Scots come through Senior

British Open Qualifying

to play at Royal Troon

South African Bertus Smit was one of 45 players to secure a place in The 2008 Senior Open Championship presented by MasterCard through final qualifying.
Smit, who finished tied second behind winner Tony Johnstone at the Jersey Seniors Classic, finished four shots behind Irish amateur Adrian Morrow (70) at Western Gailes, one of three courses to host the qualifiers for the Championship at Royal Troon Golf Club.
Scot Craig Maltman was one of six players to finish tied on 74 at Dundonald Links, along with former Murcar Links amateur John A Fraser (Royal Burgess), pictured right by Cal Carson Golf Agency, Mike Gallagher, Jim Lapsley, David A Russell and Steve Stull.
Leading the way at Glasgow Gailes on 73 was the English trio of Andrew Hall, Phil Hinton and Andrew Reynolds.
Fifteen players qualified from each of the three venues and will go into Thursday’s first round draw alongside Greg Norman and defending champion Tom Watson, as well as Bernhard Langer, Sandy Lyle and Ian Woosnam.
Qualifiers from today's three venues were:

DUNDONALD LINKS

74 C Maltman (Sco), S Stull (US), M Gallagher (Eng), J Lapsley (NZ), D Russell (Eng), J A Fraser (Sco) (am).
75 B Lockie (Sco), J Chaffee (US), M Williams (Zim).
77 T Conley (US),T Price (Wal), J Hoskison (Eng), J P Morgan (Eng), I Brotherston (Sco) (am).
78 T Giles (Eng).
GLASGOW GAILES
73 A Hall (Eng), P Hinton (Eng), A Reynolds (Eng).

74 J Heggarty (Nir)
75 P McKellar (Sco) (am).
76 B McColl (Sco), B Harston (US), J McTear (Sco), B Exber (US), D Downie (Sco) (am), R Clark (Eng).
77 J Chancey (US), S Graham (Eng), M Aoki (Jpn), K Hanefield (US).
WESTERN GAILES
70 A Morrow (Ire) (am).
71 J Blair (US), S Martin (Sco), T Giedeon (Sco).
73 S Prendergast (Ire)
74 B Smit (RSA), P Teravainen (US).
75 G Townhill (Eng), R Carrasco (US), P Dahlberg (Swe), A Murray (Eng), R Fox (Eng), N Lavin (Ire).
76 A Adams (US), J S Hirsch (US) (am).