Golf: Pyman takes a tumble
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Your support makes all the difference.IAIN PYMAN, who recorded the lowest ever total by an amateur in the Open Championship 10 days ago, was yesterday defeated in the second round of the English Amateur Championship at Saunton.
Pyman was one up with four to play against Jon Barnes, a 22- year-old greenkeeper from Brockenhurst Manor in Hampshire. Barnes won the 15th with a 10-foot putt, holed from 20 feet for a half at the next, rolled in an 18-footer to win the 17th and completed the job from eight feet at the last. Pyman, who makes his Walker Cup debut in three weeks' time, contributed to his own downfall, three- putting the short 13th.
Mark Pullan, Pyman's club- mate at Sand Moor and a former English strokeplay champion, also took an early exit, beaten by John Iles from Dorset, though Stuart Cage, the defending champion and another of their clubmates, easily survived against David Bartlett of Derbyshire.
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