Colin Christy leads seniors by two

with a 69 at Hamilton

Kilmacolm's Colin Christy headed a big field by two strokes with a very good round of two-under-par 69 in the West of Scotland seniors' open amateur stroke-play championship at Hamilton Golf Club today.
His nearest challengers are Gordon MacDonald (Callander), captain of the Scottish Seniors Golfing Society and instigator of the domestic circuit for the over-55s, and David J Miller (Kilmarnock Barassie).
Ian Brotherston (Dumfries & Co), winner of last week's South of Scotland seniors' tournament, is in a group of six bracketed in joint fourth place on the 72 mark.

LEADING SCORES
First round
Par 71 CSS 72
69 Colin Christy (Kilmacolm).
71 Gordon MacDonald (Callander), David J Miller (Kilmarnock Barassie).
72 David Gardner (Broomieknowe), Ian Brotherston (Dumfries & Co), Graham Brown (Royal Liverpool), William Brown (Strathaven), Ronald MacLean (Hamilton), Sandy Pirie (Hazlehead).
73 John A Fraser (Royal Burgess), Gordon Thomson (Bearsden), David Imrie (Thornton), Glyn Rees (Fleetwood), Derek Murphy (Kinross).
74 James Kinloch (Cardross).