Roddy McAuley wins
Renfrewshire Boys' Champion
of Champions title
RENFREWSHIRE GOLF UNION NEWS RELEASE
Graham McGee – Press Officer, Renfrewshire Golf Union
Played at Paisley
Golf Club on Sunday 22nd April, and once again generously sponsored
by Greenlaw Garage, Paisley , www.greenlawgarge.com
on a day when the weather returned to normal Scottish conditions of wind and
rain, following the great weather of the previous day, the final of the
Renfrewshire Golf Union Boys Champion of Champions took place.
In the Final, Roddy
McAuley (Fereneze), who is also champion at Caldwell ,
faced Patrick McCartney (Greenock) who was
runner up in the Boys County Match Play in 2017.
The game started in
a peculiar fashion with Roddy going out of bounds at the first and second holes
while Patrick was safely on the fairway at both holes. This gave Patrick an
early 2 holes lead. The next hole was halved before Patrick went 3 up at the
fourth when Roddy missed the green and failed to get up and down.
The fifth and
sixth were halved before Roddy won the seventh after Patrick unusually took 2
to recover from the greenside bunker. The lead was reduced to one when Patrick
missed the green at the eighth hole and failed to recover for par. The ninth
was halved in par with Patrick 1 up at the turn.
The next four holes
were all halved in what was now a very tight game with putts being missed by
both players who were otherwise coping well with good golf in the poor weather
conditions. The game went all square after both missed the green at 14 but
Roddy made a good up and down. The fifteenth hole was halved and the telling
blow came at the par 5 sixteenth with both players just short but Roddy making
a good birdie with the only long putt seen all day to go one up. On the
seventeenth, Roddy was safely on the green while Patrick missed on the right,
and after he failed to get up and down Roddy safely took 2 putts to win the
hole and the match by 2/1.
The match was
played in the best of spirits by two fine Renfrewshire boys.
In the semi-finals
played on Friday 20th Patrick McCartney beat Aaron McCue (Greenock Whinhill) 2 and 1
while Roddy McAuley beat Kenan Ingram (Port Glasgow) 5 and 3.
On the previous
Sunday, McAuley beat Mackenzie Holmes (Kilmacolm) 4 and 3,
Ingram beat Cameron Lyle (Paisley) by onr hole and McCartney beat Euan English
(Erskine) 2 and 1. Aaron McCue received a walk over when his opponent failed to
make his tee-time.
In the
preliminary rounds Holmes beat David Tarvet (East
Renfrewshire) at the 20th, Lyle beat Angus Frood (Ranfurly
Castle) 4 and 3 and English beat Niall Gallagher (Gourock) by one hole.
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