Haines, Fleetwood Britain's last
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survivors in Spanish championship

England's Walker Cup players, Matthew Haines (Rochester & Cobham), pictured by Cal Carson Golf Agency, and Tommy Fleetwood (Formby Hall), winner of the Scottish open amateur stroke-play championship at Murcar Links last year, are the only two British players in the last eight of the Spanish men's amateur international championship at La Canada Golf Club on the Costa del Sol.
Fraserburgh's Kris Nicol, the No 3 qualifier, won his first tie by 2 and 1 over Adam Carson (England) but lost to Spain's No 19 qualifier, Sebastian Garcia, by two holes in the round of the last 16.
Gordon Yates, Scotland's only other representative among the 32 qualifiers for the match-play stages, was the No 6 seed. He lost to the 27th qualifier, R Lykke-Kjeldsen (Denmark) by one hole.
Results:
FIRST ROUND
Qualifying number in brackets
Matthew Haines (England) (1) bt James Watts (England) (32) 2 and 1.
Max Kieffer (Germany) (16) bt Carlos Pigem (Spain) (17) 1 hole.
Antonio Hortal (Spain) bt Ian Winstanley (England) 7 and 5
J Lopez-Lazaro (France) bt Alex Christie (England) 3 and 2
Juan Sarasti (Spain) bt Leo Lespinasse (France) 5 and 4.
J Lando-Casanova (France) bt #Adrian Otaegui (Spain) 3 and 2.
Nino Bertasio (Italy)bt Thomas Shadbolt (England) 5 and 3.
Emilio Cuartero (Spain)bt Jamie Abbot (England) (29) 3 and 2.

Kris Nicol (Scotland) (3)bt Adam Carson (England) (30) 2 and 1.
Sebastian Garcia (Spain) (19) bt Stiggy Hodgson (England) (14) at 21st.
Dara Lernihan (Ireland) (22) bt Tapio Pulkkanen (Finland) (11) at 19th.
R Lykke-Kjeldsen (Denmark) (27) bt Gordon Yates (Scotland) (6) 1 hole.
Elias Bertheussen (Norway) (26) bt Gary Stal (France) (7) 3 and 1.
Tommy Fleetwood (England) (10) bt Alexander Levy (France) (23) 2 and 1.
Toni Hakula (Finland) bt Ben Loughrey (England) (15) 4 and 3.
Julien Brun (France) (2) bt Manuel Gil C (Spain) (31) 2 holes.

SECOND ROUND
Haines bt Keiffer 2 and 1.
Lopez-Lazaro bt Hortal 2 and 1.
Sarasti bt Lando-Casanova 3 and 2.
Cuartero bt Bertasio 3 and 2.

Garcia bt Nicol 2 holes.
Lykke-Kjeldsen bt Lernihan 3 and 2.
Fleetwood bt Bertheussen 2 and 1.
Bruin bt Hakula 2 and 1.