Scottish Golf View - Golf News from Around the World: 7 Mar 2016

Monday, March 07, 2016

Tony Jacklin Open at Casablanca, Morocco

Play it again, Sam! Kiloh shoots a 67 to

move into top 20

By COLIN FARQUHARSON
Portlethen's Sam Kiloh (Paul Lawrie Golf Centre) had one of his best rounds since he turned pro to move into the leading 20 after two rounds of the Tony Jacklin Open at Casablanca, Morocco today.

Kiloh, pictured, improved by five strokes with a five-under-par 67 for five-under par 139 and a share of 18th place in the starting field of 126 players.
In a bogey-free round, Kiloh birdied the fourth, long fifth, long ninth, long 13th and 18th.
He is six shots behind the new leader, Germany's Julian Kunzenbacher (68-65 for 133).
Chris Robb (Meldrum House) slipped back to joint 40th place with a 73 for 142. Also on that mark is Peterhead's Philip McLean (Paul Lawerie GC) who had birdies and one bogey in a second-round 68.
Ross Cameron (Saltire Energry) bogeyed the 18th to miss the cut to the leading 40 and ties by one shot with rounds of 72 and 71 for 143. He did eagle the eighth for the second day in a row.
Former Scottish amateur champion Alexander Culverwell (Dunbar) had a triple bogey 8 at the fifth in a 75 fo4 149.

SECOND-ROUND LEADERBOARD
Par 144 (2x72)
133 J Kunzenbacher (Ger) 68 65
135 B Neumayer (Aut) 65 70.

SCOTTISH SCORES
139 S Kiloh 72 67 (T18)
142 C Robb 69 73, P McLean 74 69 (T40)
MISSED THE CUT
143 R Cameron 72 71
149 A Culverwell 74 75

Labels: PRO GOLF

Tickets Sold Out for Annodata Scottish Golf

Awards in Edinburgh on Friday evening

SCOTTISH GOLF NEWS RELEASE

Tickets have now sold out for Friday evening’s Annodata Scottish Golf Awards, as Catriona Matthew prepares to receive a Lifetime Achievement honour alongside champions from all levels of the game.

An audience of over 650 guests will gather at the Edinburgh Corn Exchange for the popular fund-raising event, recognising the achievements of players and clubs across the sport and concluding with the award for the ex-Ricoh Women’s British Open winner and Solheim Cup stalwart.

Radio DJ Diane Knox, sister of Scotland’s top-ranked golfer Russell, and broadcaster and Deacon Blue drummer, Dougie Vipond, will co-host this year’s event, with the coveted Aberdeen Asset Management Player of the Year and Team of the Year awards also up for grabs on the night.

Guests will have the chance to have photographs taken with iconic trophies, including the Solheim and Walker Cups, and win fantastic golfing prizes in the fund-raising auction and prize draw.

Ross Duncan, Scottish Golf’s marketing and commercial director, said: “We’re delighted that golf fans will be turning out in such great numbers once again for the Annodata Scottish Golf Awards and we’re looking forward to what promises to be a great atmosphere for our night of fun and celebration.

“The event has quickly grown into one of the highlights of the golfing calendar in Scotland and it’s a great opportunity for those at all levels of the game to come together to share the stage and reflect on the many great achievement’s we’ve seen in 2015. We’re very grateful to our many sponsors who are supporting the Awards and hopefully we can raise even more money for the two charities.”

A team in the Aberdeen Asset Management Scottish Open Pro-Am, Open Championship hospitality at Royal Troon and a trip to the 2016 Ryder Cup are among the superb array of auction prizes up for grabs.

Keep up-to-date with all the news for the Awards on Twitter @ScottishGolf or search the hashtag #ScotGolfAwards. For further information, visit www.scottishgolf.org/golfawards.

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NE Alliance Championship first round now at Fraserburgh

on Wednesday, second round at Craibstone, March 16

FROM JOEL HOPWOOD
Please note that due to snow and flooding at Craibstone we have had to have a further venue change for the upcoming Golf Monthly Final Series North-East Alliance Championship.
As Craibstone will be unavailable for this coming Wednesday, Round 1 will be played over Fraserburgh. Round 2 will now be played at Craibstone, as will the Pro Am Better-Ball team event. As such, our remaining fixtures are now itemised below:
Wednesday, March 9: Fraserburgh.
Wednesday, March 16: Craibstone
Thursday, March 17: Craibstone *For qualifiers only
Wednesday, March 23: McDonald Ellon_0_1_1457341174186_11706" />

NOTE for NE Alliance members: Fraserburgh Golf Club officials have been generous to step in at extremely short notice but they do require that we play from mats on their fairways. Your ball CANNOT be moved to the nearest side, and must be played from a fairway mat. However, mats are not required in semi rough". 

Labels: Alliance

Team Monty win Scottish Junior Golf Tour event

FROM WALTER BURNS

Here are the results from the Scottish Junior Golf Tour event at Dalmahoy yesterday on the East course. This is the first event that has not been cancelled this year due to the weather! Thankfully it was a nice sunny day.

It was the second in our series of “Three-Way Match-play” events. Again the match-play style made for an exciting day with a lot of close matches.

Team Monty won the team event with 14 points. Team Lyle were second with 11 points.

Euan McBride and Aamar Saleem jointly won the individual event with an average of 4 holes up each.

Ewan Wheat won the skills challenges.

Congratulations to Jack Williams (Sandyhills) who got a hole in one at the 17^th.

Leading Scores

+4 Euan McBride (Lenzie), Aamar Saleem (Ladybank)

+3 Roddy McCauley (Fereneze)

+2 Fraser Kane (Kirkhill)

+1.5 Ewan Wheat (Royal Montrose)

+1 Ross Barclay (Carnoustie), Aran Sinclair (Haggs Castle)

Next event is at Monifieth on March 13, Super-Strokeplay 9:9Golf.

Walter Burns

Scottish Junior Golf Tour

Mob: 07951 103 827

Email: walter@scottishjuniorgolftour.co.uk

Web: www.scottishjuniorgolftour.co.uk

Labels: Boys

Adam Scott makes the most of his lucky

breaks to win again

NEWS RELEASE
DORAL, Florida -- Adam Scott faced a daunting challenge, a six-shot deficit with 13 holes remaining on a course that was playing tougher than it had at any point this week.
And after overcoming that, the Australian needed to survive two brushes with big trouble on the final hole to finish the job.
Scott won for the second straight week, shooting a final-round 69 to win the Cadillac Championship by one shot from Bubba Watson. It's the second win for Scott in a World Golf Championships event, his 13th career win on the US PGA Tour and he now hasn't finished lower than second in any of his last three starts.
"Everything fell the right way for me today," Scott said.
Scott finished the week at 12-under 276. Watson (68) was alone in second, and Danny Willett (69) and Rory McIlroy (74) were tied for third, two shots back.
Phil Mickelson (70) was alone in fifth at 9 under and Jimmy Walker shot the round of the day, a 6-under 66 to finish alone in sixth at 8 under.
With course owner Donald Trump popping in on Sunday, arriving by helicopter and greeting fans as he drove around in a cart, there was plenty of drama away from the fairways and greens.
Scott ensured there was a ton on the grass as well, after two double-bogeys in a three-hole span on the front side seemed to send his round into a tailspin. That is, until he got hot at just the right time with birdies on six of his next nine holes after the second double.
"It was such a challenge out there today," Scott said. "I knew if I could just get a couple before the turn, maybe I'll have a chance."
It's anyone's guess if Scott will get a chance to defend the title at Doral in 2017. General Motors' sponsorship agreement with the event ends this week and with no sponsor, there's no tournament.
"Our hope is that the future could allow us to stay here and continue to build the tournament," PGA Tour Commissioner Tim Finchem said Sunday afternoon, meeting with reporters before sitting down privately with Trump to talk about the tournament's future.
"But we'll have more to say about that after we do a full evaluation of our performance this year.

Count Watson, who has finished second or third at Doral four times in the past five years, among those who want Doral to stay on the schedule, as it has been since 1962.
"If they move it I'll be sad," Watson said, "because I'm pretty good around this place."
That he is, but Scott -- despite walking a tightrope the last three holes -- was a bit better.
He saved par on the par-4 16th, after his drive went over the green and nestled in a bunker. His second shot was dreadful, finding a patch of greenside rough. From there he popped a chip 8 feet past the hole, then made the putt for par.
The trouble only got worse from there.
His tee ball on 17 found a bunker while Watson, on the green ahead, made birdie to get within one. Scott eventually saved par, headed to the final hole with that one-shot lead -- and put his tee shot in the right rough, a skinny palm tree impeding his path to the green.
So he went left, around the tree but toward the water, and that shot somehow caught enough thick grass on a sharp slope to stop before getting wet.
"I was so lucky for it to stay up inside the hazard line," Scott said. "When you're that lucky, you better get them up and down."
That's exactly what he did. Scott chipped to 6 feet, made the par putt and moments later knew the win was his.
"I can't believe I've won back-to-back weeks," Scott said. "To win a World Golf Championship is huge again."
Watson made eagle at the par-5 8th to get into real contention Sunday, but his big mistake was a bogey on the par-4 14th. He couldn't get up-and-down from a greenside bunker, Scott made birdie on the same hole just a few minutes later, and that two-shot swing proved critical.
"I gave it a good effort," Watson said. "What I'm working on in my head is working out. Right now, I've got the energy and the mind-set to play some decent golf, so very positive, very happy about the week and what took place."
Divots: McIlroy, who came into the day with a three-shot lead, didn't make a birdie until the 16th hole. "I didn't take advantage of the holes I should have," said McIlroy, who next plays at Bay Hill. ... Only seven of the 65 players avoided making at least one double-bogey this week.

ALL THE FINAL TOTALS

Adam Scott

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