.DAVID LAW, Scottish boys' and men's amateur champion (image by Cal Carson Golf Agency).

Good start by Manassero and Law in British

boys' championship at Royal St George's

FROM THE DAILY TELEGRAPH GOLF WEBSITE
By Chris Smart
Italy's Manassero, 16, the winner of the Open's silver medal at Turnberry and bidding to become the first player to win the men's and boys' amateurs in the same year, overcame Belgian Julien Richelle 4 and 2 in the first round of the British boys' open championship at Royal St George's Golf Club, Sandwich in Kent.
Manassero was not totally happy with his tee shots – "I was spraying them to the right and left."The Italian eenager was one down after seven holes, having gone out of bounds, but then won four holes in a row to take charge.
Paul Lawrie protege David Law, 18, from Aberdeen's municipal Hazlehead course, is also seeking more silverware after becoming the first player to win both the Scottish men's and boys' match-play titles in the same season.

Law swept to a 4 and 3 victory over Italian Alfredo Pazzeschi after winning five of the first six holes.
Sebastien Crookall-Nixon, holder of the English Under-16 boys' championship for the past two years, was a 5 and 4 first-round winner while his international colleague, James Webber, had to pull out all the stops to get past Jeff Hopkins, 2 & 1.
Meanwhile at West Lancashire, Spaniard Noemi Jimenez, 15, a retired professional's daughter from Malaga, set the early pace in the British girls' open amateur championship with a first qualifying round of 70 – two under par. Her round contained five birdies.

England girl international Heidi Baek (Felixstowe Ferry), who helped England win the Stroyan Cup at Fairhaven Golf Club, also in Lancashire, last week, came in late in the day with a 71 to cut Noemi's lead to one shot.

The leading 64 players after today's second qualifying round will go through to the match-play stages which climax with an 18-hole final on Friday afternoon.

SLOW PLAY PENALTIES ON THE CARDS IN BRITISH GIRLS CHAMPIONSHIP

Switch over to our sister website, http://www.kirkwoodgolf.co.uk/, to read a full report on the first day's play (and see all the scores) from the British girls' championship, including the possibility that the Ladies Golf Union will impose slow-play penalties during today's second qualifying round.

Leader Noemi Jimenez was one of those warned by Susan Simpson, the LGU Head of Golf Operations, that they had been "over the clock" in some of her shot-making (40sec is permitted to play a shot; 50sec if the player is the first in the group to play) during the first round and a repeat today would lead to a one-stroke penalty being imposed.