PGA EuroPro Tour Championship on Azores

JACK DOHERTY LEADING SCOT
DESPITE LATE BOGEYS

Jack Doherty is the leading Scot in the weather-hit PGA EuroPro Tour Championship being played at Batalha Golf Club on the Azores Islands out in the Atlantic.
The majority of the players spent more hours than they would normally be on a golf course on Sunday, finishing their first rounds after Saturday’s play was held up and then cut short by high winds and rain and then going out again to play a second 18 holes.
Doherty, pictured right, is in joint fourth place on 141 with scores of 73 and 68 for the par-72 lay-out. He is four shots behind leader Michael Skelton (68-69).
South Wales-based Doherty ruined what could have been a 66 or even better with bogeys at the 15th and 17th in his second round. He had six birdies – the first, third, seventh, 12th, 16th and 18th.
Portpatrick’s Euan Little, playing out of Country Tipperary Golf Club, is on level par 144 after scores of 74 and 74. He is sharing 15th place.
RESPECTABLE SCORECARD
Euan had to birdie the 16th and 18th to put some semblance of respectability on a second-round scorecard that had bogeys at the sixth, eighth, ninth, 10th, 13th and 15th. He had earlier bogeys at the fourth and 12th.
Eric Ramsay (Carnoustie), Aberdeen’s Graham Gordon and Graeme Brown from Montrose are all on two-over 146, sharing 23rd place.
Eric has had a pair of 73s. Like Little, he had to grab a couple of late birdies to reduced the damaged caused by bogeys at the second and 13th and a double bogey at the 16th. Eric’s three birdies in his second round came at the first, 127th and 18th.
Graham Gordon also had a double bogey on his second-round 74 – at the 14th. He also bogeyed the 11th, 13th and 16th in an inward half of 39. His birdies came at the first, 12th, and 17th.
There was not a lot of deviation from par on Graeme Brown’s second-round 73. He bogeyed the seventh and ninth to be out in 38 and came home in eight pars and a birdie at the 12th.
Paul Doherty is the worst-placed Scot, back in joint 35th place on 150 with scores of 77 and 73.
Paul had birdies at the first, fifth, ninth and 11th but, unfortunately for Jack Doherty’s younger brother, he had too many bogeys – at the second, third, 10th, 12th and 17th.
There was no cut for the field of 53.

LEADING SECOND-ROUND TOTALS
Par 72
137 M Skelton (Eng) 69 69.
140 S Cage (Eng) 75 65, L Wood (Eng) 71 69.
141 J Doherty (Sco) 73 68 (33-35). J Wells (Eng) 74 567, N Fox (Ire) 71 70, D James (Eng) 70 71, C Hanson (Eng) 69 72.
142 M Cort (Eng) 74 68, A Frayne (Eng) 72 70, M Ramsale (Eng) 70 72.
Other scores:
144 E Little (Sco) 70 74 (38-36) (jt 15th).
146 E Ramsay (Sco) 73 73 (36-37), G Gordon (Sco) 72 74 (35-39), G Brown (Sco) 73 73 (38-35) (jt 24rd).
150 P Doherty (Sco) 77 73 (35-38) (jt 35th).