TAIN TWOSOME PIP INVERNESS DUO IN LOMBARD TROPHY COUNTBACK AT CRIEFF

By COLIN FARQUHARSON 
Colin@scottishgolfview.com

Tain Golf Club professional Stuart Morrison and amateur member Iain Cowper won an all-North climax to the Lombard Trophy first Scottish qualifier at Crieff Golf Club today.

They tied with Inverness's Mel Douglas, the club pro, and Kevin Munro, under the better-ball format, on the net seven-under-par 64 mark.

It went to a scoreboard countback and the Morrison-Cowper combo prevailed with a net inward score of 29, including birdies at the 11th, 13th, 15th, 16th and 18th.

Douglas and Munro had a net inward half of 31.with a bogey at the 10th followed by birdies at the 12th, 14th, 15th and 16th.

Both partnerships had eight net birdies and one bogey. It was the good fortune of the Tain twosome that they did not have a bogey on the inward half.

Morrison won the first pro prize of £475 and he and Cowper will join the winners of 15 other regional qualifiers at the Grand Final, to be played over the Gleneagles Hotel's PGA Centary Course on September 3 and 4 when the winning pro will pocket £12,000.

Douglas earned a consolation prize of £400 at Crieff.

The second Lombard Trophy Scottish qualifier will be held at Ladybank GC, Fife on Wednesday.

The amateurs won international club competitions for the privilege of partnering their pro in the tournament.

LOMBARD TROPHY REGIONAL QUALIFIER

Crieff Golf Club

Par 71

64 Stuart Morrison (pro) and Iain Cowper (am) (Tain); Mel Douglas (pro) and Kevin Munro (am) (Inverness). Morrison and Cowper won on the better net inward half.

65 Ken Campbell (pro) and David Wallace (am) (Machrihanish); Craig Everett (pro) and Mark Waldron (am) (Caldwell); Ian Taylor (pro) and Andrew Wallace (am) (Drumpellier).

67 Robert Farrell (pro) and John McFall (am) (Cardross); Paul Wilson (pro) and Andrew Petrie (am) (Casder); Robert Irvine (pro) and Iain Bell (am) (Douglas Park); Paul Jamieson (pro) and Alisdair Colquhoun (am) (Dunblane New); Iain Colquhoun (pro) and John Cochrane (am) (Dundonald Links); Steven Dunsmore (pro) and James Godfrey (am) (Falkirk Tryst).

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