ELLON'S DUNTON AND DUNCAN IN

THE NE ALLIANCE PICTURE AGAIN

By COLIN FARQUHARSON

McDonald Ellon members Adam Dunton and Kevin Duncan finished first and joint second in today's North-east Golfers' Alliance meeting in cold and wet conditions at Montrose Links.
Dunton, pictured right by Cal Carson Golf Agency, third last week at Peterhead behind five-stroke winner Duncan, turned the tables with a one-over-par score of 71.
That was good enough to head a field of 80 – 16 of them had No Returns - by one shot from Duncan and Peterhead's Philip McLean.
Dunton, a +2 player, struggled a bit in an outward half of three-over 38 with double bogey 6s at the third and ninth and only one birdie, at the eighth, to offset the damage. But he came home strongly in two-under-par 33 with birdies at the 13^th, 15^th and 16^th and only one shot dropped, at the short 16^th.
Scratch man Duncan had a mixture of very good and very bad in halves of 36 for his 72. He had an eagle 2 with a mighty drive at the eighth and birdies at the 10^th, 11^th, 13^th and 18^th. On the debit side, he had a triple bogey 7 at the fifth and double bogeys at the 14th and 15^th and a single bogey at the 16^th.
McLean also had a double bogey at the second on his outward 36 but he had birdies at the fourth, seventh, 13^th and 18^th to offset bogeys at the sixth, 10^th, 15^th and 16^th.
Leading scores (par 70)
SCRATCH
71 A Dunton (McDonald Ellon).
72 P McLean (Peterhead), K Duncan (McDonald Ellon).
73 R Lamb (Newmachar).
74 J Duncan (Newburgh).
75 S Finnie (Caledonian).
76 D Naylor (Banchory), A Lindsay (Banchory)
77 A K Pirie (Hazlehead), J Forrest (Northern), H Love (Oldmeldrum), K Nicol (Fraserburgh).
78 D Corkey (Murcar Links), D Bisset (Banchory).
79 C Cassie (Nigg Bay), M Merchant (Newmachar), J Hamilton (Murcar Links), R Bruce (Aboyne), M Jenkins (Duff House Royal).
HANDICAP
Class 1 – R Lamb (Newmachar) (4) 69; J Duncan (Newburgh) (4), J Forrest (Northern) (7) 70; K Duncan (McDonald Ellon) (scr), J Hamilton (Murcar Links) (7) 72; A Dunton (McDonald Ellon) (+2) 73.
Class 2 – D Bisset (Banchory) (9) 69; M Rodgers (Kemnay) (15) 74; D Lawrie (Inchmarlo) (13), R Lumsden (Northern) (13), D Townsley (Peterhead) (15) 75; M Rendall (Stonehaven) (13) 76.

MONTROSE LINKS SCORECARD
OUT: 4-4-3-4-4-4-4-4-4--35. IN: 4-4-3-4-4-5-3-4-4--35.

ADAM DUNTON 71
OUT: 4-4-3-6-4-4-4-3-6--38. IN: 4-4-3-3-4-4-4-3-4--33.
PHILIP McLEAN 72
OUT: 4-6-3-3-4-5-3-4-4--36. IN: 5-4-3-3-4-6-4-4-3--36.
KEVIN DUNCAN 72
OUT: 4-4-3-4-7-4-4-2-4--36. IN: 3-3-3-3-6-7-4-4-3--36

+Next Wednesday's North-east Alliance competition is at Inverallochy.