Mark Bookless lying joint third with

a 66 in Chiberta Grand Prix

Scottish boys stroke-play champion Mark Bookless from the Sandyhills club, Glasgow turned in a great performance in sunny southwest France - Biarritz, to be precise - to be lying joint third in a field of 114 at the end of the first round of the Chiberta Grand Prix tournament.
Bookless, 19, pictured right by Rob Eyton-Jones, returned a four-under-par 66 to be one of four players on that mark, trailing the French leader Lionel Weber by two and the second-placed Jonann Lopez-Lazaro, another Frenchman, by one.
The two other Scottish Golf Union representatives, Greg Paterson (St Andrews New) and Kris Nicol (Fraserburgh) didn't do too badly either in an event won by one of their compatriots Duncan Stewart (Grantown on Spey) three or four years ago before he turned pro.
Paterson had a par-matching 70 to be sharing 30th place while Nicol is tied for 51st place with a 72.
LEADING FIRST ROUND SCORES
Par 70. Players from France unless stated
64 Lionel Weber.
65 Johann Lopez-Lazaro.
66 Daniel Lokke (Norway), Ambroise Fourquet, Mark Bookless (Scotland), Antoine Schwartz.
Selected scores:
68 Billy Hemstock (England) (jt 14th).
69 Liam O'Neil (England) (jt 20th).
70 Greg Paterson (Scotland), Adam Keogh (England) (jt 30th).
72 Kris Nicol (Scotland) (jt 51st)
Field of 114.