ENTRIES CLOSE TODAY FOR SCOTTISH
BOYS’ CHAMPIONSHIP

Entries for the Scottish boys’ championship at Dunbar from April 9 to 14 close today.
The capacity field for the match-play event is 256. According to the list on the Scottish Golf Union website last night, there were 293 entries at that point – which means there will be some 40+ boys with the highest handicaps balloted out.
Banchory’s James Byrne, currently playing for Scotland in the quadrangular contest in Rome, has the lowest handicap (+2.3) of the entries received so far.
James reached the semi-finals at West Kilbride last year before being eliminated by Michael Main (Thornton) who, in turn, lost to fellow Fifer James White (Lundin) by 4 and 3 in the 36-hole finial.
Michael is still young enough to enter again for this year’s championship. Michael's handicap, at the time of entry this year, was +0.8 compared with 1.7 12 months ago.
James Byrne has improved his handicap from +0.8 when he entered the boys' championship last year.
There is a "James White" in this year's entry list but he is a five-handicap St Andrews New Golf Club member.