Jeff Wright retains North Scottish Alliance championship with a 69 at Nairn Dunbar

Jeff Wright (Forres) has won the North Scottish Golfers' Alliance championship for the second year in a row. He retained the Sir Hugh Mackenzie Trophy with a three-under-par 69 at Nairn Dunbar Golf Club today

He headed the field of 84 competitors by three strokes from runner-up Kyle Godsman (Moray).  
Wright had an eagle at the downwind 18th and birdies at the fifth, ninth, 14th and 16th, offset by bogeys at the third, fourth and eighth.
Godsman birdied the third, eighth and 18th but bogeyed the fifth, ninth, 16th and 17th.

The Senior Scratch award (J A B Little Trophy) was won by Gordon H Hay (Boat of Garten) with a 75 (better last 6)
A Mair (Moray), playing off four, won the J M Gourlay Salver as Senior Handicap champion with a net 71.

A Macintosh (Torvean) won the Class 1 trophy, the Bank of Scotland Quaich, on a better inward half after returning a net 70 off seven, the same score as clubmate K Stewart, also a seven-handicapper.
The Class 2 trophy, the Jim Thom Quaich, was won by B Grant (Grantown on Spey) who had two strokes to spare with a net 71 off eight of a handicap.

NORTH SCOTTISH GOLFERS' ALLIANCE CHAMPIONSHIP

 Nairn Dunbar Golf Club.
Par 72

Scratch prize winners: 

69 J Wright (Forres)

72 K Godsman (Moray)

73 D Grindell (Inverness) p

74 J Shaw (Boat of Garten), D Pitchforth (Nairn Dunbar)

Rest of leading scratch scores:

75 G H Hay (Boat of Garten), D Gordon (Inverness), A W Mair (Moray)

76 G Allan (Nairn Dunbar)

77 A Macintosh (Torvean), N McPhie (Inverness), D Joel (Inverness), J Keith (Inverness), K Stewart (Torvean)

78 R Harrower (Boat of Garten) p, L Reid (Fortrose and Rosemarkie), K Barnett (Torvean)

79 D Johnston (Moray), D McGrouther (Inverness), B Grant (Grantown on Spey)

80 J A Grant (Grantown on Spey) , K Thomson (Moray)

81 J R Ingram (Boat of Garten)

82 M McAllan (Elgin) p, J D Hart (Grantown on Spey), D Macleod (Grantown on Spey);

83 P Masson (Moray), W Hutchison (Inverness), B Rennie (Inverness), T Madden (Elgin)

84 R Kinnaird (Boat of Garten), J Rogers (Inverness), B Gray (Inverness), J K England (Moray)

LEADING HANDICAP SCORES

Class 1 

70 A Macintosh (Torvean) (7) bih, K Stewart (Torvean) (7)

71 D Gordon (Inverness) (4), A W Mair (Moray) (4)

72 N McPhie (Inverness) (5), G Allan (Nairn Dunbar)  (4)

Class 2

71 B Grant (Grantown on Spey) (8)

73 W Weatherall (Muir of Ord) (9), T Madden (Elgin) (10), J Rogers (Inverness)(11)

74 D Macleod (Grantown on Spey) (8), A Jackson (Moray) (13), B Rennie (Inverness) (9)

+Jeff Wright's failure to attend the prizegiving to receive the championship trophy reminds one of what used to be the practice in Belgium in similar circumstances .... if the trophy winner was not there, the organisers gave it to the next best player who was there!