UPDATED BELGIAN JUNIORS

GOOD START BY KELSEY AND
ROSEANNE IN BELGIUM

Scotland’s Kelsey MacDonald (Nairn Dunbar) and Roseanne Niven (Crieff) made a promising start to the girls’ section of the Belgian Junior Nations Open at Royal Golf Club of Belgium, near Brussels today.
ourth-placed Kelsey had a two-over-par 74 with birdies at the first and 14th while Rosanne had a 76, which included a double bogey at the fourth and a birdie 2 at the short 12th.
The top 60 players after three rounds will go forward to the match-play stages.
Sam McLaren (King James VI) from Perth, the Scottish Under-16 boys’ champion, had a 77 to be lying 50th in a field of 93 for the boys’ tournament. Paul Shields had a 79.

LEADING FIRST ROUND SCORES
Par 72
72 Sonia Cologan (Spa).
73 Ines Tusquets (Spa), Lien Williams (Bel).
74 Kelsey MacDonald (Sco).
Other scores:
76 Roseanne Niven (Sco).
81 Dawn Marie Conaty (Ire).
88 Ciara Walsh (Ire).

BOYS
Par 72
71 N Nissen (Den), F Schulte (Ger), T Rodrigues (Por).
Other scores:
74 S Malone (Eng).
77 S Ward (Ire), S McLaren (King James VI).
78 D Lernihan (Ire).
79 P Shields (Sco).
83 A Torrence (Wal).