Sporting Digest: Golf

ENGLISH AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP (Moortown) First round: M McEwan (Mendip) bt D Sierra (Stoke Poges) 2 holes; G Lord (Coventry Hearsall) bt S East (Fulford) at 19th; P Rains (Gog Magog) bt J Hems (Kings Norton) 2 & 1; K Miller (Fulford) bt S Andrew (Clitheroe) 1 hole; G Wolstenholme (Bristol & Clifton) bt M Chillman (Hindhead) 4 & 2; R Buxton (Ifield) bt M Landrum (Wallasey) 4 & 3; A Johnson (Wyke Green) bt S Nightingale (Worthing) 4 & 3; P Kenyon (Hillside) bt M Pearson (Abbeydale) 4 & 3; G Evans (Ealing) bt S Martin (Burnham & Berrow) 5 & 4; M Davis (Silkstone) bt C Sands (Heswall) 3 & 2; M Clark (Shirley Park) bt P Bird (Penwortham) at 20th; R Reeve (Rochford Hundred) bt D Hamilton (East Herts) at 19th; A Robinson (Blackwell) bt N Hibbs (Hindley Hall) 3 & 1; M Thompson (Ferndown) bt A Mangeot (Aldeburgh) 4 & 3; G Jenkins (Kenilworth) bt D Watson (Mid-Kent) 4 & 3; A Holmes (Kirkbymoorside) bt C Radford (Chevin) 2 holes; N Parkinson (Dore & Totley) bt P Nelson (Renishaw Park) 7 & 5; M Pullan (Sand Moor) bt M Hall (Brookmans Park) 5 & 4; P Streeter (Sleaford) bt I Achurch (Northants County) 6 & 5; R Roper (Catterick Garrison) bt S Randle (Enville) at 19th; R McGuirk (Princes) bt A Inglis (Sunningdale Artisans) 3 & 2; M Keeling (Burlsem) bt A Wright (Long Ashton) 2 & 1; J Miller (Fulford) bt I Hardy (Hunstanton) 1 hole; S Hurd (Horsforth) bt J Surtees (Tyneside) 2 holes; P Carr (Sunningdale) bt D Clee (Kidderminster) 2 & 1; J Farmer (Cavendish) bt S Walker (Walmley) 3 & 2; R Binney (Newquay) bt P Edwards (Coxmoor) 4 & 3; S Goode (Ealing) bt C Rodgers (Royal Mid-Surrey) at 20th; T Milford (Sittingbourne & Milton Regis) 3 & 2; M Stanton (Ealing) bt J Hall (Hillingdon) at 19th; D King (Frilford Heath) bt R Bland (Bramshott Hill) 1 hole; S Cox (Woodhall Spa) bt P Drew (Worthing) at 19th; J Roberts (Howley Hall) bt L James (Broadstone) at 20th; P Randle (Enville) bt C Challen (Stoke Poges) at 19th; O Thomson (Sand Moor) bt W Nicolson (Coventry) at 19th; J Dockar (Ganton) bt M Blackey (Hayling) 4 & 3; S Barwick (East Berk) bt A Edwards (Woolton) 1 hole; A Print (Northants C) bt B Ingleby (Royal Cinque Ports) 2 & 1; R Smithies (Manchester) bt R Neill (Ealing) at 20th; C Robinson (Brookmans Park) bt D Ross (Stoke Rochford) 3 & 1; A Leach (Arcot Hall) bt C Middleton (Southport & Ainsdale) 3 & 1; G Harris (Broome Manor) bt G Nielsen (RAC) 8 & 6; M Farmer (N Hants) bt N Mitchell (Penrith) 2 & 1; A Emery (Saffron Walden) bt R Noon (Royal Lytham) 3 & 2; G Harland (Sand Moor) bt J Good (Shirley Park) 2 & 1; G Clark (Pinner Hill) bt A Pickering (Kendal) 6 & 5; D Boxall (Addington Boxall) bt C Jones (Ifield) at 20th; R Hurd (Sundridge Pk) bt D McIntyre (Bramhall) at 19th; J Frankum (Thorpe Pk) bt P Taylor (Staverton Park) 2 & 1; M Wild (Ashton-under-Lyne) bt M Searle (Lyme Regis) 2 & 1; L Lockwood (Moor Park) bt S Noon (Lee-on-the-Solent) 3 & 2; A Holmes (Kirkbymoorside) bt C Radford (Chevin) 2 holes; N Parkinson (Dore & Totley) bt P Nelson (Renishaw Pk) 7 & 5; M Keeling (Burlsem) bt A Wright (Long Ashton) 2 & 1; C Duke (Porters Pk) bt S Green (Littlestone) at 19th; C Benians (West Cornwall) bt R Milne (Holme Hall) 4 & 3; R Coles (Maylands) bt D Bicknell (Beckenham Place Pk) 3 & 2; J Knight (Sandford Springs) bt J Ellis (Moor Allerton) 5 & 4; D Whittaker (Bath) bt T Markwick (Corhampton) 5 & 4; J Healey (Hull) bt S Tilley (Middlesbrough) 3 & 1; R Aisbitt (Bishop Auckland) bt S Vale (Whittington Heath) 2 & 1; J Guest (Worksop) bt D Berridge (Hindhead) 2 & 1; C Stewart (Walton Heath) bt S Webster (Atherstone) 2 & 1; M Robarts (Warren) bt S Drum (Bridlington) 3 & 1; A Wall (Sunningdale) bt P Taylor (Whitley Bay) 1 hole; J Crampton (Spalding) bt R Groves (Lamberhurst) 3 & 2; S Griffiths (Wentworth) bt M Parsley (Royal Liverpool) 2 & 1; S Church (Wakefield) bt J Bragger (Tinsley Park) 2 holes; C Poxon (Little Aston) bt J Bromley (Oxley Park) 4 & 2; R Johnson (Saddleworth) bt S Shaw (Bromborough) 2 & 1; R Darlington (Royal Ashdown Forest) bt S Brennan (Wheatley) 1 hole; A Walls (St Annes Old) bt L Curling (Hillingdon) 5 & 3; D Fisher (Stoke Poges) bt P Alabaster (Three Rivers) 7 & 6; R Fletcher (Chesterfield) bt T Davies (Bearsted) 1 hole; M Kelley (Ganton) bt M Roberts (Shifnal) 6 and 4; G Maly (Porters Park) bt J Gill (Brancepeth Castle) 3 and 2; J Doherty (Worthing) bt J Jones (Bramley) 5 and 4; S Murray (Ifield) bt N Taee (Pannal) 5 and 4; J Harris (Nevill) bt M Sanders (Knowle) 2 and 1; J Hodgson (The Tytherington) bt D Ashton (Shifnal) 3 and 1; M Le Mesurier (Brokenhurst Manor) bt S Astin (Royal Lytham) 4 and 3; G Bradley (Bramhall) bt P Barlow (Grange Park) 2 and 1; P Wardle (Garforth) bt R Walton (Calcot Park) 1 hole.

NEW ENGLAND CLASSIC (Sutton, Massachusetts): Leading final scores: (US unless stated): 268 K Perry 67 66 70 65. 269 D Feherty (GB) 65 69 68 67. 272 E Fiori 66 66 70 70.

US WOMEN'S OPEN (Lake Orion, Michigan) Leading final scores (US unless stated): 277 P Sheehan 66 71 69 71. 278 T Green 66 72 69 71. 281 L Neumann (Swe) 69 72 71 69. 283 T Abitbol (Sp) 72 68 73 70; A Dibos (Per) 69 68 73 73. 284 A Alcott 71 67 77 69, M Mallon 70 72 73 69, B King 69 71 72 72. 285 H Alfredsson (Swe) 63 69 76 77; K Robbins 71 72 70 72; D Andrews 67 72 70 76. Selected: 286 L Davies (GB) 68 68 75 75. 289 P Wright (GB) 74 65 71 79.