THREE CHEERS FOR COLETTE:

ANOTHER US COLLEGE WIN

FOR SCOTTISH COACH

Scots-born golf coach Colette Murray from Dumfries has set some sort of American college golf record by steering the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga women's team to three straight wins out of three since the college's golf programme was revived after being dropped more than a decade ago.
Colette, pictured above, who played on the US college circuit as a student at Jacksonville State, Alabama, stayed on to become the women's golf coach before being headhunted by Tennessee-Chattanooga at the start of this year.
She had to build a team from scratch, ready to play competitively in the 2007-2008 college season.
They have certainly been ready. Record: Played Three, Won Three.
Kelly Brotherton, the former Scottish Under-21 champion from Tulliallan, was one of Miss Murray's recruits, from Colorado State University. Kelly finished joint ninth on 229 with scores of 73, 76 and 80 in the latest tournament, the Hawkeye Intercollegiate at Finkbine Golf Club, Iowa City in Iowa.
Australian Emma DeGroot has been Colette's most consistently successful player. She was second for the third event in a row with scores of 72, 75 and 76 for 223, finishing six strokes behind winner Katie Elliott (Wisconsin).
Portia Abbot (Jacksonville State) finished joint 27th in a field of 75 with scores of 81, 80 and 80 for 241 over the par-73, 6,202yd course. Portia comes from Wiltshire.
Tennessee Chattanooga won the team title with a total of 909. Wisconsin (928) were second and Cincinnatti (936) third and Iowa (937) fourth, Jacksonville State (940) fifth in a field of 13 teams.

LOSSIE LAD LEADS DONALD ROSS JUNIOR
INVITATIONAL TOURNAMENT

Lossiemouth lad Roger Clarke (Moray) led the field by one shot with a par-equalling round of 71 (35-36) over the Struie course in the first round of the Donald Ross junior invitational golf tournament for Under-16s at Royal Dornoch today (Tuesday).
Moray Golf Club member Clarke, 15, birdied the third and fourth to set against outward half bogeys at the second and eighth. Coming home, he moved to one under par with a birdie at the 10th but three putts for a bogey at the 18th saw him fall back to level par, but still a very good round.
One shot behind in second place on 72 is Kyle Godsman (Hopeman) who had a birdie at the 10th and bogeys at the sixth and 14th.
Scotland women's team player Kelsey MacDonald's (Nairn Dunbar) leads the girls' competition despite a four-over-par 76 for the LGU course, which included a lost-ball double bogey at the 14th.
Wednesday's final round take place over the much tougher Dornoch championship course.

LEADING FIRST ROUND SCORES
Struie Course
Par 71
BOYS
71 R Clarke (Moray).
72 K Godsman (Hopeman).
73 L Haldane (Stirling).
74 C MacLeod (Nairn Dunbar), E Chancellor (Inverness), T Dingwall (Nairn Dunbar), J Treasurer (Loch Ness).
75 A Begg (Muir of Ord), R Copland (Garmouth & Kingston).
77 P Ramsey (Elgin), L Reid (Fortrose & Rosemarkie).
78 L McAlpine (Invergordon), R Ferguson (Alness).
79 R I Mackenzie (Tain), C Stewart (Brora).
GIRLS
Par 72
76 K MacDonald (Nairn Dunbar).
79 M Holmbom (Sweden).
83 J Vass (Tain), K Scott (Windyhill).
84 T S Buck (Norway).
86 L Duncan (Aboyne).

CARLY BOOTH NINE SHOTS

CLEAR OF DAILY TELEGRAPH

GIRLS' FIELD IN DUBAI

FROM THE DAILY TELEGRAPH WEBSITE
Carly Booth takes what looks like an unassailable lead into today's final round of the Daily Telegraph Junior Championships at Dubai Creek but the race for the boys' title could hardly be closer with the three leaders separated by a single stroke.
Booth hits the ball a long way for a girl of 15 and had too much power for her eight rivals around a course of many testing carries. The plus-3 handicapper extended her first-round advantage of two strokes to a commanding nine shots over today's playing partners Alexandra Peters and Micah Carroll. Scottish prodigy Booth believes she can relax today after storming clear of the field but also feels she should be even further ahead after an indifferent spell around the turn took her from even par to four over before she recovered well.
"I had a good start," she said, referring to her chip in for an eagle two at the third and her birdie at the short eighth, "so it was frustrating to let those shots slip away. But at least I played better than on the first day."

HOW THE GIRLS STAND

146 C Booth (Comrie) 74 72.
155 M Carroll (Launceston, Cornwall) 79 76, A Peters (Notts Ladies) 78 77.
156 N Foster (Accrington) 79 77.
157 N Dunn (Harrogate) 77 80.
159 E Taylor (Gainsborough) 76 83.
160 C Douglass (Brocket Hall) 78 82.
173 L Blease (Coombe Hill) 88 85.
174 R McQueen (Troon Bentinck) 88 86.

There is no such mis-match in the final boys' group, as joint-leaders Andrew Cooley and Oscar Sharpe – both level par for the tournament – lock horns with Stiggy Hodgson, who stands at one over.
It seemed like Surrey teenager Cooley would also take a big lead into the final day as he went from his overnight score of one under par to four under with four birdies against one dropped shot in the first 13 holes.
With none of his 11 rivals in red figures at that stage he looked a hot favourite for the title but a disastrous triple-bogey 7 at Dubai's treacherous final hole brought him back alongside leader-in-the-clubhouse Sharpe.

HOW THE BOYS STAND WITH ONE ROUND TO GO

142 O Sharpe (Minchinhampton) 73 69, A Cooley (Chatham) 70 72.
143 F Hodgson (Sunningdale) 74 69.

147 A Wills (Sandiway) 70 77.

148 J Carney (Solihull) 73 75.

152 N Mannion (Teeside) 77 75, L Benford (Barton on Sea) 74 78.

155 T Robson (Portsmouth) 77 78, A Hedges (Sundridge Park) 76 79.

159 M Pitcher (Dursley) 81 78.

160 R Tredgett (Chelmguard) 79 81.

168 R Burden (West Essex) 80 88.

HARKINS AND FAIRNIE TOP SCOTTISH
STUDENTS' SCORES AT LADYBANK

Chris Harkins (Glasgow University) and Emma Fairnie (Edinburgh University) headed the men's and women's scoreboards at the Scottish universities' order of merit stroke-play event at Ladybank.
Harkins' two-round total of 140 was matched by Scotland international Gavin Dear but Harkins' better second round, a 69 to a 71, won him the No 1 spot.
They fnished four shots clear of third-placed Paul Betty (Stirling).
Fairnie, who scored 78 and 79 for 157, had two strokes to spare from Ireland's Rachael Cassidy (Stirling) with Holly Calvert (Stirling) third on 160.

LEADING TOTALS
MEN
140 C Harkins (Glasgow) 71 69, G Dear (Stirling) 69 71.
144 P Betty (Stirling) 71 73.
145 A Main (Edinburgh) 76 79, D Booth (Stirling) 74 71.
146 M Williams (Edinburgh) 75 71, E Polson (Stirling) 70 76.
147 J Duff (Aberdeen) 74 73, S Hume (Abertay Dundee) 70 77.
148 G Little (St Andrews) 75 73, F Moore (Strling) 70 78.
150 G Turner (Stirling) 75 75, J Watt (Stirling) 74 76, K Shepherd (Stirling) 73 77.
151 A Murdoch (Stirling) 82 69, G Yates (Stirling) 73 78, R Rebbechi (St Andrews) 71 80.
152 S Binning (Glasgow) 79 73, G McDougall (Strathclyde) 77 75, F Campbell (Styrachclyde) 77 75, B Ruishford (Stirling) 73 79.
153 J Wybar (Aberdeen) 78 75, S Scott (Abertay Dundee) 78 75, A Styles (Robert Gordon's) 77 76, S Borrowman (Stirling) 723 81.
154 M Hunt (UHI Millennium) 76 78, R MacDonald (Edinburgh) 76 78, B Campbell (Stirling) 75 79, G Minnes (Strathclyde) 72 82, F Inglis (Glasgow) 72 82.
155 P Renwick (UHI Millennium) 77 78, M Pennycott (Heriot Watt) 76 79.
156 G Stevenson (St Andrews) 76 80.
157 I MacMillan (Glasgow) 77 80.
159 C Morrison (Glasgow) 84 75, J White (Stirling) 81 78, M Murray (UHI Millennium) 78 81, J Fleming (Strathclyde) 77 82.
160 I Finlay (Edinburgh) 83 77, V Sinkkonen (Glasgow) 82 78, L McLaughlan (UHI Millennium) 80 80, J Corke (St Andrews) 78 82.
161 M Sanders (Heriot Watt) 80 81, J Lockie (St Andrews) 78 83.
WOMEN
157 E Fairnie (Edinburgh) 78 79.
159 R Cassidy (Stirling) 80 79.
160 H Calvert (Stirling) 82 78.
161 S Farrar (Stirling) 81 80.
162 G Monteith (Strathclyde) 82 80.
165 J Linklater (St Andrews) 87 78, M Diamond (Napier) 86 79, L Murray (Robert Gordon's) 85 80.
173 M Macpherson (St Andrews) 85 88, S Crolla (Heriot Watt) 83 90.
175 L Koplik (St Andrews) 85 90.
189 R Archibald (Heriot Watt) 90 99.

ROSEANNE AND JODI IN TOP

TEN OF COLLEGE EVENT

IN WASHINGTON STATE

Perthshire teenager Roseanne Niven, a second-year student at the University of California Berkeley, has had her best round so far to be lying joint fifth in a quality field of 82 at the end of the opening day of the Edean Ihlanfeldt Invitational women's college tournament over the Sahalee Golf & Country Club course at Sammamish, Washington State.
Roseanne returned (pictured right) a one-over-par 73 over the 6,127yd course, birdieing the second, ninth and 13th and dropping shots at the eighth, 12th, 14th and 17th in halves of 35 (one under par) and 38 (two over par).
A member at Crieff Golf Club and Scottish Under-18 girls' match-play champion last year, Roseanne is three shots behind the joint leaders, Spain's Belen Mozo (Southern California University) and Sweden's Anna Nordqvist (Arizona State). Belen won both the British women's and girls' open titles last year while Anna, a former British girls' champion, has been beaten finalist in the British women's championship this year and last.
Also in the top 10 with two rounds to go is English women's stroke-play champion Jodi Ewart (New Mexico University) from Catterick. Jodi is in joint eighth positon after a 74. Starting at the 10th, the Yorkshire girl birdied the 15th to be one under par for her first nine holes but she bogeyed the first and then had a double-bogey 7 at the long second.
She then birdied the fourth but dropped further shots at the fifth and seventh to take four-over-par 40 shots for her second nine.
LEADING INDIVIDUALS
Par 72. 6,127yd
70 B Mozo (Southern California),A Nordqvist (Arizona State).
71 M Chun (Stanford).
72 A Walsh (Arizona).
73 P Moreno (Southern California), R Niven (California), A Zwanck (Arizona).
74 L Bowditch (Pepperdine), F Eastick (Oregon), J Ewart (New Mexico).
Other scores:
76 A Munoz (Arizona State) (jt 12th).
78 D-C Schreefel (Southern California) (jt 31st).
LEADING TEAMS
296 Southern California.
301 Arizona State.
304 Stanford.
305 California, Arizona.
307 Oregon.