MONTY THREE OFF THE PACE WITH ONE
ROUND TO GO IN THE FRENCH OPEN

Collated scores after the third round in the Open de France ALSTOM, Le Golf National, Guyancourt, Paris (Gbr & Irl unless stated, par 71):

206 Soren Hansen (Den) 69 71 66
207 Simon Khan 70 67 70
209 Martin Kaymer (Ger) 70 70 69, Colin Montgomerie 68 70 71
210 Jeev Milkha Singh (Ind) 71 72 67, David Lynn 72 69 69, Thomas Bjorn (Den) 68 71 71
211 Steven Jeppesen (Swe) 66 77 68, Graeme Storm 66 74 71, Zane Scotland 68 71 72
212 Ian Poulter 70 74 68, Stephen Dodd 71 72 69, Lee Westwood 71 72 69, Pelle Edberg (Swe) 73 69 70, Peter Lawrie 69 72 71, Jyoti Randhawa (Ind) 68 72 72
213 Phillip Archer 72 72 69, David Griffiths 70 74 69, Christian Nilsson (Swe) 66 76 71, Darren Fichardt (Rsa) 71 71 71, Benn Barham 66 75 72, Jose-Filipe Lima (Por) 68 72 73, Paul McGinley 69 69 75
214 Gregory Bourdy (Fra) 75 71 68, Bradley Dredge 73 71 70, Gregory Havret (Fra) 69 74 71, Robert Rock 71 72 71, Damien McGrane 68 72 74
215 Soren Kjeldsen (Den) 70 75 70, Oliver Wilson 73 69 73, Nick Dougherty 73 69 73
216 Alessandro Tadini (Ita) 73 72 71, Miguel Angel Martin (Spa) 68 77 71, Maarten Lafeber (Ned) 72 73 71, Mark Foster 72 72 72, Marcus Fraser (Aus) 75 69 72, Richard Finch 71 70 75, Kyron Sullivan 65 74 77, Tom Whitehouse 70 69 77
217 Rafael Echenique (Arg) 72 74 71, Johan Axgren (Swe) 69 76 72, Cristian Cevaer (Fra) 71 74 72, Patrik Sjoland (Swe) 73 71 73, Stephen Gallacher 71 73 73, Jean-Baptiste Gonnet (Fra) 73 69 75, Thomas Levet (Fra) 67 73 77
218 Oliver Fisher 70 75 73, Marcel Siem (Ger) 72 72 74, Paul Lawrie 71 72 75, James Kamte (Rsa) 66 78 75, Richard Sterne (Rsa) 71 71 76
219 Steve Webster 72 72 75, Markus Brier (Aut) 68 76 75, Gary Lockerbie 74 70 75
220 Peter O'Malley (Aus) 73 73 74, Marcus Higley 70 76 74, Sven Struver (Ger) 72 74 74, Santiago Luna (Spa) 70 75 75, Ariel Canete (Arg) 70 74 76, Taichi Teshima (Jpn) 72 72 76
221 Simon Dyson 75 70 76, Juan Parron (Spa) 71 72 78
222 Francois Delamontagne (Fra) 72 74 76, Michael Campbell (Nzl) 71 74 77

MACAULAY BLOWS CHANCE OF CLEAR LEAD IN EAST
OF SCOTLAND OPEN AT LUNDIN LINKS

British amateur championship semi-finalist Callum Macaulay from Tulliallan looked set for at least a two-shot halfway lead in the East of Scotland Open amateur championship at Lundin Golf Club, Fife.
Callum, tied with fellow American college circuit player Duncan Stewart (Grantown on Spey) on four-under-par 67 at the end of the first round, had improved to six under par for the tournament with just four holes to play in the second round.
With Stewart, who played the last four years on the college circuit as a student at Jacksonville University, Florida, back in the clubhouse after a second-circuit 71 for a tally of four-under-par 138, Macaulay, a recent graduate of the University of Mississippi, stumbled unexpectedly and dropped three shots over the 15th, 16th and 17th holes.
He finished on 72 for 139.
It still looks a Stewart v Macaulay shoot-out over Sunday’s final 36 holes as they are two shots clear of Scott Henry (Cardross), the non-playing reserve to the Scotland squad of six for next week’s European amateur team championship at Western Gailes.
But don’t write off the 2005 champion, Wallace Booth (Comrie) – another who has just finished four years on the American college circuit as a student at Augusta State University.
Wallace had a third-round 64 in last weekend’s Tennant Cup to win that title by vie shots when rain washed out the final round.
Booth, whose 15-year-old sister Carly won the Scottish Under-21 girls’ open title at Auchterarder by NINE shots on Friday after Wallace gave her some tips, is four shots off the pace on 142 with rounds of 68 and 74.

QUALIFIERS FOR SUNDAY ROUNDS
Par 142 (2 x 71)
138 D Stewart (Grantown on Spey) 67 71.
139 C Macaulay (Tulliallan) 67 72.
141 S Henry (Cardross) 68 73.
142 W Booth (Comrie) 68 74, G Campbell (Blairgowrie) 71 71, S Neilson (Dunbar) 72 70.
143 M Hillson(Craigielaw) 73 70, M Lamb (Haddington) 74 69, S McAllister (Craigielaw) 69 74, R Dixon (Barassie) 75 68, D Downie (Sutton) 70 73, R McCarthy (The Island) 72 71.
144 B Soutar (Leven GS) 70 74, J Stewart (Troon Welbeck) 72 72.
145 J White (Lundin) 76 69, J Hamilton (NZ) 74 71, G Dear (Murrayshall) 76 69, P O’Hara (Colville Park) 73 72.
146 G Paterson (St Andrews New) 73 73
148 I Colquhoun (Glasgow) 73 75, S Mann Carnoustie) 70 70, Z Culverwell (Dunbar) 71 77.
149 T Mathieson (Murcar Links) 72 77, G Yates (Hilton Park) 72 77, R Bell (Downfield) 71 78, J Mathers (Haggs Castle) 72 77.
150 K Nicol (Fraserburgh) 74 76, S Clark (Haggs Castle) 75 75, D Sommerville (St Andrews) 73 77, A Lynch (Glenbervie) 74 76, R Carson (Dalmahoy) 75 75, A Main (Thornton) 76 74.
151 B Fotheringham (Forres) 73 78, C Watson (East Renfrewshire) 77 74, G Turner (West Linton) 78 73, Z Saltman (Craigielaw) 75 76, D Gould (Ladybank) 74 77, M Clark (Kilmacolm) 74 77, N McBride (Glasgow) 73 78.
152 R Crowe (Newcastle Utd) 76 76, S McEwan (Caprington) 74 78, S Graham (Blairgowrie) 76 76, M Anderson (Leven Thistle) 73 79.
MISSED THE CUT
153 M Kerr Craigielaw) 73 80, E Polson (Inverness) 76 77, J Yuille (Royal Burgess) 76 77, J Clarke (Royal Montrose) 78 75, S Elder (Kirkcaldy) 79 74, J Paterson (Hayston) 80 73, S Herald (Whitecraigs) 77 76, S Hume (Murrayshall) 79 74, G Smith (Stirling) 78 75.
154 J Welsh (Australia) 76 78, S Machin (Cowglen) 76 78.
155 M Cunningham (Longniddry) 78 77, E Brown (Barassie) 73 82, M Main (Thornton) 80 75.
156 C Gray (West Kilbride) 74 82, K Mathieson (Royal Dornoch) 76 80, D Simpson (Crieff) 76 80, G Stevenson (Whitecraigs) 77 79, I Rennie (Royal Dornoch) 74 82.
157 J Farmer (St Andrews) 80 77.
158 C Haugh (Cathkin Braes) 82 76, R Noon (Longniddry) 81 77.
159 R Leeds (Muckhart) 81 78.
160 E Malcolm (Dunfermline) 78 82, A Howard (Murrayshall) 77 83.

SAM CAIRNS WINS £1,172 WITH A SEVEN-
UNDER-PAR 63 IN HAYSTON PRO-AM

Westerwood professional Sam Cairns won the £1,172 top prize with a seven-under-par round of 63 in the Hayston Golf Club pro-am today.
Cairns' bogey-free score - believed to be a professional course record - had birdies at the first four holes, then the eighth in an outward five-under 31. He birdied the 11th and 13th and then parred the last five holes for 32 (two under par) homne.
Home course pro Steven Gray was runner-up on 65.
Paul McKechnie (Braid Hills) led the Repdoruction Plaster amateur trio of Allister Fountain (6) Gary Fountain (9) and David Shearer (9) to victory in the pro-am team event with a net score of 14-under-par 56.
LEADING PROFESSIONALS
Par 70
63 S Cairns (Westerwood).
65 S Gray (Hayston).
66 P McKechnie (Braid Hills), R Arnott (Bishopbriggs).
67 J McKinnon (Irvine).
68 G Law (Uphall), M Loftus (Cowglen).
69 C Gillies (Kingsfield), C Kelly (Cawder).
70 S Morrison (Glenbervie), P Wardell (Whitekirk.

LATE FLURRY KEEPS BAKER IN FRONT
IN PORTUGUESE CHALLENGER EVENT

By RODDY WILLIAMS
Press Officer, European Tour

Former Ryder Cup player Peter Baker of England remains on course for back-to-back titles as he takes a one stroke lead into the final round of the Estoril Challenge de Portugal.
Two birdies in the last three holes for a 73 ensured the three-time European Tour champion kept his nose in front of Welshman Jamie Donaldson after a testing day in which strong winds swept across the Quinta da Marinha course, Cascais, about 30 miles to the west of Lisbon.
The 39 year old Baker, who ended a 14 year victory drought when he won last week’s Credit Suisse Challenge, suffered two double bogeys but his strong finish for a nine under par total of 204 gives him the edge over another of the season’s champions, Donaldson, who carded a superb 67.
“If someone offered me a one stroke lead going into the final round, I would have snapped their hand off,” said Baker. “My confidence is high although it took a bit of a dent today. But those two birdies got something out of the day. I now need to play as I did on Thursday and Friday.”
Baker looked to be pulling clear of the field but double bogeys on the tenth, where he got a flier from the rough, and the par three 14th, where again he flew through the green, opened the door for the chasing pack although he remains the man in form.
“Last week’s win was a big relief as it had been a long while, and it has given me something to look forward to,” said Baker, currently 11th on the Challenge Tour Rankings. “Now I am looking forward to the last round. You have to keep giving yourself chances and make it pay. “
Donaldson played magnificently in the ferocious wind, picking up four birdies without dropping a shot. A huge drive hooked around the corner on the sixth left him with only a pitching wedge into the par five to set up his first birdie of the day. Two more shots were picked up on the eighth and ninth, the latter of which came from an impressive four iron tee shot on this tough par three which came to rest a foot from the hole which he tapped in for an outward nine of 32.
KEPT MOMENTUM GOING
But it was the par on the 11th which kept the momentum going in his bid to add the Estoril Challenge de Portugal title to his victory in Guatemala in February. After driving in the water, Donaldson was forced to drop under penalty and found a poor lie in a sandy hole. But from there he hit undoubtedly the shot of the week as he cut a two iron 275 yards over trees which ran up to 25 feet. He holed the par saving putt and went on to birdie the 15th for a back nine of 35 and round of 67.
“I played really well today,” he admitted. “It sometimes takes me a while to get playing really well after a break and this is my third week out after a week off. When I won in Guatemala, that was my third week in a row so maybe that is a good omen."
A second Englishman, Ross McGowan, is only one shot further back on seven under par 206 after a round of 70 while Welshman Stuart Manley and Anthony Tarchetti, another of the English contingent, lie at six under par and only three off the pace.
THIRD-ROUND SCOREBOARD
Par 213 (3 x 71)
204 Peter BAKER (ENG) 65 66 73
205 Jamie DONALDSON (WAL) 68 70 67
206 Ross McGOWAN (ENG) 68 68 70
207 Anthony TARCHETTI (ENG) 68 69 70
Stuart MANLEY (WAL) 65 72 70
208 Robert COLES (ENG) 67 67 74
Daniel DENISON (ENG) 70 72 66
209 Kasper Linnet JORGENSEN (DEN) 67 69 73
Pablo LARRAZABAL (ESP) 72 68 69
210 Magnus A CARLSSON (SWE) 72 67 71
Jan-Are LARSEN (NOR) 66 73 71
211 Felipe AGUILAR (CHI) 67 75 69
António SOBRINHO (POR) 71 68 72
Simon ROBINSON (ENG) 73 67 71
212 Eric RAMSAY (SCO) 75 69 68
Inder VAN WEERELT (NED) 73 70 69
Phil WORTHINGTON (ENG) 69 71 72
Van PHILLIPS (ENG) 72 71 69
Martin WIEGELE (AUT) 74 65 73
Alvaro VELASCO (ESP) 71 71 70
Fredrik WIDMARK (SWE) 71 71 70
David PATRICK (SCO) 71 72 69
213 Eduardo DE LA RIVA (ESP) 67 77 69
Marco CRESPI (ITA) 72 71 70
Jamie MCLEARY (SCO) 68 74 71
Stephen SCAHILL (NZL) 71 71 71
214 Sebastian FERNANDEZ (ARG) 69 72 73
Ilya GORONESKOUL (FRA) 69 73 72
Emilio DOMINGUEZ (ARG) 73 70 71
Andrew MCARTHUR (SCO) 69 70 75
Ally MELLOR (ENG) 68 73 73
Andrew OLDCORN (SCO) 76 68 70
Raphaël EYRAUD (FRA) 75 68 71
215 Liam BOND (WAL) 74 69 72
Francis VALERA (ESP) 73 71 71
Hernan REY (ARG) 70 73 72
Kariem BARAKA (GER) 72 72 71
André BOSSERT (SUI) 71 71 73
Soren JUUL (DEN) 70 71 74
Scott HENDERSON (SCO) 75 67 73
Peter KAENSCHE (NOR) 70 72 73
Gustavo ACOSTA (ARG) 69 70 76
Nicola MAESTRONI (ITA) 71 73 71
216 Carlos AGUILAR (ESP) 70 71 75
Bernd WIESBERGER (AUT) 72 68 76
Kevin HARPER (ENG) 73 71 72
Jeppe HULDAHL (DEN) 69 72 75
Kalle EDBERG (SWE) 71 73 72
Tiago CRUZ (POR) 71 68 77
Ben MASON (ENG) 68 72 76
Gary CLARK (ENG) 68 70 78
217 Pedro LINHART (ESP) 71 70 76
Adam GEE (ENG) 68 73 76
Jose LORCA (ESP) 72 72 73
Alejandro VILLAVICENCIO (GTM) 71 71 75
Daniel WARDROP (ENG) 71 72 74
Lorenzo GAGLI (ITA) 69 72 76
218 Manuel QUIROS (ESP) 71 71 76
Murray URQUHART (SCO) 71 71 76
Carlos BALMASEDA (ESP) 70 69 79
219 Jamie LITTLE (ENG) 74 70 75
Alfredo GARCIA-HEREDIA (ESP) 72 72 75
220 Elliot SALTMAN (SCO) 68 74 78
221 David DIXON (ENG) 70 70 81
223 Diego BORREGO (ESP) 72 72 79
225 Kieran STAUNTON (ENG) 70 73 82

YANKEE DOODLE LADS TO THE FORE IN
EAST OF SCOTLAND OPEN

Two players who completed four years on the American college circuit last month, Duncan Stewart from Grantown on Spey, and Callum Macaulay of Tulliallan, shared the lead on four-under-par 67 at the end of the first round in the 72-hole East of Scotland Open championship at Lundin Golf Club, Fife today (Saturday).
And yet another past US golf scholarship student, Wallace Booth from Comrie, last weekend's winner ofr the Tennant Cup at Glasgow Killermont and winner of this title two years ago, was sharing third place on 68 with Scott Henry (Cardross), first reserve to the Scotland squad for next week's European men's amateur team championship at Western Gailes.
The six-man line-up have had to miss the East of Scotland Open to put in some last-minute practice over the Ayrshire links.
Stewart spent a very successful four years at Jacksonville University, Florida while Macaulay's experience on the highly competitive American college circuit showed in the recent British amateur championship at Royal Lytham where Macaulay reached the semi-finals.
The field will but cut to the leading 40 and ties for the final 36 holes on Sunday.

FIRST ROUND LEADERS
Par 71
67 D Stewart (Grantown on Spey), C Macaulay (Tulliallan).
68 S Henry (Cardross), W Booth (Comrie).
69 S McAllister (Craigielaw).
70 D Downie (Sutton), B Soutar (Leven GS), S Mann (Carnoustie).
71 G Campbell (Blairgowrie), Z Culverwell (Dunbar).
72 S Neilson (Dunbar), M Stewart (Troon Welbeck), J Mathers (Haggs Castle), G Yates (Hilton Park), T Mathieson (Murcar Links), R McCarthy (Ireland).
73 M Hillson (Craigielaw), P O'Hara (Colville Park), D Sommerville (St Andrews), E Brown (Barassie), G Paterson (St Andrews New), I Colquhoun (Glasgow), N McBride (Cowglen), M Kerr (Craigielaw), M Anderson (Leven Thistle), B Fotheringham (Forres).
74 M Lamb (Haddington), M Clark (Kilmacolm), A Lynch (Glenbervie), I Rennie (Royal Dornoch), C Gray (West Kilbride), D Gould (Ladybank), S McEwan (Caprington), J Hamilton (NZ), K Nicol (Fraserburgh).
75 R Dixon (Barassie), R Carson (Dalmahoy), Z Saltman (Craigielaw), S Clark (Haggs Castle), G McNab (Leven Thistle).
76 J White (Lundin), G Dear (Murrayshall), S Machin (Cowglen), J Yuille (Royal Burgess), J Welsh (Aust), R Crowe (Newcastle United), K Mathieson (Royal Dornoch), E Polson (Inverness), D Simpson (Crieff).
77 C Watson (East Renfrewshire), A Howard (Murrayshall), P Betty (Hayston), S Herald (Whitecraigs).
78 J Clarke (Royal Montrose).
78 G Turner (West Linton).

MICHAEL SIM MAKES THE BUICK OPEN CUT

Aberdeen-born Australian Michael Sim survived the halfway cut in the Buick Open at Warwick Hills Golf Club with scores of 72 and 68 for 140.
That puts him six strokes behind the triple joint leaders, Brett Quigley, Jim Furyk and Kenny Perry.
LEADERBOARD
134 Brett Quigley (US) 65 69, Jim Furyk (US) 66 68, Kenny Perry (US) 71 63.
135 Rocco Mediate (US) 64 71, Scott Verplank (US) 66 69, Brian Bateman (US) 65 70.
OTHER QUALIFIERS
139 Brian Davis (Eng) 70 69 (jt 29th).
140 Greg Owen (Eng) 70 70, Michael Sim (Aus) 72 68 (jt 46th).
141 Darren Clarke (NIr) 73 68 (jt 47th).

MARTIN LAIRD MAKES NATIONWIDE CUT
Meanwhile Martin Laird from Glasgow beat the cut in the Nationwide Tour event, the quaintly-named Peen'n Peek Classic at Findley Lake in New York State.
Martin, winner of an event on the No 2 US Tour earlier in the season, scored 73 and 69 for 142 and a share of 29th place behind the four-shot leader, American Paul Claxton.
SCOREBOARD
132 Paul Claxton (US) 66 66.
OTHER QUALIFIERS
142 Martin Laird (Sco) 73 69 (jt 29th).
143 Keith Nolan (Ire) 71 72 (jt 44th).

AN ENGLISHMAN WINS RUSSIAN OPEN TITLE
FOR SECOND YEAR IN A ROW

By COLIN FARQUHARSON
For the second year in a row, an Englishman has won the Russian open amateur international men's championship at Pestovo Golf & Leisure Resort, about 25 miles north of Moscow.
Last year it was Seve Benson, this week it was Christopher Wood (Long Ashton) who, the week before, lost in the quarter-finals of the British men's amateur championship at Royal Lytham.
Wood shot rounds of 70, 70, 73 and 72 for a three-under-par total of 285.
In a tournament marked by some sudden "lurches" in the standard of scoring - for whatever reason - Wood won by seven shots from a Russian, Andrey Pavlov, who scored 73, 72, 70 and 77.
Dale Whitnell (Forrester Park) finished third on 295 and the other lads sent by the English Golf Union did not too badly. Sam Hutsby from Liphook, last year's winner of The Duke of York Young Champions' Trophy tournament, finished joint fourth with - and here's what I mean by lurches in scoring - 71, 81, 75 and 69 for 296.
Matthew Baldwin (Royal Birkdale) shared sixth place on 297.
The Russian rules permit professionals to play in what is ostensibly an "amateur" tournament which explains why Yorkshire's Gordon Brand, a European Seniors Tour player, tied for eighth place on 304 in a field of 41 of whom three or four were professionals.
Germany's Nina Holleder won the women's championship with scores of 72, 72, 72 and 78 for six-over-par 294. Russian Galina Rotmistrova was second on 298 and Stephanie Doering from Germany third on 307.
Lizzie Brand finished fifth in a female field of 14 despite having a horrendous total of 328, made up on 82, 75, 86 and 85.
LEADING FINAL TOTALS
MEN (par 288: 4 x 72)
285 Christopher Wood (Long Ashton) 70 70 73 72.
292 Andrey Pavlov (Russia) 73 72 70 77.
295 Dale Whitnell (Forrester Park) 72 68 77 78.
296 Dmity Vinogradov (Russia) 75 77 71 73, Sam Hutsby (Liphook) 71 81 75 69.
297 Matthew Baldwin (Royal Birkdale) 74 74 79 70, Philipp Mejow (Germany) 72 77 75 73.
304 Gordon Brand (Yorkshire) (pro) 79 75 73 77, Mikhail Morozov (Russia) 79 76 72 77.
WOMEN (par 288: 4 x 72)
294 Nina Holleder (Germany) 772 72 72 78.
298 Galina Rotmistrova (Russia) 75 77 69 77.
307 Stephanie Doering (Germany) 76 76 81 74.
322 Elizaveta Nikulina (Russia) 81 83 80 78.
327 Lizzie Brand (Ilkley) 82 75 86 85.

JUSTIN ROSE WINS EUROPEAN TOUR
SHOT OF THE MONTH FOR MAY

The superb wedge played by Justin Rose to secure a play-off in the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth Club has been recognised as the European Tour Shot of the Month for May.
Knowing that only a birdie 4 at the last would suffice to catch Denmark’s Anders Hansen – who ultimately prevailed at the first hole of sudden-death – Rose played a threequarter pitching wedge from 109yd to within six inches of the hole.
The Englishman’s spectacular effort was judged to be the best played during a month sprinkled by outstanding shot-making on the European Tour International Schedule.
In second place was Padraig Harrington’s five-wood to the ninth green at Adare Manor Hotel and Golf Resort which set up an eagle 3 and a first home win in the Irish Open for 25 years.
Third place went to a wonderful approach played by Welshman Bradley Dredge as he tried to catch Harrington, a perfectly judged seven-iron from the rough to 2 1/2 ft for a birdie at the 71st hole.
Looking back on his winning shot, Rose said: “I certainly knew what I had to do. I took a long walk up to the green to see if Anders had made a birdie. I knew I needed to make a 4 to get in the play-off and I had the perfect yardage for a three4quarter pitching wedge to fly it past the hole and spin it back. It was nice to pull it off and have a tap-in!”
The European Tour Shot of the Month Award is presented to a Tour Member for the shot judged to be the most outstanding during each calendar month on The European Tour International schedule.

SEVEN SCOTS SURVIVE HALFWAY CUT IN
EUROPEAN CHALLENGE TOUR EVENT
By SCOTT CROCKET
Chief Press Officer, European Tour

Former Ryder Cup player Peter Baker continued to prove he was back in the groove when he carved himself a three shot lead at the halfway stage of the Estoril Challenge de Portugal at Quinta da Marinha, 30-odd miles west of Lisbon at Cascais, Estoril.
The 39 year old Englishman had been without an individual professional victory since August 1993 – a month before he played against the United States at The Belfry – but he put paid to that statistic in style last week when he won the Credit Suisse Challenge.
Now Baker, currently 11th on the Challenge Tour Rankings, is in line for his second successive tournament victory and one which would give him a great chance of cementing his place in the top 20 at the end of the season and gaining his European Tour card for 2008 by right.
Baker added a 66 to his opening 65 for an 11 under par total of 131 and a three shot lead over his fellow countryman Robert Coles who had set the target of eight under par 134 with his second consecutive 67 earlier in the day.
Out in 33, with one dropped shot at the eighth hole, Baker was flawless on the inward half, his only departures from par coming with birdies at the 11th and 13th and another to finish at the 18th where he fired a seven iron to six feet and rolled home the putt.
While Baker’s second round score was actually one shot worse than his opening round, the three time winner on The European Tour admitted it had been a better day’s work.
“That was a very good round of golf because the conditions, with the wind getting up, were certainly harder than my morning round on Thursday so I am very pleased with that,” he said.
“I saw Robert’s score before I went out and to be honest, my only real target was to keep around that mark so I was in the mix for the weekend. I would have been delighted to finish around eight under so to end up at 11 under is great.”
Second placed Coles might not have had the chance to watch his beloved West Ham perform their Houdini-like escape from relegation certainty last season, but the 34 year old is determined to utilise the same battling spirit as the boys from Upton Park to regain his own playing privileges for The European Tour.
The Englishman lost his card last year and, like Baker, has vowed to play the entire 2007 season on the Challenge Tour in an attempt to win it back. Currently in 40th place he is moving in the right direction but gave himself the ideal chance with another fine round at Quinta da Marinha.
“I actually saw a couple of the West Ham games towards the end of the season but then in the final game, against Manchester United at Old Trafford, I was playing in Toulouse and couldn’t go,” he said.
“But I had an early tee time on the Sunday and I saw a bar across from the hotel had Sky Sports so I thought, perfect, get back, get changed and have a few beers and watch the game – I couldn’t believe it when I turned up to find the bar didn’t open on a Sunday!
“I had to rely on my mates texting me from the game and every time my phone went off I thought, here we go, 1-0 Man United – I couldn’t believe it when we went 1-0 up and held on. It was brilliant and now I hope I can do as well this season on the course.”
Coles got off to a flying start in his second round with four birdies in his first seven holes. Tree trouble cost him shots at the eighth and 12th but recovered them with birdies at the tenth and 15th as he held his score together well in the strengthening winds.
“I’ve been doing okay this year on the Challenge Tour but apart from a third place earlier in the year where I had a good last round, to be honest, I’ve been treading water a little bit.
“I’ve never really been able to put four good rounds together to get a little run going and that is what you need to do on this Tour to push you up the top of the Rankings. This is by far and away my best start of the season so hopefully I can keep it going.”
Third place, two shots adrift of Coles, is shared by another Englishman, Ross McGowan, and Kasper Linnet Jorgensen of Denmark, who carded 68 and 69 respectively to finish on six under par 136.
Seven Scots in all were among those with 36-hole tallies of two-over-par 144 or better who will contest the weekend 36 holes - Andrew McArthur, Jamie McLeary, Elliot Saltman, Murray Urquhart, Scott Henderson, David Patrick, Eric Ramsay and Andy Oldcorn.
Scott Henderson put together his best round for a while - a bogey-free 67 to make the cut on level par 142. Scott birdied the fourth, sixth, seventh and 17th.

SECOND ROUND LEADERBOARD
Par 142 (2 x 71)
131 P Baker (Eng) 65, 66
134 R Coles (Eng) 67, 67
136 R McGowan (Eng) 68, 68; K-L Jorgensen (Den) 67, 69
137 S Manley (Wal) 65, 72; A Tarchetti (Ita) 68, 69
138 G Clark (Eng) 68, 70; J Donaldson (Wal) 68, 70
139 J-A Larsen (Nor) 66,73; C Balmaseda (Esp) 70, 69; G Acosta (Arg) 69, 70; T Cruz (Por) 71, 68; M Carlsson (Swe) 72, 67; A McArthur (Sco) 69, 70; A Sobrinho (Por) 71, 68; M Wiegele (Aut) 74, 65.
Other Scots who beat the cut were:
142 J McLeary 68 74, E Saltman 68 74, M Urquhart 71 71, S Henderson 75 678.
143 D Patrick 71 72.
144 E Ramsay 75 69, A Oldcorn 76 68.
Scots who missed the cut were:
147 P Whiteford 74 73.
148 G Brown 78 70, G Murray 75 73, E Thomson 73 75.
150 C Doak 74 76.

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Scott Crockett
Chief Press Officer
The European Tour

MONTGOMERIE ONLY ONE SHOT OFF THE LEAD
AT HALFWAY STAGE OF FRENCH OPEN

Le Golf National, Guyancourt, Paris,
Par 142 (2 x 71)
137 Simon Khan 70 67
138 Paul McGinley 69 69, Colin Montgomerie 68 70
139 Tom Whitehouse 70 69, Thomas Bjorn (Den) 68 71, Zane Scotland 68 71, Kyron Sullivan 65 74
140 Jose-Filipe Lima (Por) 68 72, Thomas Levet (Fra) 67 73, Graeme Storm 66 74, Damien McGrane 68 72, Soren Hansen (Den) 69 71, Jyoti Randhawa (Ind) 68 72, Martin Kaymer (Ger) 70 70
141 Richard Finch 71 70, Robert-Jan Derksen (Ned) 69 72, Peter Lawrie 69 72, Benn Barham 66 75, David Lynn 72 69, Raphael Jacquelin (Fra) 68 73
142 Nick Dougherty 73 69, Darren Fichardt (Rsa) 71 71, Richard Sterne (Rsa) 71 71, Oliver Wilson 73 69, Pelle Edberg (Swe) 73 69, Christian Nilsson (Swe) 66 76, Jean-Baptiste Gonnet (Fra) 73 69
143 Juan Parron (Spa) 71 72, Jeev Milkha Singh (Ind) 71 72, James Kamte (Rsa) 66 78, Paul Lawrie 71 72, Steven Jeppesen (Swe) 66 77, Robert Rock 71 72, Lee Westwood 71 72 , Stephen Dodd 71 72, Gregory Havret (Fra) 69 74
144 Gary Lockerbie 74 70, Taichi Teshima (Jpn) 72 72, Bradley Dredge 73 71, Mark Foster 72 72, Marcus Fraser (Aus) 75 69, Markus Brier (Aut) 68 76, Steve Webster 72 72, Stephen Gallacher 71 73, Ariel Canete (Arg) 70 74, David Griffiths 70 74, Patrik Sjoland (Swe) 73 71, Phillip Archer 72 72, Ian Poulter 70 74, Marcel Siem (Ger) 72 72
145 Maarten Lafeber (Ned) 72 73, Soren Kjeldsen (Den) 70 75, Miguel Angel Martin (Spa) 68 77, Santiago Luna (Spa) 70 75, Christian Cevaer (Fra) 71 74, Michael Campbell (Nzl) 71 74, Simon Dyson 75 70, Johan Axgren (Swe) 69 76, Oliver Fisher 70 75, Alessandro Tadini (Ita) 73 72
146 Gregory Bourdy (Fra) 75 71, Francois Delamontagne (Fra) 72 74, Sven Struver (Ger) 72 74, Marcus Higley 70 76 , Peter O'Malley (Aus) 73 73, Rafael Echenique (Arg) 72 74
MISSED THE CUT
147 Julien Guerrier (Fra) 73 74, Miguel Angel Jimenez (Spa) 69 78, Andrew Tampion (Aus) 74 72, Thongchai Jaidee (Thai) 71 76, David Park 73 74, Kenneth Ferrie 73 74, Francesco Molinari (Ita) 75 72
148 Ricardo Gonzalez (Arg) 74 74, Philip Golding 75 73, Graeme McDowell 71 77, Benoit Teilleria (Fra) 71 77, Mark Pilkington 72 76, David Carter 75 73, James Kingston (Rsa) 70 78, Wade Ormsby (Aus) 75 73, Jean-Francois Lucquin (Fra) 73 75
149 Louis Oosthuizen (Rsa) 74 75, Mads Vibe-Hastrup (Den) 75 74, Edward Rush 71 78, Emanuele Canonica (Ita) 80 69, Richard Bland 75 74, Renaud Guillard (Fra) 74 75, Andrew Marshall 77 72, John Bickerton 71 78, Ross Fisher 71 78, Peter Hedblom (Swe) 73 76
150 Jarmo Sandelin (Swe) 74 76, Julien Quesne (Fra) 80 70, Joakim Backstrom (Swe) 74 76, Peter Gustafsson (Swe) 73 77, Jean Van de Velde (Fra) 78 72, Anthony Wall 69 81, Alejandro Canizares (Spa) 73 77, James Hepworth 72 78, Gary Murphy 70 80
151 Thaworn Wiratchant (Thai) 70 81, Paul Broadhurst 74 77, Christopher Hanell (Swe) 74 77, Phillip Price 75 76, Scott Drummond 77 74, Carl Suneson (Spa) 78 73, Malcolm Mackenzie 76 75, Brett Rumford (Aus) 74 77 , Diego Torne (Spa) 75 76, Ian Garbutt 74 77
152 Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano (Spa) 77 75, Eric Moreul (Fra) 76 76, Matthew Millar (Aus) 74 78, Andrew Coltart 76 76, James Heath 76 76, Richard Green (Aus) 79 73
153 Cedric Menut (Fra) 76 77, Steven O'Hara 74 79, Alexandre Rocha (Bra) 79 74, Rafael Cabrera Bello (Spa) 75 78, Jonathan Evans 78 75
154 Shiv Kapur (Ind) 75 79, Alexander Noren (Swe) 78 76, Mardan Mamat (Sing) 72 82, Anders Hansen (Den) 74 80, Andres Romero (Arg) 79 75, Jean-Francois Remesy (Fra) 77 77
155 Miles Tunnicliff 82 73, Adrien Mork (Fra) 77 78, Francois Calmels (Fra) 77 78, David Bransdon (Aus) 71 84
156 Martin Erlandsson (Swe) 78 78, Raphael Pellicioli (Fra) 77 79, Laurent Richard (Fra) 76 80, YE Yang (Kor) 75 81
157 Mattias Eliasson (Swe) 79 78, Terry Price (Aus) 79 78, Sam Walker 83 74
158 Daniel Vancsik (Arg) 75 83, Simon Wakefield 82 76, Adam Frayne 75 83, Cesar Monasterio (Arg) 85 73
159 Julien Foret (Fra) 76 83
160 Lee Slattery 79 81
161 Marc Warren 81 80
162 Simon Hurd 80 82
166 Anton Haig (Rsa) 83 83
Retired Gary Orr, Jose Manuel Lara (Spa), Garry Houston, Gary Emerson
Withdrew Philip Walton, Andrew McLardy (Rsa)
Disqualified Ignacio Garrido (Spa)

FORMER SHINTY ACE JOHN FRASER

WINS FIRST SCOTTISH SENIOR

CIRCUIT TOURNAMENT

Former Newtonmore shinty star John Fraser won the Central Scotland seniors’ open amateur stroke-play title at Stirling Golf Club today – the first event in a new national circuit for over-55s, although over-50s are being encouraged to enter as well.
Fraser, now a teacher in Edinburgh and a member at Royal Burgess Golf Club, combined being a top-class shinty player with being a district class golfer – he played regularly for North-east District’s six-man team and Murcar Golf Club when he was on the teaching staff at Mearns Academy.
John, who is 55 and plays off one of a handicap, had rounds of 73 and 71 for a total of level par 144 to win the inaugural event by three strokes from Colin Christy (Kilmacolm), age 57 and one of a handicap, and Gordon Brown (Vale of Leven), age 57 and two of a handicap, who both finished on 147 with matching rounds of 74 and 73.
Joint fourth-placed on 148, Gordon Thomson (Bearsden), also age 57 but a three-handicapper, matched John Fraser’s net aggregate of 142, the lowest in the tournament.
+Picture shows John Fraser with the Nairn Golf Club five-day open tournament trophy from about four or five years ago.

LEADING SCRATCH
Par 144 (2 x 72). CSS 72 72

144 J Fraser (Royal Burgess) 73 71.
147 C Christy (Kilmacolm) 73 74, G Brown (Vale of Leven) 73 74.
148 G Thomson (Bearsden) 76 72, I Taylor (Royal Burgess) 74 74.
149 W Brown (Strathaven) 79 70, T Stafford (Alloa) 76 73, G Rodaks (Moffat) 71 78.
150 J W Johnston (Royal Aberdeen) 76 74, B Grieve (King James VI) 76 74, W Erskine (Kilsyth Lennox) 73 77.
151 J Aman (Grangemouth) 77 74, J Kinloch (Cardross) 77 74, A Fiddes (Murcar Links) 75 76, R Humble (Kilspindie) 75 76, D Murphy (Kinross) 74 77.
152 R McLellan (Turnberry) 81 71, J Noon (Leven GS) 79 73, I Stewart (Curragh) 76 76, J Watt (Letham Grange) 76 76, G MacDonald (Callander) 76 76, A Elder (Kirkcaldy) 75 77, H Milligan (Hamilton) 71 81.
153 A K Pirie (Hazlehead) 77 76, G Paterson (Northerh) 77 76, S Ellis (Cowal) 76 77, J McDponald (Cowglen) 76 77, R Gill (Gerrards Cross) 72 81.
154 W Crosbie (Crieff) 79 75, D Millar (St Andrews New) 77 77, A Ferguson (Drumpellier) 76 78, D Smith (Stirling) 76 78, A Wilson (Clober) 75 789, H Anderson (Callander) 73 81.
155 A Williamson (Bruntsfield Links) 79 76.
156 J Broadfoot (Turnberry) 81 75,D McQuade (Glenbervie) 79 77, B Edgar (Blackpool North Shore) 78 78, K Howie (West Kilbride) 76 80, P Boyd (Fereneze) 74 82.
157 K Bruce (Edzell) 77 80, R Stewart (Tulliallan) 76 81, P Kinloch (Cardross) 76 81.
158 W Morton (Dun bar) 83 75, J S Macdonald (Dunfermnline) 83 75, J Johnson (Northumberland) 81 77, B Bingham (Haggs Castle) 80 78.
159 J Wilson (Paisley) 78 81.]
160 J McNally (Williamwood) 81 79, M Lironi (Cathkin Braes) 81 79, D McKinnon (Ballochmyle) 80 80, C Moir (Worksop) 78 82.
161 R Thomson (St Andrews) 83 78, I Cumming (Eastwood) 82 679, K Forrest (Lenzie) 81 80, R MacDonald (Monifieth) 80 81, I Malcolm (Stirling) 79 82.

162 A William Wallace (Strathaven) 84 78.

163 S Quinn (Stirling) 86 77, C Gibson (Glenbervie) 84 79, M Jenkins (Duff House Royal) 80 83, A MacLennan (Stirling) 78 85.

164 A Cameron (Gourock) 78 86.

165 I Dickson(Lundin) 84 81, R Grant (Caledonian) 83 82, A Laird (Deeside) 83 82, I Habbick (Cathkin Braes) 80 85, R Barton (Alloa) 78 87.

166 L Fowler (Royal Aberdeen) 78 88.

167 J Fairbairn (Bonnybrige) 84 83, J Stevens (Hayston) 83 84, V Trojan (Kirriemuir) 82 85.

168 N MacDonald (Glenbervie) 82 86.

169 P Costello (The Hirsel) 84 85.

170 K Lumsden (Glenbervie) 980 80, M Brook (Queens Park) 87 83, I Wilson (Craigie Hill) 87 83, M Mather (Ballater) 85 85.

171 R Goodale (Aberdour) 89 92, A Cross (Whitecraigs) 88 83, R Barton (Alloa) 84 87.

172 B Highley (Buchanan Castle) 86 86, M Hill (Douglas Park) 83 89.

173 J Scott Miller (Crieff) 88 85.

176 C Griffin (Stirling) 87 89, D Nelson (Aboyne) 87 89, D Anderson (Balmore) 809 89.

180 R Hepburn (Kames) 94 86.

187 R Stark (Drumpellier) 93 94.

LOWEST NET AGGREGATES

142 J Fraser (Royal Burgess) (1) 72 70, G Thomson(Bearsden) (3) 73 69.

143 G Brown (Vale of Leven) (2) 71 72, A Williamson (Bruntsfield Links) (6) 73 70.

144 J W Johnson (Royal Aberdeen) (3) 73 71, W Crosbie (Crieff) (5) 74 70, A Wilson (Clober) (5) 70 74, D McQuade (Glenbervie) (6) 73 71.

145 C Christy (Kilmacolm) (1) 72 73.

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Scotland team captain Scott Knowles, back row, centre-left, receives the trophy from Barry Doyle, president-elect of the Irish Golf Union, after the Scots' victory over Ireland in the annual youths international match at West Waterford. Coach Neil Marr is on the right of the front row.

BORROWMAN CATCHES BUT CANNOT HOLD
LOCAL HERO POWER WHO GOES ON TO WIN
IRISH YOUTHS' OPEN STROKE-PLAY

With the exception of a short spell during the last nine holes, local hero Seamus Power led from pillar to post to capture the Irish youths' amateur open championship at West Waterford Golf Club in the south-east corner of Ireland.
Host club members were out in force at the wonderfully scenic course, which is nestled between the Comeragh and Knockmealdown Mountains to the north and east and the Drum Hills to the south, to witness a historic occasion for the club which has boasted a junior friendly policy since its foundation in 1993.
Power led by two strokes after day one of the championship, having recorded a four-under-par 68 in round one followed by a 71.
Scots Zander Culverwell and Scott Borrowman lay tied for second place and while Culverwell fell away with a third round 74, Borrowman, the new Scottish youths champion, closed the gap to one stroke with a fine round of 69.
Power edged further ahead early in the final round but back to back birdies from Borrowman at the seventh and eighth left the pair level playing the ninth.
They each made pars on the ninth, 10th and 11th holes before Borrowman birdied the 12th to edge to the lead for the first time.
Borrowman found the Brickey river on the difficult 14th hole and a dropped shot left the pair level again before a Power birdie on the 15th lifted the Irishman back in front.
Borrowman’s tee shot on the 16th found an unplayable lie in the trees on the right hand side and the Scot ran up a double bogey 7 which put paid to his title hopes and left Power with what proved an unassailable lead.
FINAL TOTALS
Par 288 (4 x 72)
280 S Power (West Waterford) 68 71 70 71.
283 S Borrowman (Dollar) 71 70 69 73.
284 B Kerr (Eng) 72 72 71 69, S Healy (Claremorris) 71 73 72 68.
285 N Kearney (Royal Dublin) 74 72 70 69, A Hogan (Newlands/UCD) 72 72 71 70, D Lernihan (Castle/UCD) 69 76 72 68.
286 F Rafferty (Dungannon) 71 73 70 72.
288 Z Culverwell (Dunbar) 71 70 74 73.
290 L Kirton (Newmachar) 75 74 74 67, B Campbell (Malone) 71 71 74 74.
292 J Findlay (Fraserburgh) 73 71 73 75, N O'Briain (Royal Dublin) 72 72 73 75.
293 W McCully (Donaghadee) 74 75 75 69, R O'Connor (The Island) 73 75 75 70, H Pyykola (Finland) 72 72 78 71, R McGee (Rosapenna) 71 74 76 72.
294 J Monaghan (The Island) 74 71 74 75, C McNamara (Limerick) 73 75 76 70, D Leathem (Lisburn) 72 73 73 76.
295 A Pitcher (The Island) 76 75 73 71, L Cameron (Eng) 75 76 75 69.
296 P O'Kane (Moyola Park) 79 71 77 69, R Kellett (Colville Park) 70 77 75 74.
297 J Tobin (Carrick-on-Suir) 78 72 75 72, N Grant (Knock) 78 69 78 72.
298 A O'Callaghan (Douglas) 75 73 74 76, T Coulson (England) 73 71 80 74.
300 C O'Connor (UCD/Athlone) 75 73 76 76.
301 C Carvill (Belvoir Park) 77 73 76 75, G Dunne (Seapoint) 74 74 81 72.
302 G Smyth (Clonmel) 76 75 78 73, D Carvill (Belvoir Park) 73 78 74 77, G Reid (Spa) 71 76 78 77.
303 C Jusslin (Finland) 71 79 81 72.
305 B Walton (Island/UCD) 72 78 78 77308: R Weldon (Hermitage) 73 75 77 83.
311 R O'Reilly (Headfort) 73 77 77 84.
Withdrew: L Mulligan (Stackstown) 74 76 86 WD

GRAY WINS £858 PRIZE AT TORRANCE HOUSE PRO-AM

Hayston's Steven Gray won the top cash prize of £858 in the Torrance House Golf Club pro-am today (Friday) with a five-under-par round of 67. He had seven birdies - at the first, third, sixth, seventh, 12th, 13th and 17th - and bogeys at the eighth and 11th in winning by two shots from a group of five players.
Sam Cairns (Westerwood) lead the P R Interiors trio of amateurs, Craig McDonald (handicap 15), Steven Reid (6) and Robert McLintoch (13) to victory in the pro-am team event with a net scorfe of 16-under-par 56.
LEADING PROFESSIONALS
Par 72
67 S Gray (Hayston).
69 R Arnott (Bishopbriggs), C Gillies (Kingsfield), G Law (Uphall), J McKinnon (Irvine), M King (Kingsfield).
70 S Cairns (Westerwood), A Lockhart (Ladybank), G Hutcheon (Peterculter), S Catlin (Greenburn).

Carly Booth with the Under-21 championship trophy resting on the Menzies Trophy (best Under-18 years performance) at Auchterarder.


CARLY WINS SCOTTISH UNDER-21 TITLE BY
NINE STROKES - AND SAYS HER BROTHER
WALLACE DESERVES THE CREDIT

Only a few days after her old brother Wallace won the Tennant Cup by five shots, Carly Booth from Comrie spreadeagled the field to win the Scottish Under-21 girls’ open amateur stroke-play championship by nine strokes at Auchterarder Golf Club today (Friday).
“Anything he can do, I can do better,” joked Carly, who had her 15th birthday only last week and has a +2 handicap that should soon be +3.
“Seriously, I owe this win to Wallace for sorting out my golf swing after I came home from a few months at the Golf Academy in Florida. My brother took me back to basics, back to the natural swing that I had lost and he has worked hard to put me back on track.”
Carly, a former member of the Auchterarder club, had rounds of 70, 68 and 69 for a three-under-par total of 207 over a course lengthened by the Scottish Ladies Golfing Association to 5,488yd with a par of 70, but a standard scratch score of 72 specially for this event. Carly was 10 under the combined CSS (73-72-72) of 217 for the tournament.
Despite dropping three shots late on in her final round, including a double-bogey at the par-3 last where she was plugged in a bunker, Miss Booth won by the runaway margin of nine strokes from Robert Gordon University student Laura Murray (Alford) and Kylie Walker (Buchanan Castle).
Carly's final round of 69 was made up of an eagle 3 at the ninth, birdie 2s at the short eighth, short 14th and short 16th, and a birdie 3 at the 10th. She had a bogey 6 at the long sixth and a bogey 5 at the seventh and a bogey 6 at the long 15th as well as that double bogey at the short 18th hole.
Over the three rounds, Miss Booth had one eagle and 14 birdies - fantastic scoring for one so young. One wonders what the future holds for a player so good so young.
Carly also won the Menzies Cup for the lowest scored by an Under-18 year old
The record winning margin in this championship was set only 12 months ago by Krystle Caithness who beat the field by 11 shots with a record low total of 202. Krystle was unable to defend the title this week because she was required to practise with the rest of the Great Britain & Ireland squad at Fairmont St Andrews for next month’s Vagliano Trophy match against the Continent.
Carly, who has played for Europe in the Junior Ryder Cup match, has now won two Scottish titles. Last year, she won the Scottish Under-16 girls’ open title.
Michele Thomson (McDonald Ellon), beaten quarter-finalist in the recent Ladies British open amateur championship, finished fourth, thanks to a 68, the best final round by anyone, for a total of 218.
Fifth on 221 was 16-year-old Kelsey MacDonald (Nairn Dunbar).

FINAL TOTALS
Par 210 (3 x 70) CSS 73 72 72
207 C Booth (Comrie) 70 68 69.
216 L Murray (Alford) 76 71 69, K Walker (Buchanan Castle) 75 69 72.
218 M Thomson (McDonald Ellon) 76 74 68.
221 K MacDonald (Nairn Dunbar) 77 73 71.
222 E Alonso (France) 75 75 72.
224 R Livingstone (Musselburgh Old) 75 78 71.
226 R Niven (Crieff) 81 75 70, K Brotherton (Tulliallan) 79 76 71, E Fairnie (Dunbar) 77 76 73.
228 H Owers-Bradley (Wollaton Park) 79 73 76.
229 P Pretswell (Bothwell Castle) 78 78 73.
230 E Muirhead (Pitlochry) 78 72 80.
231 R Wilson (Monifieth) 76 80 75, G Webster (Hilton Park) 82 72 77, E Briggs (Kilmacolm) 76 77 78.
232 E Lowrey-Gold (Eaton) 78 78 76.
234 M Briggs (Kilmacolm) 87 72 75, C-M Carlton (Fereneze) 76 75 83.
235 L Hendry (Routenburn) 82 77 76.
237 S Vass (Tain) 81 80 76.
238 J Meldrum (Dullatur) 79 82 77, L MacGregor (Falkirk) 79 80 79, G Monteith (Portpatrick Dunskey) 80 80 78.
241 J Sneddon (Alyth) 80 80 81.
243 S Leslie (Westhill) 80 84 79, S Herd (Dunblane New) 79 82 82.
245 R McIntyre (Eden) 84 78 83.
247 R McQueen (Troon Bentinck Ladies) 80 89 78.
248 J Wycherley (Merchants of Edinburgh) 87 83 78, A Niven (Crieff) 85 82 81, L MacCallum (McDonald Ellon) 83 82 83, J Linklater (Largs) 84 81 83.
250 L Whitehead (Droitwich) 86 86 78, I Craigie (Torwoodlee) 81 80 89.
252 L Allan (Kilbirnie Place) 85 82 85.
253 E MacKay (Nairn Dunbar) 83 85 85, L Atkins (Minto) 88 80 85.
255 L McGillivray (Oldmeldrum) 85 87 83.
256 R Watton (Mortonhall) 87 82 87.
258 C Mulholland (Hilton Park) 85 89 84, A Smith (Monifieth) 83 88 87.
259 R Archibald (Merchants of Edinburgh) 83 89 87.
260 A McKechin (Elderslie) 88 85 87, F Blair (Monifieth) 80 92 88, G Arnott (Kilbirnie Place) 85 86 89.
261 K Scott (Windyhill) 86 87 88.
263 A McGarty (Harburn) 88 89 86, L Meldrum (Dullatur) 87 89 87.
265 N Qayum (Ranfurly Castle) 87 93 85.
266 H Gaunt (Troon Bentinck Ladies) 89 90 87.
267 G MacDonald (Prestonfield) 92 90 85.
270 J Vass (Tain) 89 85 96.
280 H Goodwin (Glenbervie) 96 96 88.
282 N Taylor (Thornton) 99 88 95.
285 M Aird (Strathmore) 96 100 89.
290 A A Alston (Royal Montrose) 101 96 93.
297 A Goodwin (Glenbervie) 98 93 106.
313 J Smith (Kinross) 105 106 102.
320 A Burnett (Dunkeld) 116 109 95.
357 E Aird (Strathmore) 134 114 109.
Withdrew: R Howie (West Kilbride) 108 103 - , L Smith (Monifieth) 83 80 -.

BUICK OPEN FIRST ROUND SCORES
Warwick Hills Golf & Country Club.
Par 72. Players from US unless stated.
64 Rocco Mediate
65 Brett Quigley, Woody Austin, Brian Bateman
66 Jim Furyk, Cameron Beckman, Scott Verplank, Steve Elkington (Aus)
67 Jeff Quinney, Kyle Reifers, Mark Hensby (Aus), Craig Kanada
68 Robert Garrigus, Marco Dawson, Lucas Glover, Gavin Coles (Aus), Alex Cejka (Ger), Charlie Wi (Kor), Billy Andrade, Fredrik Jacobson (Swe), Corey Pavin, Ryuji Imada (Jpn), Bubba Dickerson
69 Joey Sindelar, Brian Gay, J.P. Hayes, Stephen Leaney (Aus), Daisuke Maruyama (Jpn), Charles Howell III, John Daly, Bob Estes, Justin Leonard, Craig Bowden, Frank Lickliter II, Andrew Ruthkoski, Jason Dufner, Joe Ogilvie, Matt Kuchar, Scott Piercy, Stephen Marino, Jeff Maggert, Robert Allenby (Aus), Mathew Goggin (Aus), Tripp Isenhour, Lee Williams
70 Tom Byrum, Chris Couch, Greg Owen (Eng), Steve Wheatcroft, Daniel Chopra (Swe), Dicky Pride, Briny Baird, Pablo Martin (Spa), Robert Gamez, Brian Davis (Eng), Jeff Sluman, Steve Flesch, Steve Lowery, Michael Putnam, Parker McLachlin, Fred Funk, Brent Geiberger, Tom Pernice Jnr., Bob Tway, Scott Hebert, Kevin Na (Kor), Michael Boyd, John Rollins, Jarrod Lyle (Aus), Arjun Atwal (Ind), DJ Brigman, Ryan Moore
71 Jeff Overton, Jeff Gove, Tag Ridings, Mathias Gronberg (Swe), Will MacKenzie, Chris Tidland, Craig Lile (Rsa), Bill Haas, Sean O'Hair, Ken Duke, Jason Gore, Kent Jones, John Merrick, John Senden (Aus), Vance Veazey, Tom Lehman, Bob May, Kenny Perry, Kevin Stadler, J J Henry, Scott Gutschewski, Jay Williamson, Glen Day, Tom Gillis, Brandt Snedeker, Johnson Wagner
72 Tom Johnson, Charley Hoffman, David Branshaw, Kris Cox, Jim Rutledge (Can), B.J Staten, Jesper Parnevik (Swe), Brendon De Jonge, Michael Sim (Aus), Rodney Pampling (Aus), Andrew Buckle (Aus), Chris DiMarco, Jeff Brehaut, Mark Wilson, Matt Hendrix
Richard S Johnson (Swe), Trevor Immelman (Rsa), John Cook, Olin Browne, Paul Sheehan (Aus), Rich Barcelo,
73 Charles Warren, Chris Riley, Chris Stroud, Stuart Deane, Eric Axley, Darron Stiles, Lee Janzen, Jaco Van Zyl (Rsa), Harrison Frazar, Heath Slocum, Darren Clarke (NIrl), Steve Allan (Aus), J.B. Holmes, Bob Heintz, Jason Schultz
74 Brian Hadley, Paul Gow (Aus), Paul Stankowski, Andy Matthews, Ted Purdy, Todd Hamilton, Matt Harmon, Peter Lonard (Aus), Jerry Smith, George McNeill, Michael Allen, Duffy Waldorf
75 Tim Petrovic, Bo Van Pelt
76 Brad Faxon, Douglas Labelle, Shigeki Maruyama (Jpn), John Mallinger
77 Tommy Armour III
78 Craig Perks (Nzl), Ryan Armour
79 Steven Bowditch (Aus)

MICHELE WIE 82 IN US WOMEN'S OPEN

Michele Wie had an 82 in the first round of the US Women's Open today.

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STILL SHORT OF TWO ABERDEEN PENNANT LEAGUE RESULTS

We now have two of the four Ritson Smith Aberdeen & District Pennant League results from Thursday evening:

BON ACCORD 2, NIGG BAY 4
EAST ABERDEENSHIRE 3, CALEDONIAN 3

If you know the results of the other ties;

CRAIBSTONE v DEESIDE
NEWMACHAR v ROYAL ABERDEEN

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STEADY JACK IS TOP SCOT IN JOINT SIXTH
PLACE ON PGA EUROPRO CHAMPIONSHIP

South Wales-based Glaswegian Jack Doherty was the highest placed Scot after the third and final round of the Stoke by Nayland PGA EuroPro Tour championship at the Essex venue today.
Jack had rounds of 71, 71 and 72 for two-under-par 214, which earned him joint sixth place and a cheque for £1,100.
He finished three shots behind the £10,000 prize winner, Irishman Michael McDermott, with 72, 67 and 72 for five-under-par 211.
Callum Nicoll from Prestwick subsided with a final round of 77 to a share of 26th place on 219 for which he earned £308.
Lee Harper got £245 for joint 40th place on 221.
Graham Gordon from Aberdeen and Christopher Campbell from the far north (Carnegie Skibo to be precise) kept each other company "down among the dead men." Both signed off with rounds of 80, Graham with a pair of double bogeys and Christophere with a triple bogey 7 at the fourth and a double bogey 7 at the fifth in an outward 41.
They finished joint 52nd on 226 and their take-home pay was £185 each.
FINAL TOTALS
211 Michael McDermott (Ire) 72 67 72.
212 Matthew Cort (Eng) 74 68 70, Francis McGuirk (Eng) 69 72 71, Warren Bladon (Eng) 71 70 71.
Other scores:
214 Jack Doherty (Sco) 71 71 72 (jt 6th).
219 Callum Nicoll (Sco) 71 71 77 (jt 26th).
221 Lee Harper (Sco) 75 73 73 (jt 40th).
226 Graham Gordon (Sco) 71 75 80, Christopher Campbell (Sco) 75 71 80 (jt 52nd).

MONTY NOT READY TO THROW IN THE
TOWEL YET: THREE-UNDER-PAR 68
IN FRENCH OPEN FIRST ROUND

Colin Montgomerie is not ready yet to accept being written off - not even after four missed cuts in a row in the majors and an 82 at the US Open two weeks ago.
In his first tournament round since that Oakmont horror show, Montgomerie began the French Open on Thursday with a three-under-par 68 and then took aim at his critics.
Asked if he would like to silence people, presumably those who doubt he will ever challenge for a major again now he has turned 44, the Scot said:
"Yes, there is an element to that. There is one thing to shut everybody up and that's to win. That's the aim - of course it is."
He added: "When I changed [clubs] from Wilson to Callaway after winning the Order of Merit twice people were talking about 'What's that all about?'. The first two rounds in Dubai were 68-63 and that shut everybody up."
Montgomerie went on to six more European Tour money list titles and he has also had five second-place finishes in majors - more than anybody in history without capturing one.
He has not won any tournament now since the Hong Kong Open in December 2005, the second longest barren spell of his entire career, and has fallen from 17th to 48th in the world this year.
"There's nothing better for confidence than a win and I've got to get back there. If I can win before the Open (at Carnoustie in three weeks) that would be fantastic."
Surprisingly high scores by two Scots in the first round in Paris were an 80 by Alastair Forsyth and an 81 by Marc Warren.

FRENCH OPEN FIRST-ROUND SCOREBOARD
Le Golf National, Guyancourt, Paris
Par 71. Players GB&I unless stated.
65 James Kamte (Rsa), Kyron Sullivan
66 Christian Nilsson (Swe), Benn Barham, Steven Jeppesen (Swe), Graeme Storm
67 Thomas Levet (Fra)
68 Colin Montgomerie, Jose-Filipe Lima (Por), Markus Brier (Aut), Damien McGrane, Miguel Angel Martin (Spa), Thomas Bjorn (Den), Raphael Jacquelin (Fra), Jyoti Randhawa (Ind), Zane Scotland
69 Gregory Havret (Fra), Anthony Wall, Johan Axgren (Swe), Peter Lawrie, Soren Hansen (Den), Paul McGinley, Miguel Angel Jimenez (Spa), Robert-Jan Derksen (Ned)
70 Santiago Luna (Spa), James Kingston (Rsa), Marcus Higley, Ian Poulter, Martin Kaymer (Ger), Oliver Fisher, Gary Murphy, Tom Whitehouse, Thaworn Wiratchant (Thai), Simon Khan, Ariel Canete (Arg), Soren Kjeldsen (Den), David Griffiths
71 David Bransdon (Aus), Lee Westwood, Richard Sterne (Rsa), Christian Cevaer (Fra), Michael Campbell (Nzl), Garry Houston, John Bickerton, Stephen Dodd, Ross Fisher, Juan Parron (Spa), Darren Fichardt (Rsa), Richard Finch, Gary Orr, Stephen Gallacher, Jeev Milkha Singh (Ind), Paul Lawrie, Graeme McDowell, Thongchai Jaidee (Thai), Benoit Teilleria (Fra), Robert Rock, Edward Rush
72 Mark Pilkington, Sven Struver (Ger), Mardan Mamat (Sing), Phillip Archer, Marcel Siem (Ger), Rafael Echenique (Arg), James Hepworth, David Lynn, Mark Foster, Taichi Teshima (Jpn), Steve Webster, Maarten Lafeber (Ned), Francois Delamontagne (Fra)
73 Kenneth Ferrie, Peter Gustafsson (Swe), Jean-Francois Lucquin (Fra), Oliver Wilson, Peter O'Malley (Aus), Peter Hedblom (Swe), Alejandro Canizares (Spa), Pelle Edberg (Swe), Alessandro Tadini (Ita), Jean-Bapiste Gonnet (Fra), Bradley Dredge, Nick Dougherty, Julien Guerrier, David Park, Patrik Sjoland (Swe)
74 Andrew Tampion (Aus), Matthew Millar, Anders Hansen (Den), Brett Rumford (Aus), Renaud Guillard (Fra), Gary Emerson, Ian Garbutt, Gary Lockerbie, Christopher Hanell (Swe), Jarmo Sandelin (Swe), Louis Oosthuizen (Rsa), Ricardo Gonzalez (Arg), Paul Broadhurst, Steven O'Hara, Joakim Backstrom (Swe)
75 David Carter, Rafael Cabrera Bello (Spa), Richard Bland, Francesco Molinari (Ita), Wade Ormsby (Aus), Adam Frayne, YE Yang (Kor), Simon Dyson, Diego Torne (Spa), Marcus Fraser (Aus), Philip Golding, Gregory Bourdy (Fra), Phillip Price, Shiv Kapur (Ind), Mads Vibe-Hastrup (Den), Daniel Vancsik (Arg)
76 Andrew Coltart, Malcolm Mackenzie, James Heath, Cedric Menut (Fra), Eric Moreul (Fra), Laurent Richard (Bel), Julien Foret (Fra)
77 Francois Calmels (Fra), Scott Drummond, Andrew Marshall, Jean-Francois Remesy (Fra), Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano (Spa), Adrien Mork (Fra), Raphael Pellicioli (Fra)
78 Jonathan Evans, Carl Suneson (Spa), Jose Manuel Lara (Spa), Jean Van de Velde (Fra), Lee Slattery, Alexander Noren (Swe)
79 Alexandre Rocha (Bra), Richard Green (Aus), Andres Romero (Arg), Mattias Eliasson (Swe), Martin Erlandsson (Swe), Terry Price (Aus)
80 Emanuele Canonica (Ita), Simon Hurd, Alastair Forsyth, Julien Quesne (Fra)
81 Marc Warren
82 Simon Wakefield, Miles Tunnicliff
83 Anton Haig (Rsa), Sam Walker, Andrew McLardy (Rsa), Ignacio Garrido (Spa)
85 Cesar Monasterio (Arg)
89 Philip Walton

CARLY BOOTH SIX STROKES CLEAR AT AUCHTERARDER

CARLY BOOTH, WITH SUPER SCORES OF 70 AND 68, IS SIX SHOTS CLEAR OF THE FIELD WITH ONE ROUND TO PLAY ON FRIDAY IN THE SCOTTISH UNDER-21 GIRLS' OPEN AMATEUR STROKE-PLAY CHAMPIONSHIP AT AUCHTERARDER.

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THREE SHARE LEAD ON 71 IN START OF NEW
SCOTTISH SENIORS CIRCUIT AT STIRLING

Three players – Peter Lamb (Biggar), Hamilton’s Harry Milligan and George Rodaks (Moffat) – share the halfway lead in the Central Scotland seniors open stroke-play tournament at Stirling Golf Club, the first event of a new national circuit for the over-55 senior amateur golfer in Scotland.
Lamb, Milligan and Kodaks all scored 71 to lead by one shot from Robert Gill (Gerrards Cross) with five players sharing third place on 73 in a highly-competitive field of 100.
Gordon MacDonald (Callander), the Spanish seniors open champion and a past winner of the Scottish seniors title, is one of the driving forces behind the new tour. He had a first-round 76.

FIRST ROUND SCORES
71 P Lamb (Biggar), H Milligan (Hamilton), G Rodaks (Moffat).
72 R Gill (Gerrards Cross).
73 H Anderson (Callander), J Fraser (Royal Burgess), G Brown (Vale of Leven), W Erskine (Kilsyth Lennox), C Christy (Kilmacolm).
74 D Murphy (Kinross), I Taylor (Royal Burgess), P Boyd (Fereneze), J Wilson (Pailsey).
75 A Fiddes (Murcar), A Elder (Kirkcaldy), R Humble (Kilspindie), A Wilson (Clober).
76 J MacDonald (Cowglen), T Stafford (Alloa), R Stewart (Tulliallan), J Watt (Letham Grange), G Thomson (Bearsden), J W Johnston (Royal Aberdeen), G MacDonald (Callander), S Ellis (Cowal), I Stewart (Curragh), P Kinloch (Cardross), K Howie (West Kilbride), A Ferguson (Drumpellier), B Grieve (King James VI), D Smith (Stirling).
77 A McEwen (Hamilton), J Aman (Grangemouth), G Paterson (Northern), K Bruce (Edzell), J Kinloch (Cardross), D Millar (St Andrews New), A K Pirie (Hazlehead), C McLachlan (Glenbervie).
78 A Cameron (Helensburgh), B Edgar (Blackpool North Shore), L Fowler (Royal Aberdeen), R Barton (Alloa), A MacLennan (Stirling), C Moir (Worksop).
79 W Brown (Strathaven), J Noon (Leven GS), D McQuade (Glenbervie), W Crosbie (Crieff), I Malcolm (Stirling), H Brown (Lothianburn), A Williamson (Bruntsfield).
80 B Bingham (Haggs Castle), D McKinnon (Ballochmyle), R MacDonald (Monifieth), M Jenkins (Duff House Royal), I Habbick (Cathkin Braes).
81 K Forrest (Lenzie), J Johnston (Northumberland), R McLellan (Turnberry), J McNally (Williamwood), J Broadfoot (Turnberry), M Lironi (Cathkin Braes), J Hamilton (Alloa).
82 N MacDonald (Glenbervie), V Trojan (Kirriemuir), I Cumming (Eastwood).
83 M Hill (Douglas Park), W Morton (Dunbar), J Stevens (Hayston), J (Hamish) Mullen (Bonnybridge), A Laird (Deeside), J S Macdoanld (Dunfermnline, R Thomson (St Andrews), R Grant (Caledonian).
84 I Dickson(Lundin), J Fairbairn (Bonnybridge), A W Wallace (Strathaven), P Costello (The Hirsel), D Forbes (Sonning), C Gibson (Glenbervie).
85 M Mather (Ballater).
86 S Quinn (Stirling), B Highley (Buchanan Castle).
87 C Griffin (Stirling), D Nelson (Aboyne), M Brook (Queens Park), I Wilson (Craigie Hill).
88 A Cross (Whitecraigs), J Scott Miller (Crieff).
89 R Goodale (Aberdour).
90 D Anderson (Balmore), K Lumsden (Glenbervie).
91 J Todd (Stirling).
93 R Stark (Drumpellier).
94 R Hepburn (Kames).

BRIGHT YOUNG SCOTS HEADING SOUTH OF
THE BORDER FOR UNDER-16s' TOURNAMENT

The Scottish Golf Union is sending eight bright young prospects to Southport & Ainsdale, Lancashire next week to contest the English Under-16 boys' open stroke-play championship for the McGregor Trophy.Two teams of three will represent Scotland in the Nations Cup, held in conjunction with the main event, while Inchmarlo’s Chris Robb and Aberdonian William Russell, the youngest ever men's champion of The Duke's Golf Club, St Andrews, will compete alongside the six other Scots in a field of 132 for the individual title race for the McGregor Trophy.
The Scotland teams are:
1 Colin Baird (Bothwell Castle), David Law (Hazlehead), Paul McPhee (King James VI).
2 Daniel Young (Craigie Hill), Tom Blennerhassett (Dalmahoy), Andrew McLachlan (Bonnyton).
The 72-hole tournament starts on Wednesday and finishes on Friday.
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SCOTS PAIR ON THE HEELS OF LEADER IN IRISH
YOUTHS OPEN AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP

Seamus Power, playing over his home West Waterford course, cashed in on his local knowledge to establish a two-stroke lead at the halfway stage of the Irish youths' open amateur stroke-play championship at the south-east Ireland venue today (THU)
Power had rounds of 68 and 71 for a five-under-par tally of 139 to lead by two shots from a pair of Scottish challengers - new Scottish youths champion Scott Borrowman from Dollar and Zander Culverwell from the Dunbar club.
Borrowman and Culverwell had matching rounds of 71 and 70 for 141.
Former British boys' champion Jordan Findlay from Fraserburgh, who plays on the American college circuit in the same East Tennessee State University team as tournament leader Power, is lying joint fifth on level par 144 with scores of 73 and 71.
Only those with aggregates of 151 or better survived the cut to play the final 36 holes on Friday.
Peter Latimer (St Andrews New) and Robert McKnight (Barassie) missed out by a single shot on 152. Latimer had scores of 79 and 73, McKnight a pair of 76s.
Philip McLean (Peterhead) failed to make it with 78 and 76 for 154.
QUALIFIERS
Par 144 (2 x 72) CSS 72 72
139 S Power (West Waterford) 68 71.
141 S Borrowman (Dollar) 71 70, Z Culverwell (Dunbar) 71 70.
142 B Campbell (Malone) 71 71.
144 J Findlay (Fraserburgh) 73 71, T Coulson (Eng) 73 71, H Pyykola (Fin) 72 72, N O'Briain (Royal Dublin) 72 72, A Hogan (Newlands) 72 72, B Kerr (Eng) 72 72, S Healy (Claremorris) 71 73, F Rafferty (Dungannon) 71 73.
145 J Monaghan (The Island) 74 71, D Leathem (Lisburn) 72 73, R McGee (Rosapenna) 71 74, D Lernihan (Castle) 69 76.
146 N Kearney (Royal Dublin) 74 72.
147 N Grant (Knock) 78 69, G Reid (Spa) 71 76, R Kellett (Colville Park) 70 77.
148 A O'Callaghan (Douglas) 75 73, C O'Connor (UCD) 75 73, G Dunne (Seapoint) 74 74, C McNamara (Limerick) 73 75, R Weldon (Hermitage) 73 75, R O'Connor (The Island) 73 75.
149 L Kirton (Newmachar) 75 74, W McCully (Donaghadee) 74 75.
150 P O'Kane (Moyola Park) 79 71, J Tobin (Carrick-on-Suir) 78 72, C Carvill (Belvoir Park) 77 73, L Mulligan (Stackstown) 74 76, R O'Reilly (Headfort) 73 77, B Walton (The Island) 72 78, C Jusslin (Fin) 71 79.
151 G Smyth (Clonmel) 76 75, A Pitcher (The Island) 76 75, L Cameron (Eng) 75 76, D Carvill (Belvoir Park) 73 78.
SCOTS WHO MISSED CUT
152 P Latimer (St Andrews New) 79 73, R McKnight (Barassie) 76 76.
154 P McLean (Peterhead) 78 76, S Keane (Cathkin Braes) 78 76.
158 A Weir (Montrose Mercantile) 81 77.
159 R Carson 78 81.

SEAMUS SHOWS HIS POWER OVER HOME
COURSE IN IRISH YOUTHS' EVENT

Seamus Power, playing over his home course, led with a 68 at the end of the first round of the 72-hole Irish youths' open championship at West Waterford Golf Club today.
Power plays on the American college circuit as a student at East Tennessee State University and is a team-mate of former British boys champion Jordan Findlay from Fraserburgh.
Ross Kellett from Colville Park Golf Club, Motherwell was the leading Scot after one round. He had a 70 to be in third place.
The field play another round today with the qualifiers going on to the final two rounds on Friday.
The tournament has been a stepping stone to fame and fortune for several leading players who have won the title, mainly Ronan Rafferty but also Graeme McDowell.
Scots who have won the championship include Steven Young twice, Craig Everett and Craig Hislop.

FIRST ROUND

68 S Power (West Waterford).
69 D Lernihan (Castle/UCD).
70 R Kellett (Colville Park).
71 R McGee (Rosapenna), F Rafferty (Dungannon), B Campbell (Malone), G Reid (Spa), S Borrowman (Dollar), A Culverwell (Dunbar), C Jusslin (Finland), S Healy (Claremorris).
72 B Walton (Island/UCD), G McGrane (Ireland), A Hogan (Newlands / UCD), D Leathem (Lisburn), N O'Briain (Royal Dublin), B Kerr (England), H Pyykola (Finland).
73 D Carvill (Belvoir Park), R O'Reilly (Headfort), J Findlay (Fraserburgh), R Weldon (Hermitage), G Boyd (Donaghadee), R O'Connor (The Island), T Coulson (England), C McNamara (Limerick).
74 W McCully (Donaghadee), L Mulligan (Stackstown), G Dunne (Seapoint), D Kneafsey (England), J Monaghan (The Island), R McNamara (Headfort), N Kearney (Royal Dublin).
75 C O'Connor (UCD/Athlone), L Cameron (England), L Lennox (Moyola Park), L Kirton (Newmachar), A O'Callaghan (Douglas).
76 P Sheehy (Limerick), A Pitcher (The Island), G Smyth (Clonmel), R McKnight (Barassie).
77 C Carvill (Belvoir Park), C Drumm (Rosslare), B Cahill (Douglas), R Whitson (Mourne).
78 S Webster (Castle), R Dunne (Charlesland/UCD), S Keane (Scotland), D Ruddy (Thurles), N Grant (Knock), S Smyth (Co Louth), R Carson (Scotland), D Cantrell (Woodbrook), J Tobin (Carrick-on-Suir), T Murtagh (England), G Dillon (UCD/Heath), S Doherty (Malone), P McLean (Peterhead).
79 P Latimer (Scotland), T O'Flynn (Fota Island), P O'Kane (Moyola Park), K Stack (Dungarvan/UCC).
80 G Kelly (Co Louth).
81 B Fennelly (The Royal Dublin), A Weir (Scotland), A Glynn (England).
82 R O'Sullivan (Fota Island), P Palosuo (Finland).
84 J Somers (L'town & B'town).
85 A Sorsimo (Finland).
87 N Tyry (Finland), T Fernandes (England).

BAKER AND MANLEY SET THE PACE IN PORTUGAL
BUT SALTMAN AND McLEARY ON 68

By SCOTT CROCKETT
Chief Press Officer, European Tour

Former Ryder Cup player Peter Baker got his quest for a second consecutive Challenge Tour title off to the perfect start when he moved into a share of the lead with Welshman Stuart Manley in the Estoril Challenge de Portugal at Quinta Marinha, to the west of Lisbon.
Last Sunday Baker claimed his first individual professional victory for 14 years when he triumphed in the Credit Suisse Challenge and an excellent opening six under par 65 in Portugal gave the 39 year old Englishman real hope of back to back title successes and the chance to regain his European Tour card at the end of the season through the Challenge Tour Rankings.
“We can think about that nearer Sunday but I have to admit I’m delighted with that start,” he said. “I was a little tired after the victory in Switzerland last weekend but I got off to great start in my round here and that was important to get me going again.”
Beginning his round at the 10th hole, Baker’s start was indeed impressive as he rattled in four birdies in his first six holes before adding another one at the 18th to be ‘out’ in 31.
Turning for home, an increase in the strength of the wind made his second nine holes a little harder, but his only dropped shot of the day at the fifth, where he found a plugged lie in a greenside bunker, was negated by birdies at two of the Estoril course’s five par threes – the second and the seventh.
“I had a chance for a final birdie at the ninth hole which is another one of the par 3s but the ball just slipped by from about 12 feet,” said Baker. “But I can’t be too disappointed. Obviously I want to get back onto The European Tour but I said at the start of the year that I will try and do that through the Challenge Tour which I feel is the best way and I intend to play the year here and try and finish in the top 20 of the Rankings at the end of the season.
“It can be a little hard out here sometimes because I am regularly 20 or 30 yards behind most of the young lads from the tee but I try to use my head and experience wherever possible after that and I think today showed that.”
While Baker started well it was the finish which was impressive for joint leader Manley, four birdies in his last six holes helping the Welshman to a back nine of 33 and giving further credence to the fact that a switch of putter two weeks ago had been exactly the right decision.
“My putting really was the difference today,” he said. “I have played fantastically well tee to green all year but I just couldn’t get the ball in the hole which is why I haven’t been able to get into the top tens but today was much better.
“I was a great putter a couple of years ago but I just lost my way with that a bit recently but over the past couple of weeks there is the sign that it is coming back and I think that’s the reason I finished 20th last week in Switzerland which was my best finish of the season so far.
“If I can continue to play as well from tee to green as I have been doing and then succeed in getting my putting in order, I don’t think I’ll be far away.”
Baker and Manley led the way by a shot from Norwegian Jan-Are Larsen who carded a 66 while four players shared fourth place after opening with 67s including Chile’s Felipe Aguilar, at No 3 the highest-ranked player in the field from the current Challenge Tour Rankings.
Also on 67 was Spain’s Eduardo de la Riva who produced one of the shots of the day, holing in one with a seven-iron at the 166yd seventh. The 25 year old from Barcelona’s feat was matched later in the day by fellow countryman Manuel Quiros who aced the 142yd second with a pitching wedge on his way to a level par 71.
Leading Scots at the end of the first day were Elliot Saltman from Dalkeith and Jamie McLeary from Scotlandwell, Kinross, both on 68. McLeary reached the turn in four-under-par 31 with birdies at the first, second, third and fifth. Then he was slightly derailed with a bogey 6 at the 10th and then a double bogey 7 at the 11th. A couple of birdies at the 13th and 15th got him back on track.

FIRST-ROUND LEADERS
Par 71
65 P Baker (Eng), S Manley (Wal)
66 J-A Larsen (Nor)
67 K-L Jorgensen (Den), E de la Riva (Esp), F Aguilar (Chi), R Coles (Eng)
68 R McGowan (Eng), A Mellor (Eng), A Gee (Eng), E Saltman (Sco) 35-33, G Clark (Eng), B Mason (Eng), A Tarchetti (Eng), J McLeary (Sco) 31-37, J Donaldson (Wal)
69 L Gagli (Ita), T Dier (Ger), P Worthington (Eng), I Goroneskoul (Fra), S Fernandez (Arg), G Acosta (Arg), A McArthur (Sco) 34-35, J Huldahl (Den).
Other Scots' scores:
71 M Urquhart 34-37, D Patrick.
73 E Thomson.
74 P Whiteford.
75 S Henderson.
76 A Oldcorn.
78 G Brown.

CELTIC PRO TOUR PRESS RELEASE

GRIFFITHS WINS CARMARTHEN BAY
OPEN BY EIGHT STROKES

Whitchurch’s Matthew Griffiths led from start to finish to win the Carmarthen Bay Open golf tournament at Machynys Peninsula.
In blustery conditions and with very soft ground underfoot, Griffiths shot a remarkable four-under-par par 68 on day one, the only player under par in the field.
He stretched his lead on day two by shooting another under par round of 71, to finish on five under 139.
This was the fourth event of the Dragon Tour, Wales’ first professional golf tour, and now part of the Celtic Pro Tour.
Griffiths’ nearest challengers, Ian Brown (Newent) and amateur Richard Hooper (Neath) were eight shots back at +3.
Hooper is in a rich vein of form, having won the first event of the Celtic Pro season at Pyle and Kenfig earlier this month in a play-off against former European Tour player Stuart Manley (Mountain Ash). He also recently won the prestigious amateur event at Gower Golf club, the Gower Gauntlet.
Griffiths said: “I’m delighted to win on the Celtic Pro Tour. I played last year too under the Dragon Tour brand and have been very impressed with the way the tour is run and set up, and hope it continues to grow.
“I’m feeling very confident with my game at the moment and have had a successful start to the season. I’ve already won twice on the South Wales Alliance circuit and have had a number of top three finishes on the PGA West Region events. I hope to continue the good form over the summer as I strive forward towards my ultimate goal of gaining a European Tour card through the qualifying school process in September.”
Griffiths picks up the first prize cheque for £1,000 and 100 Order of Merit points, a Powerbug Trolley and a Sunderland of Scotland waterproof suit.
Brown collected £500 in second place with Hooper winning the voucher for the leading amateur. In third place in the professional event was David Price (Aber Wrought Iron / www.vale-hotel.com) on +4, who wins £250, and four players were tied for fourth place – Alun Evans (Newport Links), Lewis James (Southerndown), Mark Govier (Morriston) and Tom Davies (Machynys), each winning £100.
"Fresh" from his third place finish in the Wexford Open in Ireland last week, Davies shot a first round nine over par 81 to lie in joint 19th place overnight on his home course.
Day two was a different story for the golfer from Maesteg, with a one under par 71, moving him into the money winning places, and catapulting the only ever-present player on the Tour since its inception in 2006 straight to the top of the Order of Merit.
Davies overtakes 2006 Order of Merit Winner, Alex Smith (Pyle and Kenfig), who did not play at Machynys due to a clashing Europro Tour event.
The next Celtic Pro Tour event, the Carmarthenshire Open takes place at Garnant Park, on Tuesday 10th and Wednesday 11th July.
For more information, visit the website at www.celticpro.com, or contact Tour Director, Rhydian Thomas on 07861 686568

STARS MISS EAST OF SCOTLAND OPEN
BUT STILL PLENTY OF BIG NAMES
LEFT IN FIELD AT LUNDIN LINKS

The absence from this weekend's East of Scotland Open of a clutch of the best players in Scotland is a blow to Scottish Golf Union president David Moir who just happens to be the livewire organiser of the 72-hole SGU Order of Merit event at Lundin Links.
Title-holder Keir McNicoll (Carnoustie) is absent alongwith the five other top players in the Scotland squad for next week's European men's amateur team championship at Western Gailes - James Byrne (Banchory), Richie Ramsay (Royal Aberdeen), Lloyd Saltman (Craigielaw), Kevin McAlpine (Alyth) and Jonathan King (Glasgow).
Then there's this week's Ireland v Scotland youths international match at West Waterford followed by the Irish youths open amateur stroke-play championship in which new Scottish youths champion Scott Borrowman (Dollar), Ross Kellett (Colville Park), Jordan Findlay (Fraserburgh), Lewis Kirton (Newmachar), Philip McLean (Peterhead) and Robert McKnight (Barassie) are all playing.
The tournament ends Friday but they won't be back in time to play the first two rounds at Lundin Golf Club on Saturday.
That is not to say that the East of Scotland Open title is there for the taking. There are still a host of very good players in the field, including the in-form Wallace Booth (Comrie), the former Scottish youths champion who won the Tennant Cup last weekend, thanks to a magnificent third and final round of 64 at Glasgow Killermont.
Then there's former Scottish match-play champion Glenn Campbell (Blairgowrie), past British amateur champion Craig Watson (East Renfrewshire), who led the Tennant Cup field after 36 holes at Glasgow Gailes and was then left behind in Wallace Booth's slipstream last Sunday, and Paul O'Hara (Colville Park), who feels he should be in next week's Scotland line-up and desperately wants to win a 72-hole SGU Order of Merit event to prove his point.
Callum Macaulay (Tulliallan), a semi-finalist in the British amateur championship last week, Duncan Stewart (Grantown on Spey), Bryan Fotheringham (Forres), Iain Colquhoun (Glasgow), Gavin Dear (Murrayshall) and Scott Mann (Carnoustie) are also capable of mounting a challenge in this 72-hole event.

ABERDONIAN MICHAEL IS BACK ON
TRACK ON US PGA TOUR

The US PGA Tour career of 22-year-old Aberdeen-born Michael Sim is back on track and he is looking to improve in this week’s Buick Open on last weekend’s joint 36th place finish which earned him $27,042 in the Travelers’ Championship.
Sim, who qualified for the US Tour through finishing in the top 20 of last season’s Nationwide Tour money-winners, was unable to make his debut on the No 1 circuit until April after being diagnosed with a stress fracture of the lower back last November.
After finishing joint 18th and earning $76,860 in his comeback event, the Zurich Classic of New Orleans in mid-April, Sim had more fitness problems to overcome and he missed the cut in three subsequent tour events over a two-month period, although he did go back to the Nationwide Tour for a one-off, confidence-boosting 14th place finish which earned him $10,200 in early June.
Michael was seven when he emigrated with his parents to Perth, Western Australia in the early 1990s. In his teens in Australia, young Sim became a leading amateur golfer and was world ranked No 1 for a spell before he turned pro in late 2005.

SEMI-FINALS IN ABERDEEN JUNIOR PENNANT
LEAGUE, SPONSORED BY PAUL LAWRIE

Final placings in the qualifying league tables of the Aberdeen Junior Pennant League, sponsored by Paul Lawrie Junior Golf Development.

Section A
Hazlehead 10pt, Oldmeldrum 8pt, Inchmarlo 6pt, Peterculter 4pt, Newmachar 2pt, Alford 0pt.
Section B
Peterhead 8pt (19.5-4.5) from 4 games, Murcar 8pt (22.5-7.5) from 5 games, Royal Aberdeen 6pt, Cruden Bay 3pt, Auchmill 1pt from 4 games, Northern 0pt from 3 games.
Section C
Deeside 8pt (24.5-5.5), Portlethen 8pt (22-8), McDonald Ellon 8pt (19.5-10.5), Stonehaven 4pt, Kintore 2pt, Caledonian 0pt.
Section D
Westhill 9pt, Banchory 6pt, Aboyne 5pt, Newburgh 4pt, Nigg Bay 4pt, Inverurie 2pt.

SEMI-FINALS ON SUNDAY, JULY 15

Peterhead v Westhill at Newburgh (tee off 12.00).
Hazlehead v Deeside at Portlethen (tee off 12.00)

FINAL AT McDONALD ELLON ON SUNDAY, JULY 29
Tee off 12.00.

LAWRIE (only one in every two drives finds fairway) SEEKING SOLUTION TO PULLED

TEE SHOTS

Writing in "The Scotsman" today, Mike Aitken has interviewed Adam Hunter, Paul Lawrie's erstwhile coach, on their parting of the ways which, Adam says, is a permanent one this time.

Hunter says he quite understands why Paul wants a change of coaching advice at this stage of his career and with a return to Carnoustie and the Open coming up.

Mike Aitken writes:

Never the straightest driver on Tour, Paul Lawrie has worked hard to eliminate pulled tee shots. However, his driving accuracy stats are ordinary with only one in every two drives finding the fairway.
While Lawrie wants to find a solution to the wayward tee shots which have plagued his career, Hunter felt the last European golfer to win a major might have been better concentrating on honing his short game rather than fretting over ball striking.
Hunter believes Lawrie needs to scramble more effectively and pointed to a much improved short game performance at Celtic Manor in the Wales Open as the way forward for the Aberdonian.
FRIENDSHIP WILL ENDURE

Confirming there was no animosity in the split and that their friendship would endure, Hunter said he was proud to have played a part in four of Lawrie's five Tour wins and would always treasure the major championship success at Carnoustie.
He explained how their relationship was closer than between most coaches and players. "There were a few calls in the early hours of the morning and at times I almost felt like his manager as much as a coach," added Hunter.

"I put in a lot of time and effort and, of course, I felt disappointed when he told me something had to change in his game and it was time to take a break. On the other hand, we had a good run and it will free up more time for the teaching I do at Mearns Castle golf academy in Newton Mearns."
Although news of the split only became public this week, Hunter said the men hadn't worked together since before the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth last month. He also indicated there was little likelihood of the pair ever getting back together again, as happened after a previous split three years ago. "I doubt if we would go back down that road, because the truth is it didn't work," admitted Hunter.

GROWING REPUTATION
Having worked with Marr in readiness for his tee time at Le Golf National in the company of Soren Kjeldsen and Jyoti Randhawa this afternoon, Lawrie said: "I've known Neil for a few years but I haven't taken him on board out of convenience or because he is local. He is making a name for himself in youth circles and is a lad whose reputation is growing. I am sure we will do well together."

Midlothian players with the trophy. Back row (left to right): Jane Turner, Wendy Nicholson, Karen Marshall, Claire Hargan. Front row: Fiona de Vries, Belinda Murphy, Claire Macdonald, Rachael Livingstone.

MIDLOTHIAN TOPPLE SCOTTISH CHAMPIONS
FIFE AND EARN PLACE IN COUNTY FINALS

Midlothian dethroned Scottish champions Fife in the East Division women’s inter-county team championship title decider at Ladybank Golf Club today.
Both team went into the match with two wins out of two and it was Midlothian who triumphed 5 ½-3 ½ to finish with a 100 per cent record and a place in the Scottish county finals at Tulliallan Golf Club at the end of August.
Midlothian took a 2-1 lead in the morning foursomes and shaded the singles 3 ½-2 ½ with wins by Claire Macdonald, teenager Jane Turner and Belinda Murphy. County champion Claire Hargan halved the top singles with Fife’s Jocelyn Carthew.
Claire Macdonald (Midlothian) and former Scottish champion Elaine Moffat (Fife) were the most successful players in the three-day tournament Both finished with five points out of a possible six.
Claire Hargan was second best in the Midlothian points parade with 4 1/2pt, just ahead of Jane Turner with 4pt.
Jocelyn Carthew and Fiona Lockhart, another former Scottish champion in the Fife line-up, each contributed 4pt to the Fife effort.
Stirling & Clackmannan beat East Lothian 5-4 in the other third-day match, which earned them third place in the table.
Midlothian join Aberdeenshire and Dumfries-shire, who won the North and South divisional titles earlier this week, in the county finals. The West Division team championship, at Prestwick St Nicholas from July 9 to 11, will decide who completes the four-team line-up at Tulliallan..
Final day details at Ladybank:
EAST LOTHIAN 4, STIRLING & CLACKMANNAN 5
Foursomes: K Brotherton & E Fairnie bt L Allan & S Mitchell 1 hole; L Nicholson & J Smith lost to H MacRae & V Stevenson 2 and 1; F Prior & L Mortensen lost to L Macgregor & M Tough 1 hole (1-2).
Singles – L Nicholson lost to MacRae 3 and 1, Brotherton bt Allan 5 and 4, Mortensen bt E Allison 3 and 2, M Thomson lost to Macgregor 1 hole, S Penman lost to Mitchell 1 hole, Fairnie bt Tough 1 hole (3-3).
FIFE 3 ½, MIDLOTHIAN 5 ½
Foursomes: L Kenney & J Carthew lost to C Hargan & W Nicholson 4 and 2; F Lockhart & E Moffat bt K Marshall & F De Vries 6 and 4; L Bennett & B Copland lost to C MacDdonald & J Turner 4 and 2 (1-2).
Singles – Carthew halved with Hargan, Lockhart lost to Macdonald 3 and 2, Moffat lost to Turner 2 and 1, Kenney bt Marshall 2 holes, Bennett lost to B Murphy 2 holes, L Fury bt W Nicholson 3 and 2 (2 ½-3 ½)
HOW THEY FINISHED
Midlothian 3pt, Fife 2pt, Stirling & Clackmannan 1pt, East Lothian 0pt.

NICOLL, JACK DOHERTY LEAD SCOTTISH
CHALLENGE ON PGA EUROPRO TOUR

Callum Nicoll from Prestwick and South Wales-based Glaswegian Jack Doherty are the leading Scots in joint sixth place after 36 holes of the Stoke by Nyland PGA EuroPro Tour championship in Essex.
Nicoll has had a pair of 71s for two-under-par 142 and must be rueing a double bogey 6 at the second hole today. He had six birdies on his card.
Doherty has also marked up two rounds of 71 but he had a double-bogey 5 at the short 11th in his second round. Doherty has had one bogey and one double bogey in 36 holes - pretty consistent scoring.
Chris Campbell and Graham Gordon are joint 25th on 146. Campbell improved from 75 (which included two double bogeys) to 71 while Gordon slumped from 71 to 75 with a double bogey 7 at the long fifth.
The only other Scot to survive the two-round cut at 148 was Lee Harper, the former Scottish boys' match-play champion from Musselburgh, now attached to Archerfield Links. Lee had scores of 75 and 73 to qualifying in joint 43rd place.
Alasdair Hay (Royal Winchester) missed out by one with 75 and 74 for 149 while South Wales-based Paul Doherty, a past Scottish boys' match-play champion, was a non-qualifier with 79 and 71 for 150.
Irishman Michael McDermott (Stackstown) leads the field on five-under-par 139 with 72 and 67.

SCOREBOARD
Par 144 (2 x 72)
139 M McDermott (Ire) 72 67.
141 W Bladon (Eng) 71 70, D Mooney (Ire) 6y9 72, D Ray (Wal) 72 69, F McGuirk (Eng).
Other scores:
142 C Nicoll (Sco) 71 71, J Doherty (Sco) 71 71 (jt 6th).
146 C Campbell (Sco) 75 71, G Gordon (Sco) 71 75 (jt 25th).
148 L Harper (Sco) 75 73.
MISSED CUT
149 A Hay (Sco) 75 74.
150 P Doherty (Sco) 79 71.

FIFE GOLF ASSOCIATION INTER-CLUB LEAGUES
RESULTS AND PLACINGS

Results and placings in the Fife Golf Association Summer Inter-Club Leagues, sponsored by Innes Johnston & Company, Solicitors & Estate Agents:

DIVISION 1
Leven Thistle 3, Thornton 3; Kirkcaldy 2, Burntisland GH 4; Thornton 3.5, Burntisland GS 2.5; Burntisland GH 3, Thornton 3; Leven Thistle 3.5, Kirkcaldy 2.5; Thornton 5, Leven Thistle 1; Kirkcaldy 2.5, Thornton 3.5; Burntisland GH 5, Leven Thistle 1.
How they stand: Thornton 8pt from 5 games, Burntisland GH 5pt from 4 games; Leven Thistle 3pt from 4 games; Kirkcaldy 0 pts from 3 games.
DIVISION 2
Lundin 4, Pitreavie 2; Dunnikier Park 4.5, Balbirnie Park 1.5; Balbirnie Park 4, Pitreavie 2; Balbirnie Park 4.5, Lundin 1.5; Dunnikier Park 5, Pitreavie 1; Dunnikier Park 2, Lundin 4; Pitreavie 4.;5, Lundin 1.5; Pitreavie 2, Balbirnie Park 4.
How they stand: Balbirnie Park 6pt from 4 games; Dunn ikier Park 4pt from 3 games; Lundin 4pt from 4 games; Pitreavie 2pt from 5 games.
DIVISION 3
Dunfermline 4, Drumoig 2; Scotscraig 3, Drumoig 3; Forrester Park 4, Dunfermline 2; Drumoig 5.5, Forrester Park 0.5; Dunfermline 3.5, Scotscraig 2.5; Dunfermline 4.5, Forrester Park 1.5; Drumoig 2.5, Dunfermline 3.5; Drumoig 4, Scotscraig 2.
How they stand: Dunfermline 8pt from5 games; Drumoig 5 pt from 5 games; Forrester Park 2pt from 3 games; Scotscraig 1pt from 3 games.
DIVISION 4
Cowdenbeath 6, St Michaels 0; Lochgelly 5.5, Leven GS 0.5; Cowdenbeath 5, Leven GS 1; St Michaels 4, Lochgelly 2; St Michaels 3, Elmwood 3; Cowdenbeath 5.5, Lochgelly 0.5; Leven GS 4, St Michaels 2; Leven GS 3.5, Lochgelly 2.5; St Michaels 3, Cowdenbeath 3; Lochgelly 3.5, St Michaels 2.5; Elmwood 4, Lochgelly 2; Elmwood 3, Cowdenbeath 3.
+Scoonie has withdrawn: games null and void.
How they stand: Cowdenbeath 8pt from 5 games; Elmwood 4pt from 3 games, Lochgelly 4pt from 6 games, St Michaels 4 pt from 6 game,s Leven GS 4pt from 4 games.

SEVEN-WAY TIE FOR FIRST PLACE IN
AIRDRIE GOLF CLUB PRO-AM

There was a seven-way tie for first place in the Airdrie Golf Club pro-am today.
Jim McKinnon (Irvine), Robert Arnott (Bishopbriggs), Ian Taylor (Drumpellier), Mark Loftus (Cowglen), Mark King (Kingsfield), Ricky Gray (Torrance House) and Dean Robertson (unattached) all returned one-under-par 68s.
Their financial reward was £609 apiece.
Alan Fleming (North Highland College) led the CPC Ltd trio of amateurs, George McHutchison (8), Lynn Hamilton (21) and Iain Gardiner (18) to victory in the team event with a net score of 56.
LEADING PROFESSIONALS
Par 69
68 J McKinnon (Irvine), R Arnott (Bishopbriggs), I Taylor (Drumpellier), M Loftus (Cowglen), M King (Kingsfield), R Gray (Torrance House), D Robertson (unatt).
69 N Holligan (Royal Burgess), C Gordon (Edinburgh Golf Centre), C Ronald (Carluke).

CLOBER PIP SAXONE AND DEACONSBANK
IN BELHAVEN BEST QUALIFIER

FROM THE SGU WEBSITE
Clober Golf Club captain Jim Graham, a former Scotland youth international, and club secretary Brian Davidson combined to great effect to take the honours in the second Belhaven Best Captains & Secretaries regional final at Eastwood.
The duo fired an impressive five-under par 65 as the sun shone on the south side of Glasgow, to pip runners-up Saxone and third place Deaconsbank on an inward nine countback.
One handicapper Graham, who played alongside Gordon Brand Jnr and Brian Marchbank in the Scottish Youths team in the late 70s, is relishing the prospect of returning to Blairgowrie for the final in September.
“The last time I played there was a Youth match against Ronan Rafferty so I’ve got great memories of the Rosemount course. It was great fun playing with my secretary Brian – we dovetailed well and we’re delighted to win,” said Jim.
“It’s a real pleasure to play with Jim. He’s a great player and having just missed out on the Belhaven final last year (after a countback) I’m grateful for having such a strong partner.” added the Clober secretary.
The Saxone pairing of Gordon Bettany and Michael O’Brien recorded an excellent card of 65, which only included one 5, but were nudged into second spot by virtue of an inward half 33 to Clober’s 32. Deaconsbank Golf Club’s combination of Patrick Kane and 2-handicapper William McMillan stormed out in four-under par but weren’t quite able to keep on the birdie trail to finish in third place.
Sealing their place in the Belhaven Final were Ranfurly Castle and Loch Ness with matching 67s, the latter of which made the long journey south the night before, which proved more than fruitful.
The remaining final spots were taken by Clydeview & Cleddans, Sheddans Lethamhill, 19th Hole, Ayr Seafield and Kirkintilloch, all of whom shot 2-under par 68s. The unlucky 11th spot went to Renfrew, who missed out by way of a last hole card play-off.
The third regional final of the Belhaven Best Captains & Secretaries Championship takes place on the July 17 at Lanark.
Eastwood details today:
Belhaven Best Captains & Secretaries Championship
Regional Qualifier West of Scotland

1 Q Clober 65 (inward half 32).
2 Q Saxone 65 (inward half 33).
3 Q Deaconsbank 65.
4 Q Ranfurly Castle 67 (inward half 32).
5 Q Loch Ness 67 (inward half 37).
6 Q Clydeview & Cleddans 68 (inward half 33).
7 Q Sheddens Lethamhill 68 (inward half 34).
8 Q 19th Hole 68 (inward half 35, last six holes 25).
9 Q Ayr Seafield 68 (inward half 35, last six holes 26, last three holes 12).
100 Q Kirkintilloch 68 (inward half 35, last six holes 26, last three holes 13, last hole 4).
NON-QUALIFIERS:
11Renfrew 68 (inward half 35, last six holes 26, last three holes 13, last hole 5).
12 Greenhills 69
12 Lochwinnoch 69.
12 North Beach 69.
15 Abbotsford 70.
15 Brunston Castle 70.
15 Eastwood 70.
15 Linn Park 70.
15 Stirling 70.
15 Troon Welbeck 70
15 Vale of Leven 70.
22 Aberfoyle 71.
22 Greenock 71.
22 Irvine Ravenspark 71.
22 Stewarton 71.
22 Thornhill 71.
27 West Linton 72.
27 Wishaw 72.
29 Dunblane New 73.
29 Glacier 73.
29 Lochgoilhead 73.
29 Palacerigg 73.
33 New Cumnock 74.
34 Burnfield 75.
35 Bute 76.
35 Clydebank & District 36.
35 Fereneze 76.
38 Larkhall 78.
39 Tam O'Shanter 91.
40 Lochgilphead NR.

REVENGE FOR SCOTS YOUTHS OVER IRISH

Scotland gained a measure of revenge for last year’s 5 1/2-3 1/2 defeat by Ireland at Blairgowrie when they won the annual youths international golf match 6-3 at West Waterford Golf Club today.
The Under-21 Scots put themselves in a very strong position when they won two and halved the other in the three morning foursomes.
The Irish came out fighting for the six singles and Seamus Power, playing over his home course, beat Newmachar’s Lewis Kirton 6 and 4 in the top singles. But Scott Borrowman, the new Scottish youths champion from Dollar, steadied the ship by winning the No 2 singles tie by 2 and 1 against Andrew Hogan. Borrowman was one down after nine but gradually gained the upperhand after birdieing the 12th.
Ireland did gain a second win in the singles when Niall Kearney won a tight one against Philip McLean (Peterhead) on the last green. McLean, who had an eagle at the 16th, played well and was unlucky not to salvage a halved match.
But Scotland’s tail wagged with Jordan Findlay (Fraserburgh), who had been two down with five to play, halving his match against Neil O’Briain before Robert McKnight (Barassie) - four birdies on the inward half - beat Dara Lernihand 3 and 2 and Ross Kellett (Colville Park), with a bag of five birdies, was a 2 and 1 winner over Fergal Rafferty.
The Scots have stayed on at West Waterford Golf Club for the two-day Irish youths open stroke-play championship at the same venue, starting on Thursday.
Details:
IRELAND 3, SCOTLAND 6
Irish names first
Foursomes – N Kearney & S Power lost to L Kirton & S Borrowman 3 and 1; A Hogan & D Lernihan lost to J Findlay & P McLean 7 and 6; N O’Briain & F Rafferty halved with R McKnight & R Kellett (1/2-2 ½)
Singles – Power bt Kirton 6 and 4, Hogan lost to Borrowman 2 and 1, Kearney bt McLean 1 hole, O’Briain halved with Findlay, Lernihan lost to McKnight 3 and 2, Rafferty lost to Kellett 2 and 1 (2 ½-3 ½).

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ENGLISH PAIR SHARE LEAD IN RUSSIAN
INTERNATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP

Two young Englishmen, Christopher Wood (Long Ashton) and Dale Whitnell (Forrester Park) are sharing the halfway lead on four-under-par 140 in the Russian open international golf championship at Pestovo Golf Club, north of Moscow.
Wood, quarter-finalist in the recent British amateur championship, has had a pair of 70s, Whitnell and 72 and a 68.
Two other young English players, Matthew Baldwin (Royal Birkdale) and Sam Hutsby (Liphook) are lying fourth and joint seventh respectively on 148 and 152.
The championship is open to professionals and European Senior Tour player Gordon Brand from Yorkshire is in joint ninth place on 154 with 79 and 75.
Germany's Nina Holleder leads the women's championship by eight strokes on level par 144 with a pair of 72s.
Gordon Brand's daughter Lizzie from Ilkley is in joint fourth place on 157.

MEN'S CHAMPIONSHIP
Par 144 (2 x 72)
140 C Wood (Long Ashton) 70 70, D Whitnell (Forrester Park) 72 68.
145 A Povlow (Rus) 73 72.
148 M Baldwin (Royal Birkdale) 74 74.
Other scores:
152 S Hutsby (Liphook) 71 81 (jt 7th).
154 G Brand (professional) 79 75 (jt 9th).
WOMEN'S CHAMPIONSHIP
Par 144 (2 x 72)
144 N Holleder (Ger) 72 72.
152 S Doering (Ger) 76 76, G Rotmistrova (Rus) 75 77.
157 L Brand (Ikley) 82 75.

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MICKELSON TO PLAY AT LOCH LOMOND EN ROUTE TO CARNOUSTIE AND THE OPEN

World No 2 Phil Mickelson has confirmed that, injury permitting, he will once more tee off in the Scottish Open at Loch Lomond in the week preceding next month's Open at Carnoustie.
Mickelson has been struggling with a wrist injury since the US Open where he missed the cut.
But the American left-hander is hopeful he can recover in time to have another tilt at the Open, which he has never won.
"I like to compete the week before a major and going to the Scottish Open also helps me acclimatise," Mickelson said.
"I'm well aware Loch Lomond is an inland course, but I'm sure I'll get the chance to play some links golf around the event."
It will be Mickelson's fifth entry at the Scottish Open, which takes place this year from July 12-15. His best showing to date was seventh in 2000.
Also confirmed for Loch Lomond are world top 20 players Ernie Els, Luke Donald, Retief Goosen and Sergio Garcia, not to mention the new US Open champion Angel Cabrera who campaigns on the European Tour, much to the chagrin of the US PGA Tour.
Cabrera will make his "comeback" after his US Open triumph at next week's European Open at the K-Club outside Dublin.

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ANGUS COUNTY GOLF ASSOCIATION RESULTS
IN MONTH OF JUNE
Supplied by secretary David Speed

CAMPERDOWN SHIELD
Scratch & Handicap championships
Sponsored by Keyline
Sunday, June 24 at Montrose Links
CSS: Non-counting

Scratch
0-8: D Saunders (Royal Montrose) 73, S Smith (Arbroath) 74.

Handicap
0-8: J Paterson (Edzell) (6) 74 (better inward half); J Collier (Montrose Mercantile (4) 74.

Scratch
9-18: A Douglas (Caird Park) 90.

Handicap (Camperdown Shield)
9-18: G Paton (Dalhousie) (10) 77.
87-10= 77

GLAMIS QUAICH
At Kirriemuir Golf Club.
June 3. CSS 68.

Scratch
Ross Coull (Edzell) 66 (better inward half), Gary Tough (Letham Grange) 66; George Finlay (Ballumbie Castle) 67.

Handicap
Greg Hughes (Downfield) (4) 64; Norman Dyce (Kirriemuir) (3) 65; Andrew Simpson (Royal Montrose) (7) 66.

LOTHIANS BOYS BEAT FIFE BOYS AT LIBERTON

FROM THE EDINBURGH EVENING NEWS WEBSITE

Lothians boys' team overcame the absence of four of their leading players to chalk up a 6½-3½ win over their Fife counterparts at Liberton in an annual friendly.
Neil Henderson, Paul Ferrier and Myles Cunningham - three of the players in the side that finished second in the recent Scottish boys' area team championship - were missing along with Mark Dickson.
But, showing the strength in depth in Lothians golf at this level, the home side still managed to record a comfortable victory.
Results:

LOTHIANS 6 1/2, FIFE 3 1//2
At Liberton GC
Lothians players named first
S Deegan (Craigielaw) halved with M Main (Thornton).
O Huish (Glen) halved with R Dziennik (Cowdenbeath).
G Currie (Gullane) bt I Finlay (St Andrews).
S Gordon (Glen) halved with B Jamieson (St Andrews).
J Ross (Royal Burgess) bt G Crawford (Burntisland) 3 and 2.
F McAndrew (Dalmahoy) lost to M Lindsay (Pitreavie) 4 and 2.
Tom Blennerhasset (Dalmahoy) bt N Beattie (St Andrews) 5 and 4.
S Boyle (Harburn) bt J Penman (Thornton) 4 and 3.
B Pelling (Prestonfield) bt J Thorburn (Forrester Park) 1 hole;.
S Young (Turnhouse) lost to C Spence (Balwearie) 2 and 1.

THREE SCOTS SHARE FOURTH PLACE IN PGA
EUROPRO TOUR CHAMPIONSHIP

Aberdonian Graham Gordon, Callum Nicoll from Prestwick and Welsh-based Scot Jack Doherty were lying joint fourth on one-under-par 71 at the end of the first round of the Stoke by Nayland PGA EuroPro Tour championship today.
Damian Mooney (Northern Ireland and Francis McGuirk (Princes) set the pace on 69, one ahead of Lloyd Kennedy (Chelmsford).
Gordon bogeyed the first, 10th and 14th but had birdies at the ninth, 13th, 15th and 16th in halves of 36 and 35.
Callum was out in 35 and home in 36 with birdies at the fifth and 16th and a solitary bogey at the 12th.
Jack Doherty had halves of 37 and 34, made up of a bogey at the first and birdies at the 125th and 16th.
SCOREBOARD
Par 72
69 Damian Mooney (NIr), F McGuirk (Princes).
70 Lloyd Kennedy (Chelmsford).
Other scores:
71 Graham Gordon (Aberdeen) 36-35, Callum Nicoll (Prestwick) 35-36, Jack Doherty (South Wales) 37-34 (jt 4th).
75 Lee Harper (Archerfield Links) 36-39, Alasdair Hay (Royal Winchester) 38-37, Chris Campbell (Carnegie Skibo) 38-37 (jt 56th).
79 Paul Doherty (South Wales0 36-43 (jt 107th)

IT'S A NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RUSSIAN-STYLE
... ANYTHING GOES AT RESORT OF THE RICH


By COLIN FARQUHARSON
Only at the Russian open amateur international championships could you have professionals - Gordon Brand, for one - figuring among the first-round scores at the Pestovo Golf Club for the well-heeled Russians, about 20 miles north of Moscow.
And only at a Russian championship would you find 17 players - 12 men and five women - who did not break 100 in the first round.
The highest score of the day was returned by one Sergey Kronfeld who is last of 71 men with a score of 123. He required 64 shots for the outward half and 59 for the inward half, running up three 9s and four 8s. All credit to Mr Kronfeld for returning a score - but should he really be playing in a country's national championship?
The English Golf Union sent four of their brightest young lads to see if one of them could repeat Seve Benson's victory in the men's event last year.
So far so good with Christopher Wood from Long Ashton, Bristol - a quarter-finalist in last year's British amateur championship at Royal Lytham - leading the men's field with a two-under-par 70.
Compatriot Sam Hutsby (Liphook), winner of The Duke of York Young Champions' Trophy tournament at Dundonald Links, Ayrshire last year, is lying second on 71 and Dale Whitnell (Forrester Park) is sharing third place with a professional, Alex Gruzdov, and a Philipp Mejow of no known country.
Matthew Baldwin (Royal Birkdale) completed the English quartet's satisfactory day with a two-over-par 74 - five shots better than the aforementioned professional, Gordon Brand.
Germany international player Nina Holleder is leading the women's field with a par 72 - three ahead of Russian hope Galina Tormistrova, with Germany's Stephanie Doering third on 76.
Lizzie Brand, from England, had an 82 but that was good enough to give her fifth place in a field of 25 girls going into the second round.
Pestovo Golf Club has a yacht club, an equestrian centre and other leisure facilities in its spacious grounds which include villas as well.
Leading scores:
MEN
70 Christopher Wood (Long Ashton).
71 Sam Hutsby (Liphook).
72 Dale Whitnell (Forrester Park), Alex Gruzdov (professional), Philipp Mejow.
Other scores:
74 Matthew Baldwin (Royal Birkdale).
79 Gordon Brand (professional).
123 Sergey Kronfeld (Russia).
WOMEN
72 Nina Holleder (Germany).
75 Galina Rotmistrova (Russia).
76 Stephanie Doering (Germany).
Other score:
82 Lizzie Brand.

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ABERDEEN PENNANT LEAGUE MATCHES ON THURSDAY


The next Ritson Smith Aberdeen Pennant League matches are on Thursday evening. The fixtures are:

Bon Accord v Nigg Bay
Craibstone v Deeside
East Aberdeenshire v Caledonian.
Newmachar v Royal Aberdeen.

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NOT ONLY THE FISH ARE BITING IN FLORIDA

If you are thinking about going on a golfing holiday to Florida ... well, maybe, you should think again.
That's because there's report today from the Sunshine State that a golfer nearly lost more than his golf ball in a water hazard at the sixth hole at Lake Venice Golf Club, Florida
An alligator, estimated length 11ft from nose to tail, suddenly appeared out of the depths and grabbed his right arm, pulling him into the water as he tried to get his golf ball out.
Gary Morse, a spokesman for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, said that the golfer, a Mr Burger, used his left arm to hit the alligator until it released him from its grip.
Burger, a visitor from Tennessee, was taken to a hospital but was not seriously injured - shaken but still in one piece.
It took seven Fish and Wildlife officers an hour to trap the one-eyed alligator which inhabited the pond where there is a warning sign: "Beware of Alligator".
Course general manager Rod Parry said. "There's wildlife in these ponds so people should think twice before putting their hands into the water to lift out a golf ball."

SCOTTISH GOLF UNION PRESS RELEASE

SCOTLAND NAME STRONG YOUTHS
TEAM TO PLAY IRELAND
Ross Kellett heads a six strong team representing Scotland competing in the Youths International Match against Ireland, which gets underway on Wednesday at West Waterford Golf Club.
The Colville Park player, buoyed by a recent momentous win under his belt - after dismounting Jamie Moul the former world number one from the British Amateur title race last week, before his own Amateur hopes were dashed after reaching a well earned place in the quarter final – is joined by the newly crowned Scottish Youths Stroke Play Champion, Scott Borrowman.
Kellett and his five fellow standard bearers will hope that good form and good fortune will favour them tomorrow over the par 72 parkland course set on the banks of the River Brickey, after Ireland imposed a crushing defeat on the Scots last year at Blairgowrie.
Dollar ace Borrowman, speaking just after his title win at the weekend at Erskine said, “I am feeling confident, the title will certainly bolster me heading into the youths match, and I am keen to get more wins under my belt.”
Former British Boys Champion Jordan Findlay (Fraserburgh) and Philip McLean (Peterhead) join the ranks along with Lewis Kirton – a key figure in the silver medal winning team last year at the European Boys Championship – with Robert McKnight (Kilmarnock Barassie) completing the team.
STRONG INDIVIDUAL PERFORMERS
Commenting ahead of the one day event, comprising morning foursomes, followed by singles matches in the afternoon, SGU Performance Manager Stuart Turner said, “Scotland is fielding a strong team in this friendly match, undoubtedly keen to make amends for last year’s result. With such strong individual performers within the team, they will certainly provide a strong challenge to the Irish side.”
The team will remain in Ireland to compete in the Irish Youths Amateur Open Championship at the same venue on Thursday and Friday.
It is:
Scott Borrowman (Dollar)
Jordan Findlay (Fraserburgh)
Ross Kellett (Colville Park)
Lewis Kirton (Newmacher)
Robert McKnight (Kilmarnock Barassie)
Philip McLean (Peterhead)

FAIRMONT ST ANDREWS SIGN UP SAM TORRANCE


Fairmont St Andrews (formerly St Andrews Bay Hotel & Golf Resort) today announced a partnership with 2002 victorious Ryder Cup captain, Sam Torrance, OBE.
Sam has represented Europe in eight Ryder Cup matches and has won over 40 tournaments to date in his 35 years on Tour. He has made a very successful transition onto the European Seniors Tour, winning the Order of Merit in 2005 and 2006. Sam won his first tournament of the year last week at the Bendinat London Seniors Masters.
His relationship with Fairmont St Andrews began several years ago when he worked with them on his first course design project, The Torrance, which opened in 2002. It is one of two beautiful courses on offer at the Fairmont St Andrews and Sam’s first foray into course design is considered a resounding success.

The five star Fairmont St Andrews is located just 55 minutes from Edinburgh airport, sitting proudly overlooking a rugged coastline and the skyline of the Home of Golf. A luxurious five star hotel with two magnificent golf courses, the Torrance and the Devlin. The Torrance an Open qualifying course for 2010.

Charles Head, General Manager of Fairmont St Andrews said “we are delighted to extend our relationship with Sam Torrance. We think he is a wonderful and charismatic ambassador for the resort and the Torrance course and we look forward to an exciting few years.”

Sam added, “I really have enjoyed the experience of working on the my first course design project, not least because during each visit my family and I have been able to enjoy the wonderful, luxurious facilities and breathtaking location of the Fairmont St Andrews. I am proud of the feedback I have received on our course design and I will be very proud to represent the Fairmont St Andrews on the Tour”.

ABERDEEN & DISTRICT JUNIOR PENNANT LEAGUE

OFF THE TEE TROPHY

Aberdeen City Section
MONDAY, JULY 2 (Nigg Bay GC, Balnagask 5.30pm)
Nigg Bay v Caledonian.
Deeside v Westhill.
TUESDAY, JULY 3 (Nigg Bay GC, Balnagask, 5.30pm)
Auchmill v Hazlehead.
Portlethen v Northern.
SUNDAY, JULY 8 (Nigg Bay GC, Balnagask 9am)
1 Nigg Bay or Caledonian v Deeside or Westhill.
2 Auchmill or Hazlehead v Portlethen or Northern.
SUNDAY, JULY 8 (Nigg Bay GC, Balnagask 1.30pm)
Winners of Match 1 v Winners of Match 2

Deeside Section
MONDAY, JULY 2 (Stonehaven GC, 5.30pm)
Stonehaven v Inchmarlo.
SUNDAY, JULY 8 (Stonehaven GC, 9am)
1 Stonehaven or Inchmarlo v Aboyne.
2 Peterculter v Banchory.
SUNDAY, JULY 8 (Stonehaven GC, 1.30pm)
Winners of Match 1 v Winners of Match 2.

West Section
MONDAY, JULY 2 (Newmachar GC, 5.30pm)
Oldmeldrum v Kintore.
Alford v Newmachar.
Kemnay v Craibstone.
SUNDAY, JULY 8 (Newmachar GC, 9am)
1 Oldmeldrum or Kintore v Alford or Nerwmachar.
2 Kemnay or Craibstone v Inverurie.
SUNDAY, JULY 8 (Newmachar GC, 1.30pm)
Winners of Match 1 v Winners of Match 2.

North Section
MONDAY, JULY 2 (McDonald GC, 5.30pm).
Peterhead v Newburgh.
Cruden Bay v Murcar Links.
SUNDAY, JULY 8 (McDonald GC, 9am)
1 Peterhead or Newburgh v Royal Aberdeen.
2 Cruden Bay or Murcar Links v McDonald Ellon.
SUNDAY, JULY 8 (McDonald GC, 1.30pm)
Winners of Match 1 v Winners of Match 2.

FINALS DAY
SUNDAY, AUGUST 19 (McDonald GC).
Semi-finals at 9am.
Final at 1.30pm

LAURA, RACHAEL BEING SENT
BY SLGA TO PLAY IN FINNISH
AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP


Robert Gordon's University student Laura Murray, a member of Alford and Aboyne golf clubs, has been selected, alongwith Rachael Livingstone (Musselburgh Old), by the Scottish Ladies Golfing Association to represent Scotland in the Finnish women's amateur golf championship at Helskini Golf Club from August 9 to 11.
Laura, pictured above left, with six wins out of six for champions Aberdeenshire, was the top player in the North Division women's inter-county team championship which ended at Cruden Bay on Monday.
Rachael, pictured above right, is 19 years old, Laura will be 19 in August.
Rachael, beaten finalist in last year's Scottish Under-18 girls' championship at Peebles, gains her first full cap for Scotland in next month's European women's team championship in Italy.
Helskinki Golf Club, founded in 1932, is the oldest and most prestigious golf club in Finland. It is six kilometres from the centre of Helskini. A 19th Century mansion serves as the clubhouse at this beautiful parkland course which has a par of 71 and measures 4,782 metres off the women's tees.

CARNOUSTIE HEAD GREENKEEPER BACK IN CHARGE

According to the Scottish Daily Express, John Philip, the Carnoustie Links Trust's head greenkeeper, is back at work, having been suspended for two weeks for "allegedly laying hands on an apprentice over smoking breaks."

US OPEN CHAMPION ANGEL CABRERA PLAYS
IN EUROPEAN OPEN AT THE K CLUB

New US Open champion Angel Cabrera has added the Smurfit Kappa European Open to his playing schedule, meaning that five major champions will feature in the field at The K Club, Co. Kildare, Ireland, from July 5 to 8.
Cabrera penned his name into the golfing history books when he became the first Argentine to lift the US Open trophy, having held off the challenges of Tiger Woods and another former winner, Jim Furyk, at Oakmont Country Club.
Cabrera shot a final round of 69, one of only two rounds under par on the final day, for a five over par total of 285, one better than Woods and Furyk.
Having successfully scaled one of golf’s four Major peaks, Cabrera will next week turn his attentions to securing a maiden European Tour victory in the Smurfit Kappa European Open.
The big-hitting South American has an impressive record at The K Club with six top-ten finishes in his 11 previous appearances in the tournament, the highlight of which was his second place in 2000. Cabrera led after 54 holes seven years ago but was ultimately beaten by a stroke when England’s Lee Westwood closed with a brilliant round of 66.
If Cabrera can manage to go one better next week, he will become the third US Open winner to capture the Smurfit Kappa European Open title at The K Club after New Zealand’s Michael Campbell in 2002 and South African Retief Goosen in 2004.
Campbell and Cabrera are joined next week by fellow major champions of varying vintage - Paul Lawrie, Sandy Lyle and Ian Woosnam of Wales.
Sweden’s Niclas Fasth, who finished fourth behind Cabrera at Oakmont, has also confirmed his participation just two days after his brilliant victory in the BMW International Open in Munich.
Cabrera said: “I have always enjoyed playing in Ireland, where the fans are both appreciative and knowledgeable. There’s a great atmosphere about The K Club and I’ve done well there in the past and look forward to getting another chance to win one of the leading titles on The European Tour.”
The 2007 Smurfit Kappa European Open will be played over the Smurfit Course with a prize fund of £2,400,000 and, once again, the public can enjoy the first day’s play for free thanks to the ‘Free Ticket Thursday’ initiative from Ulster Bank. The application process for free tickets has now closed with more than 30,000 availing of the offer.

PAUL LAWRIE SWITCHES COACHES:

ADAM HUNTER IS REPLACED

BY NEIL MARR

The Press and Journal reveals today that Paul Lawrie has split with coach Adam Hunter and replaced him with Meldrum House Golf Club head professional Neil Marr.

Paul Lawrie is quoted by the newspaper as saying:

"We have split and I have been working with Neil. Adam and I have worked together for nine years and we have had a phenomenal working relationship in that time but I just felt that I wanted and needed a different input.

"Telling Adam I wanted a change was one of the hardest things I have had to do as we are really good friends.

"Adam is an extremely good coach who has done a really good job for me and I will never forget the help he gave me at Carnoustie in 1999 when I won the Open. But I feel it is time for a different angle on things."

Neil Marr, pictured above, coaches the Scottish Golf Union under-14 and under-16 boys teams.

2007 FIFE HANDICAP SINGLES MATCH PLAY CHAMPIONSHIP

DRAW FOR ROUND 2 to be played by 26 JULY 2007


EARLSFERRY THISTLE (Home Club) versus DRUMOIG (Away Club)

SCOTSCRAIG (Home Club) versus LUNDIN (Away Club)

DUNFERMLINE (Home Club) versus KIRKCALDY (Away Club)

HOLDER (Gary Cunningham) versus ELMWOOD (Away Club)

A new draw is made for each round.

The winner must report the result to David Moir by email on davidmoir@randa.org or by fax to 01334 460005 no later than midnight on the Closing Date of that round but preferably as soon as the tie is played.

A new draw is made for each round.

WELSH SQUAD FOR WESTERN GAILES

Wales' squad for the European men's amateur team championship at Western Gailes GC, Ayrshire is:

Rhys Davies – Royal Porthcawl
Nigel Edwards - Whitchurch
Rhys Enoch - Truro
Craig Evans – West Monmouthshire
Llewellyn Matthews - Southerndown
Ryan Thomas - Aberdare

Non-Travelling Reserve: Zachariah Gould – Vale of Glamorgan

Team Captain: JR Parry
Team Manager: Richard Dixon
National Coach: David Llewellyn

IRELAND TEAM FOR EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIP

Team to represent Ireland in the European Team Championship at Western Gailes Golf Club from July 3 to 7 is:
Jonathan Caldwell (Clandeboye).
Shane Lowry (Esker Hills).
Richard Kilpatrick (Banbridge).
Rory McIlroy (Holywood).
Gareth Shaw (Lurgan)'
Simon Ward (Co Louth)
Reserves:
1 Niall Turner (Muskerry).
2 Niall Kearney (Royal Dublin)

IRELAND YOUTHS TEAM TO PLAY SCOTLAND

Team to represent Ireland in the Youths International match against Scotland at West Waterford Golf Club on Wednesday:
Andrew Hogan (Newlands).
Niall Kearney (Royal Dublin).
Dara Lernihan (Castle/ UCD).
Neil O Briain (Royal Dublin).
Seamus Power (West Waterford).
Fergal Rafferty (Dungannon).
Reserves:
1 Nick Grant (Knock).
2 Paul Cutler (Portstewart)

+The Scotland team for the above match has yet to be announced.

Feeling just champion! That's the Aberdeenshire team and officials after their victory in the North Division championship at Cruden Bay.



YOUNG SHIRE TEAM NOW GO FORWARD TO SCOTTISH
FINALS AS CHAMPIONS
OF NORTH DIVISION

Aberdeenshire completed a clean sweep of victories in the North Division women’s inter-county team golf championship at Cruden Bay today by beating Angus 6 ½ -2 ½ in cold, windy and sometimes wet weather more akin to a winter’s day than the end of June.
In the other closing match in the three-day schedule, Northern Counties found their form to score their first win by 8-1 over defending champions Perth & Kinross. Northern Counties, who were officially placed second on games-won, were handicapped by the loss of Donna MacLeod with a back injury on Saturday morning.
Having beaten Perth & Kinross 6-3 on Saturday and Northern Counties 7-2 on Sunday, Aberdeenshire, captained by Ros Dunsmuir, go forward with rising confidence to play Scotland’s three other regional title-winners in the county finals at Tulliallan Golf Club at the end of August.
It’s been five years – at Glenisla GC in 2002 – since Shire won the North Division title but they may be in for a more successful period. The winning team at Cruden Bay contained five players who have graduated from the county’s competitive girls’ programme.
Most successful player of the tournament was Aberdeenshire’s Laura Murray (Alford) with six wins out of six. She was closely followed by team-mate Michele Thomson (McDonald Ellon) with 5 ½ pt. Sara Thomson (Murcar Links) marked her county team debut with gaining 3pt out of three.
Kerri Harper (Inverness) was best for Northern Counties with 4pt out of six. Dawn Dewar top-scored for Angus with 4pt out of six and Emily Ogilvy gained 3pt for Perth & Kinross.

+Picture shows Aberdeenshire president Mary Robinson and long-serving county team player Sheena Wood (she played for Shire the last time the North Division championship was hosted by Cruden Bay - 20 years ago!) with the trophy.

Monday’s details:

PERTH & KINROSS 1, NORTHERN COUNTIES 8
Foursomes: A Bushby, R Niven lost to L Walker, J Milne 2 and 1; J Yellowlees, J Sneddon lost to K Harper, M Smith 3 and 1; E Ogilvy, E Muirhead lost to A Ingram, K MacDonald 5 and 4 (0-3).
Singles: Ogilvy lost to Harper 3 and 1, Niven lost to MacDonald 6 and 4, Bushby lost to Ingram 6 and 4, G Lambie lost to Milne 2 holes, F Ramsay lost to Smith 1 hole, Sneddon bt Walker 2 holes (1-5).

ANGUS 2 ½ , ABERDEENSHIRE 6 ½
Foursomes: D Dewar, A Ramsay bt D Pocock, S Wood 1 hole; H Anderson, M Summers lost to L Murray, M Thomson 2 and 1; S Raitt, F Millar lost to J Harrison, C Wilson 5 and 4 (1-2).
Singles: Dewar lost to Murray 4 and 2, Raitt lost to M Thomson 2 and 1, K Sutherland lost to S Thomson 3 and 2, Summers lost to Wilson 6 and 5, F Gilbert bt L McLardy 2 and 1, Ramsay halved with Wood (1 ½ -4 ½).

HOW THEY FINISHED
P W L F A Pts
Aberdeenshire 3 3 0 19 ½ 7 ½ 3
Northn Counties 3 1 2 13 ½ 13 ½ 1
Angus 3 1 2 11 16 1
Perth & Kinross 3 1 2 10 17 1

+++For news of the start of the East Division women's inter-county team championship at Ladybank and the end of the South Division women's inter-county team championship at Thornhill, switch over to our sister website, www.kirkwoodgolf.co.uk

JAMIESON EARNS $16,000 FROM FIRST
EIGHT EVENTS AS A TOUR PRO

Rookie tour pro Scott Jamieson earned $16,000, missing only one cut in eight events, in the first half of the NGA Hooters Tour which now has a six-week break over the hot American summer months.
Jamieson, a Cathkin Braes Golf Club, Glasgow member during his amateur days, earned $1,485 for a joint 29th place finish in the weather-hit Buffalo Run Casino Classic which ended at Peoria Ridge Golf Club, Miami in Oklahoma on Sunday.
Two rounds had to be played on Sunday after torrential rain flooded the course on Saturday and postponed the third round.
Scott, last year’s Scottish Golf Union Order of Merit winner, turned professional last November. He spent four years on the American college circuit while a student at Augusta State University.
Jamieson’s scores in the Buffalo Run Casino Classic were 65, 69, 69 and 71 for a 14-under-par 274.
Florida-based Edinburgh exile David Kirkpatrick earned $2,534 for a joint 15th place finish on 272 with scores of 67, 67, 72 and 66.
Steven Tiley from Canterbury tied for 47th place on 277 with scores of 69, 68, 72 and 68. He earned $1,057.
David Skinns from Lincoln finished joint 55th on 279 with scores of 69, 70, 69 and 71. He earned $996.
The low-scoring tournament was won by Jordan Dempsey from Baton Rouge, Louisiana with a 24-under-par total of 264, made up of rounds of 67, 65, 67 and 65 to scoop the first prize of $33,566.
Two Australians, Andrew Tschudin from Melbourne and Bronson La Cassie (Queensland), eighth in the R&A WAR until making his pro debut in this event, finished joint second on 265. Tschudin shot 64, 64, 67 and 70, La Cassie 65, 67, 65 and 68. Each earned $13,762.

VIKKI LAING JOINT 15TH IN CINCINNATI

Musselburgh's Vikki Laing finished joint 15th in the US Futures Tour's Duramed Championship at Stonelick Hills Golf Club near Cincinnati. She had rounds of 77, 63 and 72 for a four-under-par total of 212. Her second round of nine-under-par 63 was a career low.
Vikki earned $1,032 for finishing 11 shots behind South Korean winner Seo-Jae Lee who shot 66, 66 and 69 for 15-under-par 201 to take the $14,000 first prize.
Eunjung Yi from California and Violeta Remoza (Mexico) finished joint runners-up on 204 over the 6,349yd, par-72 course. Yi had rounds of 65, 70 and 679; Remoza 66, 66 and 72. They each won $8,562.

US PRO TOURNAMENTS SCOREBOARD

TRAVELERS' CHAMPIONSHIP
The TPC at River Highlands.
FINAL TOTALS
Par 280 (4 x 70)
265 Hunter Mahan 62 71 67 65, Jay Williamson 66 66 67 66
269 Nick O'Hern (Aus) 67 70 66 66
270 Vijay Singh (Fij) 68 71 66 65
271 Fred Funk 70 65 67 69
272 David Toms 67 65 69 71, Bo Van Pelt 73 68 67 64, Tom Lehman 67 68 70 67
273 Kevin Na (Kor) 70 67 69 67, Justin Rose (Eng) 69 68 68 68, B.J Staten 67 71 69 66, Billy Mayfair 67 72 66 68
274 Stephen Marino 68 67 71 68, J J Henry 68 73 69 64
275 Jerry Kelly 69 68 68 70, Kenny Perry 65 71 70 69, Chad Campbell 69 70 70 66, Mathew Goggin (Aus) 69 71 67 68, Steve Allan (Aus) 66 75 67 67, Shigeki Maruyama (Jpn) 67 69 73 66, Carl Pettersson (Swe) 65 72 72 66
276 Charles Warren 67 67 73 69, Billy Andrade 66 71 71 68, Eric Axley 67 70 69 70, Joe Ogilvie 71 68 69 68, Olin Browne 67 67 72 70, Tom Pernice Jnr. 68 70 68 70, Heath Slocum 68 68 70 70
277 Bill Haas 72 68 68 69, Arjun Atwal (Ind) 68 71 74 64, Kevin Sutherland 68 71 73 65, Peter Lonard (Aus) 68 69 73 67
278 Brad Faxon 65 74 70 69, Tim Petrovic 71 68 68 71, Ryan Moore 66 71 69 72
279 Pat Perez 69 68 66 76, Rodney Pampling (Aus) 66 71 72 70, Michael Sim (Aus) 65 70 78 66, Joey Sindelar 66 70 72 71, Craig Bowden 71 69 71 68, Corey Pavin 70 66 77 66, Bob Tway 71 70 69 69
280 Brian Davis (Eng) 71 69 74 66, Woody Austin 66 73 71 70, Douglas Labelle 68 73 71 68
281 Michael Allen 66 69 76 70, J.B. Holmes 72 69 71 69, Andrew Buckle (Aus) 71 70 72 68, Chris DiMarco 64 70 74 73, Cliff Kresge 71 70 69 71, Brent Geiberger 73 68 70 70, Steve Wheatcroft 68 71 74 68, Jason Gore 68 70 72 71
282 Kevin Stadler 68 70 75 69, Mark Calcavecchia 71 70 71 70, Jeff Overton 69 71 72 70, Tim Herron 71 70 74 67, Ryan Armour 67 74 68 73, Ben Curtis 69 71 73 69, Padraig Harrington (Irl) 71 68 74 69
283 Cameron Beckman 75 65 74 69, Daisuke Maruyama (Jpn) 68 72 75 68, Bob Heintz 65 72 76 70, Frank Lickliter II 69 71 75 68
284 David Branshaw 70 71 69 74, Jesper Parnevik (Swe) 72 69 78 65
285 Robert Gamez 70 69 73 73, Jason Dufner 71 70 70 74, Steve Flesch 71 69 72 73, Brett Wetterich 70 70 80 65
286 Alex Cejka (Ger) 68 71 77 70
288 Will MacKenzie 67 74 75 72, Glen Day 69 70 76 73, John Mallinger 71 69 75 73
289 Stewart Cink 68 70 75 76, Craig Kanada 68 71 75 75
290 Tripp Isenhour 72 68 73 77
291 Mark Brooks 70 70 78 73
296 Scott Gutschewski 72 69 77 78.

WEGMANS LPGA
Locust Hill Country Club.
FINAL TOTALS
Par 288 (4 x 72)
280 In Kyung Kim (Kor) 70 67 71 72, Lorena Ochoa (Mex) 69 71 67 73 (Ochoa won play-off at second hole).
281 Mi-Hyun Kim (Kor) 69 68 75 69
282 Cristie Kerr 66 75 70 71
283 Lindsey Wright (Aus) 70 70 72 71, Jeong Jang (Kor) 71 73 71 68
284 Angela Stanford 70 69 73 72
285 Jee Young Lee (Kor) 71 77 69 68, Rachel Hetherington (Aus) 70 71 73 71, Morgan Pressel 70 72 73 70, Brittany Lincicome 69 75 73 68, Wendy Ward 74 70 69 72, Maria Hjorth (Swe) 70 71 73 71
286 Jin Joo Hong (Kor) 71 73 69 73, Sophie Gustafson (Swe) 70 74 75 67, A.J Eathorne (Can) 72 71 69 74, Pat Hurst 74 69 70 73
287 Giulia Sergas (Ita) 76 68 75 68, Mhairi McKay (Sco) 72 72 74 69, Suzann Pettersen (Nor) 68 75 72 72
288 Young-A Yang (Kor) 76 72 69 71, Beth Bader 73 72 70 73, Meena Lee (Kor) 71 71 73 73, Lorie Kane (Can) 71 74 72 71, Angela Park 76 71 72 69, Leta Lindley 72 71 72 73, Paula Creamer 70 76 70 72, Seon Hwa Lee (Kor) 71 71 71 75, Ai Miyazato (Jpn) 73 71 73 71, Jimin Kang (Kor) 70 75 73 70, Hye Jung Choi (Kor) 74 74 71 69
289 Sun Young Yoo (Kor) 72 73 75 69, Nina Reis (Swe) 76 70 70 73, Diana D'Alessio 71 74 74 70
290 Joo Mi Kim (Kor) 74 73 70 73, Brandie Burton 74 73 76 67, Reilley Rankin 73 71 73 73, Michele Redman 73 72 74 71, Karine Icher (Fra) 74 70 70 76, Se Ri Pak (Kor) 73 74 71 72, Amy Hung (Tha) 70 75 73 72, Moira Dunn 73 71 71 75, Katherine Hull (Aus) 71 73 75 71
291 Beth Daniel 75 71 76 69, Becky Morgan (Wal) 70 72 76 73, Catriona Matthew (Sco) 71 75 75 70, Janice Moodie (Sco) 74 70 72 75, Soo Young Moon (Kor) 72 73 72 74
292 Vicki Goetze-Ackerman 71 74 73 74, Kate Golden 71 77 71 73, Karrie Webb (Aus) 72 73 76 71, Jamie Hullett 74 74 74 70, Erica Blasberg 75 68 74 75, Eva Dahllof (Swe) 70 77 77 68, Sherri Steinhauer 74 74 73 71
293 Gloria Park (Kor) 72 76 69 76, Young Kim (Kor) 70 76 76 71, Silvia Cavalleri (Ita) 76 70 76 71, Nancy Scranton 76 71 74 72
294 Ji-Young Oh (Kor) 71 76 74 73, Sherri Turner 71 76 76 71, Charlotta Sorenstam (Swe) 70 77 70 77, Katie Futcher 71 76 74 73
295 Alena Sharp 67 74 77 77, Song-Hee Kim (Kor) 73 75 71 76, Candie Kung (Tai) 72 74 78 71
296 Yu Ping Lin (Tai) 73 74 78 71, Na Ri Kim (Kor) 74 72 76 74, Christina Kim 70 75 76 75
298 Il Mi Chung (Kor) 72 73 77 76, Patricia Meunier-Lebouc (Fra) 72 75 75 76
305 Karin Sjodin (Swe) 72 75 81 77

CLACKMANNANSHIRE COUNTY GOLF NEWS

By HUGH HUNTER

It was a golden week for two top Wee County golfers, with successful campaigns by Callum Macaulay (Tulliallan) and Scott Borrowman (Dollar).
The trail started on Monday, June 18 when both were in action trying to gain a place in the top 64 qualifiers for the match-play stages of the Amateur Championship at the Royal Lytham Golf Course, venue of many Open championships.
Callum qualified easily with a ten under par score while Scott’s six-over missed the cut by eight shots. Callum went on to gain a bronze medal by reaching the semi-finals of the Amateur while Scott bounced back a few days later to take his second dational title, the Scottish Youths title at Erskine.
These two outstanding results put Clackmannan into the forefront of Scottish Golf at present, and hopefully there will be more to come. Both golfers must be feeling confident for upcoming events, especially the Scottish Amateur Championship at Prestwick at the end of July.

+Picture of Callum Macaulay on left, courtesy of Hugh Hunter.

MORE MACAULAY MAGIC

After finishing his course successfully at the University of Mississippi, Callum returned home to play the elite golf events, and has performed pretty well. In his first qualifying round at St Anne’s Old course, he showed immediately that he meant business with a six-under-par 66 score, containing eight birdies and two bogeys.
His second round over the tougher and longer Lytham course continued the fine form. Callum raced to the turn in two under par 33. Four further birdies followed and the round was only spoiled by a double bogey at the short 12lfth where he encountered bunker trouble.
The end result was a 67 and a 10 under aggregate, leaving him in second equal qualifying position. Nine Scots beat the qualifying score for the 64 match-play spots, with Callum playing the local star Sam Stuart (with a substantial number of spectators).
In a close match, Callum came through with a good five foot putt at the nineteenth hole. His next match was a bit easier -- a similar outward nine score as the previous day gave him a commanding six hole lead against Rhys Enoch (Truro), and despite a couple of lapses, a 20 ft putt sealed the match on the 15th green.
The next game really tested Callum, both in the golfing sense but also patience. Against an excruciatingly slow French player Kenny Le Sager ( he took about 80 to 100 seconds to play his shots), Callum (incidentally taking 35 seconds per shot) fought back from a two-hole deficit to take the match at the 20th when the Frenchman found sand from the tee at the par 4 hole.
Now in the quarter finals, the match against fellow Scot Ross Kellett (Colville Park) went Callum’s way by 4 and 3, and although the golf was below the standard of his previous matches, it was enough to take him to the semi-finals and a tie against Aussie champion Tim Stewart.
In another tight match, Callum was a hole up at the twelfth, but a missed putt and a bunker visit at the last hole allowed Tim to reach the final, leaving the Tulliallan player with the bronze medal.
Naturally, Callum was disappointed, but nevertheless, it was a great performance (he did finish top Scot) proving that he has the game to take on the best amateurs, and “Team Macaulay” with dad Harry on the bag drew much favourable comment from the spectators who appreciated the golf shots and Callum’s confident manner.
Well done to Callum - best performance ever from a wee County golfer in the Amateur!!

ANOTHER SUPER SCOTT

With rounds of 76 and 73 in the Amateur qualifying, and missing the cut, Scott Borrowman (Dollar), Stirling University student, must have felt a bit down, but perhaps inspired by Callum’s progress, he bounced back at Erskine Golf Club to take the 2007 Scottish Youths title, five years after he captured the Under 16’s trophy at Ratho Park.
Maintaining the lead from the first two days' play, Scott recorded another sub par third round, closing with a one over par in the final round, an aggregate of nine under par, and a two shot win.
However the scores do not tell the real story where Scott lost his lead as others clawed back, and only a birdie, birdie finish by Scott allowed him to snatch the trophy. Another top class performance!!
Final Results 1 Scott Borrowman (Dollar) 68,66,69,72 275 (9 under)
2 Ben Newsome (East Sussex) 70,67,69,71 277 (7 under)

Scott is in Ireland this week, representing Scotland in a Youths International Match at West Waterford Golf Club.

REPORT, RESULTS FROM CRUDEN BAY ON
www.kirkwoodgolf.co.uk

Aberdeenshire, with two wins out of two, go into the final day of the North Division women's inter-county team championship at Cruden Bay as favourites to clinch a place in the Scottish county finals at Tulliallan GC at the end of August.
However, as we know ... there is many a slip twixt cup and lip and Angus will be doing their best to upset the Shire applecart.
Read the report and the weekend results by switching over to www.kirkwoodgolf.co.uk

TOP TEN FINISH IN FRANCE FOR LYNN KENNY

Lynn Kenny had one of her best finishes on the Ladies European Tour in the French Women's Open championship today. Read all about it by switching over to our sister website, www.kirkwoodgolf.co.uk

BORROWMAN WINS SECOND NATIONAL
TITLE WITH CAPTURE OF
SCOTTISH YOUTHS’ CHAMPIONSHIP

Scott Borrowman, winner of the Scottish Under-16 boys’ title in 2002, added another national title to his collection at Erskine Golf Club today when he won the Scottish youths open amateur stroke-play championship.
The 20-year-old Stirling University student and member of Dollar Golf Club, Clackmannanshire took over the lead with a five-under-par 66 in Saturday’s second round and he was two strokes clear of the field after 54 holes and still two shots ahead after 72.

But the scores don't tell the whole story. Borrowman had to hang on in there under severe pressure over the final round. He was caught by his pursuers but shook them off in the style of a champion with birdies at the 17th and 18th holes.
Borrowman’s four rounds were 68, 66, 69 and 72 for a nine-under-par total of 275 over the par-71 lay-out.
He won by two strokes from English challenger Ben Newsome (East Sussex National) with three players tied on 278 – Sam McLaren (King James VI), last year’s Scottish Under-16 champion, Andrew Campbell (Dumbarton), a quarter-finalist in the Scottish boys’ match-play championship in early April, and Robin Kind from the Netherlands.

McLaren bogeyed the 16th and 17th but birdied the 18th to finish joint third.
Now Scott’s ambition must be to match his mother’s international achievements – she played for Scotland and Great Britain at hockey.

++Image of Scott Borrowman with the championship trophy is the copyright of the Scottish Golf Union.

FINAL TOTALS
Par 284 (4 x 71)
275 S Borrowman (Dollar) 68 66 69 72.
277 B Newsome (East Sussex National) 70 67 69 71.
278 S McLaren (King James VI) 69 68 71 70, R Kind ((Ned) 69 70 70 69, A Campbell (Dumbarton) 67 69 69 73.
279 J White (Lundin) 71 68 70 70.
280 C Thomson (East Renfrewshire) 69 73 70 68, M Daily (Erskine) 66 73 69 72, L Kirton (Newmachar) 66 73 73 68.
281 S Ballingall (Dunston Hall) 71 66 71 73.
283 C Morrison (Kilmacolm) 70 70 72 71, B Sloan (Hamilton) 67 72 72 72, P McLachlan(Bonnyton) 71 67 74 71.
284 G Turner (West Linton) 70 71 70 73, M Kraemer (Ger) 75 65 70 74, Z Saltman (Craigielaw) 66 71 72 75..
285 G Robertson (Glenbervie) 69 72 71 73, N Henderson (Glen) 68 72 73 72.
286 D Yeats (Newmachar) 73 70 69 74, G Paterson (St Andrews New) 71 71 72 72.
287 A Schwartz (Fra) 68 75 71 73, C Robinson (Wigtown & Bladnoch) 70 71 70 76, E Polson (Inverness) 70 72 72 73.
288 S McGarvey (Glencorse) 75 68 75 70, J Reiss (Aldeburgh) 71 70 73 74, P Latimer (St Andrews New) 72 69 71 76, P McLean (Peterhead) 71 68 73 76
289 A Main (Thornton) 70 73 71 75, S Keane (Cathkin Braes) 71 72 71 75, S Binning (Ranfurly Castle) 70 73 72 74.
290 S Mann (Garmouth & Kingston) 71 71 74 74, M Bookless (Sandyhills) 75 66 74 75.
294 C Wedgeworth (Cowglen) 74 69 75 76, A Murdoch (Stranraer) 72 70 72 80, C Conroy (Paisley) 73 69 73 79, S Larkin (Banchory) 69 72 72 81.
295 S Fraser (Royal Aberdeen) 70 73 76 76.
296 R Hyland (Hazlehead) 73 70 76 77, O Rozner (Fra) 67 76 78 75, J Clarke (Royal Montrose) 71 72 73 80.
297 C-H Raindre (Fra) 71 69 78 79.
298 J Mackay (Barassie) 68 73 80 77.300 J Hendrick (Pollok) 72 71 72 85.
303 J Gardiner (Montrose Mercantile) 73 69 78 83.


MISSED THE CUT
144 A Richardson (East Sussex National) 72 72, B Ducros (Fra) 71 73, R Noon (Longniddry) 70 74, G Stevenson (Whitecraigs) 73 73, A Wallace (Glenbervie) 72 72, D Sommerville (St Andrews)( 72 72, L McGowan ( St Andrews New) 70 74, M Mayer (Ger) 70 74, A Culverwell (Dunbar) 74 70, C Cowie (Strathlene) 73 71, J Findlay (Fraserburgh) 71 73, J Bradley (Paisley) 73 71, M Lawrence (Newmachar) 73 71, J Duff (Newmachar) 70 74, P Shields (Kirkhill) 70 74.
145 B Kerr (Newmarket Links) 73 72, A Gordon (Portpatrick Dunskey) 74 71.
145 N Cameron (King James VI) 76 69, S Herald (Whitecraigs) 70 75, N McBride (Cowglen) 70 75, K Turlan (Fra) 70 75, T Hayes (West Byfleet) 70 75, R Bell (Downfield) 71 74, D Parlane (Helensburgh) 71 74, O Loftsson (Ice) 70 75, C Baron (Oldmeldrum) 76 69, M Smyth (Royal Troon) 71 74, G Villard (Fra) 71 74.
146 K Broders (Latvia) 71 75, R Graham (Hayston) 70 76, C Dougill (Stoneleigh Deer Park) 73 73, J Hamilton (NZ) 75 71, J Shanks (Irvine) 71 75, P McGhee (US) 74 72, F-R Rouilleaux (Fra) 73 73, D Huizing (Ned) 73 73.
147 T Spencer (Inchmarlo) 71 76, K Finaisson (Ice) 74 73, G Mitchell (Braemar) 73 74, M Gavars (Latvia) 75 72, J Lockie (Tantallon) 73 74, C Gray (West Kilbride) 77 70, R Leeds (Muckhart) 74 73, R King (Dumbarton) 75 72, J Dunkley (US) 74 73, F Fotheringham (Nairn) 72 75.
148 K Harper (Cazrnoustie) 76 72, R Crowe (Newcastle United) 75 73, K Duncan (McDonald Ellon) 70 78, P Petursson (Ice) 73 75.
149 R McKen (Newburgh on Ythan) 73 76, A Sweeney (Carnoustie) 73 76, R Anderson (Duddingston) 76 73, M Main (Thornton), E Brown (Barassie) 74 75, L Stokinger (Ger) 71 78, F McKenna (Balmore) 76 73, D Addison (Barassie) 7970.
150 K Branum-Burns (Bearwood Lakes) 78 72, D Mitchell (Leven Th) 73 77, A Moir (Thornton) 77 73, B Rushford (Grangemouth) 73 77, S Phillips (Royston) 78 72, E Malcolm (Dunfermline) 75 75.
151 C McLaughjlin (Largs) 78 73, C Robb (Inchmarlo) 75 76, S Neilson (Dunbar) 77 74, R Rebecchi (Greenock) 73 78, P Gissurarson (Ice) 76 75, S Barras (Helensburgh) 78 73.
152 W Bremner (Edzell) 80 72, K Smith (Barassie) 75 77, S Bordon (Mouse Valley) 77 75.
153 C McHaugh (Cathkin Braes) 73 80, A Weir (Montrose Mercantile) 78 75, J Neilson (Dunbar) 73 80.
154 D Harrison (Crieff) 81 73, S Maxwell (Windyhill) 76 78.
155 T Dagwell (East Sussex National) 77 78, K Spence (Newmachar) 80 75.
156 M Cunningham (Longniddry) 76 80.
157 S Crichton (Abverdour) 77 80, D Hunter (Cowal) 75 82, O Lavelle (Elderslie) 78 79, F Niven (Crieff) 74 83.
158 S Tully (Duddingston) 81 77.
159 A Shah (East Aberdeenshire) 78 81.
164 J Fleming (Dullatur) 83 81.

COWAL CHARITY MIXED GREENSOMES ON
SUNDAY, JULY 1 DESERVE YOUR SUPPORT

Have you ever played Cowal Golf Club, Dunoon?
No? Well, here's you chance to put matters right.
Cowal Golf Club's charity mixed greensomes will be held on Sunday, July 1.
The charity is "McMillan Nurses in Dunoon."
There are still some spaces left at various times between 12.00 and 3.00 and all entrants would be most welcome, says Steve Ellis who contacted Scottishgolfview.com, asking for our help in a very good cause.
Entry fee is £10 per couple.
This event is in its 2nd year and last year raised over £2,000 for the local hospice.
Inquiries to club secretary Margaret Grant on 01369705673 or 01369705137.

DOAK WINS EDZELL PRO-AM WITH FIVE-UNDER 66

Chris Doak won today's Edzell Golf Club pro-am by two strokes with a five-under-par round of 66.
The former Northern Open winner had birdies at the first, foufth, eighth, ninth, 11th and 18th. His only bogey came at the 14th. His financial reward was £1,085.
James McGhee (Turnhouse) and Sam Cairns (Westerwood) shared second place on 68.
Ross Cameron (McDonald Ellon) led the B J Services 1 team to victory in the pro-am with a net score of 15-under-par 127. The amateur team members were: Bob Wright (handicap 12), Glen Cairs (11) and Trevor Spry (5).
LEADING PROFESSIONALS
Par 71
66 C Doak (unatt).
68 J McGhee (Turnhouse), S Cairns (Westerwood).
69 M Loftus (Cowglen), A J Webster (Edzell).
70 J McCreadie (Buchanan Castle), C Kelly (Cawder), J McKinnon (Irvine), G Hutcheon (Peterculter).
WINNING TEAM
127 R Cameron (McDonald Ellon) & B J Services 1: B Wright (12), G Caird (11), T Spry (5).

LANGER JUST FAILS IN BID TO BECOME
OLDEST PLAYER TO WIN ON EUROPEAN
TOUR - JT 2nd BEHIND FASTH

Bernhard Langer - 50 on August 27 - narrowly failed in his bid to become the oldest winner in European Tour history as Sweden's Niclas Fasth took the BMW International Open in Munich by two strokes with a closing 70 and 13 under par total of 275.
Langer had nearly pulled out on Thursday when a neck problem saw him struggle to a 76 and joint 135th place, but he then added rounds of 66 and 68 and was only one behind after five birdies in his first 17 holes of the final round.
However, much to his disappointment and that of the home crowd, he pulled his second into rough at the par-5 home holel, failed to salvage a birdie and Fasth doubled his advantage with a seven-foot birdie putt on the 17th.
A sixth Tour victory and the £225,396 first prize was the Swede's after a par on the last.
Langer was joint second - with Portugal's Jose-Filipe Lima - just as he was to South African Rory Sabbatini after a play-off on the US Tour a month ago. The German had also just failed to become the first player on the European circuit to win after surviving the halfway cut with nothing to spare.
FINAL TOTALS
Par 288 (4 x 72)
Players GB&I unless stated.
275 Niclas Fasth (Swe) 67 65 73 70
277 Jose-Filipe Lima (Por) 65 70 70 72, Bernhard Langer (Ger) 76 66 68 67
278 Anders Hansen (Den) 68 70 72 68, Ricardo Gonzalez (Arg) 68 71 69 70, Maarten Lafeber (Ned) 71 67 73 67
279 Ernie Els (Rsa) 67 71 74 67, Simon Khan 70 71 72 66
280 Benn Barham 72 69 71 68, Thomas Levet (Fra) 68 67 72 73
281 Peter Hanson (Swe) 68 66 74 73, Anthony Wall 72 70 73 66, Alastair Forsyth 68 73 67 73, Simon Dyson 72 66 73 70, Emanuele Canonica (Ita) 69 73 70 69, Raphael Jacquelin (Fra) 65 74 73 69, Jyoti Randhawa (Ind) 70 69 73 69
282 Jeev Milkha Singh (Ind) 69 72 70 71, Sven Struver (Ger) 72 66 71 73, Miguel Angel Jimenez (Spa) 69 69 74 70, Oliver Wilson 70 68 75 69
283 Shiv Kapur (Ind) 72 70 73 68, Andres Romero (Arg) 67 68 75 73, Steven Jeppesen (Swe) 68 74 74 67, Sam Little 74 67 74 68
284 Ross Fisher 71 71 76 66, Nick Dougherty 68 68 71 77, David Frost (Rsa) 67 70 70 77, David Lynn 71 66 74 73, Steven O'Hara 69 70 73 72, Henrik Stenson (Swe) 73 66 73 72, Ian Garbutt 69 71 75 69
285 Christian Cevaer (Fra) 70 67 72 76, David Griffiths 69 69 73 74, Phillip Price 73 69 68 75, Peter Fowler (Aus) 68 73 71 73, Rafael Cabrera Bello (Spa) 69 70 74 72, Philip Golding 71 69 74 71
286 Paul Casey 68 70 74 74, Henrik Nystrom (Swe) 71 68 75 72, Gonzalo Fdez-Castano (Spa) 66 72 72 76, Peter Hedblom (Swe) 71 70 75 70
287 Martin Erlandsson (Swe) 68 72 75 72, Mads Vibe-Hastrup (Den) 74 66 78 69
288 Peter Gustafsson (Swe) 73 65 75 75, Terry Price (Aus) 74 68 74 72, Peter Lawrie 71 67 77 73
289 Francesco Molinari (Ita) 67 73 75 74, Lee Slattery 75 66 76 72, Markus Brier (Aut) 71 69 74 75, David Higgins 73 69 74 73
290 Tom Whitehouse 70 68 77 75, Alejandro Canizares (Spa) 74 67 77 72, Paul Broadhurst 66 73 79 72
291 Edward Rush 71 70 75 75
292 Brett Rumford (Aus) 70 70 77 75
293 David Park 72 70 77 74
294 Alexander Noren (Swe) 72 69 74 79
295 Juan Parron (Spa) 74 67 72 82
297 Marc Farry (Fra) 66 76 75 80, Jamie Spence 71 71 78 77, Darren Fichardt (Rsa) 73 69 80 75
298 Jean-Francois Lucquin (Fra) 71 71 79 77
299 Alexandre Rocha (Bra) 73 67 78 81, Graeme Storm 71 69 78 81

ICE-COOL SAM WINS LONDON SENIOR
MASTERS WITH A PITCH-AND-PUTT
AT THE LAST HOLE


By STEVEN FRANKLIN
Press Officer, European Seniors Tour

Sam Torrance held his nerve to produce a magnificent up-and-down on the final hole to secure a one-stroke victory over José Rivero in the Bendinat London Seniors Masters at The London Golf Club.
It was the Scot's his second success in three editions of the over-50s tournament.
The former Ryder Cup captain from Ayrshire reached the 54th hole with a two-stroke lead but after driving into the water and missing the green left with his third shot, a play-off looked on the cards.
However, Torrance produced a majestic pitch that travelled 30 yards across the 18th green and finished three inches short of the cup, before tapping in for a round of two under par 70 and a winning 54 hole aggregate of 10-under 206.
Rivero, the Spanish former Ryder Cup player, closed in six under par 66 to finish one stroke back, while third place on 208 was shared by England's Carl Mason, a winner in Wales last week, and Eamonn Darcy of Ireland.
Rookie senior Ross Drummond from Prestwick finished sixth on 212 and Aberdonian John Chillas came joint 12th on 216
The glory, however, belonged to Torrance, who celebrated his first title of the season and the first in partnership with his son Daniel, who took over as his dad's full-time caddie four weeks ago.
"This was an important win for me, as I have made a slow start to the season and I want to win a third Order of Merit. Also it is extra special to do it with my son," said Torrance, after collecting a winner's cheque for £22,500 that will move him into the top 10 on the Order of Merit.
England's Martin Foster was also feeling flush after a hole-in-one at the seventh earned him a £10,000 travel voucher to South Africa from safari and golf holiday company Wedge & Wildlife and 159 bottles of Hardys wine.

FINAL TOTALS
Par 216 (3 x 72)]

206 Sam Torrance (Sco) 68 68 70.
207 Jose Rivero (Esp) 69 72 66.
208 Eamonn Darcy (Ire) 70 69 69, Carl Mason (Eng) 68 70 70.
210 Jim Rhodes (Eng) 70 69 71.
212 Ross Drummond (Sco) 70 68 74.
213 Bobby Lincoln (RSA) 73 66 74.
214 John Bland (RSA) 72 70 72, Gordon J Brand (Eng) 70 69 75, Tony Johnstone (Zim) 71 68 75, Juan Quiros (Esp) 71 71 72.
216 Giuseppe Cali (Ita) 74 69 73, John Chillas (Sco) 71 70 75.
217 Jerry Bruner (USA) 69 73 75.
218 Stewart Ginn (Aus) 74 73 71, David Merriman (Aus) 76 69 73, Mike Ferguson (Aus) 70 73 75, Pete Oakley (USA) 71 72 75.
219 Jean Pierre Sallat (Fra) 74 74 71, Bob Cameron (Eng) 73 74 72, Seiji Ebihara (Jap) 75 71 73, Costantino Rocca (Ita) 70 75 74, David Good (Aus) 75 70 74, Tony Allen (Eng) 69 72 78, Martin Poxon (Eng) 72 72 75.
220 Angel Fernandez (Chi) 74 74 72, Denis Durnian (Eng) 76 70 74, Tim Rastall (Eng) 72 70 78, Gery Watine (Fra) 73 70 77.
221 John Mashego (RSA) 73 77 71, Simon Owen (Nzl) 71 76 74, Bruce Heuchan (Can) 74 73 74, Bill Longmuir (Sco) 75 72 74, Bill McColl (Sco) 75 70 76, Kevin Spurgeon (Eng) 75 70 76, Glenn Ralph (Eng) 70 74 77.
222 Andrew Murray (Eng) 73 74 75.
223 Doug Johnson (US) 74 77 72, Nick Job (Eng) 73 74 76, Emilio Rodriguez (Esp) 75 72 76.
224 Martin Foster (Eng) 79 74 71, Martin Gray (Sco) 79 70 75, David J Russell (Eng) 75 75 74, Robin Mann (Eng) 70 77 77, Terry Gale (Aus) 74 73 77.
225 Philippe Dugeny (Fra) 76 75 74, Jim Lapsley (Nzl) 72 76 77, Ian Mosey (Eng) 74 74 77, Bertus Smit (RSA) 76 72 77, John Benda (US) 74 72 79.
226 Denis O'Sullivan (Ire) 78 75 73, Manuel Piñero (Esp) 77 75 74, Andrew Reynolds (Eng) 74 75 77.
227 Bob Larratt (Eng) 75 72 80.
228 Maurice Bembridge (Eng) 74 77 77, Delroy Cambridge (Jam) 83 70 75, Terry Dill (US) 76 79 73, Tony Jacklin (Eng) 79 71 78, Guillermo Encina (Chi) 77 71 80.
229 Tommy Horton (Eng) 80 75 74, Steve Martin (Sco) 78 74 77, Mike Miller (Sco) 74 77 78, Noel Ratcliffe (Aus) 81 70 78.
230 Bob Charles (Nzl) 77 77 76, Jimmy Heggarty (NIr) 78 76 76.
231 Tony Charnley (Eng) 78 75 78, David Creamer (Eng) 73 78 80, Victor Garcia (Esp) 75 79 77.
234 Craig Defoy (Wal) 75 74 85, Eddie Polland (NIr) 76 77 81.
235 Bill Malley (US) 73 77 85.
242 Bob Shearer (Aus) 81 81 80

Rain washes out fourth round at Glasgow Killermont

BOOTH WINS TENNANT CUP AFTER SPLENDID
64 IN THIRD ROUND TO GO FIVE SHOTS CLEAR

Wallace Booth from Comrie, who recently graduated with honours in business management studies after four years at Augusta State University, finished top of the class in the Tennant Cup today after the torrential rain washed out the fourth and final round
Young Booth would probably have won the prestigious silver medal and £500 first place voucher anyway because he put together a magnficent third round of 67 over the Glasgow Golf Club Killermont course for a three-round total of 204, sweeping past Craig Watson who had led by two shots from Booth after Saturday's first two rounds at Glasgow Gailes.
It was a second SGU 72-hole Order of Merit tournament win for Wallace. He won the North of Scotland open stroke-play at Elgin two or three years back. He won the Scottish youths championship more recently.
Watson had a 71 at Killermont for 209.
Joint third on 210 were Gavin Dear (Murrayshall) and Mark Lamb (Haddington), like Booth, both experienced on the American college circuit.

First two rounds Glasgow Gailes, Third round Glasgow Killermont.
Fourth round cancelled because of rain.
FINAL TOTALS
(CSS 74 74 69)
204 W Booth (Comrie) 69 71 64.
209 C Watson (East Renfrewshire) 69 69 71.
210 G Dear (Murrayshall) 73 70 67, M Lamb (Haddington) 69 71 70.
211 G Campbell (Blairgowrie) 71 70 70.
212 K Nichol (Fraserburgh) 74 70 68.
213 J King (Glasgow) 73 72 68, R McKnight (Barassie) 71 72 70.
214 I Colquhoun (Glasgow) 73 74 67, M Clark (Kilmacolm) 73 72 69.
215 K McNicoll (Carnoustie) 70 74 71.
216 P O’Hara (Colville Park) 72 75 69, D Stewart (Grantown on Spey) 78 69 69, B Fotheringham (Forres) 75 71 70.
217 G Gorrie (Glasgow) 72 74 71.
218 S Mann (Carnoustie) 75 72 71, S Clark (Haggs Castle) 78 68 72.
219 C Harkins (Ayr Belleisle) 76 75 68, L Millar (Cawder) 71 76 72, M Kerr (Craigielaw) 69 74 76..
220 B Anderson (Cambuslang) 73 76 71.
222 D Simpson (Crieff) 73 76 73.
223 C Riddick (Dumfries & Galloway) 74 77 72, D Miller (Kilmacolm) 75 77 71, K Hamilton (Whitecraigs) 76 73 74.
224 P Betty (Hayston) 81 73 70, M Dargie (Cawder) 71 78 75.
225 G Munro (Ranfurly Castle) 76 75 74.
226 R Dixon (Barassie) 80 75 71, J Hempstock (Dumfries & Galloway) 79 75 72, J R Michell (Fraser burgh) 76 76 74, G Smith (Stirling) 75 76 75.
229 S Michie (Thornton) 76 79 74, G Richards (Kingsknowe) 73 77 79, S Rennie (Airdrie) 76 77 76.
230 J Wybar (Aldeburgh) 75 79 76.
231 G Findlay (Ballumbie Castle) 77 76 78, P Dempsey (Alloa) 72 80 79.
233 A McKie (Glencruitten) 81 74 78.
235 J Welsh (Aus) 75 80 80.

MISSED THE CUT
155 S Michie (Thornton) 76 79, S Rennie (Airdrie) 76 79. J Walsh (Aus) 75 80, R Dixon (Barassie) 80 75, A McKie (Glencruitten) 81 75.
156 K A Mathieson (Royal Dornoch) 78 78, G Grimson (Prestwick St Cuthbert) 81 75, F Drum (Cowglen) 82 74.
157 D Dale (Cawder) 80 77, A Howard (Murrayshall) 75 82, G McLetchie (Mouse Valley) 77 80, M Stewart (Ranfurly Castle) 77 80, I Rennie (Royal Dornoch) 78 79.
158 C Carson (Innellan) 77 81, J Findlay (Fraserburgh) 81 77, N Gold (Bonnyton) 85 73.
160 G Stewart (Murcar Links) 80 80, G E Erskine (Glasgow) 79 81, J Paterson (Hayston) 81 79.
165 P Edwards (Meldrum House) 81 84.
166 K Shanks (Hilton Park) 84 83.

McARTHUR OUT IN 28 ON HIS WAY TO
SECOND-PLACE FINISH BEHIND
BAKER ON CHALLENGE TOUR

By MICHAEL GIBBONS
Press Officer, European Challenge Tour.
Former Scottish amateur champion Andrew McArthur fired an astonishing front nine of eight under par 28 at the Wylihof Golf Club in Switzerland on his way to finishing second behind former Ryder Cup player Peter Baker at the Credit Suisse Challenge today.
The 28-year-old Windyhill professional made eight birdies and a single par by the time he reached the turn in what was a sensational display.
But Andrew's luck deserted him on the back nine where he lipped out twice for birdie before eventually posting a fourth round of nine under 64 and finishing one behind Baker on 19-under- par 273.
McArthur’s second place prize of £10,413 lifted the 2002 Scottish amateur title-winner to 27th place on the Challenge Tour Rankings and has ignited his season after a slow start to the year.
“It was one of those days where it just felt so easy,” said McArthur.
“I wasn’t really thinking about scores or anything, my main thoughts were to stay relaxed and try and make as many birdies as I could.
“It could have been better if I had holed the ones that lipped out on the back nine, but I am delighted with how I have played and feel that this is the start of my season because I have not been playing well up until now.”
Baker took the £15,146 first prize after a final round of six under 67 left him with a winning total of 20 under 272.
The former Ryder Cup player, who also Vice-Captained Ian Woosnam during Europe’s record equalling win over the USA at The K Club last year, rediscovered his putting form at Wylihof by using the same Ping B-60 putter he had won three points out of four with at The Belfry in 1993.
“I can’t remember winning tournaments being that difficult!” smiled Baker.
“I’m delighted to win here – it definitely feels like I am on the way back now and I am going to keep playing on the Challenge Tour and try and win my card through the top 20 on the Rankings.”
Euan Little was the next best Scot in the field in 14th place on 12 under, while Peter Whiteford finished 20th, Scott Henderson 32nd and Eric Ramsay 43rd.
FINAL TOTALS
Par 292 (4 x 73)
272 P Baker (Eng) 72 67 66 67.
273 A McArthur (Sco) 67 72 70 64.
274 R Dinwiddie (Eng) 67 68 71 68.
275 C Del Moral (Esp) 65 71 69 70.
Scots & others:
280 E Little (Sco) 68 68 75 69 (jt 14ty).
282 P Whiteford (Sco) 70 70 70 72 (jt 20th),.
284 S Henderson (Sco) 74 71 68 71 (jt 32nd).
286 E Ramsay (Sco) 73 70 70 73 (jt 43rd).
287 G Wright (Wal) 72 73 70 72, J Doherty (Sco) 69 75 71 72 (jt 50th).
288 J McLeary (Sco) 73 67 73 75 (jt 55th).

SCORES FROM US PGA TOUR

Travelers Championship
The TPC at River Highlands
Par 210 (3 x 70)

199 Jay Williamson 66 66 67
200 Hunter Mahan 62 71 67
201 David Toms 67 65 69
202 Fred Funk 70 65 67
203 Pat Perez 69 68 66, Nick O'Hern (Aus) 67 70 66
205 Jerry Kelly 69 68 68, Vijay Singh (Fij) 68 71 66, Justin Rose (Eng) 69 68 68, Billy Mayfair 67 72 66, Tom Lehman 67 68 70
206 Kenny Perry 65 71 70, Kevin Na (Kor) 70 67 69, Stephen Marino 68 67 71, Eric Axley 67 70 69, Olin Browne 67 67 72, Heath Slocum 68 68 70, Tom Pernice Jnr. 68 70 68, Ryan Moore 66 71 69
207 Charles Warren 67 67 73, B.J Staten 67 71 69, Mathew Goggin (Aus) 69 71 67, Tim Petrovic 71 68 68
208 Billy Andrade 66 71 71, Joey Sindelar 66 70 72, Bill Haas 72 68 68, Chris DiMarco 64 70 74, Joe Ogilvie 71 68 69, Bo Van Pelt 73 68 67, Steve Allan (Aus) 66 75 67
209 Brad Faxon 65 74 70, Rodney Pampling (Aus) 66 71 72, Chad Campbell 69 70 70, Ryan Armour 67 74 68, Shigeki Maruyama (Jpn) 67 69 73, Carl Pettersson (Swe) 65 72 72
210 J J Henry 68 73 69, David Branshaw 70 71 69, Woody Austin 66 73 71, Cliff Kresge 71 70 69, Peter Lonard (Aus) 68 69 73, Jason Gore 68 70 72, Bob Tway 71 70 69
211 Michael Allen 66 69 76, Jason Dufner 71 70 70, Craig Bowden 71 69 71, Brent Geiberger 73 68 70
212 Robert Gamez 70 69 73, J.B. Holmes 72 69 71, Jeff Overton 69 71 72, Mark Calcavecchia 71 70 71, Steve Flesch 71 69 72, Kevin Sutherland 68 71 73, Douglas Labelle 68 73 71
213 Michael Sim (Aus) 65 70 78, Andrew Buckle (Aus) 71 70 72, Stewart Cink 68 70 75, Ben Curtis 69 71 73, Steve Wheatcroft 68 71 74, Kevin Stadler 68 70 75, Arjun Atwal (Ind) 68 71 74, Corey Pavin 70 66 77, Tripp Isenhour 72 68 73, Bob Heintz 65 72 76, Padraig Harrington (Irl) 71 68 74
214 Brian Davis (Eng) 71 69 74, Cameron Beckman 75 65 74, Craig Kanada 68 71 75
215 Tim Herron 71 70 74, Glen Day 69 70 76, Daisuke Maruyama (Jpn) 68 72 75, John Mallinger 71 69 75, Frank Lickliter II 69 71 75
216 Will MacKenzie 67 74 75, Alex Cejka (Ger) 68 71 77
218 Scott Gutschewski 72 69 77, Mark Brooks 70 70 78
219 Jesper Parnevik (Swe) 72 69 78
220 Brett Wetterich 70 70 80

US CHAMPIONS (seniors) TOUR

Bank of America Championship, Nashawtuc CC.

SECOND-ROUND TOTALS
Par 144 (2 x 72)
134 Tom Purtzer 66 68
137 Jack Ferenz 71 66, Kirk Hanefeld 71 66, R.W. Eaks 73 64, Tom Jenkins 68 69, Tom Watson 65 72, Keith Fergus 68 69, Jay Haas 71 66
138 Jim Thorpe 71 67, Danny Edwards 72 66, Leonard Thompson 69 69
139 Brad Bryant 71 68, Rick Karbowski 70 69, Chip Beck 71 68, Masahiro Kuramoto (Jpn) 68 71, John Jacobs 67 72, Bob Gilder 71 68, Morris Hatalsky 71 68
140 Jay Sigel 70 70, Tom Kite 70 70, Tim Conley 70 70, Scott Simpson 70 70, Jim Ahern 71 69, Lonnie Nielsen 68 72
141 Bruce Summerhays 69 72, Dana Quigley 72 69, David Eger 72 69, Larry Nelson 68 73, Joe Inman 69 72, Allen Doyle 71 70, Tom McKnight 70 71
142 Bruce Fleisher 70 72, David Edwards 71 71, James Mason 71 71, Denis Watson 72 70, Des Smyth 74 68, Michael Smith 72 70, Nick Price (Zim) 72 70
143 Denny Hepler 68 75, Joe Ozaki (Jpn) 70 73, Jim Dent 72 71, Mark McNulty 71 72, Wayne Levi 72 71
144 Mike McCullough 72 72, Andy Bean 71 73, D A Weibring 71 73, Curtis Strange 72 72, Craig Stadler 70 74, Kenny Knox 72 72, Jerry Pate 73 71, Ed Dougherty 71 73, Dave Eichelberger 70 74, John Harris 68 76, Walter Hall 73 71, Bobby Wadkins 74 70
145 Peter Jacobsen 71 74, Mike Reid 73 72, Hale Irwin 74 71, John Ross 71 74
146 Bruce Lietzke 77 69, Bruce Vaughan 74 72, Graham Marsh (Aus) 73 73
147 Lee Trevino 77 70, Scott Hoch 76 71, Jim Colbert 78 69
148 Mark Johnson 75 73, Mike Goodes 74 74, Mike Hill 74 74
149 Tim Simpson 75 74
150 Tom Wargo 77 73, Jim Albus 78 72, Dale Douglass 77 73, Pat McDonald 79 71, Jack Renner 74 76
151 Ron Streck 73 78
152 Dick Mast 77 75, J.C Snead 76 76
155 Hugh Baiocchi (Rsa) 75 80.

LPGA TOUR

Wegmans LPGA Championship
Locust Hill Country Club.
Par 216 (3 x 72)
207 Lorena Ochoa (Mex) 69 71 67
208 In Kyung Kim (Kor) 70 67 71
211 Cristie Kerr 66 75 70
212 Lindsey Wright (Aus) 70 70 72, Mi-Hyun Kim (Kor) 69 68 75, Angela Stanford 70 69 73, A.J Eathorne (Can) 72 71 69
213 Seon Hwa Lee (Kor) 71 71 71, Jin Joo Hong (Kor) 71 73 69, Wendy Ward 74 70 69, Pat Hurst 74 69 70
214 Rachel Hetherington (Aus) 70 71 73, Maria Hjorth (Swe) 70 71 73, Karine Icher (Fra) 74 70 70
215 Morgan Pressel 70 72 73, Meena Lee (Kor) 71 71 73, Beth Bader 73 72 70, Moira Dunn 73 71 71, Suzann Pettersen (Nor) 68 75 72, Leta Lindley 72 71 72, Jeong Jang (Kor) 71 73 71
216 Paula Creamer 70 76 70, Nina Reis (Swe) 76 70 70, Janice Moodie 74 70 72
217 Joo Mi Kim (Kor) 74 73 70, Young-A Yang (Kor) 76 72 69, Charlotta Sorenstam (Swe) 70 77 70, Reilley Rankin 73 71 73, Brittany Lincicome 69 75 73, Lorie Kane (Can) 71 74 72, Jee Young Lee (Kor) 71 77 69, Ai Miyazato (Jpn) 73 71 73, Gloria Park (Kor) 72 76 69, Erica Blasberg 75 68 74, Soo Young Moon (Kor) 72 73 72
218 Vicki Goetze-Ackerman 71 74 73, Jimin Kang (Kor) 70 75 73, Becky Morgan 70 72 76, Se Ri Pak (Kor) 73 74 71, Alena Sharp 67 74 77, Amy Hung (Tha) 70 75 73, Mhairi McKay 72 72 74
219 Giulia Sergas (Ita) 76 68 75, Michele Redman 73 72 74, Angela Park 76 71 72, Diana D'Alessio 71 74 74, Song-Hee Kim (Kor) 73 75 71, Kate Golden 71 77 71, Sophie Gustafson (Swe) 70 74 75, Hye Jung Choi (Kor) 74 74 71, Katherine Hull (Aus) 71 73 75
220 Sun Young Yoo (Kor) 72 73 75
221 Ji-Young Oh (Kor) 71 76 74, Karrie Webb (Aus) 72 73 76, Catriona Matthew 71 75 75, Nancy Scranton 76 71 74, Sherri Steinhauer 74 74 73, Christina Kim 70 75 76, Katie Futcher 71 76 74
222 Il Mi Chung (Kor) 72 73 77, Beth Daniel 75 71 76, Young Kim (Kor) 70 76 76, Patricia Meunier-Lebouc (Fra) 72 75 75, Jamie Hullett 74 74 74, Silvia Cavalleri (Ita) 76 70 76, Na Ri Kim (Kor) 74 72 76
223 Sherri Turner 71 76 76, Brandie Burton 74 73 76
224 Eva Dahllof (Swe) 70 77 77, Candie Kung (Tai) 72 74 78
225 Yu Ping Lin (Tai) 73 74 78
228 Karin Sjodin (Swe) 72 75 81

CRAIG WATSON TWO STROKES AHEAD

AT HALFWAY STAGE OF TENNANT CUP

Former British amateur champion Craig Watson (pictured right) started the last two rounds of the Tennant Cup at Glasgow Killermont today with a two-stroke lead after a pair of 69s on Saturday at Glasgow Gailes.

On 138 - 10 shots under the combined CSS for the day, the East Renfrewshire man is two ahead of Wallace Booth (Comrie) and Mark Lamb (Haddington).

Saturday evening scoreboard:

GLASGOW GAILES (CSS 74 74)

138 C Watson (East Renfrewshire) 69 69.
140 W Booth (Comrie) 69 71, M Lamb (Haddington) 69 71..
141 G Campbell (Blairgowrie) 71 70.
143 G Dear (Murrayshall) 73 70, M Kerr (Craigielaw) 69 74, R McKnight (Barassie) 71 72.
144 K McNicoll (Carnoustie) 70 74, K Nichol (Fraserburgh) 74 70.
145 M Clark (Kilmacolm) 73 72, J King (Glasgow) 73 72.
146 B Fotheringham (Forres) 75 71, S Clark (Haggs Castle) 78 68, G Gorrie (Glasgow) 72 74.
147 D Stewart (Grantown on Spey) 78 69, L Millar (Cawder) 71 76, S Mann (Carnoustie) 75 72, P O’Hara (Colville Park) 72 75, I Colquhoun (Glasgow) 73 74
149 D Simpson (Crieff) 73 76, B Anderson (Cambuslang) 73 76, M Dargie (Cawder) 71 78, K Hamilton (Whitecraigs) 76 73.
150 C Harkins (Ayr Belleisle) 76 74, G Richards (Kingsknowe) 73 77.
151 B Soutar (Leven GS) 74 77, G Smith (Stirling) 75 76, G Munro (Ranfurly Castle) 76 75, C Riddick (Dumfries & Galloway) 74 77.
152 K McAlpine (Alyth) 75 77, D Miller (Kilmacolm) 75 77, J R Mitchell (Fraserburgh) 76 76, S Lockhart (Bathgate) 79 73, P Dempsey (Alloa) 72 80, S Machin (Cowglen) 79 73.
153 F Campbell (Clober) 78 75, G Finlay (Ballumbie Castle) 77 76.
154 J Wybar (Aldeburgh) 75 79, J Hempstock (Dumfries & Galloway) 79 75, P Betty (Hayston) 81 73.
155 S Michie (Thornton) 76 79, S Rennie (Airdrie) 76 79. J Walsh (Aus) 75 80, R Dixon (Barassie) 80 75, A McKie (Glencruitten) 81 75.
156 K A Mathieson (Royal Dornoch) 78 78, G Grimson (Prestwick St Cuthbert) 81 75, F Drum (Cowglen) 82 74.
157 D Dale (Cawder) 80 77, A Howard (Murrayshall) 75 82, G McLetchie (Mouse Valley) 77 80, M Stewart (Ranfurly Castle) 77 80, I Rennie (Royal Dornoch) 78 79.
158 C Carson (Innellan) 77 81, J Findlay (Fraserburgh) 81 77, N Gold (Bonnyton) 85 73.
160 G Stewart (Murcar Links) 80 80, G E A Erskine (Glasgow) 79 81, J Paterson (Hayston) 81 79.
165 P Edwards (Meldrum House) 81 84.
166 K Shanks (Hilton Park) 84 83.

BORROWMAN LEADS BY TWO STROKES

WITH ONE ROUND TO PLAY IN

SCOTTISH YOUTHS CHAMPIONSHIP

Stirling University student Scott Borrowman (Dollar), the 2003 Scottish Under-16 stroke-play champion, is on the trail of a second national title - the Scottish youths open amateur stroke-play championship at Erskine Golf Club.
Borrowman, pictured right, shot a two-under-par 69 in this morning's third round - his third successive sub-par score - for a 54-hole tally of 10-under-par 203 over the par-71 course.

He leads by two shots from Andrew Campbell (Dumbarton), who also had a 69 today.

THIRD ROUND SCOREBOARD

Par 213 (3 x 71)

203 S Borrowman (Dollar) 68 66 69.

205 A Campbell (Dumbarton) 67 69 69.

206 B Newsome (East Sussex National) 70 67 69.
208 S McLaren (King James VI) 69 68 71, M Daily (Erskine) 66 73 69, S Ballingall (Dunston Hall) 71 66 71.
209 Z Saltman (Craigielaw) 66 71 72. R King (Newd) 69 70 70, J White (Lundin) 71 68 70.
210 M Kraemer (Ger) 75 65 70.
211 B Sloan (Hamilton) 67 72 72, C Robinson (Wigtown & Bladnoch) 70 71 70, G Turner (West Linton) 70 71 70.
212 C Thomson (East Renfrewshire) 69 73 70, D Yeats (Newmachar) 73 70 69, P McLachlan (Bonnyton) 71 67 74, L Kirton (Newmachar) 66 73 73, P McLean (Peterhead) 71 68 73, C Morrison (Kilmacolm) 70 70 72, G Robertson (Glenbervie) 69 72 71, P Latimer (St Andrews New) 72 69 71..
213 N Henderson (The Glen) 68 72 73, S Larkin (Banchory) 69 72 72.
214 G Paterson (St Andrews New) 71 71 72, E Polson (Inverness) 70 72 72, A Schwartz (Fra) 68 75 71, A Main (Thornton) 70 73 71, S Keane (Cathkin Braes) 71 72 71, J Reiss (Aldburgh) 71 70 73, A Murdoch (Stranraer) 72 70 72.
215 S Binning (Ranfurly Castle) 70 73 72, J Hendrick (Pollok) 72 71 72, C Conroy (Paisley) 73 69 73, M Bookless (Sandyhills) 75 66 74.
216 J Clarke (Royal Montrose) 71 72 73, S McGarvey (Glencorse) 75 68 75, S Mann (Garmouth & Kingston) 71 77 74.
218 C Wedgeworth (Cowglen) 74 69 75, C-H Raindre (Fra) 71 69 78.
219 S Fraser (Royal Aberdeen) 70 73 76, R Hyland (Hazlehead) 73 70 76.
220 J Gardiner (Montrose Mercantile) 73 69 78.
221 O Rozner (Fra) 67 76 78, J Mackay (Barassie) 68 73 80.

Non-qualifiers for Sunday’s final two rounds

144 A Richardson (East Sussex National) 72 72, B Ducros (Fra) 71 73, R Noon (Longniddry) 70 74, G Stevenson (Whitecraigs) 73 73, A Wallace (Glenbervie) 72 72, D Sommerville (St Andrews)( 72 72, L McGowan ( St Andrews New) 70 74, M Mayer (Ger) 70 74, A Culverwell (Dunbar) 74 70, C Cowie (Strathlene) 73 71, J Findlay (Fraserburgh) 71 73, J Bradley (Paisley) 73 71, M Lawrence (Newmachar) 73 71, J Duff (Newmachar) 70 74, P Shields (Kirkhill) 70 74.
145 B Kerr (Newmarket Links) 73 72, A Gordon (Portpatrick Dunskey) 74 71, N Cameron (King James VI) 76 69, S Herald (Whitecraigs) 70 75, N McBride (Cowglen) 70 75, K Turlan (Fra) 70 75, T Hayes (West Byfleet) 70 75, R Bell (Downfield) 71 74, D Parlane (Helensburgh) 71 74, O Loftsson (Ice) 70 75, C Baron (Oldmeldrum) 76 69, M Smyth (Royal Troon) 71 74, G Villard (Fra) 71 74.
146 K Broders (Latvia) 71 75, R Graham (Hayston) 70 76, C Dougill (Stoneleigh Deer Park) 73 73, J Hamilton (NZ) 75 71, J Shanks (Irvine) 71 75, P McGhee (US) 74 72, F-R Rouilleaux (Fra) 73 73, D Huizing (Ned) 73 73.
147 T Spencer (Inchmarlo) 71 76, K Finaisson (Ice) 74 73, G Mitchell (Braemar) 73 74, M Gavars (Latvia) 75 72, J Lockie (Tantallon) 73 74, C Gray (West Kilbride) 77 70, R Leeds (Muckhart) 74 73, R King (Dumbarton) 75 72, J Dunkley (US) 74 73, F Fotheringham (Nairn) 72 75.
148 K Harper (Cazrnoustie) 76 72, R Crowe (Newcastle United) 75 73, K Duncan (McDonald Ellon) 70 78, P Petursson (Ice) 73 75.
149 R McKen (Newburgh on Ythan) 73 76, A Sweeney (Carnoustie) 73 76, R Anderson (Duddingston) 76 73, M Main (Thornton), E Brown (Barassie) 74 75, L Stokinger (Ger) 71 78, F McKenna (Balmore) 76 73, D Addison (Barassie) 7970.
150 K Branum-Burns (Bearwood Lakes) 78 72, D Mitchell (Leven Th) 73 77, A Moir (Thornton) 77 73, B Rushford (Grangemouth) 73 77, S Phillips (Royston) 78 72, E Malcolm (Dunfermline) 75 75.
151 C McLaughlin (Largs) 78 73, C Robb (Inchmarlo) 75 76, S Neilson (Dunbar) 77 74, R Rebecchi (Greenock) 73 78, P Gissurarson (Ice) 76 75, S Barras (Helensburgh) 78 73.
152 W Bremner (Edzell) 80 72, K Smith (Barassie) 75 77, S Bordon (Mouse Valley) 77 75.
153 C McHaugh (Cathkin Braes) 73 80, A Weir (Montrose Mercantile) 78 75, J Neilson (Dunbar) 73 80.
154 D Harrison (Crieff) 81 73, S Maxwell (Windyhill) 76 78.
155 T Dagwell (East Sussex National) 77 78, K Spence (Newmachar) 80 75.
156 M Cunningham (Longniddry) 76 80.
157 S Crichton (Aberdour) 77 80, D Hunter (Cowal) 75 82, O Lavelle (Elderslie) 78 79, F Niven (Crieff) 74 83.
158 S Tully (Duddingston) 81 77.
159 A Shah (East Aberdeenshire) 78 81.
164 J Fleming (Dullatur) 83 81.

RAIN HOLDS UP JAMIESON BID IN OKLAHOMA

Torrential rain washed out Saturday's play in the NGA Hooters Tour event, the Buffalo Run Casino at Peiora Ridge Golf Club, Miami in Oklahoma.
The organisers will now try, weather permitted, to squeeze the final two rounds into Sunday's schedule.
Scott Jamieson from Glasgow was joint 12th after two rounds.
Scroll down for the earlier news from the tournament.

VIKKI LAING SHOOTS LOWEST ROUND
OF HER LIFE – A NINE-UNDER-PAR 63

Vikki Laing from Musselburgh shot a career-low nine-under-par round of 63 to improve from joint 120th to tied 10th with one round to go in the United States Futures Tour’s Duramend Championship at Stonelick Hills Golf Club near Cincinnati, Ohio.
Vikki had opened the 54-hole tournament disappointingly with a 77 over the 6,349yd, par-72 course which left her worrying about making the 36-hole cut. Now, at four-under-par 140, she has given herself the chance of a decent pay check.
The 26-year-old former Curtis Cup player, four times Scottish girls match-play champion (1996-97-98-99) and St Rule Trophy winner, is eight shots behind joint leaders Violet Retamoza (Mexico) and Seo-Jae Lee from Seoul, South Korea but only five behind third-place Eunjung Yi from California.
“I would have been happy with a 68, but I’ll take this,” said Laing, who stayed on in the United States to turn professional after four years at the University of California Berkeley.
“I was just trying to be around here on Sunday to play.”
Vikki’s bogey-free round included eight birdies and an eagle-2 on the par-four eighth hole, where she holed an eight-iron from 148 yards. The blonde Scot hit 17 greens, every fairway and rolled in 28 putts for her career-low round.
“I guess the difference between scoring 73 and 63 is you just hole the putts,” she said. “I felt really good on the greens and today I could see the lines. I haven’t felt that comfortable in a long time.”
This season on the Futures Tour, America’s No 2 women’s circuit, Vikki has been far more consistent than at any time in her pro career which saw her gain LPGA Tour status at one time but not a high enough category to get her regular outings and so build up some kind of momentum.
A total of 71 players made the36-hole cut at two-over-par 146 or better.
They did not include South Wales amateur Natasha Morgan, spending her summer holidays playing the Futures Tour, nor Brenda McLarnon from Belfast. Natasha had a 74 for 150 and Brenda a 75 for 154.
And if you are wondering how warm it is in Ohio compared with Scotland at this time of the year, the official tournament temperature was 78 degrees with a 9mph breeze.

LEADERBOARD
Par 144 (2 x 72)
132 Violeta Retamoza (Mex) 66 66, Seo-Jae Lee (Seoul) 66 66.
135 Eunjung Yi (US) 65 70.,
138 Janell Howland (US) 71 67, Cortney Reno (US) 70 68, Emily Bastel (US) 68 70.
Other score:
140 Vikki Laing (Sco) 77 63 (jt 10th).
Non-qualifiers:
150 Natasha Morgan (Wal) (am) 76 74.
154 Brenda McLarnon (NIr) 79 75.

HUTCHEON AND McKINNON WIN £965
APIECE IN PORTLETHEN PRO-AM

Greig Hutcheon (Peterculter) and Jim McKinnon (Irvine) shared the top prize with seven-under-par 65s in the Portlethen Golf Club pro-am on Saturday.
They both received £965.
Hutcheon birdied the second, third, fourth, sixth, 11th, 13th, 15th and 18th in halves of 32 and 33. He had one bogey, at the 10th.
McKinnon had two bogeys, at the 10th and 17th but he had birdies at the second, third, fourth, seventh, ninth,13th and 15th and - vitally important - and eagle 3 at the last which enabled him to tie with Hutcheon.
McKinnon also led the Aiken Sheet Metal 1 team to victory in the pro-am event with a net score of 16-under-par 56. The team members were Neil Jolly (handicap 18), Bruce Finnie (18) and Mike Dalgarno (7).
LEADING PROFESSIONALS
Par 72
65 G Hutcheon (Peterculter), J McKinnon (Irvine).
66 J McCreadie (Buchanan Castle), C Gillies (Kingsfield).
68 S Cairns (Westerwood), C Kelly (Cawder), M Loftus (Cowglen), A Mackrell (Gary McFarlane Golf).
69 R Arnott (Bishopbriggs), P Wardell (Whitekirk).

Alastair Forsyth only three off the pace in Munich

BMW INTERNATIONAL OPEN
Golf Club Munchen Eichenried, Germany

THIRD ROUND TOTALS
Par 216 (3 x 72).
Players from GB&I unless stated.
205 Jose-Filipe Lima (Por) 65 70 70, Niclas Fasth (Swe) 67 65 73
207 David Frost (Rsa) 67 70 70, Nick Dougherty 68 68 71, Thomas Levet (Fra) 68 67 72
208 Alastair Forsyth 68 73 67, Ricardo Gonzalez (Arg) 68 71 69, Peter Hanson (Swe) 68 66 74
209 Sven Struver (Ger) 72 66 71, Christian Cevaer (Fra) 70 67 72
210 Bernhard Langer (Ger) 76 66 68, Phillip Price 73 69 68, Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano (Spa) 66 72 72, Anders Hansen (Den) 68 70 72, Andres Romero (Arg) 67 68 75
211 Jeev Milkha Singh (Ind) 69 72 70, Simon Dyson 72 66 73, David Griffiths 69 69 73, Maarten Lafeber (Ned) 71 67 73, David Lynn 71 66 74
212 Emanuele Canonica (Ita) 69 73 70, Peter Fowler (Aus) 68 73 71, Benn Barham 72 69 71, Steven O'Hara 69 70 73, Raphael Jacquelin (Fra) 65 74 73, Henrik Stenson (Swe) 73 66 73, Jyoti Randhawa (Ind) 70 69 73, Ernie Els (Rsa) 67 71 74, Miguel Angel Jimenez (Spa) 69 69 74, Paul Casey 68 70 74
213 Simon Khan 70 71 72, Juan Parron (Spa) 74 67 72, Rafael Cabrera Bello (Spa) 69 70 74, Oliver Wilson 70 68 75, Peter Gustafsson (Swe) 73 65 75
214 Markus Brier (Aut) 71 69 74, Philip Golding 71 69 74, Henrik Nystrom (Swe) 71 68 75
215 Anthony Wall 72 70 73, Shiv Kapur (Ind) 72 70 73, Sam Little 74 67 74, Alexander Noren (Swe) 72 69 74, Francesco Molinari (Ita) 67 73 75, Ian Garbutt 69 71 75, Martin Erlandsson (Swe), Peter Lawrie 71 67 77, Tom Whitehouse 70 68 77
216 Terry Price (Aus) 74 68 74, Steven Jeppesen (Swe) 68 74 74, David Higgins 73 69 74, Peter Hedblom (Swe) 71 70 75, Edward Rush 71 70 75
217 Marc Farry (Fra) 66 76 75, Lee Slattery 75 66 76, Brett Rumford (Aus) 70 70 77
218 Ross Fisher 71 71 76, Alejandro Canizares (Spa) 74 67 77, Mads Vibe-Hastrup (Den) 74 66 78, Alexandre Rocha (Bra) 73 67 78, Graeme Storm 71 69 78, Paul Broadhurst 66 73 79
219 David Park 72 70 77
220 Jamie Spence 71 71 78
221 Jean-Francois Lucquin (Fra) 71 71 79
222 Darren Fichardt (Rsa) 73 69 80

PETER BAKER PUTTS FOR DOUGH IN EURO
CHALLENGE TOUR'S SWISS EVENT

By MICHAEL GIBBONS
Press Officer, European Challenge Tour

Peter Baker revealed tonight that he used the same putter he won three points out of four with at the 1993 Ryder Cup to storm into second place with a superb third round of seven under par 66 at the European Challenge Tour’s Credit Suisse Challenge.
The 39 year old Englishman, who is hoping to win back his place on the European Tour via the top 20 of the Challenge Tour Rankings, put on a vintage display of shot-making and, of course, putting to move to 14 under par 205 at the par 73 Wylihof Golf Club in Switzerland.
Baker is just one behind his third round playing partner Marco Crespi of Italy, whose brilliant 65 took him to 15 under 204, with Spain’s Carlos Del Moral also on 14 under 205.
“It’s been a long time since I had the adrenaline and excitement of being in real contention going into the final round,” said Baker, who vice-captained Ian Woosnam during Europe’s recent Ryder Cup success at The K Club last year.
“I got the old Ryder Cup putter out of the garage this week – the old Ping B-60. I have been putting well for the first time in a long while. That has been my biggest problem, but it has been feeling good this week.”
Scotland’s Andrew McArthur (209), Peter Whiteford (210) and Euan Little (211) are still in with a chance after posting respective aggregate scores of ten, nine and eight under par going into Sunday’s final round.
SCOREBOARD
Par 219 (3 x 73)
204 Marco Crespi (Ita) 69 70 65.
205 Carlos Del Moral (Esp) 65 71 69, Peter Baker (Eng) 72 67 66.
206 Robert Dinwiddie (Eng) 67 68 71.
Scots scores:
209 Andrew McArthur 67 72 70 (jt 6th).
210 Peter Whiteford 70 70 70 (jt 12th).
211 Euan Little 68 68 75 (jt 16th).
213 Scott Henderson 74 71 68 Eric Ramsay 73 70 70, Jamie McLeary 73 67 73 (jt 24th).
215 Gareth Wright (Wal) 72 73 70, Jack Docherty 69 71 71 (jt 44th).

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TORRANCE LEADS FROM

DRUMMOND, MASON WITH

ONE ROUND TO GO IN

LONDON SENIOR MASTERS

By STEVEN FRANKLIN

Press Officer, European Seniors Tour

Sam Torrance spearheads a strong Scottish challenge going into Sunday's final round of the Bendinat London Seniors Masters at the exclusive London Golf Club, a tournament which marks the return to competitive action on these shores of two-time Major winner Tony Jacklin.

Torrance, pictured right, a winner of this event two years ago, has produced two rounds of 68 for an eight under par total of 136 and a two stroke lead over fellow Scot Ross Drummond and England's Carl Mason.

Mason, who captured his 15th European Seniors Tour title in Wales last weekend, added a bogey-free 70 to his opening 68 while Drummond, boosted by an eagle and birdie over the closing three holes, tagged a 68 onto Friday's 70.

Englishmen Gordon J Brand and Jim Rhodes, the latter having had three eagles in 36 holes, lie three shots back on five under par alongside Ireland's Eamonn Darcy, Sunningdale-based Zimbabwean Tony Johnstone and big-hitting South African Bobby Lincoln.

Aberdonian John Chillas is not out of the hunt for a high-place finish.

Torrance has topped the European Seniors Tour Order of Merit in each of the past two seasons, during which time he won seven times, but this year has been a different story with his best finish to date being a share of third place at the Jersey Seniors Classic.

"I know that I need to win soon or otherwise the Order of Merit is gone. I am playing well enough to do that on Sunday and I really like this golf course," commented the 2002 Ryder Cup captain, who is languishing in 16th place on the over-50s' money list.

Jacklin, who is making his first competitive appearance in the UK since The Open at St Andrews two years ago, bounced back from his opening round 79 with a one under par 71.

European Seniors TourBendinat London Seniors Masters
The London Golf Club

SECOND ROUND TOTALS
Par 144 (2 x 72)
136 Sam Torrance (Sco) 68 68.
138 Ross Drummond (Sco) 70 68, Carl Mason (Eng) 68 70.
139 Bobby Lincoln (RSA) 73 66, Tony Johnstone (Zim) 71 68, Eamonn Darcy (Ire) 70 69, Gordon J Brand (Eng), Jim Rhodes (Eng) 70 69.
141 John Chillas (Sco) 71 70, José Rivero (Esp) 69 72, Tony Allen (Eng) 69 72.
142 John Bland (RSA) 72 70, Tim Rastall (Eng) 72 70, Juan Quiros (Esp) 71 71, Jerry Bruner (USA) 69 73.
143 Giuseppe Cali (Ita) 74 69, Gery Watine (Fra) 73 70, Pete Oakley (US) 71 72, Mike Ferguson (Aus) 70 73.
144 Martin Poxon (Eng) 72 72, Glenn Ralph (Eng) 70 74.
145 David Good (Aus) 75 70, Bill McColl (Sco) 75 70, David Merriman (Aus) 76 69, Kevin Spurgeon (Eng) 75 70, Costantino Rocca (Ita) 70 75.
146 John Benda (USA) 74 72, Denis Durnian (Eng) 76 70, Seiji Ebihara (Jap) 75 71.
147 Bob Cameron (Eng) 73 74, Terry Gale (Aus) 74 73, Stewart Ginn (Aus) 74 73, Bruce Heuchan (Can) 74 73, Nick Job (Eng) 73 74, Bob Larratt (Eng) 75 72, Bill Longmuir (Sco) 75 72, Andrew Murray (Eng) 73 74, Emilio Rodriguez (Esp) 75 72, Simon Owen (Nzl) 71 76, Robin Mann (Eng) 70 77.
148 Guillermo Encina (Chi) 77 71, Angel Fernandez (Chi) 74 74, Ian Mosey (Eng) 74 74, Jean Pierre Sallat (Fra) 74 74, Bertus Smit (RSA) 76 72, Jim Lapsley (Nzl) 72 76.
149 Craig Defoy (Wal) 75 74, Martin Gray (Sco) 79 70, Andrew Reynolds (Eng) 74 75.
150 Tony Jacklin (Eng) 79 71, Bill Malley (USA) 73 77, John Mashego (RSA) 73 77, David J Russell (Eng) 75 75151 Maurice Bembridge (Eng) 74 77, David Creamer (Eng) 73 78, Philippe Dugeny (Fra) 76 75, Doug Johnson (USA) 74 77, Mike Miller (Sco) 74 77, Noel Ratcliffe (Aus) 81 70.
152 Steve Martin (Sco) 78 74, Manuel Piñero (Esp) 77 75.
153 Delroy Cambridge (Jam) 83 70, Tony Charnley (Eng) 78 75, Martin Foster (Eng) 79 74, Denis O'Sullivan (Ire) 78 75, Eddie Polland (NIr) 76 77.
154 Bob Charles (Nzl) 77 77, Jimmy Heggarty (NIr) 78 76155 Terry Dill (US) 76 79, Tommy Horton (Eng) 80 75.
162 Bob Shearer (Aus) 81 81.

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Scottish 72-hole youths championship

BORROWMAN TAKES UP THE RUNNING
AT HALFWAY WITH 66 IN SECOND
ROUND AT ERSKINE

Dollar's Scott Borrowman swept into the halfway lead of the Scottish boys' match-play championship with a sizzling five-under-par 66 for a 36-hole tally of 134 at Erskine Golf Club today.

With a few players still to finish, Stirling University student Borrowman had gone two shots clear of long-time leader Andrew Campbell (Dumbarton), a quarter-finalist in this year's Scottish boys' match-play championship at Dunbar.

After a promising opening round of 68, Borrowman, a +2 player whose mother played hockey for Scotland and Great Britain, did not have the best of starts on the second circuit with a bogey at the first hole. That was the first and only mistake that Scott made. He settled down and covered the last 13 holes in six under par with birdies at the sixth, eighth, ninth, 10th, 14th and 18th.

He is on the eight-under-par mark with two rounds to go on Sunday.

Campbell has had scores of 67 and 69 for a six-under-par tally of 136 over the par-71 lay-out.
He bogeyed the third but birdied the fourth and ninth to be out in one-under-par 31. Andrew got a 2 at the short 11th but dropped a second shot of the day at the 16th before birdieing the 18th for halves of 35 and 34.
Stuart Ballingall from Norfolk had a 66 to be one of a cluster in joint third place on 137.
The Dunston Hall Golf Club junior member birdied the first, third and fourth before dropping his first shot of the day at the fifth. He birdied the ninth to be out in 33. Ballingall had further birdies at the 12th, 15th and 18th on the inward half with only a bogey at the 16th to take him down a peg.
Ben Newsome (East Sussex National) joined Ballingall on 137 with a second-round 67.
Lewis Kirton (Newmachar), a student a the University of Louisville, Kentucky, one of three joint leaders on 66 overnight, slipped back a bit with a 73 for 139. Kirton bogeyed the eighth to be out in one-over 37. He did birdie the 12th but it was his only sub-par figure of the day. Bogeys at the 14tjh and 17th pushed him out to two over par.
Zack Saltman (Craigielaw), the first player to hit the 66 mark on Friday, had to settle for a par 71 to be a third player one shot off the pace on 137 at halfway. Zack started well enough in his second round with birdies at the first and fourth but his bogeys tended to come in clusters - the fifth and seventh, then, late on, the 13th, 16th and 17th. Fortunately he was able to cancel them out with further birdies at the ninth, 10th and 18th. Winner of the inaugural world hickory championship last year against adults - and professional adults at that - is by no means out of the hunt at this Under-21 level with 36 holes to go.

The halfway cut fell at 143 - totals of 144 and worse did not qualify for Sunday play.

SCOTTISH YOUTHS CHAMPIONSHIP
Erskine Golf Club
Par 142 (2 x 71)

134 S Borrowman (Dollar) 68 66.
136 A Campbell (Dumbarton) 67 69.
137 S Ballingall (Dunston Hall) 71 66, B Newsome (East Sussex National) 70 67, Z Saltman (Craigielaw) 66 71, S McLaren (King James VI) 69 68.
138 P McLachlan (Bonnyton) 71 67.
139 L Kirton (Newmachar) 66 73, R Kind (Ned) 69 70, J White (Lundin) 71 68, B Sloan (Hamilton) 67 72, M Daily (Erskine) 66 73, P McLean (Peterhead) 71 68.
140 C-H Raindre (Fra) 71 69, M Kraemer (Ger) 75 65, N Henderson (Glen) 68 72, C Morrison (Kilmacolm) 70 70.
141 J MacKay (Barassie) 68 73, S Larkin (Banchory) 69 72, M Bookless (Sandyhills) 75 66, P Latimer (St Andrews New) 72 69, G Robertson (Glenbervie) 69 72, C Robinson (Wigtown & Bladnoch) 70 71, G Turner (West Linton) 70 71.
142 C Conroy (Paisley) 73 69, S Mann (Garmouth & Kingston) 71 71, A Murdoch (Stranraer) 72 70, J Gardiner (Montrose Mercantile) 73 69, G Paterson (St Andrews New) 71 71, E Polson (Inverness) 70 72.
143 O Rozner (Fra) 67 76, S Fraser (Royal Aberdeen) 70 73, J Clarke (Royal Montrose) 71 72, A Schwartz (Fra) 68 75, S Binning (Ranfurly Castle) 70 73, S Keane (Cathkin Braes) 72 71, A Main (Thornton) 70 73, R Hyland (Hazlehead) 73 70, D Yeats (Newmachar) 73 70.

MISSED CUT
144 A Richardson (East Sussex National) 72 72, B Ducros (Fra) 71 73, R Noon (Longniddry) 70 74, G Stevenson (Whitecraigs) 71 73, A Wallace (Glenbervie) 72 72, L McGowan (St Andrews New ) 70 74, M Mayer (Ger) 70 74, A Culverwell (Dunbar) 74 70, C Cowie (Strathlene) 73 71, J Findlay (Fraserburgh) 71 73, J Bradley (Paisley) 73 71, P Shields (Kirkhill) 70 74.
145 B Kerr (Newmarket Links) 73 72, A Gordon (Portpatrick Dunskey) 74 71, N Cameron (King James VI) 76 69, S Herald (Whitecraigs) 70 75, N McBride (Cowglen) 70 75, T Hayes (West Byfleet) 70 75, K Turlan (Fra( 69 65,.
146 K Broders (Latvia) 71 75, R Graham (Hayston) 70 76, C Dougill (Stoneleigh Deer Park) 73 73, J Hamilton (NZ) 75 71, J Shanks (Irvine) 71 75.
147 T Spencer ((Inchmarlo) 71 76, K Einaisson (Iceland) 74 73, G Mitchell (Braemar) 73 74, M Gavers (Latvia) 75 72, J Lockie (Tantallon) 73 74, C Gray (West Kilbride) 77 70, R Leeds (Muckhart) 74 73, J Dunkley (US) 74 73, F Fotheringham (Nairn) 72 74.
148 K Harper (Carnoustie) 76 72, R Crowe (Newcastle United) 75 73, K Duncan (McDonald Ellon) 70 78, P Petursson (Ice) 73 75.
149 R McKen (Newburgh on Ythan 73 76, A Sweeney (Carnoustie) 73 76, R Anderson (Duddingston) 73 76, K Branum-Barnes (Bearwood Lakes) 78 72, L Stockinger (Ger) 71 78, E Brown (Barassie) 74 75.
150 D Mitchell (Leven Thistle 73 77.
151 C McLaughlin (Largs) 78 73, C McLaughlin (Largs) 78 73, C Robb (Inchmarlo) 75 76.
152 W Bremner (Edzell) 80 72, K Smith (Barassie) 75 77.
153 C Haugh (Cathkin Braes) 73 80, A Weir (Montrose Mercantile) 78 75.
155 T Dagwell (East Sussex National) 77 78., K Spence (Newmachar) 80 75.

156 M Cunningham (Longniddry) 76 80.
157 S Crighton (Aberdour) 77 80, D Hunter (Cowal) 75 82.
158 A Shan (East Aberdeenshire 78 81.
162 J Fleming (Dullatur).

TO BE UPDATED LATER

American Weaver wins British amateur title

FROM R&A WEBSITE

Six up with six to play, Drew Weaver had to go to the 35th hole before overcoming a determined fight-back by Tim Stewart in the final of the British men's amateur championship at Royal Lytham & St Annes, finally claiming the title by holing a vital seven-foot putt to win by 2 and 1.
He became the first American to win the championship since Jay Sigel in 1979.
"At six up with six to play I didn't feel that my game had slipped, I was still controlling the match," commented Weaver after his victory.
"The 17th was by far the most intense hole I have ever played. When I saw his putt go by, I said to myself 'Don't let it slip away, don't let it go to the 18th'. I got a good read on the putt and just concentrated on making a good stroke.
"I played great for 12 holes this afternoon and felt I was in control. I just concentrated on making pars so that he would have to win with birdies.
"Getting into the Walker Cup would be fantastic, but I just came here to experience links golf and it is up to the captain to decide whether I've done enough to get into the team. There are some areas of my game that need to be improved and I'll be working on those."
Stewart said: "I guess if you had told me at the beginning of the week that I would be runner-up I would have been delighted. Some you win and some you don't."
Weaver had established a two-hole lead after the first 18 holes and at the start of the afternoon round Stewart pitched to six feet and saved his par for a half at the first but lost the second when Weaver birdied from close range.
In a strange turn of events at the 457-yard third hole Weaver putted off the green into a bunker to lose the hole, then made amends when he holed from a bunker at the next for a winning birdie to remain three up.
Although both players were through the back of the short fifth they got up and down for a half in threes, but Weaver went further ahead when he reached the green in two at the par-five sixth and two-putted for a winning birdie.
At Lytham's longest hole, the 555-yard seventh, Weaver missed the green with an eight-iron second shot after a massive drive, but pitched to eight feet and holed out for another birdie to take a five-hole lead.
The American increased his advantage to six up with a two at the 196-yard 12th before Stewart began a remarkable come-back. Weaver dropped a shot to lose the 13th, Stewart holed from 30 feet at the next and took the 15th with a par four when Weaver blocked his tee shot into the right rough and could not make the green in two.
In the space of three holes the Australian had halved the deficit from six holes to three, and there was more to come. At the 16th Stewart holed from 18 feet for a birdie that kept the match alive, but Weaver gained a half in four at the 17th to claim his title.

RESULT
Final (36 holes)

Drew Weaver (United States) beat Tim Stewart (Australia) 2 and 1.

SCOTS LYING JOINT 12TH IN HOOTERS
TOUR EVENT IN OKLAHOMA

Glasgow's Scott Jamieson, campaigning as a rookie professional on the NGA Hooters Tour in the United States, was lying joint 12th at the halfway stage of the Buffalo Run Casino Classic at Peoria Ridge Golf Club, Miami in Oklahoma.
Jamieson, who turned pro last November after four years on the US college circuit as a student at Augusta State University and also topping the SGU Order of Merit table in 2006, has had scores of 65 and 69 for 10-under-par 134 over the 6,960yd course.
This is his eighth event on the mini-tour and he has missed only one cut so far. So high is the standard of play on the Hooters Tour that only those who scored five-under-par 134 survived the halfway cut in this event.
They included Florida resident and Edinburgh exile David Kirkpatrick, who has had a pair of 67s to be alongside Jamieson on 134.
Ulsterman Gareth Maybin from Ballyclare, one of the most successful non-Americans on the Hooters Tour over the past couple of years, is in joint 20th place on 135 with scores of 68 and 67.
Englishmen Steven Tiley from Canterbury and Lincoln's David Skinns, both former US college players, are on 137 and 139 respectively.
Colin Speirs from Dunkeld, another ex-American college student, missed the cut by seven shots with 77 and 69 for 146.
Australian Andrew Tschudin leads the field with a pair of 64s for 16-under-par 128.

LEADERBOARD
Par 144 (2 x 72)
128 A Tschudin (Aus) 64 64.
129 C Provost (US) 64 65.
132 B LaCassie (Aus) 65 67, J Teater (US) 66 66, J Dempsey (US) 67 65, T Ailes (US) 65 67, B Aydlett (US) 64 68.
Other scores:
134 S Jamieson (Sco) 65 69, D Kirkpatrick (Sco) 67 67 (jt 12th).
135 G Maybin (NIr) 68 69 (jt 20th).
137 S Tiley (Eng) 69 68 (jt 35th).
139 D Skinns (Eng) 69 70 (jt 51st).
MISSED CUT (139 or better)
146 C Speirs (Sco) 77 69.

VIKKI DISAPPOINTS AT CINCINNATI

Vikki Laing from Musselburgh had a disappointing opening round of five-over-par 77 in the US Futures Tour's $100,000 Duramed Championship at Stonelick Hills Golf Club, near Cincinnati, Ohio.
Vikki had halves of 40 and 37 over the par-72 (36-36), 6,349yd course.
South Wales amateur Natasha Morgan, a student at Lynn University, Boca Raton in Florida, was the leading British player in a field of 144 with a round of 76 (40-36).
Brenda McLarnon from Belfast had a 79 (41-38).
Eunjung Yi, based in California and winner of the 2005 US Women's Amateur Public Links championship, leads the field by one shot with a 65 (31-34) which included only 26 putts.
The leading 70 and ties after 36 holes will go forward to the final round.

LEADERBOARD
Par 72 (36-36)
65 Eunjung Yi (US) 31-34).
66 Seo-Jae Lee (SKor) 33-33, Violeta Retamoza (Mex) 35-31.
68 Emily Bastel (US) 36-32, Ashley Prange (US) 36-32.
GB&I scores:
76 Natasha Morgan (Wal) (am) 40-36 (jt 106th).
77 Vikki Laing (Sco) 40-37 (jt 120th).
79 Brenda McLarnon (NIr) 41-38 (jt 132nd).

CHALLENGE TOUR EVENT HIT BY WEATHER

Less than half the field have completed their second rounds in the weather-hit Credit Suisse Challenge, this week's European Challenge Tour event in Switzerland.
It will be Saturday afternoon before the 36-hole cut figure is known and the third round start.
COMPLETED TOTALS
Par 146 (2 x 73)
135 Robert Dinwiddie (Eng) 67 68.
136 Christoffer Lange (Den) 66 70.
137 Richard Treis (Ger) 68 69.
Scots scores:
140 Jamie McLeary 73 67.
143 Eric Ramsay 73 70.

PAUL LAWRIE AND STEPHEN GALLACHER AMONG
SCOTS HALFWAY FAILURES IN BMW
INTERNATIONAL OPEN IN MUNICH

Four Scots - Stephen Gallacher, Paul Lawrie, Scott Drummond and Andrew Coltart - have missed the cut in the BMW International Open in Munich.
Gallacher scored 72 and 73, Lawrie 74 and 74 for 145 - two shots too many to survive into the weekend play.
Drummond had 73 and 75 for 148 and Coltart 75 and 74 for 149.
Swedish players took over at the top of the halfway leaderboard.
Niclas Fasth is in the pole position at 12-under-par 132 with rounds of 67 and 65.
Compatriot Peter Hanson is on 134 with a 68 and 66.
Ernie Els is not out of it by any means on 138
The Scots who did make the cut were Steven O'Hara on 139 (69-70), Alastair Forsyth (68 73) on 141 and Marc Watten on 143 (76-67).
HALFWAY LEADERBOARD
Par 144 (2 x 72)
132 Niclas Fasth (Swe) 67 65
134 Peter Hanson (Swe) 68 66
135 Thomas Levet (Fra) 68 67, Andres Romero (Arg) 67 68, Jose-Filipe Lima (Por) 65 70
136 Nick Dougherty 68 68
137 David Frost (Rsa) 67 70, Christian Cevaer (Fra) 70 67
138 Maarten Lafeber (Ned) 71 67, Tom Whitehouse 70 68, David Griffiths 69 69, Sven Struver (Ger) 72 66, Anders Hansen (Den) 68 70, Paul Casey 68 70, Miguel Angel Jimenez (Spa) 69 69, Peter Lawrie 71 67, Peter Gustafsson (Swe) 73 65, Simon Dyson 72 66, Ernie Els (Rsa) 67 71, Oliver Wilson 70 68, Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano (Spa) 66 72
139 Jyoti Randhawa (Ind) 70 69, Henrik Stenson (Swe) 73 66, Paul Broadhurst 66 73, Raphael Jacquelin (Fra) 65 74, Henrik Nystrom (Swe) 71 68, Steven O'Hara 69 70, Rafael Cabrera Bello (Spa) 69 70, Ricardo Gonzalez (Arg) 68 71
140 Martin Erlandsson (Swe) 68 72, Graeme Storm 71 69, Alexandre Rocha (Bra) 73 67, Philip Golding 71 69, Ian Garbutt 69 71, Brett Rumford (Aus) 70 70, Mads Vibe-Hastrup (Den) 74 66, Markus Brier (Aut) 71 69, Francesco Molinari (Ita) 67 73
141 Juan Parron (Spa) 74 67, Alexander Noren (Swe) 72 69, Edward Rush 71 70, Benn Barham 72 69, Alastair Forsyth 68 73, Peter Hedblom (Swe) 71 70, Simon Khan 70 71, Jeev Milkha Singh (Ind) 69 72, Lee Slattery 75 66, Peter Fowler (Aus) 68 73, Alejandro Canizares (Spa) 74 67
142 David Park 72 70, Jean-Francois Lucquin (Fra) 71 71, Darren Fichardt (Rsa) 73 69, Shiv Kapur (Ind) 72 70, Emanuele Canonica (Ita) 69 73, Phillip Price 73 69, Bernhard Langer (Ger) 76 66, Ross Fisher 71 71, David Higgins 73 69, Marc Farry (Fra) 66 76, Anthony Wall 72 70
143 Simon Hurd 75 68, Marcel Siem (Ger) 78 65, Robert-Jan Derksen (Ned) 70 73, Michael Jonzon (Swe) 71 72, Jarmo Sandelin (Swe) 70 73, Jose Manuel Lara (Spa) 70 73, Marc Warren 76 67, Shaun Webster 74 69, Peter O'Malley (Aus) 75 68, Patrik Sjoland (Swe) 76 67, Andrew Tampion (Aus) 74 69, Christian Nilsson (Swe) 72 71
MISSED THE CUT
144 Mikko Ilonen (Fin) 75 69, Miles Tunnicliff 71 73, Soren Hansen (Den) 72 72, Thongchai Jaidee (Thai) 71 73, Garry Houston 73 71, Matthew Millar (Aus) 72 72
145 Ignacio Garrido (Spa) 71 75, Gary Lockerbie 73 72, Richard McEvoy 73 72, Louis Oosthuizen (Rsa) 73 72, Kyron Sullivan 73 72, Rafael Echenique (Arg) 72 73, Stephen Gallacher, Steve Webster 70 75, Alexander Knappe (Ger) (am) 72 73, Thomas Bjorn (Den) 73 72, Paul McGinley 74 71, Paul Lawrie 74 71
146 Robert Rock 72 74, Gregory Bourdy (Fra) 69 77, Ian Poulter 73 73, Andrew McLardy (Rsa) 75 71, Joost Luiten (Ned) 79 67, Cesar Monasterio (Arg) 73 73, Andrew Marshall 71 75
147 Yang Yong-eun (Kor) 77 70, Jonas Kolbing (Ger) (am) 71 76, Oliver Fisher 74 73, John Bickerton 74 73, Anton Haig (Rsa) 72 75, David Carter 74 73, Joakim Haeggman (Swe) 74 73, Tino Schuster (Ger) 75 72, Jean Van de Velde (Fra) 73 74, Martin Kaymer (Ger) 73 74, Mardan Mamat (Sing) 71 76
148 Alessandro Tadini (Ita) 76 72, Scott Drummond 73 75, Gary Emerson 71 77, Jean-Baptiste Gonnet (Fra) 73 75, Damien McGrane 74 74
149 Marcus Higley 75 74, Marcel Haremza (Ger) 76 73, Andrew Coltart 75 74
150 Mark Foster 72 78, Joakim Backstrom (Swe) 78 72, Phillip Archer 73 77
151 Mattias Eliasson (Swe) 74 77, Daniel Vancsik (Arg) 72 79, Soren Kjeldsen (Den) 75 76, Christopher Hanell (Swe) 73 78, James Hepworth 71 80
152 Ariel Canete (Arg) 75 77, Mark Pilkington 75 77, Richard Bland 76 76, James Kingston (Rsa) 78 74
153 Simon Wakefield 78 75
154 Johan Axgren (Swe) 77 77, Chris Gane 77 77, Nicolas Meitinger (Ger) 80 74
157 Niklas Lemke (Swe) 77 80
Retired Stephen Dodd, Andrew Raitt
Disqualified Raul Ballesteros (Spa)
Withdrew Sandy Lyle

Royal Lytham 36-hole Saturday finalists

IT'S AMERICAN WEAVER v AUSSIE

STEWART FROM BRITISH MEN'S

AMATEUR TITLE

FROM THE R&A WEBSITE

Saturday's 36-hole final of the British men's amateur championship will be between American student Drew Weaver and last year's Australian Amateur champion Tim Stewart from Sydney at Royal Lytham & St Annes.
The only Australian to win the championship was Doug Bachli in 1954 and the last of 20 American victories was by Jay Sigel in 1979.
Weaver, pictured right, a 20-year-old student at Virginia Tech from High Point, North Carolina, who was on campus when the recent fatal shootings took place, had a 2 and 1 victory over Jason Shufflebotham of Wales in the semi-finals. Two down after two, he birdied the third from eight feet and hit a three-wood and wedge into the eighth for a birdie that squared the match.
Shufflebotham birdied the 10th, where Weaver missed from eight feet, and both players got up and down from bunkers for a half at the short 12th. The Welshmen missed the green at the next to lose the hole to par and compounded the problem by three-putting the 14th to go one down.
When he missed the green at the 17th the match was over.
"He got off to a fast start and that was a bit of a shock," said Weaver of his opponent who birdied the short first when he chipped in from the second tee having blocked his tee shot well to the right of the green.
"I didn't start with any high expectations, " said Weaver. "That way you get shot down. I tend to get very high and my dad, who's a doctor, carried the bag for me. He talks me down and keeps me on a level keel."
Shufflebotham said: "It was a close match but I didn't convert the putts when I needed to. I carried my bag all week and I'm very tired. Maybe that was a mistake, but it's been a great week and maybe this is the start of better things for me."
Weaver's opponent in the final is Tim Stewart, a 6ft 6in 22-year-old who won the Australian amateur championship last year and who has Scottish ancestors on his father's side.
Tim closed out a high-quality match against Tulliallan's Callum Macaulay by one hole. The last remaining Scot - who had beaten compatriot Ross Kellett in the quarter-finals, opened with a birdie from 10 feet.
They halved the second and sixth in birdies, but the Australian lost a ball at the third. Macaulay reached the 555yd seventh in two and his birdie put him one ahead at the turn. But he conceded the 14th after driving into heavy rough and dropped a shot to go one behind at the next.
The 16th and 17th were halved.
At the final hole Stewart hit a one-iron tee shot into a bunker on the right and Macaulay followed him in. The half in 5 was enough to give the tall Australian the match and the chance to become only the second player from his country to win the title.
"It would be a huge honour to win this championship," he said. "But I don't want to get ahead of myself."
Tim won his country's amateur title last year and this season captured the prestigious Riversdale Cup. He is currently at the Australian Institute of Sport.
Macaulay said: "Obviously I'm disappointed, but I made a great 4 at 17 to keep the match alive. Overall I'm happy with the way I played and it gives me something to build on for the rest of the year."
The Scot, who has just completed four years on the American college circuit as a student at the University of Mississippi, does not intend turning professional before the end of next season. He has taken a part-time job in a golf shop in Stirling to finance his amateur golfing activities for the next 18 months or so.
Results:
SEMI-FINALS (18 holes)
Weaver bt Shufflebotham 2 and 1.
Stewart bt Macaulay 1 hole.

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TORRANCE SHARES LEAD WITH MASON IN
BENDINAT LONDON SENIORS MASTERS By STEVEN FRANKLIN
European Seniors Tour Press Officer.

Sam Torrance is hoping to move his European Seniors Tour season up a gear at The London Golf Club, near Brands Hatch, Kent, this weekend after an opening round of four under par 68 gave him a share of the lead in the Bendinat London Seniors Masters.
The former Ryder Cup Captain won this tournament two years ago en route to capturing the the over-50s' Order of Merit, but this time he needs a strong performance to kick-start a subdued start to the season and will go into Saturday's second round tied at the top with England's Carl Mason, a winner in Wales last week.
The pair lead by one stroke from England's Tony Allen, José Rivero of Spain and Jerry Bruner of the United States, who were all round in 69.
Costantino Rocca of Italy and Eamonn Darcy of Ireland are among a group on two under par 70. In the past two years Torrance has won seven times and finished as Europe's top Senior golfer on both occasions. A finger injury has hampered his progress this season but recent top-tens in Ireland and Jersey were evidence that he is feeling better, as was today's four under par score in blustery conditions around the Jack Nicklaus-designed Heritage Course at The London Golf Club.
"I am delighted as I played really nicely. To be honest I never really holed anything until a 25 footer at 17 for par and then a nice putt for birdie at the last," commented Torrance, who put together five birdies against a lone dropped shot.
"It has been a slow start to the season, but the game is very solid now and everything is heading in the right direction. Obviously I need to win soon or otherwise the Order of Merit is gone. I am playing well enough for that and I really like this golf course."
Ross Drummond, who is in his maiden season on the European Seniors Tour, continued his early promise with a round of 70 that included an eagle 3 at the 563yd eighth hole.The Prestwick golfer finished in a tie for second place at last week's Ryder Cup Wales Seniors Open and has registered two other top 10 finishes from six tournaments to date.
Aberdonian John Chillas was round in one under par 71 and Torrance-based Mike Miller, who had a hole-in-one during one of the tournament's pro-Am competitions, had a two over par 74.
Fellow Scot Bill Longmuir, who is attached to The London Golf Club, could not take advantage of 'home advantage' as he carded a 75, as did Bill McColl.
Dundee's Steve Martin had a 78 while Martin Gray was the worst of the Scots with a 79.
Tony Jacklin, making his golfing comeback in this event ahead of The Open at Carnoustie, showed signs of rust with a 79.
FIRST ROUND SCOREBOARD
Par 72.
68 Sam Torrance (Sco), Carl Mason (Eng).
69 Tony Allen (Eng), José Rivero (Esp), Jerry Bruner (US).
70 Eamonn Darcy (Ire), Costantino Rocca (Ita), Robin Mann (Eng), Jim Rhodes (Eng), Glenn Ralph (Eng), Gordon J Brand (Eng), Ross Drummond (Sco).
71 Pete Oakley (USA), Tony Johnstone (Zim), John Chillas (Sco), Juan Quiros (Esp), Simon Owen (Nzl).
72 Tim Rastall (Eng), Jim Lapsley (Nzl), Martin Poxon (Eng), John Bland (RSA).
73 Gery Watine (Fra), Bob Cameron (Eng), Andrew Murray (Eng), John Mashego (RSA), David Creamer (Eng), Bobby Lincoln (RSA), Nick Job (Eng).
74 Maurice Bembridge (Eng), Ian Mosey (Eng), Giuseppe Cali (Ita), Andrew Reynolds (Eng), Stewart Ginn (Aus), Terry Gale (Aus), Mike Miller (Sco), Bruce Heuchan (Can), John Benda (USA), Jean Pierre Sallat (Fra). 75 Craig Defoy (Wal), Bill McColl (Sco), Seiji Ebihara (Jap), Bill Longmuir (Sco), Kevin Spurgeon (Eng), David Good (Aus), Bob Larratt (Eng).
76 Bertus Smit (RSA), David Merriman (Aus).
77 Guillermo Encina (Chi), Bob Charles (Nzl), Manuel Piñero (Esp).
78 Tony Charnley (Eng), Steve Martin (Sco), Denis O'Sullivan (Ire), Jimmy Heggarty (NIr).
79 Martin Foster (Eng), Martin Gray (Sco), Tony Jacklin (Eng).
80 Tommy Horton (Eng).
81 Noel Ratcliffe (Aus).

Click on the image of the GB&I PGA Cup team to enlarge the picture.

MEET THE MEN WHO WILL DEFEND PGRA CUP
IN GEORGIA COME SEPTEMBER

A blend of youth and experience will be charged with helping Great Britain & Ireland defend the PGA Cup against America later in the summer.
The 10-man team to face the United States in Georgia at Reynolds Plantation Oconee Course from September 21-23 was decided following the recent Glenmuir Club Professional Championship at Royal Porthcawl which was won by Ireland's John Dwyer.
One man set to play a key role will be Kedleston Park pro and PGA Cup veteran Paul Wesselingh, aged 45, who will be making his fifth successive appearance.
He and Dwyer, 33, from Ashbourne in County Meath, who played in the 2000 and 2003 matches, are the only members of the team with experience of the contest.
Joining Derbyshire-based Wesselingh are two other Midland region pros, Ilkeston's James Whatley, 24, (Morley Hayes) and Lichfield's Danny Taylor, 33, (Swingers Driving Range) while the North region is represented by Clwyd's Andrew Barnett, 37, (North Wales Golf Range), Newcastle's Michael Nesbit, 30, (Westerhope GC) and Cumbria's Craig Goodfellow, 32, (Carlisle Driving Range).
The West region supply two pros in the shape of 48-year-old George Ryall (Players Club, Bristol) and Jon Bevan, 40, from Wessex Golf Centre in Weymouth.
Italy-based 43-year-old Duncan Muscroft (Montecchia), son of a former European Tour player Hedley, completes the line up.
GB&I will be led by captain Gary Alliss who will be aiming to become the first man in history to mastermind a PGA Cup victory on American soil since the club pros' equivalent of the Ryder Cup was first played in 1973 at Pinehurst.
The weight of history might be against them but Alliss is confident his side can retain the famous Llandudno Trophy which GB&I reclaimed at The K Club two years ago."It's a great mix of experience and youth with some strong characters," he said.
"With that blend of youth and experience, exuberance and calmness, I think we've got every chance of retaining the Llandudno Trophy."ends

Team picture. Front row (l to r): Andrew Barnett, Jon Bevan, Gary Alliss (captain), Michael Nesbit, John Dwyer. Back row: Paul Wesselingh, George Ryall, Craig Goodfellow, James Whatley, Duncan Muscroft, Daniel Taylor.

THREE SHARE LEAD ON 66 IN

SCOTTISH YOUTHS

CHAMPIONSHIP AT ERSKINE

Late finisher Michael Daily used his local knowledge of the Erskine Golf Club course to join Zack Saltman (Craigielaw) and Lewis Kirton (Newmachar) in a share of the first-round lead on the five-under-par 66 mark.
Daily birdied the third, fourth, fifth and ninth in a flawless 32 to the turn. He got another birdie at the 109th to be five under but then dropped his one and only shot at the 13th before a birdie at the 14th put him on course for a 66.
Zack Saltman, pictured right, the reigning world hickory champion, had birdies at the second, seventh, eighth, ninth, 17th and 18th in halves of 33. His only bogey over the par 71 course came at the second.
Kirton, who will be 19 next Friday, has only recently returned from completing his first year at the University of Louisville, Kentucky. Lewis was a shot ahead of Saltman after covering the first nine holes in four-under-par 32.
Kirton birdied the first, third, fifth, sixth and eighth but dropped a shot at the seventh.
Kirton gained the sixth and seventh birdies of his round at the short 11th and 13th but he also dropped a shot at the 12th. He parred the last five holes for 34 in and a 66.
On 67 alongside French challenger Olivier Rozner, was Dumbarton’s 18-year-old Andrew Campbell who birdied the second, fifth, ninth, 13th and 18th, dropping a shot only at the seventh.

FIRST ROUND (Par 71)
66 Z Saltman (Craigielaw), L Kirton (Newmachar), M Daily (Erskine).

67 O Rozner (Fra), A Campbell (Dumbarton), B Sloan (Hamilton).

68 S Borrowman (Dollar), J MacKay (Barassie), A Schwartz (Fra).

69 G Robertson (Glenbervie), C Thomson (East Renfrewshire), S McLaren (King James VI), R Kind (Ned), S Larkin (Banchory).

70 L McGowan (St Andrews New), A Main (Thornton), S Herald (Whitecraigs), G Turner (West Linton), O Loftsson (Ice), N McBride (Cowglen), K Turlan (Fra), J Duff (Newmachar), C Robinson (Wigtown & Bladnoch), C Morrison (Kilmacolm), M Mayer (Ger), T Hayes (West Byfleet), E Polson (Inverness), R Noon (Longniddry), R Graham (Hayston), P Shields (Kirkhill), S Fraser (Royal Aberdeen), K Duncan (McDonald Ellon), B Newsome (East Sussex National).

71 D Parlane (Helensburgh), R Bell (Downfield), M Smyth (Royal Troon), J Findlay (Fraserburgh), G Paterson (St Andrews New), P McLean (Peterhead), L Stockinger (Ger), J Reiss (Aldeburgh), T Spencer (Inchmarlo), C-H Raindre (Fra), J White (Lundin), J Clarke (Royal Montrose), G Stevenson (Whitecraigs), K Broders (Latvia), G Villard (Fra), B Ducros (Fra), S Ballingall (Dunston Hall), S Mann (Garmouth & Kingston), J Shanks (Irvine).

72 J Hendrick (Pollok), F Fotheringham (Nairn), A Richardson (East Sussex National).

73 R Hyland (Hazlehead, M Lawrence (Newmachar), J Bradley (Paisley), F-R Rouilleaux (Fra), P Petursson (Ice), B Rushford (Grangemouth), R Rebecchi (Greenock), C Cowie (Strathlene), J Gardiner (Montrose Mercantile), C Dougill (Stoneleigh Deer Park), J Neilson (Dunbar), D Huizing (Ned), D Yeats (Newmachar), R McKen (Newburgh on Ythan), A Sweeney (Carnoustie), C Haugh (Cathkin Braes), G Mitchell (Braemar), B Kerr (Newmarket Links), C Conroy (Paisley), J Lockie Tantallon, D Yeats (Newmachar), R Anderson (Duddingston).

74 A Culverwell (Dunbar), C Wedgeworth (Cowglen), F Niven (Crieff), E Brown (Barassie), J Dunkley (US), A Gordon (Portpatrick Dunskey), K Einaisson (Ice).

75 E Malcolm (Dunfermliine), S McGarvey (Glencorse), M Bookless (Sandyhills), R Crowe (Newcastle United), J Hamilton (NZ), M Kramere (Ger), C Robb (Inchmarlo), M Gavars (Latvia), K Smith (Barassie).
76 C Baron (Oldmeldrum), F McKenna (Balmore), P Gissurarson (Ice), S Maxwell (Windyhill), K Harper (Carnoustie), N Cameron (King James VI).

77 S Bordon (Mouse Valley), A Moir (Thornton), S Neilson (Dunbar), M Main (Thornton), T Dagwell (East Sussex National), S Crichton (Aberdour).

78 S Phillips (Royston), S Barras (Helensburgh), C McLaughlin (Largs), A Shah (East Aberdeenshire).
79 D Addison (Barassie).
80 K Spence (Newmachar), W Bremner (Edzell).
81 D Harrison (Crieff), S Tully (Duddingston).
83 J Fleming (Dullatur).

ENGLISH BOYS UNDER-16 OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP
AT SOUTHPORT & AINSDALE, JULY 4 to 6

England will field two strong teams in defence of the Nations Cup when the English Boys Under 16 open championship for the McGregor Trophy is played at Southport & Ainsdale Golf Club on 4th - 6th July.
One three-man team will consist of Tom Lewis (Mid Herts), Chris Lloyd (The Kendleshire) and Adam Myers (Northants County). The other will comprise Jonathan Bell (Royal Blackheath), Tom Berry (Wentworth) and Jack Brooks (Pleasington).
All six are members of the England under 16 training squad and some have been capped at under 16 level.
This year’s Nations Cup contest will involve 16 three-man teams. England, Scotland, Wales, the Netherlands and Spain are fielding two teams each and there will be one each from Belgium, Finland, France, Ireland, Italy, and Portugal.
The Nations Cup is contested over the first 36 holes of the McGregor Trophy and will be decided by the aggregate of the best two from three scores each round. In the event of a tie the Cup will be shared.
In the McGregor Trophy itself, Oscar Sharpe will not be defending the title he won at Worthing a year ago as he will be away with the rest of the England team at the European boys' team championships in Denmark. The same applies with Eddie Pepperell, who Sharpe beat by a stroke last year. That leaves Myers as the only former champion competing but the quest for the title is certain to be keen with the rest of the under 16 squad in the field, while the overseas challenge is likely to be strong. A
mong the past winners of the under 16 title are Steve Webster, Graeme Storm and Justin Rose, along with Jim Payne, now the professional at Southport & Ainsdale, who will take a keen interest in proceedings.
More recent champions have been internationals James Heath, Michael Skelton, Paul Waring, Matthew Baldwin and Oliver Fisher The title has also been won by non-British players on three occasions, by Eduardo Molinari in 1996, by his fellow Italian Roberto Paolillo in 1997 and by Wouter de Vries from the Netherlands in 2003.
A total of 200 entries were received for 132 places. All but one player with handicaps of four were balloted out, while 37 four-handicappers are on the reserve list.

BRITISH AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP QUARTER-FINAL
RESULTS FROM ROYAL LYTHAM

Results of this morning's quarter-finals in the British men's amateur championship at Royal Lytham were:

Jason Shufflebotham (Prestatyn) bt Rick Kulacz (Australia) 1 hole.
Drew Weaver (United State) bt Chris Wood (Long Ashton) 2 and 1.
Callum Macaulay (Tulliallan) bt Ross Kellett (Colville Park) 4 and 3.
Tim Stewart (Australia) bt Jorge Campillo (Spain) 1 hole.

R&A PRESS RELEASE

DAVID DUVAL WITHDRAWS FROM OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP

David Duval, the winner of the 2001 Open Championship at Royal Lytham & St Annes, has today, 22 June, intimated that as a result of personal family matters he has unfortunately had to withdraw from this year's Championship.

SCOTLAND FINISH DISAPPOINTING 12th OF
14 IN TOYOTA WORLD BOYS'
TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP IN JAPAN

Scotland’s second-half slump in the Toyota world boys’ team golf championship continued on the fourth and final day when their team score of 226 was their worst of the week and the poorest by any of the 14 countries in the fourth round.
Their counting scores (best three from four) on the last day over the 6,846yd, par-71 course, were a 73 by James Byrne, a 76 by Michael Stewart and a 77 by Shaun McAllister. Paul Ferrier had the non-counting score of 79.
The Scots’ 72-hole total of 20 over par 872 gave them a very disappointing final position of 12 of 14 in the table, with only Singapore and Venezuela behind us.
Sweden, second to Norway last year, turned the tables on their Scandinavian rivals and won the title with an impressive tally of 29-under-par 823 – nine strokes ahead of the defending champions Norway.
Norway provided the leading individual boy in Anders Kristiansen with a 14-under-par total of 270.
James Byrne from Banchory was Scotland’s best player over the four rounds with scores of 73, 65, 75 and 73 for a two-over-par total of 286 and joint 20th place in the final standings.
Michael Stewart from Troon Welbeck dipped in his final round with scores of 67, 72, 72 and 76 for three-over-par 287 and a share of 25th place.
Shaun McAllister (Craigielaw) finished 52nd in the boys’ field of 56 with scores of 74, 75, 75 and 77 for 17-over-par 301.
Scottish boys’ match-play champion Paul Ferrier (Baberton) came 55th on 27-over-par 311 with scores of 72, 85, 75 and 79.

TOYOTA WORLD BOYS’ TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP
Chukyo Golf Club, Nagoya, Japan.
Ishino Course, 6,846yd. Par 71

FINAL TEAM TOTALS
Par 852 (4 x 213)
823 SWEDEN 201 204 211 207.
832 NORWAY 205 205 207 215.
841 AUSTRALIA 216 207 207 211.
844 CHINESE TAIPEI 212 213 207 212.
845 SOUTH AFRICA 210 210 214 211.
847 NEW ZEALAND 210 213 204 220.
849 UNITED STATES 207 216 212 214, JAPAN 211 208 215 215.
854 MEXICO 216 214 209 215
856 CANADA 210 213 219 214.
862 ARGENTINA 215 217 211 219
872 SCOTLAND 212 212 222 226.
878 SINGAPORE 225 218 215 220.
882 VENEZUELA 219 218 222 223.

LEADING INDIVIDUAL TOTALS
Par 284 (4 x 71)
270 A Kristiansen (Nor) 67 66 67 70.
272 Cheng-Taung Pan (Tpe) 73 66 67 66.
274 B Akesson (Swe) 68 71 68 67, J Kennegard (Swe) 65 68 69 72.
276 P Widegren (Swe) 68 66 74 68.
278 M Giles (Aus) 69 70 70 69, M Azcue (Mex) 69 65 74 70.
Scots’ totals:
286 J Byrne 73 65 75 73 (jt 20th).
287 M Stewart 67 72 72 76.
301 S McAllister 74 75 75 77 (52nd).
311 P Ferrier 72 85 75 79 (55th).

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JAMIESON ONE SHOT OFF THE PACE IN OKLAHOMA
BUT NOW FOUR SHARE LEAD ON HOOTERS TOUR

Scott Jamieson shot a seven-under-par 65 to be one shot off the pace at the end of the first round of the Buffalo Run Casino Classic, this week's event on the NGA Hooters Tour, at Peoria Ridge Golf Club, Miami in Oklahoma.
The Glasgow-born rookie pro - he quit the amateur ranks last November after topping the Scottish Golf Union Order of Merit - had birdies at the fifth, seventh, eighth, 12th, 15th, 16th and 17th in a bogey-free round.
He was one shot behind four players on the eight-under-par 64 mark.
Long-time Edinburgh exile David Kirkpatrick had a 67 to be sharing 14th place.
Ulsterman Gareth Maybin from Ballyclare had a 68 to be in joint 22nd place.
Englishman David Skinns from Lincoln and Steven Tiley from Canterbury were in joint 38th place on 69.
Colin Spiers from Dunkeld looked unlikely to beat the halfway cut on this very competitive mini tour after starting with a 77. He starts the second round in joint 156th place in a field of 168 players.

LEADERBOARD
Players from US unless stated
64 B Aydlett, A Tschidin (Aus), J Buezas (Arg), C Provost.
65 S Jamieson (Sco), T Ailes, B Myers, B LaCassie (Aus).
Other scores:
67 D Kirkpatrick (Sco) (jt 14th).
68 G Maybin (NIre) (jt 22nd).
69 D Skinns (Eng), S Tiley (Eng) (jt 38th).
77 C Spiers (Sco) (jt 156th).

TEAMS AND TIES FOR THIS WEEKEND'S
NORTHERN DIVISION WOMEN'S
CHAMPIONSHIP AT CRUDEN BAY

For a full preview of the Saturday-Sunday-Monday Northern Division women's inter-county team championship at Cruden Bay, switch over to our sister website, www.kirkwoodgolf.co.uk
All spectators will be made welcome.
The teams and the matches are:

ABERDEENSHIRE – J Harrison (Cruden B ay), L McLardy (Murcar Links), L Murray (Alford), D Pocock (Murcar Links), M Thomson (McDonald Ellon), C Thomson (Murcar Links), C Wilson (Murcar Links), S Wood (Aberdeen Ladies).
ANGUS – H Anderson (Downfield), D Dewar (Monifieth), F Gilbert (Carnoustie), F Millar (Carnoustie), S Raitt (Forfar), A Ramsay (Kirriemuir), M Summers (Panmure Barry), K Sutherland (Royal Montrose).
NORTHERN COUNTIES – K Harper (Inverness), A Ingram (Fort William), K MacDonald (Nairn Dunbar), D MacLeod (Inverness), E Manson (Thurso), J Milne (Elgin), M Smith (Tain), L Walker (Nairn Dunbar).
PERTH & KINROSS – A Bushby (Strathmore), G Lambie (Dunkeld & Birnam), E Muirhead (Pitlochry), R Niven (Crieff), E Ogilvy (Auchterarder), F Ramsay (Crieff), Jacqueline Sneddon (Alyth) J Yellowlees (Murrayshall).

PROGRAMME
Saturday: Angus v Northern Counties, Aberdeenshire v Perth & Kinross.
Sunday – Aberdeenshire v Northern Counties, Angus v Perth & Kinross.
Monday – Perth & Kinross v Northern Counties, Angus v Aberdeenshire.

RITSON SMITH ABERDEEN & DISTRICT
PENNANT LEAGUE RESULTS

Thanks to everybody who E-mailed (most of them Murcar Links members) the results of last night's Pennant League results. We have them all now except for one:

Murcar Links 6, Peterculter 0.

Northern 4 1/2, Newmachar 1 1/2.

Nigg Bay 5, Stonehaven 1.

Royal Aberdeen 6, East Aberdeenshire 0.

+With a little bit of help from Pennant League organiser, Alan Sheldrick, we hope to be able to display the update league placings sooner rather than later.

DUNFERMLINE EXILE ROSS

BAIN JOINS TEAM TO

PROMOTE DUBAI AS

GOLFING DESTINATION

Golf in Dubai has signed Dubai-based Scot Ross Bain as one of its newest global ambassadors to promote the emirate's golf courses on the world stage.
Bain, now 31, has been a well-respected name on the Asian Tour since he finished runner-up in the 2001 Indian Open.
Ross was born at Dunfermline but has lived in Dubai since he was seven.
"It's a great honour and privilege to represent Golf in Dubai and be part of a team which consists players of the statures of Ernie Els, Mark O'Meara, Colin Montgomerie, Henrik Stenson, Thomas Bjorn, Lee Westwood, Jeev Milkha Singh and revered Peter Cowen as their global ambassadors," said Bain.
"Dubai has always been close to my heart and this is the place where I grew up, learning the basics of the game. I have seen how the city has progressed over the years as one of the most sought-after golf and lifestyle destinations. Everything about Dubai has got excellence written on it.
"Events like the Dubai Desert Classic which each year attracts virtually the who's who of international golf have contributed immensely to the growth of game in Dubai, in particular. I too took to golf inspired by exploits of top players at the Classic," said Bain who had won every amateur tournament in the UAE before turning professional in 1998.
"We welcome Ross on board. He is a great talent and his qualification for the 2007 Bristish Open just proves that he will go places," said Mohamed Buamaim, vice-chairman & CEO of Golf in Dubai – the promoters and organisers of world-class events like the Dubai Desert Classic and the Dubai Ladies Masters.

GRAMMAR WIN

SCHOOLS TITLE

AFTER CAPTAIN

MHAIRI HOLES

BIRDIE PUTT

Aberdeen Grammar School won the Aberdeen schools golf championship final by the narrowest of margins over Robert Gordon’s College over the Hazlehead No 1 course this evening.
The final ended in a draw: Grammar 1 ½, Gordon’s 1 ½ and the title went to Grammar by one hole on a holes-up countback.
Nick McAndrew and David Law won the first tie for Grammar by beating Michael Kelly and Steven Smith 4 and 3.
Gordon’s College pair Chris Black and Andrew Harris levelled the overall score at 1-1 by beating William Rennie and Kevin Bass 3 and 2.
Under the holes-up format, that meant Grammar had a one-hole lead (4 to 3) which would prove decisive should the last match to finish end all square.
And it did.
Gordon’s boys Neale Barnes and Harris Jones were one up on Grammar’s Donald McAndrew and Mhairi Johnstone playing the last hole in front of a large gallery.
Mhairi played a real captain’s part for Grammar by holing a 6ft birdie putt on the 18th green to halve the match and secure the trophy for the school on the countback.
Details:
Grammar School names first:
N McAndrew, D Law bt M Kelly, S Smith 4 and 3.
W Rennie, K Bass lost to C Black, A Harris 3 and 2.
D McAndrew, M Johnstone halved with N Barnes, H Jones.
++Picture, by courtesy of Derek Johnstone, shows the winning Grammar School team with Mhairi Johnstone holding the trophy.

Mhairi Johnstone said later:
Through 10 holes, Donald and I were three down and feeling down and out, but when Donald holed for a 2 at the 12th, all of a sudden we were pumped and and ready for the ultimate comeback.
We went back to being thre down on the 14th but birdies at the 15th and 16th got us back to one down.
By this time we that that David and Nick had won and that Kevin and William had been beaten.
Donald had a putt on 17 to win the hole but it just slid by. We knew we had it all to do, going down the last but, having played with each other before, we knew that, beween the two of us , we could make something happen.
Donald hit his drive and I hit my five wood. Donald was unlucky with his lie and his second shot landed short of the green.
Our opponents had both hit to the back of the green and I knew I had to land my ball close. Using my nine iron, I stuck the ball into six feet and at that point I had a feeling that it might just be our night.
After some discussion with my partner, I strode up to the ball and slotted it home, just like any other putt.
Afterwards I was overwhelmed. The looks on my team-mates' faces summted it up perfectly. We were all in complete shock.
Our first pair, Nick McAndrew and David Law, played phenomenal golf. They were seven under par through 15 holes, including five consecutive birdies from the 11th.

JAMIESON ONE SHOT OFF THE PACE
IN OKLAHOMA

Scott Jamieson shot a seven-under-par 65 to be one shot off the pace among the early finishers in the first round of the Buffalo Run Casino Classic, this week's event on the NGA Hooters Tour, at Peoria Ridge Golf Club, Miami in Oklahoma.
The Glasgow-born rookie pro - he quit the amateur ranks last November after topping the Scottish Golf Union Order of Merit - had birdies at the fifth, seventh, eighth, 12th, 15th, 16th and 17th in a bogey-free round.
He was one shot behind Brandon Aydlett from Baton Rouge, Louisana.
Other Scots Joel Hendry, David Kirkpatrick and Colin Speirs were among the later starters.

INGLIS MISSES ANOTHER CUT IN FLORIDA

Former Walker Cup player and past British boys champion David Inglis, a member of Glencorse Golf Club, Penicuik during his successful amateur career, missed the cut with rounds of 77 and 75 for 152 in the latest Gateway Tour event at West Palm Beach, Florida.
It was the 14th time in 18 tour events this year that he had missed the 36-hole cut, the last nine of them in a row from mid-March.

TRIPLE TIE AT DOUGLAS PARK PRO-AM

Chris Doak, Craig Ronald and Gary McFarlane tied for first place in the Douglas Park Golf Club pro-am in aid of the East Park Home for Infirm Children today
All three hit the three-under-par 66 mark and earned £846 apiece.
Dean Robertson steered the Abercrombie Gemmell No 4 trio of amateurs, Andrew Abercrombie (3), Dougie McFarlane (12) and Martin Sim (18) to victory in the team event with a net score of 19-under-par 119 (two players to count per hole).
LEADING PROFESSIONALS
Par 69
66 C Doak (unatt), C Ronald (Carluke), G McFarlane (Clober).]
67 S Gray (Hayston).
68 J Sharp (Carrick at Cameron House), R Arnott (Bishopbriggs), M Loftus (Cowglen), G Law (Uphall), J McCreadie (Buchanan Castle).
TEAM WINNERS
119 Dean Robertson (unatt) & Abercrombie Gemmell No 4 team: A Abercrombie (3), D McFarlane (12), M Sim (18).]

SCOTS OUT OF THE HUNT AT BOVEY CASTLE
IN PGA EUROPRO TOUR EVENT

The Scots trio of Paul Doherty, Alasdair Hay and Graham Gordon finished well down the field in the Bovey Castle Championship, the PGA EuroPro Tour event near Newton Abbot, Devon.
Former Scottish boys' match-play champion Doherty, based in South Wales, had three consecutive double bogeys in his second round and finished with scores of 71, 72 and 73 for a six-over-par total of 216, which earned him joint 32nd place and £282.
Anglo-Scot Hay from the Royal Winchester Club scored 70, 71 and 79 for 220 and a share of 42nd place. His pay cheque amounted to £232.
Former Scottish amateur champion Graham Gordon from Aberdeen got much worse every day, shotting 69, 74 and 79 for 222 to fill 48th place among the 50 qualifiers. Gordon started his final round with a double bogey 6 and it didn't get much better. He won £210.
Englishman Matthew Woods (Donnington Grove) won he £10,000 top prize with a 10-under-par total of 220 (70-65-65) by three shots from Irishman Colm Moriarty.

BOVEY CASTLE CHAMPIONSHIP
Par 210 (3 x 70)
LEADING FINAL TOTALS
200 M Woods (Eng) 70 65 65.
203 C Moriarty (Irfe) 71 66 66.
204 C Hanson (Eng) 64 70 70.
205 P Hendricksen (Eng) 68 70 67.
206 D Wardrop (Eng) 65 71 70.
Scots scores:
216 P Doherty 71 72 73 (jt 32nd).
220 A Hay 70 71 69 (jt 42nd).
222 G Gordon 69 74 79 (48th).

McARTHUR SHOOTS SIX-UNDER-PAR 67
AFTER SIX-HOUR STORM DELAY

By MICHAEL GIBBONS
Press Officer, European Challenge Tour

Glasgow’s Andrew McArthur ignored a six hour weather delay to storm into third place at the European Challenge Tour’s Credit Suisse Challenge at Wylkihof Golf Club, Luterbach in Switzerland today.
After a thunder and lightning storm that brought torrential rain to the 7,202yd, par-73 course, McArthur, a 28-year-old former Scottish amateur champion from the Windyhill club and an American college circuit player for four years, returned a six-under-par 67.
Starting at the 10th, Andrew birdied the 10th, 11th, 14th and 18th to cover his first nine holes in four-under-par 33.
He carried on his excellent run with birfdies at the second and fourth before dropping his only stroke of the round at the sixth.
The Scot is only two shots behind clubhouse leaders Carlos del Moral of Spain and Argentina’s Julio Zapata.
Stranraer’s Euan Little is just one behind McArthur on five under-par 68 while Fifers Peter
Whiteford and George Murray carded respective first round scores of 69 and par 73 respectively.
Whiteford had a really good round going when he started at the 10th and birdied the 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 15th and 16th. Six under par, he dropped his first shot at the 18th, to turn in five-under-par 32. Then he dropped another at the first and could not recapture the sparkle in covering his second nine holes in 37.
Half the field will complete their first rounds on Friday morning, including Scots
Jack Doherty, Scott Henderson, Jamie McLeary and Eric Ramsay.

SELECTED CLUBHOUSE SCORES
(Half the field still to complete their first rounds)
65 Carlos del Moral (Esp), Julio Zapata (Arg).
67 Andrew McArthur (Sco).
68 Nicolas Vanhootegem (Bel), M McGeady (Ire), E Little (Sco), F Aguilar (Chi).
69 Peter Whiteford (Sco).
72 Gareth Wright (Wal).
73 George Murray (Sco).

REBECCA HUDSON LEADS FRENCH WOMEN'S
OPEN WITH FIVE-UNDER-PAR 67

French Women's Open first-round scores:
Par 72.
67 Rebecca Hudson (Eng)
68 Lotta Wahlin (Swe), Trish Johnson (Eng)
69 Leah Hart (Aus), Sarah Kemp (Aus), Veronica Zorzi (Ita), Lynn Kenny (Sco)
70 Marta Prieto (Spa), Joanne Mills (Aus), Gwladys Nocera (Fra), Linda Wessberg (Swe), Anna Rossi (Ita), Sophie Walker (Eng), Rebecca Coakley (Irl)
71 Ursula Wikstrom (Fin), Lara Tadiotto (Bel), Iben Tinning (Den), Samantha Head (Eng), Isabella Maconi (Ita), Elisa Serramia (Spa), Rebecca Stevenson (Aus), Cecilia Ekelundh (Swe), Sophie Giquel (Fra), Becky Brewerton (Wal), Karen-Margrethe Juul (Den), Diana Luna (Ita), Marina Arruti (Spa)
72 Kristie Newton (Aus), Maria Verchenova (RUS), Maria Boden (Swe), Karen Lunn (Aus), Lora Fairclough (Eng), Nikki Garrett (Aus), Paula Marti (Spa), Anja Monke (Ger), Nicole Gergely (Aut), Jo Clingan (Eng), Stefania Croce (Ita), Asa Gottmo (Swe), Georgina Simpson (Eng), Amanda Moltke-Leth (Den), Lisa Hall (Eng), Cassandra Kirkland (Fra), Emilie Alonso (Am) (Fra)
73 Hanna-Leena Salonen (Fin), Mianne Bagger (Den), Carlie Butler (Aus), Ellen Smets (Bel), Lill Kristin Saether (Nor), Anna Temple (USA), Cherie Byrnes (Aus), Beatriz Recari (Spa), Louise Friberg (Swe), Kathryn Imrie (Sco), Louise Stahle (Swe), Kirsty S Taylor (Eng), Margherita Rigon (Ita), Lee-Anne Pace (Rsa)
74 Emma Zackrisson (Swe), Bree Turnbull (Aus), Mette Buus (Den), Laura Cabanillas (Spa), Natalie Claire Booth (Eng), Rikke Rasmussen (Den), Nina Karlsson (Swe), Danielle Masters (Eng), Nienke Nijenhuis (Ned), Shani Waugh (Aus), Stephanie Arricau (Fra), Catrin Nilsmark (Swe), Sophie Sandolo (Ita), Frederique Dorbes (Fra)
75 Carina Vagner (Den), Tullia Calzavara (Ita), Nathalie David-Mila (Fra), Laurette Maritz (Rsa), Ludivine Kreutz (Fra), Virginie Lagoutte-Clement (Fra), Stacy Lee Bregman (Rsa), Stefanie Michl (Aut), Sara Beautell (Spa), Virginie Auffret (Fra), Kirsty Taylor (Eng), Lynn Brooky (Nzl), Tania Elosegui (Spa)
76 Frederique Seeholzer (Swi), Jade Schaeffer (Fra), Lisa Jean (Aus), Anna Knutsson (Swe), Federica Piovano (Ita), Elisabeth Esterl (Ger), Anna Rawson (Aus), Eleanor Pilgrim (Wal), Claire Coughlan (Irl), Anne-Lise Caudal (Fra), Ana Larraneta (Spa), Anna Tybring (Swe), Jehanne Jail (Fra), Christine Hallstrom (Swe)
77 Carmen Alonso (Spa), Ana B Sanchez (Spa), Fany Schaeffer (Fra), Jenni Kuosa (Fin), Nora Angehrn (Swi), Elin Ohlsson (Swe), Riikka Hakkarainen (Fin), Kiran Matharu (Eng)
78 Eva Steinberger (Aut), Felicity Johnson (Eng), Sarah Heath (Eng), Alexandra Vilatte (Am) (Fra), Sofia Renell (Swe), Clare Queen (Sco), Natascha Fink (Aut), Melodie Bourdy (Fra)
79 Isabelle Boineau (Am) (Fra), Audrey Decharne (Am) (Fra), Martina Gillen (Irl), Lisa Holm Sorensen (Den), Caroline Afonso (Am) (Fra), Elena Giraud (Am) (Fra)
80 Fame More (Eng), Helena Alterby (Swe), Bettina Hauert (Ger), Denise Simon (Ger)
81 Julie Berton (Fra).

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FIFE GOLF ASSOCIATION SUMMER LEAGUES

Latest results and placings in the Fife Golf Association Summer Inter-club Leagues, sponsored by Innes Johnston & Company, are:

DIVISION 1
Leven Thistle 3, Thornton 3.
Kirkcaldy 2, Burntisland GH 4.
Thornton 3.5, Burntisland GH 2.5.
Burntisland GH 3, Thornton 3.
Leven Thistle 3.5, Kirkcaldy 2.5.
Thornton 5, Leven Thistle 1.
Kirkcaldy 2.5, Thornton 3.5.
HOW THEY STAND
Columns played-won-lost-halved-for-against-halved-points.
1 Thornton 5-3-0-2-16-10-4-8pt
2 Burntisland GH 3-1-1-1-8-7-3-3pt.
3 Leven Thistle 3-1-1-1-7-10-1-3pt.
4 Kirkcaldy 3-0-3-0-6-10-2-0pt.

DIVISION 2
Lundin 4, Pitreavie 2.
Dunnikier Park 4.5, Balbirnie Park 1.5.
Balbirnie Park 4, Pitreavie 2.
Balbornie Park 4.5, Lundin 1.5.
Dunnikier Park 5, Pitreavie 1.
Dunnikier Park 2, Lundin 4.
Pitreavie 4.5, Lundin 1.5.
HOW THEY STAND
1 Dunnikier Park 3-2-1-0-10-5-3-4pt.
2 Balbirnie Park 3-2-1-0-9-7-2-4pt.
3 Lundin 4-2-2-0-9-11-4-4pt.
4 Pitreavie 4-1-3-0-7-12-5-2pt

DIVISION 3
Dunfermline 4, Drumoig 2.
Scotscraig 3, Drumoig 3.
Forrester Park 4, Dunfermline 2.
Drumoig 5.5, Forrester Park 0.5.
Dunfermline 3.5, Scotscraig 2.5.
Dunfermline 4.5, Forrester Park 1.5.
Drumoig 2.5, Dunfermline 3.5..
HOW THEY STAND
1 Dunfermline 5-4-1-0-16-11-3-8pt.
2 Drumoig 4-1-2-1-11-9-4-3pt.
3 Forrester Park 3-1`-2-0-5-11-2-2pt.
4 Scotscraig 2-0-1-1-4-5-3-1pt

DIVISION 4
Cowdenbeath 6 St Michaels 0.
Lochgelly 5.5, Leven GS 0.5.
Cowdenbeath 5, Leven GS 1.
St Michaels 4, Lochgelly 2.
St Michaels 3, Elmwood 3.
St Michaels 3, Cowdenbeath 3.
Cowdenbeath 5.5, Lochgelly 0.5.
Leven GS 4, Sty Michaels 2.
Leven GS 3.5, Lochgelly 2.5.
HOW THEY STAND
1 Cowdenbeath 4-3-0-1-19-4-1-7pt.
2 St Michaels 5-1-2-1-12-18-2-4pt.
3 Leven GS 4-2-2-0-8-14-2-4pt.
4 Lochgelly 4-1—3-0-9-12-3-2pt
5 Scoonie –Withdrawn, all games played null and void.

British men's amateur championship at Royal Lytham

KELLETT AND MACAULAY IN

LAST EIGHT - AND THEY PLAY

EACH OTHER FOR PLACE

IN SEMI-FINALS

Ross Kellett from Colville Park Golf Club, Motherwell and Tulliallan's Callum Macaulay are the only two Scots to reach the last eight of the British men's amateur championship at Royal Lytham - and they will meet in Friday morning's quarter-finals.
Kellett, 19 years of age, reached the quarter-finals by beating Jamie Moul (Stoke by Nayland), ranked the No 2 amateur in the world after being No 1 for 13 weeks earlier in the year.
Ross beat him on the 18th green for his greatest ever victory ... so far.
Callum Macaulay, pictured above, recently graduated after four years at the University of Missippi, won through at the 20th in the early evening against Kenny Le Sager (France) tie.
Walker Cup man Lloyd Saltman (Craigielaw), the favourite, went down to little known Chris Wood from Long Ashton, Bristol, by one hole.

Wood was four under par for the last six holes of the match.

Wood, the fifth best qualifier for the match-play stages, now plays the American Dean Weaver who ousted Kevin McAlpine (Alyth), holder of the Scottish match-play and stroke-play amateur titles. Weaver won by 2 and 1.

Weaver is a 20-year-old second-year student at Virginia Tech University where that awful shooting of 30-odd students by a deranged colleague took place just a few months ago. Weaver was in the college library at the time - and stayed there for the best part of 4 hours before he felt it was safe to come out.
McAlpine's quality of play was high enough possibly to win any other tie on the course. He was four under par for the 17 holes played. Unfortunately for the Scot Weaver was SIX under par.

Weaver rushed into a three-hole lead after only six holes, including a chip-in eagle 3 from some 30 yards at the sixth among his red figures.

McAlpine was two down after 10 holes but squared an epic contest by birdieing the 11th and 12th. Weaver hit back with a birdie of his own to regain the lead at the 13th and then sank a crucial 12ft birdie putt to get back to two holes up at the 16th. A pitch-and-putt par - one of the few in the game - finished the contest in the American's favour at the next hole.

Another Scot to bow out was Mark Kerr from Craigielaw. Kerr, who works part-time in his father's public bar business to fund his amateur golf actitivies, lost by 3 and 1 to Australian Rick Kulacz.


AFTERNOON/EVENING RESULTS

J Shufflebotham (Prestatyn) bt T Glissmeyer (US) 3 and 2.
R Kulacz (Aus) bt M Kerr (Craigielaw) 3 and 1.

D Weaver (US) bt K McAlpine (Alyth) 2 and 1.
C Wood (Long Ashton) bt L Saltman (Craigielaw) 1 hole.

R Kellett (Colville Park) bt J Moul (Stoke by Nayland) 1 hole.
C Macaulay (Tulliallan) bt K Le Sager (Fra) at 20th.

J Campillo (Esp) bt A Sullivan (Purley Chase) 2 and 1.
T Stewart (Aus) bt G Boyd (Cherwell Edge) 1 hole.

SCROLL DOWN TO READ THE MORNING RESULTS AT ROYAL LYTHAM

MATT ENJOYS GLOSS FINISH IN LA MANGA
FOOTBALLERS' CLASSIC

Former Southampton and England footballer Matt Le Tissier fought off the challenge of 38 former professional footballers to win the Addison Lee Footballers’ Golf Classic at La Manga Club.
Goalkeeping legend Pat Jennings had set the early pace on the first two days of the competition but a strong final round from Le Tissier saw him take the coveted crystal trophy by one point.
Le Tissier, who plays off six, said: “I’m absolutely thrilled and delighted to have finally won this event after trying for five years.”
The tournament was the 11th year Barwell Events has organised the competition and once again 40 teams competed in front of the Sky Sports cameras.
Ex-Arsenal and Ireland defender, Terry Mancini, now Barwell’s sports events director, said: “We’ve been organising the Footballers’ Classics for a long time now and it’s amazing how it seems to get better every year.
“Some great golf was played and everyone involved has had a terrific time.”
The team event was also won by a single point. The Goodies, made up of Alan Lindsey (handicap two), Mark Seagraves (eight), and Claire Fensome (eight), amassed 257 points over the 54 holes beating the Property Boys into second place.
The runners-up are now considering changing their name to The Bridesmaids as this was their fourth consecutive second-place finish in the event.

FILIPE-LIMA AND JACQUELIN SHARE LEAD
ON 65 IN BMW INTERNATIONAL OPEN:
FORSYTH (68) IS LEADING SCOT

FROM THE EUROPEAN TOUR WEBSITE

A spectacular last hole eagle helped José Filipe-Lima enjoy not only a reversal of recent fortune, but also a share of the first round lead in the BMW International Open with Raphaël Jacquelin.
The 25 year old Portugese player has missed the last six cuts on the European Tour to find himself languishing at 216th on the Order of Merit and when he began with a bogey 5 at Golfclub München Eichenried, he could have been forgiven for thinking his disappointing run was about to continue.
But nothing could have been further from the truth as, after that, the winner of the 2004 Aa St Omer Open was flawless, carding four birdies and an eagle 3 at the sixth to go along with his one at the 18th to finish the day on seven under par 65.
It gave Lima and Jacquelin a one-shot lead over Spain’s Gonzalo Fernandez-Castaño, looking for his second victory of the season after his win in the Telecom Italia Open, surprise packet of the opening day, Frenchman Marc Farry and England’s Paul Broadhurst.
World No 5 Ernie Els and Niclas Fasth, fourth in last week’s US Open Championship, lurk menacingly on five under par after respective opening 67s.
“I hit a very bad drive on the first hole but in a funny way I think that helped relax me a little bit because I was a little stressed after the way I have been playing,” said Lima.
“I changed some things on my swing and I started the year very badly, missing a lot of cuts – a good round today is very good for me and my confidence. Obviously there is a long way to go until Sunday but I will try to keep playing like that.”
FRONT-NINE HIGHLIGHT
Highlight of the front nine was his eagle 3 at the 481 yard sixth hole where a five iron second shot was followed by a successful 12 foot putt. But he bettered that at the 18th to finish in style with a superb drive and a six iron second shot on the 568 yard hole to within six feet of the pin where his putter again did the needful.
Joint leader Jacquelin continued to show his love for the tournament as well as the sponsor.
In 2001 the Frenchman won a car for holing in one at the 17th and in 2003 he carded a ten under par at Golfclub München Eichenried to enjoy a share of the course record. Of course this April, too, he also won the BMW Asian Open in Shanghai.
“Although I do enjoy the course and coming here, it is getting more difficult every year,” he said. “But if you put the ball in the fairway you will have chances and I managed to do that. Of course I also love coming to the BMW tournaments – you could say that I am a BMW man.”
Leading the chase of the two leaders was 47 year old Farry who won this title in 1996 when the tournament was reduced to 36 holes because of inclement weather but who has spent the last two years in the virtual golfing wilderness after suffering badly from tendonitis in both elbows.
Knowing he would play in this event as a past champion, Farry, who lost his European Tour playing privileges at the end of the 2003 season, entered last week’s Open de Saint Omer and although he missed the cut through a lack of confidence on the greens, he saw enough in his game to approach this week with some confidence.
“Apart from my putting last week I prepared myself well for this week,” he said. “I changed putter yesterday as well and that seemed to work as I had a pretty good round in the pro-am here too.
“I’m not a millionaire, I need the money like anyone else but I would say my main concern is that I miss the Tour and the people on it. It is like a big family and one I have been part of for many years. But I would say now my main goal is to prepare for the Seniors Tour because I’ll be 48 next month.”
BAG OF SEVEN BIRDIES
Like Lima, Farry had only one dropped shot on his card but more than made up for that with seven birdies elsewhere including a fine start to his round of four birdies in the first six holes.
Joining the Frenchman in a share of third place was Fernandez-Castaño who had a day on the sleek and smooth putting surfaces at Golfclub München Eichenried that all professionals dream about. In total the Spaniard had eight birdies but felt like he would knock in every putt he stood over.
“I holed absolutely everything out there and for a while I even felt sorry for my playing partners because everything was going into the hole, it didn’t matter the distance or the break,” he said. “It was just one of those days and I really hope I can have three more like that.
“The greens are wonderful here and the thing about them is that I seem to find them very easy to read. Maybe it is the fact that I took two weeks off to rest and recharge my batteries that I have come back refreshed and I can see all the lines!”
Late in the day, Broadhurst joined the Frenchman and the Spaniard in a tie for third place, an eagle three at the sixth hole being the highlight of the Englishman’s day.
While the leading quintet did well, the name all eyes gravitated towards on the leaderboards was Els who also eagled the 18th – his ninth hole of the day – on the way to a 67.
“That was a decent start to my tournament,” he said. “We had beautiful weather conditions in the morning apart from towards the end (when play was suspended for 45 minutes due to thunder and lightning in the area).
“I think I only hit one bad drive all day on the 15th (where he dropped his only shot of the day) but apart from that I was pretty solid and for the rest of the day I kept it in play, hit a lot of greens and made a putt here and there. It was a nice, enjoyable round, especially coming from last week.”

FIRST-ROUND SCOREBOARD

Par 72 Players from GB&I unless stated.

65 Jose-Filipe Lima (Por), Raphael Jacquelin (Fra).
66 Marc Farry (Fra), Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano (Spa), Paul Broadhurst
67 Niclas Fasth (Swe), Ernie Els (Rsa), Andres Romero (Arg), Francesco Molinari (Ita), David Frost (Rsa)
68 Alastair Forsyth, Ricardo Gonzalez (Arg), Thomas Levet (Fra), Peter Fowler (Aus), Steven Jeppesen (Swe), Martin Erlandsson (Swe), Paul Casey, Anders Hansen (Den), Nick Dougherty.
69 Jeev Milkha Singh (Ind), David Griffiths, Emanuele Canonica (Ita), Gregory Bourdy (Fra), Miguel Angel Jimenez (Spa), S O'Hara.
70 Steve Webster, Jarmo Sandelin (Swe), Oliver Wilson, Brett Rumford (Aus), Simon Khan, Jose Manuel Lara (Spa), Kariem Baraka (Ger), Tom Whitehouse, Jyoti Randhawa (Ind), Christian Cevaer (Fra), Robert-Jan Derksen (Ned)
71 Peter Lawrie, Gary Emerson, Andrew Marshall, James Hepworth, Peter Hedblom (Swe), Markus Brier (Aut), Mardan Mamat (Sing), David Lynn, Jamie Spence, Ignacio Garrido (Spa), Miles Tunnicliff, Maarten Lafeber (Ned), Jean-Francois Lucquin (Fra), Jonas Kolbing (Ger) (am), Graeme Storm
72 Stephen Gallacher, Benn Barham, Alexander Knappe (Ger) (am), Simon Dyson, Matthew Millar, Christian Nilsson (Swe), Anthony Wall, Jochen Lupprian (Ger), David Park, Robert Rock, Shuv Kapur (Ind), Daniel Vancsik (Arg), Sven Struver (Ger), Soren Hansen (Den), Mark Foster
73 Scott Drummond, Christopher Hanell (Swe), Garry Houston, Cesar Monasterio (Arg), Peter Gustafsson (Swe), Jean Van de Velde (Fra), Thomas Bjorn (Den), Martin Kaymer (Ger), Phillip Archer, Jean-Baptiste Gonnet (Fra), James Heath, Sam Walker, Wade Ormsby (Aus), Richard Finch, Darren Fichardt (Rsa), Gary Lockerbie, Phillip Price, Ian Poulter, Henrik Stenson (Swe)
74 Andrew Tampion (Aus), Mads Vibe-Hastrup (Den), Shaun Webster, Damien McGrane, Paul McGinley, Paul Lawrie, Alejandro Canizares (Spa), Terry Price (Aus), Gary Murphy, Sam Little, Juan Parron (Spa), Mattias Eliasson (Swe), Oliver Fisher
75 Peter O'Malley (Aus), Lee Slattery, Andrew Coltart, Gregory Havret (Fra), Santiago Luna (Spa), Fredrik Andersson Hed (Swe), Pelle Edberg (Swe), Ariel Canete (Arg), Mikko Ilonen (Fin), Simon Hurd, Marcus Higley, Mark Pilkington, Andrew McLardy (Rsa), Stephen Dodd
76 Patrik Sjoland (Swe), Marc Warren, Andrew Raitt, Ralf Geilenberg (Ger), Bernhard Langer (Ger)
77 Manuel Kempe (Ger), Johan Axgren (Swe), Yang Yong-eun (Kor), Chris Gane
78 Joakim Backstrom (Swe), James Kingston (Rsa), Simon Wakefield, Marcel Siem (Ger)
80 Nicolas Metinger (Ger), Wolfgang Huget (Ger)
82 Sandy Lyle
Withdrew Colin Montgomerie

TONY JACKLIN MAKES COMEBACK IN
LONDON SENIORS MASTERS

Tony Jacklin, the last European to win the the US Open Championship, will make his first appearance in Britain for almost two years when he tees up on Friday in the first round of the Bendinat London Seniors Masters at The London Golf Club in Kent.
The two-time Major winner (1969 Open and the 1970 US Open) features in a strong field that includes Costantino Rocca of Italy, Sam Torrance and 1963 Open Champion Bob Charles of New Zealand in addition to 27 of the top 30 from last year's European Seniors Tour Order of Merit.
Jacklin, who now lives in Florida, conducted the official opening of this week's venue in 1994 with two other golfing luminaries, Seve Ballesteros and Jack Nicklaus, but Friday's play in the 2007 Bendinat London Seniors Masters will represent his first round under competition on the Nicklaus-designed Heritage Course.
"I last played in the Open at St Andrews two years ago and have not played competitively since," explained Jacklin. "I got talked into playing this year's Senior Open Championship and The Open by some friends of mine when I was out in Barbados, so I am here at The London Golf Club to feel my way back into the game.
"However, this is a challenging golf course and we have had brisk winds for the past two days. It's all the golf course anyone in this field will need. I opened it in 1994 with Seve and Jack and it was a good test then, and it's a good test now."
During his hiatus from the game, the former Ryder Cup captain has reverted to a short putter and feels a renewed sense of confidence.
"Since I have stopped playing competitively the pressure has been off and I have got more comfortable with my putting. That's a big thing for me as I never cared much for the crutch, as I used to call it," added Jacklin.
Torrance, a winner of this event in 2005 en route to topping the European Seniors Tour Order of Merit that year, is looking forward to renewing acquaintances with Jacklin, given the pair's shared experiences in the Ryder Cup.
It was Torrance who holed the winning putt in the 1985 Ryder Cup at The Belfry to end Europe's 28-year drought in the competition and give Jacklin the first of his two wins as captain. To this day Jacklin is the only man to have twice led a European Ryder Cup team to victory over the United States. His other success came at Muirfield Village, Ohio in 1987. Defending champion this year is Italy's Giuseppe Cali.

British men's amateur championship at Royal Lytham

SALTMAN AND MOULE MAKE PROGRESS
BUT LEADING QUALIFIER GOES OUT

FROM THE R&A WEBSITE
Walker Cup player Lloyd Saltman and R&A World Amateur Golf Ranking No 2 Jamie Moul have both safely negotiated the third round of the Amateur Championship at Royal Lytham & St Annes.
But leading qualifier David Horsey lost by two holes to Jason Shufflebotham.
Horsey(Styal) was one up after 15 but Shufflebotham (Prestatyn), an 18-year-old who reached the semi-finals of the 2006 Welsh Amateur, birdied the final three holes to take the match.
Shufflebotham holed from 15 feet at the last.
Saltman (Craigielaw) had a one hole advantage at the turn, but lost the 10th when he drove into a bunker on the left. He was gifted the 11th when his opponent, experienced French player Alexandre Kaleka, knocked his tee shot into trees.
Saltman had a tap-in birdie after a seven-iron tee shot at the short 12th, and won the 14th with a par four.
Despite hitting his tee shot into a bunker at the 15th he holed a 20-foot putt for par and held on for a 3 and 2 victory.
"He's a tough opponent and I'm pleased with that result," said Saltman, who was three under par for the 16 holes played.
Jamie Moul (Stoke by Nayland), who led The R&A World Amateur Golf Ranking for many weeks earlier in the season, won a close fought match with Australian Rohan Blizard by 3 and 1. Square after 14 holes, Moul won the next with a par four, increased his lead at the 16th and holed from 30 yards off the green at the 17th.
"I was just trying to knock it up close and it trundled in. I was quite lucky," he said.
In this afternoon's fourth round Saltman will play Chris Wood (Long Ashton), a 2 and 1 winner against Scottish student Gordon Yates (Hilton Park) and Moul will face another Scot Ross Kellet (Colville Park) who beat Matt Allen (North Hants) by 3 and 2.

MORNING RESULTS

J Shufflebotham bt D Horsey 2 holes.
T Glissmeyer bt J Caldwell 3 and 2.

M Kerr bt K Borsheim 3 and 2.
R Kulacz bt F Fritsch 2 and 1.

D Weaver bt S Ward 2 holes.
K McAlpine bt D Willett 2 holes.

C Wood bt G Yates 2 and 1.
L Saltman bt A Kaleka 3 and 2.

R Kellett bt M Allen 3 and 2.
J Moul bt R Blizard 3 and 1.

K Le Sager bt A Dodt 5 and 4.
C Macaulay bt R Enoch 4 and 3.

J Campillo bt S Uzzell 7 and 6.
A Sullivan bt L Goddard 5 and 4.

G Boyd bt G Shaw at 19th.
T Stewart bt B Evans 3 and 2.

ENGLISH GOLF UNION PRESS RELEASE

ENGLAND NAME STRONG SQUAD FOR EUROPEAN
AMATEUR TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS AT WESTERN
GAILES FROM JULY 3 TO 7

Jamie Moul and Gary Wolstenholme, who helped England win the European Men’s Team Championships two years ago, have been named in the team to defend the title in Scotland next month.
The pair are the only members of the side who played before at Hillside in 2005 that have not turned professional. They will be joined at Western Gailes from July 3 to 7 by Gary Boyd, David Horsey, John Parry and Paul Waring.
All are members of England’s Elite Squad and featured in the team that comprehensively beat Spain at Royal Ashdown Forest last month.
Two years ago, Moul gained four points from five in the match-play stages while Wolstenholme won all five of his contests on the way to the title.
Boyd, 20, made his full England debut in last year’s Home Internationals in Wales. This followed a successful career at under 16 and boys level during which he reached the quarter-finals of the English Amateur Championship and the semi-finals of the Spanish Amateur.
Last winter the Northamptonshire player won the inaugural Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship in China and this year was a quarter-finalist in the Spanish Amateur.
Horsey, 22, gained his first full England cap against France last year and has enjoyed a number of individual successes. These include victories in the North of England Youths Championship, the English Champions Tournament, the West of England Stroke Play, in the past two years, and the Lee Westwood Trophy.
He has also been runner-up in the English Amateur and the Tasmanian Amateur, third in the South African Stroke Play and was joint fourth recently in the Brabazon Trophy. Horsey won all four of his matches against Spain.
Moul, 22, is another former boy cap, who made his full England debut against France at Royal St George’s in 2004. In 2005, the Essex-based Suffolk player finished runner-up in the St Andrews Links Trophy and was a Walker Cup reserve.
Since then he has been one of England’s leading performers. Last year, he won the Lytham Trophy and reached the semi-finals of the Amateur Championship and the English Amateur, was runner-up in the German Amateur and third in the European Amateur.
Recently Jamie Moul was the joint winner of the Brabazon Trophy and finished fourth in the St Andrews Links Trophy.
Parry, 20, is the youngest member of the England side. Like Horsey, he made his full England debut against France last year. A former winner of the McEvoy Trophy, the Yorkshireman has also finished runner-up in the Carris Trophy (English Under 18 Championship) and the Daily Telegraph Junior Championship. In 2005, he was Yorkshire Champion and won the Danish Open Amateur, earning a place in the Vietnam Open on the Asian Tour in which he played all four rounds.
After a less successful 2006, Parry has bounced back this year to win the Spanish Amateur and the Welsh Open Stroke Play, beating Waring in a playoff.
Waring, another 22 year old, has enjoyed considerable success over the past seven years, starting with victory in the McGregor Trophy (English Under-16 Championship) in 2001. Capped at under 16 and boys levels, Waring was Cheshire Boys Champion in 2002 and England Boy Captain the following year.
After being dogged by injury, he won the English title over his home course at Bromborough in 2005 and made his full England debut in that year’s Home Internationals and has been a member of the side since.
Last year, Waring finished runner-up in the West of England, fifth in the Mexican Amateur and reached the last 16 in defence of his English title. This year, he reached the quarter-finals of the Spanish Amateur and lost the playoff to Parry in the Welsh Open Stroke Play. Wolstenholme, 46, will be playing in his seventh European Team Championships.
The most-capped England player, he recorded his 200th appearance against the Spanish last month and recently collected an MBE at Buckingham Palace. A prolific winner nationally and across the world since making his England debut in 1988, his successes in 2007 include victory in the New South Wales Amateur and a successful defence of his European Mid Amateur Championship earlier this month.
This will be the 25th playing of the Championships and England has lifted the title on nine occasions.
England team for Western Gailes:
Gary Boyd (Cherwell Edge).
David Horsey (Styal).
Jamie Moul (Stoke-by-Nayland).
John Parry (Harrogate).
Paul Waring (Bromborough).
Gary Wolstenholme (Kilworth Springs).
Non-travelling reserve:
Ben Parker (Royal Birkdale).

BAD DAY FOR THE YOUNG SCOTS IN JAPAN

Scotland's squad of four had a collective bad third day in the Toyota world boys' team golf championship at Chukyo Golf Club, Nagoya in Japan.
None of the 14 teams had a worse score than Scotland's mediocre 222 for the third round - 10 shots more than their first and second day team scores.
Only bottom of the table Singapore also scored 222 today (Thursday).
The Scots - James Byrne (Banchory), Michael Stewart (Troon Welbeck), Paul Ferrier (Baberton) and Shaun McAllister (Craigielaw) - have slumped to 12th in the table with one day to go.
Their 54-hole aggregate of 646 is 30 shots behind leaders Sweden who are one shot ahead of the defending champions, Norway.
On the first two days, one Scotland boy scored in the 60s - par of the course is 71 - but in the third round, the lowest score the Scots could muster was a one-over 72 from Michael Stewart. Shaun McAllister, Paul Ferrier and James Byrne each returned a four-over 75.
Byrne was one over par when he eagled the seventh and birdied the 18th to get to two under par for the day. Then he was in the water at the ninth to double-bogey the hole and turn in level par.
James seemed to have lost a bit of confidence after that and he bogeyed the 10th, 11th, 15th and 17th for a four-over-par 75.
Stewart parred the first 14 holes before going out of bounds with his drive at the 15th. He did well to escape with just one shot dropped. At the 16th Michael got his only birdie of the round.
Stewart is joint 17th in the individual standings with a three-round total of two-under-par 211. Byrne comes next in joint 22nd place on 213. McAllister is tied 50th on 224 and Ferrier is 55th in the field of 56 with a total of 232. Ferrier had a double bogey at the 10th.
Details:
Chukyo Golf Club, Nagoya, Japan. Par 71, 6,886yd

THIRD-ROUND TEAM TOTALS
Par 639 (3 x 213)
616 Sweden 201 204 211 (B Akesson 68, J Kennegard 69, P Widegren 74. NC: D Jennevret 75).
617 Norway 205 205 207 (A Kristiansen 67, M Thorp 70, A Friestad 70. NC: F Kollevold 71).
627 New Zealand 210 213 204 (P Spearman-Burn 67, D Pearce 68, S Shin 69. NC: P Hayman 76.
630 Chinese Taipei 216 207 207.
632 South Africa 212 213 207.
634 Australia 210 210 214, Mexico 211 208 215.
635 Japan 207 216 212.
639 United States 216 214 209.
642 Canada 210 213 219.
643 Argentina 215 217 211.
646 Scotland 212 212 222 (M Stewart 72, P Ferrier 75, J Byrne 75, S McAllister 75).
658 Venezuela 225 218 215.
659 Singapore 219 218 222.

LEADING INDIVIDUALS
Par 213 (3 x 71)
200 A Kristiansen (Nor) 67 66 67.
202 J Kennegard (Swe) 65 68 69.
206 M Thorp (Nor) 70 66 70, C-T Pan (Chinese Taipei) 73 66 67.
207 P Spearman-Burn (NZ) 69 71 67, B Akesson (Swe) 68 71 68.
Scottish scores:
211 M Stewart 67 72 72 (jt 17th).
213 J Byrne 73 65 75 (jt 22nd).
224 S McAllister 74 75 75 (jt 50th).
232 P Ferrier 72 85 75 (55th).

SCOTLAND TEAM FOR EUROPEAN SENIOR
WOMEN'S TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP IN SWEDEN

The Scottish Ladies Golfing Association has named the Scotland squad of six to compete in the European senior women's amateur team championship at Royal Drottningholm Golf Club, Stockholm from July 24 to 28. It is:

Lorna Bennett (Ladybank).
Fiona de Vries (St Rule).
Helen Faulds (Douglas Park).
Kathleen Sutherland (Royal Montrose).
Moira Thomson (North Berwick).
Pamela Williamson (Baberton)

ELLIOT SALTMAN MISSES

CUT AT BOVEY CASTLE

AFTER DOUBLE BOGEYS

Elliot Saltman, pictured right, missed the 36-hole cut by two shots in the Bovey Castle Championship - this week's event on the PGA EuroPro Tour - near Newton Abbot, Devon.
The Dalkeith man had rounds of 72 and 74 for a six-over-par total of 146. He had a double-bogey 7 at the last hole in his first round and a double-bogey 5 at the short 11th in his second round.
Only three Scots made the cut - Anglo-Scot Alasdair Hay on 141 and Graham Gordon and Paul Doherty on 143.
Scroll down for a full report on the first day's play.

LEADING SCORES
134 C Hanson (Eng) 64 70.
135 M Woods (Eng) 70 65.
136 D Wardrop (Eng) 65 71.
137 N Vowles (Eng) 68 69, C Moriarty (Ire) 71 66.
138 A Smith (Wal) 66 72, P Hendricksen (Eng) 68 70, P Rowe (Eng) 69 69.
Scots qualifiers (144 or better):
141 A Hay 70 71 (jt 22nd).
143 G Gordon 69 74, P Doherty 71 72 (jt 35th).
Scots non-qualifiers
146 E Saltman 72 74.
153 C Farr 75 78.
159 I Simpson 78 81.

YOUR VIEW
We asked for your views on whether or not Paul O'Hara was right to criticise publicly the Scottish Golf Union selectors for leaving him out of the six-man Scotland team for the forthcoming European team championship at Western Gailes (He was invited to be first reserve, but declined).
Scroll down to see our original story and some of the comments.
Here is the latest:

'SELECTORS PICK GOLFERS THAT WIN 72-HOLERS'

Having read Scottishgolfview.com's coverage on the upcoming European team championship at Western Gailes, it is obvious and has been known for some time that the Scottish selectors will pick the golfers that win the 72-hole competitions.
The gauntlet been thrown down to Paul O Hara and the rest - Go out and win the 72-holers .
As for Paul's comment " I don’t care ." That means he cares a lot
All the best to your excellent website and the Scots team at Wetern Gailes

David Ferguson
Paisley

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CABRERA A HERO IN ARGENTINA, SAYS
84-year-old ROBERTO DE VICENZO

Roberto de Vicenzo, winner of the Open at Royal Liverpool in 1967, was the last Argentine golfer to win a major tournament before Angel Cabrera pulled off his shock win at Oakmont on Sunday in the United States Open.
De Vicenzo, who is now 84, says he watched every minute ot the championship on television at his home in Argentina.
"Cabrera is now a hero in Argentina,'' he said. "He's my hero. I'm very happy for him, because I didn't want to leave this world before I saw something like this.''
"The biggest different is that when Angel won the US Open, many more people saw it on television,'' De Vicenzo said. "When I won the British Open 40 years ago not as many saw it. Millions saw Cabrera win.''
One other slight difference is that when Roberto won the Open, it was a three-day championship, finishing with two rounds on the Friday.
Cabrera competes on the European Tour. De Vicenzo made a special trip from Argentina to compete at Hoylake 40 years ago.
Cabrera was welcomed by thousands of his fellow countrymen during a motorcade from the airport to his home in Argentina earlier this week.
With the flag of Argentina over his shoulders, Cabrera held the US Open championship trophy above his head during the drive with a police escort at Villa Allende in the central province of Cordoba.
Cabrera was joined by his two sons in the motorcade to his home, not far from where he first learned to golf as a caddie at a local club.

CARNOUSTIE LINKS SUSPEND HEAD GREENKEEPER

John Philp, head greenkeeper at Carnoustie Links, host to the Open championship next month, has been temporarily suspended by his employers after an alleged confrontation with one of the apprentices on his staff.
Philp was sent home last week after officials launched an inquiry into his dispute with the 16-year-old apprentice, which reportedly centred on the teenager's cigarette breaks.
Philp, 59, hopes to be back in time for the July 19-22 championship. He said: "I cannot talk about the facts surrounding my suspension in detail, but hopefully this will be resolved soon."
Graeme Duncan, general manager of Carnoustie Golf Links, said: "We have no concerns for being ready for the Open. We have a really experienced team here, most of whom were here in 1999. The course is in excellent condition."
Philp, a man who does not suffer fools gladly, made headlines in 2004 when he moved a suggestion box to the middle of a pond because he was "sick of whingers" complaining about the course.

AIR-CONDITIONED GOLF CARTS AT THE MONTGOMERIE

News from Dubai this morning that this summer, The Montgomerie, Dubai will be the first golf club in the Middle East to introduce a climate-controlled cooling system known as the Coolwell G2 to its fleet of golf carts.
The Montgomerie, Dubai — winner of numerous accolades and awards in recent times — has discovered yet another means of enhancing the Troon Golf experience and proving why the luxury golf brand is continually setting new benchmarks for service and quality standards world wide.
The Coolwell G2, enables golf to be played in comfort 365 days of the year, irrespective of changing climates. The Coolwell G2’s functionality is two-fold, providing cooling air-conditioning to golfers on warm summer days and, with the flip of a switch, heating during the colder months.
The powerful G2 uses ice, physics and 1 amp of battery from a golf cart to provide the air-conditioning.
One presumes that golfers actually have to come out of the golf carts to play shots!

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HANSON LEADS WEATHER-HIT PGA EUROPRO
TOUR EVENT AT BOVEY CASTLE, DEVON

Huddersfield player Christopher Hanson remained on course for another top ten finish in the 2007 PGA EuroPro Tour season.
Hanson is in first place after two days of a weather-hit sixth event, which is being staged at Bovey Castle, Devon.
A thunder and lightning storm had delayed proceedings yesterday as more than 60 players could not complete their opening round on Tuesday.
That meant an early start on day two as some competitors finished their first round and then began their second shortly afterwards.
Hanson was one of those who was in action twice in the same day as he recorded a six-under round one and then a level par 70 on Wednesday.
It continues his fine season that has seen him come inside the top ten at three of the four tournaments he has played.
He has finished ninth at Wensum Valley, fifth at Roganstown and second at Cardrona, while only a poor final round stopped him securing another high spot at Faithlegg.
Other players performing well in Devon include Matthew Woods (Donnington Grove, Berkshire - five-under), Neil Vowles (Burton-on-Trent - three-under) and Daniel Wardrop (Manchester - also three-under).
Neil Walker, who won at Cardrona, Peebles, had fired a five-under on Tuesday but suffered a disastrous second day as he went back to level par after a five-over round today.
Once again the round could not be completed so some players will finish their second round before the cut, which is the top 50 plus ties, is known.
As with all EuroPro Tour events, Matchroom Sport will produce a two-hour highlights package, which will be shown on Sky Sports on Wednesday, July 4 and the following day.
The next event will be staged at the Stoke-by-Nayland Golf Club in Leavenheath, Colchester, Essex and will run from Tuesday, June 26 to Thursday, June 28.

++Apologies for not being able to show you a scoreboard from the Bovey Castle Championship but the PGA EuroPro Tour website is not functioning.