STEPHANIE BOOST FOR CURTIS CUP TRIAL - JT 4TH IN FLORIDA

By COLIN FARQUHARSON
Colin@scottishgolfview.com
Stephanie Meadow will soon be on her way to the Curtis Cup selection trial at Nairn Golf Club from Florida where today she finished joint fourth in a high-class field of 93 at the SunTrust Gator Invitational Women's Invite college tournament over the Mark Bostick Course at the University of Florida, Gainesville.
Stephanie, pictured right, had rounds of 71, 71 and 68 for a total of level par 210 over a par-70 course of 6,002yd. For the third time this 2011-2012 college season, she was the leading Alabama team player.
Three US Curtis Cup players - Emily Tubert (Arkansas), Lindy Duncan (Duke) and Brooke Pancake (Alabama) were in the field - and none of them finished ahead of second-year student Stephanie who has won five times on the US college circuit.
Tubert tied with Meadow for fourth place, with rounds of 72, 70 and 68.
Duncan, the top-ranked US college player, shot 72, 77 and 67 for 216 and eighth place.
Pancake finished joint 11th on 218 with rounds of 70-72-76.
Maria Salinas (Florida State) was the winner on four-under 206 with scores of 68-72-66.
Spaniard Camilla Hedberg (Florida) and Christina Miller (South Florida) finished joint second on 208. Camilla scored 68-71-69 and Christina 69-67-72.
Former English amateur champion Hayley Davis (Baylor) finished joint ninth on 217 with scores of 77-67-73.
Florida (864) pipped Alabama (865) by a single shot for the team title with Florida State (872) third, Georgia (877) fourth and Duke (882) fifth in a field of 17 teams.

Tom Berry trails in behind San Diego State team-mate

San Diego State University student Tom Berry from Surrey finished T52 in a field of 74 players at the National Invitational men's college tournament at Tucson National, Phoenix.
Over a longish course (7,219yd) with a par of 72, Tom, pictured left, shot 77-75-78 for 230 - 29 shots behind the winner, team-mate J J Spaun who had magnificent aggregate of 15-under-par 201, made up of rounds of 67-66-68 to win by four shots.
San Diego State pulled off a double whammy by winning the team even by one stroke from UNLV (University of Nevada-Las Vegas) with SMU (Southern Methodist University in a field of 12 teams.

ROSIE MAKES TOP TEN AT LADY JAGUAR INVITATIONAL

Rosie Davies, a sophomore student at Indiana Unversity, finished a creditable T10 in a field of 75 players at the Lady Jaguar Invitational at Forest Hills GC, Augusta, Georgia.
The Londoner, pictured right, compiled three rounds of two-over-par 74 over the 6,248yd course for a total of 222 - 15 shots behind the runaway winner (by 10 strokes) Paula Reto (Purdue).
Paula followed up opening rounds of 75 and 68 with a tournament record, eight-under-par 64 - quite a round!
Apart from Rosie Davies, there were two other Brits in the field - Sian Evans (East Tennessee State) from Kent and Kirsty Rands (Augusta State) from Surrey.
The tied for 34th place on 231, Sian with scores of 80-74-77, Kirsty with 78-79-74.
San Antonio (880) won the team title ahead of Augusta State (886) and Purdue (887) in a field of 14 teams.

SCOTT GIBSON ONLY SIX OVER PAR BUT T52

Scott Gibson from Dumfries, a student at East Tennessee State University, finished T52 in a massive field of 126 competitors at the Furman Intercollegiate at Greenville, South Carolina.
Oveer a par-72 course of 6,994yd, Scott scored 76-74-72 for six-over par 222 - 18 shots behind the winner by two Sebastian Soderberg (Coastal Carolina) 68-68-68 for 12-underpar 204.
Clemson (830) won the team event by more than 20 strokes.




Katie Mundy just outside top 10 in Clover Cup

Katie Mundy from Hampshire and Florida International University, finished joint 11th in a field of 71 players at the Clover Cup tournamented, dominated by Colorado University team layers at Longbow GC, Mesa, Arizona.
Over a par-72, 6209yd course, Katie, pictured right, had rounds of 73-76-74 for a total of 223.
Colorado players filled the first three players with Jessica Wallace first on 211 (70-69-72), Alex Stewart second on 213 (68-71-74) and mily talley third on 214 (66-72-77).
Colorado (855) won the team title rather comfortably from Oklahoma (886) with Tulsa (892) third in a field of 12 teams.




MEGAN CLYNE FIFTH EQUAL IN WEST GEORGIA INVITATIONAL

Aberdeen's Megan Clyne finished fifth equal in a field of 38 players at the University of West Georgia Invitational women's college golf tournament at Sunset Hills Country Club, Carrollton on Sunday.
Megan, pictured left, a Deeside GC member and a freshman student at Montevallo University, Alabama, had scores of 80 and 79 for a total of 159. She finished 13 shots behind the runaway winner, Nikki Crowley (Columbus State) who had scores of 72-74 for 146 and a nine-stroke victory.
Megan came in four shots behind the second-placed Avery Kyle (Spring Hill College) (81-74 for 155).
Clyne was the highest-placed Montevallo player. Team-mate Emma Breen from Swindon shot 81-84 for 165 and a share of 14th placer.
Montevallo finished third behind Columbus State and West Georgia in a field of seven teams.

COLIN ROBINSON T41 IN FIELD OF 100 AT GOOSEPOND COLONY

Colin Robinson, a member at Largs Golf Club, Ayrshire, and a student at John A Logan Community College, Carterville in the state of Illinois, finished T41 in a field of 100 players at the Goosepond Fling college tournament at Goosepond Colony, Scottsboro, Alabama.

Colin, Ayrshire boys' champion in 2009, pictured right, had scores of 73-75-80 for a total of 228.

Meridian Community College provided the first three finishers, including Dylan Brown (67-71-68) and Jake Stirling (69-68-69) who both totalled the top aggregate of 206.

Needless to say, Meridian (842) won the team title ahead of Darton CC (851) in a field of 16 teams.

NIKKI DUNN MAKES TOP 20 AT BISON INVITATIONAL

Nikki Dunn from Harrogate, Yorkshire, a student at Texas A and M (Corpus Christi) finished T16 in a field of 105 players at the Bison Invitational women's college tournament at Palute Golf Resort, Las Vegas in Nevada.
Nikki had rounds of 77 and 82 for 159 - only seven shots behind the joint winners on 152, Brittany Atterbury (Northern Iowa) (73-79) and Crystal Reeves (Oral Roberts) (77-75).
Oral Roberts (614) won the team title ahead of San Francisco (631) with Texas A and M (635) fifth in a field of 18 teams.

JESS WILCOX, GREG PAYNE WIN SUNNINGDALE FOURSOMES

Youngster Jess Wilcox (Blankney GC, Lincoln) and Greg Payne (Chobham GC, Woking, Surrey) have won the Sunningdale foursomes.

They won six successive ties to claim the prestigious title.
"Greg and met last year at the Sports Academy in southern Spain where we became really good friends. Greg plays off +3 and I play off +1," said Jess.

They beat bt Simon Wakefield (Wychwood Park) and former European Tour pro Ian Pyman (unattached) by 3 and 1 in the final.

Wakefield and Pyman.
"All the matches were hard. We didn't have any easy ones. We got the chance to play against Jamie Spence, Stuart Davies, Scott Henderson, Simon Wakefield and Ian Pyman, so we had some really good, fun matches.
QUARTER-FINALS

"In most of the matches we came from behind to win but we were never more than two over par. In the final we were one under when we won on the 17th."

Rachel Drummond (Beaconsfield) and M Williams (Cuddington) w.o. Charlie Douglass (Brocket Hall) and Tara Davies (Holyhead) scr.

J Little (PGA ET) and L Bond (PGA ET) bt Lucy Williams (Mid-Herts) and T Shadbolt (Brocket Hall)  2 and 1.

S Wakefield (Wychwood Park) and I Pyman (unatt) bt M Laskey (Brocket Hall) and J Ruebotham (Welwyn Garden City) 3 and 1.

Jess Wilcox (Blankney) and G Payne (Chobham) bt T Burden (Hayling) and C Walsh (Hayling) 3 and 2.

SEMI-FINALS
Little and Bond bt Drummond and Williams at 19th.
Wilcox and Payne bt Wakefield and Pyman 3 and 2.

FINAL
Wilcox and Payne bt Little and Bond 3 and 1.









SUNNINGDALE FOURSOMES UNIQUE IN WORLD OF GOLF ... REPORT BY ALISTAIR TAIT
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SUNNINGDALE, England - If there’s a more unique tournament in the world of golf than this week’s Sunningdale Foursomes, then I have yet to find it. Tournament sponsors and promoters who are tired of the endless, boring diet of 72-hole stroke-play events could do worse than copy this eccentric event.
Where else in golf can you find one of the world’s leading female amateurs playing against an ex-Ryder Cup player? In what other tournament could a three-time Ryder Cup player team up with his wife? Where else can you find a father-and-son duo, father-and-daughter pair or even a mother-and-son tandem?
Nowhere else but at Sunningdale. This quintessential British event has been staged over Sunningdale’s Old and New courses every March since 1934, the same year the Masters started, excluding the World War II years.
The Masters may herald the start of the golf season in the United States, but here in the British Isles it’s the Sunningdale Foursomes. It is for me. My golf juices don’t really start to flow until I’ve taken in the first day’s play of the Sunningdale Foursomes.
The list of past winners reads like a who’s who of British golf - amateur and professional, male and female. Joyce Wethered, Dai Rees, Max Faulkner, Peter Alliss, Sir Michael Bonallack, Peter Oosterhuis, Sam Torrance, Ronan Rafferty, Chubby Chandler, Luke Donald, Ross Fisher and Stiggy Hodgson are among past winners.
This year, 15-year-old Charley Hull, ranked seventh on the Women’s World Amateur Golf Ranking, partnered with Ian Poulter’s one-time coach Lee Scarbrow and prevailed over two-time Ryder Cup player David Howell. Former European Tour winner Andrew Murray played with son Tom. Respected coach Jim Christine partnered with daughter Felicity. Three-time Ryder Cupper Paul McGinley teamed with wife Alison. Meanwhile, 2000 winners Carol and Richard Caldwell - a mother/son combo - also played.
Aficionados of classic courses will know all about Sunningdale. The Old was opened in 1901, while the “New” dates to 1923. Bobby Jones made the Old famous in 1926 when he scored 66 in qualifying for the Open Championship. It was considered the perfect score in those days, because Jones had 33 putts and 33 shots. His scorecard hangs upstairs in the Sunningdale clubhouse.
Maybe the best thing about this tournament is that it’s the epitome of understatement. There is no sponsorship, no advertising hoardings, no fanfare. Everything is sedate, low key.
So low key that I took my dog Izzy along on Tuesday and no one batted an eyelid. Izzy wasn’t alone. There was no shortage of people walking their dogs on the golf course. Indeed, dogs are just as welcome at Sunningdale as humans.
Sunningdale’s halfway hut is famous for its sausage sandwiches, not just for golfers but for their four-legged best friends, too. Izzy’s reward for staying patient on her lead was one of Sunningdale’s dog sandwiches. She passed on the Bovril (a beef-based British drink) and Sherry!
My reward was another year of taking in the action from this extraordinary tournament. On second thought, tournament organizers and sponsors please ignore my earlier notion of copying the Sunningdale format. There is only one and will only ever be one Sunningdale Foursomes.
Consider the 2012 golf season officially under way day.

LAST ROUND COSTS JAMES ROSS A TOP-10 FINISH IN TEXAS

James Ross, pictured, from Edinburgh, a student at Houston University, dropped from joint seventh to joint 16th with a final round of 76 in the Border Olympics men's college tournament at Laredo Country Club, Texas.

Ross's earlier rounds were a pair of 73s over a par-72, long course of some 7,319yd.

He had five bogeys and one birdie in his final round.

Winner by two shots was M J Daffue (Lamar) with scores of 71-70-70 for five-under 211.

Lamar also took the team prize ahead of Baylor and Houston in a field of 16 teams.

AI MIYAZATO SHARES THIRD-ROUND LPGA LEAD WITH YANI TSENG

FROM THE GOLF DIGEST WEBSITE

PHOENIX, Arizona (AP) Ai Miyazato birdied three straight holes on the back nine and finished with a 6-under 66 on Saturday for a share of the third-round lead with Yani Tseng in the LPGA Founders Cup.

Miyazato, the ninth-ranked Japanese player who has seven LPGA Tour victories, birdied Nos. 14-16 and closed with two pars for a bogey-free round at Wildfire Golf Club.

Tseng had a chance to take the outright lead on the par-4 18th after hitting to 10 feet out of the right fairway bunker, but her birdie putt rolled just past the left edge. The top-ranked Taiwanese star settled for a 67 to match Miyazato at 14 under.

Second-ranked Na Yeon Choi was a stroke back after a 67.
On a leaderboard crowded with Oriental players, the leading players from the West are tied for sixth place on 207 - five off the pace: America's Cristie Kerr and Paula Creamer, and  Norway's Suzann Pettersen

THIRD-ROUND LEADERBOARD
Par 216 (3x72)
202 Ai Miyazato (Japan) 68 68 66, Yani Tseng (Taiwan) 65 70 67.
203 Na Yeon Choi (S Korea) 67 69 67.
205 I K Kim (S Korea) 70 66 69.
206 Inbee Park (S Korea) 68 69 69

SELECTED SCORES
207 Cristie Kerr (US) 68 73 66, Suzann Pettersen (Norway) 69 71 67, Paula Creamer (US) 69 68 70.
210 Jodi Ewart (England) 70 71 69 (T20).
216 Karen Stupples (England) 67 75 74 (T55)
218 Laura Davies (England) 70 73 75 (T66).
222 Becky Morgan (Wales) 71 73 78 (76th).

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