Only Gavin Dear and Ross Kellett ahead of Banchory player

James Byrne now third best Scot

in R&A World Amateur Rankings

By COLIN FARQUHARSON
Banchory's James Byrne, winner of the Tennant Cup and East of Scotland Opens in back-to-back weekends, has risen to be the third leading Scot in the R&A World Amateur Golf Rankings.
Only Gavin Dear (Murrayshall) in 15th place and Ross Kellett (Colville Park) in 90th place are ahead of the 20-year-old Arizona State University student, pictured right by Cal Carson Golf Agency, who has risen 60 places to No 106 in this week's revised world rankings.
Walker Cup team place contender Wallace Booth (Comrie) dropped 23 places to be the fourth top Scot in 109th place.
Paul O'Hara (Colville Park), winner of the Sutherland Chalice 72-hole event at Dumfries & Galloway on Sunday (James Byrne was joint runner-up), has risen 44 places to No 127.
The only Scots in the top 350 are:

*Figures in brackets indicate how many places they have risen or fallen since last week's R&A WAGR
15 Gavin Dear (Murrayshall) (+1).

90 Ross Kellett (Colville Park) (-10)

106 James Byrne (Banchory) (+60).

109 Wallace Booth (Comrie) (-23).

127 Paul O'Hara (Colville Park) (+44).

182 Mark Hillson (Craigielaw) (+2).
207 Michael Stewart (Troon Welbeck) (-4).
277 Steven McEwan (Caprington) (-12).
290 James White (Lundin) (+11).
314 Glenn Campbell (Blairgowrie) (-9).
333 Scott Borrowman (Dollar) (-40).

The top 10 in the world are:

1 Nick Taylor (Canada).

2 Matt Hill (Canada).

3 Morgan Hoffman (US).

4 Sam Hutsby (Eng).

5 Nicol Van Wyk (SAf)

6 Rickie Fowler (US)

7 Victor Dubuisson (Fra).

8 Matteo Manassero (Ita).

9 Stephan Gross (Ger).

10 Russell Henley (US).