Wednesday, January 16, 2008

PETERHEAD WINNER STEWART FINNIE DOES
LIKE TO BE BESIDE THE SEASIDE


Links specialist Stewart Finnie (Caledonian) underlined his liking and ability to play well on seaside courses by winning the first North-east Golfers’ Alliance of the year at Peterhead today.
Finnie, one of the most consistent scorers on the winter circuit, headed a field of 76 over the Craigewan Links of the 18th oldest golf club in the world with a splendid round of two-under-par 68 in conditions as calm – although on the chilly side – as Peterhead ever gets.
Fiinnie confined his mistakes to the outward half, bogeys at the second, fifth and ninth but he almost cancelled them out with birdies at the third and seventh in one-over-par 37 to the turn.
Then the Caley one-handicapper came home in three-under 32 with birdies at the 12th, 17th and 18th.
He won by two strokes from professionals Colin Nelson (MacKenzie Club) (37-33) and Mark Lees (Pine Lodge) (37-33)
Aberdeen Links champion Adrian Styles (Caledonian) (39-32) and John Nicolson (Auchmill) (36-35) shared fourth place on 71.
In line to have their Alliance handicaps cut for next week's competition at Buckpool are Nigel Parker (Murcar Links), who had the lowest Class 1 net score of 65 off eight, and Class 2 winner Jim Penny (Huntly) whose net 64 off 13 included a 6 at the first and a 7 at the 18th.
Leading scores (Par 70).
SCRATCH
68 S Finnie (Caledonian).
70 C Nelson (MacKenzie Club), M Lees (Pine Lodge)..
71 A Styles (Caledonian), J Nicolson (Auchmill).
72 P Farnan (Royal Aberdeen), P McLean (Peterhead), D Corkey (Murcar Links), A K Pirie (Hazlehead), D Garrett (Huntly), G H Paterson (Northern), W S Urquhart (Murcar Links).
73 N Parker (Murcar Links).
74 A Innes (Murcar Links), D Clark (Duff House Royal).
75 R L Nicoll (Murcar Links), P Lovie (Inchmarlo), C Stephen (Meldrum House), H Roulston (Stonehaven).
76 G Green (Huntly), J M Hamilton (Murcar Links), S Davidson (Banchory), G Allan (Newmachar).
77 J Dalgarno (Hazlehead), J Penny (Huntly), F Bisset (Banchory), J Murray (Banchory).
78 J Mooney (Turriff), M Lawrie (Kemnay).
79 J Forrest (Northern), C Alexander (Murcar Links).
80 S Scott (Auchmill), P Anderson (Deeside), S Pert (Huntly), D Law (Hazlehead), B Shaw (Banchory), P Cornfield (Auchmill).
81 F G Gray (Deeside).
82 A Graham (Portlethen), K Minty (Turriff), C Cassie (Nigg Bay), D Leighton (Murcar Links).
83 L Roger (Royal Aberdeen), R M Grant (Caledonian, G Kelly (Peterculter), W #Forbes (Murcar Links).
HANDICAP
Class 1 – N Parker (Murcar Links) (8) 65; P Farnan (Royoal Aberdeen) (6) 66; S Finnie (Caledonian) (1) 67; G Allan (Newmachar) (8), J Nicolson (Auchmill) (3) 68; R L Nicoll (Murcar Links) (6), J Murray (8) 69; D Corkey (Murcar Links) (2), J Dalgarno (Hazlehead) (6), J M Hamilton (Murcar Links) (6), H Roulston (Stonehaven) (5), A K Pirie (Hazlehead) (2), W S Urquhart (Murcar Links) (2) 70.
Class 2 – J Penny (Huntly) (13) 64; P Anderson (Deeside) (11), P Cornfield) (Auchmill) (11) 69; J Forrest (Northern) (9), G Kelly (Peterculter) (13) 70; M F R Rogers (Kemnay (13), W Forbes (Murcar Links) (12) 71; J Robb (Turriff) (12) 72; K Minty (Turriff) (9), C Cassie (Nigg Bay) (9), R Lumsden (East Aberdeenshire) (18), R Adie (Murcar Links) (14) 73.

PETERHEAD SCORECARD: PAR 70
OUT: 4-3-4-4-4-3-4-5-4--35. IN: 3--4-4-4-4-4-3-4-5--35.

STEWART FINNIE 68
OUT: 4-4-3-4-5-3-3-5-5--36. IN: 3-4-3-4-4-4-3-3-4--32.

COLIN NELSON 70
OUT: 4-2-4-4-5--4-4-5-5--37. IN: 3-3-3-4-4-4-4-4-4--33.

MARK LEES 70
OUT: 4-3-5-4-5-3--4-5-4--37. IN: 3-4-5-3--3-4-4-4-3--33.

ADRIAN STYLES 71
OUT: 5-3-4-5-4-5-4-5-4--39. IN: 3-3-4-2-4-5-3-3--5--32.

JOHN NICOLSON 71
OUT: 6-3-4-4-4-3-4-4-4---36. IN: 4-4-4-5-4-4-2-3-5--35.

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