Wright and Fox's better-ball 62 leads PGA 

Four-ball final qualifiers at Musselburgh

By COLIN FARQUHARSON

West Linton's Gareth Wright and Graham Fox (Clydeway Golf) headed the five pairs who qualified at Musselburgh Golf Club today (WED) for the £33,250 Grand Final of the Golfbreaks.com PGA Four-Ball tournament at Varden Park, Cheshire from August 17 to 19.

Wright and Fox shot a better-ball, nine-under-par score of 62 with bogey-free halves of 32 and 30. They had birdies at the third, fourth, sixth, seventh, 12th, 13th, 14th, 16th and 18th.

They had two shots to spare over three runner-up pairs: Mark Hillson (Kilconquhar Castle) and James McGhee (Whitehill House), who had halves of 33 and 31 in compiling a better-ball 64, Gareth Hardy (Prestwick St Nicholas) and Michael Rae (Drumoig) 33-31, and Craig Gordon (Edinburgh HGolf Centre) and Paul Malone (Braid Hills) (30-34).

The fifth and final qualifying pair in a field of 15 teams were Craig Goodwin (Duff House Royal) and Sam Binning (Mearns Castle) with a 65 (33-32).

GOLFBREAKS.COM PGA FOUR-BALL SCOTTISH QUALIFIER

Musselburgh Golf Club.

QUALIFIERS FOR GRAND FINAL
Par 71

62 G Wright (West Linton) and G Fox (Clydeway Golf).

64 M Hillson (Kilconquhar Castle) and J McGhee (Whitehill House), G Hardy (Prestwick St Nicholas) and M Rae (Drumoig) 33-31, C Gordon (Edinburgh GC) and Paul Malone (Braid Hills) 30-34.

65 C Goodwin (Duff House Royal) and S Binning (Mearns Castle) 33-32.

NON-QUALIFIERS

66 P Scanlan and Anthony Mackrell (Playsport Golf) 34-32.

67 S Savage (Dalmuir) and C Everett (Caldwell) 33-34.

68 E Macpherson (Brodick) and C Armstrong (Burntisland) 34-34, C Marr and N Huguet (Musselburgh) 34-34.

69 M Huish and O Huish (North Berwick) 33-36

71 G Tarplee and D Ord (Parklands) 37-34, M Loftus (Mearns Castle) and S Payne (Cowglen) 36-35, D Ramsay (Moray) and R Clarke (Golf Dedication Centre) 34-37.

72 G Forrester (St Andrews GS) and F Robertston (Lundin) 37-35

73 S Clelland (Hayston) and G Robertson (Airdrie) 36-37