Kellett leads from Byrne at halfway

in European individual championship

Motherwell's Ross Kellett and James Byrne from Banchory are playing very well in the European men's individual amateur team championship at Chantilly.
SCOREBOARD
Par 144 (2x72)
133 Ross Kellett 67 66.
138 James Byrne 69 69, Adam Runcie 67 71.
139 Clement Sordet 69 70, Espen Kofstad 66 73.
Selected scores:
146 Paul O'Hara 74 72.
147 Wallace Booth 76 71
149 Keir McNicoll 73 76.,
150 Steven MNcEwan 75 75, Gavin Dear 73 77.

Tartan Tour pro-am results
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 19
SOUTHERNESS GC PRO-AM
Leading pro scores
Par 69
71 Steven Taylor (Bothwell Castle) £1,155.63.
72 David Orr (East Renfrewshire) £924.09.
73 Mark Loftus (Cowglen), Andrew Marshall (Houston GR),Craig Lee (unatt) £543.03 each.
74 Paul McKechnie (Braid Hills), Christopher Russell (RAW Golf Course Design), Jason McCreadie (Buchaanan Castle) £300.40 each.
75 Craig Ronald (Carluke), Samuel Cairns (Colville Park), Christopher Robinson (Dumfries & Galloway), Stephen Gray (Hayston), Iain Colquhoun (Dundonald Links) £180.24 each.
76 Chris McCalman (unatt), Jonathan Lomas (unatt), Scott Henderson (Kings Links) £92.43 each.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 20
VSA TARTAN PRO-AM
Inchmarlo Golf Centre, Banchory
Leading pro scores
Par 70
66 Alan Lockhart (Ladybank), Stephen Gray (Hayston) £818.55 each.
67 Graeme Lornie (Paul Lawrie Foundation), Craig Lee (unatt), Ross Cameron (McDonald Ellon) £427.46 each.
68 Paul McKechnie (Braid Hills), Christopher Russell (RAW Golf Course Design), Jonathan Lomas (unatt). £236.47 each.
70 Greig Hutcheon (Banchory), Craig Ronald (Carluke), Edward Thomson (Senit Associates), Lindsay Mann (Carnoustie) £147.75 each.
71 Jason McCreadie (Buchanan Castle), Greg McBain (Royal Dornoch) £113.78 each.
Inchmarlo Golf Centre, Banchory

Scott McGreneghan is congratulated by Ranfurly Castle GC club captain Douglas Martin.

Scott McGreneghan wins Renfrewshire match-play title

NEWS RELEASE ISSUED BY RENFREWSHIRE GOLF UNION

By Don Bremner

donbremner@ranfurly9.freeserve.co.uk
Despite almost incessant rain, the Renfrewshire Golf Union county match-play sem-finals and finals were played this week at Ranfurly Castle Golf Club with the course remaining playable throughout thanks to the efforts of the green staff.
Last year’s champion, Michael Campbell of Renfrew came up against an in-form Matthew Clark from Kilmacolm in the first semi-final. Both players had chances to take a strong lead but, in the end, it went all the way with Matthew fighting his way to the final at the 19th hole.
In the second semi final, it was a Cochrane Castle battle between members Scott McGreneghan and David Lawson. Scott seemed to cope better with the conditions and had a relatively easy victory.
In the final, the early holes were won by Scott when Matthew’s putter lost its magic and, by the turn, he had built up a commanding lead as officials cleared the greens of water. Matthew tried to stage a comeback when he reduced the lead to three at the tenth but a lost ball at the next hole sealed his fate and Scott held his nerve, playing great golf in dreadful conditions, to end the match at the 16th.
Scott is only 22 and was beaten finalist last year. With the County team still to be selected for the forthcoming key match against Clackmannanshire at Erskine, he must surely have drawn the attention of the selectors.

PGA EuroPro Tour event at Formby Hall, Lancashire

Dykes is no stonewall certainty to hold

off Elliot Saltman over final round

By ANTHONY LEAVER
Tim Dykes holds a one-shot advantage over Elliot Saltman at six under par ahead of Friday’s final round of the Formby Hall Classic at the Formby Hall Golf Resort & Spa near Liverpool, the tenth event on the 2009 PGA EuroPro Tour.
Challenge Tour regular Dykes (Wrexham GC) was five under par going into the second round and went out in the final three-ball of the day. Initially it looked the 29 year-old would not capitalise on Saltman’s off day, starting on the back nine and moving to six under after his first hole but recording four bogeys and just one further birdie to drop to three under par at the turn. Birdies at the second and third holes saw him restore parity and he edged one stroke clear of Saltman with a birdie at the last to shoot 71.
Saltman (Aegon) was seven under par going into the second round after setting a new course record in Wednesday’s opening round, but he got off to a tough start early in the morning on the back nine with a bogey at the tenth – his first. A second bogey at the 15th saw him go out two over for the day and that soon became three over with a third bogey at the first hole.
The 27 year-old remained three over until the seventh where he recorded his only birdie of the day and finished with a 74 to drop to five under for the tournament – still in good shape to improve on his fourth place standing on the Order of Merit.
Adam Frayne (St Mellion) is two shots off the lead after recording his second round of 70. Frayne traded three birdies for three bogeys in his first 13 holes starting on the back nine, but an eagle at the par-four fifth means he is nicely poised at four under par.
Daniel Wardrop (Didsbury GC) recorded the round of the day to move into contention on the final day at three under. Beginning the day at two over par, Wardrop was back to level by the fifth hole and moved to three under at the 12th.
The Manchester man dropped his only shot of the day at 15 but a birdie at the last saw him record a fine five under par 67. Wardrop is joined in fourth spot by Scott Henry (Cardross GC) who recorded four birdies and four bogeys in a level par round to remain three under after an opening round of 69.
Lee Harper (Archerfield Links) and Michiel Bothma (South Africa) carded rounds of 69 and 70 respectively to move to two under for the tournament, joining Ricky Lee (Tyneside GC) in sixth place after he recorded a level par second round.
Elliot has been joined in Liverpool by younger brothers Lloyd and Zack (both Aegon) and Lloyd blitzed the front nine with an eagle and three birdies after going through the back nine first at one over to card a four under par round of 68 and move to one under – one of ten players five shots off the lead. Zack was left to rue a double bogey at the first as he missed the cut by one shot at four over par.
Order of Merit leader Scott Jamieson recorded another level par round, but second place man in the money list Daniel Brooks (Mill Hill) will not be in action in the final round after missing the cut. Third placed Jack Doherty (North Gailes) is one under par, while fifth placed Graeme Clark (Doncaster GC) also misses out.
Fifty players will tee off in tomorrow’s final round of the Formby Hall Classic at the Formby Hall Golf Resort & Spa in Liverpool, which begins at 8am. Dykes and Saltman begin at 12.10pm.
Live scoring of what promises to be an exciting conclusion to the tournament is available at http://www.europrotour.com/ via the Score Updates link on the homepage, where you can view the full Leaderboard.
SCOTS ON SCOREBOARD
Elliot Saltman 65, 74 -5
Scott Henry 69, 72 -3
Lee Harper 73, 69 -2
Mark Kerr 69, 74 -1
Jack Doherty 72, 71 -1
Lloyd Saltman 75, 68 -1
Scott Jamieson 72, 72 Lvl
Shaun McAllister 70, 74 Lvl
Andrew Oldcorn 68, 78 +2
John Gallagher 74, 73 +3
Lorne Kelly 73, 75 +4
Zack Saltman 75, 73 +4
Steven Mackie 78, 71 +5
Duncan Stewart 77, 73 +6
Chris Kelly 75, 76 +7
Christopher Campbell 77, 77 +10
Barry Hume 81, 74 +11
Steven Hume 81, 74 +11
Paul Doherty 78, 78 +12
Graham Brown 78, 79 +13
Scott Herald 78, 80 +14
Stuart Burns 82, 80 +18

GB&I TEAM OF NINE ANNOUNCED FOR
JACQUES LEGLISE
TROPHY MATCH

NEWS RELEASE ISSUED BY THE R&A
The Great Britain and Ireland team to contest the 2009 Jacques Leglise Trophy match has been announced. The nine players to face the Continent of Europe at Ganton Golf Club near Scarborough, England, are as follows:
Paul Dunne – Captain (Greystones, Ireland)
Jonathan Bell (Royal Blackheath, England)
Adam Carson (Long Ashton, England)
Sebastian Crookall-Nixon (Workington, England)
Tom Lewis (Welwyn Garden City, England)
Chris Lloyd (The Kendleshire, England)
Eddie Pepperell (Drayton Park, England)
Paul Shields (Kirkhill, Scotland) (pictured)
Max Smith (Newbury Racecourse, England)
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Peter McEvoy – Boys Chairman of Selectors

Attention will undoubtedly focus on Tom Lewis, the 18-year-old from Welwyn Garden City who won last week’s Boys Amateur Championship at Royal St George’s Golf Club. Lewis defeated his GB&I team-mate Eddie Pepperell in the final of the Championship just over a week after winning five points out of a possible six for England at the Boys Home Internationals.
On the opposing side will be the two previous winners of the Boys Amateur Championship, Pedro Figueiredo (2008) and Emilio Cuartero (2007), as well as Maximilian Röhrig, who lost in the semi-final to Lewis at Sandwich.
“We have selected a very strong team for what will be a closely-fought match,” said Boys Chairman of Selectors, Peter McEvoy. “The profile of Boys golf could not be higher at the moment with the likes of 16-year-old Matteo Manassero and 17-year-old Ryo Ishikawa excelling on the world stage. The standard of play is so high now that it is not surprising that 18-year-olds are finding success at full professional level.”
The Jacques Leglise Trophy will be held on Friday 28 and Saturday 29 August. Scores and reports will appear on RandA.org throughout the days of competition.
Continent of Europe Team
Maximilian Röhrig (Germany); Emilio Cuartero (Spain); Kasper Sorensen (Denmark); Toni Hakula (Finland); Robin Kind (Netherlands); Moritz Lampert (Germany); Pedro Figueiredo (Portugal); Lucas Bjerregaard (Denmark); Romain Wattel (France).
Non-playing Captain – Andreas Pallauf (Austria)

TRAVELLING MAN BROTHERSTON LEADS

SENIORS AT NAIRN DUNBAR

Dumfries man Ian Brotherston made the long trip north to Nairn well worthwhile by continuing his recent run of good form to lead the North of Scotland Seniors Open after the first round at Nairn Dunbar Golf Club.
Dumfries & County Golf club member Brotherston shot a par-matching 72 - two under the CSS - to lead by one shot from Aberdeen's Alistair Fiddes (Deeside) and by two from Monifieth's Ian Hutcheon, Michael Jenkins (Duff House Royal), David J Miller (Kilmarnock Barassie) and Hugh Clunas (Nairn Dunbar).
First round leaders
Par 72 CSS 74
72 Ian Brotherston (Dumfries & Co).
73 Alistair Fiddes (Deeside).
74 Michael Jenkins (Duff House Royal), I C Hutcheon (Monifieth), David J Miller (Kilmarnock Barassie), Hugh Clunas (Nairn Dunbar).
75 George Rodaks (Moffat), Donald McCart (Sherwood Forest), Aiden Grounds (Falkirk Tryst).
76 Graham Somers (Bon Accord), Bob Stewart (Tulliallan), Tony McIntyre (Lundin).

McGinley and Orr share lead in KLM Open

FROM THE EUROPEAN TOUR WEBSITE
Paul McGinley began the KLM Open in The Netherlands exactly as he finished it last year - with a six under par 64.
Runner-up to Darren Clarke on the same Kennemer course 12 months ago, McGinley this time shared the early lead with Scotland’s Gary Orr.
It could have been even better for the 42 year old Dubliner, though. He was seven under after only 12 holes and three clear of the field.
Without a win since the 2005 Volvo Masters, McGinley turned in a four under 30 after four successive birdies from the 12th, eagled the 570 yard second and birdied the next before dropping his only stroke of the day at the short eighth.
"The game is moving very much into a power game, so it's refreshing to play an old-fashioned type of course," said McGinley.
"My season's been flat. I've not played well enough - no excuses - and I need to do better."
Orr, also 42, is seeking his first victory for nine years and a five iron to four feet for eagle on the 12th was the highlight of his bogey free round.
Clarke, without a top ten since his victory, was in joint third place after a 65 comprising seven birdies and two bogeys.
"I played nicely apart from a couple of stupid schoolboy errors," said the 41 year old Ryder Cup star. "I was plugged in a bunker on the 17th and then went in a bush on the seventh (a reachable par five) and had to take a penalty drop."
Alongside him were another Irishman, Peter Lawrie, Australians Wade Ormsby and Matthew Millar and also Spain's Jorge Campillo.
Double Masters Tournament champion Jose Maria Olazábal, playing with Clarke, was two under with one to play, but carved his final drive into the trees and double bogeyed.
Welsh World Cup winner Bradley Dredge did exactly the same after standing on the tee six under.
Chris Wood, third in The Open Championship last month, and Ryder Cup Captain Colin Montgomerie were among the later starters. Wood, at 58th in the World Rankings the highest ranked player in the field, opened with back-to-back birdies, but Montgomerie bogeyed the short third.

Prince Andrew gets his handicap down to four

FROM THE DAILY TELEGRAPH WEBSITE
By Ben Leach
Prince Andrew's new handicap of four means he qualifies to take up the sport full time and become a member of the Professional Golfers' Association.
Then the Duke of York could earn a living teaching at a club, or could even enter the Open and compete against other professionals such as Tiger Woods.
Ben Blackburn, 25, a PGA pro, said: "This is a tremendous achievement for any golfer and takes a huge amount of time and effort.
"You can't become that good unless you are totally committed and get out playing as regularly as possible."
The Prince, 49, who is fourth in line to the throne, took up the game shortly after becoming an officer in the Navy in 1979. But it was only after he left in July 2001 and he started to work as a full-time Royal that his golf really took off.
Despite 628 official engagements last year, the Queen's second son still played enough golf to bring his handicap down from an estimated six or eight to four.
The Prince is also a former captain of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews, and has played at some of the finest courses in the world, including top courses in Barbados, Massachusetts, Thailand and New Zealand.
But his passion for golf has not been without considerable controversy over the expense to the British taxpayer. A decade ago, the Labour MP Tony Banks described Andrew as a "useless, overweight parasite" for hiring a private jet to attend the Open Championship in Scotland.
In 2001, he spent £10,000 using the Queen's flight to watch the closing stages of the same tournament at Lytham St Annes, while in 2004, he snubbed the D-Day anniversary celebrations in France, in order to attend a golfing dinner at St Andrews
In 2005 he spent £32,000 using the RAF to fly him to St Andrews in Fife. A spokesman for Prince Andrew told The Sun: "He is a proud supporter of the sport of golf in the United Kingdom."

Scotland lagging behind Germany in

some aspects of golf, says Alan Hogg

FROM THE EDINBURGH EVENING NEWS WEBSITE
By MARTIN DEMPSTER
Twenty years after leaving Edinburgh, where he was born and bred, Alan Hogg is loving life as a golf club manager in Germany, a country he believes is leaving Scotland lagging behind in some aspects of the game.
After being introduced to golf by his father, Thomas, at the age of six, Hogg played at Torphin Hill and Baberton – he was a member there when he won the Lothians Boys' Championship – before starting his PGA training at Deer Park, where he worked under David Matthew.
He moved to Haggs Castle in Glasgow and then Alloa before a chance encounter led to a life-changing experience for a man whose best friend is Colin Brooks, the former Scottish Amateur champion from Glencorse and now one of the country's leading coaches
"I was up playing at St Andrews and got chatting to Walter Woods (the course superintendent there at the time] and he told me that Prince Maximilian of Bavaria was looking for a golf teacher," recalled Hogg.
"Two weeks later, at the age of 23, I was off to a club located to the south of Munich to become the club professional and, during my time there, I was proud to see the facilities get better and better."
After playing on the Challenge Tour for three years – he also teed up in a few European Tour events – Hogg decided to take a degree in business, a career move that helped secure his current position as director of the Golf and Vital Park in Bad Waldsee, which is in the south-west of Germany almost on the Swiss border.
"I've been here for five years now and we have a complex that includes 27 holes as well as a 40-bedroom hotel," he said. "I'm the director of the whole facility."
Hogg has been followed into golf by his two sons, Jake, 14, and Joshua, 12, the former coming over to Scotland to compete in the recent Scottish Boys' Stroke Play Championship at Ladybank with his dad accompanying him.
Hogg said of his offspring: "He's off plus one and, with the German Championship coming up soon, it was good for him to gain a bit of experience playing in different conditions than he's used to. He played in all four rounds, which was good, and I also got the chance to meet up with both Colin Brooks and Eric Grandison, another of my best friends."
During the time he's been in Germany, Hogg has seen the number of people playing golf treble from 180,000 to over 500,000, although that figure still only represents less than one per cent of the population.
"It's an elite sport in Germany for the very rich," he commented.
For a long number of years, Bernhard Langer carried the flag for German golf virtually on his own but the mantle has now been taken up by Martin Kaymer, the new Barclays Scottish Open champion and a strong candidate for next year's European Ryder Cup team.
As things stand, it's unlikely Colin Montgomerie will have a fellow Scot in his side at Celtic Manor and, even from afar, Hogg admits the state of the professional game in the "Home of Golf" doesn't exactly look too healthy.
"I don't think there's any doubt that the coaching has changed in Scotland over the past 20 years but I don't think the fitness and diet side of things has changed enough," he noted.
"Even back in 1989 there were clear signs of how the Swedes, for example, were changing the face of the game from that perspective. I remember being at the Tour School in 1989 with the likes of Willie Milne, Gary Collinson, Jim White and Colin Brooks and we just stood there when a group of Swedes including Jesper Parnevik, Per-Ulrik Johansson and Joakim Haeggman appeared with bottles of water under their arms and bananas hanging out their golf bags.
"These days, I think Scotland are lagging behind a country like Germany when it comes to practice facilities. Every course in Germany has a practice ground with a ball machine on the range and golfers can hit balls for hours on end.
"In Germany, they also provide excellent junior training. Indeed, it's club policy to provide coaching from the age of six and, at some places, they provide that five days per week free of charge."

+The full article above contains 735 words and appears in today's Edinburgh Evening News newspaper.

Surrey v Gloucestershire for English

boys' county championship crown

NEWS RELEASE ISSUED BY ENGLISH GOLF UNION
Surrey remain on course for a third successive English Boys County Championship but they were given a tough battle by Worcestershire before claiming a 5-4 win. In the other match, Gloucestershire beat Lancashire 5.5 – 3.5 to keep their hopes alive.
That means Surrey meet Gloucestershire in a winner-takes-all contest. Both have two victories but Gloucestershire are half a game point ahead.
Having found themselves trailing 1-2 after the morning foursomes, Surrey regrouped at lunch and came out fighting to claim two singles wins through Greg Payne and Curtis Griffiths.
Left-hander Payne opened with an eagle-three against Worcester’s Craig Richardson and was 3-up through five holes. He was pulled back to one hole after eight but Payne took the ninth and tenth to restore his 3-up lead. Payne also won the short 13th with a par and wrapped up his victory with a conceded birdie on the 15th for a 5 and 3 triumph.
Griffiths made an equally explosive start against Matthew Tweddell, racing 3-up after four and 5-up after seven holes. At that stage the Surrey was only one under par and he was still 5-up at the turn. He gave two holes back but was conceded the 12th and went on to claim a 4 and 2 win.
Meanwhile, in the top single, Ben Taylor for Surrey and Chris Nugent were locked in a tight battle with birdies being swapped over the front nine. The turn was reached all square but a Nugent birdie at the short 13th proved decisive as he went on to win on the 18th green.
Rob Aldred edged Worcestershire ahead again by beating Gareth Blease, seeing his first action of the week, 2 and 1. Both players were in form, proving a string of birdies and the contest was still level with four to play. But Aldred won the 16th and 17th, albeit not with birdies, to secure a 2 and 1 win.
That left Surrey needing the two remaining singles for overall victory and they got them thanks to Matthew Chapman and Josh White.
Chapman was involved in a close tussle with Rumayne Stevens until the 14th when he pulled away, winning that hole with a par and the 17th with a birdie for a 3 and 1 win.
White was an approximate four under par through 13 holes to be 4-up against Tom Warbrick only for the Worcester lad to take the 15th and 16th with pars before White closed the door with a half in fours on 17 and a 2 and 1 score.
Lancashire edged the foursomes 2-1 but Gloucestershire fought back to win four of the six singles with one halved.
The south west champions were led off by Chris Lloyd, who battled back from 2-down against Mark Duncalf to win 4 and 3. Duncalf was 2-up after four holes but the match was all square at the turn before Lloyd stepped on the gas to win four of the next five holes and claim the point.
Lloyd’s England colleague Adam Carson (picture © Tom Ward) then romped to a 5 and 3 win over Paul Kinnear to see Gloucester ahead but Sean Towndrow kept Lancashire in the hunt with a 3 and 2 win over Laurie Potter.
The other three matches all went to the 18th green with Gloucestershire getting the better of the battles.
After Sam Sullivan and Jack Brooks had halved 15 successive holes from the fourth for the first halved match of the week, the other two contests saw Gloucestershire home.
Tyler Hogarty was dormie two against James Bolton but was taken to the 18th before securing his win, while Sam Morgan was 3-up against Michael Howard with four to play only to see the latter win the 15th and 16th with pars. They halved the 17th in sixes after both had chances to win the hole, Morgan taking four putts and Howard three. However, a half in fours at the last saw Morgan home.
Admission is free to the event. For those unable to attend, scoring, championship commentary and news updates are available on the Championships Section of the EGU website, www.englishgolfunion.org

Inaugural Asian Men's Amateur Championship

gets backing from big-name brands

Big name brands IBM, KFC, Rolex and Zurich Financial Services Group have agreed to become sponsors of the Asian Men's Amateur Championship.
The inaugural championship, which will take place at Mission Hills Golf Club in Shenzhen, China, from October 29 to November 1, 2009 is a joint initiative to grow the game by the Asia Pacific Golf Confederation, the Masters Tournament and The R&A.
An invitation to play in the 2010 Masters Tournament awaits the winner, while both the winner and the runner-up will gain a place in International Final Qualifying for The Open Championship being played next year at St Andrews.
“Valuable partners are integral in fulfilling our mission and ensuring the event’s success,” said Tommy Lee, Chairman of the APGC, the governing body of the Asian Amateur Championship.
“Our goal is to create golfing heroes throughout Asia that will, in turn, inspire others to take up this great game. IBM, KFC, Rolex and Zurich share this vision and will help make it possible for our objective to be achieved.”
The 120-player field will be comprised of the top male amateurs in the region representing 34 countries. Play will consist of 72 holes of stroke play on Mission Hills Golf Club’s World Cup Course with a cut coming after 36 holes.
For more information on the Asian Amateur Championship, please visit www.asianamateurchampionship.com.

Monty wants a Ryder Cup team

that fears nobody

FROM THE SCOTSMAN SPORTS WEBSITE
By Mark Garrod
COLIN Montgomerie wants a Ryder Cup team that is totally fearless – and does not mind how young they are.
Qualifying for next year's match in Wales starts in two weeks and Montgomerie's confidence has just been given a huge boost. Europe's captain, now in the Netherlands for the KLM Open, had predicted that "four or five" possible members of his side would finish in the top 10 at the US PGA Championship on Sunday.
As it was Lee Westwood and Rory McIlroy shared third place, Martin Kaymer, Henrik Stenson and Soren Kjeldsen were joint sixth and Padraig Harrington, Graeme McDowell and Francesco Molinari tied for 10th.
"I think that's our best ever performance in an American major and that should help us to go on and have more major champions," said the former European No1.
McIlroy is 20 and new 'Race to Dubai' leader Kaymer is 24, while Montgomerie has also been impressed by 26-year-old Spaniard Alvaro Quiros, now firmly established as the biggest hitter on either the European or US tours.
Asked if he could turn back the clock and start his career all over again the 46-year-old commented: "No – they are better than me. The potential is there to emulate the top five we had (Seve Ballesteros, Nick Faldo, Bernhard Langer, Sandy Lyle and Ian Woosnam won 16 majors between them).
"I was never in that league. I had doubts they don't seem to have. There is no fear."I remember in 1999 that Sergio Garcia (19 at the time) was fearless going into the Ryder Cup and if McIlroy, Kaymer and Quiros make the team I envisage the same thing.
"I want a team that not in any way, shape or form has any fear of the Americans."
Montgomerie looks forward to seeing how they react to the pressure of playing for cup points, but this week has his focus firmly on his own career.
With no members of the world's top 50 at Kennemer the KLM Open is a real chance to end his recent barren spell of no top-10 finishes in 14 months. Darren Clarke, another without a top-10 finish this season, is the defending champion.

Ross Kellett (67) joint third in

European amateur

championship in France


Colville Park's Ross Kellett was the top Scot in the first round of the European men's individual amateur championship at Chantilly, France.
Ross, pictured by Cal Carson Golf Agency, had a four-under-par round of 67 to be lying joint third, two shots behind pacemaker Victor Dubuisson (France) and one off second-placed Espen Kofstad (Norway).
SCOREBOARD
Par 71
65 Victor Dubuisson (France).
66 Espen Kofstad (Norway).
67 Ross Kellett (Scotland), Alan Dunbar (Ireland), Max Kieffer (Germany), Adam Runcie (Wales).
Other Scottish scores:
69 James Byrne.
72 Glenn Campbell.
73 Gavin Dear, Keir McNicoll.
74 Paul O'Hara.
75 Steven McEwan.
76 Wallace Booth.
77 Michael Stewart.




















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