Gordon Yates, dressed for the Australian summer weather, in action at Belmont Golf Club today.

Gordon Yates tees off with a 70 in Lake

Macquarie International Down Under

Gordon Yates (Hilton Park) made a solid start to the Lake Macquarie International tournament at Belmont Golf Club, New South Wales, Australia today.
Gordon, coming down from China where he was beaten in a play-off for the Asia-Pacific open amateur title at Misson Hills, returned a two-under-par 70.
Fellow traveller Ross Kellett (Colville Park) had a 76, two more than Australia-based Scottish exile Stephen Speirs.

Former British boys championship beaten finalist Fraser Fotheringham (Nairn) had 78.
West Australian Matt Jager leads the field of 190 players with a very good five-under-par 67.
FIRST-DAY SCORES
Par 72
67 Matt Jager.
68 Alex Hendrick, Charles Ford, Dimitious Papadatos, Ryan Fox.
69 Brendan Smith, Gavin Fairfax, Geoff Bailey, Rhein Gibson, Robert Payne, Jordan Zunic, Lester Peterson, Craig Boniface, Joshua Boaz.
Selected scores:
70 Gordon Yates, Michael Smyth, Brody Ninyette, Jared Consoll, Apo Tsulakis, Rhys McGovern, Peter Spearman,-Burn, Luke Bleumink, Mitchell Davis, Daniel Pearle, Steven Slappendel, Nick Gillespie.

73 Farren Keenan.

74 Stephen Speirs.
75 Adam Wainwright, Jason Palmer.

76 Ross Kellett.

78 Fraser Fotheringham.