Golf

Despite heavy showers, there was a good turnout for Sunday's Reay Golf Club Junior Open with 55 youngsters taking part across the various categories.

Laura Durrand and Fern Mackay emerged as the scratch and handicap winners respectively in the Thurso Ladies' Open, sponsored by the Captain's Galley.

A very strong wind made scoring particularly tough in Reay's annual Safari Open, with no-one in the field managing to post a nett score below par.

The gents' action at Reay Golf Club has been firmly focused on the Summer Stableford with the tension starting to ramp up ahead of the final round.

Alan Swanson, Alan Mackenzie and Steve Osborne emerged as scratch, nett and senior winners respectively in Thurso Golf Club's championship finals.

Overall winners of Thurso Golf Club's three-team event for ladies were Ann Mackay, Alison Campbell and Fiona MacLeod with a score of 55.

Gary Leonard (17) recorded another win at Thurso Golf Club last week, winning round 15 of the A&A Mackay Builders Summer League.

Another busy week of action saw a number of competitions played over the Reay links, including the club's annual Mixed Open on Sunday.

Saturday saw Reay host the Donald Campbell Open, again sponsored by Nuvia, and Fred Groves had a fantastic round of 74 to win the silverware.

The Dave Lyall Memorial Trophy was contested at Thurso Golf Club on Saturday and the early starters enjoyed the best of the weather.

Golfing ties between Wick and Dornoch dating back to the 19th century have been strengthened further by a new trophy, the John Sutherland Quaich.

An environmentally friendly new practice green has been described as "a great asset" for Thurso Golf Club, with juniors in particular set to benefit.

This week's winner in the A&A Mackay Builders Summer League at Thurso was George Sanders, beating Steven Osborne on countback with 38 points.

Countback was required to determine the winner in the President’s Salver competition at Reay Golf Club after a number of good scores were recorded.

David MacCormack (Tain) and Gregor Munro (Reay) took the handicap and scratch honours respectively in the Donald Lamont Memorial Open at Wick.

Friday saw Reay Golf Club host its annual club championship finals night, with five pieces of coveted silverware up for grabs.

Saturday saw an open competition at Thurso, sponsored by JGC, and Kyle Churchill proved that his victory the previous week was no fluke.

Laura Durrand won the Atholl Cup as scratch champion in the annual Ladies' Highland Open at Pitlochry where she was among four Thurso competitors.

Conditions were blustery as the ladies and gents competed in their respective July medal competitions this week over the fast and firm Reay course.

Brent Munro and Kyle Churchill took scratch and handicap honours in the 36-hole Thurso Open, sponsored by Iain Mackay Financial Management.