Bob knocked out in the quarter-finals

OBAN golfer Robert MacIntyre was defending his Scottish Amateur Championship title last week. However, the 19-year- old from Glencruitten Golf Club was knocked out in the quarter-final.

Robert ‘Bob’ MacIntyre won the competition last year at Muirfield to become the first left-handed player in history to do so.

Replicate

However, the Glencruitten golfer couldn’t replicate the feat at the Royal Aberdeen golf course and was knocked out by Alasdair McDougall from Edlerslie.

Bob won his first two rounds, but they were close-fought games. He then defeated Blair Dalgleish in the third round by two holes with one still to play.

His fourth round victory came a little more comfortably as he won by four holes with two to play against Andrew Davidson of Charleton Members Golf Club.

Bob sailed through his fifth round game after building up an early lead against Graeme Robertson. In the end he won by four and three.

His quarter-final match was against Alasdair MacDougall, who almost didn’t compete in the competition after he found himself in accident and emergency in Paisley on Friday night because of an abscess.

MacDougall will be glad that he didn’t pull out as the Elderslie man maintained his lead throughout and won the game by four and three.

MacDougall then lost his semi-final match to the eventual winner George Duncan of Windyhill Golf Club.