Summary of first day's play in Scottish boys championship

Top seed Calum Fyfe quickly shows winning 

form after the fog lifts at Dunbar
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 Summary by Ed Hodge
A four-hour fog delay halted proceedings on the opening morning of the Scottish Boys Championship at Dunbar, but top seed Calum Fyfe soon wasted little time in booking his spot in the second round.
With the last two stagings of the event going to form – won by Bradley Neil, making his dream Augusta debut this week, and Ewen Ferguson – Fyfe is seeking to do likewise this week in East Lothian.

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The 17-year-old won the Scottish Hydro Boys’ Order of Merit last season and impressed in South Africa on the SGU’s winter performance programme.

Despite the weather delay, with the fog clearing in the afternoon to offer wonderful sunshine over the renowned links, Fyfe soon found his form to ease into round two, beating Bobby Willan (Machrihanish) 5 and 3. In his last Scottish Boys Championship, he is seeking to go out on a high.
“I was up at 5.30am for my 7.25am start but obviously then had to hang around until we got started,” said the Cawder player, the lowest handicapper in the field off +3.4. 
“I then found a bunker with my drive on the first and lost the hole, before the fog came in again and we had to wait on the second tee for 30 minutes.
“I had to find my rhythm quickly and thankfully managed to do that. I’m just trying to play my own game this week and hopefully that is good enough to win.”
It was just before 2pm when the first match of the day was completed, but 65 of the scheduled 74 ties did start, with the SGU Events staff hopeful of catching up on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Of the matches that did finish, local lad Brodie Good (Gullane) progressed, as did Inverallochy’s Marc Watt, fresh from helping Scotland win the Under-16 Quads at nearby Archerfield Links.
Watt, who reeled off the first five holes in his 7 and 5 victory over Pumpherston’s Paul Adamson, is seeking to follow in the spike marks of Steven Young, the Inverallochy player who secured a hat-trick of Scottish Boys wins from 1993 and won at Dunbar a year later.
The 15-year-old, a Paul Lawrie North East matchplay champion, said: “I’m still young, so I’m just trying to get as far as I can. Calum Fyfe and Murray Naysmith are the players to beat, I think.”
Marriott Dalmahoy’s Naysmith begins his bid today, while scratch player Darren Howie from Peebles could also be one to watch.
Another 15-year-old, the Borderer is the younger brother of Craig, the 2012 Scottish Boys champion at Murcar, and he is keen to make his own name.
“Craig has given me a lot of advice on how to do as well as I can here,” said Darren, a 6 and 5 winner against Crow Wood’s Sean Barnes, and continuing the form he also showed in Quads action over the weekend.  “I got to the third round last year so we’ll see how we go.”
Haggs Castle’s Aidan Husenne clinched the winning point for the Under-16 Scots to win the Quads against Ireland, Wales and the Netherlands over the weekend at Archerfield, but he made an early exit at Dunbar after losing at the 22^nd to Angus Frood of Ranfurly Castle.
Late in the day, there was a 6 and 5 win for Duff House Royal’s Callum Bruce. The 16-year-old, coached by Andrew Locke, eased past Cameron Black (Royal Aberdeen) as he seeks to better his fourth-round effort from 2014.
Bruce was helped by some wayward play from Black on the par-3 3rd hole, after he pulled his tee shot left and the ball eventually found its way into the car park near the beach.