APRIL ROSEHAUGH MEDAL

 For Senior golfers, especially those who have passed their three score years & ten, there is an incentive for playing in competitions, the chance to post
 a nett score which is below their age, obviously the older one gets the easier it should become, and so it turned out for a few Senior Fortrose
 members playing in the first Rosehaugh medal qualifier of 2004. In the case of ex wartime Commando Martin McLaren however, he not only
 bettered his age by an incredible 16 shots nett, but his gross score of 74 was 3 shots under; all this in conditions that were not conducive to low
 scoring, a fierce westerly wind caused havoc with many of the returns, only eight out of 63 players managed sub par nett rounds, as the CSS of 71 testified.

 Martin, who believes in the old adage that practice makes perfect certainly produced what may turn out to be the round of the season, and apparently
 there is no truth in the rumour that he plays with a "Commando" ball. Alan Drever, another in the Senior bracket must have thought that he was in
 with a chance when he returned a gross 78 (nett 63) in the slighter better conditions that the morning starters faced, but no one would have forecast a
 nett 61 in that wind. Alan however must have been pleased with his form, he equalled his age nett and was a full 5 shots ahead of the slightly
younger Tom Forbes & the even younger Corin Stewart, Corin did produce the best scratch score of the day, a par round of 71.

RESULTS.

1st. M.S.McLaren (13)....................................................74...nett 61.
2nd. A.Drever (15)...........................................................78...nett 63.
3rd. T.Forbes (11)............................................................79...nett 68. B.i.H.
4th. C.Stewart (3).............................................................71...nett 68.

CSS 71.