Bethune wins prize for lowest nett score
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When the county’s home-based top golfers shied away from the North District Golf Championship at Elgin last Sunday, one Royal Dornoch member living in Elgin kept the Sutherland flag flying.
Graeme Bethune (17) is of fine Dornoch Bethune golfing stock. His grandfather Denis was once a professional golfer who spent some years at Elgin Golf Club and retired to Dornoch where he has subsequently become the president of Royal Dornoch Golf Club.
Graeme’s father Gary has been victorious twice in the Carnegie Shield, while making his mark at Brora last August was his elder brother Sam, who won a handicap cup in the Clynelish Four Day.
The youngest Bethune did not win silverware at Elgin last Sunday but he did record the lowest nett score of the competition, a nett 66, off six, to pull himself up the returns and secure a £40 voucher for second handicap place.
Fraser Fotheringham (Nairn), who finished second in the championship last year at Brora, won the North District Association Cup for the first time, capping off a fine weekend for his club.
Forty-eight hours earlier Nairn won the Senior Northern Counties Cup at Dornoch and the Nairn trophy cabinet is bulging with an early May triumph in the Moray and Nairn Golf League.
