ELLON MAN IN TOP TEN WITH A FOUR-UNDER--PAR 68
ROSS CAMERON MAKES MOST OF
FLYING START IN EGYPT
By COLIN FARQUHARSON
Colin@scottishgolfview.com
Ellon's Ross Cameron produced one of his best rounds of the Alps Tour today - a four-under-par 68 to be lying joint ninth at the end of the first day of the Red Sea Little Venice Open at Sokhna Golf Club, Egypt.
Cameron, pictured by Cal Carson Golf Agency, sponsored by Saltire Energy, got off to a flying start with birdies at the first two holes. A bogey at the fourth did not reduce his momentum because he birdied the sixth and turned in two-under 34.
Coming home the Aberdeenshire man birdied the 13th, long 17th and 18th, offset by a second bogey, at the 15th.
Edinburgh's former Scottish amateur champion John Gallagher had five birdies in his 69 (36-33), at the short eighth, 10th, 12th, 17th and 18th. His bogeys came at the second and 16th. The Duddingston tour pro is in joint 14th position.
Fraserburgh's Kris Nicol (Paul Lawrie Golf Centre) had a 71 in which he played moderately for an outward 38 with bogeys at the third and fifth, and very well after the turn with birdies at the 10th, 11th, 16th and 17th, bogeying only the 14th in an inward 33. Nicol is joint 29th in the field of 102.
Dundee rookie Jordan McColl matched the par of 72 for joint 44th place. He birdied the first, third and 17th; bogeying the foufrth, fifth and 14th in halves of 36.
Ross Kellett from Motherwell, leading Scot in last week's event at the same venue, returned a 73, one ahead of rookie James White (Lundin).
Kellett bogeyed the eighth and 14th and did not get a birdie until the 17th in halves of 37-36.
White had a bad start - bogeys at the third, fourth and ninth to turn in three-over 39.
The Fifer birdied the 10th but then bogeyed the 12th and 15th before finishing in style with birdies at the 17th and 18th.
Also on the 74 mark is John Henry (Clydebank and District. He bogeyed the second but birdied the fourth and seventh, only to give them back with bogeys at the eighth and ninth. Out in 38, he reeled off nine pars on the inward half.
Troon's former Scottish amateur champion Michael Stewart had a 77 which included double bogeys at the second and sixth.
Thomas Elissalde, a 21-year-old Frenchman, who turned pro at the end of last season, leads by one shot with a seven-under 65.
LEADING FIRST ROUND SCORES
Par 72
65 T Elissalde (Fra)
66 J Foret (Fra), A Guttierrez (Spa), C Berardo (Fra)
SELECTED SCORES
67 L Canter (Eng), J Palmer (Eng) (T5)
68 R Cameron (Sco), A Cooley (Eng) (T9)
69 J Gallagher (Sco), M Edge (Eng) (T14)
71 K Nicol (Sco), J Senior (Eng), Warren Harmiston (Eng), Tom Shadbolt (Eng), Simon Ward (Ire) (T28).
72 J McColl (Sco), S Brown (Eng) (T44)
73 R Kellett (Sco) (T59)
74 J White (Sco), J Henry (Sco) (T72)
77 M Stewart (Sco) (T91)
Field of 102 players
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FLYING START IN EGYPT
By COLIN FARQUHARSON
Colin@scottishgolfview.com
Ellon's Ross Cameron produced one of his best rounds of the Alps Tour today - a four-under-par 68 to be lying joint ninth at the end of the first day of the Red Sea Little Venice Open at Sokhna Golf Club, Egypt.
Cameron, pictured by Cal Carson Golf Agency, sponsored by Saltire Energy, got off to a flying start with birdies at the first two holes. A bogey at the fourth did not reduce his momentum because he birdied the sixth and turned in two-under 34.
Coming home the Aberdeenshire man birdied the 13th, long 17th and 18th, offset by a second bogey, at the 15th.
Edinburgh's former Scottish amateur champion John Gallagher had five birdies in his 69 (36-33), at the short eighth, 10th, 12th, 17th and 18th. His bogeys came at the second and 16th. The Duddingston tour pro is in joint 14th position.
Fraserburgh's Kris Nicol (Paul Lawrie Golf Centre) had a 71 in which he played moderately for an outward 38 with bogeys at the third and fifth, and very well after the turn with birdies at the 10th, 11th, 16th and 17th, bogeying only the 14th in an inward 33. Nicol is joint 29th in the field of 102.
Dundee rookie Jordan McColl matched the par of 72 for joint 44th place. He birdied the first, third and 17th; bogeying the foufrth, fifth and 14th in halves of 36.
Ross Kellett from Motherwell, leading Scot in last week's event at the same venue, returned a 73, one ahead of rookie James White (Lundin).
Kellett bogeyed the eighth and 14th and did not get a birdie until the 17th in halves of 37-36.
White had a bad start - bogeys at the third, fourth and ninth to turn in three-over 39.
The Fifer birdied the 10th but then bogeyed the 12th and 15th before finishing in style with birdies at the 17th and 18th.
Also on the 74 mark is John Henry (Clydebank and District. He bogeyed the second but birdied the fourth and seventh, only to give them back with bogeys at the eighth and ninth. Out in 38, he reeled off nine pars on the inward half.
Troon's former Scottish amateur champion Michael Stewart had a 77 which included double bogeys at the second and sixth.
Thomas Elissalde, a 21-year-old Frenchman, who turned pro at the end of last season, leads by one shot with a seven-under 65.
LEADING FIRST ROUND SCORES
Par 72
65 T Elissalde (Fra)
66 J Foret (Fra), A Guttierrez (Spa), C Berardo (Fra)
SELECTED SCORES
67 L Canter (Eng), J Palmer (Eng) (T5)
68 R Cameron (Sco), A Cooley (Eng) (T9)
69 J Gallagher (Sco), M Edge (Eng) (T14)
71 K Nicol (Sco), J Senior (Eng), Warren Harmiston (Eng), Tom Shadbolt (Eng), Simon Ward (Ire) (T28).
72 J McColl (Sco), S Brown (Eng) (T44)
73 R Kellett (Sco) (T59)
74 J White (Sco), J Henry (Sco) (T72)
77 M Stewart (Sco) (T91)
Field of 102 players
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