Summer Cup & Strokeplay Championship - Season 2005 - 2006

Summer Cup Round 9 & Strokeplay Championship Rnd 4 (Finale) - 28 June 05
The Great Raymondo waves magic wand to win Strokeplay title

Raymond Taylor - Strokeplay winner

Tuesday was the culmination of the Strokeplay Championship and only eleven golfers survived the four rounds.

Raymond Taylor showed excellent consistency throughout the four rounds to secure the trophy and Gavin Sutherland will be kicking himself that he lost two balls in the third round, which halted his chances but this is the not the last we will see from this young up-and-coming golfer.

Final positions:-

1. Raymond Taylor - 73, 75, 72 & 72 = 292
2. Gavin Sutherland - 73, 73, 78 & 72 = 296
3. Evan Sutherland - 75, 78, 74 & 77 = 304
4. David Mackay - 74, 77, 79 & 75 = 305

The Keoltag Salver, the handicap competition to the Strokeplay championships, had an early pacesetter in Bruce Mackay but unfortunately for him he slipped away in rounds three and four, which was a shame as he was setting a blistering target for the field to aim at.

The clear winner of the Salver by a grand margin of eight shots was Evan Sutherland. This is the fourth time he has managed to get his name placed on the trophy and a visit from the Club secretary.

Final positions:-

1. Evan Sutherland (10) - 65, 68, 64, & 67 - 264
2. Raymond Taylor (5) - 272
3. Gavin Sutherland (5) & Andy Bain (12) - 276

Summer Cup 9 was played in excellent conditions as the scoring and CSS of 68 bore out. In Division 2 birdies were hard to come by and only Bill McIntosh managed a birdie which was at Braid's choice the par five 6^th hole. The rough on the course is growing in now and so accuracy off the tee is paramount to avoid punishment. The lowest gross score of the Division was achieved by Grant Coghill who returned an 82 - 15 - 67. The Par of 69 was also broken by Willie Young 94 - 26 - 68 and Bill McIntosh with 83 - 15 - 68. At last returning a card it was well worth waiting for, and it's been a long wait, came Willie Williamson 88 - 22 - 66 to get third place. Willie was pipped on the countback by the wily old fox Danny O'Hagan with 84 - 18 - 66 who claimed second making a welcome return to competitive golf and a move up the rankings in the order of merit.

Division 1 produced a plethora of birdies with Steve Efemey bagging one at the 11^th, Fred Groves at the difficult 17^th, Murdo MacDonald with a two at the 9^th, Ian Ritchie making it at the 13^th, Andrew Crawford sneaking a two at the 15^th, and a brace of birdies for Lee Parnell at the long 4^th and the 16^th.

Jock Eunson

It was nice to see Joe Wilson celebrate his come back to golf making par with 81 - 12 - 69 including notching up two birdies at the 3^rd and the 14^th in his first round for some time. Playing partner David Mackay (5) matched the 69 and slipped in a birdie two at the short 5^th. Evan Sutherland playing his best golf for some time produced 77 - 9 - 68 to make a regular habit of breaking par in recent weeks.

The lowest gross of the day of 72 was shared by Raymond Taylor going out in 36 and coming back in 36 and Gavin Sutherland also crossing swords in the Strokeplay championship with Raymond mirrored the two halves of 36. Raymond had a birdie at the 16^th and scrambled well with some untidy play but still had a good score of 72 - 4 - 68 to come in under par again.

In third place with birdies at the tricky 11^th and the 16^th playing steadily was the quiet man John O'Brien to make 73 - 6 - 67. The ever improving Gavin Sutherland equalling the lowest gross of the day seemed to like the par 5's as he birdied two of them, the long 4^th the Sahara and Mary's Cottage the 14^th to secure second place with 72 - 6 - 66. The winner with a display of long straight hitting was Jock Eunson joining in the birdie feast at the 4^th and engineering a workmanlike 75 - 11 - 64 to take pride of place.

Photos

Raymond Taylor - Strokeplay winner	Evan Sutherland - Keoltag winner
Andrew Crawford	Alex Mackay
Alan Paul	Brian Duncan
Bill McIntosh - camera must be on a timer	Cammie Ross & Raymond Taylor
David Mackay	Danny O'Hagan
Fred Groves needs more room on the tee	George MacDonald
Joe Wilson	Jock Eunson
Lee Parnell & Steve Effemy	Donald 'Mojo' Mowat
Grant Coghill, Jock Eunson & Peter McCartney	Sandy Chisolm
Willie Young

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