Hot Currie lands victory at Kirkhill

Caldwell's Chris Currie scored his second win of the season with a three-under-par round of 67 in the Kirkhill Golf Club pro-am.

A winner at Cardross in May, it was the consistent and busy Currie's 12^th top 10 finish in 16 outings this season.

Fifth last off the tee in a field of more than 40 teams, Currie swooped to dislodge clubhouse leader Graham Fox (Clydeway Golf) whose 69, at that time, was the only sub-par score over a short but tricky course.

Currie's card could be summed up as the proverbial game of two halves. He was six-under-par after only five holes. Starting with an eagle three, he birdied the second, short third, fourth and long fifth.

And his supply of sub-par figures dried up after that. He bogeyed the short sixth and 12^th and also the 18^th. But that flying start had given Currie a big enough advantage to weather the 13 holes in the doldrums.

Runner-up Fox had five birdies and four bogeys in his 69.

Four players tied for third place with par 70s - Scott Herald (Mearns Castle), Steven Taylor (Bothwell Castle), Jason McCreadie (Buchanan Castle) and Scott Catlin (Greenburn).

Currie also led the winning team of amateurs to victory with a net score of 56. They were Iain Stephen (9), Jeff Kelly (13) and Bobby Kay (5).