Students' international tournament at St Andrews

Gordon Stevenson sets hot pace with

a 64 over New in 'Boyd Quaich'

First-round leader in the Boyd Quaich Memorial international students' golf tournament at St Andrews is Gordon Stevenson (St Andrews University) who scored a magnificent seven under par 64 on the New Course.
The format for the first two days means that the field of 72 players is split, with half playing the New and half playing the Old Course.
Stevenson's 64 included six birdies and an eagle with just one blemish on the card, courtesy of a bogey at the par 3 ninth hole. Kevin Duncan from Ellon, a student at Clayton State University, Atlanta, Georgia, had the next best score of 67 over the New.
The only other player to get unbder the par of 71 at the New Course was Daniel Sommerville (Dundee University).
The scoring on the Old was considerably higher with the best round of 71 coming from Matthew Williams from Aston University.
Next best was a par 72 from Nick Clark of Toronto.Shot of the day certainly belonged to Brighton's Adam Kyle who holed his second on the par 5 8th hole of the New Course. It was his first albatross.The leading 30 players after Wednesday's second round will qualify for the third and fourth rounds, which will begin in the afternoon.

LEADING SCORES

OLD COURSE Par 72
71 Matthew Williams (Aston).
72 Nick Clark (Toronto).
73 John Greene (University College, Dulbin), Marco Cioffrese (St Gallen).
74 Matthew Fowler (Leeds Metro), Christian Brown (Exeter), Will Bowman (North Carolina), Daniel Pearson (Warwick), Aaron Taylor (Ulster).
75 Oliver Stevens (Cardiff), Christopher Robinson (Cambridge), Alex Room (Edinburgh).
76 Chris Orr (Cardiff), Ben Skeet (Leeds Metro), Brian Cahill (University College Cork).
77 James Binning (Cambridge).
78 Steven Scott (Abertay), Michael Davies (West of England), Daniel Jones (Swansea).
Selected scores:
79 Paul Robinson (Strathclyde).
80 Ross McDonald (Edinburgh).

NEW COURSE (Par 71)
64 Gordon Stevenson (St Andrews).
67 Kevin Duncan (Clayton State, USA).
70 Daniel Sommerville (Dundee).
71 Adam Kyle (Brighton), Scott Samuel (Canada), Joshua Clarke (Abertay).
72 Wilson Bowen (Stanford,USA), Jack Owens (Ulster).
73 Gerard Kelly (University College Dublin), Kevin Stack (University College Cork), Philipp Dirkz (Grenoble), Patrick Brimmer (Loughborough), James Morrison (Stellenbosch, SAf), Darragh Cochlan (Greeensboro, USA).
74 Stephen Pointon (St Andrews), Andrew Myers (Bournemouth), Nicholas Powell (Guelph), Gian Andrea Hild (St Gallen).
75 John Wybar (Aberdeen), Christo Harma (Prfetoria), Frazer McKenna (SE Louisiana, USA).
76 Ben Wescoe (Yale), Joe Campbell (North Carolina), Daniel Farmer (Wales0k John McNally (Warwick), Neil McBride (Clayton State).
Selected Score
77 Fraser Campbell (Strathclyde).
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