BY THE LEFT: MacINTYRE LEADS SCOTTISH UNDER-18 BOYS' STROKE PLAY

ROBERT MacINTYRE ... Left-handed leader of the pack at The Roxburghe

 Picture by Cal Carson Golf Agency

 Oban's Robert MacIntyre has at least two things in common with Open champion Phil Mickelson.They both play golf left-handed and they are both proven winners.

Glencruitten member MacIntyre, the Golf Data Lab Scottish youths champion, shot an excellent six-under-par 66 today to lead the field in the first round of the Stephen Gallacher Foundation Scottish Under-18 boys' open amateur stroke-play.

He leads by one from professional's son Connor Syme (Dumfries and County), Paul Lawrie Scottish schoolboys champion for the past two years, and by three from third-placed Ewen Ferguson (Bearsden), current leader of the SGU Boys' Order of Merit.

MacIntyre had a big of seven birdies at the Kelso course in halves of 32-34. His only blemish was a bogey at the second.

His birdies came at the first, third, long fifth, long seveth, short eighth, long 11th and short 13th.

Syme also had seven birdies in his 67 but he had two bogeys, both at short holes in an outward 35, the fourth and eighth. His inward half of 32 was two better than MacIntyre's.

FIRST ROUND SCOREBOARD

Par 72 SS 74 CSS 74

+The leading 40 players and ties at the end of 

the second round will qualify to play the final

two rounds on Thursday.

66 R MacIntyre (Glencruitten)

67 C Syme (Dumfries and Co)

69 E Ferguson (Bearsden)

70 R White (Muckhart), O Bergqvist (Swe), A Burgess (Nairn), J Floyd (Haywards Heath).

71 L Anderson (Deeside), E Walker (Kilmarnock Barassie), C Fyfe (Cawder).

72 R Robertson (Old Ranfurly), J Goth-Rasmussen (Denmark), F Davren (Williamwood), J Harling (Banchory), J Lelliott (Worthing), J Volden (Norway), C McAndrew (Germany), C Hill (Tantallon), R Stewart (Crieff), A Ross (Fort William).

73 G Burns (Williamwood), D McNeill (Powfoot), S Mazzoli (Italy), G Cowen (W Lothian), M McCulloch (Portpatrick Dunskey).

74 S Scott (Nairn), A Fortune (Roxburghe), G Welsh (S Herts), M Mansen (Denmark), T Watson (Fancourt), R Gordon (Alford), B Gavin (Kilmarnock Barassie), G Forrester (Lundin).

75 C Cochrane (Marriott Dalmahoy), A Wilson (Renaissance), C Curren (Harburn), R McKinnon (Peterculter), P Dorrian (Greenock), M Napier (Dundas Parks), R Dallas (Kirriemuir), S Eaton (Irvine).

 === PROJECTED CUT MARK AFTER TWO ROUNDS ===

 

76 A McDougall (St Andrews New), S Russell (Kilmarnock Barassie), R Alexander (Braehead), I Alexander (France), J Banks (Grange Park), G Burrett (Haggs Castle), R Franssen (Inverness), A Schmidt (Ger), S Wilson (Whinhill), A MacVicar (Glencruitten), T Simmonds (Gullane), R Hughan (Newton Stewart), C Lawrie (Deeside), S O'Brien (Stoke by Nayland), A Fisher (Newmachar).

77 A Wolstencroft (Carlisle), M Ortolani (Ita), J Wilson (Balmore), N Young (Insch), I Raisbeck (Denstone Coll), A Thurlow (Murrayfield), C Toal (Old Ranfurly) A Husenne (Haggs Castle).

78 A Mackie (Powfoot), D McCreadie (Newton Stewart), S Gillies (Gullane), J Keith (Inverness), N McConnachie (Balmore), C MacLead (Clydebank and Dist), S Irving (Falkirk), R Thompson (The Duke's), A Carrell (Royal Aberdeen), A Mackie (Powfoot), R Kemsley (Balmore), C Kendall (Furness), K Mackay (Inverness).

79 S Hamilton (Notts), C Franssen (Inverness), C Campbell (St Andrews), C Finnie (Lockerbie), J Valentine (Musselburgh), R McPherson (Kilspindie), R Malcolm (Muckhart), A McManus (Darlington), A Chalk (Dumfries and Galloway), W Kerr (Craigielaw), M Brodie (Strathmore), J Bryce (Bathgate), S Blair (Royal Musselburgh).

80 R Lumsden (Royal Wimbledon), L Bain (Musselburgh), P Alexander (Glenbervie), J Fraser (Ayr Belleilse), P Crema (Ita), L Murray (Troon Welbeck). A Thomson  (Lanark),  R Johnson (Helensburgh), B Murray (Portlethen).

81 C McGuigan (Comrie), B Stephen (Pitlochry), D Lane (Kenilworth), S McBride (Playsport), G Joss (Royal Aberdeen), I Baylet (Chartham Park).

82 L George (Downfield), B Kinsley (St Andrews), C Stephen (Aboyne), C Aitken (Kilmacolm).

83 B Carnegie (Glenbervie), C Good (Musselburgh), M Mollinson (Copt Heath).

84 O Pirdzun (Germany), R Watson (Muckhart), L McWilliam (Aboyne), A McLean (Glencruitten), B Craggs (Glenbervie), C Gorrie (Kilmarnock Barassie).

85 A Cameron (Beaconsfield), M Paterson (Bruntsfield), G Petrie (Forfar), M Tomlinson (France), D Eardley (Liberton), H Samson (Lochmaben).

87 A McColl (Erskine), E Bowden (Tantallon).

89  C Edger (Cochrane Castle).

90 M Scott (Crieff).