SHAUN FLIES OVER FROM
NZ TO JOIN SCOTS
IN AUSSIE STROKE-PLAY

Five Scots are in the field for the Australian men's amateur stroke-play championship which begins on Thursday near Sydney at the New South Wales Golf Club's Dr Alister-MacKenzie-designed links course on the Botany Bay shoreline of the Pacific Ocean.
They are the Scottish Golf Union squad of Kevin McAlpine (Alyth), Scott Henry (Cardross), Paul O'Hara (Colville Park) and Lloyd Saltman (Craigielaw) plus Scottish boys' open stroke-play champion Shaun McAllister (Craigielaw), pictured right, who has flown over from New Zealand where he has been spending the winter for the second year in a row.
England have six in the championship - Seve Benson, Gary Boyd, David Horsey, Stephen Lewton, Jamie Moul and Ben Parker.
There will be a cut to the leading 70 players and ties after Friday's second round. The top 32 at the end of the 72-hole championship will qualify for the Australian amateur match-play championship at the same venue from Monday to Thursday next week.
Eric Ramsay (Carnoustie) won the Aussie match-play title in 2005.