVIES, JOSHUA 79 85 77
DAVIDSON, JACK 79 75 72
GRIFFITH, EVAN 77 76 76
678 GERMANY
MEHLES, MAXIMILIAN 79 76 66
YANNIK, PAUL 76 77 77
GEISSLER, RAPHAEL 79 77 75
HIRMER, MICHAEL 86 75 75
678 SCOTLAND
FERGUSON, EWEN DQ X X
FORREST, GRANT 77 83 75
MCDONALD, JACK 78 75 71
MACINTYRE, ROBERT 70 80 69
680 SPAIN
CANTERO, IVAN 76 81 72
GALIANO, MARIO 71 77 72
SAINZ DELGADO, JAVIER 76 80 76
PANÉS CAPDEVILLA, JORDI 80 84 75
684 ENGLAND
CHAPMAN, ADAM 77 81 74
TURNER, ASHTON 75 78 75
ALLAN, JAMES 76 78 77
PENGE, MARCO 77 78 73
685 NORWAY
HOVLAND, VIKTOR 73 76 76
REITAN, KRISTOFFER 75 81 72
BRAADLIE, MARKUS 77 79 80
STAVNAR, SANDER 86 80 77
690 AUSTRIA
LIPOLD, LUKAS 74 77 75
LUDWIG, MICHAEL 75 81 77
BALTL, TIMON 81 81 76
MAUKNER, MARKUS 76 82 75
691 DENMARK
BRING, CHRISTOFFER 84 82 78AXELSEN, JOHN 72 81 75SOGAARD, EMIL 81 77 73SIXTEN, JENSEN 78 77 77
692 ITALY
CIANCHETTI, LUCA 84 74 73
VECCHI FOSSA, JACOPO 76 80 78
MIGLIOZZI, GUIDO 78 77 83
CEA, MICHELE 80 80 76
697 NETHERLANDS
VAN VEEN, VINCE 78 82 73
KRIETEMEIJER, JEROEN 83 78 79
ALBERTUS, MAX 75 76 73
HÖRTERS, MARTIJN 88 88 91
704 FINLAND
KOIVLV, KIM 77 82 75
KARLSSON, RASMUS 79 81 79
SIMBERG, CASPER 79 79 79
JONES, DOMINIC 86 85 82
705 PORTUGAL
GIRÃO, JOÃO 83 79 76
BESSA, TOMAS 85 85 76
SILVA, TOMÁS 86 86 71
LONDOT LOPES, VITOR 73 80 73
708 SWEDEN
BERGQVIST, OSKAR 81 72 72
WIDING, TIM 85 75 75
HJORT,BENJAMIN 87 82 80
AHLUND, JOACIM 87 81 81
714 BELGIUM
DUMONT, ADRIEN 83 80 77
TADIOTTO, GIOVANNI 89 76 75
ULENAERS, KRISTOF 87 80 74
PEERBOOMS, MASC 85 77 79