Savage calms down and Forrest

takes lead after 36 holes at Largs

With overnight leader Jamie Savage (Cawder) drifting from a pacemaking 69 to a second-round 77 for six-over-par 136, Grant Forrest (Craigielaw) stepped into the 36-hole pole position with a 70 and 69 for one-under-par 139 on the second day of the USAfirstpoint Scottish Under-16 boys' open stroke-play golf championship at Largs in Ayrshire.
He leads by one and he will be rueing a double bogey 6 at the 15th even though he did birdie the 18th after that.
Hot on his tail are Nick Ward (Redbourn (69-140) and Fraser Thain (West Linton), a pair of 70s for 140.
Ward finished well today with birdies at the 16th and 17th while Fraser Thain is another who will be looking back in anger .... two double bogeys so far, the 18th in Round 1 and the short eighth in Round 2.
A total of 45 boys with scores of 11 over-par 151 and better qualfied for Thursday's final round.
SCOREBOARD
Par 140 (2x70) CSS 71 71
139 Grant Forrest (Craigielaw) 70 69.
140 Nick Ward (Redbourn) 71 69, Fraser Thain (West Linton) 70 70.
141 Will Chambers (Mid Herts) 71 70, Eamon Bradley (Mount Ellen) 71 70, Ewan Scott (St Andrews) 70 71.
143 Jamie Bower (Meltham) 71 72, Thomas Goodair (Woodsome Hall) 70 73.
145 Nicholas Smits (Australia) 70 75.
146 Daniel McConnachie (Dumfries & Co) 73 73, Liam Johnston (Dumfries & Co) 76 70, Jamie Savage (Cawder) 69 77, Ewen Donaldson (Craigielaw) 70 76, Ben Franklin (Rochford Hundred) 73 73, Harry Whittle (Woburn) 73 73.]147 Tom Harris (Castletown) 75 72, Tom Bacon (Mellor & Townscliffe) 74 73, Joshua Jamieson (St Andrews New) 72 75, Scott Wearing (Bishopbriggs) 74 73.
148 Blair Todd (Greenburn) 77 71, Thomas Rowland (Prudhoe) 76 72, Lawrence Allan (Alva) 73 75, Craig Ross (Kirkhill) 73 75, Danny Hawksworth (Hollins Hall) 76 72.
149 Bertrand Mommaerts (Belgium) 76 73, Michael Younie (Frilford Heath) 77 72, Alasdair McDougall (Elderslie) 77 72, Shaun Connor (Ralston) 76 73, Tangi Merckx (Belgium) 76 73, Lee Morgan (Newbattle) 76 73, Gary Daoust (Belgium) 75 74, Gary Chalmers (Dollar) 78 71, Tanapol Vattanapisit (Thailand) 76 73.
150 Jordan Milne (Elgin) 76 74, Andrew Whyte (St Andrews New) 75 75, Tom Heggarty (Royal Liverpool) 72 78, Greig Stewart (Crieff) 75 75, Neil Beattie (St Andrews) 75 75, Luca Olivotto (Belgium) 74 76.
151 Craig Howie (Peebles) 78 73, Connor Campbell Inchmarlo) 75 76, Sam MacNeil (Aboyne) 76 75, Freddie Brown (Nairn Dunbar) 77 74, Moritz Hausweiler (Germany) 7675, Ross Gillan (Torrance House) 73 78
MISSED THE CUT
Selected scores
152 Robert Burlison (Oxley Park) 80 72, John Scott (East Renfrewshire) 79 73, Iain Watson (St Andrews) 76 76, Anthony Blaney (Liberton) 74 78, Allan Easton (Strathmore) 75 77, Patrick Horsting (Royal St George's) 75 77.
153 Grant Bowman (Monifieth) 77 76, Ross Proctor (Forres) 78 75, Ryan Cardwell (Long Sutton) 74 79.
154 Ross Munro (Monifieth) 76 78, Cameron Mitchell (Leven Th) 79 75, William Aldred (Mid Hewtrs) 78 76, Robbie Gauld (Cruden Bay) 77 77.
155 Calum Stewart (Brora) 75 80, Jimmy Mullen (Royal North Devon) 77 78,
Gregor Mackintosh (Girvan) 78 77, Phillippe Schweizer (Switzerland) 80 75, Daniel Hendry (UAE) 76 79, Greg Dunsmore (Saline) 73 82, Conner Cook (Caird Park) 79 76.