FORMER SCOTTISH BOYS CHAMPION IN JOINT FIFTH PLACE

PAUL DOHERTY LEADING SCOT ON

EUROPRO TOUR EVENT AT LEEDS

South Wales-based former Scottish boys match-play champion Paul Doherty is the leading Scot at the end of the first round of the PGA EuroPro Tour event's first day at Moor Allerton Golf Club, Leeds.

Doherty is joint fifth with a three-under-par 71, six shots behind the defending champion, Billy Hemstock, who leads by two with a six-under 65.

Neil Henderson (Renaissance) and Jordan McColl (Scotscraig) are the only other Scots in the top 20 of the usual massive field of 156

They are joint sixth on 70.

PGA EUROPRO TOUR

Moor Allerton GC, Leeds

LEADING FIRST ROUND SCORES

Par 71

65 B Hemstock (Eng)

67 A Holmes (Eng), C Lidyard (Eng)

SCOTS' SCORES

68 P Doherty (T5)

70 N Henderson, J McColl (T16)

71 N Fenwick, Z Saltman, F McKenna, S Crichton (T35).

72 G Rankin, E Ramsay, E Saltman, P Shields, L Saltman (T48)

73 R Kellett, C Macaulay (T69)

75 R Cameron, K Nicol (T96)

77 J Findlay, C O'Neil (T124)