MACAULAY LEADING SCOT AS

JONES CUP INVITATIONAL

NEARS FINISH IN GEORGIA
With the leaders still to finish in the Jones Cup Invitational over the Frederica Golf Club course at St Simons Island, Georgia, Callum Macaulay, pictured right, from Tulliallan, a student at Mississippi University, took over from Lloyd Saltman (Craigielaw) as the leading Scot out on the course, moving to three under par with a birdie-eagle burst at the 14th and 15.
Scottish open amateur stroke-play champion Scott Henry (Cardross) had a 75 for 225. He had one birdie, at the sixth but bogeys at the fourth, ninth, 15th and 16th in halves of 37 and 38.
Scottish amateur match-play champion Kevin McAlpine from Alyth finally mastered the course at the third attempt. After rounds of 80 and 75, Kevin signed off with a one-under-par 71 for a 10-over-par total of 226.
Kevin started at the 10th and birdied the 12th but cancelled that out with bogey 6s at the 15th and 18th. But he went below par with birdies at t the first, fourth and seventh. What a pity he finished – at the ninth – with a bogey 5.

KNOX SAVES BEST FOR LAST
After a pair of undistinguished 79s, Russell Knox from Inverness, who was invited to play on the strength of his record for Jacksonville State University, saved his best for last – a 74 for a total of 17-over-par 233.
Start at the 10th, Knox required 41 shots for his first nine holes, bogeying the 11th, 16th, 17th and running up a double-bogey 7 at the 18th.
It was a game of two halves, however, because Russell played holes one to nine in two-under-par 34 with birdies at the sixth and ninth.

JONES CUP INVITATIONAL
Frederica Golf Club, St Simons Island, Georgia
FINAL TOTALS
Par 216 (3 x 72)
Players from US unless stated
212 C Knost 74 73 65.
213 G Todd 72 74 67.
216 B Todd 69 76 71.
217 G Boyd (Eng) 75 74 68. D Van der Walt (SAf) 77 71 69.
218 J Parry (Eng) 73 74 71, M Green 73 74 71, T Can 71 77 70, D May 72 74 72, P Uihlein 74 72 72, N Smith 75 72 71.
219 C Forrester 76 73 70, P Waring (Eng) 76 71 72.
220 A Eaton 70 75 75.
221 M Harrell 77 72 72, E Richardson (Eng) 77 72 72.
222 M Swan 75 74 73, B Martin 75 74 73, M McCoy 76 73 73, E Tanner 72 74 76, D Melnyk 72 75 75, M Hoffman 72 76 74.
224 H Swafford 73 76 75, J Grodzinsky 77 75 72, K Quinn 76 77 71, P Patterson 76 77 71.
225 S Henry (Sco) 76 74 75, D Delcher 76 74 75.
226 K McAlpine (Sco) 80 75 71, A Bratton 79 76 71, J Byrd 71 75 80, J Miller 74 79 73, J Blixt (Swe) 82 72 72.
227 N Edwards (Wal) 79 79 69, K Tway 78 72 77, B Marek 78 77 72, J Knox 80 74 73..
228 J Moul (Eng) 79 76 73, T Brown 73 82 73.
229 C Lutz 74 77 78, J Kelly 79 77 73, G Marucci 77 79 73, T Brennan 76 82 71, D Womack 77 76 76.
231 G Scnheider 77 78 76, G Elliott 81 75 75
233 R Knox (Sco) 79 79 75, T Adams 80 80 73.
235 M McDermott (Ire) 77 82 76.
236 K Mikkelsen 78 81 77.
243 S Saunders 78 81 84.