Students' tournament at Fairmont St Andrews
Gemma Batty on her way to a two-shot lead
Chris Maclean and Gemma Batty in pole
positions with one round to go
Chris Maclean in action today
Day two of the Scottish students' Fife golf tournament saw the players battle the weather as well as a
tough Kittocks course at Fairmont St. Andrews. With a cut for the top
24 men, every shot was sure to count.
The women went out right at
the start of the day, and endured the worst of the weather.
Despite the challenging conditions, first year student Penelope Brown (Stirling)
shot a superb, round of the day, 78 to close up on the leaders.
Overnight pacemakers Gemma Batty (Stirling) and Ireland's Sinead Sexton (Stirling)
maintained their stranglehold on the top of the leaderboard with rounds
of 81 and 83 respectively.
The second best women's score of the day was an 80
from Chloe Goadby (Stirling) which allowed her to move up to third place
ahead of Sunday's final round on the Torrance course.
As the
weather started to
take a turn for the better the men started their second rounds, knowing
that a good score would guarantee a further round. One man to
take advantage of that was George Burns (St Andrews), who, after his 83
on Friday, improved by 14 strokes with three birdies and only one
bogey leading him to a score of 69 and up into 17th place.
At the top of
the leaderboard Ireland's Kevin LeBlanc (Maynooth) was the man to make a move
from the first day’s group of 74s, a one over 72 moving him into third place, only three shots back from the lead.
Sean Flanagan (Maynooth)
continued his solid golf from day one, with five birdies helping him to a
level par round today and one over for the tournament. Overnight
leader Chris Maclean (Stirling) maintained the pole position with a 73 for level par 143, a shot ahead of Flanagan.
With the players returning
to the Torrance course on Sunday, it is set up to be an exciting day of
golf as both the men and the women look to take home the title and
valuable points towards the British Universities' golfing.Play starts
at 8am on Sunday morning.
LEADING SCORES
MEN
163 C Maclean (Stirling) 70 73.
144 S Flanagan (Maynooth) 73 71
146 K LeBlanc (Maynooth) 74 72, Alasdair McDougall (Stirling) 72 74
147 J Harling (UHI) 75 72, M Myers (St Andrews) 74 73
148 B Bojesen (St Andrews) 74 74
149 L Schuepbach (Stirling) 76 73, T Hein (St Andrews) 76 73
150 R Callerino (UHI) 72 78
151
J Murphy (Maynooth) 77 74, Ali McDougall (Newcaslte) 76 75, J Wilson
(Stirling) 75 786, J Hood (Maynooth) 75 76, C Edgar (Stirling) 75 76
152 G Burns (St Andrews) 83 69
153 L Frean (St Andrews) 77 76
154 C Low (Abertay Dundee) 76 78
155 M Schinkel (UHI) 78 77
156 C Franssen (St Andrews) 78 78, R Paterson (Aberdeen) 77 79, P Kerr (St Andrews) 77 79, L Shepherd (Stirling) 76 80.
WOMEN
156 G Batty (Stirling) 75 81
158 S Sexton (Stirling) 75 83
159 C Goadby Stirling) 79 80
160 P Brown (Stirling) 82 78, L Van Veggel (St Andrews) 77 83
161 M Patzeltova (Elmwood) 79 82
162 G Galatolo (Liverpool) 79 83
164 T Mactaggart (Stirling) 79 85
168 J Saxton (Stirling) 80 88
160 C Calvert (St Andrews) 88 81
184 M Danielsson (St Andrews) 81 93
186 F Clark (St Andrews) 92 91.
REPORT AND PICTURES BY
Ben Philip | Sports Manager | Scottish Student Sport (SSS)
Full men’s leaderboard: http://bucs.intelligentgolf.co.uk/competition.php?compid=3549&preview=1
Full women’s leaderboard: http://bucs.intelligentgolf.co.uk/competition.php?compid=3548&preview=1
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