Does Mark Halliday know he's

ranked No 995 world amateur?

By COLIN FARQUHARSON

If you scroll down to an earlier article you will find this week's updated R&A World Men's Amateur Golf Rankings.

I've been through the top 1,000 on your behalf and come up with 35 Scots, not all of whom live in Scotland!

My good friend and past president of the Scottish Golf Union, David Moir is the R&A staff man who works out all these rankings every week of the year. Helped by computers, I've no doubt, but still a colossal task but I bet David loves every minute of it.

In the not too distant future we will have a parallel Women's World Amateur Golf Rankings system. I look forward to that.

In the meantime, here are the Scotsmen in the top 1,000 with their present WAGR, right down to Royal Aberdeen's Mark Halliday (pictured by Cal Carson Golf Agency) in 995th place:

44 Gavin Dear.

63 Wallace Booth.

154 Steven McEwan.

168 Ross Kellett.

183 Paul O'Hara.

201 Keir McNicoll.

209 Michael Stewart.

211 James Byrne.

281 Mark Hillson.

359 Lewis Kirton.

365 Glenn Campbell.

377 Craig Watson.

396 Gordon Yates.

460 Kris Nicol.

468 James White.

510 Greg Paterson.

529 Robert McKnight.

530 Paul Betty.

566 Philip McLean.

584 David Law.

599 Kevin McAlpine.

618 Scott Mann.

633 John Gallagher.

645 Bryan Fotheringham.

646 Mark Lamb.

654 Stephen Speirs.

662 Jordan Findlay.

719 Scott Crichton.

772 Matthew Clark.

827 Alexander Culverwell.

916 Peter Latimer.

944 Fraser Fotheringham.

946 Allyn Dick.

951 David Addison.

995 Mark Halliday.