HOLDERS NAIRN THROUGH TO SENIOR NORTHERN COUNTIES CUP QUARTER-FINALS AT BRORA

The first day of the Seniors Northern Counties Cup was played at Brora in hazy sunshine although there was a fresh north-easterly breeze. I

n the morning Boat of Garten overwhelmed Elgin by 14 holes, both pairs winning by 7 holes.

The first Murcar Links pairing of M Lornie and A Fiddes gave their team an excellent start by defeating their opponents from Nairn Dunbar 2 by eight holes, and the Brora 1 team from the host club had an emphatic, eight-hole win against Eriskay Whisky Galore.

Neil Harper, representing Deeside, had a hole in one at the 6^th hole in their match against Duff House Royal 2. However, it was to no avail as their first pair lost by five holes.

 In Round 2 Moray squeezed through by one hole, and the big winners were Royal Dornoch 1 and Royal Aberdeen by 15 and 12 holes respectively. 

Nairn, the  holders, progressed safely through to the quarter-finals

 RESULTS

FIRST ROUND

Boat of Garten bt Elgin by 14 holes

J A Grant, S Ritchie 7, B Inch, M Kearney 0; G Hay, J Ingram 7, I Hamilton, G Paterson 0.

Brora 1 bt Eriskay Whisky Galore by 8 holes

R Cameron, T Gill 5, P Bannerman, E Morrison 0; N Elliot, C Tulloch 3, W Rusk, G McNeil 0.

Murcar bt Nairn Dunbar 2 by 8 holes

M Lornie, A Fiddes 8, K Campbell, D Lamb 0; D Allan, B Holbrook 0, H Bunker, B Ford 0.

Duff House Royal 2 bt Deeside by 4 holes

A Smith, E Thomson 5, S Ritchie, K Ingram 0, A Cruickshank, G Kelly 0, D Rennie, N Harper 1.

 SECOND ROUND

Cruden Bay bt Strathpeffer by 3 holes

S Hutcheon, M Smith 6, P Gair, D Krzyzanowski 0; W Livingston, J Cooper 0, J Garrow, S Kennedy 3.

Moray bt Brora 2 by on3 hole

M Macintosh, J Murray 0, W Stewart, P Laird 2; R Wilson, R Sim 1, K Harrison 0, K Scott 0.

Brora 1 bt Boat of Garten by 7 holes

J A Grant, S Ritchie 0, R Cameron, T Gill 4; G Hay, J Ingram 0. N Elliot, C Tulloch 3.

Murcar Links bt Duff House Royal 2 by 4 holes

M Lornie, A Fiddes 0, A Smith, E Thomson 0; D Allan, B Holbrook 4, A Cruickshank, G Kelly 0.

Nairn Dunbar 1 bt Duff House Royal 1 by 4 holes

A Kennedy, P Gordon 0, C Duffy, G Robbins 4; M Jenkins, I Angus 0, I Duncan, D Bunker 0.

Royal Dornoch 1 bt Orkney by 15 holes

D Pearson, D MacDougall 7, A Donaldson, S Fotheringhame 0; J Seatter, K Fraser 8, E Donaldson, A McGinn 0.

Royal Aberdeen bt Inverness by 12 holes

J Johnston, S Houston 7, L Chancellor, J MacAulay 0; N Forster, A Laird, 5, E Brown, W Hutcheson 0.                                  

 Nairn bt Royal Dornoch 2 by 9 holes

R Smith, P Saggers 6, K Taylor, I Thomson 0; P Tomisson, W Morris 3. R Murray, A Ramsay 0.

 

 

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