Girls’ golf: Scots shine at Prestwick

Two Scots – Gemma Dryburgh and Heather Munro – in the top ten and another two – Gabrielle Macdonald and Lauren Whyte in the leading dozen – added up to a good first day for the host country in the British women’s open amateur stroke play championship at Prestwick Golf Club.

Seventeen-year-old Chinese player Jing Yan, who won the British U18 girls’ championship at Fairhaven last Friday, shot a brilliant six-under-par 68 to take a three-shot lead. Aberdeen-born Dryburgh, a student at Tulane University, New Orleans, is one of five players on the two-under 72 mark behind Jing Lang and Ireland’s Lisa Maguire on 71.

Monifieth teenager Munro recovered from a bogey-bogey start to shoot a level par round of 74 while St Andrews student Macdonald (Craigielaw) is on the 75 mark alongside Whyte (St Regulus).

Carnoustie’s Ailsa Summers, the St Rule Tro