HEATHER WINS AMERICAN JUNIOR
COLLEGE CHAMPIONSHIP
Heather MacRae, the 2001 Scottish girls' match-play champion from Dunblane, became the fifth Scot since 1998 to win the United States junior college women's golf championship over the LPGA International Course at Daytona Beach in Florida on Thursday.
Heather led from start to finish, signing off, in temperatures again touching 80 degrees, with a 77 for a 72-hole total of 303. Her earlier rounds were 71, 79 and 76.
A student at McLennan College at Waco, Texas, Heather won by three strokes from Ulrika Ljungman (Daytona Beach)..
Miss MacRae's team-mate at McLennan College, Laura Walker (Nairn Dunbar), her successor as BP Scottish girls champion at Powfoot last summer, finished a creditable joint seventh on 318 with scores of 79, 78, 82 and 79.
McLennan finished only one stroke behind team champions Daytona Beach.
Aberdonian Claire Hunter won the inaugural NJCAA event in 1998; Linzi Morton (Tulliallan) followed her on to the winner's rostrum in 1999 and the Scots domination continued in 2000 and 2001 with victories by Pamela Mackay (Royal Dornoch) and Angela Finlay (Ratho Park).
Leading final totals
303 Heather MacRae 71 79 76 77.
306 Ulrika Ljungman 79 75 75 77.
311 Natalie Kinsey 74 77 81 79, Brendan McLarnon 73 81 80 87.
312 Jessica Trein 74 81 80 77.
316 Keelie Cates 80 81 80 75.
318 Laura Walker 79 78 82 79.

Leading teams
1250 Daytona Beach.
1251 McLennan.
1328 Redlands (Oklahoma).