FIRST HURDLE WILL BE STAGE 1 OF Q SCHOOL AT ROXBURGHE

   Bob Edwards, chairman of Meldrum House Golf Club, and Chris Robb with the Scottish amateur championship trophy. Picture by Cal Carson Golf Agency.

CHRIS ROBB SEES HIS PRO FUTURE IN

EUROPE OR ASIA RATHER THAN USA


By COLIN FARQUHARSON
Colin@scottishgolfview.com

New Scottish amateur champion Chris Robb admits he is dead tired as he goes into the European men's individual amateur championship over The Duke's Course, St Andrews tomorrow.
"Two rounds a day for the best part of a week is a tiring schedule. Worth it in the end at Downfield but I could do with a rest," said 23-year-old Chris Robb before he set off for a practice round at the Fife venue.
Although well up in the SGU Order of Merit table, Chris is not going to win it because, for one reason or another, he cannot play in any of the remaining counting events.
"I am disappointed not to be able to play in the North-east District Open at Peterhead and the North of Scotland Open stroke-play at Elgin because these are the main amateur events in my part of the world and I would have liked to support them," he said.
Banchory-based Robb thinks he will play in Stage 1 of the European Tour Qualifying School as an amateur.
If he doesn't make it to the European Tour at the first time of asking, Robb's thoughts will turn to the Far East and the Asian Tour Q School in January.
"The Asian Tour is growing and they have a developmental circuit as well, so it may be there that I cut my teeth as a rookie pro."
After four years playing US college golf as a student at the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga, Robb is not short of contacts in the golf world over there but he sees his immediate future as a pro golfer in Europe or the Far East.
+Next year's Scottish amateur championship will be played at Muirfield for the first time since 1968 when Gordon Cosh was the title winner.