SUNCOAST LADIES PRO TOUR, FLORIDA

OVER 54 HOLES

SECOND-ROUND SCORES
Par 144 (2x72)
141 Jiaxin Yang (Lake Mary, Florida) (am) 72-69.
146 Rebecca Samuelsson (Gothenburg, Sweden) 76-70, Nikki Hadd-Gray (Crestview, Florida) 78 68.
147 Galina Rotmistrova (Team Russia) 75-72, Mayule Tomimbang (Kissimmee, Florida) 77 70, Jamila Jaxallyeva (Almaty, Kazakhstan) (am) 77 70,
149 Sofia Gorelik (Tandil, Argentina) 74-75, Natalie Gleadall (Stratford, Ontario, Canada) 77 72, Kelli Pry (Coatesville, Pennsylvania) (am) 75 74.
150 Alexandra White (Lancaster, Ohio) 76-74, Anastasia Kostina (Team Russia) 74 76, Jenni Jenq (Saratoga, California) 79 71, Ashley Holder (Orlando, Florida) (am) 77 73, Elena Robles (Torrance, California) 76 74, Megan Leineweber (Baltimore, Maryland) 76 74.
152 Elise Swartout (Ann Arbor, Michigan) 80-72.
153 Margarita Kim (Team Russia) (am) 78-75.
154 Rhea Nair (Windermere, Florida) 75-79, Alexandra Bodemann (Palm City, Florida) 81-73, Gloriana Soto (San Jose, Costa Rica) 76-78.
155 Michele Nash (Indianapolis, Indiana) 82-73, Christina Foster (Concord, Ontario, Canada) (am) 84-71.
156 Lauren Mackin (Mallorca, Spain) 83-73, Ellen Oswald (New City, New York) (am) 78-78, Alexandra Gibson (Windermere, Florida) 80-76.
158 Celeste Bobbitt (Rogers, Arizona) 78-80.
159 Milena Savich (Carmel, Indiana) 79-80.
160 Brooke Braun (Metairie, Louisiana) 80-80, Ksenia Eremina (Team Russia) (am) 83-77.
161 Angelina Monakhova (Team Russia) (am) 79-82.
165 Ana Morales (Bogota, Colombia) 83-82.
166 Tammy Lee (Milpitas, California) 80-86.
170 Eva Rogers (Rockledge, Florida) (am) 86-84.

REBECCA GIBBS AND JACK MCDONALD LEAD INTO LAST ROUND AT CRAIL

REPORT FROM DR ROB MACPHERSON
On a beautiful spring day at Crail Golfing Society's Craighead course, the best of the UK's student golfers bit back at the course that had proved so testing for the first round on Tuesday in the BUCS Student Tour Championship Finals.
The second and third rounds were played today and the scores of the day came  in the Ladies Championship from Rebecca Gibbs (Kingston University), who was four under par for the day with rounds of 70 (-4) and 74 (level). 
Rebecca's rounds included 13 birdies - the results of some excellent chipping and putting. 
Overnight leaders, Gabrielle MacDonald (St Andrews) and Katie Bradbury (Exeter) remain in contention, four and five shots back respectively. 
In the Men's Championship, overnight leader Jack McDonald (Stirling) added two further rounds of one-over 73 to his first round score for three-over-par tally of 219, increasing his lead by one stroke. 
Joint second are Laurie Potter (Exeter) and Ryan McKinstry (Queen's, Belfast), six shots back on 225.
Round of the day in the Men's Championship was a course-record equalling four-under-par 68 by last year's Scottish U18 boys' match-play champion from Peebles, Craig Howie (Stirling).That hoisted him up to joint fifth place on 227 - eight shots behind leader McDonald.
The competition concludes with 18 holes on Thursday.

THIRD-ROUND TOTALS
MEN
Par 216 (3x72)
219 Jack McDonald (Stirling) 73 73 73.
225 Laurie Potter (Exeter) 79 74 72.
226 Ryan McKinstry (Queen's, Belfast) 79 74 72, Oliver Roberts
(Stirling) 79 75 72.
227 Craig Howie (Stirling) 83 76 68, Mathias Eggenberger
(Stirling) 80 78 69, Cormac Sharvin (Stirling) 82 72 73, Michael
Howard (Stirling) 78 75 74, Patrick Spraggs (Stirling) 78 72 77.
228 Nick Wildman (Exeter) 79 73 76.
229 Alexander Culverwell (Stirling) 81 76 72.  
230 Patrick Mullins (Newport) 78 76 76.
231 Andrew Wilson (Northumbria) 83 77 77, Matt Wheeler (St
Andrews) 80 77 74, Joe Timlin (Queen's, Belfast) 84 73 74, Dean
Newbold (Newport) 79 76 76.
233 Louis Tomlinson (Plymouth) 82 74 77.
235 Jack Lampkin (Northumbria) 86 76 76, Josh Bassit
(Northumbria) 86 73 76.
236 John Robinson (Ulster) 84 79 73, Craig Chalmers
(Strathclyde) 86 74 76.
237 Danny Vallis (Exeter) 84 75 78.
238 Robert Harrhy (Bournemouth) 90    75 73, Jack Irwin (Exeter)
84 77 77, Thomas Jessamine (Birmingham) 80 80 78.
239 Kit Holmes (Stirling) 84 78 77.
240 Harry Chapple (Birmingham) 84 83 73, Angus Carrick
(Stirling) 84 81 75, Ben Leigh (Exeter) 82 81 77.
241 Tiarnan McLarnon (Ulster) 82 81 78.
243 Michael Bacigalupo (guest) 89 79 75, Ryan Gribben (Ulster)
87 79 77, Alex Baker (Northumbria) 84 78 81.
244 Chris Fleming (Exeter) 87 78 79.
245 Oliver Mottram (Newport) 90 75 80.
248 Freddie Edmunds (St Andrews) 93 81 74, Fraser Johnston
(guest) 84 83 81.
249 Steven Burn (Northumbria) 91 81 77, Chris Forrest (York) 87
85 77.
250 Tai Yasuda (Loughborough) 88 85 77, Callum McNeill (UHI)
87 79 84.
253 Andrew Davidson (guest) 92 78 83, Sam Maltby
(Bournemouth) 82 88 83.
254 Ben Yeomans (Birmingham) 96 78 80.
250 Daniel McAleese (Queen's, Belfast) 89 82 88.

WOMEN
Par 222 (3x74)
223 Rebecca Gibbs (Kingston) 79 70 74.
227 Katie Bradbury (Exeter)    77 75 75.
228 Gabrielle MacDonald (St Andrews) 77 78 73.
230 Elizabeth Stebbings (Liverpool) 82 76 72.
232 Miranda Brain (St Andrews) 81 79 72.
237 Iona Stephen (St Andrews) 82 76 79.
238 Ami Storey (Northumbria) 84 78 76.
243 Emily Cheshire (Leeds Metro) 86 78 79.
244 Emma Newlove (Birmingham) 84 82 78.
245 Charlotte Austwick (York) 86 74 85.
246 Franzisca Benze (St Andrews) 87 79 80.
253 Amy Chambers (St Andrews) 92 78 83.
254 Lauren Collinson (Durham) 85 83 86.
265 Zhanna Tarasko (St Andrews) 91 91 83.

LULU LEADS WAY AT ENGLISH SENIOR CHAMPIONSHIP

Middlesex golfer Lulu Housman conquered testing conditions to become top seed for the matchplay stages of the English senior women’s championship at Sherwood Forest Golf Club, Nottinghamshire. She leads the 16 qualifiers into the championship matchplay while the next 16 will contest the second flight. Winds, coupled with dry, running fairways and fast greens, set a tough challenge for the players but Lulu added a solid 78 to her first round 77 to top the qualifying leaderboard. “It’s a lovely course – but the wind is a real factor and you have to respect the greens!” she said. Lulu laid the foundations of today’s score with a level par outward half which included an eagle three on the fifth. She finished one shot ahead of Derbyshire’s Lindsay Shaw and overnight co-leader, Cath Rawthore of Cheshire (image © Leaderboard Photography). Just behind them are Karen Lobb of Northamptonshire, who also shared the first round lead, and past champion Sue Dye, who had the round of the day with a superb level par 72. Sue’s score transformed her fortunes after an opening 86: “I was very disappointed yesterday, it was a nightmare, but I learned fast,” she said. The difference, she explained, was her mental approach, coupled with better course management and putting – and an attacking approach. “You can’t afford to be defensive, you have to attack,” said Sue. “And I played well.” She reached the turn in one-under, helped by three birdies, and came home in one over par. The best nine-hole score of the day belonged to Lindsay Shaw who reached the turn in two-under par after an eagle on the long ninth. She eventually signed for 77 and remarked: “It was a tale of two halves, I played well and I played not so well.” Cath Rawthore also had her share of trouble. She had reached the turn in one-over par but dropped eight shots on the back nine, including two penalties. “It was just horrible, but if you go off line here you are in trouble,” she said. Karen Lobb, too, was disappointed with her back nine: “Not acceptable!” she joked. But, like Cath, she was amply compensated by reaching the championship matchplay stages for the first time and looking forward to tomorrow. Defending champion Chris Quinn of Hampshire battled her way into the championship flight, after starting with an uncharacteristic front nine which included three bogeys, a double, a triple - and an eagle. She responded with a truly fighting finish of five straight pars from the 14th and commented: “I was so pleased to come in with 82! “The wind is gusting today and it’s tough out there - the range of scores show that. If you are slightly offline it’s so hard to get up and down!” Former champion Caroline Berry of Cheshire played one of the most spectacular shots of the day when she holed a six-iron for an eagle two on the 370-yard sixth hole. The host club’s Janet Melville and Caron Harrison were also among the championship qualifiers while Sue Penfold made it into second flight. Qualifying scores Championship flight 155 Lulu Housman (Highgate) 77 78 156 Lindsay Shaw (Chevin) 79 77; Cath Rawthore (Sale) 75 81 158 Sue Dye (Delamere Forest) 86 72; Karen Lobb (Northamptonshire County) 75 83 159 Rozalyn Adams (Addington Court) 81 78; Felicity Christine (Woking) 80 79; Chris Quinn (Hockley)77 82; Ruth Lindley (Hartlepool) 77 82     160 Janet Melville (Sherwood Forest) 82 78 161 Gillian Mellor (Prestbury) 81 80 162 Caroline Berry (Bromborough) 83 79; Annie Gowing (Frilford Heath) 82 80; Amanda Mayne (Saltford) 81 81; Caron Harrison (Sherwood Forest) 81 81; Sandra Paul (Huddersfield) 80 82     Draw: Housman v Paul Quinn v Lindley Dye v Gowing Lobb v Berry Shaw v Harrison Christine v Melville Rawthore v Mayne Adams v Mellor Second flight 163 Barbara Laird (Sandiway) 87 76; Julie Wheeldon (Wakefield) 81 82; Carol Wild (Notts Ladies) 79 84; Sue Penfold (Sherwood Forest) 77 86 164 Christine Watson (Beaconsfield) 83 81; Jo Ashmore (Barnham Broom) 81 83; Jeannie O'Keeffe (Hankley Common) 81 83 165 Joan Pullen (Basingstoke) 84 81; Judith McCairns (Oxford Ladies) 82 83; Jackie Barraclough (East Bierley) 81 84 166 Julie Walter (St Ives, Hunts) 85 81;l  Sue Pidgeon (Wrekin) 84 82 167 Denise Goodacre (Lambourne) 83 84; Debbie Richards (Burhill) 81 86; Angela Jones (Belgium) 79 88 168 Katherine Russell (Royal Ashdown Forest) 84 84 Draw: Laird v Russell Pullen v McCairns Penfold v Goodacre Watson v Pidgeon Wheeldon v Jones O’Keeffe v Barraclough Wild v Richards Ashmore v Walter   Lyndsey Hewison Press Officer England Golf

SCOTT GIBSON THIRD IN ATLANTIC SUN CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIP

By COLIN FARQUHARSON
Colin@scottishgolfview.com

Scott Gibson from Dumfries, a second-year student at East Tennessee State University, finished third in a field of 50 at the weekend's Atlantic Sun Conference Championship golf tournament at Chateau Elan Golf Club, Braselton, Georgia.
Gibson, pictured, had rounds of 71, 76 and 71 for a total of two-over-par 218 over a course of 7,003yd.
Gibson finished three shots behind the winner M J Maguire (North Florida) and one behind the runner-up, ETSU team-mate Rhys Pugh (72-75-70), the Welshman who played in the GB and I Walker Cup-winning team at Royal Aberdeen GC in 2011.

MARK DICKSON JT FIFTH AT PEACH BELT
 
Mark Dickson from Edinburgh, a final-year student at South

Carolina-Aiken University, finished joint fifth in the Peach Belt Conference championship at Mountain View Golf Club, Pine Mountain, Georgia.
Dickson, pictured, had rounds of 71, 73 and 75 for a three-over-par total of 219 over a course of 7057yd.
He finished seven shots behind the winner by four, team-mate Matt Atkins (78-65-69 for 212).
Jordan McColl from Dundee, a sophomore student at Lander University, South Carolina, finished joint 17th on 222  with rounds of 71, 74 and 77.

ROBB MAKES TOP TEN AT SOCON CH/SHIP

North-East District Open title-holder Chris Robb from Banchory, a third-year student at Tennessee-Chattanooga University, finished joint 10th in a field of 55 players at the SoCon Championship at Daniel Island Golf Club, Ralston Creek, Charleston in South Carolina.
Robb, pictured, shot rounds of 74, 76 and 74 for a total of eight-over-par 224 over a long par-72 course of 7,446yd.
He finished nine shots behind the winner, Josh Lorenzotti (Charleston) (76-69-70 for 215) but had the satisfaction of helping Tennessee-Chattanooga head a field of 11 squad for the team title.
Liam Johnston from Dumfries, a second Scot in the Tennessee-Chattanooga team, finished 20th on 228 with scores of 80-71-77.

REID JT FOURTH IN CAROLINAS CH/SHIP

 Matthew Reid from Dundee, a third-year student at Belmont Abbey College, North Carolina, finished joint fourth in the Conference Carolinas Championship at The Challenge Golf Club, Graham in North Carolina.
Reid, pictured, had rounds of 73 and 71 for a level par total of 144 over a 6828yd course.





YOUNG JT 16TH AT MYSTIC ROCK

Christopher Young from Cardross, a final-year student at Davis and Elkins College, West Virginia, finished joint 16th in a field of 69 at The Challenge at Mystic Rock college tournament at Mystic Rock Golf Club, Farmington in Pennsylvania.
Young (pictured) had rounds of 79 and 77 for 156 over a par-72 course of 7168yd.
He finished 13 shots behind the winner by five, team-mate Sebastian Bendsen (72-71 fpr 143)
Another Scot in the Davis and Elkins team,, Cameron Buist, a freshman from Dunblane, finished joint 21st on 157 (83-74).

DUNNE MAKES TOP 15 AT TEXARKANA

Irishman Paul Dunne from Greystones, a sophomore student at Alabama-Birmingham, finished T14 in a field of 60 at the C-USA Men's Championship at Texarkana Country Club, Texas.
Over a par-72 course of 6935 yds, Paul (pictured) had rounds of 72, 71 and 76 for a total of three-over 219 - 11 shots behind the two-shot winner Roman Robledo (Houston) (72-68-71 for 208).
Garth McGee from Bangor near Belfast, a senior year student at Old Dominion, finished T51 on 231 (76-69-76).
Houston (857) won the team title ahead of SMU (860).  

GEDDES MAKES HIS MARK AT WIGWAM

Mark Geddes from Cheshire, a student at Grand Canyon University, Arisona, finished joint third on 146 (76-70) in the Pac West Conference Championship at the Wigwam Resort's Gold Course, Litchfield Park, Arizona.
Mark  finished two shots behind the joint winners on level par 144 over a 7228yd course, Dalen Yamauchi (Hawaii-Milo (69-75) and Jimmy Kozikowki (Grand Canyon) (76-68).
A third Grand Canyon student, Liam Brace from Suffolk, shot 78-75 for 153 to claim a share of 13th place in a field of 60 players.
Grand Canyon (588) won the team title by five shots from Hawaii-Milo at the head of a field of 12 teams.  

STEPHANIE MEADOW IS NUMBER ONE IN US WOMEN'S COLLEGE GOLF RANKINGS

                                STEPHANIE MEADOW ... Top of the tree in US women's college golf
                                              Picture by Cal Carson Golf Agency 

By COLIN FARQUHARSON
Colin@scottishgolfview.com 
Stephanie Meadow's nine-stroke victory at the weekend has propelled her to the No 1 spot in the United States women's college rankings, both on the Golf Week/Sagarin list and also the GolfStat rankings.
I've been following US college golf for a number of years now and I cannot remember the last British or Irish player to be No 1 in either set of rankings, let alone both.
If any reader has a better memory, please get in touch! 
Jeff Sagarin’s rating system is based on a mathematical formula that uses a player’s won-lost-tied record against other players when they play on the same course on the same day, and the stroke differential between those players, then links all players to one another based on common opponents. 
The ratings give an indication of who is playing well over the past 52 weeks.
Alabama University third-year student Stephanie, 21 on January 10, from Jordanstown, Northern Ireland, winner of the British women's open amateur championship at Carnoustie last June, and later one of the winning GB and I team in the Curtis Cup match at Nairn, has  a ranking of 70.25. 
Stephanie has spent most of the last six years in the States, having been a pupil at the Hank Haney International Academy at Hilton Head Island before enrolling at Alabama University.
The expectation is that she will turn professional - very likely in America - after graduating about 13 months from now. But perhaps she will wait until after the 2014 Curtis Cup match in America!
Back to the college rankings and the next British or Irish student is England's Hayley Davis (Baylor) at No 17 with 71.41.
Another English-born player, Charlotte Thomas (Washington) is in 35th position on 72.11 while former British champion Lauren Taylor (Baylor), who won her conference title by eight shots at the weekend, is No 44 at 72.29.
With rankings, particularly the RandA Women's World Amateur Golf Rankings, playing a much bigger part in the selection of teams from this year on, Davis, Thomas and Taylor must be rated contenders for places in the nine-strong GB and I team to play the Continent of Europe in the Vagliano Trophy match at Chantilly, Paris at the end of June.

TOP TEN 
1 Stephanie Meadow (Alabama) 70.25
2 Annie Park (USC) 70.50
3 Kelsey Vines (Oklahoma St) 70.61
4 Tiffany Lee (UCLA) 70.61
5 Mariah Stackhouse (Stanford) 70.61
6 Sophia Popov (USC) 70.82
7 Lindy Duncan (Duke) 70.89
8 Grace Na (Pepperdine) 70.96
9 Noeme Jimenez (Arizona St) 70.97
10 Brittany Altomare (Virginia) 71.00

OTHER BRITISH AND IRISH STUDENTS IN TOP 500
17 Hayley Davis (Baylor) 71.41
35 Charlotte Thomas (Washington) 72.11
44 Lauren Taylor (Baylor) 72.29
99 Sally Watson (Stanford) 73.56
111 Gemma Dryburgh (Tulane) 73.75
126 Elizabeth Mallett (UNC) 73.92
148  Meghan MacLaren (Florida Int) 74.42
163 Rachael Watton (Denver) 74.18
171 Emma Carberry (Baylor) 74.44
228 Elizabeth Haycock (Old Dominion) 75.04
241 Sian Evans (East Tennessee St) 75.18
325 Rosie Davies (Indiana) 75.84
363 Brogan Townend (Texas-San Ant) 76.08
364 Sophie Godley (Florida Int) 76.09
367 Alison Knowles (Louisiana-Monroe) 76.13
370 Megan Thompson (Missouri St) 76.15
383 Heidi Baek (Maryland) 76.25
413 Abigail Laker (Arkansas St) 76.54
416 Kim Bradbury (Old Dominion) 76.56
430 Emma Clegg (Missouri St) 76.67            

+Editor's note: These are NCAA Division 1 rankings which would not include Division 2 college performances. If as a parent or a player you spot an omission of a British or Irish player from the above list, please E-mail Colin@scottishgolfview.com