BELGIAN JUNIOR NATIONS OPEN

KELSEY CLEAR IN BELGIUM

Nairn 15-year-old Kelsey Macdonald leads by one stroke at the halfway stage of the girls’ section in the Belgian Junior Nations Open at Royal Golf Club of Belgium, near Brussels.
Nairn Dunbar Golf Club member Kelsey, winner of the Northern Counties women’s championship for the past two years, has had two rounds of 74 for a four-over-par tally of 148 and leads by one shot from Austria’s Christine Wolf (75-74).
Roseanne Niven (Crieff), the Scottish Under-18 girls’ match-play champion, is in 15th position on 156 with scores of 76 and 80.
In the boys’ competition, Sam McLaren (King James VI) from Perth, the Scottish Under-16 boys’ title-holder, is in 47th place with a pair of 77s for 154 – one shot ahead of Paul Shields (Kirkhill) (79-76).
Dimitri Van Doren(Belgium) and Nicoli Nissen (Denmark) lead on two-under-par 142.
LEADING GIRLS' SCORES
148 K MacDonald (Scotland) 74 74.
149 C Wolf (Austria) 75 74.
151 L Willems (Belgium) 73 78.
153 G Paolillo (Italy) 78 75, S Nuutinen (Finland) 75 78, S Cologan (Spain) 72 81, E Wanet (Belgium) 77 76.
Other score:
156 R Niven (Scotland) 76 80 (15th).
LEADING BOYS' SCORES
142 D Van Doren (Belgium) 72 70, N Nissen (Denmark) 71 71.
Other scores:
146 S Ward (Ireland) 77 69 (7th).
150 D Lernihan (Ireland) 78 72 (18th).
153 J Vickery (Wales) 79 74 (36th).
154 S McLaren (Scotland) 77 77 (47th).
155 P Shields (Kirkhill) 79 76 (52nd).
165 Alyn Torrence (Wales) 83 82 (90th)
168 R Bentham (Wales) 82 86 (92nd).