Final SGU Order of Merit counting tournament

MACAULAY LEADS NEWLANDS

TROPHY FIELD BY TWO

STROKES AT LANARK

Scottish Golf Union Order of Merit leader Callum Macaulay (Tulliallan) holds a two-stroke lead from his closest rival in the points table, Wallace Booth (Comrie), at the halfway stage of the final counting 72-hole open of the season, the Newlands Trophy tournament at Lanark Golf Club.
Macaulay, pictured right, who beat Glenn Campbell (Blairgowrie) in a play-off to win the South-east District Open at West Linton last weekend, had rounds of 68 and 70 for a 36-hole tally of two-under-par 138.
Booth shares second place with Scottish youth champion Scott Borrowman (Dollar) on 140. Booth has had a pair of 70s, Borrowman a 69 and a 71.
Former Scottish boys’ match-play champion James White (Lundin), now a student at Stirling University) is in fourth place on his own on 141.
Teenager James Byrne (Banchory) won the 72-hole event last year with an aggregate of nine-under-par 271, his first SGU Order of Merit tournament win. It will be interesting to see how close to that total the 2007 winner gets.
A total of 40 players with aggregates of 151 or better qualified for Sunday's final two rounds.
Probably the biggest "name" among the non-qualifiers was this year's Scottish boys' match-play champion Paul Ferrier of the Baberton club. He had rounds of 74 and 80 for 154, to miss out by three shots.

SECOND-ROUND TOTALS

Par 140 (2 x 70)
138 C Macaulay (Tulliallan) 68 70.
140 W Booth (Comrie) 70 70, S Borrowman (Dollar) 69 71.
141 J White (Lundin) 71 70.
142 S Henderson (Hamilton) 74 68, M Hillson (Craigielaw) 75 67, A Dick (Shotts) 72 70.
143 G Paterson (St Andrews New) 71 72, D Henderson (Hamilton) 75 68.
144 J Paterson (Hayston) 71 73, S Stewart-Cation (Balbirnie Park) 74 70, C Watson (East Renfrewshire) 77 67.
145 A Howard (Murrayshall) 74 71, R Kellett (Colville Park) 73 72..
146 J Johnston (Lanark) 77 69.
147 M McLeod (Lanark) 72 75, S Rennie (Airdrie) 71 76, S McGarvey (Glencorse) 77 70, S McEwan (Caprington) 72 75, E Polson (Inverness) 73 74.
148 S Lockhart (Bathgate) 73 75, B Souter (Leven GS) 74 74, C Gray (West Kilbride) 74 74.
149 G Tough (Letham Grange) 77 72, C Lawton (Stirling) 73 76, S McGrenaghan (Cochrane Castle) 77 72, P McLean Peterhead) 75 74, J Shanks (Irvine) 76 73, T Spencer (Inchmarlo) 75 74, D Murray (Newbattle) 72 77, R McKenzie (Easter Moffat) 78 71.
150 J Hempstock (Dumfries & Galloway) 74 76, S Hume (Murrayshall) 75 75, G Dear (Murrayshall) 79 71, M Dargie (Cawder) 78 72, G McCulloch (Lanark) 73 77, J Lockie (Tantallon) 80 70, M Gray (Lanark) 75 75, M Isaacs (Nairn Dunbar) 73 77,
151 A Main (Thornton) 79 72.
MISSED THE CUT
152 A Wallace (Glenbervie) 79 73, D Renwick (Worthing) 72 80, F Campbell (Clober) 77 76, B Campbell (Malone) 79 73, S Bordon (US) 76 76.
153 G Stevenson (Whitecraigs) 76 77.
154 P Ferrier (Baberton) 74 80, C Colraine (Windyhill) 75 79, M Russo (Drumpellier) 78 76, C Haugh (Cathkin Braes) 77 77.
155 J Lamb (Lanark) 79 76, S Clazey (Lanark) 79 76, R Craig (Merchants of Edinburgh) 77 78.
156 E Malcolm (Dunfermline) 75 81.
157 M Pennycott (Whiting Bay) 75 82, P Dempsey (Alloa) 79 78..
158 J Hendrick (Pollock) 79 79.
159 O Lavelle (Elderslie) 78 81.
160 I McMillan (Glenearn) 81 79.
161 T McInroy (North Berwick) 83 78.
162 A Rogers (Monifieth) 82 80.
163 O Morton (Glenearn) 83 80.

164 G Reid (Edinburgh Thistle) 84 80.
165 L Ramsay (City of Edinburgh) 84 81.