SCOTS ARE LEADING QUALIFIERS IN
EUROPEAN SENIORS CHAMPIONSHIP

Defending champions Scotland were the leading qualifiers for the championship match-play flight in the European men's senior amateur team golf championship at Bled Golf Club, Slovenia today.
Stephen Ellis (Cowal) scored a 70, which helped him share the individual 36-hole honours with Ireland's Seamus McParland on one-under-par 145.
Ian Hutcheon (Monifieth) scored a 73 and finished ninth equal in the qualifying. John Johnston (Royal Aberdeen) had a second-round 75, Gordon MacDonald (Callander) a 78, and Donald McCart (Castlerock) slashed 14 shots off his first-day score to return a 73.
Brian Grieve (King James VI), Scotland's lowest first-day scorer with a 71, slumped to a non-counting 80. Only five of the six team players' scores counted daily.

LEADING QUALIFYING TOTALS
741 Scotland 372 369.
745 Ireland 382 363
746 England 371 375
760 France 387 373
763 Spain 383 380, Germany 384 379.
767 Sweden 385 382.
LEADING INDIVIDUAL TOTALS
Par 146 (2 x 73)
145 S Ellis (Sco) 75 70, S McParland (Ire) 74 71.
146 A Morrison (Eng) 71 75, H Smyth (Ire) 75 71.
Other scores:
149 I C Hutcheon (Sco) 76 73, C Reynolds (Eng) 75 74 (jt 9th).
151 J W Johnston (Sco) 76 75, B Grieve (Sco) 71 80 (jt 14th).
152 G MacDonald (Sco) 74 78 (jt 21st).
160 D McCart (Sco) 87 73, D Lane (Eng) 77 83 (jt 55th).