HUME’S HARD TASK TO BEAT ALPS TOUR CUT
Perthshire player Steven Hume will be hard pushed to make the leading 40 players and ties who will beat the cut after Friday’s second round of the Alps Tour’s Open Intenational de Normandie at Golf de Saint Saens in France.
The Murrayshall man saddled himself with a four-over-par 75 and is lying joint 80th in the field of 120 players.
Hume had three birdies – at the 10th, 11th and short 17th – but he undid the good work with a double bogey 7 at the long 12th and bogeys at the second, eighth, 14th, 16th and 18th.
Frenchman Alan Bihan, a winner twice already this season on the satellite circuit, is setting the pace with a five-under-par 66.
FIRST ROUND LEADERS
Par 71
66 Alan Bihan (Fra).
67 Julien Foret (Fra), Matteo Del Podio (Ita), Juan Antonio Bragulat (Spa).
Selected scores:
69 Jason Palmer (Eng).
72 Ricki Neil-Jones (Eng).
74 Philip Rowe (Eng), Adam Hodkinson (Eng), Farren Keenan (Eng), Jonathan Lomas (Eng).
75 Steven Hume (Sco).