GOOD TRY - HARD LUCK ALASDAIR !!

Mark is King of the Hickory Shafts

Joint sixth overnight, Mark King forged to the front with the best second round of two-over-par 73 to win the world professional hickory championship by two shots with a two-round total of six-over 148 over the Gullane No 2 course.
King, Scottish boys’ match-play champion at Dunbar in 1989, was winning on the Tartan Tour for the fourth time this season – and the cheque for £2,011 was almost double his previous best in 2009.

Runners-up on 150 were last year’s winner and 1983 Walker Cup player, Lindsay Mann (Carnoustie) and Gullane’s Alasdair Good, playing only his second ever competitive round with hickory-shafted clubs.Mann’s rounds were 76 and 74, Good’s 73 and 77. Each earned £1,408.

There were two Manns in the top six with Lindsay’s brother Fraser sharing fourth place with Paul Wardell (Whitekirk) and Andrew Oldcorn (Kings Acre) on 151 for which the trio received £742 each. Fraser Mann and Wardell both scored 74 and 77, Oldcorn, joint overnight leader with Good and Steven Taylor, had rounds of 73 and 78.

Former British women’s open amateur stroke play champion Heather MacRae, who is doing her PGA training with Alasdair Good as her boss and mentor, finished one shot outside the money.
She had scores of 84 and 82 for 31st place on 166. The £12,500 prize fund stretched as far as 30th place. Hard luck, Heather! Although she is confident that now she is getting the hang of playing with and against male pros, she will earn a £ or two on next year’s Tartan Tour.

FINAL TOTALS
Par 142 (2x71)
148 Mark King (Kingsfield) 75 73, £2,011.
150 Lindsay Mann (Carnoustie) 76 74, Alasdair Good (Gullane) 73 77, £1,408 each.
151 Paul Wardell (Whitekirk) 74 77, Fraser Mann (Musselburgh) 74 77, Andrew Oldcorn (Kings Acre) 73 78, £742 each.
152 David Thomson (Carnegie Club) 78 74, David Orr (East Renfrewshire) 76 76, Jacky Montgomery (Dunbar) 76 76, Sean O’Donnell (Balbirnie Park) 76 76, Steven Taylor (Bothwell Castle) 73 789, £397 each.
155 Graeme Brown (Montrose) 79 76, £281.
156 Marc Amort (Germany) 80 76, Robert Arnott (Bishopbriggs GR) 79 77, Lee Harper (Archerfield Links) 75 81, £241 each.
157 Perry Somers (unatt) 78 79, £201.
158 Andrew Marshall (Houston GR) 79 769, Norman Huguet (Musselburgh) 679 69, Alan Lockhart (Ladybank) 75 83, £161 each.
159 Nigel Scott-Smith (Palacerigg) 82 77, Alastair MacKenzie (Duddingston) 78 81, £122 each.
160 Stefan Bjalllroth (Sweden) 81 69, Klas Ohlsson (Sweden) 77 83, £102 each.
161 Neil Colquhoun (Merchants of Edinburgh) 78 83 £93.
162 John McTear (Mar Hall Hotel) 87 75, Derek Watters (Gourock) 80 82, Thomas Buchanan (Duddingston) 78 84, £85 each.
163 Owe Werner (Sweden) 84 79, £76.
164 Richard Valentine Craigielaw) 85 79, £71.
165 Paul McKechnie (Braid Hills) 80 85, £67.
166 Heather MacRae (Gullane) 84 82.
167 Iain Forrester (Holland) 82 85.
171 Jody Rostock (Carnegie Club) 87 84.
175 James Mooney Kingscliff Golf Solutions) 86 89.
Retired: Mark Pirie (Pitlochry) 83 -.
Disqualified: Christopher Russell (RAW Golf Course Design) 82 -.

( Courtesy of Colin Farqhuarson , Scottish Golf View )