Scottish seniors' championship at Panmure

David Lane cuts Ian Hutcheon

first round lead from six to three

Monifieth maestro Ian Hutcheon is hot on the trail of a fourth Scottish seniors' amateur championship.
Having won the over-55s title in 2003, 2004 and 2007, Hutcheon finished the first day three shots clear of the field in the first round of the 54-hole championship at the Panmure course, near Carnoustie. Ian (pictured right by Cal Carson Golf Agency) bogeyed the long second and the seventh but compensated with birdies at the short fifth, sixth and eighth as he turned on one-under-par 34.
Coming home he had birdies at the 16th and 17th and pars at the rest for 33 back.

For much of the day, after "Hutch" finished, he led by six shots
His nearest challengers among the morning rounds were Andrew Wight (Glencorse) and Anglo-Scot Donald McCart (Sherwood Forest) on 73.
Wight had no birdies in an outward 39 which contained bogeys at the third, fifth, seventh and night.
He got in among the birdies at last, at the 12th and long 14th, but dropped a fifth shot of the day at the 15th.
McCart had a similar card - no birdies on the way out, which was not as costly as Wight's because Donald bogeyd only the long second and the sixth. After the turn he birdied the 10th and short 11th but had a weak finish with bogeys at the 14th, 16th and 17th.

But later in the day, two-time former champion, England's David Lane (Goring & Streatley) cut Ian Hutcheon's lead to three with a par-matching round of 70. Lane birdied the eight to turn in 14 but dropped shots at the 12th and short 15th before getting back to par with a birdie at the 16th.

Robert Gill (Gerrards Cross) boosted the number of players on 73 to three later in the day.
Defending champion Robert Stewart, victor in a play-off at Elgin 12 months ago, has a lot of ground to make up after an opening 77.
FIRST-ROUND SCOREBOARD
Par 70
67 Ian Hutcheon (Monifieth).

70 David Lane (Goring & Streatley).
73 Andrew Wight (Glencorse), Donald McCart (Sherwood Forest), Robert Gill (Gerrards Cross)..
74 Glyn Hughes (Church Stretton), Glyn Rees (Fleetwood), Keith MacBryde (Stone), Stephen Baker (Woodside), John Black (Scotscraig).
75 Adam Grounds (Falkirk Tryst), Tim Hartnett (St Andrews), Francis Clark (Royal Aberdeen), Sandy Pirie (Hazlehead), Philip Slater (Sandiway), Colin Halcrow (Windyhill), Andrew Campbell (Kinross), George Payne (Prestbury), Jim Watt (Edzell).
76 Martyn Temple (US), Robert Vallis (Bermuda), Hugh Kinniburgh (Lanark), George Paterson (Northern), Robert Redpath (Scotscraig), John Anderson (Scotscraig), Ralph Cowe (Kelso), Derek Sim (Panmure), Tony Patterson (Sunningdale), Gordon MacDonald (Callander).
77 Stephen Rhorer (US), Ronald Maclean (Hamilton), Basil Griffiths (Lianymynech), John Russell (US), Robert Stewart (Tulliallan), David Downie (Kirriemuir), John Baldwin (Sunningdale), Alan Fergusson (Drumpellier), William Brown (Strathaven), Adrian Donkersley (Gerrards Cross), Patrick Tomisson (Nairn), James Kinloch (Cardross), Norman Swenson (US), Stephen Ellis (Heritage), Bill McIntyre (Harpenden).
78 Lindsay Gordon (Turnhouse), John Johnston (Royal Aberdeen), James Innes (Elgin), David Doodson (Temple), Scott Brady (Burntisland), Robert Jack (Liberton), Paul Crellin (Prenton), J Scott Macdonald (Dunfermline), James Paton (Kirkintilloch), Jalil Aman (Grangemouth), Hugh McEwan (Portmarnock), Graham McGee (Erskine), Dave Jessup (Rochester & Cobham Park), John Fraser (Royal Burgess), Michael Jenkins (Duff House Royal), Colin Christy (Kilmacolm).
79 Alistair Fiddes (Deeside), Brian Grieve (King James VI), Colin Moir (Worksop), Robert Wallace (Crosland Heath), Andrew Wilson (Clober), Peter Saggers (Nairn), Richard Campbell (Kinross), Andrew Laird (Deeside).
80 John Broadfoot (Turnberry), Iain MacDonald (Bruntsfield Links), Ian Mason (Royal Cinque Ports), Derek Murphy (Kinross), Rich Tolly (US), Sam McGuinness (Royal Portrush), Ronald Grant (Caledonian), Jonathan Hubbard (Sunningdale), George Rodaks (Moffat), John Sim (Duff House Royal), Tony Stafford (Dun Ochil), Alexander Ritchie (Bothwell Castle), Ian Stuart (Royal Montrose), Gordon Thomson (Bearsden), David Millar (St Andrews New), Philip Addis (Parkstone), Paul Evans (Newport).
81 Henry Anderson (Glenbervie).

Selected scores:
82 Kerry Scott (Copthorne), Stuart Pond (Worksop), Keith Bruce (Edzell).
83 James Wilson (Frilford Heath), Bryce Milne (Elgin).
84 Larry White (US), Ray Pauley (Woodhall Spa), William Erskine (Kilsyth Lennox), David Smith (Stirling), Wilson Morton (Dunbar), David Wilson (Duff House Royal).
85 William Wallace (Strathaven), Ian Cumming (Eastwood), Allan Elder (Kirkcaldy), Joseph Hackler (US), James Cecchini (US), Euan Kerr (Panmure).
86 Lee Bushby (Strathmore).
87 James Campbell (Panmure).
93 Albert Milne (Duff House Royal), David Nelson (Aboyne).