Jimmy Gunn picks up early cheque in Arizona

DORNOCH exile Jimmy Gunn collected a cheque for $5,150 for a joint-third place finish after a violent thunderstorm forced the cancellation of the third and final round of the Gateway Tour Desert Winter Series event at Raven GC.

Gunn, who had rounds of 70 and 68 for a six-under-par total of 138, will be rueing bogeys at the second, third and fourth holes in his second-round which cost him the $10,000 runner-up prize.

Florida-based Russell Knox, from Inverness, finished joint- fourth in this week's NGA Hooters Tour event at Diamond Back Golf Club, Haines City in Central Florida.

Knox had rounds of 69, 66 and 69 for a 12-under-par total of 204, which earned him $3,424.