TOUGH FOR SHIELDS, SMOOTH FOR GUNN IN ARIZONA

Scottish amateur cap Paul Shields (Kirkhill) who has been playing like a seasoned professional - which he isn't! - over the past two or three weeks on the All-American Professional Tour in Arizona, had a change of luck in the first round of this week's event at Vista Verde Golf Club, Rio Verde. Paul, who has made the 36-hole cut with ease twice in a row and achieved a top-10 finish last week, faces an uphill battle to make it through to the final day this week. He shot a four-over-par 76, which is not a disastrous score in amateur terms but, in the world of tour pro golf, it is. Paul is lying joint 65th in a field of 100. But if Shields is finding it hard going this week, Dornoch exile Jimmy Gunn has made his seasonal debut this week as though he had never been away. Gunn shot a three-under 69 to be three shots behind the American leader, Matt Miller.