GUNN SHOOTS 66 IN ARIZONA

Dornoch exile Jimmy Gunn was sharing second place on six-under-par 66 with half the first-round field still to finish in the Gateway Tour's Desert Series No 6 tournament at Vista Verde Golf Club, Arizona today.
Gunn had a bogey-free round with birdies at the fifth, seventh, long 13th, short 14th, 15th and 18th.
The Scot was level with Ryan Dillon, one behind leader Corey Mahoney.

AND LAST WEEK ...

Jimmy Gunn set a course record and picked up his biggest cheque so far on the Gateway Tour in Arizona (last week).
Competing in the Desert Series event at the Lone Tree Golf Club, Chandler, Gunn started with a disappointing, two-over-par 73 which left him trailing the leaders in 85th place.
He beat the 36-hole cut in style with a nine-under-par course record round of 62 over the 6984yd course. That elevated him to eighth position and then, on the final day, a closing 69 raised him to a final placing of fifth with a nine-under-par total of 204 and his biggest cheque - $4,000 - since he joined satellite tour at the beginning of 2008.
Gunn, when an amateur, was a four-time club champion at Royal Dornoch and Carnegie Shield winner and Sutherland County Champion before uprooting for America at the end of 2007. He joined the Gateway Tour at the beginning on 2008 and now has sponsorship from the most unlikely of sources, the Coer d'Alene native America Indian tribe from Idaho who paid a visit to Dornoch in 2005 and forged a link with the club and player.