AMERICAN COLLEGE FIRES GOLF COACH FOR PROFANITY-LACED RANT TO HIS TEAM

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Matt Mahanic, Huntingdon College men’s golf coach, was dismissed from his coaching duties today after a profanity-laced rant he delivered to his team was circulated around the internet. 
A recording of Mahanic addressing his golf team after it finished 11th of 12 teams at the Gordin Classic went viral on Deadspin Friday morning local time.. According to the accompanying article, the recording was made by one of Mahanic's players in the team bus.
The authorities at Huntingdon College, Montgomery in Alabama  announced Mahanic’s dismissal in a statement on its website this afternoon.
“As a member of Division III of the National Collegiate Athletic Association, we adhere to the principles expressed in the NCAA Bylaws,” said Huntingdown College President J. Cameron West. 
“To quote the Bylaws, ‘Individuals employed by or associated with a member institution to administer, conduct, or coach intercollegiate athletics shall act with ... sportsmanship at all times so that intercollegiate athletics as a whole, their institutions and they, as individuals, represent the honour and dignity of fair play and the generally recognized high standards associated with wholesome competitive sports.’”
Huntingdon is a Methodist school in Montgomery, Alabama, that competes at the Division III level.
Sam Strachan from Inverallochy in the North-east of Scotland is a student at Huntingdon.
He was a successful member of the college golf team in 2011-2012 but has a wrist problem which sees him taking a complete rest from golf during the 2012-2013 college season.

SEAN LAWRIE JUST OUTSIDE TOP 20 IN TEXAS TOURNEY

Paul Lawrie's nephew Sean, a student at Midland College, Texas, finished 22nd in a field of 37 at the two-day Odessa College Invite 54-hole tournament at Odessa Country Club, Texas today
Sean, pictured, had rounds of 76, 82 and 71 for a total of 229 over a long course of 7,388yd with a testing par of 71. He finished 19 shots behind the winner, Frederik Andersen (Western Texas) (72-70-68 for 210).
Logan Philley (Odessa) finished second on 212 with scores of  67, 73 and 72.
Odessa (868) won the team title by 11 shots from Midland (879) with Western Texas (889) third of the six competing teams.

TALENTED GIRLS CHOSEN FOR ENGLAND GOLF TRAINING 2012/2013

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English U15 girls’ champion Sophie Madden is among 23 talented young players who have been selected for England Golf Select regional training squads for 2012/13.

Other players include Ashleigh Greenham who, like Sophie, was a member of the Essex team which won County Finals this year. (Sophie Madden image © Leaderboard Photography)  
The 2012 Abraham Trophy winner, Kirsty Beckwith, is included, alongside last year’s titleholder Ciara Kelly. This competition is contested by England’s most improved girl golfers.
Another 62 promising girls have been selected for the Birdie training programme, which identifies potential among the country’s youngest players. They include Hollie Muse, who is the English U13 girls champion.

The Select regional squads are:

Select East - Georgina Blackman (Chelmsford), Ashley Croft (Stock Brook Manor), Ashleigh Greenham (West Essex), Sophie Madden (West Essex)

Select Midlands – Ciara Kelly (Hagley), Olivia Kelly (Erewash Valley), Victoria Mallett (Sutton Coldfield Ladies’) Emily Slater (Woodhall Spa), Lucy Walton (The Worcestershire)

Select North – Laura Alexander (Eaglescliffe and District), Kirsty Beckwith (Moortown), Eloise Healey (West Lancashire), Sophie Lamb (Clitheroe), Emily Shea (Fairhaven).

Select South – Emma Allen (Meon Valley), Jelina Fernando (Mid Sussex), Emily Royer (Chart Hills), Luan Skeates (Buckinghamshire), Charlotte West (Ellesborough)

Select South West – Jemima Gregson (Knowle), Chloe Howard (Boringdon Park), Sophie Keech (Lyme Regis), Victoria Wakeley-Jones (Minchinhampton)

The Birdie squads are:

Birdies Year One

East
Jade Guest (Gog Magog), Matilde Kedzlie (Spalding), Chloe Rowswell (Eaton), Amy Taylor (Bawburgh), Amelia Williamson (Royal Cromer)

Midlands
Emily Brennan (Trentham), Alice Brooks (Gaudet Luce), Sophie Johnson (Telford), Phoebe Stanley (Gaudet Luce)

North East
Briony Bales (Bishop Auckland), Aimee Goodlad (Castle Eden), Jessica Hall (Bishop Auckland), Georgia Holden (Lightcliffe), Jessica Smee (Ganstead Park), Alexandra Stevenson (Beamish Park).

North West
Georgia Ball (Huyton and Prescot), Ana Dawson (Peel), Bethany Greenhalgh (Manchester), Lucy Jamieson (Heswall), Freya Johnson (Royal Liverpool), Natasha Slater (Furness)

South
Bethany Goater (Hockley), Victoria Hart (Hadden Hill), Katy Mackworth-Praed (Dummer), Tara O’Herlihy (Basingstoke), Priyanka Parmar (Pinner Hill), Daniella Ubasa (Pinner Hill)

South East
Nicole Amos (Faversham), Shana Dutrieux (Wrotham Heath), Chloe Frankish (Chart Hills), Nicola Smith (Sittingbourne & Milton Regis), Nicole Stewart (Chart Hills)

South West
Grace Connelly (Vale), Megan Giles (St Mellion), Charlotte Heeps (Minchinhampton New), Grace Jackson (Tiverton), Caley McGinty (Knowle), Maddie Stone (East Devon), Emily Toy (Carlyon Bay)

Birdies Year Two

Midlands
Harriet Allsebrook (Shifnal), Sally Ayres (Frilford Heath), Megan Dennis (Woburn), Aimee Field (Hagley), Shamiso Hatchard (Woburn).

North
Louisa Brunt (Manchester), Megan Clarke (Cleckheaton and District), Hollie Muse (West Lancashire), Abigail Smee (Ganstead Park), Katie-Jane Stanley (Manchester)

South
Eloise Aldous (Newton Green), Alice Barlow (Newton Green), Penelope Brown (Worthing), Martha Lewis (St George’s Hill), Fiona McCann (North Foreland), Emma Norris (Denham), Hannah Screen (Berkhamsted).

Birdies Year Three

North
Bethany Acey (Lindrick), Olivia Hamilton (Cleckheaton and District), Olivia Jackson (Oakdale), Rhiannon Linacre (Coxmoor), Billie-Jo Smith (Woodhall Spa), Melissa Wood (Huddersfield)
   
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CATRIONA TRAILING BY 10 SHOTS IN OCHOA INVITATIONAL

Big crowds surround the 18th green at Guadalajara Country Club, Mexico.

UPDATED REPORT AND SCORES

Defending champion Catriona Matthew from North Berwick has her work cut out if she is to repeat last year's victory in the Lorena Ochoa Invitational at Guadalajara Country Club, Mexico.
The Scot had a opening round of 71 and followed that with a 72 to be lying joint 19th on 143 in a select field of 36 players after two rounds.

Leading the field by two strokes is Angela Stanford, pictured right, with scores of 66 and 67 for 11-under-par 133.
LEADERBOARD
Par 144 (2x72)
133 Angela Stanford (US) 66 67
135 Inbee Park (South Korea) 67 65
136 Cristie Kerr (US) 67 69
137 So Yeon Ryu (South Korea) 67 70, Stacy Lewis (US) 67 70, Candie Kung (Chinese Taipei) 66 71

SELECTED SCORE
143 Catriona Matthew (Scotland) 71 72 (T19).  


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KATY NEEDS EXTRA SPECIAL LAST ROUND IN SPAIN TOMORROW

KATY McNICOLL ... needs to finish at least third in LETAS Order of Merit. She is currently fourth.

Katy McNicoll's hopes of finishing in the top three of the Ladies European Tour developmental circuit's Order of Merit - and thereby circumventing the LET Q School and going straight on to the Tour next year, are fading.
With one round to play in the final LETAS event of the year, the Banesto Tour Valencia in Spain, the Carnoustie player, who is fourth on the Order of Merit, is joint 17th on 147 after rounds of 74-73.
The third-placed order of merit player she needs to catch, Norway's Cecilie Lundgreen, is joint ninth on 145 (72-73).
McNicoll will need an extra special final round over the par 72 Escorpion Golf Club course at Valencia - and even then it might not be enough.
Pamela Feggans from Patna, Ayrshire survived the cut with nothing to spare on 148 after a pair of 74s.
But the third Scot in the field, Glasgow's Gemma Webster, missed out with a pair of 79s for 158.
Curtis Cup star Holly Clyburn from Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire, playing her second event since turning pro, leads the field by one shot with scores of 67 and 71 for six-under 138.

BANESTO TOUR VALENCIA
Escorpion GC, Spain
LEADING SECOND-ROUND TOTALS
Par 144 (2x72)
138 Holly Clyburn (Eng) 67 71
139 Marjet Van Der Graaff (Ned) 68 71
142 Camilla Lennarth (Swe) 71 71, Eleanor Givens (Eng) 72 70, Carmen Alonso (Spa) 73 69.

SELECTED SCORES
144 Tracey Boyes (Eng) 73 71 (8th)
145 Cecilie Lundgreen (Nor) 72 73 (T9)
146 Charlotte Wild (Eng) 84 82, Charlie Douglass (Eng) 74 72 (T13)
147 Katy McNicoll (Sco) 74 73 (T17)
148 Pamela Feggans (Sco) 74 74, Kirsty S Taylor (Eng) 74 74 (T27)

MISSED THE CUT
152 Lucy Williams (Eng) 76 65, Kelly Hutcherson (Eng) 75 77.
155 Kelly Tidy (Eng) 79 76 
156 Rachel Drummond (Eng) 81 75, Sarah Jones (Wal) 78 78 
158 Gemma Webster (Sco) 79 79.
159 Kirsty Fisher (Eng) 80 79
163 Holly Calvert (Eng) 81 82
164 Danielle McVeigh (Ireland) 84 80
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SHEILA STUART IS NEW MIDLOTHIAN COUNTY CAPTAIN

 Some of the trophy winners at this week's 93rd Midlothan county annual meeting and prizegiving. Sheila Stuart (Turnhouse) has succeeded Mary Richardson as county captain. Wendy Ross (Glencorse) is vice-captain.

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