OLDCORN TURNS CLOCK BACK WITH A 64 IN FIRST ROUND

AT CRAIGIELAW

Andrew Oldcorn, pictured right, almost spreadeagled the field with a splendid round of seven-under-par 64 at Craigielaw in the first round of the 36-hole Callaway Challenge in bright and latterly breezy conditions today.
Winner of the PGA championship at Wentworth in 2001, Oldcorn finished 198th in the European Tour Order of Merit last year when he missed 16 cuts in 24 competitions.
But at Craigielaw, it was the “old” Oldcorn with a bag of eight birdies – at the second, fourth, fifth, ninth, 11th, 15th, 16th and 18th in halves of 31 (four under par) and 33 (three under). The Kings Acre man’s only bogey came at the 10th.
Had it not been for a very good 66 by young Steven Clydesdale (Brucefields), Oldcorn would have left the field trailing by four shots in the £13,000 event.
But Clydesdale was able to hang on to Andrew’s bootlaces with a 66, which also included an outward half of 31 but “only” six birdies, at the fourth, sixth, seventh, ninth, 10th and 13th. Steven was only one behind Oldcorn until he bogeyed the 16th.

First-round leaders
Par 72
64 A Oldcorn (Kings Acre).]
66 S Clydesdale (Brucefields).
68 D Patrick (Mortonhall), C Russell (Dunb ar0, A Mackenzie (Liberton), M King (Kingsfield), C Nicoll (Prestwick).
69 J McGhee (Turnhouse), C Campbell (Carnegie Club Skibo), D Robertson (Czech Design), A Lockhart (Ladybank).
70 P Malone (Braid Hills), R Cameron (McDonald Ellon), M Loftus (Cowglen), M Urquhart (Inverness), D Orr (East Rendfrewshire), J Sharp (Pro Golf Experience).