Tommy Fleetwood meets Fotheringham

conqueror in New South Wales Final

Scottish men's open amateur stroke-play champion Tommy Fleetwood (Formby Hall) is through to the final of the New South Wales amateur championship at Royal Sydney.

He will play 16-year-old Australian Jake Higginbottom (The Australian Golf Club), conqueror of Fraser Fotheringham (Nairn) in the second round of the match-play stages.

Walker Cup player Fleetwood, pictured by Cal Carson Golf Agency, who won the Scottish stroke-play title at Murcar Links last year, came through after a titantic struggle in the quarter-finals.

Fleetwood, the No 7 seed, beat No 2 qualifier Yeong Jin Jeong at the 23rd.

In the semi-finals, the Englishman from Formby Hall, Lancashire beat Luke Humphries by 4 and 3, having been three down after six holes. He squared the match at the 11th.

Higginbottom, the fifth best qualifier from the stroke-play rounds, won his semi-final by 4 and 3 against the No 9 seed, Patrick Wilson. The Aussie teenager had had to go to the 19th to win his quarter-final tie against Alex Pitty.

Results:

QUARTER-FINALS

Patrick Wilson (No 9 seed) bt Brett Drewitt (16) 1 hole.

Jake Higginbottom (5) bt Alex Pitty (20) at 19th.

Tommy Fleetwood (7) bt Yeong Jin Jeong (2) at 23rd.

Luke Humphries (27) bt Luke Henwood (30) 1 hole.

SEMI-FINALS

Higginbottom (5) bt Wilson (9) 4 and 3.

Fleetwood (7) bt Humphries (27) 4 and 3.