Mother Nature may have rained on the parade but the weather couldn’t dampen Chris Currie’s jubilant spirits as he won the Deer Park Masters Order of Merit Pro-Am.
It was tightly poised at the top of the order after the opening day and an intriguing battle for supremacy was being keenly anticipated. The rain had other ideas, though, and some fearsome morning downpours left parts of the course flooded and forced the abandonment of the final round.
A result was declared on the first round scores and Currie’s fine opening seven-under 65 gave him the honours and the £1364 first prize, one shot clear of Graeme Robertson.
That card was wonderfully assembled as Currie mounted a back-nine offensive to surge to the top. Two-under at the turn, the Tartan Tour stalwart unleashed the heavy artillery coming home and blasted five birdies in a row from the 12th to barge his way to glory.
Robertson, who has enjoyed an eventful few weeks with a debut in The Open and a play-off defeat in The PGA Assistants' Championship, had raced to the turn in four-under.
He then made an eagle on the 12th and a birdie on the 13th but a bogey on the 15th would prove costly in the final analysis as the weather scuppered his hopes of reeling in Currie.
Scott Catlin, Gavin Hay, Gareth Hardy and Peter Maxwell shared third spot on four-under.
Currie’s win followed his share of the spoils in the Order of Merit 36-holer at Strathmore and lifted him to fifth on the OOM rankings.
