BRITISH UNIVERSITIES CHAMPIONSHIPS

RAMSAY PULLS OUT AFTER LEADING

STIRLING TO BRITISH TEAM VICTORY

Walker Cup player Richie Ramsay from Aberdeen helped Stirling University to win the British universities men’s team golf championship but did not stay on to contest the last two rounds of the individual title at De Vere Mottram Hall, Prestbury in Cheshire.

Ramsay, who has a handicap of +4, shot rounds of 71 and 69 and, with a 36-hole total of 140, the Royal Aberdeen player had a five-shot lead with two rounds to go in the individual championship, staged in conjunction with the two-round team event.

But Richie withdrew to have some time off before heading to Kent for the British men’s amateur championship.

Other members of the winning Stirling team were Euan Polson (Royal Dornoch), Paul Betty (Hayston) and Karl Shepherd. They totalled 441 to win by five shots from Northumbria with the Stirling No 2 team of Graham Turner, Jonathan Watt and Evan Bryceland, finishing third on 459.

Kerri Harper (Abertay University) from Inverness finished runner-up in the women’s individual championship. She had rounds of 82, 79, 84 and 78 for a total of 323 – eight shots behind title-winner Janet Phipps (Exeter).

Dawn Dewar (Stirling University) from Monifieth finished fourth on 334.

LEADING RESULTS

BRITISH UNIVERSITIES CHAMPIONSHIPS

De Vere Mottram Hall, Prestbury.

Leading scores:

MEN’S INDIVIDUAL

289 E Parker (Birmingham) 74 73 69 73.

291 S Heads (Northumbria) 69 77 77 68.

292 M Davies (Exeter) 72 75 72 73.

Other totals:

295 G Turner (Stirling) 74 76 74 71.

296 J Watt (Stirling) 74 77 73 72.

298 S Borrowman (Stirling) 72 74 76 76, K Shepherd (Stirling) 73 77 75 73.

306 E Polson (Stirling) 81 75 79 71.

308 C Colraine (Strathclyde 78 74 74 82, P Betty (Stirling) 76 77 72 83.

310 M Russo (Glasgow) 74 82 75 79, G Minnes (Strathclyde) 78 77 75 80.

MEN’S TEAM

441 Stirling (R Ramsay, E Polson, P Betty, K Shepherd).

446 Northumbria.

459 Stirling 2 (G Turner, J Watt, E Bryceland).

461 Bournemouth.

466 Stirling 3 (B Paterson, B Rushford, B Brooke, S Borrowman).

468 Bournemouth 2.

474 Strathclyde (C Colraine, A Gordon, D McInroy).

475 Strathclyde 2 (G Minnes, G McInroy, A Brown).

476 Glasgow (R Hutton, M Russo, C Morrison, P Mulcahy).

490 Plymouth.

WOMEN’S INDIVIDUAL

315 J Phipps (Exeter) 84 84 73 74.

323 K Harper (Abertay) 82 79 84 78.

330 J Campbell (Warwick) 81 84 82 83.

334 D Dewar (Stirling) 84 82 81 87.

Other totals:

346 C Winstanley (St Andrews) 94 91 80 81.

347 C Paterson (St Andrews) 84 88 89 86.