LEVEN GOLD MEDAL - McEwan leads after course record round

Steven McEwan (Caprington) leads the Leven Gold Medal after setting a new course record in the first round on Saturday 11th August, reducing the record by a shot with a superb round of nine-under-par 62.


McEwan, winner of the Scottish boys' stroke-play championship at Monifieth in 2005, had a run of five successive 3s from the fifth to the ninth, including an eagle at the sixth and a birdie at the eighth, to be out in four-under-par 30.


McEwan held his score together in showery weather to come in 32 for 62, to give him a three stroke lead over James White (Lundin), after round one of the 72 hole event.

McEwan followed his course record score with a second round 69 for an 11 under par halfway total of 131.


This gave McEwan a one stroke lead over former Scottish boys’ match-play champion White.


The cut for the final 36 holes on Sunday fell at 144. The other two Ayrshire players in the field, Ross Dixon (Kilmarnock Barassie) and Chris Harkins (Ayr Belleisle) both survived the cut.


QUALIFIERS FOR FINAL 36 HOLES


131 S McEwan 62 69
132 J White jun 65 67
133 B Soutar 66 67
134 R Dixon 68 66
135 S Mann 68 67, K Nicol 67 68
136 J Findlay 71 65, S Rennie 70 66, R McCarthy 70 66, G Campbell 67 69
137 S Robertson 72 65, P O’Hara 69 68, G Tough 68 69
138 G Robertson 69 69, M Hillson 68 70, L Miller 68 70
139 M Main 74 65, G Paterson 72 67, G Turner 69 70, A Main 68 71, Z Saltman 67 72, S Graham 66 73
140 C Harkins 66 74
141 D Martin 71 70, W Booth 70 71, S Hume 69 72, R Kellett 69 72, S McAllister 692 72
142 D Yeats 73 69, C Mundie 72 70, S Michie 71 71, A Howard 69 73, E Polson 69 73
143 G Stevenson 73 70, R McKenzie 72 71, J Welsh 72 71, S Machin 72 71, M Lawrence 70 73, B Fotheringham 70 73
144 D Downie 72 72, J Laurie 71 73, B Heggie 70 74.