St Andrews Links Trophy

Consistent Kellett leads

with a four-under 67

Motherwell player Ross Kellett (Colville Park) felt he was beginnng to achieve a level of consistency that would eventually bring him success when he finished 14th at the weekend in the Bidwells Scottish open amateur stroke-play championship at Murcar Links.
Ross, 21, may not have to wait much longer for the "big breakthrough" after leading the star-studded field at the end of the first day of the four-round St Andrews Links Trophy tournament.
Kellett, pictured by Cal Carson Golf Agency, posted a four-under-par 67 over the New Course fairly early in the day and it was still there at the top of the leaderboard at the end of the day.
He made his round on the outward half of four-under-par 32, consisting of birdies at the long third, the fourth, the seventh and the long eighth. No birdies after the turn, just nine solid pars for 35 home.
Colville Park clubmate Paul O'Hara, who finished just ahead of Kellett in the "Scottish" is one of three men, a shot off the pace on 68.
O'Hara birdied the long third and the seventh in two-under-par 34 to the turn. Coming home, he got to three under with a birdie at the 11th but bogeyed the 14th and had to birdie the 15th to get it home in 34 for a 68.
Defending champion Keir McNicoll (Carnoustie), one of those who missed the cut at Murcar Links, matched the par of 71 even with bogeys at the fourth, short ninth and 10th in halves of 35 and 36. His birdies at the first, third and long eighth cancelled them out. He occupies joint 15th place overnight.
Tommy Fleetwood (Formby Hall), the Lancashire teenager who won the "Scottish" by a runaway margin on Sunday, had a steady opening 71 while Gavin Dear (Murrayshall, winner of the Irish stroke-play and runner-up at Murcar Links, had a 72.
Banchory's James Byrne who tied for fourth place in the Scottish stroke-play after setting a Murcar Links course record of 65 in the second round made a disappointing start with a 78.


St Andrews Links Trophy Scoreboard
NEW COURSE, ST ANDREWS
FIRST ROUND
Par 71
1 Ross Kellett Colville Park 67
2 Paul O`Hara Colville Park 68
2 Matteo Manassero Gardagolf (Italy) 68
2 Mike McCoy Wakonda (USA) 68
5 Nigel Edwards Whitchurch 69
5 Jason Palmer Kirby Muxloe 69
5 Sébastien Gros Salvagny (France) 69
8 Tom Lewis Welwyn Garden City 70
8 Gordon Yates Hilton Park 70
8 Mark Young Longridge 70
8 Paul Betty Hayston 70
8 James Field jun Riviera (USA) 70
8 Stuart Phillips Royston 70
8 Joel Stalter Amneville (France)
15 Jason Barnes Chart Hills 71
15 David Coupland Boston 71
15 Kris Nicol Fraserburgh 71
15 Keir McNicoll Carnoustie 71
15 Sam Hutsby Liphook 71
15 Luke Goddard Hendon 71
15 Rhys Enoch Truro 71
15 Alan Dunbar Rathmore 71
15 Scott Pinckney Arizona (USA) 71
15 Matt Haines Rochester & Cobham Park 71
15 Tommy Fleetwood Formby Hall 71
15 Bill Rankin University of Michigan (USA) 71
15 Sam Matton Bowood 71
28 Nuno Henriques Santo Da Serra (Portugal) 72
28 Adam Runcie Abergele 72
28 Jonathan Hurst Shaw Hill 72
28 Alexandre Kaleka Marcilly (France) 72
28 Niall Kearney Royal Dublin (Ireland) 72
28 Tom Sherreard Chart Hills 72
28 Miles Mackman Broome Manor 72
28 Matthew Southgate Thorpe Hall 72
28 Glenn Campbell Blairgowrie 72
28 Eddie Pepperell Drayton Park 72
28 Joe Vickery Newport 72
28 Derik Ferreira Centurion (S Africa) 72
28 Gavin Dear Murrayshall 72
28 Wallace Booth Comrie 72
28 Ben Westgate Trevose 72
28 Nino Daniele Bertasio Gardagolf (Italy) 72
28 Ryan Brown Worksop 72
28 Nabeel Umerji Glendower (S Africa) 72
46 David Law Hazlehead 73
46 Matthew Nixon Ashton-under-Lyme 73
46 Keith Shanks Birck Boilermaker (USA) 73
46 Andrew Sullivan Nuneaton 73
46 Stiggy Hodgson Sunningdale 73
46 Jake Redman Fancourt (S Africa) 73
46 Edward Parker Crewe 73
46 Elias Bertheussen Trondheim (Norway) 73
46 Craig Hinton The Oxfordshire 73
46 Michael Stewart Troon Welbeck 73
46 Ross Dixon Kilmarnock (Barassie) 73
46 Jamie Howie Royal St. David`s 73
46 James Frazer Pennard 73
46 Stuart Graham Blairgowrie 73
46 Neil Henderson Glen 75
46 Pontus Gad Llanderyd (Sweden) 73
46 Jonathan Gidney Church Stretton 73
46 Farren Keenan Sunningdale 73
46 Alexander Levy Ormesson (France) 73
46 William Wilcox Highland Park (USA) 73
46 Richard Bentham St Pierre 73
67 David Markle Shelburne (Canada) 74
67 Steven Brown Wentworth 74
67 Antoine Schwartz RCF La Boulie (France) 74
67 Daniel Nisbet Caboolture (Australia) 74
67 Charlie Ford Kirby Muxloe 74
67 Anders Kristiansen Borregaard (Norway) 74
67 Oliver Farr Ludlow 74
67 Mark Halliday Royal Aberdeen 74
67 Gregory O`Mahony The Dye Preserve (USA) 74
67 James White Lundin 74
67 James Taverner South Herts 74
67 David Booth Rotherham 74
67 Daan Huizing Lage Vuursche (Netherlands) 74
67 Philip McLean Peterhead 74
67 Thomas Shadbolt Mid-Herts 74
67 Julien Brun Cannes-Mougins (France) 74
67 Jurrian van der Vaart De Koepel (Netherlands) 74
67 Steve Uzzell Hornsea 74
67 David Antonelli Mionnay (France) 74
67 Seamus Power West Waterford (Ireland) 74
67 Stephen Clark Grand Summit (USA) 74
67 Kevin Turlan St Nom La Bretèche (France) 74
67 Guillaume Cambis Ormesson (France) 74
67 Mark Fensham Port Elizabeth (S Africa) 74
91 Jack Senior Heysham 75
91 Hugo Mota Oporto (Portugal) 75
91 Matt Jager Melville Glades (Australia) 75
91 Olivier Serres Ormesson (France) 75
91 James Smedley Hallowes 75
91 Jacob Roth Kokkedal (Denmark) 75
91 Hinrich Arkenau Club zur Vahr Bremen (Germany) 75
91 Brendan Smith Pymble (Australia) 75
91 Bryden Macpherson Peninsula (Australia) 75
91 Dale Whitnell Five Lakes 75
91 Darren Wright Rowlands Castle 75
91 Richard Smith Notts 75
91 Cass Trass Virginia (USA) 75
104 Jamie Abbott Fynn Valley 76
104 Janne Kaske Virvik (Finland) 76
104 Lincoln Tighe Bonnie Doon (Australia) 76
104 Sean Riordan Takaka (New Zealand) 76
104 Steven McEwan Caprington 76
104 James Robinson Southport & Ainsdale 76
104 Andrew Cooley Chobham 76
104 Romain Schneider RCF La Boulie (France) 76
104 Harry Green Christchurch (New Zealand) 76
104 Johann Lopez Lazaro Paris (France) 76
104 Fraser Fotheringham Nairn 76
104 Are Friestad Stavanger (Norway) 76
104 Toni Hakula Espoo (Finland) 76
104 Todd Adcock Nevill 76
104 Adrian Ford Durbanville (S Africa) 76
104 Robin Kind Haagsche (Netherlands) 76
104 Adam Wills Sandiway 76
104 Liam Burns Sundridge Park 76
104 Sam Stuart St Annes Old 76
104 Richard Merchant Wernddu 76
124 Matthieu Bey Ormesson (France) 77
124 Willem Vork Noordwijkse (Netherlands) 77
124 Christopher Ross Hamilton (Canada) 77
124 Yu-Bin Jung Wanderas (S Africa) 77
124 Peter Sauerbrei Cataraqui (Canada) 77
129 Steven Ferreira Reading (S Africa) 78
129 Billy Hemstock Teignmouth 78
129 James Byrne Banchory 78
129 Martin Brown Monifieth 78
133 Jonathan Corke Rowany 79
133 Adam Wainwright Gainsborough 79
133 Clément Berardo Limere (France) 79
133 Ross Coull Edzell 79
133 Russell Thornton Desert Mountain (USA) 79
133 Sam Haywood Rotherham 79
133 Mike Gray Lanark 79
140 Jake Amos Kilworth Springs 80
141 Bertrand Noel Limere (France) 81
141 Immu Korvenmaa Golf Talma (Finland) 81
143 Niccolò Quintarelli Montecchia (Italy) 82
143 Jason Scrivener Mandurah (Australia) 82

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