GolfKings Scottish area team championship

 Ferguson helps Dumbartonshire to

  No 1 qualifying spot at Blairgowrie

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Former British boys' champion Ewen Ferguson helped Dumbartonshire to top spot among the stroke-play qualifiers after the opening day of the GolfKings Scottish area team championship at Blairgowrie.
The Bearsden teenager, twice a winner on the national amateur circuit this season at the Champion of Champions and the Craigmillar Park Open,  fired a superb blemish-free six-under par 66 in his afternoon round in testing conditions on the Rosemount course, to add to a morning 71 over the Lansdowne as he joined Scotland international Matthew Clark from Renfrewshire at the summit of the individual leaderboard on seven-under par 137.
Dumbartonshire, bidding for their first area team title since 1980, emerged as the number one seeds for the weekend’s match play stages, their team aggregate of three-under putting them five clear of defending champions Renfrewshire. 
Ferguson was supported well by team-mates Steven Stewart and Chris MacLean, who fired 36-hole totals of 141 and 142 respectively.
Renfrewshire, boasting the same hugely experienced line-up who stormed to victory on home soil 12 months ago with a side featuring former British amateur champion Craig Watson, will prove tough match-play opponents as they eye their fourth title in the last 10 years. 
Clark fired rounds of 68 and 69 while the evergreen Watson finished on 1-under par, with team-mate Andrew Farmer on level.
Host side Perth and Kinross, with reigning British amateur champion Bradley Neil and 2005 Scottish amateur champion Glenn Campbell in their ranks, qualified comfortably in third place on four-over, helped by solid rounds of 70 and 69 from Neil, playing at his home club. 
He was joined on the five-under 139 individual mark by Kilmarnock Barassie’s Jack McDonald, with the University of Stirling student helping Ayrshire to qualification in sixth place. 
Fife, with two GolfKings Scottish area team championship wins in the last four years, eased through in fourth spot, SGU Order of Merit leader Connor Syme being the pick of their six-man side with rounds of 70 and 71 on his Fife debut.
Glasgow clinched fifth place, thanks to Scotland boys international Calum Fyfe’s three-under par tally, with North-east and last year’s runners-up Lanarkshire sealing the final two qualifying spots. 
There was disappointment however for title record-holders Lothians, who finished well down the field in thirteenth place with a 39-over par aggregate.
The quarter-finals and semi-finals will be played on Saturday, with the final on Sunday.

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McIlroy 5 behind Wells Faro leader Streb's 75

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Robert Streb fired a seven under 65 to hold a one-shot lead at the Wells Fargo Championship, with world No 1 Rory McIlroy in contention five strokes back.

McIlroy, who won his maiden US PGA Tour title at Quail Hollow, struck six birdies during a solid first round and had been within three strokes of Streb heading to the penultimate hole, but slipped down the leaderboard after sending his tee-shot at the par-three 17th in to the hazard and running up a double-bogey.
Streb had set the early pace by opening with back-to-back gains in a blemish-free round and added five further birdies, including a 30-foot putt at the 17th, to remain one stroke clear of Patrick Reed and Kevin Chappell.

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Reed had held a share of the lead until a two-putt bogey at the 17th after finding the bunker off the tee, while Chappell picked up three strokes in the space of two holes on the Green Mile late in the day to close with a first round 66.
Veteran Stewart Cink raced through the field with the aid of three successive birdies around the turn as he finished part of the group five under, while Webb Simpson is handily placed on his home course after shooting 67.
Simpson is a member at Quail Hollow Club, with the former US Open champion making six birdies on his way to a sub-70 first round at the tournament for the fifth year running.
"It was a good, solid day. I didn't make many mistakes," Simpson told Sky Sports 4. "The one that cost me was 16. I just went through it wrong mentally and hit it in the water. Other than that, the card was clean and I played nicely."

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James White in leading 10 after Day 1 in Italy

Fifer James White shot a first-round, four-under-par 67 to be T6 going into the second day of this week's Alps Tour event, the Open Colli Berici, Vicenza in Italy.
White is four shots behind the joint leaders on eight-under 63, Arthur Gabella (Switzerland) and England's Tom Shadbolt.
Two more players from England, Josh Loughrey and Liam Harper, were sharing third place on 65
Scott Stewart-Cation, the second Scot in the field, was in T75 place after a 74