Scott Henderson wins £5,650
first prize at Skibo Castle

Kings Links tour pro Scott Henderson won probably his biggest prize of a wretched season - £5,650 - in winning the lucrative Tartan Tour event, the Carnegie Invitational, at Skibo Castle.
Every one of the field earned a four-figure prize, even last placed Joel Hopwood winning £1,550, a prize that exceeds the majority of rewards on the PGA Scottish Region circuit.
Henderson, recapturing the form that once made him European Tour Rookie of the Year, had rounds of 72 and 68 for two-under=par 140 over the testing Carnoustie course.
FINAL TOTALS
Par 142 (2 x 71)
140 S Henderson (Kings Links) 72 68 (£5,650).
142 C Lee (unatt) 72 70 (£4,750).
143 D Robertson (Mearns Castle) 72 71 (£4,000).
144 M Urquhart (Invernss) 70 74 (£3,300).
145 J Rostock (Carnegie Club) 72 73 (£2,800).
146 C Ronald (Carluke) 74 72 (£2,400).
147 C Campbell (Carnegie Club) 73 74, D Orr (East Renfrewshire) 73 74, M King (Kingsfield) 72 75 (£2,200 each).
149 A Tait (Spey Valley) 75 74 (£2,000).
150 G Law (Uphall) 79 71, S Cairns (Colville Park) 75 75 (£1,875 each).
153 C Elliott (Haggs Castle) 79 74, C Doak (unatt) 76 77 (£1,775 each).
154 J McCreadie (Buchanan Castle) 78 76 (£1,700).
157 C Gillies (Perry Golf) 82 75 (£1,650).
159 D Thomson (CarnegieClub) 76 83 (£1,600).
171 J Hopwood (Carnegie Club) 88 83 (£1,550).

European Tour Qualifying School
Stage 1 halfway scores

Scores at the halfway stage of the European Tour Qualifying School Stage 1 events:

DUNDONALD LINKS
SECOND ROUND TOTALS
Par 144 (2 x 72)
143 Craig Goodfellow (Eng) 69 74.
145 D Gaunt (Eng) 72 72, O Whiteley (Eng) 72 73.
146 J Ablett (Eng) 74 72, W Bladon (Eng) 72 74, S Capper (Eng) 72 74, D Shacklady (Eng) 73 73.
Other scores included:
147 M Lamb (Sco) (am) 73 74, E Little (Sco) 74 73 (jt 8th).
148 D Stewart (Sco) 75 73 (jt 12th).
150 G Wolstenholme (Eng) 77 73 (jt 10th).
151 G Brown (Sco) 77 74, M Kerr (Sco) 77 74, S G Mackie (Sco) 75 76 (jt 25th).
152 C Kelly (Sco) 74 78, D Patrick (Sco) 75 77, G Shaw (NIr) 72 80 (jt 29th).
153 G Fox (Sco) 76 77, S Hume (Sco) (am) 78 75, P McKechnie (Sco) 76 77 (jt 36th).
154 S Henry (Sco) (am) 74 80 (jt 46th).
155 B Hume (Sco) 79 76 (jt 56th).
156 J Gallagher (Sco) (am) 76 80, C Nicoll (Sco) 76 80 (jt 62nd).
157 S McEwan (Sco) (am) 77 80, M Hillson (Sco) (am) 78 79 (jt 72nd).
158 C Harkins (Sco) (am) 80 78, S McAllister (Sco) (am) 80 78 (jt 79th).
160 R Bain (Sco) 85 75, J Doherty (Sco) 78 82, S Duncan (Sco) 79 81 (jt 90th).
163 M Henderson (Sco) 80 83, C McCalman (Sco) 84 78 (jt 98th in field of 115).

CHART HILLS, KENT
SECOND ROUND TOTALS
Par 144 (2 x 72)
132 Oskar Henningsson (Swe) 63 69.
134 A Smith (Eng) 65 69.
135 R Davies (Wal) 67 68, P Maddy (Eng) 68 67.
Other selected scores:
138 G Lornie (Sco) 70 68 (jt 12th).
143 G Gordon (Sco) 76 67 (jt 40th).
146 J Hendry (Sco) 69 77 (jt 73rd).
149 S Dunn (Sco) 74 75 (jt 103rd).
152 N Mitchell (Sco) 78 74 (jt 121st)

American Joe beats Scott Mann in
final of Craw's Nest Tassie

PRESS RELEASE
Joe Restein celebrated his 57th birthday in some style when he withstood a spirited challenge from local favourite, Scott Mann, to become the first American to win the Craw’s Nest Tassie over the Championship course at Carnoustie.
Restein, a plus-2 handicapper from the Bay Creek Club, Virginia, and a former semi-finalist in the US Amateur Championship, was four up after 12 holes but then lost four of the next five holes before sealing a one-hole victory with a spectacular rescue club second shot to within a couple of feet of the hole at the last.
The day before, Restein, a regular visitor to the Tassie, had defeated leading qualifier, Stefan Emmoth from Sweden, by 2 & 1 in the semi-finals while Mann, the champion in both 2004 and 2005, notched a one-hole victory over Swinton Park’s Lee Parr.
“Quite simply, this year’s Tassie was the best event I have ever played in,” said a delighted Restein after being presented with the trophy.
“I played some great golf, but it’s hard not to at a place like this.”
The Maulesbank Trophy, open to the leading 64 handicap qualifiers, was won by Nick Jones from West Lancs Golf Club. In the final, Jones, a 7 handicapper, raced into a four hole lead after nine holes against Sweden’s Agne Engstrom before going on to secure an impressive 6 & 5 victory over his Continental rival.
The Craw’s Nest Tassie was inaugurated back in 1927 and has since developed into one of the most popular events on the amateur calendar.
This year’s Championship, which attracted 350 entries from as far afield as America, Australia, Sweden and Holland, was fully subscribed within minutes of entries opening back in January.
“I’d like to thank all 350 competitors for their support at this year’s Tassie and look forward to seeing as many as possible of them again next year,” said Colin McLeod, Golf Services Manager for the Carnoustie Golf Links.
“This year’s event was an outstanding success and we’d like to offer our congratulations to Joe for the manner he won the trophy.
“We’d also like to thank him, and the other competitors, for their kind comments, both about the courses and the organisation of the event. They were very much appreciated.”


Details on how to enter the 2009 Craw’s Nest Tassie will be released at a later date.
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McGowan and McNicoll tie on 69 at
Midland Alliance at windy Forfar

This week's Midland Golfers' Alliance, held at a blustery Forfar Golf Club, produced a tie for first scratch between Burntisland assistant professional Kris McGowan and Scotland international Keir McNicoll, a +5 member of Carnoustie Golf Club.
They both had level par scores of 69.
There was a tie also in the handicap section with Hugh Hunter, who plays off 10 at Alloa Golf Club, matching a net 69 by David Black, a 12-handicapper at Dunfermline Golf Club.
LEADING SCRATCH
69 K McGowan (Burntisland) ap, K McNicoll (Carnoustie).
70 B Mason (Drumoig) p, L Vannet (Carnoustie Links).
71 D McKay (Wellsgreen) p.
72 S Rettie (All Golf Swing) p, T Melville (Alyth) p.
73 H Wong (Burntisland) ap, E Walker (Burntisland) ap, P Brookes (Pitreavie) p, S Harrod (Ballumbie Castle).
74 D Wilson (Monifieth), E Rae (Arbroath), A Lockhart (Ladybank) ap).
LEADING HANDICAP
69 H Hunter (Alloa) (10), D Black (Dunfermline) (12).
70 D Wilson (Monifieth) (4), N McLeod (Monifieth) (5).
71 E Rae (Arbroath) (3), F McKay (Drumoig) (6), D Adams (Carnoustie) (5).
72 R Lamont (Bathgate) (9), S Harrod (Ballumbie Castle) (1).
73 J Paisley (Lundin) (5), J Bruce (Edzell) (2), D Morrison (Downfield) (11), J Ward (Carnoustie) (9), R Farquhar (Carnoustie) (8), R Ford (Scotscraig) (2), J Cree jun (Thornton) (10).

Qualifiers for the Midland Golfer’s Alliance Championship in April at Pitlochry

K McGowan (Burntisland) ap.
K McNicoll (Carnoustie) (+5).
B. Mason (Drumoig) p.

Next week's meetings

Monday, September 15
Auchterarder (Mixed)
9.30 – 12.30
Thursday 18th September
Pitlochry
8.30 – 12.30

McLELLAN NEW CAP IN SENIOR SCOTS' TEAM

Turnberry's Ron McLellan is the only new cap in the Scotland team for the senior men's home amateur internationals at Tenby,South Wales from September 30 to October 2.
He is added to the six Scots who were runners-up to Ireland in the recent European senior team championship at Shannon.
Scotland team:
Ian Hutcheon (Monifieth), capt., John Fraser (Royal Burgess), Gordon MacDonald (Callander), Ron McLellan (Turnberry), Derek Murphy (Kinross), Sandy Pirie (Hazlehead), Robert Stewart (Tulliallan).

McINNES WINS OPENING NORTH-EAST
ALLIANCE MEETNG AT BRAEMAR

Graeme McInnes (Murcar Links) won the first North-east Golfers' Alliance of the 2008-2009 season with a two-under-par 63 at Braemar.
He headed a field of 77 with a scorecard of birdies at the fourth, 11th, 14th and 16th and bogeys at the 10th and 17th.
Andrew Campbell (Deeside) was runner-up with a 65 which included birdies at the ninth, 11th, 16th and 17th but bogeys at the second, sixth, 14th and 18th.

Leading scores
SCRATCH
Par 65
63 G McInnes (Murcar Links).
65 A Campbell (Deeside).
66 I Buchan (Craibstone), J Nicolson (Auchmill).
67 C Nelson (Mackenzie Club), M Barnard (Inchmarlo), S Davidson (Banchory), F G Gray (Newmachar), D Law (Hazlehead).
68 B Main (Murcar Links), G Paterson (Northern).
69 R Fitzpatrick (Inchmarlo).
70 C Law (Hazlehead), S Chalmers (Banchory), D Garrett (Huntly), C Stephen (Meldrum House), W S Urquhart (Murcar Links).
HANDICAP
Class 1 - F G Gray (Newmachar) (7) 60; J Dalgarno (Hazlehead) (8) 63; C Dempster (Inchmarlo) (8) 64; A Campbell (Deeside) (scr), J Nicolson (Auchmill) (1) 65; C Alexander (Murcar Links) 66.
Class 2 - G Homer (Lumphanan) (11) 64; J Scott (Peterculter) (11) 65; J Kinsella (Braemar) (9) 66; H McNaughton (Cruden Bay) (11), G Kelly (Peterculter) (14) 68; P Cornfield (Auchmill) (12) 69.

EUROPEAN TOUR QUALIFYING SCHOOL
STAGE ONE - FIRST ROUND
DUNDONALD LINKS
Par 72
69 Craig Goodfellow (Carlisle).
Other scores:
73 Mark Lamb (Haddington).
74 Scott Henry (Cardross), Euan Little (Co Tipperary), Chris Kelly (Clober).
75 David Patrick (Mortonhall), Duncan Stewart (Grantown on Spey), Steven Mackie.
77 Gary Wolstenhoolme.
79 Barry Hume.
85 Ross Bain.
CHART HILLS
Par 72
63 Oskar Henningsson (Swe).
Other scores:
69 Joel Hendry.
70 Graeme Lornie (Kings Links).
76 Graham Gordon.

STEVEN McEWAN WINS SCOTTISH
GOLF UNION ORDER OF MERIT

Long-time leader Steven McEwan (Caprington) deservedly won the Scottish Golf Union Order of Merit which ended with the Newlands Trophy at the weekend.
McEvan, with 781.3pt from eight counting events won the OOM from the Newlands Trophy winner Wallace Booth (Comrie) who had 692.5.

TOP TEN PLACINGS
781.3 Steven McEwan (Caprington).
692.5 Wallace Booth (Comrie).
525 Callum Macaulay (Tulliallan).
522.5 Scott Hendry (Cardross).
476.6 Scott Borrowman (Dollar).
457.5 Gordon Yates (Hilton Park).
450 Keir McNicoll (Carnoustie).
381.6 Kris Nicol (Fraserburgh).
362.5 Michael Stewart (Troon Welbeck).
355 Paul O'Hara (Colville Park).