The Press and Journal (Inverness, Highlands, and Islands)
Seniors win for Mavor
Elgin’s Colin Mavor won the Scottish Seniors Golfing Society event at Monifieth Links with a score of 39 stableford points. Tied second on 38 were David Millar (St Andrews New), Iain Simpson (Crieff) and Gary Tough (Edzell). Jeff Wright (Forres) beat Bruce Thomson ( Inverness) at the third hole of a play-off to win the North Scottish Alliance championship for the first time – and with it the Sir Hugh Mackenzie Trophy – at InvernessGolf Club on Saturday.
They both scored oneunder-par 68s. Wright had two birdies and one bogey in halves of 33-35. Thomson birdied the first and third, bogeyed the fourth and then parred the remaining 14 holes in equal halves of 34.
Jonathon Keith, the Inverness club champion, also scored a 68 (32-36) but the Highland derby in Inverness between Caley Thistle and Ross County proved too strong an attraction as he opted not to take part in the play-off to attend the big Premiership game.
Keithhadbeenonschedule to win the championship after birdieing the first, fourth, sixth and 12th but a hat-trick of bogeys through the 13th, 14th and 15th, undid most of the good work.
Itmightevenhavebeena four-way play-off had defending champion Bryan Fotheringham (Forres) not missed an 8ft putt on the last green.
There was some consolation for scratch player Bruce Thomson in that his 68 won him the Class 1 handicap section.
Fotheringham won the scratch aggregate trophy (best six rounds during season) and Ali Mackintosh (Inverness) won the handicap aggregate trophy. KylieHenry’sWorld Ladies Championship challenge wilted in the final round as she finished in 13th place in China yesterday.
The Scot went into the final round in fourth place, four shots off the lead, but a 74 for a total of six-underpar 213 left the Glasgwegian outside the top 10 in Haikou.
Hae Rym Kim and Seon Woo Bae finished tied on 14-under 205 and it was Kim who held her nerve to lift the trophy, becoming the fourth consecutive South Korean to do so in the process.
She holed a four-footer on the second play-off hole to win, with Min Sun Kim, Soyoung Lee and Hall locked together next on the leaderboard.
The championship took place amid inclement weather in the Chinese city.
South African golfer Chris Williams secured his second European Senior Tour title after beating Gary Marks in a play-off at the inaugural Sharjah Senior Golf Masters in the United Arab Emirates.
The pair finished tied on 13 under par. Marks bogeyed the first play-off hole, as Williams holed from 6ft to win his first title since the 2011 Aberdeen Brunei Senior Masters.
Sharing third on 12 under were Magnus P Atlevi and James Kingston.
Troon’s Jack McDonald and Cawder’s Jamie Stewart Savagewere the leading Scots at the end of the opening round of the MENA Tour’s Royal Golf Mohammedia Open at Royal Golf D’Anfa, Morocco. They both shot oneover-par 72s to be six shots behind the leader by two, England’s Lee Corfield).
Aberdeen-born Clarke Lutton had a 73.