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Sunday, October 23, 2005

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WALLACE BOOTH STRUGGLES AFTER
DISASTROUS START IN FLORIDA

Last year’s Scottish youths golf champion Wallace Booth never recovered from a disastrous start to his opening round in the Isleworth Collegiate Invitational tournament at Isleworth Country Club, Windermere in Florida (Sunday USA time).
Wallace, a golf scholarship student at Augusta State University and whose parents live near Comrie, Perthshire, began at the 10th tee and double-bogeyed his first two holes on his way to an nine-over-par 81 over a 7,493yd course.
Going into the second round, Booth was sharing 83rd place behind joint leaders Pablo Martin (Oklahoma State), the Spaniard who won the British boys’ title in 2001 and was beaten finalist in the same championship two years later, and Doug Manchester (Wake Forest) on the 67 mark.