Moray Golf Club to host Brewdog Northern Open with 1999 Open champion Paul Lawrie heading for Lossiemouth
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MORAY Golf Club will play host to former Open champion Paul Lawrie at this year’s Brewdog Northern Open.
The Tartan Tour event takes place at the Lossiemouth links’ Old Course on June 3-5.
Lawrie, who won the 1999 Open Championship at Carnoustie, will be star name at the event, which last came to Moray in 2017.
Former Ryder Cup golfer Brian Barnes twice won the tourney when it was staged at Elgin in 1978 and 1985.
Meanwhile there was a hole-in-one at Hopeman Golf Club last week in the winter medal.
Dave Ettles holed his tee shot at the 122-yard 15th using his 52’ wedge, in extremely windy conditions. The ace was witnessed by playing partners Colin Burton and Danny Graham.
Returns, Winter Medal Eclectic round 5 (CSS 67), class 1: D Ettles (11), A Duncan (8) 65; B Attridge (7) 66; A J Main (11), P Hall (8) 67; S Murray (6) 68; N Paton (9), W McIntosh (9), M Cumming (12) 69; D Grant (11), A Christison (10), A N Duncan (7) 70; D Marshall (8), A J Reid (12) 71; C Howard (9), I MacKenzie (3), P Pettengell (14), F Sutherland (14) 72; D McCallum (6) 73; T Walber (13) 74; G Callow (14) 75. Class 2: C MacDougall (18) 66; W Davidson (20) 67; M Croudace (17) 68; J Whyte (19), J Taylor (23) 69; M Fairlie (15), N Borrie (17) 70; D J More (15), S Tsotsi (19) 72; C Ralph (17) 73; W Young (19), J Black (19) 75; M Lapka (15), S Masson (19) 77; D Ash (17) 78; D Gordon (16), A Ralph (20) 81; R Johnston (20), Z McPherson (21) 83: Class 3: J Wright (29) 79.