CONNIE JAFFREY FINISHES 11 SHOTS 

BEHIND WINNER AT WESTBROOK 

Scotland's top-ranked female amateur golfer, Connie Jaffrey (Troon Ladies) from Kilwinning, a first-year student at Kansas State University, finished joint 33rd in a field of 84 players at the Westbrook Invitational 54-hole college golf tournament which ended at Westbrook Village Golf Club, Peoria, Arizona today (MON), writes Colin Farquharson .
Over a par-72 course of 6,269yd, Connie had improving rounds of 75, 74 and 72 for a five-over aggregate of 221.
She finished 11 strokes behind the winner, A J Newell (Tennessee) who scored 68, 73 and 69 for six-under 210.
Tennessee (851) also won the team title ahead of Oregon (854) with Notre Dame and College of Charleston sharing third place on 868.
Kansas State (890) finished 11th of 15 teams. 

BRONTE LAW T14 WITH A ROUND TO GO

There are six British-born students competing in the Allstate Sugar Bowl 54-hole tournament at English Turn Golf and Country Club, New Orleans.
With a round to go GB and I cap Bronte Law (UCLA) from Bramhall, Cheshire is best placed in joint 14th position in a field of 81 players.
Bronte sagged with a second-round 78 after starting with a 71.
Law is eight shots behind the joint leaders, both Scandinavians and students at Louisiana State University, Caroline Nistrup (71-70)_and Madelene Sagstrom (68-73).
Aime Ponte (Texas-San Antonio), a sophomore from Guernsey, is T27 on 152 (80-72) 
Yorkshire's Alison Knowles (Michigan State) is on 155 with rounds of 74 and 81 for T42,
Curtis Cupper Gemma Dryburgh, a final-year student at Tulane University, is T52 on1 57 (80-77).
Becky McGeehan (Texas-San Antiono), whose parents live in Germany, is T61 on 159 (80-79) with team-mate Brogan Townend from Blackburn T76 on 163 (79-84.



WEBBER INTERNATIONAL IN COMMAND
Three Webber International University students tied for first place in the 11th Annual Start 2 Finish 54-hole tournament at Lake Wales Country Club, Florida.
Stuart Winsby, a third-year student from Carrickfergus, Northern Ireland shot rounds of 78, 69 and 76 to tie with team-mates Sam De'Ath, a second-year man from Fleet (78-72-73) and William Erikson (76-72-75) on seven-over-par 223 over a par-72 course of 6821yd.
Other Webber International students from Britain in the picture were Matthew Basey, a third-year student from Bristol, Alex Fellas, a second-year man from Norfolk, Kenny Overthrow, a sophomore from Gloucester, and James Urquhart, a sophomore from Exeter.
Basey scored 74-81-75 for 230 and T11 position.
Fellas had scores of 79, 74 and 78 for 231 and T13.
Overthrow shot 83, 80 and 78 for T31 on 241.
Finally, Urquhart had rounds of 83, 82 and 80 for 245 and 39th position in a field of 71 players.
Not surprisingly Webber International (896) won the team title by 20 shots from their nearest rivals, Tampa (916) in a field of eight teams.

Qualification process for Junior Solheim Cup team starts this 

week in Spain: First of eight tournaments with points to be won

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European Captain Iben Tinning is expecting an intense battle for places when qualification for the European PING Junior Solheim Cup team gets underway in Spain on Wednesday.
The Danish former Solheim Cup player has been studying the statistics and she believes there will be more competition for places than there has ever been before in the lead up to this year’s match at Golf Club St. Leon-Rot on September 14-15.
“It’s going to be a tough team to get onto,” said the four-time Solheim Cup player. “We have a lot more strength in depth than we used to and the players now seem to come from all over Europe.
“A lot of our most experienced amateurs are no longer eligible but there are more than enough younger players to take their place. There’s a strong nucleus of 16-17 year-olds but also quite a few 14-15 year-olds who are already playing well enough to challenge for the top girls’ titles.”
Altogether there are a total of eight qualification events with the Spanish International Ladies‘ Amateur at Real Club Pineda de Sevilla, Spain (Feb 25-March 1) being followed by the French International Lady Junior Championship at GC St Cloud, France (April 2-6), the German Girls’ Open at GC St. Leon-Rot Germany (June 5-7), the Ladies’ British Open Amateur Championship at Portstewart GC, Northern Ireland (June 9-13), the European Girls’ Team Championship at Golf Resort Kaskada Brno, Czech Republic (July 7-11), the European Ladies’ Team Championship at Helsingør, Denmark (July 7-11) and the ANNIKA Invitational Europe at Bro-Bålsta, Sweden (August 4-6) before being completed at the Girls’ British Open Championship at West Kilbride on August 10-14, 2015.
At the end of the qualification process the first six players on the Rankings will earn an automatic place on the European team with the team being completed with six Captain’s picks.
″It‘s a long haul so I would advise the girls not to get upset if they don’t get off to a great start in Spain and France,″ said Tinning.
″I’d also like to take this opportunity to wish the girls all the best as they try to qualify for this year‘s team. I know a lot of the European girls will be desperate to make the side but if I had one bit of advice it would be to relax and play their own games rather than try to chase a place.
″I remember I did that back in 2009 when Alison Nicholas was captain of our Solheim Cup team. I was desperate to play on her side but all that did was to increase the pressure on me and I ended up missing out.
″I’d recommend that the girls focus on their own games“, she added. ″I’m sure if they can do that they will have a much better chance of making the team.″
This year’s Spanish Ladies’ International Amateur has attracted a strong field from all across Europe. It includes Switzerland’s Albane Valenzuela, Spaniard’s Maria Parra and Alejandra Pasarin, France’s Eva Gilly and Agathe Laisne, Ireland’s Olivia Mehaffey, England’s Sophie Lamb and Hollie Muse, Germany’s Esther Henseleit and Sweden’s Filippa Möörk, all of whom meet the age requirement to qualify for this year’s European PING Junior Solheim Cup team.

SCOTS STUDENTS FINISH DOWN THE FIELD AT


PALM DESERT, CALIFORNIA
 
Scots Calum Hill, a second year student at Louisiana-Monroe University, and Greg Smail, a third-year student at the same college, finished down the field in the Wyoming Desert Collegiate 54-hole tournament which ended at the Classic Club, Palm Desert, California on Sunday.

Hill, pictured, from North Berwick, had scores of 72, 77 and 73 for a six-over par total of 222 over a long course of 7,305yd and tied for 34th place in a field of 128 players.
Smail, from Musselburgh, finished joint 104th on 235 with rounds of 77, 80 and 78.
A third British student in the big field, David Langley (Old Dominion), a second-year student frm Buckinhamshire, finished T99 on 234 with scores of 76, 83 and 75.
 The winner, Clement Sordet (Texas Tech)  totalled 11-under 205 (69-65-71).

Connie Jaffrey (Troon Ladies and Kansas State University), pictured left, from Kilwinning has had scores of 75 and 74 in the first two rounds of th3 54-hole Westbrook Invitational at Peoira, Arizona and needs a low score in today's final round to get near to a top-20 finish.

Another GB and I international player, Bronte Law (UCLA) from Bramhall, Cheshire  shot a 71 in the first round of the three-round Allstate Sugar Bowl Intercollegiate at English Turn, New Orleans.
And Aberdeen-born Curtis Cupper, Gemma Dryburgh (Tulane), has a highmre round of 80 in this event after hitting the headlines with her five-star display in her last competition.
Just goes to show you that golf is a funny game. 
Also at English Turn, Alison Knowles (Michigan State) from Yorkshire and Brogan Townend (UTSA) from Blackburn had scores of 74 and 79 respectively.  

 Hannah O'Sullivan (16) becomes youngest

 ever winner on Symetra Tour

FROM GOLFWEEK.COM

By Julie Williams

Hannah O’Sullivan needed only to protect her four-shot lead on Sunday to break a 20-year-old Symetra Tour record. But O’Sullivan, a 16-year-old amateur from Paradise Valley, Arizona came out of the gate at Longbow Country Club in Mesa, Arizona, with two birdies in her first three holes. She added two more to finish the front nine, and became all but untouchable.
O’Sullivan cruised to a four-shot victory at the Symetra Tour’s season-opening Gateway Classic, posting a final-round 3-under 69 for a 15-under 201 total. 
She becomes the youngest winner in the history of the USA's No 2 ladies' pro tour which used to be called the Futures Tour. Hannah breaks an age record set by Cristie Kerr in 1995 when Kerr won the Ironwood Futures Classic as a 17-year-old.
O’Sullivan also becomes the first amateur winner since Kellee Booth in the 1999 Pacific Bell Futures Classic in Riverside, California.
For O’Sullivan, the Symetra victory comes after a year that included several milestones. She committed to play college golf for the University of South Carolina  in 2014, was a semi-finalist at the U.S. Women’s Amateur and a member of the victorious U.S. Junior Ryder Cup team at Blairgowrie last September.
 O’Sullivan also owns the Arizona high school state championship titles from 2013 and ’13
O’Sullivan’s performance in Mesa suggests a successful career ahead of her, especially in college. Among the pursuers that O’Sullivan was able to hold off were a handful of former top collegians – Italy's Giulia Molinaro, a former Arizona State player who was second individually at the 2013 NCAA Championship, and Stephanie Kono, formerly the top player at UCLA, among them.
Haley Italia finished runner-up to O’Sullivan at 11 under, and Molinaro was three shots behind that.

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