Golf: Local golfers in the hunt
Going into the final round of the Scottish Men's Senior Open Amateur Championship at Pollok, Lindsay Gordon of Turnhouse was leading the local challenge.
A second-round 74 in Glasgow's southside put him on 145, just three shots behind the joint-leaders, Scott Macdonald from Dunfermline and Berwick-upon-Tweed's Dave Millar.
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Hide AdMacdonald, the former Walker Cup man who is also a member at Royal Burgess, shot 72 in his second round, as did Millar. Another Royal Burgess player, Ian Taylor, and Murrayfield's Derek Miller, were also still in with a chance of claiming the title going into the final circuit. They were both on 146, Taylor having followed his opening 70 with a 76 while Miller posted a 74 to add to his 72.
Scottish seniors international John Fraser, another Royal Burgess man, missed the cut, as did Gordon's clubmate, Alastair Taylor, and Dunbar's Wilson Morton.
Meanwhile, up at Fortrose & Rosemarkie, Moira Thomson of Gullane Ladies is through to the semi-finals in the Scottish Senior Women's Amateur Match-play Championship.
She rallied from three down after six holes to beat Cruden Bay's Jill Harrison at the 19th in yesterday's quarter-finals and was taking on St Andrews hotelier Fiona de Vries (St Rule) in this morning's semi-finals.
Baberton pair Pamela Williamson and Fiona Hunter both won their first-round matches on the Black Isle course before losing in the afternoon quarter-finals.
Hunter, who had squeezed through on the last against Dunbar's Noreen Fenton, lost by two holes to title favourite Heather Anderson of Alyth, while Williamson gave a good account of herself before succumbing on the 18th to Fifer Lorna Bennett.