Chris Kelly on the mark again with one-day Cruden win

It was Kelly's fourth outright success - he was joint winner in the two other events - and he earned the 860 first prize with a quality performance. Only Kelly and the runner-up Callum Nicoll (The Els Club), with a 67, got under the course par score of 70.

After an eagle two at the second got the Cawder player in the right frame of mind, Kelly birdied the third, fourth and sixth before he cooled off with a bogey at the seventh, but a birdie at the eighth put him out in five-under-par 31.

Two more birdies followed at the tenth and 12th and a Cruden Bay pro record low score was on the cards until he bogeyed the 15th and 16th before closing with his seventh birdie of the day at the 18th in an inward 33.

Nicoll earned 680 for his 67 and David Orr (Eastwood) picked up 500 for finishing third in a field of 19 pros with a 70.

Paul Lawrie, who had an individual round of 72, led the Paul Lawrie Foundation team of his son Craig (with a handicap of 4), Alan Reid (18) and Barry Duncan (14) to victory in the pro-am event with a net score of 12-under-par 128.

lDeadline day entrants Alan Roach and Stephen Wild needed no last minute rush as they cruised to a four-shot victory in the PGA Super 60s Tournament at De Vere Belton Woods.

West Midlands Golf Club professional Roach and his Trentham-based amateur partner Wild, who came third last year with Royal Guernsey's Norman Wood, followed up their opening day 66 with an even more impressive eight-under-par 64 to take the title.

lStirling's David J Smith and Lindsay Blair from Grangemouth are the halfway leaders on one-under-par 67 in the North of Scotland Seniors Open golf tournament at Duff House Royal Golf Club, Banff.

They are a shot ahead of George Blair (Haddington) with home-course man Michael Jenkins poised for a second-round challenge after an opening round of 69.