US COLLEGE NEWS
SCOTS TO FORE IN FLORIDA COLLEGE GOLF
Nairn Dunbar Golf Club member Russell Knox from Inverness has finished runner-up in an American college golf tournament in Florida this week.
Russell, a sophomore golf scholarship student at Jacksonville University, Florida, scored 70, 75 and 73 for a two-over-par aggregate of 218 – four shots behind winner Torstein Naevestad (Florida Atlantic University) who shot 71, 74 and 69.
The pair were locked together on 145 with one round to go in the Golf Daytona Invitational tournament at Victoria Hills Golf Club, DeLand. Norwegian student Naevestad from Oslo played brilliantly over the tough, 6,989yd par-72 course in the final round to finish four strokes ahead of the Scot.
It was Knox’s third top-five finish on the American college circuit.
There was a Scottish flavour about the top 10 finishers.
Russell’s Jacksonville team-mates, Jamie Kennedy from Edinburgh and Duncan Stewart (Grantown-on-Spey) finished third and tied seventh respectively.
Kennedy scored 76, 72 and 72 for 220 while Stewart shot 74, 73 and 75 for 222.
Jacksonville (898) finished runners-up to Florida Atlantic (891) in the team event, which was Jacksonville’s highest finish of the first half of the 2004-2005 college golf season.
Nairn Dunbar Golf Club member Russell Knox from Inverness has finished runner-up in an American college golf tournament in Florida this week.
Russell, a sophomore golf scholarship student at Jacksonville University, Florida, scored 70, 75 and 73 for a two-over-par aggregate of 218 – four shots behind winner Torstein Naevestad (Florida Atlantic University) who shot 71, 74 and 69.
The pair were locked together on 145 with one round to go in the Golf Daytona Invitational tournament at Victoria Hills Golf Club, DeLand. Norwegian student Naevestad from Oslo played brilliantly over the tough, 6,989yd par-72 course in the final round to finish four strokes ahead of the Scot.
It was Knox’s third top-five finish on the American college circuit.
There was a Scottish flavour about the top 10 finishers.
Russell’s Jacksonville team-mates, Jamie Kennedy from Edinburgh and Duncan Stewart (Grantown-on-Spey) finished third and tied seventh respectively.
Kennedy scored 76, 72 and 72 for 220 while Stewart shot 74, 73 and 75 for 222.
Jacksonville (898) finished runners-up to Florida Atlantic (891) in the team event, which was Jacksonville’s highest finish of the first half of the 2004-2005 college golf season.
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