JONES CUP INVITATIONAL

Philip McLean will start final round

in joint fifth place after 81 on Day 2

First-round pacemaker Philip McLean from Peterhead slumped from a first-day, three-under-par 69 to a second-round, nine-over-par 81 for a 36-hole tally of six-over-par 150 in the 54-hole Jones Cup Invitational tournament at the Ocean Forest Golf Club, Sea Island in the United States' state of Georgia.

McLean, winner of the Leven Gold Medal and the North-east Alliance championship last year, took 41 shots for his first nine holes, but he was not alone in that in conditions which, judged by the general level of scoring, were more difficult for good scoring than they were on Friday.

At the end of the day, McLean, who has yet to gain a full cap for Scotland, was in a creditable joint fifth place, only three strokes behind American Blayne Barber who has scored 73 and 74 for three-over-par 147, a total which underlines how difficult it was to score well on the second day.

James White (Lundin) was out in 40 after a first-round 81, but he came home in 38 to salvage a 78 and a tally of 159.

Ross Kellett (Colville Park) finished the second day on 161 with rounds of 79 and 82.

The fourth member of the Scottish Golf Union squad - Scottish boys and men's champion David Law was unable to play because of a broken knuckle on his left hand - Steven McEwan (Caprington) was on 167 with scores of 85 and 82.

England's Tom Lewis, the British boys champion, was on 151 with scores of 75 and 76.

THE COMPLETE SCOREBOARD

Par 144 (2x72)

Players from US unless stated

147 Blayne Barber 73 74.

148 Patrick Reed 72 76, Hunter Hamrick 73 75, Victor Dubuisson (France) 78 70..

150 Philip McLean (Scotland) 69 81 (41-40), Bud Cauley 74 76.

151 Tom Lewis (England) 75 76, Romain Wattel (France) 71 80, Bobby Wyatt 75 76, Brinson Paolini 76 75.

152 Zach Barlow 80 72, Henrick Norlander 72 80, Harris English 75 77, John Hahn 76 76, Adam Long 78 74, Matt Nagy 71 81, Kevin Marsh 76 76.

153 Byeong-Hun An 75 78, Stiggy Hodgson 83 70 (England), Darren Renwick (England)79 74, Nuno Henriques 80 73, Matt Hill 78 75, Nathan Smith 75 78.

154 George Bryan 72 82, Anthony Paoucci 76 78, Jeff Knox 79 75, Chesson Hadley 80 74.

155 David Holmes 77 78, Bryden MacPherson 75 80, Cory Whitsett 76 79, Michael Morrison 79 76, John Murphy 81 74, Patrick Cantlay 77 78, Alexander Knappe 76 79.

156 Scott Langley 83 74, Zack Fischer 78 78, Mike McCoy 79 77, Brad Benjamin 79 77, Kyle Kopsick 78 78, Patrick Rada 81 75.

157 Dustin Garza 79 78, Tripp Davis 77 80, Drew Kittleson 76 81, Stephan Jaeger 80 77, Bank Vongvanij 77 80, Oliver Schneiderjans 82 75.

158 James Frazer (Wales) 77 81, Chris Paisley 77 81, Tommy Mou 77 81.

159 Jamie Abbott (England) 77 82, Brad Revell 78 81, Sean Dale 82 77, James White (Scotland) 81 78 (40-38).

160 Billy Hemstock (England) 79 81, Robert Gerwin 83 77.

161 Ross Kellett (Scotland) 79 82, James Robinson 77 84, Brendan Gielow 81 80..

162 Alex Martin 76 86, Corey Nagy 80 82, Kevin O'Connell 81 81, Oliver Farr (Wales) 82 80, Kevin Phelan 84 78, Mitch Keywuycz 83 79.

163 Joe Vickery (Wales) 83 80.

164 Julian Suri 86 78, Ben Kohles 79 85, Russell Henley 77 87.

166 Chan Kim 86 80, Matt Broome 83 83, Robin Wingardh 84 82, Gator Todd 82 84.

167 Wesley Bryan 78 89, Steven McEwan (Scotland) 85 82, T J Mitchell 91 76.

168 Garland Ferrell 80 88, Sebastian Kannler 88 80.

169 Allen John 84 85.

172 Scott McAlpine 80 92.

173 Michael Barbosa 89 84.

177 Gene Elliott 88 89.

195 Tanner Smith 89 106.