KIRSTY BRODIE TIES 64th

KEVIN LEBLANC HAS THE LOWEST 54-HOLE TOTAL

IRISH BOY WINS RandA JUNIOR OPEN:

JAMIE STEWART TIES FOR 24th PLACE 

 
Jamie Stewart (Old Ranfurly) tied for 24th place and Strathmore's Kirsty Brodie finished joint 64th in the big international field which gathered from around the world for the prestigious R and A Junior Open for under-16s at West Lancashire Golf Club.
Jamie had ever-improving rounds of 80, 78 and 76. Who knows what he would have scored next time out if it had been a 72-hole tournament!
Kirsty totalled 250 with scores of 88, 78 and 84.
She finished ahead of the Irish and Welsh girl representatives -  Wales' Rhian Barton totalled 252 with rounds of 90, 76 and 86 while Valery Clancy tied for 76th place on 257 (87-84-86).

 It was a talented Irish boy, Kevin Leblanc who had the lowest 54-hole aggregate in a field of mixed gender. He shot 72, 75 and 74, with nine birdies over the 54 holes, for a five-over-par total of 221, which was good scoring, bearing in mind the tournament is for Under-16 year olds and the West Lancashire links rough is just as tough as at the Open venue of Hoylake - only 10 miles away - and also Royal Birkdale where some of the competitors in last week's  Ricoh Women's British Open said it was the most penal rough they had ever encountered!
Kevin won by a shot from two players on 222 - Italy's Teodoro Soldati (76-70-76) and Belgian girl Diane Baillieux (75-71-76).
A member at The Island Golf Club, Donabate near Dublin, the 15-year-old Dubliner is the second Irish winner of the Junior Open.
Winner of back to back Irish Under-15 titles, Kevin is a +2 handicapper from Donabate who learned the game at Balcarrick before moving to The Island.
LeBlanc follows in the footsteps of inaugural winner Sergio Garcia (1994) and Limerick's Cian McNamara, who became the first Irish player to capture the trophy in 2002 at Royal Musselburgh Golf Club.

LEADING FINAL TOTALS 
Par 216 (3x72)
221 Kevin Leblanc (Ireland) 72 75 74
222 Teodoro Soldati (Italy) 76 70 76, Diane Baillieux (Belgium) 75 71 76
224 Xinying Wang (China) 78 77 69, Yumi Matsubara (Japan) 75 79 70.
SELECTED TOTALS
227 Michael Gilbert (England) 75 75 77 (T7)
228 Hugo Townsend (Sweden) 70 77 81 (T10)
230 Hollie Muse (England) 74 77 79 (T12)
234 Jamie Stewart (Scotland) 80 78 76 (T24)
250 Kirsty Brodie (Scotland) 88 78 84 (T64)
251 Rhian Barton (Wales) 90 76 86
256 Valerie Clancy (Ireland) 87 84 86