US KIDS GOLF EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIP AT FIVE EAST LOTHIAN LINKS

NEWS RELEASE

Young golfers from around the world will be competing for honours in the 2013 U.S. Kids Golf European Championship – ensuring Scotland is playing host this summer to both the world’s current and future golfing greats. 

Huge numbers of competitors are expected to travel to Scotland for the four-day tournament, which is held across five historic East Lothian links courses and all of them just a short drive away from Muirfield, venue for The Open Championship 2013. 

Organised by the U.S. Kids Golf Foundation, it is hoped that this year’s U.S. Kids Golf European Championship - Europe’s premier junior tournament – will be the biggest yet.

The competition will see players as young as six years old challenging for the European Champion titles in various age groups, with many of them hotly tipped to be the golfing stars of the future.

The European Championships takes place from May 28-30 on Gullane No. 2, Gullane No. 3, Craigielaw Golf Club, Luffness New Golf Club and Longniddry Golf Club. 
The courses are modified for each age group in order to provide the same level challenge, meaning holes are progressively shorter as the age groups get younger.  It ultimately allows the players to reach the greens in the same number of strokes as the top pros on the PGA tour.

The top finishers in each category will compete in the Van Horn Cup over Gullane No 1 on May 31 – a showpiece event, modelled on the Ryder Cup, where the best European players are matched up against the top golfers from the rest of the world.  

 The top five finishers in each age and gender group also automatically receive an invitation to the U.S. Kids Golf World Championships at Pinehurst Golf Club, North Carolina, in August.

LAURA MURRAY WINS HER FIRST MONEY AS A ROOKIE PRO

By COLIN FARQUHARSON
Colin@scottishgolfview.com
Rookie pro Laura Murray has won her first prize money since she quit the amateur ranks a couple of weeks ago.
Last year's Scottish women's amateur champion from Alford,
now playing out of the Paul Lawrie Golf Centre, shot an
excellent three-under-par 66 to tie with Royal Aberdeen amateur
Jim Emslie in today's North-east Alliance played in comparatively warm sunshine and under bright blue skies at Craibstone Golf Club, Aberdeen.
"It's a long time since I scored in the 60s so to do it so soon after turning professional, gives my confidence a big boost," said Laura who will play on the Ladies European Tour's developmenatal circuit, LETAS and the new Paul Lawrie Scottish Ladies Open Tour in her rookie season.
"I holed a lot of putts out there - seven birdies, including three in a row from the 15th, but I also had a double bogey 6 after landing in a bush at the 13th. I still could have won outright but for being long with my No 9 iron approach at the last and ending up in a bunker, which cost me a bogey 5."
Murray's other birdies came at the second, fifth, ninth and 10th in halves of 32 (three under) and 34 (level par).
She was four under par when marking up her first bogey at the 12th followed by the double at the next.
Jim Emslie plays off two of a handicap at Royal Aberdeen and he had a much steadier 66 than Laura - birdies at the first, fourth, 11th and 16th with only one bogey, at the fourth, in halves of 34-32.
At the head of a field of 70 players, Laura will receive roughly £90 in cash and Jim the equivalent in a prize voucher.
They finished a shot ahead of Sam Kiloh (Portlethen), just recently turned 18 years of age and winner of the North-east District boys' stroke-play title last year.
Kiloh parred the first nine holes and then birdied the 12th, 13th, 16th and 17th with offsetting bogeys at the 10th and 14th in an inward 32.
Kiloh has the US college golf scouts on his trail - and no wonder. He is a great prospect. 

SWITCH OVER TO www.scottishgolfview.com to read all the scores in the NE Alliance at sunny Craibstone GC today.

SCOTS START BETTER THAN ENGLISH IN MAJORCA

Carnoustie's Jess Meek and Lauren Whyte (St Andrews) outscored their highly-rated English rivals in the first qualifying round of the Spanish women's amateur golf championship at Pula Golf Club, Majorca today. Meek returned a three-over-par 75 to share 13th place behind the two-shot leader, Spain#s Luna Sobron Galmes.Scottish U18 girls champion Whyte shot a 76 to be in joint 17th place. Clara Young (North Berwick) had an 84 for joint 80th position. England's Amber Ratcliffe and Gabriella Cowley, the Scottish U16 champion from last year, were both on the 78 mark. After tomorrow's second qualifying round, the leading 64 players will go forward to the match-play stages FIRST QUALIFYING ROUND  LEADERBOARD Par 72 Players from Spain unless stated 70 Luna Sobron Galmes 72 Leonie Harm (Germany), Linne Strom (Sweden) 73 Patricia Sanz Barrio, Ha Rang Lee, Shannon Aubert (France) SELECTED SCORES 75 Jess Meek (Scotland) (T13) 76 Lauren Whyte (Scotland) (T17) 78 Amber Ratcliffe (England), Gabriella Cowley (England) (T30) 79 Alexandra Peters (England) (T46) 84 Clara Young (Scotland) (T80) 85 Chloe Ryan (Ireland) (T83) 90 Charlotte Thompson (England) (90th). Field of 98 players

KEVIN IS PHELAN FINE AFTER FIRST WIN ON US COLLEGE CIRCUIT

North Florida University head golf coach Scott Schroeder with the John Hayt Collegiate Invitational trophy. Kevin Phelan is first left in the front row.

Irishman Kevin Phelan from Waterford, a senior year student at North Florida University, scored his first win on the US men's college golf circuit in the John Hayt Collegiate Invitational at Sawgrass Country Club, Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida on Tuesday.
Phelan, who flew to Scotland from America to take part in the Walker Cup selection trials at Royal Aberdeen in 2011, shot record-breaking rounds of 10-under-par 64 and 67 for a total of 13-under-par 131.
The 64 was a course record and the 131 aggregate a record 36-hole low for the tournament which was cut to two rounds after heavy rain on Monday night made the course too wet for play.
Phelan headed a field of 87 playeres by four shots from North Florida team-mate Sean Dale who scored 68-67 for 135
Another Irishman, Paul Dunne (University of Alabama-Birmingham) from Greystokes finished T20 with rounds of 70-76 for 146.
North Florida (559) also won the team title ahead of Duke (571) and Central Florida (585),
Alabama-Birmingham (592) finished joint 11th of the 15 teams competing.      

MEGHAN FINISHES FIFTH IN TERRAPIN CHALLENGE IN FLORIDA

Meghan MacLaren from Cambridge, a freshman student at Florida International University, finished fifth in a field of 93 players at the Sir Pizza Terrapin Challenge women's college tournament over the Senator Course (par 72, 6278yd) at Shula's Golf Club, Miami Lakes, Florida yesterday.
Meghan had rounds of 70-74-74 for a two-over-par total of 218 - six shots behind the winner, Lindsay McGettrick (North Carolina State) who scored 70-71-71 for four-under 212.
NC State players finished 1-2-3 with overnight leader Brittany Marchand second on 213 (69-71-73) and Augusta James third on 214 (70-74-70).
Meghan MacLaren's team-mate, Sophie Godley, a freshman from Notts, finished T23 on 228 (76-76-76).
Other English/Welsh students in the field finished as follows:
Heidi Baek (Maryland), a freshman from Suffolk, and Sian Evans (East Tennessee State), a junior from Gillingham, Kent - T30 on 229. Heidi had rounds of 78-75-76, Sian 75-76-78.
Jessica Gregory (Maryland), a freshman from Sittingbourne - T45 on 233 with scores of 79-78-76.
Abi Laker (Arkansas State), a freshman from Oxfordshire - T57 on 236 (80-81-75).
Anna Carling (Arkansas State), a senior from Vale of Glamorgan - T60 on 237 (80-79-78).  
Not surprisingly, North Carolina State (874) won the team title ahead of Florida International (886), Miami (895), Maryland (899) and East Tennessee State (909)
SELECTED TOTAL - 967 Arkansas State (last of 16 teams).  

HOLLY JUST OUTSIDE MOBILE TOP 40
 
Holly Robinson, a sophmore student from Sligo, Ireland at the University of Alabama-Birmingham, finished T41 in a field of 74 players at the USA Women's College Invitational tournament over two rounds at Azalea City golf curse, Mobile in Alabama. 
Holly had scores of 81-83 for 164, finished 15 shots behind the winner by two, Emelie Westrup (Arkansas-Little Rock) who scored 73-76 for 149.
Dolores Brown (McNeese State), a freshman from Royal Cinque Ports, scored 83-83 for 165 and a T44 finish.
Katie Reid (Arkansas-Little Rock), a junior year student from Elmwood College, Cupar and Dundee, finished T57 on 169 with rounds of 83-86.
    
     

CACTUS LADY PRO TOUR, ARIZONA SCOREBOARD

Event # 4 Sundance
Round 2
Feb. 26, 2013

Monet Flores (amateur) aced the third hole (123yd, par 3)

1		LALITA PATIPAKSIRI		71-70--141
2		ASHLEY EDWARDS		76-70--146
T3		REBECKA HEINMERT		73-74--147
		TAYLORE KARLE		78-69--147
T5		KELSEY KIPP		71-77--148
		CANDACE SCHEPPERLE		76-72--148
		CAITLIN MCCLEARY		74-74--148
T8		BRITTANY BENVENUT0		77-73--150
		BECCA HUFFER		76-74--150
		AMANDA ROBERTSON		75-75--150
		MONICA VILLARREAL		77-73--150
T12		KARINN DICKINSON(am)		75-76--151
		MONET FLORES (am)		75-76--151
14		JACKIE KAZARIAN		77-75--152
15		MICHELE CHUN (am)		80-73--153
16		MARGARITA RAMOS		79-75--154
T17		JESSICA BERVE		78-77--155
		JESSICA HAUSER		81-74--155
T19		MAGGIE RAMERIZ		79-77--156
		JORDAN ONTIVEROS		79-77--156
T21		EUN-YOUNG CHO		82-75--157
		MCKENZIE JACKSON		81-76--157
T23		ERIKA ILAGAN		83-75--158
		KYLA INABA		80-78--158
T25		LINDSAY AHO		83-77--160
		KYLEE DUEDE(am)		83-77--160
		BRITTANY STEWART		81-79--160
28		JORDAN ROSE		80-83--163
29		A  CHRISTIANSON (am)		86-78--164
T30		ALEX SCHULTE		85-80--165
		JORDAN ALLYNE		81-84--165
32		ALLISON MICHELETTI		80-86--166
33		BRIANNA NAP (am)		84-86--170
34		JESSICA PAYNE (am)		84-89--173