KELLETT FINISHES WELL TO SHARE THIRD PLACE IN ALPS TOUR EVENT IN CARIBBEAN

Ross Kellett boosted his Alps Tour earnings to 8,121 Euros in his rookie pro season by finishing third in the Guadeloupe Open in the Caribbean on Sunday.
The Motherwell man, who had dropped to sixth after a third-round 73, came surging up the leaderboard again with a closing score of four-under-par 67 (32-35).
He started with an eagle 3 and addeded birdies at the fourth, sixth, 15th and 17th for a nine-under-par total of 275.
Kellett's earlier scores were 67 and 68.
The only other Scot in the field, another rookie, Kris Nicol (Fraserburgh), who won the Alps Tour Qualifying School several months ago, finished joint 34th on 292. He had rounds of 69, 73, 76 and 74.
Jack Senior (Heysham, Lancashire), a Walker Cup hero at Royal Aberdeen in September (team-mate Steven Brown from Wentworth tied with Kellett for third) chalked up his second Alps Tour win with an impressive 21-under-par 263. He had rounds of 65, 68, 64 and 66 to win by the runaway margin of 10 shots from Frenchman Thomas Fournier.
Senior leads the Alps Tour Order of Merit with earnings of 18,245 Euros. Kellett is now fifth on 8,121 Euros and Nicol is 24th on 2,848 Euros.

ALPS TOUR - GUADELOUPE OPEN
Guadeloupe, Caribbean
LEADING FINAL TOTALS
Par 284 (4x71)
263 Jack Senior (Eng) 65 68 64 66
273 Thomas Fournier (Fra) 71 70 68 61
275 Ross Kellett (Sco) 67 68 73 67, Steven Brown (Eng) 67 68 71 69
277 Thomas Linard (Fra) 67 70 70 70, Tom Sherreard (Eng) 67 70 68 72.

OTHER SCORE
282 Kris Nicol (Sco) 69 73 76 74 (T34)