Wednesday, July 21, 2010

NEWLANDS TROPHY VICTORY LIFTS

 DICK INTO WORLD'S TOP 1000

By COLIN FARQUHARSON
Allyn Dick’s victory in the Newlands Trophy 72-hole SGU Order of Merit event at Lanark last weekend seems his rise an astonishing 310 places in this week’s updated R&A World Amateur Golf Rankings to No 915.
That gives Scotland 39 players ranked in the world’s top 1,000 which is not bad for a country of our size.
What Scotland lacks is players in the top 100 – only Banchory’s James Byrne – 13th for the second week in a row – and Ross Kellett (Colville Park), also unchanged at No 63, have achieved that distinguished rating.
Finishing joint fourth in the Newlands Trophy saw Bobby Rushford (Grangemouth) rise 66 places to No 862 and Brian Soutar (Leven Golfing Society, who finish joint sixth on Sunday,has gone up 210 places to No 561.
A good run in next week’s Allied Surveyors Scottish Amateur Championship at Gullane would go a long way towards helping Fraserburgh’s Kris Nicol join Byrne and Kellett in the leading 100. Nicol is currently 118th.
Scots in the R&A WAGR’s leading 1000 are:
13 James Byrne (no change).
63 Ross Kellett (no change).
118 Kris Nicol (-2).
143 Michael Stewart (no change).
251 James White (-30).
321 Peter Latimer (-24).
380 Philip McLean (+4).
426 Scott Crighton (-2).
452 David Law (+44).
477 Greg Paterson (-7).
553 Gordon Yates (+10).
561 Brian Soutar (+210).
575 Paul Shields (+36).
620 Glenn Campbell (-9).
621 Gordon Stevenson (-8).
625 Matthew Clark (+50).
638 James Ross (-10).
648 Mark Hillson (-5).
665 Steven Rennie (+17).
675 Graeme Rob ertson (+51).
682 Scott Larkin (+176).
694 Fraser McKenna (-11).
717 Andrew Gunson (-3).
718 Ross Bell (-63).
761 Mark Bookless (-7).
819 Paul Ferrier 9-10).
825 Michael Daily (-8).
826 Steven McEwan (-22).
862 Bobby Rushford (+66).
877 Sam B inning (-10).
898 Fraser Fotheringham (-12).
912 Adam Dunton (-1).
915 Allyn dick (+310).
920 Stephen Speirs (+58).
981 James Hamilton (-182).
982 Jordan Findlay (+63).
983 Paul Betty (-3).
990 Richard Docherty (+159).
996 Daniel Sommerville (-5).
+If you're interested, the top 12 amateurs in the world ahead of James Byrne are:
1 Peter Uihlein (US).no change
2 Jin Jeong (South Korea).no change
3 Patrick Reed (US).no change.
4 Andrea Pavan (Italy). no change
5 Bud Cauley (US) +4
6 Kevin Tway (US) +1
7 Russell Henley (US) -2
8 Romain Wattel (France) -2
9 Scott Langley (US) -1.
10 Harris English (US) +1
11 Eugene Wong (Canada) +5
12 Henrik Norlander (Sweden) no change

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