Duo chalk up win No 4

Graham Fox (Clydeway Golf) and West Lothian's Alan Reid (above) have got the better-ball form of scoring down to a fine art.

The pair scored their fourth win in seven starts on the PGA in Scotland Fourball, Better ball Winter Series with an eight-under-par round of 63 over Western Gailes' par-71 course.

Fox and Reid are a new partnership compared with last year when Graham had Paul McKechnie as a partner. A change in the rules of the competition, decreeing that two players from the top 25 could not pair up, broke up that partnership.

But Fox has struck it lucky in finding Alan Reid the ideal partner for him.

They had a bogey-free scorecard with eight birdies, at the third, fourth, sixth, seventh, ninth (out in five-under 31), 10th, 13th and 15th (back in three-under 32). 

Runners-up in a field of 20 pairs were Paul Wardell, now playing out of North Berwick, and Carnoustie's Fraser Mann with a 65.

There was a three-way tie on 66 featuring Ross Dixon (Renaissance Club) and his partner Stephen McAllister (S McAllister Golf); the Bathgate pairing of Louis Gaughan and Stuart Callan, plus Norman Huguet (Musselburgh) and Gareth Wright (West Linton).