HUMBLE SETS PACE IN SCOTTISH SENIORS TITLE RACE

Grangemouth's Lindsay Blair is not going to give up the Scottish senior men's open amateur golf championship without a fight.

The title-holder posted a one-over-par 71 late in the day at Golf House Club, Elie and will start the second round of this 54-hole event in joint fourth place.

Blair deviated from par at only five holes - birdies at the seventh and 10th, bogeys at the fourth, ninth and 12th in halves of 36-35.

Leading the big field is Bob Humble (Kilspindie) with a two-under 68.

Bob birdied the short third, seventh, ninth and 16th with bogeys at the second and 12th.

He has a two-shot advantage over Richard Latham (Woodhall Spa) and Anthony McLure (Longhirst)

LEADING FIRST ROUND SCORES

Par 70

68 B Humble (Kilspindie)

70 R Latham (Woodhall Spa), A McLure (Longhirst)

71 J Willis (Carlisle), B Edgar (Blackpool NS), P Sewell (Castle Royle), L Blair (Grangemouth).

72 J Jermine (Sunningdale), G Rees (Fleetwood), R Partridge (Wildernesse), G Paterson (Northern).

73 D Cameron (Moor Park), D Gardner (Broomieknowe), L Gordon (Turnhouse), A O'Neill (West Lothian), D Lane (Goring and Streatley), D Taylor (Dunfermline).

74 P Saggers (Nairn), D Murphy (Kinross), R McLellan (Turnberry), S Bannerman (Glasgow), D Chalmers (Panmure), B Bingham (Haggs Castle), N Franklin (Beaconsfield), F McCluskey (Royal Burgess), I Gillan (Bishopbriggs), J S Macdonald (Dunfermline).

75 D Martin (Newbiggin), K Bruce (Edzell), P Adams (Gay Hill), R Gray (Irvine), J Gordon (Parkstone), S Pond (Worksop), J Fraser (Royal Burgess).

76 D Campbell (Avro), W Higgins (Tewkesbury), S Fawcett (Southport and Ainsdale), A Lamond (Glasgow), I Brooker (Littlestone), J Johnston (Northumberland), P Slater (Sandiway), S Sander (Sunningdale), S Gray (Royal Burgess), B Stewart (Tulliallan), S Whymark (Woodbridge), I Brotherston (Dumfries and Co), M Baker (Chester Le Street), B Grieve (King James VI), A Whittaker (Woodbridge).

77 G MacBryde (Stone), D Miller (Kilmarnock Barassie), J Wright (Wildernesse), D Heaton (Delamere Forest), K Miller (Milngavie), M Wigley (Bute and N Cornwall), J Kirwan (Bramhall), N Cameron (Porters Park), D Donaldson (Glasgow, D Imrie (Thornton), D Gillespie (Turnhouse), S Ellis (Cowal), D Downie (Kirriemuir Players), W Ereskine (Kilsyth Lennox), A Carman (Coventry).

78 J Kinloch (Cardross), R Walker (Crewe), A Raphael (Littlestone), B Mitchell (Hankley Common), G MacDonald (Glenbervie), T Daggett (Ringway), C Christy (Kilmacolm), P Jack (Carlisle).

79 G Millar (Swanston New), J Watt (Edzell), E Dunn (Peterborough), A MacNaugvhtr (Colchester), B Smith (Kilmacolm), J McIntyre (Lundin), I Stewart (Turnberry), I Kerr (Kilmacolm), D McCart (Sherwood Forest), I MacDonald (Bruntsfield), G Hughes (Church Stretton), G Meddings (Pedham Place), A Donkersley (Gerrards Cross), D Pearson (Royal Dornoch).

80 G Payne (Prestbury), D Imrie (Turnhouse), P Kinloch (Cardross), D Hudson (Hunstanton), J Black (Scotscraig), R Lawson (RandA), A Whittaker (Woodbridge), D Potter (Naunton Downs).

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