Mann settles for second best

Thailand-based Kenny Walker won the Scottish senior professional championship at Marriott Dalmahoy on a card countback after a 36-hole tie on six-under-par 135 with Fraser Mann (Carnoustie Golf Club).

Walker had rounds over the West and East Course of 66 and 69 against Mann's 64 and 71.

The better second round was the tie-breaker with Kenny, originally from Edinburgh, winning the £600 first prize and Mann getting the runner-up award of £450. 

Walker, who comes home to Scotland every summer when it gets too hot for him in Thailand, bogeyed the second hole in his second-round 69 but covered the 16 holes in five under par with birdies at the third, fourth, sixth, seventh and ninth, turning in four-under 32, before parring every hole after the turn.

Mann, who had a two-stroke advantage over Walker from a first-round 66, will be rueing not so much a bogey at the second hole but a double bogey six at the 13th.

He had birdies at the fifth, eight, ninth, 10th and 15th in halves of 34 and 37.

Walker and Mann earned £525 each.

Craig Everett (Caldwell), joint first-round leader with a 64, finished third on 136 after a second-round 72.