DAVID BOOTH, EILIDH BRIGGS WIN SCOTTISH UNIVERSITIES' TITLES

 

David Booth from Rotherham, a final year student at Stirling, came with a last-round surge past leader David Timms, also of Stirling and also playing in his last competition, to win the Scottish universities men’s individual golf championship for the Jack Allan Trophy at Moray Golf Club, Lossiemouth.

Booth, who won the Scottish youths championship in 2008, shot a closing two-under-par 69, eight shots better than Timms, over the Moray Old Course to post a total of four-under-par 278 in warm but breezy conditions.

Timms had a 77 to finish seven shots behind in second place on 284.

Aberdeen’s Keith Shanks claimed third place on 287 with a last-round 73.

Stirling’s first and second teams also took the top two places in the Moray Trophies team stroke-play tournament, edging out St Andrews University . 

Despite a last minute scare, Eilidh Briggs ( Stirling ) kept her nerve to lift the Scottish students’ championship and complete an unprecedented clean sweep of the four Scottish universities’ women’s order of merit competition tournaments during 2011-2012.

Fellow Stirling student Hannah McCook (Grantown on Spey) took four shots out of Eilidh's seven shot overnight lead in the morning round and holed a 12ft putt on the last green in her final round but still came up one short of catching the Kilmacolm leader.

Eilidh  closed with a 78 for three-under-par total of 293; Hannah a 76 for 294.

Gabrielle MacDonald ( St Andrews and Craigielaw) finished third on 300 with a last-round 77.

Briggs and McCook combined with Harriet Beasley and Jordana Graham to lift the Moray Trophies women’s stroke-play team championship for Stirling ahead of St Andrews .

 

MEN’S FINAL TOTALS

Par 282 (Moray New: 2x70; Moray Old: 2x71)

278 David Booth ( Stirling ) 69 69 71 69.

284 Darren Timms ( Stirling ) 69 66 72 77.

287 Keith Shanks ( Aberdeen ) 73 68 73 73.

288 Zander Culverwell (Stirling)79 69 71 69, Nick Macandrew ( Aberdeen ) 71 67 75 75

289 Mathias Eggenberger (Strling) 79 69 67 74, Kit Holmes (Stirling) 70 70 75 74, Matt Wheeler ( St Andrews ) 69 69 78 73.

290 Dewi Merckx ( Stirling ) 73 70 71 76, Roddy Forgie (Edinburgh) 71 71 73 75.

291 Patrick Spraggs ( Stirling ) 72 78 71 70.

292 Donald Macandrew (RGU) 70 75 75 72.

293 Bryn Rocke (St Andrews) 72 70 76 75, James Mabbutt ( Edinburgh ) 72 69 81 71

294 Mike Howard (Stirling) 72 72 75 75, Elliot Dodds ( St Andrews ) 75 68 73 78.

295 Angus Carrick ( Stirling ) 71 72 78 74

296 Duncan Douglas ( Stirling ) 74 65 78 79

298 Gordon Munro (RGU) 70 75 74 79

300 Danny Sommerville ( Dundee ) 72 77 76 75

301 John Innes ( Edinburgh ) 77 75 73 76, Callum McNeill (UHI) 77 73 77 74, David Curtis ( Glasgow ) 74 75 77 75

302 Phil Neil (Stirling) 74 76 74 78, Joe Marchbank ( St Andrews ) 73 71 79 79.

303 Dan Daly (Abertay) 78 75 74 76, Cole Sedgwick ( St Andrews ) 83 70 76 74, Varun Varadharajan (Heriot Watt) 74 74 74 81

304 Sean Thompson (Napier) 75 79 76 74

306 Finlay White (Stirling) 76 77 75 78, Conor Gask ( St Andrews ) 76 75 72 83

307 Steven Kinnaird (UHI) 76 79 76 76

309 Douglas Maxwell ( Aberdeen ) 76 76 80 77, Gavin Bissett ( Aberdeen ) 71 74 85 79

310 Paul Campbell (St Andrews) 74 81 78 77, Bertie Alison ( Glasgow ) 74 77 78 81

311 Vincent Blom (St Andrews) 75 79 82 75, James Hendry ( Edinburgh ) 71 81 77 82

313 David Russell ( Glasgow ) 78 76 82 77, Callum Graham (Heriot Watt) 73 81 83 76, Gareth Hay (UHI) 72 77 80 84

314 Freddie Edmunds ( St Andrews ) 78 72 73 91

315 Alexander Shedden (UHI) 77 76 80 82

317 Jonny Crawford ( Glasgow ) 79 77 79 82, Andrew Wright ( Glasgow ) 75 81 82 79

318 Samir Nanji ( St Andrews ) 78 77 82 81.

 

WOMEN’S FINAL TOTALS

Par 296 (Moray New: 2x72; Moray Old: 2x76)

293 Eilidh Briggs ( Stirling ) 73 68 74 78.

294 Hannah McCook ( Stirling ) 75 73 70 76.

300 Gabrielle MacDonald ( St Andrews ) 75 75 73 77.

301 Gemma Bradbury ( St Andrews ) 76 74 73 78

306 Franzisca Benze ( St Andrews ) 76 74 75 81

316 Jordana Graham (Striling) 76 80 80 80

319 Ashley Smith ( St Andrews ) 75 81 75 88

322 Alisa Theunis ( St Andrews ) 78 82 80 82

324 Zhana Tarasko ( St Andrews ) 8478 76 86

326 Harriet Beasley ( Stirling ) 82 79 80 85.

329 Sam Munro (UHI) 78 84 81 86

331 Mikaela Nordblad ( St Andrews ) 81 82 82 86.

335 Mhairi McKay ( Stirling ) 82 85 77 91.