Wednesday, August 11, 2010

BYRNE'S BEST - HE'S No. 11 IN WORLD

By COLIN FARQUHARSON
James Byrne's 11th place finish in the European individual amateur championship in Finland last weekend has seen him rise to No 11 in the updated R&A World Amateur Rankings.
That's a promotion of two places and puts the 21-year-old Banchory player, a student at Arizona State University, at his highest world ranking yet.
Jin Jeong, the Australia-based South Korean who beat Byrne in the final of the British amateur championship at Muirfield in June, is still ranked No 1, ahead of American Peter Uihlein and Tommy Fleetwood (Formby Hall), the English amateur championship who rises to a pesonal best of No 3 this week.
The only other Scot apart from Byrne in the top 100 is Motherwell's Ross Kellett, who goes down five places to No 61.
Scottish champion Michael Stewart drops out of the top 100 after a disappointing performance in the European amateur championship, dropping 20 places to No 116.
Fraserburgh's Kris Nicol goes down 17 places to No 139.

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