BOB STEWART LEADS SENIORS'

OPEN AT GLASGOW GAILES

Tulliallan's Bob Stewart, who defends his Scottish seniors championship at Panmure next week, could be running into form at just the right time.
Stewart led the huge field of 120 - there were 140 entries in all - for the first Scottish Seniors Golfing Society 36-hole open stroke-play event at Glasgow Gailes Golf Club, Ayrshire today.
Stewart, pictured right by Cal Carson Golf Agency at Elgin last year, shot a round of 71, matching the par but three under the CSS on a windy day.
At the halfway stage he leads by one shot from former shinty star John Fraser (Royal Burgess) and Brian Bingham (Haggs Castle).
Gordon MacDonald, captain of the burgeoning senior men's society, is lying joint fifth on the 74 mark after birdieing the short sixth and getting an eagle 2 at the par-4 seventh hole.

FIRST ROUND
Par 71. CSS 74
71 Bob Stewart (Tulliallan).
72 John Fraser (Royal Burgess), Brian Bingham (Haggs Castle).]
73 George Paterson (Northern).
74 Glyn Rees (Fleetwood), David Dickson (Lochmaben), William Brown (Strathaven), Gordon MacDonald (Callander).

75 Sandy Pirie (Hazlehead).

76 Mark Lironi (Cathkin Braes), Colin Christy (Kilmacolm), Donald McCart (Sherwood Forest), Ian Peddie (Tulliallan), Greaeme Millar (Swanston New), George Rodaks (Moffat).

77 Ronnie McLennan (Turnberry), Keith McAllister (South Shields), Alistair Fiddes (Deeside), Ronnie McLean (Hamilton), Stuart Pond (Worksop), Andrew Laird (Deeside).

78 Ken Russell (Wigton & Bladenoch), Derek Murphy (Kinross), Henry Anderson (Glenbervie), James Haddon (Darwen), Donald Moody (Bramford), William Moore (Ravenspark), Glen Ballantyne (Williamwood), Stephen Ellis (Heritage GS), William Erskine (Kilsyth & Lennox), Ian Brotherston (Dumfries & Co), Jim Roy (Grange), Michael Currie (Glen).

79 Colin Halcrow (Windyhill), Ian Dickson (Lundin), Donnie Lindsay (Windyhill), Gordon Brown (Vale of Leven), Brian Smith (Kilmacolm), Tony Stafford (Dun Ochil Gleneagles), Ian Taylor (Royal Burgess), David Leighton (Northern), Mike Robson (Kingsknowe), Gordon Thomson (Bearsden), Alan MacNaught (Colchester), David Smith (Stirling), Ken Thomson (Bramhall Park).