WALLACE BOOTH 51st IN DIXIE

MEN'S AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP

Wallace Booth from Comrie was sharing 51st position after the third round of the Dixie men's amateur championship at Palm-Aire Country Club, Pompano Beach in Florida.
A Scotland international and former Scottish youths champion, Wallace (pictured right), who spent four years at Augusta State University and whose sister Carly is spending the winter at high school in Arizona, has had rounds of 80, 72 and 76 for a 54-hole tally of 228.
Leading the field on two-under-par 211 with one round to go are Germany's Stephan Gross and Gregory O'Mahony, a 21-year-old student at Nova Southeastern University.
In the Dixie women's amateur championship at the same venue, Alexis Thompson is one round away from her first major amateur title.
The 12-year-old followed up two rounds of 74 with a 72 for seven-over 220 and a four-stroke lead from Shelby Coyle with whom she had shared the halfway lead.

MEN'S THIRD-ROUND LEADERS
211 Stephan Gross (Ger) 73 70 68, Gregory O'Mahony 75 68 68.
213 David Lingmerth 74 71 68, Jon McLean 71 73 69.
214 Connor Arendell 72 71 71, Maximilian Kieffer 74 70 70.
215 T J Vogel 71 72 72.
Other score:
228 Wallace Booth (Sco) 80 72 76 (jt 51st).

WOMEN'S THIRD-ROUND LEADERS
220 Alexis Thompson 74 74 72.
224 Shelby Coyle 74 74 76.
229 Christina Hirano 78 80 71.
230 Laura Gonzalex-Escallon 76 80 74.
231 Stephanie Connelly 76 80 75, Audrey Goumard 82 77 72.
232 Jennifer Hirano 76 78 78, Rebecca Kuhn 81 78 73, Madison Pressel 82 77 73.