Channel Islander Olivia scores
first win on US women's
circuit -after a play-off

Channel Islander Olivia Jordan-Higgins, a third-year student at Charleston Southern University, South Carolina, has scored her first win on the United States women's college circuit over her adopted home course in her own university's tournament, the CSU Women's Fall Classic.
Olivia, 20, pictured above, won a play-off against Hannah Coles (Radford University) after they had tied with 36-hole scores of 149 over a par-71 course of 5,898yd.
Both players had rounds of 73 and 76 to finish two ahead of Spaniard, Aruka Felgueroso (Coastal Carolina) (74-77).
Bethune Cookman College's three English-born students all finished inside the top 20.
Emma Taylor from Devon scored 73 and 79 for a share of fourth place on 152.
Fern Grimshaw from Dorset scored 78 and 79 for 157 and joint 12th position.
Hannah Bews, also from Dorset and a recent transfer from Portland State University, had rounds of 79 and 83 for 16th place in a field of 54 players.
Bethune Cookman College is at Daytona Beach.
Thanks to Olivia Jordan-Higgins' effort, Charleston Southern won the team event with a total of 610. They finished four shots ahead of Coastal Carolina (614) with Bethune Cookman College (625) third of the 11 competing teams.

Paisley and Renwick down the field

in Ping/Golfweek Preview

Tennessee University students Chris Paisley from Newcastle and freshman Darren Renwick from Worthing, Sussex finished joint 31st and 61st respectively in a field of 75 players for the Ping/Golfweek Preview at Inverness Golf Club, Toledo, Ohio.

Over a 7,255yd course with a testing par of 71, Paisley, pictured above, scored 75, 76 and 70 for an eight-over-par total of 221. Renwick, who won the Scottish Under-16 open stroke-play title at Longniddry in 2005, scored 76, 77 and 78 for 231.

There was a tie at the top of the leaderboard on six-under-par 207 between Morgan Hoffman (Oklahoma State) and Sweden's Robin Wingardh (Tennessee). Hoffman scored 69, 66 and 72, Wingardh 69, 67 and 71.

Generally, there is a play-off in these situations but no indication of it or a result on the otherwise GolfStat college golf scores service.

Trent Leon (Oklahoma State) was third on 209 (70-73-66) with Rickie Fowler (Oklahoma State) fourth on 210 (68-69-73).

Oklahoma State won the team title with a total of 843, compared to runners-up Tennessee's 859.

Georgia (861) were third, Southern California (867) fourth, Alabama (868) fifth and Arizona State (870) 6th in a field of 15 teams.

Vikki Laing walking the LPGA Tour
tightrope ... 35th after first round

Musselburgh exile Vikki Laing is lying joint 35th in a field of 133 after scoring a one-over-par 73 in the first round of the last LPGA Tour Regional qualifying competition at Plantation Golf & Country Club, Venice in Florida today.
The 27-year-old former Scottish girls champion and past Curtis Cup player had already failed to qualify for the LPGA Final Qualifying School at Daytona Beach from December 1 to 7.
She was thrown a lifeline with a place in this final eliminator but is under severe pressure right away. Only the top 30 and ties at the end of four rounds will advance to the Final Q School.
Former English amateur champion and another past Curtis Cup player, Kiran Matharu is much worse placed than the Scot. Kiran could do no better than an 82 which made her 131st in the field of 133.
Two South Koreans, Moah Chang and Sunny Oh, lead the field on 68, one shot ahead of Spain's Beatriz Recari and Susan Nam.

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Aberdeenshire girls' scratch and
handicap championship finals

Sunday sees the climax of the Aberdeenshire girls' season with the championship meeting at Inchmarlo Golf Resort which recently hosted the Scottish women's county finals won by Fife.
In the Aberdeenshire girls' scratch championship the semi-finals line up on Sunday morning will be:
9.20: Samantha Leslie (Murcar Links) v Nikita Lamond (McDonald Ellon).
9.30: Megan Clyne (Deeside) v Louise McGillivary (Banchory).

Fifteeen-year-old Megan, pictured right by Cal Carson Golf Agency, won the Paul Lawrie Junior Foundation girls' match-play final at Banchory on Sunday while Louise won the third place play-off.

The Aberdeenshire girls' handicap championship semi-finals at Inchmarlo on Sunday morning will be:
9.0: Vikki Powell (Deeside) v Rachel Polson (Peterculter).
9.10: Kirsten MacCallum (McDonald Ellon) v Kristina Vannet (Peterculter).

The handicap final will tee off first in the afternoon - at 2pm - followed by the scratch final at 2.10pm.

Scotland squad with captain Joan Marshall and manager Pat Wilson at the senior women's home internationals (image by courtesy of the Ladies Golf Union website).

SENIOR SCOTS LOSE LUNCHTIME
LEAD TO WALES IN SINGLES

Scotland, 2-1 leaders after the foursomes, lost four of the five afternoon singles to go down 5-3 to Wales on the opening day of the senior women's home golf internationals at Little Aston Golf Club, Birmingham today.
Fiona De Vries (St Rule) was Scotland's only afternoon winner. She beat Jane Rees 2 and 1.
Scottish seniors match-play champion Lorna Bennett (Ladybank) was narrowly beaten in the top singles by her Welsh counterpart Vicki Thomas (Carmarthen) who won by one hole.
England, winners of the title every one of the six years the over-50s championship has been in existence, looked different class as they opened their title defence with a 7 1/2-1/2 drubbing of Ireland.

Day 1 results at Little Aston:
SCOTLAND 3, WALES 5
Foursomes: L Bennett & F De Vries bt V Thomas & J O'Connor 1 hole; M Smith & K Sutherland lost to J Rees & J Doleman 5 and 4; J Harrison & F Hunter btr A Lewis & D Richards 3 and 1 (2-1).
Singles: Bennett lost to Thomas 1 hole, De Vries bt Rees 2 and 1, H Anderson lost to H Joyce 3 and 2, Harrison lost to Lewis 4 and 3, Hunter lost to Doleman 2 1nad 1 (1-4).
ENGLAND 7 1/2, IRELAND 1/2
Foursomes: C Quinn & C Watson bt H Jones & S O'Brien-Kenney 3 and 2; J Collingham & B Laird bt V McBride & M Henderson 6 and 5; C Stirling & C Kirk bt M McKenna & M Madden 5 and 4 (3-0).
Singles: S Dye halved with O'Brien-Kenney, Laird bt Jones 1 hole, Collingham bt V Hassett 5 and 4, Watson bt McBride 2 and 1, Quinn bt Madden 3 and 2.

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England made an impressive start to their defence of the Seniors’ Home Internationals, beating Ireland 7½-½ on the first day of the tournament at Little Aston, near Birmingham.
“It was an excellent win in difficult conditions,” said captain Cathy Bowerbank as she described a day of cold winds and rain.
The team laid the foundations of their win in the morning foursomes. Chris Quinn and Christine Watson were two down after seven but came back fighting to win 3 and 2. The twi other pairs both lost an early hole but quickly took command of their matches and scored very comfortable wins.
In the singles, English senior champion Sue Dye demonstrated all her fighting qualities to halve her match. She was three down after 14 but won three of the remaining four holes to square matters.

Barbara Laird was two down at the turn before she moved ahead with three birdies early on the back nine. She held on to her lead to make a winning singles debut.
Senior stroke-play champion Janet Collingham closed out her match on the 14th after a display of very steady play.

Christine Watson won a ding-dong battle by dint of taking the 16th and 17th, while Chris Quinn was in control throughout her match, getting to four up at one point.
“It was a fantastic start and we had a lot of local support, which was very pleasing,” said Cathy.
In the day’s other match Wales beat Scotland 5-3.

Tomorrow (Wednesday), England will play Scotland.

Lyndsey Hewison

EWGA Press Officer

Gale and Sally are Loudoun Ladies'
pairing for Dalmahoy

Loudoun Ladies, who have made it through to the Daily Mail women's foursomes Grand Final at Marriott Dalmahoy Golf & Country Club, will be represented by Gale McPherson (handicap 4) and Sally Hamilton (12).
We know that Sheila Brunton and Ros Fletcher are Carnoustie Caledonia's pair still in the shake-up and also Alex and her mother Sandy Bushby who beat Glen at the 19th.
All we need to know are the names of the Anstruther pairing. Can anyone help?
E-mail the names to Colin@scottishgolfview.com and we'll complete the set of the Scottish standard-bearers at Dalmahoy.

Just champion! That's Alex Bushby (left) receiving the handsome trophy from county captain Dawn Butchart (image by courtesy of Dawn Butchart).

Alex Bushby wins Perth & Kinross

champion of champions' title

Blairgowrie's Alex Bushby has won the Perth & Kinross women's champion of champions golf tournament over the King's Course, Gleneagles.
She and Gwen Lambie (Dunkeld) both finished with 78s and it went to a card countback which Alex won with the better last six holes.

Jackie Brown (Whitemoss) and county champion Laura Walker (Muckhart) both scores 79s. Third place went to Jackie on the better inward half.

Other who took part:

Betty Brannan (Kinross), Dawn Butchart (Strathmore), Ruth Campbell (Taymouth Castle), Caroline Dunbar (Aberfeldy), Kathleen Duncan (Pitlochry), Nicky Harding-McDonald (Craigiehill), Alison Houston (Milnathort), Esther Martin (Glenisla), Lynn Sharp (Dunning), Susan Stewart (Crieff), Claire Thompson (Killin), Julie White (Auchterarder), Hazel Wyllie (Comrie) and Jane Yellowlees (Murrayshall).

Meigle's Jacqueline

Sneddon leads

field in Grand

Canyon Invitational

From the Grand Canyon University website:

http://athletics.gcu.edu/

Jacqueline Sneddon was caught off guard.
"I'm leading?" the Grand Canyon sophomore from Meigle, Scotland responded Monday evening.

"I knew I was leading when I left, but there was half the team scores still to come in."
Sneddon shot a 1-over 73 in the first round of the GCU Fall Invitational at Coldwater Golf Club in Avondale to take a two-stroke lead.

Teammate Jennifer Lutz is lumped into a group of four tied for second at 73 entering today's final round.
Grand Canyon shot 314 as a team, and is in second place, eight strokes behind Cal Baptist. Southern Nazarene is third at 318, Lubbock Christian is fourth at 320 and Sonoma State and Cal State Monterey Bay are tied for fifth at 322.

From the GolfStat Scoreboard:
Grand Canyon Women's Fall Invitational
FIRST ROUND TOP 20 SCORES
Par 72. Yardage:6043
1 Jacqueline Sneddon Grand Canyon 36-37 73 +1
2 Jennifer Lutz Grand Canyon 37- 38 75 +3
2 Kelly Rainbolt Lubbock Ch 35- 40 75 +3
2 Malin Thorberg CBU 37- 38 75 +3
2 Shauna Curtis CBU 37- 38 75 +3
6 Amy Dalzell St Martins 37- 39 76 +4
6 Roxanne Mejia CSU-SnMrcs 38- 38 76 +4
8 Lindsay Aho Cncrdia OR 40- 37 77 +5
8 Andrea Rojas S Nazarene 37- 40 77 +5
8 Adriana Niclotti CBU 36- 41 77 +5
8 Jaymee Braun CBU 36- 41 77 +5
12 Cicilia Chudivan CSUMB 39- 39 78 +6
12 Chelsa Helget Sonoma St. 39- 39 78 +6
14 Amanda Arrington S Nazarene 37- 42 79 +7
14 Kelly Ashton Notre Dame-CA 39- 40 79 +7
14 Taysha Butler Waylnd Bap 40- 39 79 +7
14 Jessica Williams CBU 37- 42 79 +7
18 Brittany Carrera Sonoma St. 38- 42 80 +8
18 Darcy Lake CSUMB 40- 40 80 +8
18 Fiamma Felitch S Nazarene 42- 38 80 +8
18 Macalee Lane Lubbock Ch 38- 42 80 +8
18 Stephanie Cole CSU-SnMrcs 40- 40 80 +8
18 Leah Dansby Lubbock Ch 42- 38 80 +8
18 Tara Mortimeyer Sonoma St. 40- 40 80 +8
18 Caroline Homblad CBU 40- 40 80 +8

Gibson Cup winners Anne Brownie (centre left) and Mary Stark (centre right) flanked by the beaten finalists, Pam Townsend and Rosie Dennis (image by Anne Brownie).

Gibson Cup won by Lothianburn's
Mary Stark and

Anne Brownie
Following on from last year’s Centenary competition, 52 foursomes pairings contested the 2008 Gibson Cup, sponsored by The Ladies Golf Centre (www.golfing-lady.com). After 54 holes of golf (55 including the extra hole in the final!), the magnificent silver cup was presented to the Lothianburn combination of Mary Stark and Anne Brownie at a well attended prizegiving in the Thistle Lounge.Sunday afternoon’s final was closely contested and played in great spirit with Pam Townsend and Rosie Dennis (both Murayfield) staging a fighting comeback from three down with five to play. Pam’s 20ft par putt on the 18th green forced the final into sudden death with Mary and Anne prevailing at the first extra hole with a regulation par.
The beaten semi-finalists from Sunday morning caddied in the Final: Margaret Ritchie and Janet Hardie (both Harburn) and Hazel Carpenter and Elspeth Adair (both Lothianburn).Saturday’s medal round was played in a gusty wind over Braid Hills No 1 golf course which was already playing long after a summer of wet weather.This was reflected in the scoring with no couple breaking or even matching par.
The best net score was 73.5 against par of 72 and this came from Pam Townsend and Rosie Dennis (playing off 15.5). Scoring improved in both the match-play and Consolation Trophy (Stableford foursomes) played in Sunday’s more benign conditions with many excellent putts holed on the greens which were running very true.

A second flight of match-play saw Suzanne Ireland (Prestonfield) and Diane Moncrieff (Lochend) winners over another Lothianburn pairing of Ruth Brown and Christine Clements.

The Consolation Trophy winners, pictured above right, were Linda Wemyss and Sandra Hennessey (both Broomieknowe) who scored 36 points ahead of three pairs tied on 33 points.
GIBSON CUP RESULTS
Qualifying Round
1 R Dennis & P Townsend (15.5) 73.5.
2 A Brownie & M Stark (9) 78.
3 E Adair & H Carpenter (22.5) 78.5
4 J Hardie & M Ritchie (12.5) 79.5
MATCH-PLAY
Semi-finals
R Dennis & P Townsend bt J Hardie & M Ritchie 5 and 3.
A Brownie & M Stark bt E Adair & H Carpenter 2 and 1.
Final
A Brownie & M Stark bt R Dennis & P Townsend at 19th.
Flight 2 Match-play
Semi-finals
S Ireland & D Moncrieff bt G Glen & K Baillie 3 and 2.
R Brown & Clements bt B Biggart & J Heaney 2 and 1.
Final
S Ireland & D Moncrieff bt R Brown & Clements 2 and 1.
Consolation Trophy
1 S Hennessey & L Wemyss 36pts.
2 J Neville & S Simpson 33pts (better inward half).
3 A Leitch & O O’Sullivan 33 pts (best last 6).

Next year’s dates for this fun foursomes event are September 26 and 27.

Harriet makes top 10 of Yale tournament

Harriet Owers-Bradley from Nottingham, a student at Yale University finished joint ninth in a field of 98 for the Yale Women's Fall Intercollegiate tournament at Yale University Golf Club, New Haven in Connecticutt.
Harriet had a 75 over the par-71, 6105yd course - four more than the winner, Allie Jordan (University of Texas-San Antonio).
Runners-up on 72 were Eva Mayr (Fairleigh Dickinson University and Heather Arison (Brown University).
Harvard (301) won the team event from Texas-San Antonio (305)