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)
@ TulliallanLabels: COUNTY NEWS
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