A West Lothian golf pro secured an early birthday present of a place in the grand final of Europe's largest pro-am.
Greenburn pro Scott Catlin, who turns 34 next week, swept to a two-shot victory with the aid of amateur partner Michael Carrigan in the regional final of the PGA National Pro-Am Championship at Lanark.
The duo compiled an unbeatable nine-under-par tally to deny home pro Grant Robertson and his partner Jamie Lamb an all expenses paid trip to the grand final at the Sirene Beach & Hotel Resort and Antalya Golf Club.
The victory caps a hectic couple of weeks for Catlin as he arrived at the event 24 hours after competing at the Scottish PGA Championship at Gleneagles and only two weeks after becoming a father for the second time with the birth of son Rhys.
"It's my birthday next week and we've just had a wee baby two weeks ago so winning this is just brilliant...it's been a brilliant two weeks," said Catlin.
"It's been golf all week having played 72 holes at Gleneagles and then coming here to play this. I don't feel too bad though there have been a few long days as I've been getting up at 5.30am with the baby before going off to play golf."
But there were no baby blues to banish at Lanark as Catlin found the course very much to his liking after four days at Gleneagles, where he finished 31st.
"Gleneagles was really, really tight, so coming here the course seemed really open and it seemed a lot easier with the driver.
"I fell away on the last day at Gleneagles but got everything going right again here and I'm thrilled because one of the members has been to the venue and said it's the best course he's ever played.
"We started well and Mike played well throughout coming in with some scores during the round."
A combination of nine birdies and nine pars did the job for the duo, four of the scores in the opening five holes to set them on a winning march.
Amateur Carrigan, a 39-year-old taxi driver from Motherwell, revealed he wasn't even aware he was playing until last week.
"I didn't know I'd qualified to play in this until Scott called me about it," said the 15 handicapper.
"I'd just thought I'd won the monthly medal, which was back in April, and thought nothing more of it.
"Now I'm feeling brilliant as I've never won anything significant. I'd never played with Scott before this but it worked out brilliantly. I played OK and when I did have a bad hole Scott was there."
The winning pair will compete against 15 other regional finalists during the expenses paid five-day, five-star trip to the Sirene Beach & Hotel Resort on Turkey's Mediterranean Coast from November 30 to December 4.
The tournament, which attracts more than 100,000 entries, is now in its 24th staging and has been held in Portugal, Spain, Grand Bahamas and Sardinia prior to Turkey last year.