Fotheringham wins NSGA scratch prize

BRYAN Fotheringham, a member at Inverness Golf Club, retained

the scratch championship and Sir Hugh MacKenzie Trophy and Torvean’s Mike Lyall took home the Jim Thom Quaich for high handicappers following the final North Scottish Golfers’ Alliance fixture at Moray.

Harnessing the stiff wind, Fotheringham covered the first nine holes in 34 then on the harder inward test, he closed with two bogies for 39 and a creditable winning two over par 73.

Playing at the end of the field, Fortrose and Rosemarkie club champion Alan Cameron, winner of the Alliance fixture the previous weekend at Muir of Ord, came second after earlier in the day leading a family-based quartet to first place in the Fortrose & Rosemarkie Texas Scramble. Cameron dropped all of his strokes over the first eight holes at Moray, but parred the next ten for 75.

Five handicapper James Ingram (Boat of Garten) won the low section and the Bank of Scotland Quaich with a best of the day nett 72, before Torvean’s Lyall doubled up on his high handicap aggregate success by winning the Jim Thom Quaich with a nett 76 off a nine handicap.

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