OVERNIGHT US COLLEGE NEWS

WALLACE BOOTH PERKS UP AS
HURRICANE WILMA APPROACHES

Wallace Booth from Comrie, Perthshire, Scottish youths’ golf champion last year, was in joint 68th position at the end of two rounds of the Isleworth Collegiate Invitational tournament at Isleworth Country Club, Windermere in Florida (Sunday, USA time).
The first 36 holes were played on Sunday because of the impending arrival of Hurricane Wilma in the area on Monday when no play is scheduled. The three-round tournament will be completed on Tuesday.
Augusta State University student Booth, a member of Scotland’s European youth title-winning team in Ireland in 2004, shaved eight shots off his opening score with a second-round 73, one over par for a course well in excess of 7,000yd.
Wallace birdied the seventh and 17th and had bogeys at the sixth, 11th and 12th. In his first round, which he had to begin at the 10th, he double-bogeyed his first two holes.
Sean Moore (Wake Forest) leads the field with a pair of 69s for four-under-par 138. He is one shot ahead of Pablo Martin (Oklahoma State), the Spaniard who won the British boys championship at the age of 15 in 2001 and lost in the final two years later; Chris Kirk (Georgia) and Doug Manchester (Wake Forest).
Wake Forest (569) lead the team event from Georgia (570) with Augusta State (601) lying 17th of 18 with one round to go.
LEADING INDIVIDUALS
138 Sean Moore (Wake Forest) 69 69.
139 Chris Kirk (Georgia) 68 71, Doug Manchester (Wake Forest) 67 72, Pablo Martin(Oklahoma State) 67 72.
Other score:
154 Wallace Booth (Augusta State) 81 73.
LEADING TEAMS
569 Wake Forest.
570 Georgia.
Other total:
601 Augusta State (17th of 18).