Broun opened
with a 62 over the shorter Balcomie course on Monday and followed with a 69 over the Craighead links on Wednesday.
whilst Smyth followed his opening 71 on the Craigend course with a superb nine
under par course record equalling score of 60 on the Balcomie links on Wednesday
There scores
left the Ayrshire pair just two off the best qualifying score, in joint fourth
place.
Leading Scores
:-
129 (-12) –
Stuart Mclaren (Bruntsfield Links) 68/61
130 (-11) –
Eric McIntosh (Bruntsfield Links) 62/68, Darren Howie (Peebles) 62/68
131 (-10) –
Angus Carrick (Craigielaw) 67/64, Will Porter (Carnoustie) 65/66,
Jack Broun (Ayr Belleisle)
62/69, Michael Smyth (Royal Troon) 71/60
Jeff Wright (Forres) 63/68
132 (-9) – Lewis
Irvine (Kirkhill) 62/70, Marcus Rickard (Cupar) 64/68
The cut for
the matchplay stages fell at 140, one under par and Ayrshire players who failed
to make the cut were:-
141 – Elliot
Thom (Turnberry) 66/75
142 - Sandy Buchanan
(Prestwick St Nicholas) 72/70
142 – Stuart
Easton (Irvine) 67/75
146 – James Bunch
(Prestwick) 68/78
146 – Blair Morton
(Royal Troon) 64/82
146 – Sean Addie
(Ayr Belleisle) 69/77
146 – Robbie
Muir (Kilmarnock Barassie) 76/70
149 –
Jonathan Stevenson (Troon St Meddans) 80/69
151 – Euan Ferguson
(Turnberry) 79/72
151 – Robbie
Stewart (Troon Portland) 71/80
153 – James McCullagh
(Kilmarnock Barassie) 73/80
154 – Callum
Irving (Ayr Belleisle) 80/74
157 – Aidan Long
(Ayr Belleisle) 78/79
165 – Jordan
Sweeney (Ayr Belleisle) 80/85
N/R – Shaun Hedger
(West Kilbride)
In the
opening round of the matchplay on Thursday morning, Jack Broun plays G Brown
(Cathkin Braes GC), teeing off at 10.02 am, whilst Michael Smyth faces Matthew
Miller (Lundin GC) with an 11.06 am start.