McDONALD, HARKINS JOINT-LEADERS OF UNIVERSITY CLASS

By COLIN FARQUHARSON
Colin@scottishgolfview.com
Stirling student Jack McDonald, Scottish boys' stroke-play champion in 2009, and fellow Ayrshireman Chris Harkins (Strathclyde) share the lead after two rounds of the Scottish universities' open stroke-play tournament at Fairmont St Andrews today.
Kilmarnock Barassie GC member McDonald, pictured, took the morning lead with a very good score of two-under-par 68 over the Torrance course but slipped a two-over-par 72 at the Kittocks course in the second round.
That enabled Ayr Belleisle GC member Harkins to close the gap with a repeat of his morning 70 and the pair share the lead on 140 at the head of the 24 men's qualifiers for the third and final round over the Torrance course tomorrow.
Sweden's Emma Henrikson (Vellinge) leads the women's event by five shots after a great scpre of one-under-par 73 at the Kittocks Course. Chasing her over the final round on Sunday at the same course will be Welsh international Gemma Bradbury (St Andrews), on 78, and Scottish girls champion Eilidh Briggs (Stirling) on 79 among a field cut to eight qualifiers

MEN QUALIFIERS FOR FINAL ROUND
Torrance (par 72) and Kittocks (par 70) courses
Torrance score first
140 Jack McDonald (Stirling) 68 72, Chris Harkins (Strathclyde) 70 70.
142 Mike Howard (Stirling) 70 72
147 Mathias Eggenberger (Stirling) 69 78, Nick McAndrew (Aberdeen) 69 78
148 Danny Kirk (Elmwood) 76 72, Darren Timms (Stirling) 71 77, Zander Culverwell (Stirling) 74 74
149 David Booth (Stirling) 78 71, Patrick Spraggs (Stirling) 74 75
150 David Curtis (Glasgow) 72 78, Finlay White (Stirling) 77 73, Freddie Edmunds (St Andrews) 77 73
151 Callum McNeill (Highlands and Islands) 77 74
152 Jason Loughlin (Elmwood) 74 78
153 Ollie Roberts (Stirling) 74 79, Vincent Blom (St Andrews) 77 76
154 Ally MacDonald (Strathclyde) 76 78, Colin Sutherland (Dundee) 75 79, Euan Brown (Strathclyde) 79 75, Filip Brattse (Vellinge) 79 75
155 Kit Holmes (Stirling) 73 82
156 Dewi Merkx (Stirling) 72 84
156 Conor Gask (St Andrews) 80 76
MISSED THE CUT
156 Varun Varadharajan (Heriot Watt) 76 80
157 Cameron Marr (Elmwood) 81 76, Chris Low (Elmwood) 76 81, Craig Telfer (Edinburgh) 70 87, James Morrison (Stirling) 75 82, Stuart Cochrane (Stirling) 79 78
158 Alex Purdom (St Andrews) 81 77, Callum Beveridge (Elmwood) 80 78, Danny Sommerville (Dundee) 81 77, Donald McAndrew (Robert Gordons) 80 78, Joe Marchbank (St Andrews) 84 74
159 Andrew Cunningham (Strathclyde) 80 79, Conor Finlay (Dundee) 79 80, Duncan Douglas (Stirling) 79 80, Elliot Dodds (St Andrews) 81 78, Malko Schraner (Stirling) 83 76, Steven Kinnaird (Highlands and Islands) 84 75
160 Mike McCarthy (St Andrews) 80 80
161 Angus Carrick (Stirling) 77 84, Donnchadh Dodd (Heriot Watt) 81 80, Euan Paterson (Heriot Watt) 80 81,Gordon Munro (Robert Gordons) 79 82, John Drummond (Aberdeen) 74 87, Sixten Malmberg (Vellinge) 79 82
162 Gavin Bissett (Aberdeen) 80 82
164 Mike Thelwell Jones (Stirling) 82 82
166 Alexander Sward (Heriot Watt) 80 86
173 Dave Fanthorpe (Robert Gordons) 82 91, Joel Nilsson (Vellinge) 90 83
176 Oscar Tallgren (Vellinge) 89 87
178 Richie Tidman (Stirling) 91 87
180 Mark Pearson (Stirling) 89 91
NR Adrian Malwhinney (Dundee) 87 NR
NR Ally Leith (Glasgow) 89 NR
NR Ben Gibson (Strathclyde) NR
NR Christopher Thewlis (Napier) 85 NR
NR John Innes (Edinburgh) 79 NR
NR Scott Webster (Dundee) NR 84
DQ Mike Ewen (Aberdeen) 87 86
WOMEN QUALIFIERS
(Kittocks Course: Par 74)
73 Emma Henrikson (Vellinge)
78 Gemma Bradbury (St Andrews)
79 Eilidh Briggs (Stirling)
80 Becca Wilson (Stirling), Harriet Beasley (Stirling)
81 Susan Jackson (Edinburgh)
82 Franzisca Benze (St Andrews)
83 Gabrielle Macdonald (St Andrews)
MISSED THE CUT
86 Ashley Smith (St Andrews), Alisa Theunis (St Andrews)
88 Zhanna Tarasko (St Andrews)
90 Jordana Graham (Stirling), Sam Munro (Highlands and Islands)
95 Kirsty MacDonald (Edinburgh), Laura Grant (Dundee)

SUNDAY'S THIRD-ROUND DRAW

MEN
9.05 Merckx, Gask, Holmes, Ally MacDonald.
9.15 Brown, Sutherland, Brattse, Roberts.
9.25 Blom, Loughlin, McNeill, Curtis.
9.35 White, Edmunds, Spraggs, Booth.
9.45 Timms, Kirk, Culverwell, Nick McAndrew.
9.55 Eggenberger, Howard, Harkins, Jack McDonald.

WOMEN
10.05 Gabrielle Macdonald, Franzisca Benze, Susan Jackson, Harriet Beasley.
10.15 Becka Wilson, Eilidh Briggs, Gemma Bradbury, Emma Henrickson.