PGA EUROPRO TOUR EVENT SET FOR EXCITING FINISH IN EDINBURGH

ROYAL BURGESS AMATEUR ROSS MAY 

HAVE TO TURN DOWN £10,000 PRIZE

By COLIN FARQUHARSON
Colin@scottishgolfview.com

It's not beyond the bounds of possibility that Royal Burgess Society amateur member James Ross will have to turn down the first prize of £10,000 prize after one more very good round over his home Edinburgh course in the PGA EuroPro Tour's Simpson and Marwick Championship.

Third-placed Ross is hanging on to the coat-tails of the leading pros, Gary King (Tyrells Wood) (64-67) and Jack Colegate (Deangate Ridge (65-66), one shot behind on 132 after rounds of 65 and 67.

Ross, who expects to turn pro at the end of the summer, birdied the sedcond, sixth, eighth and 12th in his second round. The only blemish at a bogey at the seventh.

Thirteen Scots survived the cut at 141 and better.

Neil Fenwick (Dunbar) is only three shots off the pace in joint tifth place on 134 with a pair of 67s and Aberdeen's Greg McBain (Paul Lawrie Golf Centre) is joint sixth on 135 after rounds of 67 and 68.

They have an outside chance of snatching the £10,000 from the leaders if they can

produce a low score in the 60s over the third and final round.

LEADING QUALIFIERS

Royal Burgess Society golf course, Edinburgh

Par 140 (2x70)

131 G King (Eng) 64 67, J Colegate (Eng) 65 66

132 J Ross (Royal Burgess) (am) 65 67

OTHER SCOTTISH SCORES

134 N Fenwick 67 69 (T5)

135 G McBain 67 68 (T6)

138 M Isaacs 70 68, C Currie 69 69  (T21)

139 P Robinson 71 68, E Ramsay 73 66, R Kellett 72 67, K Nicol 69 70 (T29)

140 A Oldcorn 72 68 (T38)

141 C O'Neil 72 69, R Cameron 70 71, J Findlay 69 72 (T44).

    MISSED THE CUT

142 L Saltman 72 70, S Crichton 73 69, C Lawrie 72 60, C Trahan 72 70

143 E Saltman 73 70, M Patterson 77 66, P Shields 72 71, G Rankin 75 68, J Cliff 71 72

144 N Henderson 75 69

145 M Hillson 68 77

146 R Dizon 72 74, P Doherty 73 73

149 S Binning 71 78

150 C Smith 79 71, J Hendrick 77 73

151 G Forbes 80 71, J McColl 77 74

152 Z Saltman 78 74

153 F McKenna 79 77, A Borg 83 73

159 M Smith 84 75