Hutcheon and Kelly share spoils

Greig Hutcheon (Banchory) and Cawder's Chris Kelly earned £955 a piece in sharing victory with four-under-par 66s in the Asset Brokers International pro-am at McDonald Ellon Golf Club.

Hutcheon birdied the first, fourth, fifth, ninth and 14th, dropping a costly late shot with a bogey at the 17th. Kelly birdied the first, second, fourth, 13th and 14th but shed a shot at the seventh. But the real "loser" was Newburgh on Ythan club pro Ian Bratton who fell foul of the notorious difficult finishing holes at Ellon. Needing two pars to win by a couple of shots, he bogeyed the 17th and ran up a double bogey at the 18th for a 67, which put him a tie for third place with former Northern Open champion Fraser Mann.

Mann led the Surelift trio of amateurs, Brian Emslie (handicap 14), George McIntosh (9) and Gordon Thomson (11), to victory in the team event with a best-ball net score of 20-under-par 120.