Young Ballingall now No 3 Scot in world amateur rankings

behind Byrne and Kellett

By COLIN FARQUHARSON
Anglo-Scot Stuart Ballingall's good form on the US college golf circuit in his freshman year at the University of Missouri has seen him rise to be the third highest-ranked Scot in this week's updated R&A World Amateur Golf Rankings.
Banchory's James Byrne, meantime representing Arizona State University in the NCAA championships at Chattanooga, maintains the top Scot ranking in 29th place, up one from last week.
Ross Kellett (Colville Park) is still No 2 Scot but has dropped 15 places to No 71.
Then there is a big gap to third-placed Ballingall, pictured, who comes from Norwich, and ended his first US college golf season by finishing tied 11th in the NCAA Southwest Regional Championship at San Diego, in 221st place.
Filling out the top six Scots in the world rankings are Michael Stewart (Troon Welbeck & East Tennessee State) in 243rd place (down 53, Kris Nicol (Fraserburgh) in 250th position (up 34) and James White (Lundin & Stirling University) in 267th place, up 84.
The Scots in the top 500 are:
29 James Byrne (+1).
71 Ross Kellett (-15).
221 Stuart Ballingall (-1).
243 Michael Stewart (-53).
250 Kris Nicol (+34).
267 James White (+84).
316 Mark Hillson (+72).
379 David Law (+50).
401 Glenn Campbell (-98).
402 Philip McLean (-3).
416 Peter Latimer (+127).
472 Greg Paterson (-64).
Also:
530 Gordon Yates (+79).
535 Scott Crichton (+98).

WORLD'S TOP 10 THIS WEEK
1 Peter Uihlein (US) (no change).
2 Nick Taylor (Canada) (no change).
3 Bud Cauley (US) (+3).
4 Tommy Fleetwood (England) (-1).
5 Victor Dubuisson (France) (no change).
6 Russell Henley (Us) (-2).
7 Jonathan Randolph (US) (no change).
8 Andrea Pavan (Italy) (no change).
9 Jin Jeong (South Korea) (+3).
10 David Chung (US) (no change)