JAMES BYRNE DROPS OUT OF WORLD TOP 20


By COLIN FARQUHARSON
Banchory's James Byrne, a student at Arizona State University, has dropped two places to No 21 in this week's revised RandA World Amateur Golf Rankings.
The only British and Irish players ahead of him are England's Matthew Nixon (up four places from last week) and Ireland's Paul Culter (down one).
The only other Scots in the top 100 are Ross Kellett at No 71 (down one) and Scottish champion Michael Stewart at No 72 (up one).
Scots in the top 500 of the RandA WAGR are:
(+ or minus compared with last week)
21 James Byrne -2.
71 Ross Kellett -1
72 Michael Stewart +1
138 Stuart Ballingall +33.
142 Kris Nicol -2.
265 James White -5.
273 Scott Larkin -1.
301 Peter Latimer -3.
320 Scott Crichton +20.
368 Paul Shields -7.
405 Steven Rennie -12.
411 Greg Paterson -13.
427 Philip McLean -9.
472 Brian Soutar -10.
486 James Ross -13.


+Americans Peter Uihlein and David Chung are still Nos 1 and 2 in the World Amateur Rankings. Frenchman Romain Wattel is No 3, South Korea's in Jin Jeong No 4 and Italy's Andrea Pavan No 5.