GREAT EFFORT BY AILSA BAIN TO BE JOINT FOURTH WITH A 70

HIGHLANDER HAY CLICKETY-CLICKS 

TO LEAD YOUNG PROS' FIELD WITH A 66

Nairn's Gavin Hay put together a brilliant round of five-under-par 66 to be the surprise leader at the end of the first round of the Scottish young professionals' championship at West Lothia Golf Club, Bo'ness today.
Hay had an eagle (at the par-5 fourth) and six birdies, at the second, third, fifth, seventh, 14th and 15th.
He bogeyed the first before covering the next fife holes in six under par.
But even that great effort did not put daylight between the Highlander and his closest challengers.
Defending champion Paul O'Hara (Clydeway Golf) and Keir McNicoll (Gullane) are only a shot behind the leader in this 72-hole event for which the leading 34 and ties at the end of the second round will qualify to play the final two rounds on Thursday
Hats off to former Scottish U18 girls champion Ailsa Bain from Peebles and now an assistant pro at Macdonald Hotel and Golf Resort at Cardrona.
Danniel Flannery Caldwell) will have to go a bit to repeat his joint second finish 12 months ago. He is way back after a 75 and he faces a fight to beat the cut.
  
SCOTTISH YOUNG PROFESSIONALS CHAMPIONSHIP
West Lothian Golf Club, Bo'ness
LEADING FIRST ROUND SCORES
Par 71
66 G Hay (Nairn Dunbar)
67 P O'Hara (Clyde7way Golf), K McNicoll (Gullane).
70 Ailsa Bain (Macdonald Hotel, Cardrona), P Betty (Hayston), F Thomson (Turnberry Hotel), R Clarke (Gamola Golf), M Patterson (Cruden Bay)
 71 F Clarke (Newmachar), R King (Carrick on Loch Lomond)
72 F Rummers (Canmore), I Lowdean (Murrayfield), C Marr (Musselburgh), G Smith (Gleneagles).
73 S Costello (Strathaven), O Huish (North Berwick), T Dingwall (Kemnay), I McNab (Dundonald Links), R Munro (Duddingston).
74 R McConnachie (Petercultere), C Robinson (Elie SC), M Shaw (Whitecraigs, C Porciani (Turnberry Hotel), A Todd (Prestonfield).
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75 Ian Anderson (Colville Park), C Beveridge (West Kilbride) C Brown (Carrick on Loch Lomond), J Gallagher (Douglas Park).




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