ENTRIES CLOSE TODAY FOR SCOTTISH BOYS’
CHAMPIONSHIP


Entries for the Scottish boys’ championship at Dunbar from April 9 to 14 close today.
The capacity field for the match-play event is 256. According to the list on the Scottish Golf Union website last night, there were 293 entries at that point – which means there will be some 40+ boys with the highest handicaps balloted out.
Banchory’s James Byrne, currently playing for Scotland in the quadrangular contest in Rome, has the lowest handicap (+2.3) of the entries received so far.
James reached the semi-finals at West Kilbride last year before being eliminated by Michael Main (Thornton) who, in turn, lost to fellow Fifer James White (Lundin) in the 36-hole finial.
Michael is still young enough to enter again for this year’s championship. His handicap is +0.8 compared with 1.7 at this time in 2006.
Byrne has improved his handicap from +0.8 12 months ago.
There is a "James White" in this year's entry list but he is a five-handicap St Andrews New Golf Club member.