Mens Tournaments - Season 2007-2008

Caithnes Golf Week Scramble - 10 August 07
Murray's gang win another Scramble

Murray McGlasson	Steve Efemey	John Disbury

It was disastrous week weather wise for the Caithness Golf Week however the Texas Scramble was played on Friday at Reay. On Monday it was constant rain all day and two brave men actually entered from Thurso GC. It was a washout at Thurso on Tuesday but Lybster and Wick got better weather.

Playing in teams of three the Texas Scramble is very much a fun event. The youngest team to enter was three juniors from Reay in Allyn Sutherland, Hugh Tunn and Ewan Crawford who managed birdies at the 6th, 13th and a two at the 15th but sadly were quite a bit off the pace but a good effort nonetheless.

Thurso team of Peter O'Hare, Jim Swan and Douglas Mackenzie put in a gross par round with birdies at the 8th and 14th but bogeys at the 5th and 13th proved to be expensive. Alistair Bell, Dave Phillips and Kevin Phillips also of Thurso GC made birdie at the 15th and 17th but also had three costly birdies. The Lybster trio of Nicolson, Miller and Mackay threw in five birdies at the 2nd, 4th, 8th going out in 33 and birdies at the 10th and 13th saw them home in 33, but bogeys at the 3rd and 7th were their undoing.

Rebecca Meiklejohn provided a touch of glamour beside Jim Meiklejohn and Alf Williamson as the team made birdie at the 6th, 14th and 15th, as bogeys on the opening two holes meant catch up golf in a poor start. The senior team from Reay of Bob Earnshaw, Murdo MacDonald and George MacDonald had birdies at the 6th, 10th and 18th but also suffered from the same poor start of opening with two bogeys.

Third place was very tight and two Thurso teams had to be sorted out on the countback. The team of Steve Spargo, Sandy Stewart and Ian Adamson shot a great 65 and a nett 59.4 with birdies at the 1st, 10th, 11th and 16th only to be matched by Blair McIntosh, Ian McPhee and Bryan Suttar with a 67 nett 59.4 and birdies at the 6th, 13th and 16th. It was the last two birdies that made the difference for third place.

In second place were Grant Maxwell, David Mackay and Donald Mowat going out in 32 and home in 31 for a superb gross 63. There were six birdies at the 2nd, 3rd, 5th, 13, 14th and 15th and no dropped shots giving 58.4 as the final nett score. The winners had a haul of six birdies also at the 4th, 6th, 7th, 9th, 13th and 14th out in 34 back in 31 for 65 and a 57.8 nett. The specialists in scramble play were at it again with Murray McGlasson doing the power driving, Steve Efemey the stylish shots into the green and John Disbury putting like a demon.

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