Gray and Grants of Scotland team win MHF 

pro-am at Prestwick after triple tie on 59 (-12)

Lanark pro Stephen Gray and the Grants of Scotland team of amateurs, John Fallon (handicap 12), Brian McQuarrie (10) and Ian Kilpatrick (10), won today's MHF Invitational pro-am at Prestwick Golf Club.
Three teams and their pros tied with scores of 12-under-par 59.
After a card countback, Gray and the Grants of Scotland team emerged the winners over Derek Watters (Gourock) and KPMG who tied for second place with Iain McNab (Trump Turnberry Resort) and Maclay Murray and Spens.
No individual pro scores were recorded

LEADING SCORES
Par 71
59 Grants of Scotland and pro S Gray (Lanark) (after play-off)
59 KPMG and pro D Watters (Gourock), Maclay Murray and Spens, and pro Iain McNab (Trump Turnberry Resort).
62 BDO and pro J Greaves, Neil Howie and pro C Elliott.
63 Arthur J Gallacher and pro G Redford, Bala Sport and N Walton, Denholm Sports and D Orr, Electro Installations and pro G Hardy, J W Morrison and M Loftus.

18 TEAMS TOOK PART

Dumbartonshire Golf Union – County Finals

 

The finals of the County Championships were held at Windyhill Golf Club on Sunday 9^th October 2016.

 

The premier championship, the County Champion of Champions, was won by Gary Mack of Dougalston Golf Club who defeated David Wylie of Lenzie in a closely fought final.

 

The Junior Champion of Champions final was won by Euan McBride of Lenzie beating Ian MacLeod of Balmore.

 

The Match Play Championship winner was Neil McConnachie of Balmore, runner up was David Lindsay of Lenzie.

 

The team competitions were won by Clober Golf Club who defeated Windyhill with the Junior trophy going to Lenzie who defeated Clober in their final.

 

The Handicap Players Tournament  was played on Friday 7th October when Robert Street (Kirkintilloch) defeated  David McGowan (Clydebank and District).

 The photographs below are of Gary Mack, Champion of Champions,  and (lower picture) Euan McBride, Junior Champion of Champions. Presentations by Hugh Semple, DGU President.

 

West of Scotland Inter-County “A” League

 

Dumbartonshire 5.5, Stirlingshire 2.5

 

Report from Jim Paton, DGU “A” Team Manager.

 

Our second away game in a row against the team who were this morning joint top of the league with ourselves.

Having to field a changed team once again, the boys raised their game for a 5.5 – 2.5 victory at Falkirk Carmuirs, a course where very few of our team had played.

This gives us a total with one game to go of 7 pts. 3 wins and 1 draw; with a really good games difference.

Our last game is against Ayrshire at home at Cardross, next Sunday with once again a changed team but we have never yet played with the same team.  Great pool of players.

  Match details:

Steven Stewart   lost by 3 and 2 to G. Robertson

Richard Law      won 2 and 1  v T. Beattie

Chris MacLean  won 3 and 2  v S. Irving

James Wilson     won 2 up v  C. Mundie

Craig Bisset        lost by 1 hole to M. Hislop

Andy Campbell  won 4 and 3  v    S. McMehan

Richard Bridges  won 3 and 2 v    D. Guthrie          

Chris Thursby     halved with half  R. Johnston sen

 

Result                   5.5 -  2.5

 

Craig Jackman tops at Junior Tour event at Monifieth Ashludie

 

Craig Jackman (Dunblane) had the best score of the day, a two-under-par 66, in the Scottish Junior Golf Tour competition over the Ashludie course at Monifieth on Sunday.

Roddy McCauley won the Under-14 years' section with with a four-over-par 72.

 

  LEADING SCORES

Under-16 years

66           Craig Jackman (Dunblane)

71           Callum Leeson (Pitreavie), Ian Taggart (Lenzie)

73           Cameron Cairns (Clydebank), Jonathan Murphy (Erskine)

Under-14 years

72           Roddy McCauley (Fereneze)

73           Jamie Fulton (Muckhart), Aamar Saleem (St Andrews)

75           John Jack (Gourock)

76           Ross Laird (Falkirk)

Cameron Cairns and George Cannon (Falkirk) won the skills competitions.

 

Walter Burns

Scottish Junior Golf Tour

 

Mob: 07951 103 827

 

Email: walter@scottishjuniorgolftour.co.uk

Web: www.scottishjuniorgolftour.co.uk

 

Jay Haas battles to play-off victory at Toshiba Classic to become second-oldest US PGA 

Senior Tour Champions winner

By Kevin Casey

GOLFWEEK.COM

Jay Haas (Getty Images)

It was harder than he probably would have liked, but Jay Haas earned his first US PGA Senior Tour win in two years.
The 62-year-old began the final round of the Toshiba Classic five shots ahead of the field but let the challengers catch up on him. Haas birdied his opening hole to move to 16 under, but from there it was a struggle.
Double bogey at the fourth set him back and two birdies the remainder of the round would follow, but that would prove barely enough.
As Haas stagnated, Bart Bryant charged.The 53-year-old went out in 4-under 31 and birdied four more on the back nine to move out to 17 under. It culminated with a long birdie at the 17th to move Bryant one in front. A full 8 under on the day, Bryant then came to the par-5 18th to post a tough number to catch.
Eyeing his ninth birdie of the day, Bryant instead faltered at the worst time. He bogeyed to fall to 16 under and could only watch to see if Haas would capitalize.
Haas (1-under 70) could only par and the two were off to a play-off.
Having made up six strokes on Haas and boasting most of the momentum, Bryant appeared he might have the upperhand in extra holes. But Haas quickly put him away. The 62-year-old birdied the first playoff hole, No. 18, and Bryant needed to chip in to extend only to come oh so close before bowing out.
Haas had his first US PGA Tour Champions win since the Greater Hickory Kia Classic at Rock Barn in October 2014. Haas earned victory No. 18 of his PGA Tour Champions career and at 62 years and 10 months became the second-oldest winner in the circuit’s history. Haas also jumped from 41st to 26th on the Charles Schwab money list.
Larry Mize and Billy Andrade finished tied for third at 14 under, with Mike Goodes jumping 21 spots to a tie for fifth at 13 under following a day’s best 8-under 63.
John Daly began the day eagle-birdie-birdie for the second straight day to reach 13 under and put himself in the the thick of contention. Just as quickly, though, he faded, thanks to back-to-back double bogeys at Nos. 4 and 5.
The 50-year-old finished with 71 for 9 under and a tie for 19th.

ALL THE FINAL TOTALS AND PRIZEMONEY

 Par 213 (3x71)

1	x-Jay Haas	64	63	70	.			197	$270,000
2	Bart Bryant	67	66	64				197	$158,400
T3	Billy Andrade	67	66	66				199	$118,350
T3	Larry Mize	65	69	65				199	$118,350
T5	Fred Funk	67	65	68				200	$69,975
T5	Mike Goodes	69	68	63				200	$69,975
T5	Todd Hamilton	68	68	64				200	$69,975
T5	Kevin Sutherland	68	66	66				200	$69,975
9	David Frost	69	65	67				201	$50,400
T10	Glen Day	70	66	66				202	$39,960
T10	Joe Durant	72	64	66				202	$39,960
T10	Scott McCarron	68	67	67				202	$39,960
T10	Grant Waite	68	65	69				202	$39,960
T10	Ian Woosnam	67	66	69				202	$39,960
T15	Brad Bryant	67	70	66				203	$29,700
T15	Marco Dawson	71	64	68				203	$29,700
T15	Doug Garwood	67	66	70				203	$29,700
T15	Esteban Toledo	69	66	68				203	$29,700
T19	Woody Austin	68	68	68				204	$21,214
T19	Paul Broadhurst	69	66	69				204	$21,214
T19	Mark Brooks	67	68	69				204	$21,214
T19	John Daly	67	66	71				204	$21,214
T19	Steve Lowery	68	70	66				204	$21,214
T19	Rod Spittle	70	64	70				204	$21,214
T19	Duffy Waldorf	67	68	69				204	$21,214
T26	Michael Allen	65	72	68				205	$15,660
T26	Stephen Ames	70	69	66				205	$15,660
T26	Michael Bradley	72	67	66				205	$15,660
T26	Wes Short Jr.	69	67	69				205	$15,660
T26	Jerry Smith	67	71	67				205	$15,660
T31	Russ Cochran	66	71	69				206	$12,690
T31	Carlos Franco	69	68	69				206	$12,690
T31	Paul Goydos	65	70	71				206	$12,690
T31	Joey Sindelar	67	67	72				206	$12,690
T35	Brad Faxon	73	68	66				207	$10,800
T35	Brandt Jobe	68	69	70				207	$10,800
T35	Colin Montgomerie	68	70	69				207	$10,800
T38	Tom Byrum	71	70	67				208	$8,820
T38	Scott Dunlap	71	67	70				208	$8,820
T38	Mark O'Meara	68	71	69				208	$8,820
T38	Kenny Perry	70	68	70				208	$8,820
T38	Jeff Sluman	70	68	70				208	$8,820
T38	Bob Tway	70	68	70				208	$8,820
T38	Jean Van de Velde	68	69	71				208	$8,820
T45	Jay Don Blake	67	71	71				209	$6,660
T45	Scott Hoch	69	72	68				209	$6,660
T45	Tom Lehman	69	72	68				209	$6,660
T45	Billy Mayfair	64	76	69				209	$6,660
T45	Scott Parel	71	70	68				209	$6,660
T50	Tommy Armour III	68	76	66				210	$4,896
T50	Jeff Hart	68	72	70				210	$4,896
T50	Tim Petrovic	73	70	67				210	$4,896
T50	Gene Sauers	73	69	68				210	$4,896
T50	Scott Verplank	71	72	67				210	$4,896
T55	John Cook	67	73	71				211	$3,960
T55	Steve Pate	72	71	68				211	$3,960
T55	Tom Pernice Jr.	69	75	67				211	$3,960
T58	Mark Calcavecchia	67	74	71				212	$3,420
T58	Jeff Maggert	68	69	75				212	$3,420
T58	Jim Rutledge	72	68	72				212	$3,420
61	Loren Roberts	70	71	72				213	$3,060
62	Scott Simpson	68	72	74				214	$2,880
T63	Olin Browne	70	74	71				215	$2,250
T63	Gary Hallberg	72	74	69				215	$2,250
T63	Brian Henninger	71	70	74				215	$2,250
T63	Tom Jenkins	74	71	70				215	$2,250
T63	Tom Kite	74	73	68				215	$2,250
T63	Kirk Triplett	69	74	72				215	$2,250
T69	Hale Irwin	74	72	70				216	$1,584
T69	Lee Janzen	71	76	69				216	$1,584
T69	Gil Morgan	73	72	71				216	$1,584
T72	Peter Jacobsen	72	72	73				217	$1,272
T72	Jesper Parnevik	72	71	74				217	$1,272
T72	Mike Springer	75	72	70				217	$1,272
T75	Dan Forsman	73	71	74				218	$1,044
T75	Craig Stadler	73	76	69				218	$1,044
T75	Chris Starkjohann	72	74	72				218	$1,044
78	Clark Dennis	75	69	76				220	$900
79	Tom Purtzer	76	74	74				224	$828
80	Bob Gilder	72	77	79				228	$774
81	Rocco Mediate	79	WD	WD	-	-	-	79

Matthew Dalrymple T24 finish at King 

Invitational in Tennessee

Matthew Dalrymple, pictured below, from Lochwinnoch, a freshman student at King University, Bristol, Tennessee, finished T24 in the King Invitational at Country Club of Bristol with scores of 71 and 75 for a tally of 146 over a par-70 course of 6,474yd.

Team-mate Kesley March, also a freshman, from Gloucestershire, finished T11 on 142 (73-69).
Nathan Bull (Pfeiffer) won by four strokes with scores of 66 and 6 for 135.
Pfeiffer (554) also won the team title ahead of Erskine College (567), North Greenville (571) with King (566) fourth in a field of eight teams.

David Wicks' T13 finish in Tar Heel 

Intercollegiate

Two students from England on the Jacksonville University roster finished in the top 30 at the Tar Heel Intercollegiate over the University of North Carolina's Finley course (par 72, 7242yd) at Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

David Wicks, pictured, a final-year student from Bexhill, tied for 13th place in a field of 81, with rounds of 73 and 70 for 143
Elliot Fullalove, a third-year student from Kingswood, finished T30 with scores of 75 and 71.
At the top of the leaderboard were Alfredo Ruiz (Coastal Carolina) (68-70) and Jake McGlone (North Carolina-Greensboro) (71-67), both on six-under 138.
North Carolina-Wilmington (567) won the team title ahead of North Carolina (570) and North Carolina-Greensboro and Maryland on 573.
Jacksonville (577) finished seventh in a field of 13 teams.

Stirling University finish 12th as bad weather 

wipes out final day's play at Yale Invitational

Stirling University women's golf team were denied an opportunity to achieve a top-10 finish in the Yale University Women's Invitational when the last day's play was cancelled because of "inclement weather" at New Haven, Connecticut.

Stirling were on the 597 mark, in12th place in a field of 19 teams after 36 holes, and that turned out to be their final position.

Columbia (581) were the winners, ahead of  Boston College (582), Yale (585) and Harvard (588).

The individual scores of the Stirling team were:

149 Tara Mactaggart 76 73, Sinead Sexton 76 73.

150 Jennifer Saxton 75 75, Gemma Batty 75 75

152 Chloe Goadby 78 74.

Stirling men's team finished second in the corresponding Yale University Men's Invitational the week before last.