McIntosh makes ace, ties course record and leads Scottish Am

PERTH, Scotland (July 30, 2018) – Eric McIntosh, 19, leads the field after Tuesday’s opening round of the Scottish Men’s Amateur Championship at Blairgowrie.

The 2016 Scottish Boy’s Amateur Champion, who plays college golf at Northwestern in the U.S., carded an 8-under 64 that matched the course record on the Rosemount Course and is three shots clear of Andrew Thornton and Andrew Davidson. Both chasers are 5 under.

It was all smiles for Davidson toward the end of his round as he aced the 15th hole, named Wee Dunt, with a perfectly executed 52-degree wedge.

The now-joint Rosemount Course record holder, host club member Glenn Campbell, is also in the field this week and returned even-par 72 to sit in a share of 37th place. Campbell won the Scottish Men’s Amateur Championship 13 years ago at Southerness.

Defending champion Sam Locke, who last week was the only amateur to make the cut at the Open Championship, is not in the field.

On a day where the scoring was lower on the Rosemount Course, Stuart Blair, Sean Marc, Kyle Godsman and Michael Brodie returned the joint lowest scores of the day on the Lansdowne course with rounds of 3-under 69.

The field of 264 golfers will return tomorrow for the second round of stroke-play qualifying, with the top 64 players progressing to the match-play stages.