Friday, August 18, 2006

LAST SCOT SWEPT OUT OUT "BRITISH"

MICHAEL STEWART LOSES FIRST SIX HOLES OF
QUARTER-FINAL AT ROYAL ABERDEEN


Scotland's last hope, Michael Stewart, was blasted out of the British boys golf championship by a barrage of birdies this morning.
The Troon teenager lost by 6 and 5 to a lad from Lancashire, Sam Stuart.
Stuart was four under par at the finish - a standard of scoring that would have won him any of the four quarter-finals played at mist-shrouded Balgownie.
Michael Stewart had a nightmare start of losing the first six holes. In fairness, although Michael, only 16, was a touch nervous, he was hit by some of the best scoring of the championship.
Sam Stuart birdied the second, third, fifth and sixth and was five up at the turn. Michael's only success in the one-sided contest came at the seventh which he won with a par. Sam bogeyed that hole and also the ninth but Michael could only halve that hole to be five down at the turn.
Sam Stuart birdied the 12th to go six up and a half at the next finished the tie.
Sam will now play Sweden's Bjorn Akesson, a 2 and 1 winner over Thimbaud Fourest from Paris.
The other semi-final guarantees one English boy will get through to Saturday's 36-hole final.
Matthew Nixon (Ashton-under-Lyne) won by 3 and 1 against Billy Fowles (Wentworth) after losing the first two holes.
Andrew Johnston (North Middlesex) beat Marius Junker from Frankfurt by 3 and 1, having been one down after 10 holes.
QUARTER-FINAL RESULTS

Matthew Nixon (Ashton under Lyne) bt Billy Fowles (Wentworth) 3 and 1.
Andrew Johnston (North Middlesex) bt Marius Junker (Germany) 3 and 1.
Bjorn Akesson (Sweden) bt Thimbaud Fourest (France) 2 and 1.
Sam Stuart (Chorley) bt Michael Stewart (Troon Welbeck) 6 and 5.

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