James Byrne climbs to No 2 ranking

in Scotland after Gavin Dear

Banchory's James Byrne, who will be returning to Arizona State University soon, has climbed to his highest position in the R&A World Amateur Golf Rankings.
In this week's revised list, James has improved by 11 places to No 83.
Only one Scot is ranked higher than Byrne - Walker Cup team selection Gavin Dear (Murrayshall) who is No 12.
Scots ranked in the top 500 of the R&A WAGR are (week's movement up and down the list is given)
12 Gavin Dear (Murrayshall) +1.
83 James Byrne (Banchory) +11.
86 Paul O'Hara (Colville Park) -1.
95 Ross Kellett (Colville Park) -2.
150 Wallace Booth (Comrie) -35.
170 Mark Hillson (Marriott Dalmahoy) +70.
184 Michael Stewart (Troon Welbeck) +3.
276 James White (Lundin) +26.
364 Steven McEwan (Caprington) -15.
370 Philip McLean (Peterhead) +51.
375 David Law (Hazlehead) -4.
381 Keir McNicoll (Carnousite) -44.
394 Scott Borrowman (Dollar) -54.

+James Byrne will not be defending the North-east District Open championship at Peterhead this weekend. He will be flying to Paris to take part in the European individual amateur championship at Chantilly Golf Club, France next week.