David Law, Duncan Stewart in the Madrid mix

By COLIN FARQUHARSON 
David Law and Duncan Stewart are in strong contention after two rounds of the Madrid Challenge at Real Club La Herreria in the Spanish capital city.
Aberdonian Law has had rounds of 68 and 66 for 10-under-par 134 and is tied second with Sebastien Soderberg (Sweden) and Welshman Rhys Enoch, only one shot behind the leader, Italy's Francesco Laporta (64-69 for 133).
 Stewart, from Grantown-on-Spey but now based in Edinburgh and playing out of Turnhouse Golf Club, shot 69-66 for a share of fifth place on135.
Law, starting at the 10th, birdied his first three holes, then the 15th and 16th in a bogey-free 30 for his first nine. He cooled off a bit with bogeys at the second and seventh but  a birdie 4 at the par-5 eighth set the seal on a very good day for the Scot.
David said later by Email "I played great on my front 9 (the back 9) and slowed up a little on my back 9 but I was  really happy with the score as the course is tough. I am playing and putting  well and looking forward to the weekend."
Stewart also had an early bogey, at the second, but he too picked up the scent of birdies and had gains at the third, sixth, ninth, 13th and 17th.
The only other Scot to survive the second-round cut at 141 and better was Peter Whiteford, who is tied 17th on 137 after rounds of 70 and 67.
George Murray (144), Chris Doak (14), Paul Shields (145), Jack Doherty (149), Bradley Neil (150) and Scott Henry (151) all missed the cut

MADRID CHALLENGE
Real Club La Herreria, Madrid
LEADING SECOND-ROUND SCORES
 Par 144 (2x72).
133 F Laporta (Ita) 64 69.
134 D Law (Sco) 68 66, S Soderberg (Swe) 68 66, R Enoch (Wal) 67 67.
135 D Stewart (Sco) 69 66, R Langasque (Fra) 69 66, L Gagli (Ita) 69 66
OTHER SCOTS' SCORES
137 P Whiteford 70 67 (T17)
MISSED THE CUT (141 and better qualified)
144 G Murray 73 71
145 C Doak 75 70, P Shields 72 73
149 J Doherty 79 70
150 B Neil 74 76
151 S Henry 77 74.








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Young and Stewart-Cation miss cut in Tunisia

Scots Daniel Young from Perth and Kirkcaldy's Scott Stewart-Cation missed the cut in the Tunisian Open at El Kantaoui Golf Club today.
Stewart-Cation had rounds of 74 and 77 for 151, one fewer than Young who shot 72 and 80 for 152.
Players with 36 hole totals of 145 and better progressed to the third round.
Englishman Matt Wallace leads by five shots with scores of 67 and 68 for nine-under-par 135.

Felipe Aguilar takes clubhouse lead at 

weather-hit China Open

By PA Sport

Chile's Felipe Aguilar claimed the clubhouse lead in the weather-disrupted Volvo China Open after finally overcoming the effects of his unorthodox winter activities.

Aguilar stormed home in 31 at Topwin Golf and Country Club to add a flawless 65 to his opening 68 and set the target on 11 under par, one shot ahead of Sweden's Alex Noren and Austria's Bernd Wiesberger.
The 41-year-old had missed the cut in six straight events before finishing tied 58th in the Shenzhen International last week and admitted completing an Ironman triathlon over the winter had taken its toll.

"It's been a tough beginning of the year so hopefully this will be a turnaround point," Aguilar said.
"I think I believe my doctors when they said the Ironman was going to affect my fitness for the first two months [of the year]. They said it could take 45 days [to recover] and it took close to 60 days.
"It takes a lot of time and energy and both sports don't go along with each other. I look back on it as a great experience and I'll do it again after I quit playing golf."
Play was initially suspended due to the threat of lightning and then abandoned for the day due to darkness, with the second round set to resume early on Saturday.

First-round leader Hennie Otto has four holes to play and is two shots off the lead on nine under par alongside England's Tyrrell Hatton, Denmark's Lucas Bjerregaard, Germany's Marcel Siem and South Korea's Tae-hoon Kim, who recorded a hole-in-one on his way to a brilliant 64.
Kim holed out on the 177-yard 13th hole in a remarkable run of scoring which saw him play a 12-hole stretch in nine under par, before dropping his only shot of the day on the 17th.
"I played well and after I got the hole-in-one I became really confident and finished really well," the world No 563 said.
"It was about 165 metres but with the view from the tee, we couldn't see the hole, only the top of the flag. I was aiming a little to the left of the pin and I just hit a seven iron, it was a beautiful shot and the galleries beside the green shouted out so that's how I knew."
Noren carded five birdies and no bogeys to record a second consecutive 67, while Wiesberger carded four birdies and one bogey in his 69.
"I felt relaxed out there," Wiesberger said. "I played great golf yesterday and scored really well in tough conditions yesterday so I was looking forward to getting out there this morning and trying to do the same.
"I played decent, not quite as well as yesterday, especially off the tee and was struggling with the pace of my putting early on. I left a lot of putts short but all in all I feel well on the golf course and it's a good first two days."
Defending champion Wu Ashun, who became the first Chinese player to win a European Tour event on home soil 12 months ago, is four under par with seven holes remaining, with the halfway cut projected to fall at two under.

SCOREBOARD

1	Felipe Aguilar	68	65						133
T2	Alex Noren	67	67						134
T2	Bernd Wiesberger	65	69						134
T4	Tae-hoon Kim	71	64						135
T4	Tyrrell Hatton	68	67						135
T4	Lucas Bjerregaard	68	67						135
T4	Hennie Otto	63	56						119
T4	Marcel Siem*	68	47						115
T9	Hao Tong Li	69	67						136
T9	Maximilian Kieffer	70	66						136
T11	Nicolas Colsaerts	70	67						137
T11	Alexander Levy	70	67						137
T11	Thorbjorn Olesen	71	66						137
T11	Jorge Campillo	70	67						137
T11	Gary Boyd	72	65						137
T11	Gregory Havret*	70	38						108
T11	Peter Hanson*	66	39						105
T11	Fabrizio Zanotti	66	39						105
T11	Richard Bland	69	32						101
T11	Gregory Bourdy	66	35						101
T21	Haydn Porteous	69	69						138
T21	Joost Luiten	67	71						138
T21	Romain Wattel	72	66						138
T21	Chieh-Po Lee*	69	49						118
T21	Daniel Brooks	70	32						102
T21	Borja Virto Astudillo*	67	23						90
T27	Raphael Jacquelin	70	69						139
T27	Rhys Davies	71	68						139
T27	Magnus A. Carlsson*	69	57						126
T27	Eduardo De La Riva	69	50						119
T27	Pelle Edberg*	72	47						119
T27	Nathan Holman	68	51						119
T27	Trevor Fisher Jr.*	70	44						114
T27	Stephen Gallacher	69	42						111
T27	Rikard Karlberg	69	42						111
T27	Richie Ramsay*	68	30						98
T27	David Lipsky	69	25						94
T27	Renato Paratore*	69	25						94
T39	Ze-cheng Dou	72	68						140
T39	David McKenzie	71	69						140
T39	Craig Lee	72	68						140
T39	Julien Quesne	70	70						140
T39	Chris Paisley*	71	56						127
T39	Joakim Lagergren	68	52						120
T39	Roope Kakko*	66	49						115
T39	Wolmer Murillo*	68	47						115
T39	Ashun Wu	71	41						112
T39	Nick Cullen	70	42						112
T39	Jeff Winther	68	40						108
T50	Jason Scrivener	72	69						141
T50	Marc Warren	73	68						141
T50	Johan Carlsson	69	72						141
T50	Wei Huang Wu	72	69						141
T50	Sebastien Gros	72	69						141
T50	David Drysdale*	72	49						121
T50	Ross Fisher	72	49						121
T50	Scott Hend	71	47						118
T50	Miguel Angel Jimenez	69	44						113
T50	Prom Meesawat	71	42						113
T50	Bradley Dredge	70	31						101
T50	Darren Fichardt	69	27						96
T62	Morten Madsen	72	70						142
T62	Jin Choi	70	72						142
T62	Mikko Ilonen	73	69						142
T62	Robert Karlsson	73	49						122
T62	Graeme Storm*	73	44						117
T62	Lee Slattery	71	48						119
T62	Benjamin Hebert*	69	44						113
T62	Brett Rumford	70	44						114
T70	Daniel Valente	71	72						143
T70	Michael Hoey	74	69						143
T70	Pablo Larrazabal	72	71						143
T70	Phachara Khongwatman	73	70						143
T70	Damien McGrane	71	72						143
T70	Scott Jamieson	71	72						143
T70	Niclas Fasth	70	73						143
T70	Adrian Otaegui	72	71						143
T70	Gareth Paddison*	74	56						130
T70	James Morrison	71	52						123
T70	Tommy Fleetwood	73	42						115
T70	Ryan Fox	72	43						115
T70	Tae Woo Kim*	73	38						111
T70	Mikko Korhonen*	68	43						111
T70	Marcus Kinhult*	73	29						102
T85	Yuxin Lin	75	69						144
T85	S.S.P. Chawrasia	69	75						144
T85	Chao Li	74	70						144
T85	Andrew McArthur	69	75						144
T85	Alvaro Quiros	74	70						144
T85	Dean Burmester*	68	63						131
T85	Matt Ford	71	57						128
T85	Kyong-jun Moon	74	50						124
T85	Yi Cao*	72	47						119
T85	Simon Khan*	73	46						119
T85	Daniel Im	74	30						104
T85	Seve Benson*	72	27						99
T85	Da-xing Jin*	72	27						99
T98	Bjorn Akesson	73	72						145
T98	Rattanon Wannasrichan	74	71						145
T98	Yan-Wei Liu	73	72						145
T98	Miguel Tabuena	76	69						145
T98	Josh Younger	73	72						145
T98	Zi-hao Chen	72	37						109
T98	Jens Fahrbring*	74	30						104
T98	Jeev Milkha Singh*	70	34						104
T98	Dimitrios Papadatos*	72	25						97
T107	Tian Yuan	68	78						146
T107	Ricardo Gouveia*	72	54						126
T107	Wen-Yi Huang*	72	38						110
T107	Jin Zhang	71	39						110
T107	Guo-wu Zhou*	72	33						105
T107	Scott Strange*	72	33						105
T113	Kristoffer Broberg	74	73						147
T113	Xin-yang Li	73	74						147
T113	Jamie Arnold	76	71						147
T113	Lian-Wei Zhang	76	71						147
T113	Guang-Ming Yang	73	74						147
T113	Steven Jeffress	76	71						147
T113	Michael Sim	72	55						127
T113	Xin-Jun Zhang	78	49						127
T113	Nacho Elvira	77	34						111
T113	Matteo Manassero*	69	37						106
T123	Edouard Espana	73	75						148
T123	Dong-Min Lee	74	74						148
T123	Matthew Baldwin	74	74						148
T123	Anthony Wall	76	72						148
T123	Soomin Lee	78	47						125
T123	Hui Lin Zhang	74	34						108
T129	Do-hoon Kim	77	72						149
T129	Jason Norris	75	74						149
T129	Ben Evans	75	74						149
T129	Zheng Ou-yang	79	70						149
T129	Xue-wen Luo	72	77						149
T129	Xu Wang*	74	62						136
T129	Jiang-Feng Ye*	76	60						136
T129	Oliver Fisher	74	59						133
T129	Oliver Wilson	76	41						117
138	Bin Yan*	77	44						121
T139	Mu Hu	77	74						151
T139	Y.E. Yang	73	78						151
T139	Lincoln Tighe	78	73						151
T139	Wade Ormsby	72	79						151
T139	Yan Sun	78	73						151
T139	Zihan She	77	74						151
T139	Xiao-ma Chen*	76	39						115
T146	Tae Hee Lee	78	74						152
T146	Hai Meng Chao*	79	53						132
T146	Ding-gen Chen*	79	32						111
T146	Yeon-jin Jeong	79	28						107
150	Ze-yu He	78	75						153
151	Zheng-Kai Bai*	81	26						107
152	Jeung-hun Wang	78	78						156
153	Zhu Zhuang	78	79						157
154	Yongxuan Yin	86	73						159
155	Peter Uihlein*	72	WD						72
156	Jun-Won Park*	73	WD						73
157	Shao-cai He	75	WD						75
158	Dae-Hyun Kim*	78	WD						78
159	Dong Su	80	WD						80
-	Victor Dubuisson	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
-	Shaun Norris	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
-	Brandon Stone	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
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Fife MyGolfRanking Week 2016/16

Fife Men

1 Blaine McGowan (Thornton) 1256 pts                                                                                            

2 Ryan Mutch (Thornton) 1196

3 Stewart Lamond (Pitreavie) 1138

4 Michael Riddell (Cupar) 1108

5 Gary Wishart (Charleton) 1106

6 Robert Skene (Thornton) 1084

7 Ryan Mackie (Balbirnie Park) 1055

8 Steven Ovens (Canmore) 1053                                                                                                                

9 Roddy Malcolm (Dunfermline) 1034

T10 *Ross Gribbens (Dunfermline) 1030

T10 *Brian McKenna (St Andrews New) 1030

Fife Clubs - Men

1 Thornton 1093 pts

2 Dunfermline 892

3 Dunnikier Park 865

T4 Balbirnie Park 825 

T4 Kirkcaldy 825

6 Lundin 822

7 *Pitreavie 798

8 *Canmore 792

*Entry this week

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Howie and Benson T26 at Fairhaven

Scotland's two representatives, Darren Howie from Peebles and West Lothian's Andrew Benson were tied 26th after both returned eight-over-par 80s in the first round of the Fairhaven Trophies junior tournament at Fairhaven Golf Club, Lancashire.
John Gough (Castle Royle) led the boys' field with a one-over 72
Hollie Muse (West Lancashire) and Junior Vagliano Trophy team player Annabel Wilson (Lurgan, Ireland) headed the girls' field with one-under-par 74s


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Robson off the boil but still wins seniors' 

spring meeting by two

By COLIN FARQUHARSON
Aberdeen businessman Nick Robson (Meldrum House) won the Scottish Senior Golf Society's spring meeting by two strokes from a field of 142 at Monifieth Links today.

But it was a different Robson from the man who shot a first-day, two-under-par 69 to open up a three-stroke lead at halfway.
In the second round, Robson took 78 blows (41-37), dropping nine shots in a 13-hole span sandwiched between birdies at the first and 16th.
His total of 147 still gave him victory with something to spare. Runner-up was Maurice Lindsay (Broughty) with rounds of 75 and 74 for 159.
Tied third on 150 were Graham Forrest (Northumberland) (76-74) and Graham Bell (Downfield) (72-80).
Nairn's Robert Smith threatened Robson's lead until he bogeyed the 11th, 14th, 16th and 17th, finishing 76-75 for a share of fifth place on 151.

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SCOTTISH SENIOR GOLF SOCIETY SPRING MEETING
Monifieth Links.
FINAL TOTALS
Par 142 (2x71) SSS 72. CSS 75, 75 (reduction only)
147 N Robson (Meldrum House) 69 78.
149 M Lindsay (Broughty) 75 74.
150 G Forrest (Northumberland) 76 74, G Bell (Downfield) 72 78.
151 L Gordon (Turnhouse) 78 73, P Moultrie (Royal Troon) 75 76, J R Johnston (Glenbervie) 75 76, L Blair (Grangemeouth) 74 77, N Lamond (Balmore) 74 77, A Campbell (Murcar Links) 74 77, B Muir (Marriott Dalmahoy) 72 79, R W Smith (Nairn) 76 75.
152 D Shields (Glenearn) 78 74.
153 B Brooks (Meldrum House) 74 79, N Dye (Strathmore) 72 81, A Ferguson (Dunfermline) 72 81, G Cochran (Irvine Ravenspark) 75 78.
155 T McLevy (Blairgowrie) 74 81, W Morton (Dunbar) 75 80.
156 C Devlin (Turnberry) 78 78, A J Waddell (Glasgow) 78 78, K Reilly (Silverknowes) 78 78, D Hamilton (Mortonhall) 76 80, G McNab (Lundin) 76 80, J W Johnston (Royal Aberdeen) 74 82, N McGarva (Kilmacolm) 74 82.
SELECTED SCORES
158 I Angus (Duff House Royal) 77 81 (T31)
159 G Murray (Moray) 76 83 (T34)
162 A Macgregor (Hazlehead) 77 84 (T51)
164 L Chancellor (Inverness) 72 92 (T57)
165 R Taylor (Reay) 82 83 (T60)
167 F McLennan (Royal Aberdeen) 84 83 (T74)
170 J Emslie (Royal Aberdeen) 81 89 (T82)
171 D W  Nelson (Aboyne) 83 88 (T86)
173 P Sinclair (Invenress) 81 92 (T90)

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Nick Robson battles through to Monifieth victory

GORDON THOMSON REPORTS

Nick Robson (Meldrum House) won the Scottish Seniors’ Spring Meeting at Monifieth Links today with a fine aggregate of 147 In the most demanding of weather conditions. 

Nick added a 78 to his excellent first round score of 69 to edge out local player, Maurice Lindsay (Broughty) by two shots with early starters, Graham Forrest (Northumberland) and Graham Bell (Downfield), who had set a good target of 150, one shot further back. 

A group of eight players tied on 151 including backmarker Paul Moultrie (Royal Troon) and Lindsay Gordon (Turnhouse),whose fine 73 was the best score of the second day.

Nick led by three shots overnight but had to battle hard for his second round score. After an opening birdie he dropped 8 shots in the next 10 holes but a fine birdie at the 15^th settled things down and he held on for victory. Having won the last event of 2015, Nick has clearly started where he left off and a good season should lie in prospect.

Despite the difficult weather conditions Monifieth Links again proved to be an excellent and hospitable venue for the large field.