FOUR TIE FOR FIRST PLACE IN NORTH SCOTTISH ALLIANCE OVER MUIR OF ORD WINTER COURSE

Four players - Alex Mair, Graham Murray, Kyle Godsman and Bruce Thomson - tied for first place with three-under-par 64s  in Saturday's North Scottish Golfers' Alliance fixture over the Winter Course at Muir of Ord. There was a field of 77.
Mair had never previously tie for first place or won a fixture outright

Leading Scratch
par 67

64 A W Mair (Moray), G Murray (Moray), B J Thomson (Inverness), K Godsman (Moray)

65 A Macintosh (Torvean)

66 D Joel (Inverness)

67 J Shaw (Boat of Garten), N McPhie (Inverness)

68 A Henry (Inverness), A Hutchison (Inverness)

69 G S Macdonald (Torvean), W Hutchison (Inverness), M Lyall (Torvean)

70 S Chisholm (Torvean), A Cameron (Fortrose and Rosemarkie), D Pitchforth (Nairn Dunbar), F Mackellar (Grantown on Spey), S Wilson (Inverness), P Mathieson (Grantown on Spey), R Kinnaird (Boat of Garten)

71 L Reid (Fortrose and Rosemarkie), R Stewart (Nairn Dunbar), I Murray (Boat of Garten);

72 R Harrower (Boat of Garten) p, K Mackay (Inverness)

73 R H Stewart (Torvean), I Laing (Grantown on Spey), K Thomson (Moray)

74 J R Ingram (Boat of Garten)

75 J Greenwood (Inverness), B Rennie (Inverness), D McGrouther (Inverness), P Haywood (Boat of Garten), F Hutchison (Muir of Ord), J Keith (Inverness), F Hutchison (Fortrose and Rosemarkie).

76 P Masson (Moray), B Gray (Inverness), A P Thomson (Inverness) p

77 D R Mackellar (Grantown on Spey), D Hector (Elgin), J P Westwood (Nairn Dunbar0, D F Sharp (Boat of Garten)

78 S Mitchell (Moray), D Gordon (Inverness), P Fallen (Nairn Dunbar), I Hamilton (Elgin);

79 G Hamilton (Moray), J R Gardiner (Moray);

LEADING HANDICAP

Class 1 (7 and under

59 A Macintosh (Torvean) (6)

62 A Hutchison (Inverness) (6), M Lyall (Torvean) (7)

63 A Henry (Inverness) (5), R Kinnaird (Boat of Garten) (7)

Class 2 (8 to 18)

60 F Mackellar (Grantown on Spey) (10)

62 P Haywood (Boat of Garten) (13)

63 I Laing (Grantown on Spey) (10)

66 J R Ingram (Boat of  Garten) (8)

67 D R Mackellar (Grantown on Spey) (10), J Greenwood (Inverness) (8), B Rennie (Inverness) (8);

Par of Winter Course   444 434 444  35 343 344 344 32  = 67

Four-handicapper Mair  344 424 443  32  343 444 244  32  = 64  Has never won or tied for 1st place scratch in NSGA)

Thomson  334 434 434  32 343 353 344  32  = 64

Murray  443 434 364  35  333 444 233 29  = 64

Godsman  343 334 453 32  343 345 334  32  = 64

Joel 423 335 564  35 343 344 343 31  = 66

Macintosh  344 324 346  33  334 344 353  33  = 66

77 played.