O'Hara completes Sandy Pipey Young Masters hat-trick

Paul O'Hara completed an impressive hat-trick of victories in the Sandy Pipey Young Masters at Royal Dornoch.

The Clydeway Golf man, already winner in the Scottish Young Professionals' title this year and runner-up to Paul McKechnie in last week's Paul Lawrie Invitational at Deeside, won by seven strokes with an eight-under-par 36-hole total of 132, considerably lower than last year (138) and also in 2013 (136).

His rounds at Dornoch were 63 and 69, the latter being made up of birdies at the sixth, ninth, 12^th and 15^th, offset by bogeys at the fourth, 11^th and 17^th in halves of 34 and 35.

The only other round of 69 on the final day was returned by Craig Goodwin (Duff House Royal) who came through to share second place with Greg Paterson (St Andrews Links Golf Academy) on 139.

Goodwin birdied the first, fourth, fifth and ninth in an outward half of 32 but a double bogey six at the 11^th took much of the steam out of his engine and he came home in a birdie-less 37.

Paterson had three second-round birdies but five bogeys cost him a 71, three more than his opening-day score.