SHIELDS AND WHITE ONLY SCOTS TO BEAT THE CUT IN IRISH OPEN AMATEUR STROKE-PLAY

Only two Scots - Paul Shields and James White, survived the halfway cut - totals of 152 or better qualified for Sunday's final 36 holes - in the Irish men's open amateur stroke-play championship at Royal Dublin.
Shields shot a pair of 74s for 148 and White scored 74-77 for 151.
Belfast's Harry Diamond (Belvoir Park) carded a second round of 70 to give him the halfway lead on one under par.
He is one shot clear of a four-man chasing pack which includes the World No 7 amateur  and last weekend's runaway Lytham Trophy winner Dan Huizing (Netherlands), the Peter McEvoy Trophy winner Gavin Moynihan, Robin Kind (Netherlands) and the impressive American Mike Miller who are all level par.
A round that contained five birdies, including one on the 18th, gave Diamond the equal best round of the day.
Good friends with Rory McIlroy, Diamond will be hoping to do something that McIlroy never did, in winning the Irish amateur open title.
A total of 45 players made the cut which fell at 152.

LEADING HALFWAY TOTALS
Par 144 (2x72)
143 H Diamond (Belvoir Park) 73 70.
144 D Huizing (Netherlands) 74 70, G Moynihan (The Island) 74 70, R King (Netherlands) 73 71, M Miller (US) 71 73.
145 C Campbell (Warrenpoint) 74 71, M Trappel (Austria) 73 72, C Dorna (Banbridge) 73 72, D McElroy (Ballymena) 71 74, S Ward (Co Louth) 70 75.

SCOTS' SCORES
149 P Shields 74 74
151 J White 74 77

MISSED THE CUT (152 or better qualified)
154 S Binning 76 78.
156 S Borrowman 80 76, S Larkin 80 76.
157 J Hendrick 78 79.
158 M Robb 85 73.
159 C O'NeIl 80 79, G Stevenson 78 81.

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