SCOTS TIE FOR SEVENTH PLACE IN SPAIN

Scottish senior open amateur golf champion Gordon MacDonald (Callander) and Alan Ferguson (Drumpellier) finished joint seventh in the Spanish senior open amateur international doubles championship at Costa Ballena Golf Club, Cadiz on Thursday.
MacDonald and Ferguson, well placed for a last-round challenge after an opening better-ball score of 71, slumped to a 77 as a greensomes pairing.
But the Scots' final total of 148 saw them finish only four shots behind the winners, Spain’s Luis Javier Trenor and Norway’s Bjorn Ronning who had scores of 70 and 74.
They won a play-off for the title after Italy’s Vanni Mandelli and Guida Vigna had also finished on 144 with rounds of 74 and 70.

SPANISH SENIOR OPEN AMATEUR INTERNATIONAL DOUBLES CHAMPIONSHIP
Costa Ballena GC, Cadiz.
Leading totals
Par 72
144 L J Trenor (Spa) & B Ronning (Nor) 70 74, V Mandelli (Ita) & G Vigna (Ita) 74 70 (Trenor & Ronning won play-off).
145 G Runnicles (Eng) & A Wright (Eng) 75 70, A Herrero (Spa) & J Ortin (Spa) 72 73, D Lane (Eng) & I Mason (Eng) 71 74.
146 G Rees (Eng) & P Ansell (Eng) 70 76.
148 J Hindshaw (Eng) & S Lynch (Ire) 73 75, G MacDonald (Sco) & Alan Ferguson (Sco) 71 77.
Other totals:
150 R Gill (Sco) & D Stevenson (Eng) 73 77, M Appleyard (Eng) & D Wall (Ire) 75 75, J Marks (Eng) & C Ginn (Eng) 71 79, A Haire (Eng) & T Smith (Eng) 70 80, B Brown (Eng) & M Hays (Eng) 75 75, G Steel (Sco) & R Clarke (Eng) 73 77.
168 G Maguire (Sco) & R Stark (Sco) 82 86.
169 Alastair Ferguson (Sco) & D McAinsh (Sco) 80 89.
177 Dougie Watson (Sco) & P Van Panhuys (Net) 84 93.
178 A Stewart & J Shanks (Sco) 79 99.