Past president takes home Open prize
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The first of the seven day Clynelish Distillery sponsored golf at Brora got under way last Saturday with the Ladies Open where past club president Susan Smith stole the show, winning a sackful of trophies.
Conditions were tough with players having to cope with a strong wind on the inward holes resulting in only one golfer returning a card under 80.
It came from annual visitor and four handicapper Julia Brook from the club where the course architect spent his final years, Walton Heath.
Brook opened with three bogies over the first four holes then bogied the 7th hole but she halted the slide with birdie at the par five eighth hole for an outward 39.
The count was matched against the wind on the back nine to return a 78 and win the Nicol Trophy from Marie-Louise Pind from the Sollerod Golf Club, Denmark.
Susan Smith was in fifth place, but with her handicap of 13 (nett 72)scooped the Brora Bowl, which was open to all, and also the two confined trophies, the Brora Salver and the Hunter Trophy – the latter as the best score from a Sutherland club member.
Results: Scratch – J Brook (Walton Heath) 78. M L Pind (Sollerod) 81. Silver Division – C MacLeod (Wick) (16), M Dixon (Brora) (20) 74. Bronze Division – S Grieve (Bridge of Allan) (26) 73. C Bidwell (Dunkeld) (21) 77. Hunter Trophy/ Brora Salver/ Brora Bowl – S Smith (Brora) (13) 72. Best senior – Sheila Robertson (Golspie).
The week of golf continued on Sunday with the Cairngorm Solar Open Mixed Foursomes competition.
A gross 75 gave possession of the Brora Salver to Marie-Louise Pind (Denmark) and her German partner Jorg Paulus.
The Brora/Wick pairing of John Sutherland and Dierdre MacAngus won the R M Street Shield in the low handicap division with a nett of 73, while in the higher handicap group for the first time it was the proven local partnership of Mike MacKintosh and Lynda MacKay who lifted the AL MacKay Trophy with nett 72.5.
