O'Hara wins at Royal Dornoch

Paul O'Hara put in a repeat performance to win the Sandy Pipey Young Masters by three strokes for the second year in a row at Royal Dornoch.

The Clydeway Golf man won the £7,500 36-hole tournament with scores of 70 and 68 for two-under-par 138. O'Hara's victory also clinched the number one spot in the final Scottish Young Professionals' Order of Merit.

Joint second in the Sandy Pipey Young Masters on 141 were overnight leader Gavin Hay (Nairn Dunbar) (68-73) and Craig Goodwin (Duff House Royal) (72-69).

Sharing fourth place on 142 were Azerbaijan-born Kamran Zeynalov (Paul Lawrie Golf Centre), Alan Welsh (Cathkin Braes) and Keir McNicoll (Gullane).

Zeynalov's 67 was the best second round, thanks to birdies at the second, 10^th, 12^th and 17^th with only one bogey, at the 14^th.

O'Hara hit the front with birdies at the third and seventh as Hay ran up a soul-destroying triple bogey six at the short sixth and later bogeyed the 14^th and 18^th after rallying with a birdie at the long 12^th.

O'Hara's round was not perfect but very few are over Royal Dornoch! He bogeyed the 11^th but came straight back with birdies at the 12^th and 13^th and could afford the luxury of a bogey at the last and still win looking round.

Goodwin could feel pleased with his closing 69 - an improvement of three shots, only one bogey, at the seventh, and birdies at the 12^th and 15^th.