KELLETT, NICOL LEADING SCOTS AT RED SEA

Ross Kellett and Kris Nicol were sharing third place on one-under-par 71 at the end of the first round in the Alps Tour's Red Sea Little Venice Open at Sokhna Golf Club, Egypt today.  Kellett, from Motherwell, deviated from par only four times - an eagle at the 319yd par-4 first, a birdie 3 at the 11th and bogeys at the short fifth and par-4 15th.  Fraserburgh's Nicol, playing out of the Paul Lawrie Golf Centre, in contrast had six birdies - at the first, second, 10th, 11th, 15th and 16th - but also a bad run where he dropped five shots over five holes: bogey at the fourth, double bogey at the sixth and bogeys at the seventh and eighth.  But that splendid, bogey-free inward half of 32 repaired most of the damage.  Ross Cameron from Ellon is sharing 33rd place on 73 which included a triple bogey 7 at the second.Troon's Michael Stewart, beaten in a play-off in his last outing, is back in joint 42nd place in this one.  He subsided to a two-over 74 after birdieing the long third, long seventh and short eighth on his way to an outward 34. Stewart's birdie-less inward half of 40 included bogeys at the 10th, 14th, 15th and long 17th.  John James Henry from Clydebank & Districti had a 75, which left him in joint 53rd position in a field of 77 players. He had a double bogey 6 at the 15th followed by birdies at the 16th and long 17th. Welshman Rhys Enoch and France's Pierre-Ludovic Couvert lead the field on the five-under 67 mark. RED SEA LITTLE VENICE OPEN  Soknha GC, Egypt  LEADING FIRST ROUND SCORES  Par 72 67 R Enoch (Wal), P-L Couvert (Fra).  68 J Foret (Fra), X Puig (Spa). 69 J Palmer (Eng), R Neil-Jones (Eng). SCOTS' SCORES  71 R Kellett, K Nicol (T13). 73 R Cameron (T33). 74 M Stewart (T42). 75 J J Henry (T53).