SCOTS SURVIVE HALFWAY CUT IN
AUSTRALIAN CHAMPIONSHIP

Australian-based Scot Stephen Speirs and former Scottish boys' match-play champion John Hempstock (Dumfries & Galloway) survived the halfway cut in the Australian men's open amateur golf championship at Royal Adelaide and The Grange golf clubs.
Speirs shot 73 and 76 for four-over-par 149 to be lying in joint 44th place in a field of 292. Hempstock had a pair of 75s for 150 to be in joint 57th position. Players with totals of 152 or better qualified for the final two rounds of stroke-play.
Three Australians, Matthew Griffin, Josh Younger and Michael Foster are leading on four-under-par 141.
England's Dale Whitnell is tied for fourth place on 142 with scores of 69 and 73.

AUSTRALIAN MEN'S OPEN AMATEUR STROKE-PLAY CHAMPIONSHIP
Royal Adelaide & The Grange golf clubs.
SECOND-ROUND SCORES
Players from Australia unless stated
141 M Griffin 68 73, J Younger 68 73, M Foster 69 72.
142 D Whitnell (Eng) 69 73, R McCarthy 70 72.
143 C Wood (Eng) 72 71, R Blizard 74 69, J Sherratt 73 70.
Other scores:
144 D Willett (Eng) 73 71 (jt 9th).
147 P Cutler (Ire) 70 77, M Baldwin (Eng) 75 72 (jt 26th).
149 S Speirs (Sco) 73 76, S Hutsby (Eng) 72 77, S Lowry (Ire) 75 74 (jt 44th).
150 S Uzzell (Eng) 73 77, J Hempstock (Sco) 75 75, N Chaudhuri (Eng) 70 80 (jt 57th).
152 D Corsby (Eng) 77 75, B Stafford (Eng) 74 78 (jt 97th).
MISSED THE CUT
153 N Kearney (Ire) 74 79, S Ward (Ire) 73 80 (jt 115th).
155 A Lynch (Ire) 75 80 (jt 149th).
162 A Forster (Eng) 81 81 (jt 237th).
166 M Wilson (Sco) 83 82 (jt 265th).
168 Ian Douglas (Eng) 87 81 (jt 271st).