AYRSHIRE JUNIOR GOLF LEAGUE - Gorrie wins Champion Of Champions title



2012 Junior Champion Of Champions
Callum Gorrie

Callum Gorrie (Kilmarnock Barassie) is the 2012 Ayrshire Junior Golf League Champion Of Champions Trophy winner after winning the final match at Prestwick St Cuthbert GC on Sunday 16th September.

Gorrie faces Louis Murray (Troon Welbeck) in the final with challenging strong winds from the west and frequent squalls of rain making conditions testing.

In a match befitting the prestige of the title at stake, a host of birdies were shared in a closely  fought contest.

Gorrie opened up an early lead taking the second and third holes but was soon pulled back when Murray won the fifth and sixth to square the match.

2012 finalists
Louis Murray & Callum Gorrie

Gorrie edged back in front at the par 3 seventh but another birdie from Murray at the par 5 eighth hole levelled the match once more.

Murray missed an opportunity to take the lead at the ninth, missing with his putt, and the players turned for home all square.

Gorrie misseed an opportunity to take the lead at the tenth but a birdie at the long par 4 eleventh put him ahead in the match once again, only to see Murray birdie the twelfth hole to square the match once again.

Bobby Caddis presenting the trophy
to winner Callum Gorrie

In the conditions, the golf was outstanding and it was hard to predict a winner with a third of the round remaining, but Gorrie made a significant move with successive birdies to go two up after fourteen holes.

Although Murray made every effort to fight back again, he could not reduce the lead and Gorrie held on for a 2 & 1 win and the Champion Of Champions title.

The Champion Of Campions Trophy was presented to Callum Gorrie by by Bobby Caddis (Prestwick St Cuthbert), Chairman of the Ayrshire Junior Golf League at the conclusion of the match

(Report & photos courtesy of John Nordbo)