Friday, June 23, 2006

SHOCK RETIRAL AT SCOTTISH YOUTHS

FAVOURITE HENRY TOO ILL TO CONTINUE

Scottish men’s open amateur stroke-play golf champion Scott Henry sensationally bowed out of the Scottish youths’championship at Mortonhall Golf Club, Edinburgh today.

The hot favourite for the Under-21s’ open stroke-play title retired with a mystery bug that has floored him for over a week.

The Cardross 19-year-old bravely started his round at the Lothians course, but had to retire afteronly eight holes.

Henry, twice Scottish boys match-play champion and also Scottish boys’ stroke-play champion over the past three years, was laid up for over a week with a sickness bug before failing to survive the qualifying rounds of the British men’s amateur championship in Kent earlier this week.

Returning to Scotland, Henry struggled to prepare for his challenge against a good-class field at Mortonhall.

He explained: “I really haven’t been well at all, and struggled in the British Amateur at the start of the week.

“I had woken up after playing in the St Andrews Links Trophy, feeling dizzy, and then was violently sick for about three days. I was in bed for about a week.

“I felt okay for the first five holes today, and I was hitting the ball well. The course was playing fair and I think that I could have played alright but I just couldn’t go on.

“I started to feel sick and was struggling to hit the ball. I just don’t feel as though I have any energy. I’m just going to head home to bed.”

Steven McEwan (Kilmarnock Barassie) and Thornton’s Michael Main were the first-round pacesetters on four-under-par 68.

With birdies at the sixth, eighth and ninth, Scotland youth cap and last year’s Scottish boys open stroke-play champion, McEwan was three under par at the turn. ~The only deviation from par on his inward card was a birdie 4 at the long 12th.

Sixteen-year- old Michael Main, beaten finalist in the Scottish boys championship at West Kilbride in April, eagled the par 5 eighthh in a round which also included four birdies and two bogeys.

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