Golf news in brief: Scottish senior amateur title heads south again

FOR the second time in the past three years, the Scottish senior men's open amateur championship trophy has gone south of the border.

Charles Banks from the Stanton on the Wolds club, Nottinghamshire, headed overnight leader John Fraser (Royal Burgess) early in the third and final round and went on to win the title by two strokes from the former shinty player and schoolteacher.

Banks had three steady rounds of 73, 74 and 73 for a seven-over-par total of 220 at the par-71 Irvine Bogside course in Ayrshire. Fraser scored 75, 71 and 76 for 222 while Monifieth's Ian Hutcheon, the over-55s champion in 2003, 2004 and 2007, was joint third.