Monday, August 04, 2014

HUGH HUNTER'S CLACKMANNAN COUNTY NEWS



 JUST A LITTLE JOY AT THE SCOTTISH AMATEUR

Every year a small contingent of the elite Wee County golfers takes on the Scottish Amateur Golf Championship.  It’s a match play format with 256 entries, and put very simply…. you only have to beat 8 people to win!!    
Five locals took part on the 2014 Championship held at Downfield. Three fell in the first round - Jamie Aitken (Dollar), Rikki Alexander (Braehead) and, very surprisingly Scott Borrowman (Dollar).  Allan Watson (Braehead) made it through to the second round before losing, which left Lawrence Allan (Alva) the best local performer, reaching the third round

 TOP EUROPEANS AT THE DUKES.

  Top European Amateurs will converge on The Duke's course, St Andrews this week to contest the European men's individual championship over four rounds of stroke play.  
 Local Scott Borrowman (Dollar) is one of the 148 competitors, and as you would expect the standard is very high.as measured by handicap.  There are 19 Scots competing, and the entire field plays off plus handicaps.  There are 28 golfers at plus four or better, the lowest handicaps in the field are Peter Stojanovski (+6)   Renato Paratore (+5.8) and Thomas Detry (+5.7).   
Lowest Scottish handicap is Graeme Robertson (Glenbervie) (+5). 

 BOB STILL IN THE FRAME

Tulliallan’s Bob Stewart continues to churn out good performances at Scottish Seniors level.  Following his good run in the Match play where he reached the quarter finals before losing to Les Pirie (Millport), he followed that up with a good score at Stranraer in the Scottish Seniors South Championship.
 With a 36 hole aggregate of 147 (73,74), Bob finished fifth, five shots behind the winning score of 142.
 Bob should now be feeling confident as he takes in the Seniors Amateur Championship this week at Ganton in Yorkshire
                                                      
 COMING UP SOON
Saturday, August 9: Dollar Open
Saturday, August 16: County Championship  (36 holes)  @ Tulliallan

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