CHAMPION: Mouat Wins 2017 Dumfries Challenger Series

SKIP
Bruce
Mouat

Third
Grant
Hardie

Second
Bobby
Lammie

Lead
Hammy
McMillan Jr.

Bruce Mouat (Edinburgh, SCO) won 5-3 over Jan Hess (Zug, SUI) in the Final of the Dumfries Challenger Series, held December 14 - 17, 2017 at the Idylwylde Golf and Country Club in Sudbury, Canada.

Mouat finished 3-2 in the 18-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Mouat lost 5-1 to Stuart Marshall (Arbroath, SCO), then responded with a 7-1 win over Nicholas Shaw (Barcelona, ESP). Mouat won 9-3 against Hamish Gallacher (Dumfries, SCO). Mouat went on to lose 8-6 against Mikkel Krause (Taarnby, DEN). Mouat responded with a 9-3 win over Christian Bangerter (Bern, SUI) in their final qualifying round match.

For winning the Dumfries Challenger Series Championship title, Mouat earned 15.737 world rankings points along with the $6,904CDN first prize cheque, moving up 3 spots the World Ranking Standings into 16th place overall with 326.526 total points. Mouat ranks 9th overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 217.948 points earned so far this season.

RECORD	W	L	T	PCT	HMR	STL	1PT	EEH	EES

SCORING	ENDs	PF	PA	PF/G	PA/G	+/-	EF/G	EA/G	PF/E	PA/E	BE/G

WITH HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	HE	SD

WITHOUT HAMMER	ENDs	PF	PA	BE	4s	3s	2s	PF/E	PA/E	FE	SE

2019: Ross Whyte
Ross Whyte, Robin Brydone, Duncan McFadzean, Euan Kyle
Stirling, SCO
2018: Jaap van Dorp
Wouter Gosgens, Jaap van Dorp, Laurens Hoekman, Carlo Glasbergen
Zoetermeer, NED
2017: Bruce Mouat
Bruce Mouat, Grant Hardie, Bobby Lammie, Hammy McMillan Jr.
Edinburgh, SCO
2016: Kyle Smith
Kyle Smith, Thomas Muirhead, Kyle Waddell, Cameron Smith
Stirling, SCO
2015: Bruce Mouat
Bruce Mouat, Duncan Menzies, Bobby Lammie, Gregor Cannon
Edinburgh, SCO
2014: Tom Brewster
Tom Brewster, Glen Muirhead, Ross Paterson, Hammy McMillan Jr., Thomas Muirhead
Aberdeen, UK

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