BARRY HUME LEADS EUROPRO EVENT AFTER GREAT FINISH.

Scotlands Barry Hume takes a one shot lead after a brilliant finish of 4 under par for the last 5 holes during the first round of the ABC SOLUTIONS CHAMPIONSHIP at WYCHWOOD PARK GOLF CLUB near MANCHESTER.
Everybody else was struggling over the difficult closing stretch,but not Hume as his 4 late birdies gave him a -5 score of 67.

The leading Irishman is Cork man Michael Collins.He got a great start of birdie,birdie and got to -3 after another birdie at the 9th.He came home with 8 pars and a bogey at the 15th for a share of 6th place on -2.
Warrenpoints Barrie Trainor,who won the Ulster PGA Championship last week got a terrible start.He doubled bogied the 13th,his 4th and followed up with further bogies at the 14th and 16th to go to +4 after 7 holes.He recovered brilliantly with a birdie at the 17th and after 4 birdies in a row from the 2nd to the 5th got to one under par.He bogied the short 6th and is in a share of 23rd on level par.
Paul o Hanlon,Brian McElhinney,Mark Staunton and Tim Rice are inside the cut mark on 73+1.
IRISH SCORES....


70 MICHAEL COLLINS -2.
72 BARRIE TRAINOR PAR.
73 PAUL O HANLON,BRIAN MCELHINNEY,MARK STAUNTON,TIM RICE +1.
74 BRENDAN MC CARROLL +2.
75 MARK CAMPBELL +3.
76 JUSTIN KEHOE,RICHARD KILPATRICK +4.
78 GREG BOWDEN +6.
79 GER HALL,DANIEL SUGRUE,MICHAEL LAVELLE +7.