Brown scores first win of season
22/08/2014
Graeme Brown (Montrose Links) scored his first win of the Tartan Tour season with a two-under-par 67 in the Douglas Park Golf Club pro-am.
The fact that the course showed no ill effects after a week’s worth of torrential rain was testament to the substantial investment the venue has made on upgrading the course’s drainage system.
Brown, 34, a Scotland amateur international in 2004 and a former US college circuit player, collected only his second four-figure cheque of the season, the other being for a top-10 finish in the Gleneagles Scottish PGA championship.
Brown's joint third finish in the BEN shotgun pro-am at Archerfield earlier in the week suggested that a first win was not all that far away.
He birdied the second, third, 11th and 16th, bogeying the fourth and 18th to win by two shots from long-time leader Craig Ronald (Carluke), Greg McBain (Paul Lawrie GC), a winner already this week, and home-course player Jordan Gallagher.
McBain led the winning trio of John McGowan (6), Ernie Bevan (7) and Scott Wallace (8) to victory with an 11-under-par team score of 127. Chris Kelly's team had the same total but McBain's team had the better inward half to win the card play-off.
