It
takes either a special player or a special person to get Scots around
the world to unite in grief and, in the case of Colin Gillies, who
passed away this week at the age of 58, that has happened because, to
his credit, he ticked both those boxes.
When
I first started to cover the Tartan Tour, the circuit run by the PGA in
Scotland, in the mid-1980s, the likes of Russell Weir, John Chillas,
Craig Maltman, Iain Collins, Kevin Stables and Alastair Webster were
some of the leading lights.
It soon became apparent, though, that two young Scottish professionals
were going to be challenging the old guard, so to speak, before too long
and that did, indeed, prove to be the case.
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