MacRae secures Scottish PGA Championship slot
22/04/2015
Heather MacRae (Gleneagles), Paul Wytrazek (Burntisland) and Craig Everett (Caldwell) headed the qualifiers from the first Gleneagles Scottish PGA Championship qualifier at Crieff.
The trio secured their slots for the final over the 2014 Ryder Cup venue’s King’s Course with solid two-under-par 69s, and MacRae was delighted to maintain her 100 per cent success rate in qualifying for the main event.
"I've only played in the qualifiers once before because they've clashed with something else I was playing in," said MacRae who won the Paul Lawrie Ladies Tartan Tour championship two years ago.
"I made it through that first time and I'm delighted to have done it again because the King's is my favourite course."
MacRae birdied the second, sixth, eighth, 11th and 18th in halves of 35-34.
She is not the only female professional to have played in the Scottish PGA Championship as Lossiemouth-born Meg Farquhar played in the tournament over her home course in 1933.
Wytrazek birdied the second, fifth, seventh and ninth in 34-35 figures while Everett had the fewest birdies - the fourth, ninth and 12th, because he had only one bogey, at the 18th, in halves of 35-34.
