Invergordon aim to repeat league triumph
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INVERGORDON, Tain and Brora golf courses are in for a busy few days.
The Invergordon club on Saturday hosts the Dornoch Firth League inter-club matches hoping to repeat their league triumph when the other clubs teams last came to the town in 2007.
Invergordon joined the league in 1977 and became winners of the Targe for the first time in 1986 enjoying two more wins, on home ground, in 2001 and 2007.
Last season Royal Dornoch with home advantage crept even closer to Brora’s record eighteen league wins. The order of matches over the two days is: Saturday am – Invergordon v Dornoch, Brora v Tain; pm – Tain v Invergordon, Golspie v Brora. Sunday am – Invergordon v Golspie, Dornoch v Brora; pm – Invergordon v Brora, Golspie v Dornoch v Tain.
While the Tain amateurs are in Invergordon on Sunday, their course will be taken over by professionals practising for the Scottish Professional Tour’s Optical Express Northern Links Challenge.
The first round of this 36-hole Scottish PGA Order of Merit counting event is being played at Tain on Monday, followed by a second 18 holes on Brora the next day.
Tain’s resident professional Stuart Morrison was one of several club pros who on Tuesday and Wednesday this week pitted their skills against a host of professional golfers at Aviemore who ply their trade as full time tournament players.
ALNESS teenager Shaun Hogg belied his six handicap with two superb scratch cards of 71 and 69 to take a third place in the North of Scotland Boys Championship for the Spence Trophy at Kinloss Golf Club last Sunday. With the CSS working out at 64 and 65 against the course par of 67, young Hogg will have a handicap cut coming his way.
FORTROSE and Rosemarkie’s Chris Gaittens, a regular selection for the North in his younger days, has been called into the north district team of six for the first time to play in the Scottish Golf Union’s Area Team Championship at Blairgowrie this month, May 19 and 20. The format of this event changed last year to scoring rounds by foursomes and singles, to find the winning area.
Muir of Ord
RECENT results from the club:
Ladies
Margaret Marshall Round 1 (CSS 70)
Division 1 — S Hooker (13) 71; C Graham (20) 72; A Mackay (20) 76.
Division 2 — M Rae (28) 70; W Spencer (21) 71; E Barras (24) 74.
Margaret Marshall Round 2) (CSS 72)
Division 1 — N Scrimgeour (10) 70; C Graham (20) 72; E Hutton(19) 75.
Division 2 — M Rae (28) 72; J Coleman (35) 74; M Brook (29) 75.
Gents
Midweek Medal (CSS 67) — J Whittet (4) 63; E MacPherson (6) 66; G Mellis (2) 67.
Highland Construction Cup (CSS 68) — M MacLeod (19) 61; A Begg (3) 65; G McIntosh (9) 66.
Seniors
Stableford (CSS 67) — I D Morrison 40points.
April 27 (CSS 69) — J Tuach (35).
Juniors
Dunfermline Junior Masters (CSS 71) — J Watson (28) 87
Tain
RESULTS of the Glenmorangie Pairs Open — 1 C Ilett (7) and M Sangster (3) 143; 2 W Macbeath (9) Golspie and W Melville (9) Golspie 145 (BIH); 3 B Duff (11) and G Ross (9) 145 Last 6 holes; 4 K MacKay (5) and D Clark ((7) Alness 145.
Scratch — F Fotheringham and D Vass 149.
Individual Scratch — M Ferries 70.
Individual Handicap — I Cowie (7) Buckpool 69.
Alness
RESULTS of the Open Texas Scramble — 1 E Murray, M Sinclair, C Doull and C Munro ( Alness) 54; 2 C Graham, R Woods, D Sutherland and A Rose, 54.8.
The club’s next open is the Andrew Winter Memorial Texas Scramble on May 12.
