PORTER AND CURRAN SHARE THE HONOURS

IN JUNIOR TOUR EVENT AT LONGNIDDRY
Carnoustie's Will Porter and Christopher Curran from Harburn Golf Club, West Lothian shared the honours in the Scottish Under-18 Junior Tour 54-hole event at Longiddry Golf Club pver the weekend, writes Colin Farquharson.
They both finished on 215 - 11 over par, an indication of how tough the conditions were with a strong
wind blowing over the West Lothian links on Saturday.
Porter  and Joseph Bryce (Bathgate), both with rounds of 75 and 71,  shared the overnight lead on eight-over 146.
Bryce faded a bit to post a third-round 73 in easier conditions today (Sunday) to finish joint seventh on 219.
Porter posted a closing 69 for 215, a total matched by Curran, thanks to a final-round 68.
Sandy Scott's long trip from Nairn was well worthwhile. He finished third, only a shot behind the joint winners after following up his Saturday scores of 75-73 with a 68.
The only sub-par score of the tournament, a one-under 67, was returned in the third round by Robert Watson (Muckhart), enabling him to climb the leaderboard and finish joint seventh on 219.
The tournament was regarded as a good warm-up for the Scottish Under-18 boys' match-play championship which tees off at Dunbar on Monday, April 6 and ends with a 36-hole final on Saturday, April 11.

SCOTTISH UNDER-18 JUNIOR TOUR
Longniddry GC, East Lothian
FINAL TOTALS
Par 204 (3x68) SSS 71. CSS 74 (r/o) 74 70
215 Will Porter (Carnoustie) 75 71 69, Christopher Curran (Harburn) 72 75 68.
216 Sandy Scott (Nairn) 75 73 68.
217 Matthew McCulloch (Portpatrick Dunskey) 73 74 70, Jack Thomas (Irvine) 71 76 70
218 Murray Naysmith (Marriott Dalmahoy) 73 74 71
219 Joseph Bryce (Bathgate) 75 71 73, Robert Watson (Muckhart) 75 77 67
221 Stephen Roger (Cruden Bay) 73 76 72, Niall McMullen (Lundin) 74 78 69
222 Calum Fyfe (Cawder) 80 72 70
223 Aaron McManus (Darlington) 74 77 72
224 Ryan Brown (Dunfermline) 79 75 70
225 Rory Franssen (Inverness) 80 77 68, Jamie Stewart (Old Ranfurly) 79 75 71
226 Duncan McNeill (Powfoot) 74 80 72
227 Isaac Alexander (Moray) 81 75 71, John Paterson (St Andrews New) 79 77 71, Glen Burrett (Haggs Castle) 79 76 72
228 Connor Farrell (Longniddry) 76 82 70, Darren Howie (Peebles)76 80 72
229 Lewis Breslin (Fereneze) 82 73 74, Benjamin Henderson (Deeside) 81 75 73. Sam Locke (Banchory) 76 80 73.
230 Jamie Duguid (Dunbar) 78 76 76, Jack Currie (Greenock) 77 73 80
232 Conor MacCallum (St Andrews) 75 82 75
233 Callum Bruce (Duff House Royal) 79 77 77
235 Andrew Moir (Elgin) 72 82 81
236 David Rudd (Longniddry) 76 79 81

MISSED CUT
159 Cameron Black (Cardross) 74 85, Kieran Cantley (Liberton) 82 78.
160 Callum Burns (Balmore) 82 78, Mark Napier (Turnhouse) 81 79, Graeme Greer (Carluke) 81 79, Conor Toal (Old Ranfurly) 81 79, Robbie Kemsley (Balmore) 79 81.
161 Calum Graham (Crieff) 79 82, Ellis Hart (Dullatur) 76 85
162 Marc Watt (Inverallochy) 80 82.
163 Dylan Smith (Deeside) 79 84.
164 Andrew Ni (Murrayfield) 82 82.
165 Calum Bauchop (Glenbervie) 85 80, Hamish Mills (Cardross) 85 80
166 Euan Munro (Reay) 84 82, Keith Bowman (St Andrews New) 81 85, Finlay Asher (Nairn) 79 87.
167 Andrew Thomson (Lanark) 86 81, Greg Brown (Cathkin Braes) 84 83.
168 Angus Bendall (Castle Douglas) 86 82.
169 Rhys Thomson (Palacerigg) 81 88
170 Euan Gill (Inverness) 88 82.
172 Aran Sinclair (Bearsden) 89 83
175 Fraser Kane (Kirkhill) 89 86.
177 Marc Reid (Haddington) 93 84
180 Andrew McColl (Erskine) 88 92.
NR Calum Giffen (Dunfermline) 84 NR
Retired: Michael Watt (Turnhouse) 82 ret, Calum Cheyne (Newmachar) 84 ret, Christopher Finnie (Lockerbie) 79 ret.