Scottish Boys Golf Championship: Six of the best from day two

Win

Jamie Savage, the joint-backmarker in the field along with Bothwell Castle’s James Steven, looked to be heading for the exit door when he found himself four down against Mouse Valley’s Andrew Thomson in a second-round tussle. But Savage, the son of Tartan Tour stalwart Stewart, got out of this particular mouse-trap by staging a storming fightback as the Cawder player squeezed through to the last 64

Shot

Glencruitten’s Sean Dunstaffnage carved his tee shot 30 yards off line at the 16th but produced a Bubba Watson-esque recovery to seal a 3 and 2 victory over in his first-round match. The irony, however, was lost on the Oban man as he doesn’t know that Watson is the new Masters champion, having fallen asleep as he watched the final round and since decided he doesn’t want to discover the outcome until he returns home at the end of his campaign in the event. “I’ve been ducking and ducking to try and avoid finding out,” he admitted to a flabbergasted press corps as they stood in front of a wall of cuttings, which included a massive headline screaming out ‘Bubba-licious’ in celebration of the lefgt-hander’s Augusta triumph!

Ambition

“My ultimate ambition is to become one of the best golfers in the world, play on the European and US Tours and secure a first major by the age of 25,” - Benjamin Henderson, the Deeside youngster declaring his aims in no uncertain terms in the player biographies subitted to the SGU.

Quote

“We were all doing so well there,” Paul Lawrie letting out one of his hearty chuckles when talk turned from Ian Poulter’s renowned knowledge of the bewildering Official World Golf Rankings to the ridiculousb banana-yellow golf shoes the Englishman wore in the final round of The Masters on Sunday.

Part-time job

Oban man Dunstaffnage does the double after revealing how winter’s storms had opened up a new family business venture. “A lot of trees came down in the drive at our house so my dad and myself chopped them up and sold them to local shops,” he explained of describing as a part-time log-splitter. He certainly cut his first-round opponent down to size!

Journey

Glasgow teenager Paul Delaney won’t forget his Scottish Boys ‘ debut in a hurry, having been awoken by a 7.50am phone call from an SGU official informing him that, if he could make it in time, he needed to be on the first tee at 12.37pm for a first-round tie following a late withdrawal. The 15-year-old jumped into his dad’s black cab, grabbed some breakfast in a McDonald’s on the journey up, bought a strokesaver before rushing on to the tee and duly overcame all of that to record a last-green success. The only disappointment for his dad, also Paul, was that the meter wasn’t on for a journey that would otherwise have been hugely profitable!