SCOTTISH SUPER SENIORS CHAMPIONSHIP - Wallace runner up at Nairn Dunbar

After leading at the halfway stage, Billy Wallace (Prestwick St Cuthbert) finished in the runners up spot at the Scottish Seniors Golfing Society Super Seniors Championship at Nairn Dunbar Golf Club this week.

 

Championship report by COLIN FARQUHARSON

Colin@scottishgolfview.com

Hazlehead's Sandy Pirie, a Walker Cup player in 1965, won one of the leading trophies at the Scottish Seniors Golfing Society's Super Seniors Championship at Nairn Dunbar Golf Club.

Sandy, who is 70 and still plays to three of a handicap, won the 70 years and over section with gross rounds of 84 and 76 for a total of 160.

Colin Moir (Workshop) was runner-up to Sandy with a total of 162 (81-81).

The 65 to 69 years trophy was won by Nairn's Robin Paton, a two-handicapper, with a pair of gross 74s for a four-over-par aggregate of 148 on a day when the CSS was 73 for both rounds.

Billy Wallace (Prestwick St Cuthbert), the first-round leader by three shots, was second to Paton with scores of 71 and 79 for 150.

James Kinloch (Cardross) was third on 153 (75-78).

LEADING TOTALS

Par 144 (2x72) CSS 73 73
146 Robin Paton (Nairn) 74 74
150 Billy Wallace (Prestwick St Cuthbert) 71 79
153 James Kinloch (Cardross) 75 78.
154 Scott Macdonald (Dunfermline) 79 75, Brian Grieve (King James VI) 77 77, Trevor Bennett (Grear Barr) 76 78, David J Smith (Stirling) 74 80.
155 Patrick Tomisson (Nairn) 79 76.
159 Alan MacNaught (Colchester) 80 79.
160 Sandy Pirie (Hazlehead) 84 76, James Grant (Royal Montrose) 80 80.
161 David A Millar (St Andrews New) 79 82
162 Ian Dickson (Lundin) 83 79, Colin Moir (Worksop) 81 81
163 Keith Howie (West Kilbride) 83 80
164 Colin Campbell (Gullane) 84 80, Sandy Fairweather (Carnoustie Caledonia) 82 82
165 Robin Lawson(R&A) 83 82
166 Tom Allan (Dunblane New) 83 83, Peter Kinloch (Cardross) 82 84, Peter Boyd (Fereneze) 81 85.
167 Ian Peddie (Tulliallan) 90 77, Michael Mather (Ballater) 83 84, Robbie Nairn (Lochmaben) 81 86.
168 Tom Carson (Lockerbie) 87 81, Richard Goodale (Aberdour) 85 83.
169 John Hamilton (Murcar Links) 88 81.