EX-PR0 BARRY HUME BACK ON AMATEUR CIRCUIT AT CRAIL THIS WEEKEND

By COLIN FARQUHARSON Colin@scottishgolfview.com Former Walker Cup reserve and Scottish amateur champion at Downfield in 2001, Barry Hume is in the field for this week's Battle Trophy 72-hole SGU Order of Merit tournament, organised by Crail Golfing Society. Now 31, Hume is also understood to be among the entries for the Glasgow Golf Club's Edward Trophy tournament over 36 holes at Glasgow Gailes, Ayrshire on April 27.  The entry list for that event only closed yesterday and no draw has been published yet. A successful career as a tournament professional was forecast for the Haggs Castle Golf Club member when he left the amateur ranks but it never got off the ground and he was reduced to playing in events such as the American Hooters Tour, having failed to gain playing rights on the European Tour or the Asian Tour. Hume had an outstanding career as an amateur before he turned professional. In 1999, he won the Scottish boys' open stroke-play championship at Nairn Dunbar. In 2001, he beat Craig Watson by 5 and 4 in the 36-hole final of the Scottish amateur championship at Downfield. In the semi-finals, Hume beat Martin Laird. In the previous year's "Scottish," Hume had lost to eventual champion Steven O'Hara in the semi-finals at Royal Dornoch. In 2002, Hume won the Scottish amateur stroke-play title at Southerness.