KELLETT JUST INSIDE TOP 20 AT ALPS TOUR FINALE

Ross Kellett shot a one-over-par 73 to be lying joint 19th in a field of 64 players at the end of the final event of the Alps Tour regular season, the Masters 13 Allianz at Mallemort, Provence in France.
The Motherwell man birdied two par-5 holes, the ninth and the 14th, but bogeyed the fifth and also dropped shots at two par-3 holes, the 11th and 13th in halves of 36 and 37.
He is five shots behind the leader, Frenchman Nicolas Joakimedes.

LEADING FIRST ROUND SCORES
Par 72
68 Nicolas Joakimedes (Fra)
69 Adrien Bernadet (Fra)

SELECTED SCORES
72 Gareth Shaw (NIr) (T13)
73 Ross Kellett (Sco), Steven Brown (Eng) (T19).
75 Jason Palmer (Eng) (T30)
78 Andrew Cooley (Eng) (T53)
79 Brendon McCarroll (Ire) (T57)
Retired - Chris McDonnell (Eng).