PGA EUROPRO TOUR

JOINT RUNNER-UP EUAN LITTLE
EARNS HIMSELF £2,650

Dumfries-born six-footer Euan Little earned £2,650 as joint runner-up in this week’s PGA EuroPro Tour event which ended at Whittlebury Park, Northants today.
Twice Scottish youths champion, 30-year-old Little, playing out of Country Tipperary Golf Club, had rounds of 67, 67 and 69 for a 10-under-par total of 203 for the par-71 course. He figured in a quadruple tie for second place behind three-shot winner Russell Claydon, the 40-year-old who played the European Tour from 1989 to 2004 and won once, the 1998 BMW International Open.
Claydon had rounds of 65, 71 and 64 for 13-under-par 200 and a £10,000 payday.
South Wales-based Paul Doherty, the former Scottish boys’ match-play champion, scored 66, 69 and 70 to finish joint seventh on 205 and earn £950. He finished with an eagle 3 at the 536yd 18th after a double bogey 6 at the 10th.
Jamie McLeary from Kinross came joint 15th on 208 with scores of 67, 71 and 70 for 208 to pick up £467. He birdied the 13th and 17th in his final round but will be rueing two double bogeys on his inward half on Thursday.
Carnoustie’s Eric Ramsay had a double-bogey 5 at the short sixth in his final round but covered the remaining 12 holes in five under par for a 69 following scores of 70 and 71. He finished tied 24th on 210 and earned £335.
Aberdonian Graham Gordon, Scottish amateur champion in 2003, earned £290 for a joint 30th finish on two-under 211 with scores of 71, 69 and 71.


Leading final totals
(Par 71)
200 R Claydon (Eng) 65 71 64.
203 S Robinson (Eng) 68 73 62, E Little (Sco) 67 67 69, M Searle (Eng) 66 67 70, W Bennett (Eng) 64 69 70.
Other Scots scores:
205 P Doherty 66 69 70.
208 J McLeary 67 71 70.
210 E Ramsay 70 71 69.
211 G Gordon 71 69 71.