Grant Forrest leading Scot at Royal Melbourne

Grant Forrest leading the Scots with a par-match round of 72, which included four birdies, at end of first round of Australian Master of Amateurs tournament at Royal Melbourne Golf Club's West Course.

Grant, pictured right,  is lying T25, six shots behind the Aussie leader, Zach Murray from Victoria, with a six-under 66 ... one shot ahead of a cluster of players.

Forrest had a up-and-down round with birdies at three par-5 holes (the second, sixth and 12th) and also the par-4 eight in halves of 35-37.

But the Scot bogeyed the sixth, ninth, 14th and 17th to cancel out his gaines. He is lying T25, six shots behind the Aussie leader, Zach Murray from Victoria, with a six-under 66 ... one shot ahead of a cluster of players.

Connor Syme had three birdies but four bogeys in had a 73 to be T33; Jack McDonald birdie four par-5 holes but bogeyed the 16th, 17th and 18th for  74 to be T40, and Ewen Ferguson could muster only one birdie, at the short 12th, in his 75 to be T50 in a field of 75 players.

AUSTRALIAN MASTER OF AMATEURS TOURNAMENT

Royal Melbourne Golf Club

FIRST ROUND

par 72

66 Zach  Murray (Australia)

leads by one shot

SELECTED SCORES

69 Jonathan Thomson (Eng) (T9)

71 Ashton Turner (Eng) (T16)

72 Grant Forrest (Sco) (T25)

73 Jack Davidson (Eng), Connor Syme (Sco) (T33)

74 Owen Edwards (Eng), Jack McDonald (Sco)(T40)

75 Ewen Ferguson (Sco) (T50)

76 Evan Griffith (Wal) (T56)

80 Adam Chapman (T72)

Field of 75 players.

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