Shepherd leads way with a 66 in Boyd Quaich

Breezy conditions in St Andrews made scoring difficult for most of the field on day 1 of the 68th Boyd Quaich international students' tournament.
 With the field split between the Old Course and New Course it was the New which played the more difficult, the lowest scores coming from Callum Cochrane (Newcastle University) and Jo Du Feu (University of South Wales) who both shot level par 71s. 
Alasdair McDougall (Mercer University, USA) lies joint second on level par following a 72 on the Old course. However, it was Laird Shepherd from Stirling University who stole the show with an excellent 66 (-6) on the Old Course which included 7 birdies, his only blemish coming on 17.
A total of 14 students, including George Burns from host University, St Andrews, are sitting at +2 or better and will be hoping to reduce Shepherd’s 6 shot lead during Wednesday’s 2nd round.
The field will be cut to 30 players at lunch time with the afternoon 3rd Round taking place on the New Course, followed by Thursday morning’s final round on the Old Course.
Scoring can be followed on the Saints Golf website www.saintsgolf.co.uk

FIRST AND SECOND ROUND SCOREBOARD
Old and New Courses, St Andrews
66 L Shepherd (Stirling).
71 C Cochrane (Newcastle), J Du Feu (South Wales).
72 A McDougall (Mercer, USA), E Butterworth (Northumbria)
73 A Persson (Oxford), L Spooner (Clayton State, USA), P Kerr (Royal Belfast), T Butterworth (Warwick), G Burns (St Andrews), J Glen (Durham), J Harling (Highlands and Islands), E Smith (Edinburgh), C Hughes (Strathclyde).
74 G Duncan (Lincoln Memorial, USA), S Easton (Western Kentucky, USA), G Williams (Central Florida, USA), R Dutton (Ulster), M Wild (Darmstadt, Germany).
75 A McNaughton (Highlands and Islands), J L Williams (Queens, Charlotte, USA), A Marine (Exeter), G Sampson (Edinburgh), S Anderson (Texas Wesleyan, USA), R Smith (Swansea), T Baker (South Wales), C Maclean (Stirling).
76 M Lam (Toronto, Canada), D McLellan (St Andrews), J Whittaker (UCLAN, England), M Downey (Queens, USA), C Low (Abertay) , T Collins (Dublin), M Bloxham (Loughborough).
77 J Ewbank (Webber International, USA), H Hordern (Sydney, Australia), P Schonberger (Cambridge), J Butterworth (Nottingham), T Simmonds (William and Mary, USA), J Munoz (Malaga), N Armstrong (Trinity Dublin), B Church (Newcastle), T Tsang (Toronto, Canada), C Chalmers (Strathclyde, M Hegemann (Darmstadt, Germany), H O'Mahony (Nova Southeastern, USA), V Joffray (Rouen, France) .
78 C Phillips (Manchester), S O'Brien (Liverpool), H Slade (Manchester), M Wilcox (London), K O'Connor (Loughborough).
79 D Maxwell (Cambridge), R Malcolm (Heriot-Watt), J Blyth (Exeter), A J Schmulian (Stellenbosch, S Africa), S Greenberg (Ulster), C Neil (Abertay), B Murphy (Heriot-Watt).
80 A Bastianello (Oxford), C Elliott (Warwick), C Stephen (Brevard, USA).
81 J McWilliam (Glasgow Caledonian), B Armitage (Bournemouth), J Miles (Bournemouth).
82 I Hedley (Kings, London), R Booth (Swansea), R White (Western New Mexico).
83 G Mann (U C Dublin).
85 R Rivas (Malaga), F Christie (Durham).
Retired: R Kemsley (Western New Mexico)

Three Scots in top 10 at Global Golf Post 

Scottish U16 boys' open championship

 By COLIN FARQUHARSON

France's Thomas Boulanger was the first round leader with a three-under-par 68 after a long opening day of action at the Global Golf Post Scottish U16 boys' open championship at West Lothian Golf Club.

The garcon from Cannes-Cougin birdied the first, seventh, 13th and 17th, dropping only one shot, at the second. He leds by one from the far travelled New Zealander with the exotic name of Markopolo Fullepp.

Top Scots, tied eighth on the one-over-par 72 mark are Jake Edgecombe (Baberton), Alex Simpson (Strathmore) and Kirkhill's Lewis Irvine.

Edgecombe had a pair of 2s on his card - at the 11th and 18th short holes. Simpson birdied two par-5 holes, the 12th and 14th, while Irvine had a double bogey 5 at the short 11th.

GLOBAL GOLF POST SCOTTISH U16 BOYS OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP

West Lothian Golf Club

FIRST ROUND SCORES

Par 71. SSS 71. CSS 71

68 T Boulander (Fra)

69 M Fullepp (NZ)

70 M Fernandez de Oliveira (Arg), D Schneider (Aut), W Skipp (Eaglescliffe), B Brown (Hallamshire).

SCOTS' SCORES

71 J Edgecombe (Baberton), A Simpson (Strathmore), L Irvine (Kirkhill) (T9)

73 C O'Hara (Palacerigg), G Dalziel (Airdrie), E Milligan (Kilmarnock Barassie), C Black (Royal Aberdeen) (T18)

74 T Mackenzie (East Renfrewshire), I Taggart (Lenzie), C Gallagher (Longniddry) (T31).

75 C Jackman (Dunblane New) (T46)

76 J Bell (Royal Aberdeen), J Lockhart (Pitreavie), C Wilson (Dunbar), E Wheat (Royal Montrose), C Stewart (Drumpellier), C O'Toole (Craigmillar Park), L Currid (Gogarburn) (T48).

78 A Murray (Troon Welbeck), S Benson (West Lothian), R Hawthorn (Murrayfield), J Morgan (Longniddry), A Thornton (Muckhart), C Leeson (Pitreavie), P Lawrence (Murrayfield) (T75).

79 B McKay (Crail GS), E Ferguson (Turnberry), J Roberts (Muckhart), M McMillan (Drumpellier), J Noon Musselburgh), A Hall (Kispindie), S Adie (Ayr Belleisle) (T85).

80 F Owenson (Nairn), M Cowie (Dumfries and Co), R Cromarty (Nairn) (T100)

81 M Robertson (Glasgow), R Thain (Kings Acre), D Walsh (Lochgelly), C Johnston (Troon Welbeck), A O'Hagan (Old Ranfurly),F Hamilton (Muckhart), C Scott (Nairn), J Brown (Ayr Belleisle) (T105).

82 L Waldron (Royal Aberdeen), J Murphy (Erskine) (T116)

83 W Ladbrooke (Gullane), J Emerson (Est Kilbride), M Dailey (Kintore), A Hastings (Craigielaw), E Ross (Fraserburgh) (T118)

84 L Bryce-Maynard (Moray), C Gray (Kirkcudbright), B Caton (St Andrews New) (T124)

86 C Barbour (St Andrews New), S Logue (Royal Montrose), F Smith (McDonald Ellon) (T130).

88 G Graham (Blairgowrie) 138th).

Late entries will be accepted: leading 16 after 36 holes qualifying for match-play stages

                                                         LANARKSHIRE  GOLF  ASSOCIATION

WEST OF SCOTLAND BOYS CHAMPIONSHIP

MOUNT ELLEN  GOLF CLUB - MONDAY 11^TH  JULY  2016

Competitors must report to the Recorder at least 10 mins prior to starting time.

1.         8.00-12.30                   A MCAULAY                      T MCKENZIE               L CADDELL

                                                Mount Ellen                         East Renfrewshire           Drumpellier

2.         8.07 -12.37                  C PATERSON                    E ENGLISH                 J GRAY

                                                Strathaven                           Erskine                          Colville Park

3.         8.15-12.45                   D SIMPSON                     P ARCHIBALD           C O’HARA

                                                Crow Wood                       Mount Ellen                 Airdrie

4.         8.22-12.52                  

                                                 

5.         8.30-1.00                     S NORRIS                P NORRIS            R THOMSON   ??????

                                                BCGC                        BCGC                   Lanark             

6.         8.37-1.07                     J SAVAGE             P DEVINE             J CURRIE

                                                 Cawder                   Pollok                    Greenock

7.         8.45-1.15               

                                               

                                               

8.         8.52-1.22                     A O’HAGAN        K MCALLISTER       J TORRANCE

                                                 Old Ranfurly         Easter Moffat              Drumpellier

                       

9.         9.00-1.30                     A HAY                    A MCGINLAY            E GRAHAM

                                                 Lanark                    Mount Ellen                  Hamilton

10.       9.07-1.37                     L GRAHAM            S BUCHANAN         D BALLANTYNE    ??????

                                                Hamilton                   East Kilbride              Hamilton               

11.       9.15-1.45                    

                                               

12.       9.22-1.52                      

                                                

13.       9.30-2.00                      F LAIRD              B MCLEAN              J SERVICE

                                                 Glenbervie            Carluke                      East Kilbride

14.       9.37-2.07                    M MCMILLAN          J EMERSON          A WOODHOUSE 

                                               Drumpellier                 East Kilbride           East Kilbride

15        9.45-2.15

                                                

                                                                                   

16.       9.52-2.22                     S ADDIE

                                                Ayr Bellisle

17.       10.00-2.30                    R MUIR                  R LINDSAY           J MCMORRIS

                                                 Barassie                   Ayr Belleisle           East Kilbride

18.       10.07-2-37                    E MILLIGAN        S PERCY          R MCCAULEY

                                                  Barassie                 Caldwell            Fereneze

                                                                                                                       

19.       10.15-2.45                   M DALRYMPLE      K MOORE           E DICK

                                                Old Ranfurly              BCGC                   Falkirk

20.       10.22-2.52                   S MCPHERSON          L MARTIN                J SINNAMON

                                                Bothwell Castle          Bothwell Castle            Greenock

21.       10.30-3.00                   S THOMSON                  C STEWART        L GILLAN

                                                Mt Ellen                            Drumpellier          Greenock

22.       10.37-3.07                   K HUGHES                B MURRAY         P BOYLE

                                                Hamilton                      Hamilton              Hamilton 

23.       10.45-3.15                                     

                                                                                             

24.       10.52-3.22

                                               

25.       11.00-3.30               

                                               

26.        11.07-3.37                

                                                

27.        11.15-3.45                   

                                              

Aberdeen Men's Pennant League sponsored by Molly's Bistro and Malone's Bar of Douglas Hotel

Easy for Deeside but Stonehaven match off again
 Deeside scored a comprehensive Aberdeen Men's Pennant League 5-0 victory over the home team at Auchmill this evening.
The other scheduled match, Stonehaven v Nigg Bay, was postponed for a second time. The course was closed, presumably suffering from the deluge that some parts of the North-east had earlier in the day.

Details of the match that was played:

AUCHMILL 0, DEESIDE 5

M Albiston and A Allan lost to J Loggie and D Mackline 3 and 1.

I. Watt and G Hay lost to A Ross and K Ingram 4 and 2.
K Duncan and M Mearns lost to C Howe, S Fraser 6 and 5.
R Milne and G Mennie lost to C Black, I Landsman 2 and 1.
J Gregor and C Malcolm lost to J Robertson and S Smith 3 and 2.

Chase for £10,000 prize at Montrose Links

McColl and Gaughan lead Scots challenge at 

Scottish Masters

By COLIN FARQUHARSON

Four Scots in the top 10 was not a bad score for the host country at the end of the first day of the Eagle Orchid Scottish Masters EuroPro Tour 54-hole tournament over the Montrose Links today.
Englishmen Luke Johnson from King's Lynn set a hot pace with a seven-under-par 64 which included an eagle 3 at the long sixth and seven birdies in halves of 33 and 31. He did bogey the ninth and 16th or he would have had a commanding lead.
The top four places are occupied by Englishmen.
Top Scots are Jordan McColl (Kingsbarns Pro Academy) and Louis Gaughan (Bathgate), joint fifth on five-under-par 66.
McColl had halves of 33 with a bag of six birdies while the improving Gaughan had a bogey-free, five-birdie halves of 34-32.
 The field will be cut to the leading 50 and ties after the second round.



EAGLE ORCHID SCOTTISH MASTERS
Montrose Links
FIRST ROUND
Par 71
64 L Johnson (Eng).
65 M Ramsdale (Eng), M Penney (Eng), G Payne (Eng).

SCOTS' SCORES
66 J McColl, L Gaughan (T5)
67 J Mullaney, P McKechnie (T9)
68 Z Saltman, C O'Neil (T15)
69 J Steven, K McNicoll, E Saltman, N Fenwick, F Moore (T25).
70 E Ramsay, B Neil (T39)
71 S Lawrie, J Hendrick, R Campbell (T61)
72 P Robinson, W Booth,  N Henderson  (T79)
73 M Patterson, G Brown (T102)
74 C Lawrie (T118)
75 S Borrowman, L Saltman, J Henry, F McKenna, K McAlpine (T127)
76 M Stewart (T136)
82 G Duncan (T152)
83 J Duff (155th) 

SUMMARY FROM NICK TEALE

Nottinghamshire golfer shoots seven under opening round for one-shot lead

By NICK TEALE

Luke Johnson leads the HotelPlanner.com PGA EuroPro Tour’s Eagle Orchid Scottish Masters at Montrose Golf Links by one shot after carding a seven-under-par first round 64.

Mark Ramsdale, Max Penny and Greg Payne share second on six under par after the first 18 on the Medal Course at Montrose, one of the World’s oldest golf courses.

Johnson (King’s Lynn Golf Club) had completed his round before the heavy afternoon rain set in. The weather did force a brief suspension in play as standing water was cleared from greens, and made for a testing round for those in the second half of the draw.

The 24-year-old from Nottinghamshire made a steady start to his tournament with five pars before eagling the 6^th to set the ball rolling. Consecutive birdies followed before a dropped shot at the 9^th, the first of two bogeys with the second to came at 16. Five back-nine birdies included back-to-back threes to finish and he signed for a 64 for the overnight lead.

Payne (Chobham GC / MindSet4Golf) is the Race To Desert Springs Order Of Merit leader with two second-place finishes to his name already this season. He occupies that position again after his unblemished first round at Montrose.

His company in second is Ramsdale (Formby Golf Club), who also made six birdies in his opening round, and Max Penny (Alderley Edge) who recovered from a five at the par-four first to card a 65 consisting of six birdies, and eagle and two bogeys.

The Eagle Orchid Scottish Masters continues with the second round tomorrow, July 6, with a cut to the leading 50 players and ties to be made after 36 holes before Thursday’s final round. The tournament carries a £50,000 prize fund with the winner collecting £10,000.

Spectator entry is free throughout the event and live scoring can be found at www.europrotour.com. Highlights from Montrose Golf Links will air on Sky Sports on Tuesday, July 19.

SCOTS BOYS START WELL IN AUSTRIA

By COLIN FARQUHARSON

Scotland have begun well in the European boys' team championship at Atzenbrugg, Austria.

A round of one-under-par 71 by Scottish boys champion Eric McIntosh - five off the lead - helped the Scots to finish the first qualifying round  with a total of 369, tied third with Denmark, behind the Czech Republic (361) and Italy (364).

England (385) are 13th and Wales (388) 14th.

Scots' scores:

par 72

71 Eric McIntosh (T6)

73 Jamie Stewart (T16)

75 Sam Locke, Darren Howie, Marc Watt (T31)

76 Rory Franssen (T45)

Field of 96 players

Forrest fires Scots to good start at Chantilly

By COLIN FARQUHARSON

Scotland have made a good start to the European men's amateur team championship at Chantilly Golf Club, France.

After the first of two qualifying rounds before the match-play stages, the Scots, with a total of 357, are lying a close-up third to leaders Denmark (355) and Germany (356).

England (360) are in sixth place and Ireland (365) eighth.

Craigielaw's Grant Forrest (pictured) was the Scots' top scorer on the opening day with a three-under-par 68 which put him into a thare of third place, only one off the lead.

Scots' scores:

par 71

68 Grant Forrest (T3)

70 Sandy Scott (T11)

71 Craig Howie (T16)

73 Robert MacIntyre (T40)

75 Connor Syme (T59)

78 Jamie Savage (T84)

Field of 96 players.

                         TIM THELEN .. bound for Meldrum House tournament next week
 
SWISS SENIORS OPEN WINNER TO PLAY

 IN ABERDEEN SENIOR MASTERS


By COLIN FARQUHARSON
Tim Helen, the 55-year-old Texan who won the Swiss Seniors Open title at the weekend for the second time in four years, has filed an entry for next week's Aberdeen Senior Masters over 54 holes at Meldrum House, Oldmeldrum.
Helen, who finished birdie-birdie for his latest win at Golf Club Bad Raz, has won five times in all on the European Senior Tour for pros aged 50 and over.
The Aberdeen Senior Masters is a tournament on the independent Senior Golf Circuit for professionals - and Category 1 amateurs - aged 48 and over. It is run by a Scot, David James from Dumfries, who played as an amateur for Scotland in the home internationals of 1985 and still competes as a senior pro.
Said Helen after his second Swiss victory:
“It’s fantastic to win again, it had been a couple of years. Looking back, I’ve won every other year. My last victory was in 2014 and I won three times in 2012, so this is my year.”
Thelen finished one shot ahead of Englishman Simon P Brown and the pair will cross swords again in the Aberdeen Senior Masters which has a £50,000 prize fund with a first prize of £10,000.
The tournament, won last year by Spain's Miguel Martin, who is not defending the title, is jointly sponsored by Thistle Windows, the Gym Rental Company  and Meldrum House Hotel.
Former Ryder Cup star Paul Broadhurst, Paul Wesselingh, Senior PGA champion Robert Arnott, Andrew Oldcorn, Peter Baker, Kenny Hutton, Stephen McAllister, Brendon McGovern and Jonathan Lomas  are also among the 110  entries.
There will be no charge for spectators or for car parking and the starting tee times will range from 8am to 2pm on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday next week. There is no cut.  Monday is the official practice day at Meldrum House.

Link to first-round scores in the Global Golf Post Scottish U16 boys' championship

CLICK HERE

 Drew Jarvie still on the ball as senior golfer

Former Dons striker Drew Jarvie won the Handicap Class 1 with a net score of 63 off 11 of a handicap at this week's Ballater Seniors' Open.

 

SCRATCH

71 N Walker (Northern).

72 J Cramond (Royal Aberdeen)

HANDICAP

Class 1 - D Jarvie (Deeside) (11) 63; I  Mackinnon (Murcar Links) (10), E Brown (Hazlehead) (10) 64; W. Fleming (Kintore) (6) 66; P Trotter (Murcar  Links) (11) 68

Division 2 - B. Stephen (Peterculter) (19), S. Stallwood (Blairgowrie) (17), R. Aitken (Oldmeldrum)(14) 67, N K Parker (Murcar Links ) (15) 69, B. Anderson (Aboyne) (15) 70

£6,500,000 PRIZE FUND ANNOUNCED FOR

 THE 145^TH OPEN AT ROYAL TROON

NEWS RELEASE FROM THE RandA

The Champion Golfer of the Year will win £1,175,000 at The 145^TH Open at Royal Troon.

The RandA hasd announced that the total prize money will be £6,500,000, an increase of £200,000 from last year’s Championship.

Martin Slumbers, Chief Executive of The R and A, said, “The Open is one of the world’s great sporting events and it is important that this is reflected in the prize fund. We want to continue to attract the world’s best golfers to compete in the Championship each year and to enhance its global appeal.”

Prize money

Place    £                                             Place    £
1          £1,175,000                             36        £34,000
2          £675,000                                37        £32,500
3          £433,000                                38        £31,000
4          £337,000                                39        £30,000
5          £271,000                                40        £28,750
6          £235,000                                41        £27,500
7          £201,000                                42        £26,250
8          £170,000                                43        £25,000
9          £149,000                                44        £23,750
10        £135,000                                45        £22,500
11        £122,000                                46        £21,500
12        £108,750                                47        £20,500
13        £102,000                                48        £19,500
14        £95,500                                  49        £18,700
15        £89,500                                  50        £18,300
16        £82,000                                  51        £17,900
17        £78,000                                  52        £17,500
18        £74,000                                  53        £17,250
19        £71,000                                  54        £17,000
20        £68,000                                  55        £16,750
21        £64,500                                  56        £16,500
22        £61,500                                  57        £16,300
23        £58,250                                  58        £16,200
24        £55,000                                  59        £16,100
25        £53,000                                  60        £16,000
26        £50,750                                  61        £15,900
27        £48,750                                  62        £15,800
28        £47,000                                  63        £15,700
29        £45,000                                  64        £15,600
30        £43,250                                  65        £15,500
31        £41,500                                  66        £15,400
32        £39,250                                  67        £15,300
33        £38,000                                  68        £15,200
34        £36,750                                  69        £15,100
35        £35,500                                  70        £15,000

Prize money shall be allocated only to professional golfers.

If more than 70 professional golfers qualify for the final two rounds, additional prize money will be added. Prize money will decrease by £100 per qualifying place above 70 to a minimum of £9,000.

Non-qualifiers after two rounds:  Leading 10 professional golfers and ties £4,625; next 20 professional golfers and ties £3,700; remaining professional golfers £3,100.