A number of notable performances caught the eye but none more so than that of Gullane's Heather MacRae – who is the first female to win the monthly Sunderland PGA Player of the Month award.
MacRae clinched the award, which wins her one of Sunderland's new UV Protection range shirts, on the back of becoming the first woman since 1933 to qualify for the Tartan Tour's flagship event – the Scottish PGA Championship.
MacRae's two-over-par
75 at Downfield was more than sufficient to assure her of a place at Gleneagles.
That performance came on the back of winning the opening event of the Ryder Cup Wales WPGA One Day Series at Dunham Forest, where she was the only player under par.
The Tartan Tour had two further strong candidates to claim the monthly honour in Craig Lee and David Orr.
FinishesLee's record of played one won one, that being the Northern Open, thrust him to the top of the Order of Merit.
A place behind him is Orr, who secured the share of two Pro-Am victories and two top ten finishes in the opening OoM events.
At the other end of the country, Chris Gill's second career Order of Merit, the Total Triumph Classic plus second place at the Cornish Festival, behind European Tour player David Dixon, had him in the running, along with George Ryall – for performances in his native West Country along with his success at the Senior PGA Professional Championship.
