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AS THE only amateur left in the Championship Stuart Wilson will pick up the Silver Medal for the highest-placed player, provided that he can stagger around 18 holes today and actually finish. After yesterday's round, he must be feeling a little bruised. If all four wheels didn't quite come off the bandwagon, Forfar's finest was down to a monocycle by the time he trudged up the 18th fairway after dropping six shots to end the day on 220, seven over par.
He started in the worst possible way. Most players had reason to bewail the wind that was gusting off the Irish Sea but it probably kept Wilson's opening drive in play ... albeit just two yards inside the fence. The almost inevitable result was his first bogey of the day, one of six, and it set the tone for what was to be a testing afternoon.See the full content of this document
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Scots On the Rocks
"It started off quite nicely," he said afterwards, "it was just nice and steady but I didn't really get the putting going early on and once I'd put myself under pressure with the putting I wasn't really goin...
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