Alexander David Gregor MacKenzie (born 9 July 1956 in Inverness) is a former Scotland international rugby union player.^[1] His regular playing position was Prop.

He first went to Blairmore School at Glass near Huntly. A small primary school, it also produced former Scotland captain David Sole.^[2]

MacKenzie was later educated at Strathallan School in Perthshire.^[1] In his younger days, he played at hooker and then flanker but the master at Strathallan converted him to Prop at the age of 16 and that position stuck.^[3]

He played for Highland.^[4]

Highland lost the player to New Zealand in 1977 when Mackenzie went to study agriculture at Lincoln College in Lincoln Town.^[5] While in New Zealand he played college rugby and trained with the All Blacks.^[6]

He went on a Barbarians tour playing the Welsh sides Newport and Penarth.^[7]

McKenzie headed to the Borders, hoping that moving there would put him more in contention for international honours. He played for Gala first. That single game, on 8 September 1984, was to cause McKenzie later issues as he was later banned for playing for Selkirk in any Border League matches that season; since their rules did not permit a player to play for two different Border League clubs in a season.^[8]

McKenzie played for Selkirk a matter of weeks later, moving from Gala, as a committee member on the Selkirk board had a vacancy on his farm.^[9]

He later returned north to play for Highland again.^[10]

McKenzie played for North and Midlands.^[11]

On moving to Selkirk, he then played for South of Scotland District.^[12]

On returning to the Highlands, he was again named in the North and Midlands squad.^[13]

He had 3 caps for Scotland U16s while at Strathallan School.^[14]

He captained Scotland U21s.^[15]

On four occasions he was selected as a Scotland 'B' replacement.^[16]

MacKenzie was capped once in 1984 at prop against Australia on 8 December as part of their 1984 tour of Britain and Ireland.^[1] Australia won the match 37–12 at Murrayfield.^[1]

He ran the family farm at Nigg with his brother Kenneth.^[17]

He moved to the Borders then worked on a farm at Selkirk.

He now runs a farm near Hanmer Springs, Canterbury, New Zealand.^[1]

Shortly after moving to Selkirk and working on a farm there, Mackenzie got a job in Edinburgh as a trainee consultant at Hill Samuel Investment Services. Without the farm work keeping him fit, Mackenzie turned to the weights at the gym.^[18]

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