Bryan Fotheringham with the Badenoch Open Trophy and other prizewinners

Badenoch Open leading scratch scores:
1.Brian Fotheringham  (Forres) 65 68 Total  132
2.John Forbes (Muir of Ord)   69 71 Total 140
3.Barry Cheyne (Newtonmore)   73 70. Total 143

Calling all pros! Big Johnson Tour event at Dalmahoy on Monday, July 18

  The next Big Johnson's Tour event is on Monday 18th July at Dalmahoy GC in Edinburgh (11.30 am first tee time). 
The event is open to ALL professionals!
  To enter please contact johnhenry92@hotmail.com

LATE ENTRIES ACCEPTED FOR N.E. SENIORS CHSHIP

Late entries are being accepted for the North-east Seniors Championship at Craibstone Golf Club on Friday, July 22.

Would be entrants should Email their names, home clubs, and handicaps to  info@sgunortheast.co.uk.

There are prizes for scratch and two handicap sections.

Drumpellier's Torrance wins West of Scotland boys' championship

By WILLIAM SHARPE
Jonathan Torrance of Drumpellier won the West of Scotland boys' championship today at Mount Ellen Golf Club with two excellent scores of 67 and 70 for a one-over-par total of 137. 

His first round included consecutive 2s at par four eighth and par three ninth (eagle-birdie). Jonathan is pictured with the trophy.

 In second place on 138 was Matthew Dalrymple (Old Ranfurly) with a brace of 69s.

Third was Scott Thomson of host club Mount Ellen with 70-69 for 139.  The handicap prize was won by Ross Nimmo (Carluke) with 67 and 66   for net 133  off 11 handicap.

LEADING SCRATCH
par 68 CSS 68 68

137 Jonathan Torrance  Drumpellier         67  70  

138 Matthew Dalrymple  Ranfurly              69  69  

139 Scott Thomson    Mount Ellen               70  69  

140 Jack McMorris    East Kilbride                71  69 

141 Ibrahim Hussain    Eastwood                  69  72  

143 Euan English    Erskine                             73  70   

143 Craig O’Hara jnr    Palacerigg                  73  70  

143 Lewis Caddell    Drumpellier                    71  72  

143 Scott McPherson   Bothwell  Castle       70  73  

144 Kieran McAllister  Easter Moffat            78  66  

144 Jack Savage    Cawder                               72  72  

144 Allan Woodhouse   East Kilbride             72  72  

145 Greg Andrews    East Kilbride                   74  71 

145 Aaron McGinlay  Mount Ellen                  72  73  

146 E J Milligan  jnr     Kilmarnock Barassie       73  73  

147 Stewart Percy     Caldwell           78  69  

147 Roddy McAuley   Fereneze             75  72  

147 Bryce McLean       Carluke                70  77  

148 Robbie Muir        Kilmarnock Barassie             75  73  

148 Mark MacMillan    Drumpellier                        75  73  

149 Cameron Stewart    Drumpellier                       74  75  

151 Callum Paterson      Strathaven                         77  74  

151 Jack Williams        Sandyhills              74  77

151 Kieran Hughes      Hilton Park                             80  72  

The top 16 boys go into matchplay. Two rounds tomorrow and semi final and final on Wednesday all at Mount Ellen Golf Club.

Matchplay draw is:

J Torrance   v     S Percy

S McPherson  v   L Caddell

J McMorris      v        G Andrews

A Woodhouse    v     I Hussain

M Dalrymple    v      E J Milligan

K McAllister     v      C O’Hara

S Thomson      v     A McGinlay

J Savage        v     E English

First round matches start tomorrow at 9am

Second Round at  2pm

Photograph is  Jonathan Torrance with WOS Boys Trophy

Hamilton, Fraser, Clark set seniors' pace at Panmure with level par 70s

Three players share the first qualifying round lead on level par 70 in the Scottish senior men's amateur match-play championship at Panmure.
Duncan Hamilton (Mortonhall), John A Fraser (Royal Burgess) and the in-form Ronnie Clark (Erskine) finished the day two shots ahead of the pair in joint fourth place on 72 - Tony Patterson (Sunningdale) and Malcolm Reid (Sonning).
 Competitors play a further round on Tuesday before the top 32 progress to the match-play  stages.
The CSS for the day was 73.

SCOTTISH SENIOR MEN'S AMATEUR MATCH-PLAY CHAMPIONSHIP 
Panmure Golf Club, Carnoustie.
FIRST QUALIFYING ROUND
Par 70. SSS 71. CSS 73
70 D Hamilton (Mortonhall), J A Fraser (Royal Burgess), R Clark (Erskine).
72 T Patterson (Sunningdale), M Reid (Sonning).
73 K Bruce (Edzell), L Blair (Grangemouth), W Methven (Royal Aberdeen), R W Smith (Nairn), D Shields (Glenearn).


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Jamie Stewart sets pace with a 67 in Scottish youths' open championship at Fairmont Kittocks

By COLIN FARQUHARSON 

Old Ranfurly's Jamie Stewart set the first-day pace with a four-under-par 67 in the Scottish youths open amateur championship over the Kittocks course at Fairmont, St Andrews today (Monday).

He leads by one from England's Christopher Handy (South Moore).

They have opened up a two-stroke gap at the head of the international field with four players sharing third place on 70 - Rory Franssen (Inverness), Ryan Brown (Dunfermline), Edoardo Giletta (Italy) and James Rooney (West Lancs).

SCOTTISH YOUTHS OPEN AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP

Fairmont St Andrews Kittocks course

FIRST ROUND LEADERS

Par 71. SSS 73. CSS 73

67 J Stewart (Old Ranfurly)

68 C Handy (South Moor)

70 R Brown (Dunfermline), J Rooney (W Lancs), E Giletta (Ita), R Franssen (Inverness).

71 H Young-Alls (Notts), K Lowe (Wheatley), S Roger (Cruden Bay), R Cull (Bromborough).

72 J P Ralph (Loretto), A Thomson (Lanark), R Callan (Bathgate), J Boulton (Notts), T Watson (SAfr), R J Smith (Marriott Dalmahoy).

73 B Thalmayr (Ger), C Kendall (Royal Lytham), F MacArthur (Ullesthorpe), K Mackay (Inverness), C Thornton (Fulford), E Schiavella (Ita), G Tait (Ipswich), M Kay (Manchester), C Barrow (Royal Lytham), R Watson (Muckhart).

OTHER SCOTS' SCORES
74 G Brown (Cathkin Braes), M McCulloch (Portpatrick Dunskey), M Naysmith (Marriott Dalmahoy), C Franssen (Inverness), K Reid (Balmore), D McNeill (Powfoot), A Fisher (Newmachar), M Ronald (East Kilbride), B Murray (Portlethen), C McGuigan (Comrie) (T28).

75 S Easton (Irvine), F Kane (Kirkhill), C Hill (Tantallon), H Gorn (Aberdour), M Brodie (Alyth), C Fenn (Dunbar) (T43)

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Aberdeen Masters tees off at Meldrum House on Tuesday

American Thelen danger to Oldcorn bid

 for back to back Senior wins

By COLIN FARQUHARSON

Andrew Oldcorn, play-off winner over past Ryder Cup man Paul Broadhurst in a European Senior Tour event in Germany on Sunday, is favourite to chalk up back-to-back victories at Meldrum House Hotel's golf course this week in the 2nd Aberdeen Senior Masters.

First prize in this independent Senior Golf Circuit 54-hole event is £10,000 of a total prize fund of £50,000, sponsored by Meldrum House, Thistle Windows and Gym Rental.

Biggest danger to both Oldcorn and Broadhust could be American Tim Thelen (pictured right) who won the Swiss Seniors Open for a second time a couple of weeks ago.

Top tee times in Tuesday's first round are:

8.20 Jarmo Sandelin, Kenny Hutton, Chris Linstead.

9.20 Albert Mackenzie, Andrew Oldcorn, Stephen Jensen.

9.50 David Narveson, Robert Arnott, Patrice Kalita.

10.20 J-M Buendia, Stephen McAllister, Derek MacDougal.

10.30 Jose Romero, Fraser Man, Jaime Nouges.

11.00 Nick Robson, Tim Thelen, Stephen Dodd.

11.20 Pedro Linhart, Barry Brooks, Colin Monk.

11.30 Stewart Savage, Guy Shoesmith, David Shacklady.

13.00 Paul Broadhurst, Carl Suneson, Andy Campbell.

13.30 Paul Wesselingh, Richard Lane, Gary Cooper.

Updated World Men's Amateur Rankings Top 20

01	Maverick McNealy		1459.2069
02▾	Beau Hossler		1338.1605
03▾	Sam Horsfield		1189.4835
04▾	Ivan Cantero Gutierrez		1157.2946
05▹	Matthias Schwab		1149.3513
06▹	Jack Hume		1141.7957
07▹	Scott Gregory		1126.8875
08▹	Curtis Luck		1125.6825
09▹	Cameron Davis		1118.0885
10▹	Adrian Meronk		1109.0566
11▴	Corey Pereira		1108.2616
12▾	Joaquin Niemann		1107.4224
13▴	Juan Alvarez		1090.4480
14▾	Cheng Jin		1086.8625
15▾	Grant Forrest		1086.3750
16▴	Sean Crocker		1079.7841
17▴	Jamie Bower		1079.0981
18▴	Antoine Rozner		1077.1718
19▴	Scottie Scheffler		1073.3519
20▴	Derek Bard		1071.3960

Deeside Golf Club Men's Open prizewinners

par 70; CSS 74
Scratch

71 C Stewart (Murcar Links), S Smith (Deeside).

73 J Loggie (Deeside).
Handicap 

Scr – 9:

D Bickerton (Deeside) (5) 69; J Black (Dunecht House) (5) 70; J Lawrence (Torphins) (5) 70. 4

10-12:

D Booth (Nigg Bay) (13) 73; S Cameron (Newmachar) (11) 74; D Lonie (Craibstone) (10) 75.

 

Tuesday draw for Aberdeen Senior Masters at Meldrum 

House will be displayed on this website tonight

The tee times for the first round of the 2nd Aberdeen Senior Masters - at Meldrum House Hotel and golf course, Oldmeldrum - will be revealed at an evening function in the Hotel this evening.
They will be displayed on this website later this evening alongwith the prizmoney breakdown of the £50,000 prizefund.
 Top 40 places will earn prizemoney, also the best total minus age 1st, 2nd and 3rd. Amateurs may win a mamximum of £500 in vouchers.
The 54-hole tournament runs from Tuesday to Thursday. There is no cut.
The Aberdeen Senior Masters is a tournament on the independent Senior Golf Circuit for players of 48 years and over and is organised by David James.
The tournament is sponored by Thistle Windows, the Gym Rental Company, and Meldrum House Hotel.
There is no admission charge for spectators and car parking is also free.

Scottish Open exposure leads to worldwide 

interest in Castle Stuart links

NEWS RELEASE

Golfers are queuing up to play Castle Stuart Golf Links after spectacular images of the stunning location were seen around the world during the Aberdeen Asset Management Scottish Open.

The Highlands of Scotland links course  has received dozens of enquiries over the weekend from people across the UK, and from Europe and the US, who have seen images on TV, the internet and newspapers during the four-day event.

The course,  on the Moray Firth coastline between Nairn and Inverness, re-opens to the public on Tuesday after staging the prestigious event for the fourth time in six years.

Stuart McColm, general manager at Castle Stuart Golf Links, said: “It’s been a fantastic week. The feedback on the course, the scenery and the area in general has been phenomenal.

“The weather has at different times shown off our wonderful location and tested the players to provide a full links experience.

“Millions of people around the world have been focused on this tournament and the Highlands of Scotland over the last four days and this has given incredible exposure which will provide a lasting legacy for tourism.

“We have received dozens of calls and emails already – before the tournament even finished – from people who have seen pictures of the location and are keen to come here and experience it for themselves.

“Everyone, including the staff at Castle Stuart, the European Tour, sponsors, volunteers and all those involved in providing the infrastructure to stage this great occasion deserve the highest praise.

Mr McColm added: “A big thank you to all those who came here to watch the event. Once again, we have shown that we have everything needed to host a major golf tournament in the Highlands of Scotland.”

Castle Stuart has now hosted the Scottish Open four out of the last six years, having previously held the event from 2011-2013.

www.castlestuartgolf.com

Paul Goydos wins third US Senior Tour event

By Kevin Casey

Paul Goydos finished his week at the Dick's Sporting Goods Open with a flawless 69 to win. (Getty Images)

Paul Goydos’ streak of winning every year he’s on the US PGA Senior Champions Tour continues.
The 52-year-old American fired a bogey-free 69 Sunday at En-Joie Golf Club in Endicott, New York State  for a two-shot win at the Dick’s Sporting Goods Open. 
The flawless 3-under round was Goydos’ third straight sub-70 score for the week and earned him his third Senior Tour title in three years on the over-50s circuit.
Despite that consistency in winning, Goydos coming out on top this week was still a bit out of the blue.
While he hasn’t missed a cut in 14 starts this season, the California native entered the latest event with a recent slate of T24-T38-T36-T17-T54-T36.
Most shocked by the sudden surge in New York was Goydos himself.
“My game is like a jack-in-the box, kind of keep spinning it and it pops up every once in a while,” Goydos joked. “There was no inkling that I was going to play well, other than the mythical law of averages. Things hadn’t gone well, hadn’t played well, my attitude was bad, so naturally I won.”
Goydos sucked the drama out of the tournament for the most part on the final day. After birdies on Nos. 6 and 10, he had built a three-shot lead. And a final birdie on 16 secured his final cushion.
He finished the week at 14 under and jumped from 31st to 12th in the Charles Schwab Cup money list with the win. Wes Short Jr. placed solo second at 12 under and Neal Lancaster sat third at 10 under. John Riegger, Goydos’ co-leader at the beginning of the day, dropped into a tie for fourth with Joe Durant at 10 under following a closing 73.
John Daly, who inexplicably started putting one-handed during the final round and took a 73, his worst round of the three, placed T-11 at 7 under par 209

FINAL TOTALS AND PRIZEMONEY
par 216 (3x72)
 

1	Paul Goydos	67	66	69	.		202	$300,000
2	Wes Short Jr.	69	66	69			204	$176,000
3	Neal Lancaster	69	66	70			205	$144,000
T4	Joe Durant	67	71	68			206	$107,000
T4	John Riegger	66	67	73			206	$107,000
T6	Glen Day	66	72	69			207	$76,000
T6	Kevin Sutherland	67	71	69			207	$76,000
T8	Michael Allen	70	70	68			208	$57,333
T8	Bart Bryant	66	70	72			208	$57,333
T8	Carlos Franco	68	69	71			208	$57,333
T11	Marco Dawson	71	67	71			209	$44,000
T11	John Daly	68	68	73			209	$44,000
T11	Scott Dunlap	64	70	75			209	$44,000
T14	Esteban Toledo	75	68	67			210	$35,000
T14	Tom Byrum	73	70	67			210	$35,000
T14	Billy Andrade	70	71	69			210	$35,000
T14	Jay Haas	68	72	70			210	$35,000
T18	John Inman	70	71	70			211	$26,400
T18	Gary Hallberg	68	72	71			211	$26,400
T18	Miguel Angel Martin	68	72	71			211	$26,400
T18	Gibby Gilbert III	67	72	72			211	$26,400
T18	Mike Goodes	71	68	72			211	$26,400
T23	David Frost	70	74	68			212	$20,040
T23	Fred Funk	70	71	71			212	$20,040
T23	Willie Wood	71	69	72			212	$20,040
T23	Duffy Waldorf	71	68	73			212	$20,040
T23	Stephen Ames	68	68	76			212	$20,040
T28	Gene Sauers	69	74	70			213	$15,840
T28	Woody Austin	71	70	72			213	$15,840
T28	Brad Bryant	72	67	74			213	$15,840
T28	Tom Pernice Jr.	69	70	74			213	$15,840
T28	Mark Brooks	71	68	74			213	$15,840
T33	Scott Hoch	74	69	71			214	$13,200
T33	Craig Parry	68	74	72			214	$13,200
T33	Olin Browne	69	72	73			214	$13,200
T36	Vijay Singh	69	75	71			215	$11,467
T36	Jeff Maggert	72	71	72			215	$11,467
T36	Jerry Smith	71	72	72			215	$11,467
T39	Jeff Sluman	77	70	69			216	$9,600
T39	Doug Garwood	75	72	69			216	$9,600
T39	Jim Rutledge	75	72	69			216	$9,600
T39	Greg Kraft	74	70	72			216	$9,600
T39	Jim Carter	68	74	74			216	$9,600
T39	Jay Don Blake	71	70	75			216	$9,600
T45	Jean-Francois Remesy	73	74	70			217	$6,800
T45	Chien-Soon Lu	75	70	72			217	$6,800
T45	Jose Coceres	69	75	73			217	$6,800
T45	Bill Glasson	74	69	74			217	$6,800
T45	Joey Sindelar	73	70	74			217	$6,800
T45	Jeff Hart	71	72	74			217	$6,800
T45	Tommy Armour III	71	71	75			217	$6,800
T45	Craig Stadler	71	71	75			217	$6,800
T53	Mike Small	70	79	69			218	$4,600
T53	Stan Utley	73	73	72			218	$4,600
T53	Steve Lowery	68	74	76			218	$4,600
T53	Scott Verplank	69	73	76			218	$4,600
T53	Brian Henninger	70	71	77			218	$4,600
T58	Mike Reid	74	71	74			219	$3,800
T58	Loren Roberts	70	74	75			219	$3,800
T58	Dan Forsman	70	73	76			219	$3,800
T61	Bob Friend	73	72	75			220	$3,200
T61	Steve Pate	70	73	77			220	$3,200
T61	Grant Waite	72	71	77			220	$3,200
T64	Blaine McCallister	74	74	73			221	$2,700
T64	Lee Janzen	70	75	76			221	$2,700
T66	Rod Spittle	72	78	72			222	$2,300
T66	Mike Grob	72	75	75			222	$2,300
T68	Mark Wiebe	76	74	73			223	$1,940
T68	Larry Nelson	73	71	79			223	$1,940
T70	Kirk Triplett	74	79	71			224	$1,700
T70	Mike Springer	75	72	77			224	$1,700
72	Bob Tway	75	70	80			225	$1,520
T73	Bobby Wadkins	78	76	72			226	$1,360
T73	Jean Van de Velde	75	74	77			226	$1,360
T75	Bob Gilder	78	75	77			230	$1,200
T75	Ken Green	77	73	80			230	$1,200
T77	Tom Purtzer	73	84	74			231	$1,040
T77	Wayne Levi	75	74	82			231	$1,040
79	Gary Bendert	82	85	82			249	$920