Host club hope bows out of Scottish Amateur amid confusion
When the pair shook hands on the 18th green, Halliday thought they’d finished all square and was about to head for the first tee when Burgess declared that he’d actually won by one hole.
The pair spent around five minutes working back through the round before Halliday, the Royal Aberdeen club champion, had to accept that he’d miscalculated from the seventh hole onwards.
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Hide Ad“We needed a calculator to work it out there at the end,” joked Burgess, a 21-year-old who has completed two years of a golf scholarship at Armstrong State in Savannah, Georgia.
“It was definitely in my head that I had won at the last, but I think the scorers got it wrong somewhere and the confusion may have been caused when I went straight to the eighth tee after making a mess of the seventh.”