Basingstoke unknown Ben Cummings completed a great Hampshire double in the English Amateur Golf Championships at Saunton yesterday.

Cummings and Brokenhurst Manor's Martin Young, who has been battling a back injury all summer, stormed into the quarter-finals on a storm-tossed day in Devon.

The 21-year-old Basingstoke clubman is not even an established player in his own county side, although he is a member of Lionel Smith's Hampshire Colts squad.

Nevertheless the one-handicapper has taken some notable scalps this week. He disposed of Gary Lockerbie, thirds round conquerer of the favourite Gary Wolstenholme, and yesterday beat England international Oliver Wilson by one hole to reach the last eight.

Back home in Brockenhurst yesterday, Phil Young was a proud dad as both his sons, Martin and Jonathan, lined up in the last 32.

Jonathan, the younger of the brothers who was runner-up in this year's Courage Trophy, departed the scene in the fifth round, the victim of a birdie blitz by Reading left hander Geoff Harris who beat him 5 & 4.

But Martin beat the seeded Tom Whitehouse 3 & 2 after a brilliant run of five birdies. Young, last year's Lagonda Trophy winner, has twice had manipulative operations to cure back problems which his father says have been caused by displaced ribs.

Young, a pure weekend golfer who works as a building site manager during the week, then took on Matt Ford in the fifth round and clinched his place in the quarter-finals with a fighting victory on the second extra hole.

l Gary Emerson went from hero to villain in the first round of the Volvo Scandinavian Masters at Barseback.

The Salisbury golfer sprinted to the top of the leaderboard with three birdies in his opening five holes then crash-landed with four bogies on the bounce between the seventh and tenth holes.

Although he picked up two more shots, the Broadstone tournament professional gave another back at the 17th to finish level par for the day - the same mark as Justin Rose who had gone to the last hole one under and just five off the lead.

But his second bogey of the day left him level par and on the wrong side of the projected cut. Yet his had been a much smoother ride after he'd dropped a shot at the third then picked up birdies at the sixth and 13th.

Former Ryder Cup player Steve Richardson, who has mustered little over £1,000 in a miserable season, got into the tournament as a reserve but wasn't able to make the most of it.

He bogied his first hole, the tenth, then got to one under with birdies at the 13th and 16th. But a double bogey at the 18th left the Lee-on-Solent man in the wrong half of the field and another dropped shot left him at two over.

England's Antony Wall set a shot pace with a 63 on a day when Lee Westwood returned to form with a five-under 67.

* Southampton's Richard Bland was one-over par after the first round of the BMW Russian Open in Moscow.