Golf: Young can trouble Armstrong in Turnhouse final

Published on Friday 3 July 2009 10:00

ONE of the host club's rising stars stands between Steven Armstrong and a first win in the Turnhouse Open when he tees off in tonight's final.

His opponent is Scott Young, the Turnhouse junior champion, and, judging by Young's performance in the semi-final, Armstrong certainly won't get things all his own way.

Young defeated the defending champion, Graham Robertson, in the last four, having laid the foundations for a fabulous win by starting par-birdie-eagle-birdie-par to be four up.

Five down at the turn, Robertson rallied to win four holes in a row from the tenth. But Young then managed to regain his composure and he won the 14th and 15th, both with birdies.

A half in par-4s at the 16th gave the teenager, who'd been knocked out in the first round in his two previous appearances in the event, a 3 and 2 win.

In the other match, Armstrong, who lost in the final back in 1992, had a ding-dong battle with Pumpherston's Mark Timmins.

Timmins stole a half in birdie-3s at the 16th and was then conceded the next after Armstrong had tree trouble through the green.

At the last, Timmins was closer in two shots but Armstrong holed from 35 feet for an eagle to give himself another chance to land the title.