Peter Tarver Jones joint eighth at Wilson, North Carolina

Peter Tarver Jones (Belmont Abbey College) from Working finished joint eighth in a field of 89 players at the Holiday Inn Express Barton Invitational college tournament at Wilson Country Club, Wilson in North Carolina.
Peter had rounds of 72 and 73 for 145 - five shots behind the joint winners, Darren Smith (Barton) (69-71) and Patrick Lamb (Flagler (70-70).
There were umpteen British students in this field.
Belmont Abbey's Joe Campbell from Cheltenham scored 73 and 75 for 148 and a share of 14th place.
David McGregor (Post University) from Helensburgh finished joint 43rd on 153 (73-80). Team-maes Thomas Rees from Wales and Lee Wanklyn from Berskhire finished joint 48th and joint 56th respectively. Rees had a pair of 77s for 154 while Wanklyn score 77 and 79 for 156.
Adam Hedges, a Belmont Abbey student, had scores of 82 and 75 for a share of 62nd place on 157.
Post University Scot Gavin Wilson from Ladybank came joint 71st on 162 (83-79).
Tom Stephenson (Belmont Abbey) finished 82nd on 168 with scores of 83 and 85.
Flagler (580) won the team honours ahead of Barton College (583). Belmont Abbey (598) came sixth and Post University (625) 11th of 13 teams.

Craig Isabel joint second at Sebring, Florida

Craig Isabel (Webster International) from Stanford-Le-Hope finished joint second with a 74 in the Davis & Elkins Dual college tournament with Webber International at Sun N' Lake Golf Club, Sebring, Florida.
Winner was Tom Gamble (Webber International) with a round of 71 over the paqr-72 course of 7,027yd.
Adam Galbraith (Webber International) from Haywards Heath, Sussex, finished joint fourth with a 77.
Alasdair Forsythe (Davis & Elkins) from Glasgow shared 10th place on 80.
Connor O'Dell (Webber International) from Taunton shared 12th place with an 81.
Robert McCleneghan (Davis & Elkins) from Glasgow came 14th with an 85.
Three more Davis & Elkins students, Colin Sutherland from Crail, David Shields from Glasgow and Craig Marshall from Fife finished had rounds of 88, 89 and 104 respectively for joint 15th, 17th and 20th positions in a field of 20 players.
Webber International (299) beat Davis & Elkins College (327) in the two-team event.

Emma Tayler fifth at Don Benbow Invitational

Emma Tayler, a senior year student at Bethune-Cookman University, Florida, finished fifth in a field of 62 players at the Don Benbow Invitational women's college tournament at Jacksonville Beach Golf Club, Florida this week.
Emma, pictured, from Saunton, Devon, had rounds of 77 and 78 for a total of 155 - only two shots behind the winner, Paige Gibson (Houston Baptist University) who scored 76 and 77 for 153.
It really was the tightest of finishes with three players sharing second place on 154.
Bethune-Cookman team-mate Hannah Bews, also a senior student from Dorset, finished joint 21st with scores of 85 and 81 for 166.
Bethune-Cookman (647) finished third in the team event behind Houston Baptist (619) and Florida Atlatnic (640). Eleven teams took part.
In the male students' version of the Don Benbow Invitational, over a 6,504yd, par-71 course at the same venue, Gavin St John Frost (Jacksonville), a junior-year student from Berkshire, finished joint 18th in a field of 80 with a pair of 74s.
David Patterson (Armstrong Atlantic) from Liverpool came joint 48th on 157 (76-81).
Individual winner by three strokes with a four-under-par total of 138 (68-70) was one of Patterson's team-mates Matt Motes.
Armstrong Atlantic won the team title from Florida Atlantic and Jacksonville in a field of 13 teams.

Natasha Podmore just outside top 10 at San Jose


Natasha Podmore, in her fourth and final year at San Francisco University, came joint 11th in a field of 84 players at the Juli Inkster Spartan Invite women's college tournament at Almaden Country Club, San Jose.
Natasha, a member of Delamere Forest Golf Club, Cheshire, had rounds of 76, 72 and 78 for a total of 226 over the par-72, 6223yd course in southern California.
Former British stroke-play champion Roseanne Niven from Crieff, a student at the University of California-Berkeley, finished tied 38th on 234 with scores of 78, 79 and 77.
Former British women's amateur stroke-play champion Roseanne Niven from Crieff, a student at the University of California-Berkeley.
Cristina Corpus (San Jose State) was the winner with 217 (72-71-74), two shots ahead of Demi Runas (UC Davis) (74-73-72) with Sweden's Caroline Hedwall (Oklahoma State) (69-75-76) third.
California-Berkeley (899) pipped UC Davis (901) - whose head coach, Scot Ann Walker, transferred from the California-Berkeley staff a year or two ago - for the team title with San Jose State (903) third. San Francisco (920) came seventh.


Kirsty O'Connor best of Brits down Spring Rebel field

The four British students in the field for the Spring Rebel Invitational college tournament at Boulder Creek Country Club, Boulder City, Nevada failed to shine behind the three-shot winner, Therese Koelbaek (UNLV) who posted a six-under-par total of 210 with rounds of 68, 71 and 71. Former Welsh champion Kirsty O'Connor (Ball State University) from Burnley finished joint 25th on 225 with scores of 75, 77 and 73.
Hannah Burke (Baylor) from Hertfordshire started well enough with a par 72 but faded to subsequent rounds of 77 and 78 for a total of 227 and a share of 34th place in a field of 95 players.
Hannah Lovelock (Missouri), from Surrey, also failed to build on a very good start. Hannah had a first-round 70 but followed that sub-par effort with escalating scores of 77 and 81 for a share of 42nd place on 228.
Missouri team-mate Nicola Race from Essex scored 75, 80 and 76 for a total of 231 and a share of 58th place.
UNLV (866) won the team event ahead of Texas (878), Texas Tech (886), Baylor (888), Missouri (895) and Ball State (896) who tied for sixth place in a field of 18 teams.

CARNIE FINISHES 12TH IN SOUTH CAROLINA

Grant Carnie from Ellon, a student at the University of South Carolina-Aiken, finished a creditable 12th in a field of 90 players at the Palmetto Invitational college golf tournament at Palmetto Golf club, South Carolina.
Newburgh Golf Club member Grant, a quarter-finalist in last year's Scottish amateur championship at Royal Troon, had steady rounds of 71, 72 and 72 for a total of 215 over a par-70 course of 6,565yd. He finished 10 shots behind the winner, Ben Kohles (Virginia) (70-63-62).

Warwickshire champion seventh in Peggy Kirk Bell Invitational

Abbey Gittings, Nicole Whitmore

help Nova SE win five out of six

Warwickshire county champion Abbey Gittings from Tamworth, a freshman student at Nova Southeastern University in Florida, finished seventh in a good class college field of 77 players at the Peggy Kirk Bell Invitational tournament at Alaqua Country Club, Longwood, Winter Springs in Florida.

Abbey, pictured above, had rounds of 76, 77 and 73 for a total of 226 over the par-72, 5934yd course.

Team-mate Nicole Whitmore, a junior year student from Milton Keynes, came 11th on 230 with scores of 75, 77 and 78.

Farther down the field came Melissa Siviter (Belmont Abbey College), a freshman student from the West Midlands, with scores of 79, 82 and 83 for 244, which earned her a share of 41st place.

The very good efforts of Abbey and Nicole enabled Nova Southeastern to win the team title by 12 shots from Daytona State College with Belmont Abbey fifth of 13 teams.

Nova Southeastern, the NCAA Division 2 champions last year, are certainly on a roll. They have won five of their last six tournaments.

The Nova performance was spearheaded by Sandra Changkija who won the individual honours by the impressive margin of eight strokes with a total of seven-under-par 209 (70-69-70).

Spanish Hi5 Pro Tour Scoreboard

TODAY'S LADIES FINAL TOTALS
Par 216 (3x72)
1-224 Johanna Lundberg (Sweden) 74 79 71.
2-225 Josefin Leijon (Sweden) 76 75 74.
3-228 Mari Suursalu (Estonia) 78 75 75.
4-230 Elin Emanuelsson (Sweden) 81 78 71.
5-231 Emelie Lind (Sweden) 79 79 73.
6-234 Caroline Martens-Larson (Norway) 81 74 79.
7-236 Antonella Cvitan (Sweden) 78 83 75.

+Lloyd Saltman (Aegon) won the men's section. Switch over to www.scottishgolfview.com for the details.

SUS Championships Event #3
Cardrona Golf Club, Peebles
SUNDAY-MONDAY, MARCH 14-15

This is the third SUS Championship 2009-10.
Check-in will be in the Spike Bar area of the hotel. Please check-in 20 minutes before tee time please.
MEN
54 hole event
36 holes on Sunday with a TWO-TEE START
Cut will be made after leading 30 competitors and ties.
18 Holes on Monday.
Local Rules will be in place and a sheet will be given out on the 1st/8th tee.
All players are reminded they must check-in personally and alert staff of any handicap changes.
Through the green, Preferred Lies will be in operation as well as relief from plugged balls.
R&A Rules of Golf will be in use as will standard SUS/BUCS golf competition rules.
Play will be from the White Tees.
Cardrona Golf Club
Monday will be redrawn to reflect leading scores.

SUNDAY MEN'S TEE TIMES (revised again!)

7.32am 1st Tee 12.45pm 8th Tee William Russell (0) Stirling
7.32am 1st Tee 12.45pm 8th Tee Mark Scanlon (4) Strathclyde
7.32am 1st Tee 12.45pm 8th Tee Gordon Stevenson (+2) St Andrews

7.40am 1st Tee 12.53pm 8th Tee Patrick Spraggs (0) Stirling
7.40am 1st Tee 12.53pm 8th Tee Paul Robinson (2) Strathclyde
7.40am 1st Tee 12.53pm 8th Tee Ben Sloan (+1) Heriot Watt

7.48am 1st Tee 1.01pm 8th Tee Graeme Robertson (1) Stirling
7.48am 1st Tee 1.01pm 8th Tee Steve Scott (1) Abertay
7.48am 1st Tee 1.01pm 8th Tee Matt Wheeler (0) St Andrews

7.56am 1st Tee 1.09pm 8th Tee Kit Holmes (0) Stirling
7.56am 1st Tee 1.09pm 8th Tee Euan Brown (+1) Strathclyde
7.56am 1st Tee 1.09pm 8th Tee Keith Shanks (+3) Aberdeen

8.40am 15th Tee 1.17pm 8th Tee David Booth (+2) Stirling
8.40am 15th Tee 1.17pm 8th Tee Steven Pointin (0) St Andrews
8.40am 15th Tee 1.17pm 8th Tee Alan Ferguson (1) UHI

8.50am 15th Tee 1.25pm 8th Tee John Duff (+1) Aberdeen
8.50am 15th Tee 1.25pm 8th Tee Colin Baird (1) Stirling
8.50am 15th Tee 1.25pm 8th Tee Will Wrisdale (0) St Andrews

9.00am 15th Tee 1.33pm 8th Tee Fraser Moore (0) Stirling
9.00am 15th Tee 1.33pm 8th Tee John Wybar (0) Aberdeen
9.00am 15th Tee 1.33pm 8th Tee Steven Smith (1) Heriot Watt

9.10am 15th Tee 1.41pm 8th Tee Corin Stewart (3) Aberdeen
9.10am 15th Tee 1.41pm 8th Tee Michael Daily (+1) Stirling
9.10am 15th Tee 1.41pm 8th Tee Malcolm Pennycott (0) Heriot Watt

7.24am 8th Tee 12.35pm 1st Tee Christopher Thewlis (0) Napier
7.24am 8th Tee 12.35pm 1st Tee Gavin Forbester (3) Strathclyde
7.24am 8th Tee 12.35pm 1st Tee Ally Leith (5) Glasgow

7.32am 8th Tee 12.45pm 1st Tee Sam Binning (+1) Glasgow
7.32am 8th Tee 12.45pm 1st Tee Duncan Arthur (3) Aberdeen
7.32am 8th Tee 12.45pm 1st Tee Darren Timms (0) Stirling

7.40am 8th Tee 12.55pm 1st Tee Anand Shah (1) Aberdeen
7.40am 8th Tee 12.55pm 1st Tee Joe Lockie (+1) St Andrews
7.40am 8th Tee 12.55pm 1st Tee Ben Herriot (4) Heriot Watt

7.48am 8th Tee 1.05pm 1st Tee Malo Scullion (5) Aberdeen
7.48am 8th Tee 1.05pm 1st Tee Ryan Stirling (5) UHI
7.48am 8th Tee 1.05pm 1st Tee Mike Gray (0) St Andrews

7.56am 8th Tee 1.15pm 1st Tee Nick McAndrew (0) Aberdeen
7.56am 8th Tee 1.15pm 1st Tee Alex Culverwell (0) Stirling
7.56am 8th Tee 1.15pm 1st Tee Callum Marshall (4) Heriot Watt

8.04am 8th Tee 1.25pm 1st Tee Cameron Hay (1) Aberdeen
8.04am 8th Tee 1.25pm 1st Tee Cameron Gray (0) St Andrews
8.04am 8th Tee 1.25pm 1st Tee Rory Whitson (4) Heriot Watt

8.12am 8th Tee 1.35pm 1st Tee Adam Foley (3) Heriot Watt
8.12am 8th Tee 1.35pm 1st Tee Sean Thompson (0) Stirling
8.12am 8th Tee 1.35pm 1st Tee John Corke (+1) St Andrews

8.20am 8th Tee 1.45pm 1st Tee Euan Patterson (1) Heriot Watt
8.20am 8th Tee 1.45pm 1st Tee Michael Howard (0) Stirling
8.20am 8th Tee 1.45pm 1st Tee Ryan Penny (3) UHI

8.28am 8th Tee 1.55pm 1st Tee Jon Skomedal (4) Heriot Watt
8.28am 8th Tee 1.55pm 1st Tee Ally MacDonald (3) Strathclyde
8.28am 8th Tee 1.55pm 1st Tee Andrew Wallace (1) Stirling

8.36am 8th Tee 2.05pm 1st Tee Colin Thomson (1) Stirling
8.36am 8th Tee 2.05pm 1st Tee Jordan Leask (3) Strathclyde
8.36am 8th Tee 2.05pm 1st Tee Douglas Maxwell (1) Aberdeen

8.44am 8th Tee 2.15pm 1st Tee Bobby Rushford (1) Stirling
8.44am 8th Tee 2.15pm 1st Tee Graham MacDougall (0) Strathclyde
8.44am 8th Tee 2.15pm 1st Tee Michael Hunt (0) UHI

WOMEN
54 hole event
18 holes on Sunday. All competitors will start from the first tee.
THERE WILL NOT BE A CUT IN THE WOMEN’S COMPETITION.
36 Holes on Monday.
Local Rules will be in place and a sheet will be given out at 1st tee.
All players are reminded they must check-in personally and alert staff of any handicap changes.
Through the green, Preferred Lies will be in operation as well as relief from plugged balls.
R&A Rules of Golf will be in use as will standard SUS/BUCS golf competition rules.
Play will be from the Red Tees.
Players are reminded that this event will be used to raise money for Barnardo’s Children’s Charity. We have devised a way of raising this money and please take time to read the following sheet so you can let the starters know if you are taking part in the initiative or just making a kind donation
For this event we are aiming to raise money for the Children’s charity Barnardo’s. Whatever money is raised from the golfers, Scottish Universities will match that and present Barnardo’s with a cheque on the conclusion on the tournament.
The proposed idea is that for any bogey made by each individual golfer they donate 10p, for any double bogey 20p is donated and for anything above a double bogey 50 is donated. A small fee which will go to a worthy cause. It is of course at the discretion of the player if they take part in this initiative, a simple donation can be made as well. You will be prompted upon check-in if you want to take part or not.
Should you wish to learn more about Barnardo’s and their work with Universities and Colleges please contact Emma Cairns on 0131 314 6653 or at emma.cairns@barnardos.org.uk. There is also further information about our work on our website which can be found at http://www.barnardos.org.uk/.’

WOMEN'S DRAW FOR SUNDAY
(Monday draw will reflect earlier scores):
9.30am 1st Tee Eleanor Pike (12) St Andrews
9.30am 1st Tee Felicity Lloyd Jones (9) St Andrews
9.30am 1st Tee Harriet Beasley (4) Stirling

9.40am 1st Tee Ashley Smith (6) St Andrews
9.40am 1st Tee Nadia Green (9) St Andrews
9.40am 1st Tee Susan Jackson (1) Edinburgh

9.50am 1st Tee Mikaela Nordblad (5) St Andrews
9.50am 1st Tee Jennifer Linklater (5) St Andrews

10.00am 1st Tee Megan Jones (3) St Andrews
10.00am 1st Tee Jane Turner (+2) RGU
10.00am 1st Tee Alisa Theunis (3) St Andrews

Women's Australian Open at Melbourne

Laura Davies leads by two with a five-under 68

Defending champion Laura Davies shot a five-under-par 68 to take a two-stroke lead after the first round of the Women's Australian Open at Melbourne today
Davies had six birdies and a bogey on the tough, par-73 Commonwealth lay-out where fewer than 25 golfers in the 150-woman field broke par.
There was a six-way tie for second: Yang Soo-jin, Giulia Sergas, Jenni Kuosa, Felicity Johnson, Rebecca Flood and amateur Alison Whitaker all had 70s.
Alexis Thompson, the 15-year-old American amateur who played in the U.S. Open at the age of 12, shot 71 and was in a group tied for eighth.
Karrie Webb, winner last week of the Australian Ladies Masters and a four-time Women's Australian Open champion, shot 73. Playing the tougher back nine first, Webb had three bogeys before making the turn and then made four birdies and another bogey to remain even on the day.
Former US Curtis Cup amateur star Amanda Blumenherst, who led the Australian Masters after the first two rounds, shot 77 while fellow American Christina Kim had a 78.
Davies bailed herself out by some strong putting.
"Luckily I putted really well today," Davies said. "Today we had two 8- or 9-footers for par and they both went right in the middle of the hole. That's the sort of thing that really keeps you going. Then on nine, hoping to two-putt and you roll a 35-footer in so that was a real bonus."
Davies has won the Australian Open twice -- last year at Metropolitan and in 2004 at Concord in New South Wales.
ALL THE FIRST-ROUND SCORES
Par 73
Players from Australia unless stated.
68 Laura Davies (England)
70 Alison Whitaker, Felicity Johnson (England), Giulia Sergas (Italy), Jenni Kuosa (Finland), Rebecca Flood, Soo-Jin Yang (South Korea)
71 Stefanie Michl (Austria), Lindsey Wright, Alexis Thompson (US)
72 Riikka Hakkarainen (Finland), Melissa Reid (Eng), Hee Kyung Seo (South Korea), Sarah Oh (South Korea), Karine Icher (France), Kristie Smith, Vicky Hurst (US), Christel Boeljon (Netherlands), Katherine Hull
73 He-yong Choi (South Korea), Kym Larratt (England), Rachel Bailey (Eng), Karrie Webb, Lorie Kane (Canada), Elizabeth Bennett (England), Marjet Van Der Graaff (Netherlands), Ha-Neul Kim (South Korea)
74 Frances Bondad, Tamara Beckett, Bree Turnbull, Nina Reis (Sweden), Krystle Caithness (Scotland), Rebecca Hudson (England), Caroline Rominger (Switzerland), Yani Tseng (Taiwan), Joanne Mills, Lynn Kenny (Scotland), Mina Harigae (US)
75 Marianne Skarpnord (Norway), Hannah Ralph (England), Louise Stahle (Sweden), Michelle Ellis (USA), You-Na Park (South Korea), Leah Hart, Justine Lee, Anna Nordqvist (Sweden), Sophie Gustafson (Sweden), Sarah Kemp, Stacy Lewis (US), Cathryn Bristow (New Zealand), Jane Kim (South Korea)
76 Hazel Kavanagh (Ireland), Danielle Bowers (England), Hanna-Leena Salonen (Finland), Vicky Hermina Thomas, Azahara Munoz (Spain), Bree Arthur (Australia), Tamie Durdin, Stacey Keating, Sarah Nicholson (New Zealand), Stephanie Na, Jessica Ji (South Korea), Janice Moodie (Scotland), Jeong Jang (South Korea), Dana Lacey, Nikki Garrett, Sophie Walker (England), Lydia Hall (Wales), Florentyna Parker (England)
77 Taylor Leon (US), Jeong Eun Lee (South Korea), Tania Elosegui (Spain), Becky Brewerton (Wales), Diana D'Alessio (US), Virginine Lagoutte-Clement (France), Georgina Simpson (England), Ashleigh Simon (South Africa), Becky Morgan (Wales), Sophie Giquel (France), Breanne Loucks (Wales), Mi-Sun Cho (South Korea), Bo-Mee Lee (South Korea), Rebecca Coakley (Ireland), Vikki Laing (Scotland, Ashley Ona, Ran Hong (South Korea), Sarah-Jane Smith, Ursula Wikstrom (Finland), Sandra Gal (Germany), Iben Tinning (Den), Bettina Hauert (Germany), Pernilla Lindberg (Sweden), Amanda Blumenherst (US)
78 Shin-Ae Ahn (Kor), Kate Combes, Jessica Noh, Anna Oh (Kor), Anna-Lise Caudal (Fra), Melanie Bryden, Elissa Orr, Titiya Plucksataporn (Thailand), Leanne Bowditch, Linda Wessberg (Sweden), Christina Kim (US), Julie Greciet (France), Hyun-soo Kim (South Korea), Caroline Afonso (France), Emma Bennett (Australia), Meaghan Francella (US), Bronwyn Mullins-Lane
79 Karen Lunn, Chae young Yoon (South Korea), Wendy Doolan, Hye youn Kim (Kor), Ji-Na Lim (South Korea), Lee-Anne Pace (South Africa), Bo Mi Suh (US), Su-hyun Oh (South Korea), Emma Cabrera Bello (Spain), Sunny Park, Veronica Zorzi (Italy)
80 Vikki Tutt, Mianne Bagger (Denmark), Jessica Speechley, Beth Allen (US), Zoe Brake (New Zealand), Alison Walshe (Ireland), Julia Boland
81 Stacy Tate (New Zealand), Karen Pearce, Martina Eberl (Ger), Bo Kyung Kim (South Korea), Ellen Davies-Graham
82 Verity Knight, Stacy Lee Bregman (South Africa), Jayde Panos, Jan Stephenson (US), Carlie Butler
83 Katy Jarochowicz, Carmen Alonso (Spain)
84 Tamara Hyett, Cherie Byrnes, Wendy Berger, Helen Oh, Gwladys Nocera (Fra)
85 Lisa Jean, Whitney Hillier
86 Jody Fleming, Angela Tatt
89 Nicole Montgomery

Rachel Polson tops Academy Winter Series Order of Merit

SCOTTISH GOLF ACADEMY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME

Under-16 Girls' Winter Series
Final Order of Merit

1 Rachel Polson (Peterculter) 4 665.00 (pictured)
2 Ailsa Bain (Peebles) 4 615.00
3 Clara Young (North Berwick) 4 600.00
4 Kate McIntosh (Broomieknowe) 4 585.00
5 Connie Jaffrey (West Kilbride) 3 573.33
6 Samantha Munro (Aberdour) 3 510.83
T7 Eilidh Watson (Muckhart) 3 425.00
T7 Linsey Stevenson (Elie & Earlsferry) 3 425.00
9 Tara McTaggart Minto 3 423.33
10 Lauren Whyte St Regulus 2 415.00
T11 Jessica Meek Carnoustie Ladies 3 340.00
T11 Hannah McCook Abernethy 2 340.00
13 Eleanor Tunn Reay 3 332.50
14 Mhairi McKay West Kilbride 2 280.00
15 Alison Goodwin Glenbervie 2 195.00
Dates and venues of competitions:
Event 1 - Nairn Dunbar, October 18, 2009.
Event 2 - Whitekirk, November 22, 2009.
Event 3 - Eden course, St Andrews, February 7, 2010.
Event 4 - Forrester Park, March 7.
+Under-16 boys' Final Order of Merit table is on www.scottishgolfview.com

Active Schools Co-ordinator Matt Mullen shows Glasgow school staff teachers how to deliver firstclubgolf (imae byRob Eyton-Jones)

Glasgow gets set to introduce 3,300 children to golf

The drive to give more Glasgow primary school children the opportunity to play golf accelerates this month with the city’s Active Schools Team training classroom teachers to deliver the national junior golf programme, clubgolf’s introductory game.
In 2009, 42 of Glasgow’s 170 schools introduced their 1260 of their Primary 5s to clubgolf’s introductory game, firstclubgolf, which employs modified equipment. Taught by school staff, supported by Active Schools Co-ordinators, it gives children an enjoyable introduction to the game.
That figure, 21 percent of the total P5 roll of 6000, is expected to rise by 2000 this year after clubgolf and Active Schools combined forces to buy 50 bags of firstclubgolf equipment for Glasgow schools.
“This is a big step up this year in terms of increasing the numbers of children who we will deliver clubgolf to,” said Active Schools Manager, Kay Cherrie.
“The difficulty in the past was that without firstclubgolf equipment in schools there was little point in the staff becoming trained to teach the game.
“This year we have been able to access the finance to buy 50 bags so two thirds of schools now have equipment. Half of the funding (£7500) has come from the Council and Education Services. clubgolf has matched this which has enabled us to buy 50 bags and make the big push.”
To ensure that staff in these schools are fully prepared to teach the game to children, Active Schools is running a series of training sessions this month. Eighty three teachers are being trained in three four-hour sessions. Active Schools Co-ordinators continue supporting staff once they begin delivering in their schools.
“The response from schools and teachers has been really good,” said Mrs Cherrie. “With support from Active Schools Co-ordinators, staff find clubgolf relatively easy to deliver.
“With the equipment and the lesson plans, it’s a readymade off the shelf activity that can be used in our schools, during curriculum time, circle time, after school and in holiday programmes.”
“Our Active Schools Co-ordinators will make sure the schools are fully supported and the children get a good experience from it.”
With higher numbers of children being introduced to the schools game more clubs and volunteer coaches will be needed to ensure they can progress.
Haggs Castle is the first private club in Glasgow to see the potential of signing up to clubgolf and will be organising training for its volunteer coaches this spring. The volunteers will link with their local schools to provide a pathway for the children to progress into junior and eventually senior golf.
Rob Eyton-Jones
clubgolf Media Manager
Official clubgolf website: www.clubgolfscotland.com

Gemma jt 24th in Eagle Landing Invite

Gemma Hardie from Scunthorpe, a sophomore student at Central Arkansas Universtiy, finished joint 24th in a field of 96 players at the JMUEagle Landing Invitation women's college tournament at Eagle Landing Golf Club, Orange Park in Florida.

Gemma, pictured right, had rounds of 76, 76 and 78 for a total of 230 over a par-72, 6282yd course.
Harriet Owers-Bradley from Nottingham, a junior year student at Yale University, finished joint 50th.
Harriet had rounds of 78, 80 and 76 for a total of 234.

Ami Storey (Kansas State) from the North-east of England finished joint 56th on 235 with scores of 81, 80 and 74.
Alex Banham (Stetson, University, Florida), a junior student from Birmingham, tied for 82nd place on 245 with scores of 80, 86 and 79.

The individual winner was Hailey Koschman (Illinois) with a two-under-par total of 214.
South Florida (898) won the team title ahead of Illinois (904). Stetson tied for fifth place on 915 with Yale (947) 16th of the 17 teams.