PGA TOUR CANADA TOURNAMENT NEWS

PAUL CORMACK JUST OUTSIDE TOP 

TEN IN BRITISH COLUMBIA

Aberdeen's Paul Cormack, pictured, shot a three-under-par 67 to be in joint 11th position in a field of 156 at the end of the first round of the PGA Tour Canada event, the Bayview Place Island Savings Open at Uplands Golf Club, Victoria, British Columbia.

Cormack, a former North-east Alliance champion and past Scotland boy cap, birdied the first, fifth, eighth and ninth on his way to an outward half of 31.

He would have been closer to the leader, American Brock Mackenzie with a 63, had he not bogeyed the 16th and 18th, adding only one more birdie on the inward half, at the 18th.

Former Scottish boys champion from Baberton, Paul Ferrier had a 71 to be joint 89th.

Englishman Greg Eason, who has turned pro from the US college circuit, is on the same 67 mark at Cormack while another Englishman, Kelvin Day, is sharing 126th place after a 73.