Former Irish PGA champion David Mortimer stormed to the top of the leaderboard over the weekend, on hilltop Prehen, to win the McCambridge-Duffy annual 54-holes PGA pro-am, at City of Derry.
The Team Ireland attaché opened his bid on Friday with a three-under-par 68, two shots back from the leaders, and bettered his score by one shot in the second round on Saturday to take the overnight lead. A second 68 yesterday was enough to win the tournament.
The Connemara golfer produced a steady round of four birdies, 13 pars and one bogey to finish 10-under-par (205) and two shots ahead of John Dwyer with Simon Thornton a further two shots back in third place.
Mortimer's bogey arrived early - at the par four fourth hole - but he immediately got back to regulation with a two at the short fifth. He turned in one-under-35 after making birdie three at the sixth and then covered the back nine in minus-two (33).
A birdie flew in for Mortimer at the long 13th hole and he also clipped a shot of par at 17 to cement victory.
Thornton and his amateur partners, Paul Wallace (4), Ciáran O'Neill (9) and Brian Doherty (10), took the team prize on 275 points.