Wylie battles to victory

DOUGLAS WYLIE of Turnhouse had to work hardest of all the first-round winners in this season's Lothians Handicap Champion of Champions Tournament. Against Murrayfield's Keiron Shaw, Wylie required four extra holes to make the next round, and a home tie with Binivell's Willie McLean.

First round: D Young (Harrison) beat D Baird (Edinburgh Western) 3 and 2; D Neish (Lothian & Borders Police) lost to D Halliday (Merchants) 2 and 1; A Finch (Bathgate) beat J Wilkie (North Berwick) 3 and 2; B Shearer (Gifford) lost to J Blain (Pumpherston) 2 and 1; A Love (Royal Musselburgh) lost to J Liddle (West Lothian) 6 and 5; I Shivas (Linlithgow) beat S Dobson (Prestonfield) 7 and 6; E McRobbie (Glencorse) beat D Hand (Register House) at 19th; J Burns (Thorntree) lost to R Carroll (Musselburgh Old) walkover; P Grigor (Edinburgh Thistle) beat G Hardie (Bruntsfield Allied) 6 and 5; J Blyth (Craigielaw) beat A Lafferty (Dirleton Castle) 4 and 3; J Stickings (Royal Bank) lost to E Coulter (Winterfield) 6 and5; M Lennox (Musselburgh) beat P Moran (West Linton) 2 and 1; B Williams (Kilspindie) lost to W McCathie (Torphin Hill) at 19th; A Cormack (Scarifiers) beat P Holland (Ethicon) 3 and 2; A Riddell (Bass Rock) lost to B Palmer (Port Seton) walkover; W Wilson (Edinburgh Drapers Thursday) beat C Hutcheson (Craigmillar Park) walkover; B Savage (Bruntsfield Links) beat S Freedman (Electric) 4 and 2; C Houston (Lochcraig) lost to Gordon Adam (RICS) 4 and 3; K Shaw (Murrayfield) lost to D Wylie (Turnhouse) at 22nd; W McLean (Binivell) beat D Paget (Ravelston) 3 and 1; A Preedy (Stewarts & Melville FP) beat D Roberts (City Chambers) walkover; J Hunter (Cramond) beat D Sharman (Bank of Scotland) walkover; M McCabe (Kingston) beat S Cockburn (Lochend) 2 and 1; W Mitchell (Braids United) beat B Bleakley (Temple) walkover; S Akers (Lothianburn) beat M Sneddon (Third) two holes; A Bell (Silverknowes) beat J Wilson (Buckstone GC) 2 and 1; R Thomson (Travel Twenty) beat D Marshall (Dental & Medical) 3 and 2; R Adams (Hailes) lost to D Conway (Torphin Twenty) 4 and 3; J Leyden (Glen) beat S McPake (Mortonhall) walkover.