British Amateur Championship 2nd Qualifying Round

Caldwell steady but Weaver is

blown off course at Turnberry

FROM THE R&A WEBSITE
Walker Cup player Jonathan Caldwell followed his opening 69 with a steady 71 in tough conditions on the second day of The Amateur Championship at Turnberry.
Caldwell might have recently graduated from South Alabama University, but the weather which greeted him on the Ailsa course this morning was very much southern Scotland rather than the southern States.
Yet he shrugged off the high winds and intermittent showers to produce a beautiful front nine of 33, with birdies at the sixth and ninth. He slipped back a little playing into the wind on the back nine, but bogeys on the 12th, 13th and 17th holes were far from disastrous on a day when the scoring average has begun to climb towards the high 70s.
"I was just trying to make a few pars, given the conditions," said Caldwell, whose two-round total of 140 looks likely to place him among the top seeds for the match-play phase.
"Anyway, that's the first job done."
Defending champion Drew Weaver was less successful handling the wind, struggling to a 78 on the Ailsa course in a round that included double bogeys on the third and 12th as well as a triple bogey on the 16th.
"It's one of the toughest titles to defend," he said afterwards. "I knew it would be, and I worked hard to try and defend it but there's a 30mph wind out there. It's just so tough."