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GEMMA SPARKLES IN LOSSIEMOUTH SUN

REPORT FROM BEN PHILIP

The sun shone brightly on Day 2 at the 94th Scottish Student golf championships at Lossiemouth's Moray Golf Club, and brought with it a host of high quality rounds.

The women's individual stroke play event is shaping up for a thrilling final day, with seven players currently within five strokes of the half-way lead, which is held by Stirling's Gemma Batty on an impressive two-under-par tally. 

Batty grabbed the momentum in the second round, thanks to six birdies on the way to a four under par 67.

St Andrews' Alexa Hammer completed her second level par round in consecutive days to occupy second place ahead of the chasing pack.

Greg Telfer (Glasgow University) carded 6 birdies on his way to the day's best men's score of 67 (-3) while Lukas Michel (St Andrews) posted a two under par 68 to lead the men's field on 3 under par, putting him one shot clear of Telfer, with Craig Howie (Stirling) and Chris Low (Abertay) each one shot further back on -1 at the half-way point.

A special mention to Inverness's Cameron Franssen (St Andrews) who recovered brilliantly from an opening day 84, roaring back to make the cut, thanks to a second round of 68 (-2).

The stroke-play will conclude on Tuesday with 43 men and 11 women completing a final 36 holes, before the men's team and women's individual match-play events commence at the quarter- final stage on Wednesday .

LEADING MEN'S SCORES
137 Lukas Michel (St Andrews) 69 68
138 Greg Telfer (Glasgow) 71 67
139 Craig Howie (Stirling) 69 70, Chris Low (Abertay Dundee) 68 71
140 Laird Shepherd (Stirling) 72 68
141 Lewis West (Robert Gordon's U) 72 69, Alastair McNaughtan (Highlands and Islands 71 70
142 Mark Napier (Stirling) 73 69, Mathias Eggenberger (Stirling) 71 71
144 James Wilson (Stirling) 74 70, Peter Hassan (Glasgow) 73 71.
145 Lewys Anderson (St Andrews) 74 71, Jack Harling (Highlands and Islands) 73 72, Riccaredo Cellerino (Highlands and Islands) 71 74. 
ALL THE WOMEN'S SCORES
par 146
144 Gemma Batty (Stirling) 77 67
146 Alexa Hammer (St Andrews) 75 71
148 Chloe Goadby (Stirling 79 69, Lieve Van Veggerl (St Andrews) 78 70, Marie Danielson (St Andrews) 75 73
149 Sinead Sexton (Stirling) 77 72, Jen Saxton (Stirling 76 73
152 Nastja Banovec (Abertay Dundee) 79 73
154 Tara Mactaggart (Stirling) 79 75
159 Amy Chambers (St Andrews) 84 75
161 Katie Reid (Abertay Dundee) 84 77


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Gordon MacDonald leads seniors' Winter 

Order of Merit with one round to play

By GORDON THOMSON
With only the final leg of the Scottish Seniors Golfing Society’s Winter Series left to play, Gordon MacDonald (Glenbervie) has a lead of 7.5 points over the holder, Alan Harrington (Western Gailes).
Alan, however, is unable to play in the last event, making MacDonald’s clubmate, Robin Craw, his nearest challenger,
some 8.9 points behind.
The final event takes place at Prestwick St Cuthbert on Friday,  April 1 and should produce an exciting finish as a further seven players have a chance to win the title. 
They are Kenneth Harrison (Peebles), the Stirling duo of David
Smith and Bruce Hunter, George Barrie (Callander), Keith Ross (Beith) and Colin Halcrow (Windyhill).
The fourth event was played at Largs on Friday in windy conditions which made scoring difficult. Jim Paterson (Ranfurly Castle) won the event with 35 points, edging out local favourite Tom Sirel, Gordon MacDonald , George Barrie  and Kenneth Harrison who were all on 34 points. 
Alan Harrington was a shot further
back on 33 points along with David Halkerston (St Andrews New).

Fenwick's fighting finish for a share of fifth 

place in Morocco


By COLIN FARQUHARSON
Tartan Tour campaigner Neil Fenwick (Dunbar) had five birdies over the span of 12 holes for a par 72 and a share of fifth place at the end of the first round of  the MENA Tour 54-hole event, the Royal Golf El Jadida at El Jadida, Morocco today.
Fenwick started badly with bogeys at th second, third and fifth, then got on track with five birdies from seventh to the last.
Also on the 72 mark is Rotherham's David Booth who won the Scottish youth championship while he was a student at Stirling University.
Duncan Stewart (Turnhouse) covered his last nine holes in two under par to salvage a 73 (39-34) for a share of 10th place.
Former Scottish U18 boys match-play champion Paul Doherty had four birdies but more than cancelled them out with six bogeys for a 74 and joint 21st place.
Austrian Florian Praegant shot a four-under-par, bogey-free 68 to lead by two shots from England's Andrew Marshall.

FIRST-ROUND LEADERBOARD
Par 72
68 F Praegant (Aut)
70 A Marshall (Eng)
71 C Hinton (Eng), F Lindblom (Swe)
72 A Marjan (Mor), Y Touhami (Mor) (am), N Fenwick (Sco), E Oxlade (Eng), L Joy (Eng), S Campbell (Eng), M Quiros (Spa), D Booth (Eng)
SELECTED SCORES
73 D Stewart (Sco) (T10)
74 P Doherty (Sco) (T21) 

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Walter Burns' Scottish Junior Tour event at Carnoustie Buddon

FROM WALTER BURNS

Here are the results from the Scottish Junior Golf Tour event at Carnoustie yesterday on the Buddon course. Apart from a few showers it was a really nice day for golf and the course was in great condition.

It was the third in our series of “Three Way Match-play” events.

Team Lyle narrowly won the team event with 13 points.  Team Torrance were second with 12 points.

In-form Aamar Saleem (Ladybank) won the individual event with an average of seven holes up. Aidan Husenne (Haggs Castle) was a close second with an average of 6.5 holes up.

There was a three-way tie in the skills challenges between George Cannon (Falkirk) , Aamar Saleem and Craig Jackman (Dunblane)

Leading Scores

+7      Aamar Saleem (Ladybank)

+6.5   Aidan Husenne (Haggs Castle)

+4      George Cannon (Falkirk), Fraser Gardiner (Falkirk), Roddy McCauley (Fereneze)         

+3      Euan McBride (Lenzie)

+2      Callum Waugh (Cambuslang)

Next event is at Mar Hall on April 10

 

Walter Burns

Scottish Junior Golf Tour

 

Mob: 07951 103 827

 

Email: walter@scottishjuniorgolftour.co.uk

Web: www.scottishjuniorgolftour.co.uk

 

Lothians Golf Association - Match at Longniddy

LOTHIANS 7.5, STIRLINGSHIRE 4.5
 
FOURSOMES (2-2)
M. BACIGALUPO (Longniddry) and  S. McLAREN (Bruntsfield Links) bt R. CAMPBELL (Falkirk) and T. BEATTIE (Grangemouth) 1 hole.
A. BLANEY (Dunbar) and K. CANTLEY (Liberton) bt  P. MAXWELL (Glenbervie) and M. HISLOP (Glenbervie) 4 and 3.
B. McLEOD (Musselburgh) and  A. CRAWFORD (Deer Park)  lost to S. IRVINE (Falkirk) and H. NELSON (Kilsyth Lennox) 4 and 3
C. DEERNESS (Harburn) and  G. GORRIGAN (Greenburn) lost to C. LAWTON (Stirling) and  B. LIDDELL (Stirling) 3 and 2


SINGLES (5.5-2.5) 
 BLANEY halved with CAMPBELL
CANTLEY bt  BEATTIE 1 hole. 
BACIGALUPO  bt  MAXWELL
McLAREN bt M. HISLOP 6 and 5 
McLEOD bt  IRVINE 9 and 7 
CRAWFORD lost to NELSON  3 and 2
DEERNESS halved with LAWTON 
CORRIGAN halved with  LIDDELL 

Jason Day sweeps Dell Match Play to fuel momentum for Masters

Jason Day at WGC-Dell Match Play ( Getty Images )

By Alex Miceli

GOLFWEEK.COM

AUSTIN, Texas – Jason Day continued his run-up to the Masters with an impressive 5-and-4 defeat of Louis Oosthuizen in the final of the WGC-Dell Match Play at Austin Country Club on Sunday.
Day, 28, who won the Arnold Palmer Invitational last week in Orlando, Fla., came to Match Play with a reservoir of confidence. He used that momentum to his advantage in his seven matches, leading in 67 of the 101 holes that he played in the week and trailing in only 17.
“I'm very, very pleased to be the champion again,” Day said of his second Match Play title in three years. “It was an interesting week, to say the least. Not even thinking about playing Thursday after Wednesday with a tweaked back on 15th tee, and then getting to No. 1 on Saturday and then winning on Sunday.”
Day came to the Texas capital early Tuesday and, though he walked seven holes, he didn’t play any of the Pete Dye-designed course until he teed it up on Wednesday against Graeme McDowell.
Day tweaked his back on the 15th hole of that opening match, and though he posted a 3-and-2 victory, his future was in doubt.
Against the advice of four of his team members, Day chose to persevere. With trainer Cornel Driessen in South Africa, Day turned to Bubba Watson’s trainer, Brian Smith, for treatment.
“I just want to win,” Day said of his reason for not pulling out after the incident on Wednesday. “I wanted to win so bad that I felt with how I was playing, if I kept playing the way I was doing, I would be holding the trophy at the end of the week, and that's what kept me going.”
The victory, the third-largest winning margin in the 18-year Match Play history, started ominously for Day, who lost the first hole with a bogey after Oosthuizen drove the par-4 hole and won with a three-putt par.
Day rebounded quickly with a conceded hole at the par-4 third and then recorded his first of five birdies on the par-3 fourth to go 1 up. It was a lead that the Australian would not relinquish. Day pointed to the middle of the front nine as the key to his ninth Tour victory.
“Six, 7 and 8 were probably what kept me moving in the right direction,” said Day, pointing to three consecutive pars. “If I bogeyed those holes, he could have won it with a par on 6. He missed, obviously, and bogeyed 7. But he could have won it with a par on 8, as well. So that's the turning point.”
Day will take this week off and then head to Augusta National, site of the Masters, on an emotional high.
“I'm really going to enjoy it, because I'm going to have a lot of fun there this year,” Day said of Augusta, where he owns two finishes of third or better in the past five years. “And I feel like I'm going to play well. But once again, I just have to focus on what I normally do.”