Hector Dey Trophy boys' tee times at Inverallochy, Sunday, July 31

1     10:00
        Reece Brown (Kemnay)
        Calum Taylor (Inverurie)
        Finlay Wallace (Portlethen)
2     10:08    
        Cameron Black (Royal Aberdeen)
        Dominic Bradburn (Aboyne)
        Liam Ritchie (Inverallochy)
3     10:16    
        Ben Mackintosh (Peterhead)
        Samuel Barrie (Stonehaven)
        Blair Spence (Peterculter)
4     10:24    
        Michael Black (Deeside)
        Ben Read (Banchory)
        Peter Stewart (Murcar Links)
5     10:32    
       Lewis Watt (McDonald Ellon)
       A N Other  (Hazlehead)
       A N Other (Nigg Bay)
   
6     10:40   
       
7     10:48   
        
8     10:54   
             
9     11:02   
              
10     11:10   
       
       
       

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Miguel Angel Jimenez leads Senior Open by 4 

FROM THE EUROPEAN SENIOR 
TOUR WEBSITE
Miguel Angel Jiménez fell just short of equalling the course record at Carnoustie but compensation for missing a six-foot birdie putt at the last came in the form of a four-stroke lead going into the last day of the Senior Open Championship Presented by Rolex.
The 52-year-old Spaniard, pictured above today by courtesy of Getty Images(c), plotted a serene path around one of the world’s most challenging links courses, signing for a bogey-free 65 to ignite his quest for the major championship which eluded him on the regular tour but is now within his grasp as a senior.
Jiménez, a man with a taste for the good life, puffed on a deserved celebratory cigar after shooting his best-of-the-week score for an 11 under par total of 205. With Joe Durant dropping a shot at the last, the popular Spaniard’s cushion grew to four strokes over three Americans in Durant, Tom Byrum and Wes Short Jnr and the leading British contender, Paul Broadhurst.
Ryder Cup player Broadhurst, making his debut in the Senior Open, followed a majestic back nine of 30 in the second round by carding a four under par 68 in the third for a 54-hole total of 209. He now goes head-to-head with Jiménez in the final group.
Jiménez conceded that winning a first Major would represent a huge achievement in a career which only truly went stratospheric after he turned 40 in 2004. He said: “It would mean a lot. If I win – in Scotland, the Home of Golf – it would be amazing. Tomorrow we will see.”

The only player to reach ‘double digits’ during the week, Jiménez made the game look simple, as only he can. Almost every shot arrowed in on its target with unerring accuracy and the round was summed up by the final two holes of Carnoustie’s famously tough finish.
Jiménez sent a four iron soaring onto the 17^th green for a birdie - his seventh of a wonderfully composed round – and struck an imperious five iron to six feet at the last. The putt stayed above ground, but failed to dampen the spirits of the Spanish conquistador.
“It was a very nice day on the golf course,” agreed Jiménez. “I played very solid from tee to green. Everything was working perfectly today. I played the last two holes beautifully so I am happy with my day and the score, despite not making the last putt for a 64.”
Despite his relaxed demeanour on the golf course, Jiménez admitted that he will experience nerves when he heads out for what he hopes will be a triumphant march up the 18^th hole to become the 30^th Senior Open Champion.
“Of course I care,” he said. “I love what I do, and what I’ve done for the past 28 years. I want to do well, to be as relaxed as possible and do my best.”
Broadhurst, who won in Scotland on his senior debut in the Prostate Cancer UK Scottish Senior Open last August, is hoping that history repeats itself on his first appearance in the Senior Open. He said: “Carnoustie is one of my favourite links courses, where I had my best Open finish in 2007. I will try to finish it off tomorrow.”
The Englishman took 12^th place at The Open that year and loves the challenge it brings. With five birdies and only one bogey, Broadhurst produced a high class up-and-down for a par on the last to get into the clubhouse just four behind Jiménez.
He commented: “You don’t want to finish with a bogey so it’s nice to have dinner on a high rather than a low. I made a very nice eight-footer for par.”
Broadhurst knows that the only person ahead of him in the field is a worthy favourite going into what promises to be a gripping final day at Carnoustie. He added: “Miguel’s going to be the man to beat, without a doubt. I was hitting some good shots in the group ahead of him, and every time I turned around he had just hit it inside me!”
It appeared that Jiménez would take a three-shot lead into the last day, but Durant bogeyed the final hole to complete a disappointing day.
“I played horrible today, I really did,” he claimed. “My iron play was terrible. Now we’re going to have to make something happen tomorrow, because Miguel is a front runner and knows how to win golf tournaments.”
Bernhard Langer, the last person to win at Carnoustie in the 2010 Senior Open, threatened to get closer to the lead but was undone by a pair of bogeys at the 16^th and 18^th to finish on three under par and a long way behind the pace-setting Jiménez.
The Spaniard is noted for his unconventional approach to life and had no doubt how he would prepare for one of the biggest days of his golfing career. He said:
"I am going to do exactly the same things I’ve done in previous nights – go for dinner with friends, have a nice bottle of Rioja, a fat cigar and a nice malt whisky." 

WHEN TO SEE THE LEADERS 
TEE OFF ON SUNDAY

12:56 Barry CONSER and Bernhard LANGER 

13:05 David FROST and Mark O'MEARA 

13:14 Jesper PARNEVIK and Carlos FRANCO 

13:23 Tom LEHMAN and Billy ANDRADE 

13:32 Joe DURANT and  Scott MCCARRON 

13:41 Wes SHORT jun and Tom BYRUM 

13:50 Paul BROADHURST and Miguel Angel JIMÉNEZ

 

THIRD-ROUND LEADERBOARD
Par 216 (3x72)
205 M A Jimenez (Spain) 70 70 65
209 P Broadhurst (England) 75 66 68, W Short (USA) 70 70 69, T Byrum (USA) 69 69 71, J Durant (USA) 69 68 72
210 S McCarron (USA) 69 70 71
211 B Andrade (USA) 71 72 68, T Lehman (USA) 73 67 71, C Franco (Paraguay) 69 69 73, J Parnevik (Sweden) 70 68 73
212 M O'Meara (USA) 69 70 70
213 D Frost (S Africa) 71 72 70, B Langer (Germany) 71 71 71, B Conser (USA) 70 71 72, M P Atlevi (Sweden) 70 69 74, P Fowler (Australia) 69 69 75, O Browne (USA) 72 66 75

SELECTED SCORES
220 A Oldcorn (Scotland) 72 74 74 (T49)
223 J Daly (USA) 72 73 78 (T60)

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Kellett hangs on to share of 2nd place as 

Aussie Cullen goes two clear

FROM THE CHALLENGE TOUR WEBSITE
Nick Cullen shot the lowest round of the day to take a two-stroke lead into the final round at Le Vaudreuil Golf Challenge after a four-under-par 67 put him on 14-under-par 199 for the first 54 holes in France.
But Motherwell's Ross Kellett is hanging on in there, sharing second place with Sweden's Alexander Bjork, two behind the leader on 201.
Aussie Cullen, a left-hander, played flawless golf almost all day at Golf PGA France du Vaudreuil, the only blemishes a bogey on 17 and a three-putt on the reachable-in-two par five 18^th, but, with many hopefuls heading the wrong way down the leaderboard on moving day – only 20 players shot under par for their third rounds – he still pulled clear of the chasing pack.
The 32-year-old is playing in just his third Challenge Tour event this weekwns and arrived in France after mixing it with the world’s best golfers in the Open Championship at Royal Troon last week.
“The game feels good,” he said. “I’m putting a little better than I did last week but the course suits me because you’ve got to shape it a bit off some of the tees, and I’m hitting it well and feeling good.
“I was surprised no-one went really low, I was expecting someone to go out and shoot seven or eight under and have to go and chase that, so to see my name up there early was a bit of a surprise.
“It was a bit disappointing I couldn’t then finish it off on the back nine and I missed a couple of putts there towards the end, but I’ve put myself in contention on Sunday and that’s all you can hope for.
“That 17^th is starting to look like a problem! Bogeys two days in a row, but I’ll birdie it tomorrow to try to make up for it – you can’t worry about it too much, I’ve been in play both days but just haven’t hit good iron shots.
“Today was a little trickier overall, especially the greens – they’re firming up, which is a bit more what I’m used to back in Australia, so I hope it keeps going that way tomorrow as well.”
Hot on Cullen’s heels are Sweden’s Alexander Bjӧrk and Ross Kellett of Scotland on 12 under par, with South African Dylan Frittelli a further two shots back in fourth place.
Kellett birdied the fourth, sixth, eighth and 13th in halves of 34-36. He bogeyed the second, seventh and 16th.
Overnight leader Clément Sordet struggled in breezy conditions. He could only shoot 74 to drop to a tie for fifth as he bids to become the first French winner of the event.
Reigning champion Ryan Fox showed his affinity for the course once again by tying Cullen for the low round of the day and moving up into the top 15 as he aims to make the first successful title defence on the Challenge Tour since Daniel Vancsik 12 years ago.

THIRD-ROUND LEADERBOARD

Par 213 (3x71)

199 N Cullen (Australia) 66 66 67

201 R Kellett (Sco) 64 67 70, A Bjork (Swe) 67 65 69

 SELECTED SCORES

204 M Nixon (Eng) 65 69 70, A Rai (Eng) 68 68 68 (T5)

207 M Armitage (Eng) 68 71 68 (T11)

208 S Tiley (Eng) 67 71 70, D Wright (Eng) 69 69 70 (T15). 

210 C Selfridge (NIre) 69 71 70 (T21)

211 D Stewart (Sco) 68 69 74, P Howard (Eng) 68 72 71, C Ford (Eng) 73 67 71 P Maddy (Eng) 69 71 71 (T29)

212 M Orrin (Eng) 69 72 71 (T40)

213 P Shields (Sco) 73 65 75, K Phelan (Ire) 69 72 72 (T45).

215 J Mullen (Eng) 73 67 75, M Wallace (Eng) 66 74 75 (T58)

218 P Whiteford (Sco) 73 68 77, J Barnes (Eng) 70 70 78 (T65) 

Wright on! Gareth, out in 29 at Montrose, 

posts  a 65 to win by a shot from Hutcheon


By COLIN FARQUHARSON
Gareth Wright won his third pro-am of the season at Montrose Links today with a six-under-par 65.

The West Linton Welshman, pictured, followed up his successes at Strathaven and Bothwell Castle by  lifting the £1,250 first prize with a roller-coaster card which saw him bogey the first hole and then birdiedthe second, third, fourth and fifth before notching an eagle 3 at the long sixth, followed by birdies at the seventh and ninth to be out in only 29 shots.
Wright improved even further to nine under par with birdies at the 13th and  15th before bogeying the short 16th and running up a double bogey 6 at the 17th for 36 home. 
After all that, Gareth won by a single shot from Greig Hutcheon (PLGC Inchmarlo) who had a bogey-free 66 (33-33) with birdies at the third, fifth, sixth, 15th and 18th. He earned £1,000.
Sam Binning (Mearns Castle) finished third on 67 for which he received £750.
Wright scored a double whammy by leading the ALS Oil and Gas amateur trio of Barry Lang (handicap 15), Craig Lang (8) and Stuart Phillip (13) to victory in the pro-am team event with a net total of 19-under-par 123.
MONTROSE PRO-AM
Montrose Links
PRO SCORES
Par 71
65 G Wright (West Linton) £1,250
66 G Hutcheon (PLGC Inchmarlo) £1,000.
67 S Binning (Mearns Castle) £750
68 C Currie (Caldwell), S Gray (Lanark) £506 each.
69 G Fox (Clydeway Golf), S Henderson (Kings Links), G McBain (Newmachar), P O'Hara (Clydeway Golf) £303 each.
70 P McKechnie (Braid Hills) £213
71 A Tait (Marriott Dalmahoy), C Kelly (unatt), C Matheson (Falkirk Tryst) £175 each.
72 G Hay (Grantown on Spey), C Ronald (Carluke), J Lomas (Caprington) £137 each.
73 L Vannet (Craibstone), J McGhee (Whitehill House), R McConnachie (Peterculter) £100 each.
74 A Forsyth (Mearns Castle), P Robinson (Largs) £37 each.
75 N Huguet (Musselburgh)
76 G Brown (Montrose Links), S McEwing (Paul Lawrie Golf Centre), M Kerr (Marriott Dalmahoy), C McMaster (Wellsgreen), A Hutchison (Douglas Park), J McCreadie (Largs).
77 A McDonald (Dunnikier Park).
79 M Penny (Montrose Links)
81 N Cameron (Blairgowrie), B Mason (Callaway).
84 S Craig (Craig Golf).
TEAM EVENT
123 G Wright (West Linton) and ALS Oil and Gas 2: B Lang (15), C Lang (8), S Phillip (13).
 
 

Triple bogey 7 at last hole costs Ireland's Mark 

Power victory chance in Young Masters

By COLIN FARQUHARSON
Ireland's Mark Power, leader through the first and second rounds, took a triple bogey 7 at the 18th in his final round and slumped to a joint fourth place finish - only three behind the Belgian winner, Adrien Dumont de Chassart - in the European Young Masters championship at the Pete Dye-designed Domaine Imperial course in Switzerland today.
A par 4 at the last hole would have put Power, from Kilkenny, into a play-off with the Belgian.
Top British finishers were England's Harry Goddard in tied 10th place on 221 and Scotland's Lewis Irvine (Kirkhill) who just made the top 20 in T19 position with a 225 aggregate.
The girls' Young Masters title went to Finland's Elina Saksa who had a final, bogey-free round of 67 for a level-par total of 216 to pip Sarah Hricikova (Czech Rep) by one shot. England's Lily May Humphrey finished third on 218.
Scotland's representatives, Jennifer Rankine (239) and Kristy Brodie (255), finished T27 and T44 respectively.

LEADING FINAL TOTALS
BOYS
Par 216 (3x72)
212 A Dumont de Chassart (Bel) 73 69 70
213 J Hrinda (Slovakia) 70 72 71
214 E Lopez-Chacarra (Spa) 69 73 72.

SELECTED TOTALS
215 M Power (Ire) 69 71 75 (T4)
221 H Goddard (Eng) 78 72 71 (T10)
225 L Irvine (Sco) 73 75 77 (T19)
227 J Brady (Ire) 78 72 77 (T24)
228 J Cooper (Eng) 75 80 73 (28th)
229 A Greville (Wal) 75 78 76 (T29)
230 E Price (Wal) 74 75 81 (33rd)
234 C Wilson (Sco) 80 78 78 (T35)

GIRLS
Par 216 (3x72)
216 E Saksa (Fin) 77 72 67
217 S Hricikova (Cze) 69 71 77
218 L May Humphry (Eng) 72 74 72

SELECTED TOTALS
227 A Williamson (Eng) 76 79 72 (T8)
239 J Rankine (Sco) 85 80 74 (T27)
246 C Worby (Wal) 80 83 83 (T36)
255 K Brodie (Sco) 80 82 83, F Evans (Wal) 86 82 97 (T44).

TEAM EVENT
656 Czech Republic
660 Spain
663 England, Finland, Germany
665 Ireland.
SELECTED TOTALS
698 Scotland (18th)
704 Wales (22nd)
Field of 28 teams

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Clober's Blair Roger wins Dumbartsonshire boys' match-play title

NEWS RELEASE

 Well done to Blair Roger (Clober) who beat Euan McBride (Lenzie) by one hole in the final at Clydebank and District Golf Club. 

In a very tight match, where the lead changed hands a number of times, Blair played a great up and down at the 17th to go into the last hole all square. Another up and down at the 18th saw Blair win by the narrowest of margins

He is pictured above being presented with the trophy by Hugh Semple, DGU President.

 

 

 

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No change in top positions at Canadian Open

By Golfweek Staff

Dustin Johnson's 1-under 71 Friday at the RBC Canadian Open kept him in a share of the lead. (Getty Images)

In a game so unpredictable, Friday at the RBC Canadian Open proved quite remarkable.
At the beginning of the second round at Glen Abbey Golf Club in Oakville, Ontario, Dustin Johnson and Luke List shared the lead, with Jon Rahm, Kelly Kraft and Jared du Toit all tied for third one shot back.
Where were they all by round’s end? The exact same place.
Johnson, 32, overcame a disastrous 4-over stretch early with six birdies in nine holes in the middle of his round to post a 1-under 71 and take the early clubhouse lead at 7 under. 
He would later be caught by List, who had his own topsy-turvy day – reaching 8 under after a pair of opening birdies, falling back to 5 under after a trio of back-nine bogeys and then birdies on the closing par-5s boosting him back up to 7 under.
Thus, it was another day where Johnson, the recent U.S. Open and WGC-Bridgestone Invitational champion, finished on top of the leaderboard. But plenty of other great storylines lurk below.
The trio that remained T-3 and one back all fit that bill. Rahm at one point went nine holes without a par Friday, compiling an eagle, four birdies, three bogeys and a double in that stretch, but pars on his other nine holes proved enough stability for the Spaniard to post a 71.
 The 21-year-old two-time Ben Hogan Award winner who finished the 2015-16 college season as Golfweek’s No. 1 is a recent graduate of Arizona State who placed T-3 in his pro debut last month at the Quicken Loans National.
His former teammate du Toit, though, could make a bigger splash this week in these parts. The Canadian amateur reached a share of the lead before a triple bogey at the par-5 second (his 11th) knocked him back.
 Following another bogey, he pieced together three straight birdies and rolled in an 11-footer for par at the last to also come in at 71. 
Du Toit, making his US PGA Tour debut, has put himself in prime position to break one of his country’s most startling droughts – a Canadian hasn’t won the national open since Pat Fletcher in 1954.
Meanwhile, Kraft, the 2011 U.S. Amateur champion, has pieced together just one top-30 finish in 16 US PGA Tour events this year, and could be on the verge of something much bigger.
Graham DeLaet, who unfortunately saw his chipping anxiety recur Thursday in the form of yips, dug too much of a hole with an opening 77 and missed the cut at his national open by three shots after following with 72.
Among the biggest movers of the day were Ricky Barnes, Chad Campbell and Kevin Kisner. Barnes posted 4-under 68 to emerge 24 spots higher in a tie for sixth at 5 under, while Campbell and Kisner matched 67s to each jump 45 spots on the leaderboard into a tie for 10th at 4 under.
Defending champion Jason Day, the World No. 1, had a rough Friday. The Aussie made six bogeys and needed a par at the last to stave off a missed cut. 
Fortunately, he rolled in a 26ft birdie putt to post 76 and stay around for the weekend. At 1 over, he starts his final 36 holes only eight back.
Martin Laird (142) made the cut but Matthew Fitzpatrick (147) , Graeme McDowell (151) and Englishman Greg Owen (151) did not.

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