Bob MacIntyre joined at The Open by awesome Scots amateur as Tartan representation doubles
Awesome amateur Cameron Adam is heading to Portrush along with the Oban ace
Scots star Cameron Adam sealed the deal in Sweden to book a dream date alongside Bob MacIntyre at The Open.
The Royal Burgess golf ace doubled the Tartan representation pencilled into Royal Portrush after successfully clinching his place at the European Amateur Championship.
Adam, who the recent St Andrews Links Trophy, has qualified through The Open Amatuer Series and will now tee it up alongside his fellow left-hander MacIntyre at the 153rd staging of the game's biggest event next month in Northern Ireland.
The event was won by Filip Jakubcik who produced a solid performance in Saturdays final round to become the first player from Czech Republic to ever win this tournament.
He joins Adam in the Portrush field and, speaking to the ega-golf, he said: 'It's crazy. It's probably every amateur's goal to play The Open, or any other Major. The fact that I can play in one, to get the experience, the feeling, I'm super excited.'
Twelve months ago, Calum Scott came through the same quote to make it to Royal Troon and went onto collect the Silver Medal as top amateur at the 152nd Championship.
More Scots are currently fighting to get into the big one with Calum Hill also eyeing Portrush. The 30-year-old steamed into contention at the Italian Open with a brilliant round of 64 to move to within three of leader Martin Couvra.
Hill wants a second title of the year on the DP World Tour having triumphed earlier in the campaign in South Africa.
But, as well as the trophy, there are two spots available for The Open from the Italian event and he's bang in the mix.
Couvra is in pole position at the moment as he looks to add to the Turkish Open title and become the year's first multiple DP World Tour winner.
In sweltering heat where players were permitted to wear shorts, he stayed cool to birdie the last an open a one-shot advantage over countryman Adrien Saddier and Spain's Eugenio Chacarra.
Couvra said: 'I'm really proud about my 18th, because I was really tired on the last few holes. It's quite difficult with the heat. The course is so tough, so we needed to be very concentrated. I'm happy about the 18th.
'There's a lot of great players here, so you have to keep going. It's going to be a great experience because it's my first time being in this position. I'm really proud to be in this position.
'It's really nice to have some good friends on the Tour to play alongside. I've known Alex Levy a long time because we're from the same golf course, I train every day with Romain Langasque and Tom Vaillant. We have a lot of good friends, so it's really nice.'
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