England name team for European
boys' championship

PRESS RELEASED ISSUED BY ENGLISH GOLF UNION.
England have named two new caps, Stiggy Hodgson and Tom Lewis, in its team for the European boys' team championships at Bled Golf Club, Slovenia from July 8 to 12.
The rest of the team will be: Tommy Fleetwood, Gary King, Eddie Pepperell and Darren Renwick as England seek to regain the title they last held four years ago.
Hodgson, 17, from Surrey, is enjoying a highly successful season with three victories and two runners-up spots so far. He won the McEvoy Trophy in a play-off with Pepperell, the Selborne Salver and the Hampshire Salver and finished second in the Berkhamsted Trophy and the Surrey Under 18 Championship.
He was capped at under 16 level in 2006, helped Surrey win the Boys County Championship last year and, like the rest of the team, is a member of the England Under 18 Squad.
Lewis, 17, from Hertfordshire, is another under-16 cap who has been equally successful over the past few years. Third in the Reid Trophy (English Under 14 Championship) in 2005, he won the Sir Henry Cooper Junior Masters last year, finished joint second in the McGregor Trophy (English Under 16 Championship) and was joint winner of the North of England under 16 title. He was also a semi-finalist in the Hertfordshire Championship while this year Lewis has finished second in the Fairhaven Trophy and was recently joint winner of the George Henriques Salver for the leading under 20s after finishing tied third in the Brabazon Trophy.
Fleetwood, 17, has been capped at under 16 level for the past three years and made his debut at boys level in last year’s European Boys Team Championships in Denmark. He scored six points out of six to help England win the Boys Home Internationals and also represented GB&I against Europe in the Jacques Leglise Trophy.
The Lancastrian also won the Southport & Ainsdale Bowl, finished runner-up in the Lancashire Championship and third in the North of England Under 16 Championship. He was also a member of the four-man England team that won the Honda International Junior Championship in Japan while this year he finished tied sixth in the Portuguese Amateur.
King, who will celebrate his 18th birthday this month prior to the championships, is another member of Surrey’s victorious 2007 Boys County Championship team and has also been capped at under 16 and boys levels. A former Surrey Under 14 Champion, he also enjoyed a successful 2007, finishing equal first in the South East Boys qualifying and runner-up to Lewis for the Sir Henry Cooper Junior Masters.
He also reached the quarter finals of the British Boys Championship and was another member of the team that won the Honda International Junior Championship. This year, King has also tasted success, winning the Surrey under 18 title and the Hampshire Hog and finishing third in the McEvoy Trophy. Since he won the English Under 14 title in 2005, Pepperell, 17, from Oxfordshire, has found victories just out of his grasp. He was runner-up in the 2006 Under 16 Championship while last year he lost a playoff for the Hampshire Hog, had two third places and reached the semi-finals of the British Boys.
This year, he has lost to Hodgson in the McEvoy Trophy, finished runner-up in the Bernard Darwin Salver, has had third places in the Berkhamsted Trophy and West of England Stroke Play and was a semi-finalist in the Spanish Amateur.
Pepperell has represented England at under 16 level before making his boys debut in the 2006 Boys Home Internationals. Like Fleetwood, he played in last year’s European Boys Team Championships and was capped by GB&I in the Jacques Leglise Trophy. He was also a member of the winning Honda Junior team. Renwick, 18, from Sussex, was an under 16 cap for three years before stepping up to boys level in last year‘s Boys Home Internationals.
A former winner of the Douglas Johns Trophy and the Scottish Under 16 Championship, he finished tied sixth last year in both the McEvoy Trophy and the Sir Henry Cooper Junior Masters and has represented the EGU in America and South Africa. This year, he finished tied third in the Hampshire Hog. England have been European Boys Champions on eight occasions, in 1981, ‘85, ‘86, ‘89, ‘94, ‘95, ‘99, and 2004. Last year they finished runners-up to hosts Denmark. The complete England team is:
Tommy Fleetwood (Formby Hall), Stiggy Hodgson (Sunningdale), Gary King (Tyrrells Wood), Tom Lewis (Welwyn Garden City), Eddie Pepperell (Drayton Park), and Darren Renwick (Worthing).

Chris Doak wins PGA May award

Chris Doak's impressive performances throughout May have earned him the SkyCaddie
PGA Player of the Month award - and he has started June in the same fashion by winning the Wishaw 36-hole Order of Merit pro-am at the weekend.

The Greenock pro sizzled with an impressive run of results on the Tartan Tour including three successive wins on the Order of Merit – the first admittedly at the end of April.
But Doak carried his form forward to lift the WaterAid Pro-Am before landing the Northern Open title after four days of intense battle at Spey Valley.
In all he had five top three finishes in May and has continued his winning streak this month.

MICKELSON AND IMMELMAN TO
PLAY AT 2008 HSBC CHAMPIONS

Defending champion and World No. 2 Phil Mickelson and 2008 Masters champion Trevor Immelman have confirmed that they will be competing in the HSBC Champions at the Sheshan International Golf Club, Shanghai, from November 6-9, the first event of The 2009 European Tour International Schedule.

Aberdeen & District Junior Pennant League

SEMI-FINALS (drawn)

Sunday, June 22.
Deeside v Peterhead at Portlethen. 11am first tee time.
Westhill GC v Hazlehead at Deeside. 12.00 first tee time.

FINAL

Sunday, July 27.
Venue: Kings Links. Six matches. 10am first tee time.

ABERDEEN PENNANT LEAGUE 2008
SPONSORED BY RITSON SMITH CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS

MATCHES TEE OFF AT 5.15PM EXCEPT WHERE OTHERWISE SPECIFIED
SIX TEE TIMES PER MATCH

Tues 10th June
Section A - Nigg Bay v Craibstone.
Section B - Murcar Links v Royal Aberdeen.

Tues 17th June
Section A - Auchmill v Stonehaven, Deeside v Bon Accord, Hazlehead v Craibstone, Westhill v Nigg Bay.

Mon 23rd June
Section A - Craibstone v Bon Accord.

Tues 24th June
Section B - Caledonan v Newmachar, Murcar Links v Northern.

Thurs 26th June
Section B - Peterculter v Royal Aberdeen.

Mon 30th June
Section A - Craibstone v Stonehaven.

Tues 1st July
Section A - Bon Accord v Auchmill, Nigg Bay v Deeside, Westhill v Hazlehead.
Section B - Portlethen v Murcar Links.

Tues 8th July
Section A - Auchmill v Craibstone, Hazlehead v Bon Accord, Westhill v Stonehaven.
Section B - Newmachar v Peterculter, Northern v Portlethen, Royal Aberdeen v Caledonian.

Mon 14th July
Section A - Craibstone v Westhill.

Tues 15th July
Section B - Murcar Links v Newmachar, Northern v Peteculter, Royal Aberdeen v Portlethen.

Tues 22nd July
Section A - Bon Accord v Stonehaven, Deeside v Auchmill, Nigg Bay v Hazlehead.

Thurs 24th July
Section B - Northern v Caledonian.

Tues 29th July
Section A - Hazlehead v Auchmill,Westhill v Deeside.
Section B - Caledonia v Murcar Links, Newmacahr v Portlethen, Royal Aberdeen v Northern.

Tues 5th August
Section A - Auchmill v Nigg Bay, Bon Accord v Westhill, Hazlehead v Deeside.
Section B - Portlethen v Caledonian.

Tues 12th Aug
Section A - Stonehaven v Nigg Bay.
Section B - Newmacahr v Northern.

Thurs 14th Aug
Section B - Peterculter v Murcar Links.

Tues 19th Aug
Section A - Deeside v Craibstone, Nigg Bay v Bon Accord, Stonehaven v Hazlehead.
Section B- Royao=l Aberdeen v Newmachar.

Tues 26th Aug
Section A - Auchmill v Westhill, Stonehaven v Deeside.

Thurs 28th Aug
Section B - Peterculter v Caledonian.

Sun 31st Aug
Semi-finals
Winners League B v Runner Up League A
Winners League A v Runner Up League B
(Provisional Booking All Courses)
Neutral Venues to be confirmed.
Tee-Off TBC

Sun 14th Sept
Final
Host Club - Craibstone tee off at 2pm

Hugh Hunter's Clackmannan County News

2008 ST ANDREWS LINKS CHAMPIONSHIP
The high hopes of Tulliallan’s Callum Macaulay were dashed in the later stages of the event, after a brilliant start. With rounds of 66 and 71, he led the field after two rounds, but in the final stages, his distance judgment deserted him, making the Old Course at St Andrews a tough prospect, especially with many difficult pin positions.
His five-over-par final aggregate of 293 (66, 71, 75, 81) left him in the middle of the field, some way behind the winner, Keir McNicoll (Carnoustie), who won the title on the last green with a five-under-par score of 283.

2008 AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP
The Amateur Championship at Turnberry starts on Monday, June 16. Two qualifying rounds are played to select 64 qualifiers for the match-play stages. Last year’s semi-finalist Callum Macaulay (Tulliallan) and Dollar’s Scott Borrowman will be hoping for some good golf in the event, which has attracted a high-quality entry.
No fewer than 22 entrants out of the 288 have handicaps of plus 4 or better, the lowest being a South African off plus six. All this makes Scott one of the high handicaps (plus 2.2) in the field!!

SCOTTISH BOYS' AREA TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP
Although producing reasonable rounds, the Clackmannan County boys' team could do no better than finish 15th in Sunday's event at Kingsknowe, such is the high standard of junior golf.
In the morning foursomes, Grant Dowie and John McPherson scored 82, Lawrence Allan and Gary Chalmers 77. In the afternoon singles rounds, with three out of four scores counting, the Clackmannanshire boys returned a total of 227 (Dowie 81, Allan 76, McPherson 73, Chalmers 78). Team Total 386
Lothians Boys won the event with a total of 354

2008 SCOTTISH SCHOOLS GOLF CHAMPIONSHIPS.
With the national exams having finished for 2008, school golfers can turn their attention to their golf game, and the highlight of the schools golfing year are the national championships This year, the event goes to the North-east -Inchmarlo Golf Centre and Banchory Golf Club on Monday, June 16.
The boys’ event is to be held over the par- 71 Laird’s course at Inchmarlo, a 6,240 yard par-71 lay-out opened in 2001 and receiving the accolade of the best new British course.
The girls' event goes to the much older Banchory course, par 71 for the girls and the lay-out contains one of the shortest holes on a Scottish golf course (the 16th, Doo’cot, at 85 yards).
1999 Open Champion Paul Lawrie served his PGA apprenticeship under the late Douglas Smart at Banchory Golf Club and is well represented in the area. Paul opened the first Inchmarlo course in 1994; the 14th hole at Banchory is named after him and he is a strong supporter of Junior Golf in the area.
Paul is supporting the 2008 Schools event, especially appreciated by Schools Secretary Dorothy Scott. “The Schools Association appreciate his support for the National Championships which have been a starting point for many elite golfers in Scotland”
For the boys’ event, each of the 30+ council areas has the opportunity to send a team of three boys, usually selected in a qualifying event. This gives a field of over 90 to play the 36-hole competition.
From the results, a team is selected to represent Scottish Schools in their annual match against English Schools. This year the venue for the match is Royal Lytham in September.
Entries for the girls event are on a handicap basis only. From the Forth Valley Schools qualifying event, the following boys will represent Clackmannanshire: Lawrence Allan (Alva Academy) the present County Junior match Play Champion; Roddy Forgie, Angus Tester (both Dollar Academy).
Angus is the present Perth and Kinross boys' match-play and stroke-play champion, playing from Muckhart Golf Club.
All three will be testing their golfing skills against a quality field containing many Scottish junior elite golfers, and looking for a place in the 12 strong team.

US PGA Tour Scoreboard
STANFORD ST JUDE CHAMPIONSHIP
TPC Southwind, Memphis, Tennessee
FINAL TOTALS
Par 280 (4 x 70)
276 Justin Leonard 68 73 67 68, Trevor Immelman (SAf) 74 66 67 69, Robert Allenby (Aus) 71 71 69 65 (Leonard won play-off at second hole).
277 Sergio Garcia (Spa) 68 72 71 66, Boo Weekley 65 75 69 68, Alex Cejka (Ger) 69 69 69 70, Padraig Harrington (Irl) 71 72 66 68
278 Gavin Coles (Aus) 73 64 70 71, Scott Verplank 71 72 67 68, Tom Pernice Jnr. 72 72 71 63
279 Vijay Singh (Fij) 67 71 70 71, Bob Heintz 73 70 68 68
280 Dean Wilson 69 68 71 72, Bob Estes 74 65 70 71, Tim Herron 74 67 69 70, Jason Dufner 69 68 72 71, Stephen Ames (Can) 69 71 68 72
281 Michael Letzig 70 68 72 71, Bill Haas 71 69 67 74, Dan Forsman 70 70 72 69, J.P. Hayes 70 71 69 71, Camilo Villegas (Col) 71 71 71 68, Tim Clark (Rsa) 72 69 64 76
282 Omar Uresti 70 69 71 72, Bart Bryant 69 76 67 70, Davis Love III 68 70 75 69, Heath Slocum 73 67 74 68, Tommy Armour III 66 71 73 72, Bob Tway 72 71 68 71, Brett Rumford (Aus) 69 73 70 70, Kenny Perry 71 71 69 71, Jeff Maggert 71 70 74 67, Glen Day 69 71 71 71, Stuart Appleby (Aus) 68 76 68 70
283 Jeff Overton 70 71 70 72, Brandt Snedeker 69 71 69 74
284 Richard S Johnson (Swe) 72 73 69 70, Vaughn Taylor 70 72 71 71, David Toms 72 72 71 69, Marc Turnesa 68 69 70 77, Craig Kanada 68 72 74 70
285 Michael Bradley 69 68 76 72, Fredrik Jacobson (Swe) 73 72 69 71, Jeff Gove 70 73 67 75, Scott Sterling 70 70 73 72, Rich Beem 71 72 70 72, Brandt Jobe 71 74 70 70, John Huston 71 69 75 70
286 Lucas Glover 71 71 74 70, Marco Dawson 71 71 72 72, Woody Austin 71 72 73 70, Ken Duke 72 72 73 69, Brenden Pappas (Rsa) 73 70 77 66, Bob May 75 69 70 72
287 Jin Park (Kor) 73 71 67 76, Jonathan Byrd 69 75 73 70
288 Jim McGovern 71 68 72 77, Jimmy Walker 70 74 72 72, Todd Demsey 73 72 72 71
289 Brian Gay 76 67 70 76, Garrett Willis 72 73 69 75, David Duval 70 75 72 72, Kevin Streelman 74 69 69 77
290 Charley Hoffman 69 75 71 75, Webb Simpson 71 72 75 72
291 Patrick Sheehan 73 70 72 76, Dicky Pride 75 70 75 71, Stephen Leaney (Aus) 70 74 73 74
292 Brad Elder 69 76 73 74, Eric Axley 70 71 78 73, Harrison Frazar 72 70 74 76, Troy Matteson 74 70 71 77
293 Billy Andrade 76 68 73 76