Club Championship & Monthly Medals - Season 2008-2009

J&G Sutherland/May Medal/Club Championship Round 1 - 31 May 08
The Crow flies into contention of the title...

There was an unprecedented entry for the J&G Sutherland May Medal at Thurso Golf Club on Saturday that produced arguably the best ever scoring for a stroke play event at the club. 101 players contested the Medal and 43 of them scored nett par or better.

When Terry Mackay started his round just after 7.30am swirling fog was posing a potential visibility problem but it didn't put the 'footballling legend' off as he scored a birdie at the fourth and another at the eighth on his way to an outward 37, only two over par for the 15 handicap man. There were to be no more birdies but a highly creditable inward nine of 39 shots gave him a gross 76, nett 61, that turned out to be the best nett score of the day for a well deserved victory.

Innes Mitchell and Stephen King both finished only one shot behind Mackay with Mitchell earning second place on count back. Both players got to the turn in 34 strokes, one under par and best of the day. Mitchell prevailed with a fine two over par back nine for a gross 70.

George Munro, who marked the winner's card did pretty well himself by earning fourth place on count back from Pat Valentine, Gavin Souter and Alan Simmonite after all returned nett 63's.

Young Mark Parsonage did well in the company of Brent Munro and Gavin Sutherland to return a nett 64, a total shared by veteran Junior coach, Jim Buchan.

Saturday's Medal was also the first round of the Club Championship and current champion Doug Thorburn indicated that will be the man to beat with the day's best scratch score of 68, one ahead of former champion Brent Munro.

Sutherland and Mitchell were next best on 70 with David Dunbar, Don Mackay and Pat Valentine a shot further back. Dunbar's card for the inward nine made interesting reading. His best of the day 32 included birdies at the tenth, eleventh, thirteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth holes.

Currently around 20 players will feel that they can make the final eight to contest the match play stages but perhaps that number will go down after Saturday's second of the three qualifying rounds.

Results

	NAME	ROUND 1
		GROSS	NETT
1	A BELL	78	72
2	A CAMERON	85	74
3	A COGHILL	87	74
4	A COSTELLO	93	73
5	A KENNEDY	99	73
6	A MACGREGOR	80	68
7	A MACKENZIE	NR	NR
8	A SIMMONITE	79	63
9	A SIMPSON SNR	84	68
10	A SUTHERLAND	84	68
11	A SWANSON	73	71
12	A WILLIAMSON	88	70
13	AA CAMPBELL	87	75
14	AS MACKENZIE	90	73
15	B MUNRO	69	65
16	B NOBLE	87	76
17	C BURNESS	73	67
18	C CHESSOR	83	72
19	C GRANT	NR	NR
20	C MACKAY	80	67
21	D BAIN	87	67
22	D CALDER	88	77
23	D DUNBAR	71	66
24	D FARQUHAR	86	71
25	D IRVINE	89	74
26	D JACK	78	72
27	D LYALL	NR	NR
28	D MACKAY	71	69
29	D PHILLIPS	82	69
30	D SUTHERLAND	79	69
31	D THORBURN	68	69
32	D WRIGHT	74	69
33	E MACKENZIE	77	71
34	E MCINTOSH	83	65
35	G CAMERON	84	75
36	G HENDERSON	103	84
37	G MCLEOD	93	72
38	G MUNRO	73	63
39	G SOUTER	75	63
40	G SUTHERLAND	70	65
41	H BOYD	87	74
42	H COWE	82	70
43	I FRASER	88	68
44	I MACPHEE	92	77
45	I MITCHELL	70	62
46	I PATERSON	103	75
47	J BAIN	86	73
48	J HAWTHORN	91	67
49	J JOHNSTONE	81	65
50	J MANSON	90	65
51	J MCCRACKEN	86	66
52	J MEIKLEJOHN	NR	NR
53	J MORRISON	78	66
54	J OWENS	83	70
55	J SANGSTER	73	72
56	J TAYLOR	NR	NR
57	J YOUNGSON	85	66
58	K DREAVES	NR	NR
59	K MORRIS	NR	NR
60	L KING	NR	NR
61	L MURRAY	78	66
62	L SUTHERLAND	77	66
63	M FORBES	89	76
64	M HENDERSON	74	69
65	M MACGREGOR	84	73
66	M MACKAY	79	68
67	M PARSONAGE	79	64
68	M ROSS	90	70
69	N DOHERTY	84	75
70	N JACKSON	84	66
71	P KNIGHT	81	70
72	P O'HARE	83	75
73	P SANGSTER	76	66
74	P VALENTINE	71	63
75	R BLACK	84	72
76	R EUNSON	96	71
77	R GRAY	83	75
78	R HARPER	79	74
79	R MACKAY	84	70
80	R MATHESON	72	68
81	R MCCOUSTRA	98	82
82	R MOWAT	92	73
83	R PARSONAGE	85	70
84	R ROBERTSON	74	68
85	R WILLIAMSON	92	76
86	S BELL	112	84
87	S FIDLER	82	70
88	S KING	73	62
89	S MCINTOSH	NR	NR
90	S OSBORNE	100	79
91	S SPARGO	75	69
92	S STEWART	78	71
93	S WILLIAMSON	72	66
94	T HENDERSON	85	73
95	T MACKAY	76	61
96	W GORDON	81	76
97	W RUTHERFORD	78	66
98	W SHEARER	77	70
99	WJ BUCHAN	81	64
100	WJ SUTHERLAND	94	71

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