Sunday morning saw the open contestants competed for a place in the quarterfinal. From 44 competitors down to 20 it was going to be tough to make the cut, quality of workmanship and speed would be the order of the day. The competition progressed through the afternoon with all the semi finals, with competitors reckoning that this is one of the hardest competitions to make it into the 4 stand final.

The evening started off with the Junior final where they shore four sheep in around 6 minutes with newcomer to Lochearnhead, Gavin Fenwick from Kelso taking home the silverwear. Taking runner-up place was David Gibson from Helensburgh with Dafydd Jones, Maes Truan, Llanelidan, North Wales and Andrew Houston, Blacklunans, Blairgowrie taking 3rd and 4th places respectively.

The traditional hand-shearing event saw a very close final with past winner David Ferguson, Newton Stewart coming out the victor, ahead of Tom McKellar, from Bridge of Orchy, Neil Campbell, Abefoyle and Euan Cameron, Kinloch Rannoch taking 2nd, 3rd and 4th places.

The International relay was next, where teams of three from New Zealand, England, Scotland and Wales competed in what was a crowd-thrilling event with supports from each of these nations cheering on their team. The Welsh Team of Wyn Jones, Eryl Williams and Rhys Jones were triumphant, Scotland were 0.13 points behind to put them in 2nd place with New Zealand and England taking 3rd and 4th places respectively.

Three Scotsmen and an New Zealander lined up in the Intermediate final with last year’s winner John Gibson from Helensburgh taking the red ribbon ahead of Davie Gorland from NZ, Stewart Kennedy from Aberfeldy and Brian Simpson from Blairgowrie.

Once again Lochearnhead welcomed the Northern Ireland team consisting of Kieran McCullough and Ian Montgomery led by team manager Frankie McCullough. The Scottish representatives of the test were Simon Bedwell and John Little with team manager Doug Lambie, once again the Scottish team on the blackface hoggs proved to be the winners in a very close fought and exciting event.

The line up in the senior final, saw three Scotsmen and a New Zealander working for a local Perthshire contractor, with the pace moving up another gear the finalists shore their 12 sheep in around 10 minutes, Grant Lundie from Dundee with a board score of 0.92 and cleanest pen took top honours with Andrew Donald from Ayrshire taking runner up position with Gordon Nicol from Newcastleton taking 3rd and Tad MacNeilage from New Zealand taking 4th.

The finale of the day, the Open Final, once again got the crowd of their seats, with the top four shearers of the day shearing 20 sheep each, for the this coveted title. One newcomer to this final and 3 previous finalists shore their 20 sheep in around 13 ½ minutes. Crowd favourite and popular Scotsman Gavin Mutch from Huntly came out victor, following on from his great achievements at the Golden Shears in Masterton earlier this year. New Zealander, previous open winner and New Zealand Champion, Johnny Kirkpatrick settled for 2nd place, with Nicky Beynon from South Wales and young Simon Bedwell from Garve, Ross-shire took 3rd and 4th places respectively.