Montrose's Graeme Brown shoots to the front

with a 62 to win £2,240 top prize

By COLIN FARQUHARSON
Montrose Links assistant professional Graeme Brown shot his lowest round of the season - an eight-under-par 62 - for an 11-under-par total of 129 to win the £2,240 top prize, easily his biggest cheque of the season, in the Kerr Investments' 36-hole Order of Merit pro-am at Dumfries and Galloway Golf Club today.

Brown, pictured, had nine birdies in his round to remember - at the second, fourth, fifth, 10th, 11th, 14th, 15th and 16th in halves of 33 (three under) and 29 (five under). He also had one bogey, at the short eighth.
Greig Hutcheon (Paul Lawrie Golf Centre, Inchmarlo) also came with a second-round rush. He shot a 63 for 130, finishing one stroke behind Brown and earning the £1,540 runner-up prize.
He had eight birdies on his second-round card - at the first, second, fifth, sixth, eighth, 11th, 16th and 17th. He too had one bogey, at the third hole.
Alastair Forsyth (Mearns Castle), joint halfway leader on 63 with Marc Owenson (Gullane), shot a second-round 68 to finished third on 131. Owenson went from 63 to 73 and a 136 total knocked him out of the top 10.
Stephen Craig (Craig Golf) led the Dumfries and Galloway No 12 team to a four-stroke victory in the pro-am with a 36-hole tally of 242.


KERR INVESTMENTS 36-hole Order of Merit pro-am
Dumfries and Galloway Golf Club.
Par 140 (2x70)
129 G Brown (Montrose Golf Links) 67 62 (£2,240).
130 G Hutcheon (Paul Lawrie Golf Centre, Inchmarlo) 67 63 (£1,540)
131 A Forsyth (Mearns Castle) 63 68 (£1,215)
133 R Arnott (Bishopbriggs) 68 65 (£840)
134 P O'Hara (North Lanarkshire Leisure) 70 64, G Wright (West Linton) 64 70 (£577.50 each).
135 M Patterson (Kilmacolm) 70 65, D Orr (Eastwood) 67 68, C Currie (Caldwell) 66 69 (£448 each).
136 G Fox (Clydeway Golf) 69 67, C Marr (Musselburgh) 69 67, C Kelly (Stirling) 69 67, P McKechnie (Braid Hills) 67 69, R Leeds (Archerfield Links) 67 69, M Owenson (Gullane) 63 73.
137 G Hay (Grantown on Spey) 72 65, J Lomas (Caprington) 69 68, S O'Hara (North Lanarkshire Leisure) 69 68, S Binning (Mearns Castle) 69 68, R Menzies (Trump Turnberry) 67 70.
138 J McGhee (Swanston New) 70 68, R Munro (Duddingston) 70 68.
139 K McNicoll (Carnoustie Golf Links) 72 67, F McKenna (Caldwell) 69 70.
140 C Nairn (Kilmarnock Barassie) 72 68, C Goodwin (Strathlene) 67 73.
141 F Mann (Carnoustie Golf Links) 70 71, A D Wills (Lanark) 68 73.
142 S Henderson (Kings Links) 72 70, R Cameron (Saltire Energy) 72 7 G Forbes (Mar Hall Hotel) 71 71, G McDougall (Elie Links) 70 72, A Welsh (Cathkin Braes) 68 74.
143 J Dick (Duddingston) 73 70, S Gray (Lanark) 68 75.
144 J McCreadie (Largs) 75 69, J Fraser (Renaissance Club) 75 69, S Craig (Craig Golf) 74 70, L Hughes (Ayr Belleisle) 72 72, A O'Donnell (Largs) 72 72
145 D Stein (Ranfurly Castle) 74 71, C Matheson (Falkirk Tryst) 73 72.
146 G Hardy (Prestwick St Nicholas) 76 70, N Huguet (Musselburgh) 73 73, C Porciani (Trump Turnberry) 72 74
147 I Graham (Crow Wood) 72 75
148 S Houlden (East Kilbride) 73 75
149 J Brown (Dumfries and Galloway) 80 69
157 P Kerr (Hayston) 79 78.

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