ONE ROUND TO GO AT SLALEY HALL

 ELEVEN SCOTS MAKE THE CUT IN

PGA EUROPRO TOUR EVENT

Eleven Scots, headed by Ross Kellett, Elliot Saltman and Neil Fenwick,  survived the second-round cut in the PGA EuroPro Tour event at Slaley Hall, Northumberland.
But Fraserburgh's Jordan Findlay who improved 15 shots between rounds - 84 in the first and 69 in the second - was among the 18 Scots who paid a £275 entry fee  and missed out.
Kellett and Saltman are sharing sixth place on 138 - four shots off the pace - with Fenwick a shot behind them. If one of them produces something special in the final round he could win the £10,000 winner's jackpot prize.
The North-east trio of Craig Lawrie, Ross Cameron and Greg McBain are sharing 25th place on 141.

LEADERBOARD
Par 144 (2x72)
134 J Colegate (Eng) 71 63
135 M McGeady (Ire) 66 69
136 G Grout (Spa) 70 66, S Grewal (Eng) 69 67
SCOTS' SCORES
138 R Kellett 66 72, E Saltman 69 69 (T6)
139 N Fenwick 70 69 (T15)
141 C Lawrie 69 72, R Cameron 74 67, G McBain 72 69 (T25)
142 L Saltman 74 68 (T34)
143 N Henderson 71 72 (T40)
144 F McKenna 73 71, S Crichton 72 72, J McColl 74 70 (T46)
MISSED THE CUT
145 P Doherty 74 71, C Macaulay 75 70, S Binning 76 69, C Currie 73 72
146 J Hamilton 73 73, M Isaacs 70 76
147 P Shields 77 70, P Robinson 74 73, C O'Neil 74 73
148 G Forbes 79 69, E Ramsay 74 74
149 G Wright 77 72
152 Z Saltman 79 73
153 P Wilson 78 75, G Rankin 75 78, J Findlay 84 69
154 J Dick 79 75
157 K Nicol 77 80
161 I Redford 81 80 

Kent man Colegate shoots recprd 63 to lead

 by one shot at De Vere Slaley Hall

NEWS RELEASE 

Jack Colegate shot a new Priestman Course record nine-under-par 63 to lead the Break90 Classic by one stroke ahead of the final round of the HotelPlanner.com PGA EuroPro Tour event at De Vere Slaley Hall.

The Kent golfer’s remarkable second round saw him make nine birdies and nine pars as he raced up the leaderboard to take control on ten under par ahead of the final round of the event, which carries a £40,000 prize fund with £10,000 going to the winner.

Ireland’s Michael McGeady is second after rounds of 66 and 69 took him to nine under, just one behind Colegate. Spaniard Sebastian Garcia Grout is third on eight under – two behind the leader -while South African Darryn Lloyd and Merseyside’s Sandeep Grewal share fourth on seven under par.

“I didn’t hit it amazingly today but I holed a lot of putts,” said Colegate, who is chasing his first win on Europe’s third-tier tour.

 “We were lucky with the weather looking at the forecast from the start of the day; we only had a few rain showers in the end.

“I feel I have enough experience of final rounds to go and do well tomorrow. I had last week off through injury and I think that has turned out to be the best thing.

“I had played seven weeks on the spin and to have a rest was really good I think. I was injured so I didn’t do any practice at all, I just chilled out for ten days and it has worked out because I have played well this week.

“I will go and take it one shot at a time tomorrow. I will set myself a number in the morning and try and get to that and see if it is good enough.”

A cut to the leading 50 players plus ties has now been made, with the 56 golfers whose 36-hole score is level par or better proceeding to play the final 18 holes, which will be filmed for a two-hour highlights package to air on Sky Sports on Tuesday, August 26. 

Spectator entry is free and live scoring can be found at www.europrotour.com.