McDonald,Wilson share first


round lead at Ladybank

Ayrshire’s Jack McDonald, a quarter-finalist in the Scottish boys’ match-play championship at Balgownie in April, shares the lead with Elliot Wilson from just over the Border in Berwick upon Tweed after the first round of the First Point USA Scottish boys’ open stroke-play golf championship at Ladybank Golf Club.
Both boys shot two-under-par 69s, with Wilson the steadier of the two. Starting at the 10th, he had 16 pars and birdies at the long second and the long seventh. He is a member of the North of England Under-18 squad.
Wilson hit 16 greens in regulation and had 32 putts.
Kilmarnock Barassie junior member McDonald, who has won twice on the SGU Junior Tour, started at the first and bounced back from a bogey at the long second to birdie the short fourth and the fifth to be one under par 35 for the first nine. McDonald is pictured above by Cal Carson Golf Agency in action in the Scottish boys' championship at Royal Aberdeen in April.
Two more birdies followed, at the short 12th and the 15th, but, needing a par at the 18th for what would have been the overnight lead on his own at 68, he bogeyed the last.
They were the only competitors in the big international field to break the par of 71 over the Fife course which is a difficult enough track to be classed an Open championship qualifying venue.
Colin Baird is lying in third place on 71, a shot ahead six players bracketed in fourth place on 72.
Hazlehead’s David Law, bidding to follow up his Scottish boys’ match-play success, had to settle for a 73 which included bogeys at three par-3 holes.
He bogeyed two short holes on the way out, the fourth and the eighth but cancelled them out with a birdie at the sixth and another at the long seventh to turn in level par 36.,
Then came a bad run where he shed shots at three holes in a row, the 11th, another short-hole, the 12th, and the long 13th. But he finished on a high with a birdie at the last.
The leading 40 and ties at the end of the second round will contest the final 36 holes.



FIRSTPOINTUSA.COM SCOTTISH BOYS' OPEN
STROKE-PLAY CHAMPIONSHIP SCOREBOARD

Ladybank Golf Club
FIRST ROUND
Par 71
69 Elliott Wilson (Berwick upon Tweed), Jack McDonald (Kilmarnock Barassie)
71 Colin Baird (Bothwell Castle).
72 Gordon Reilly (Lochwinnoch), Ross Gillan (Torrance House), Ewan Scott (St Andrews), David Gallagher (Glasgow), Tom Blennerhassett (Marriott Dalmahoy), Graeme Duncan (Shotts).
73 Ross Proctor (Forres), John Fernandes (Enfield), John Drummond (Strathlene), David Law (Hazlehead), Ian Redford (St Andrews New), Paul McPhee (King James VI), Lawrence Allan (Alva), Nicholas MacAndrew (Cullen), Nigel Colbeck (Moor Allerton), Kyle Godsman (Hopeman), Eamon Bradley (Mount Ellen).
74 Thomas White (Milnathort), Andrew McLachlan (Bonnyton), Blair Pelling (Prestonfield), Jamie Stephen (Aberdour), Marc Smith (Troon Welbeck), Andrew Steven (Easter Moffat), Nicholas Smits (Australia), Scott Gibson (Southerness) Jack Scott (Deeside), David Ryan (Ealing).
75 Matthew Reid (Downfield), Samuel Echikson (Belgium), Steven Penston (Ifield), Gordon Munro (Fraserburgh), Jack Thorburn (Forrester Park), Matthias Kaufmann (Austria), Daniel Kay (Dunbar), Fraser Clarke (Westhill), Sandy Bolton (Magnolia Park), Laurie Potter (Minchinhampton), Paul Shields (Kirkhill), Stuart Boyle (Harburn), Jordon Williams (Castle Douglas), Thomas Rowland (Prudhoe), Gavin Hay (Grantown on Spey), Jordyn Rhind (Uphall).
76 Ryan Campbell), Lewis Fairbairn (Berwick on Tweed), Scott Young (Turnhouse), Andrew Loch (Pumpherston), Matthew McWilliam (McDonald Ellon), Michael Davidson (Tantallon), Mitchell Farrer (Ifield), Alan Welsh (Torrance House), Greg Smail (Craigielaw), Neil Beattie (St Andrews), Andrew Pillans (Kirkcaldy), Chris Moore (West Essex), Sam Crenan (Royal Jersey), Rodger Clarke (Moray), Daniel McConnachie (Dumfries & Co), Pieter-Jan Van Hoof (Belgium).
77 Scott Wightman (Powfoot), John Douglas (Thornton), Craig Hamilton (NZ), Conor O'Neil (Glasgow), Kevin Moran (Dullatur), Euan Paterson (Bruntsfield Links), Mark Geddes (Prenton), Cameron Farrell (Cardross), Dewi Merckx (Belgium), Simon Fairburn (Torwoodlee), Jake Hogg (Germany), Shaun Connor (Ralston), Greig Stewart (Crieff).
78 Liam Johnston (Dumfries & Co), Ali Begg (Muir of Ord), James White (St Andrews New), Calum McLean (Cowglen), Gary Anderson (Flaxby Park), Mark Thomson (Grange, Monifieth), Chris Robb (Inchmarlo), Euan Mackay (Torphin Hill), John Henry (Clydebank & Dist), Danny Edwards (Elgin).
79 Jeff Wright (Forres), Ritchie Manson (Braemar), Daniel Thompsett (Aboyne), Cameron West (Scotscraig), Douglas Maxwell (Craigielaw), Ross Earnshaw (Fulford), Cameron Marr (Musselburgh), Reece Mitchell (Downfield).
80 Craig Ross (Kirkhill), Colin Robinson (Largs), Jamie Arthur (Milnathort), Ross Storrier (Downfield), Gary Meechan (Dullatur), Daniel Young (Craigie Hill), Andrew Scrimshaw (Prudhoe), Cameron Nelson (Nairn), Lyle McAlpine (Invergordon), Jamie Lynch (Falkirk Carmuirs).
81 Gary Chalmers (Dollar), Jordan Plahn (Inchmarlo), Robbie Gauld (Cruden Bay), Jamie Binning (Ranfurly Castle), Simon Taylor (Germany), Craig Howie (Peebles), Grant Bowman (Monifieth), Patrick McCarron (Windyhill).
82 Fraser O'Connor (Inchmarlo), Ben Lindsay (Blairgowrie), Daniel Flannery (Peebles), Philip Gordon (Paisley), Andrew Wright (Kilmarnock Barassie), Lewis Jackson (West Hove), Jamie Treasurer (Inverness), Ian Anderson (Colville Park), Martin Gignoux (France).
83 Jay Gerrick (Haste Hill), Patrick O'Neil (Pollok), John Innes (Kirkcudbright), Fraser Lauder (Paisley), Louis Gaughan (Bathgate), Ross Gordon (Peterhead).
84 Andrew Reid (Paisley), Sam Craigon (Milnathort), Michael Bacigalupo (Longniddry), Thomas Greenhalgh (St George's Hill), Jack Lampkin (Ilkley), Mark Murphy (Cawder).
85 Joe Lennon-Joiner (Ellesborough), Tom Dingwall (Nairn Dunbar), Gregor Mackintosh (Girvan), Barry Strain (Cathkin Braes).
86 Greg Dunsmore (Saline).
87 Niklas Parwez (Germany), Jamie Thomson (Cawder).
88 Craig Norman (Dullatur).
89 William Russell (The Duke's), Fergus Smith (Paisley), Jordan Gallagher (Crow Wood).
93 Chris Lowe (Tantallon).