Highland Hospice charity tournament winners and second placed team. On left, Bill Nelson being congratulated by Liz Coghill (lady vice-captain Royal Dornoch GC) and behind, sons Calum and Steven and wife Sue Nelson. On the right, Linda MacDonald (Hospice fund-raising manager) with Keith Loades and his Morrison team, Paul Fraser, Richard Smith and John MacGregor. Image by Robin Wilson.

Highland Hospice tournament raises
over £12,000 at Royal Dornoch

By ROBIN WILSON
It requires a weekly amount of over £42,000 to maintain the valuable services offered to terminally ill patients in the Highlands by the Inverness-based Highland Hospice.
After the generous guesture by the Royal Dornoch Golf Club council of management for the courtesy use of their famous golf course, a princely sum of over £12,000 was raised at the hospice's annual fund-raising golf competition on Wednesday.
Supported by 18 company teams of four golfers and many other sponsors giving donations to the large raffle and even a new car for a hole in one donated by Castle Group Securities, not unfortunately won, the competition was hailed a magnificent success.
Following on from last year's competition at Nairn Golf Club, the same four players representing Morrison Construction, captained by commercial director Keith Loades with John MacGregor and guests from Allied Surveyors, Richard Smith and Paul Fraser, won again.
In the four-ball Stableford competition where the best two points from the team of four score at each hole Morrisons won with a total of 78 points.
It was a close run against the Inverness-based family team from Capital Homes, Bill and Sue Nelson and their sons Cameron and Steven who also scored 78pts but lost out to Morrisons on the inward half count, 40 to 42.
Third placed with 77 points and again on a count back were Colin Armstrong Associates: Colin Armstrong, David Lockhart, Michael Gillespie and Ewan Macfarlane.
Three additional prizes were awarded out for individual scores. Leading man was David Ferries (34pts) from the Hi-CAD Technical Services team and second Michael MacDonald (33pts) from Alba Service Supplies.
Leading score from a lady came from Bette Maitland of Maitland's Marines with 33pts and nearest the pin at the 13th was Colin Murray of the Royal Dornoch Captain's team with a distance of 8ft 10in.