Golf: A dismal run for Turner

ST ANDREWS - Greg Turner ended a consecutive 10-year run of appearances in the British Open golf tournament when he crashed out of the final qualifying rounds yesterday.

It will be the first occasion since 1989 that the Dunedin player will not contest a British Open.

His rounds of 70 and 71 at the Scotscraig course for a one-under total of 141 continued a wretched run for the four-times European Tour winner.

Turner's second round saw him forfeit any hope of teeing up at St Andrews tomorrow, after beginning with a double-bogey at the first.



He has missed six cuts on this year's European Tour, including the last two, and has managed only to contest the weekend rounds on five occasions.

Turner's failure to qualify, along with fellow New Zealander Frank Nobilo's decision not to travel to Scotland, should now rule out the pair's chances of making the International Team to defend the President's Cup in Virginia in October.

The Kiwi duo were in the 1998 team which humbled the US team at Royal Melbourne.

Stephen Scahill was at Scotscraig and also missed a chance to compete in the Open, with rounds of 70 and 71, while Elliott Boult missed out at the Lundin Links course.

That leaves Michael Campbell and 1963 winner Sir Bob Charles as New Zealand's only representatives in the Open field.

- NZPA