Jack McDonald (Kilmarnock Barassie), Ayrshire's only qualifier for the matchplay stages of The Amateur Championship being played at Royal Portrush this week, lost out in his first matchplay round on Thursday, at the last 64 stage.McDonald was beaten 4 & 2 by Paul Barjon of France.
Barjon started in style, taking a two hole lead with successive birdies at the opening holes, and when McDonald had a miserable run of four bogeys and a double bogey from the fifth to the ninth, Barjon was six up on the Ayrshire player at the turn.
McDonald steadied thing a bit on the inward half, a run of three pars from ten through to twelve being enough to win all three holes and reduce the deficit to three.
A bogey from McDonald at the thirteenth allowed Barjon to restore a four hole advantage, but again McDoanld hit back with a birdie two at the fourteenth to reduce Barjon's lead to three again, with four holes remaining.
The players halved the fifteenth in par fours but a bogey from McDonald at the sixteenth allowed Barjon to win the hole with a par four for a 4 & 2 victory.
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