David Law makes mockery of Walker Cup snub

DAVID Law may not have been considered good enough to earn one of ten spots in the Great Britain and Ireland team for next week's Walker Cup at Royal Aberdeen but, with a perfect sense of timing, he left a field of seasoned professionals trailing in his wake to become the first amateur to win the Aberdeen Asset Management Northern Open in more than 40 years.Emulating his Hazlehead clubmate Sandy Pirie's feat at Cruden Bay in 1970, the 20-year-old Aberdonian spreadeagled the field with a stunning eight-under-par 62 - the best-ever score shot at this excellent venue but not a course record due to preferre d lies being in operation - to take a three-stroke lead into the final round of a fascinating event in the north-east.

And, though he was overtaken briefly by Hayston's Stephen Gray over that closing circuit, Law closed with a 68 for a 14-under-par total of 266, winning by two shots from Gray, who closed with two 67s, with Dunbar's Neil Fenwick two shots further back in third after he signed off with a brace of 68s.

The consolation for 37-year-old Gray was that he picked up the top prize of £4,000 and, in doing so, has moved to the top of both the Tartan Tour order of merit and money list heading into this weekend's 36-hole pro-am at Dumfries and Galloway.

But the day undoubtedly belonged to the likeable Law, though he refused to gloat about his undoubted good form as the GB&I team he was controversially left out of a fortnight ago were in St Andrews today to prepare for the biennial clash with the Americans.

"The timing of this is more important to other people than it is to me," said the Paul Lawrie protege, who had revealed earlier in the week that he'd been given the perfect escape from Aberdeen next week after receiving an invitation to play in the KLM Open at Hilversum.

Eyebrows had already been raised after Law was overlooked by captain Nigel Edwards and the other GB&I selectors following his impressive performance in winning the Scottish Amateur Championship for a second time in three years at the end of July by picking up four points out of six in the Home Internationals at Rosses Point in Ireland last month.

That decision now looks even more bizarre on the back of a last-day display here that was oozing with class from start to finish. Three off the lead at the start, he bagged eight birdies in a flawless morning round, an effort made all the more impressive given that a few of the tees had been moved back from earlier in the week.

An "edgy" start to the final round saw him three-putt the second from 12 feet and, after a birdie at the fifth, he dropped another shot at the seventh.

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Martin Dempster: Castle Stuart in the first Scottish open the contraction makes its

IT passed with flying colors, of course, was the name of the test, until the weather gods intervened question mark left the odd report that has selected the Barclays Scottish open on the Castle Stuart. While the review is initiated by encouraging them to arrive at the Inverness find area was embraced in the open, the last event in the armrests on Monday morning. With all due regard for the people, and around Loch Lomond, you might have tried to know ma jor sporting event was not held for 15 years, except for the juuttui coloring, the A82.
Compared to the Scottish open in swine fever had hit the capital of the Highlands. Event received countless mentions in a local radio station. Pubs in and around the city centre was also hung out welcome banners and the Golf course in veljeys Tuesday evening marching band-in-tube down one of the main throughfares.
The latter had nothing to do in any of the Scottish open, but this is fast on the finance charge memo, the 2014 Ryder Cup organizers, Gleneagles went down a treat: it's so close, high street, or even a pair of Auchterarder Perth nights during the week and then do exactly the same.
Weather-Wise, Monday was the best day of the week, the Moray Firth coast. Stuart Castle was full gastronomic, just a shame that only a handful of players and spectators were there to enjoy the conditions, which were those who followed later in the week to complete.
Even on a wet Wednesday in some entertaining for Barclays well-heeled customers in the pro-am the day important to the safety of the sponsor does not seem subdued spirits too much. At this point, the course itself, and in parking areas were holding very well, indeed, etc.
Rain the previous day and part of the bounce had been off course, and when the gun went on Thursday morning, it looked at first as though the European tour's newest location was going to be eaten alive in the media centre-the scoreboard was swamped in red figures.
By the end of the day, however, no one had managed to do better than that of the 65-to-seven-point, and 64, with two more shots than the John Deere Classic, responsible for the round of the PGA Tour were recorded for Reavie Chez signed the next day, before the dream turned into a nightmare for best score. Until then, we had not heard of the dissenting voice is protected. Pádraig Harrington, and Phil Mickelson led the players had gushed praise, it is one of the best new courses, they were clapped eyes in recent years, hailing the. What happened on Saturday was the most unfortunate and have tainted some of the views of the crying shame is.
The concern about the Castle Stuart persons, the European Tour and Barclays, which had two landslides on the course, and some of the action is to be, whatever the need, and try to stop the same thing happens again, should take place again at the rules of the gods in future years to pick.




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