US COLLEGE NEWS

JORDAN FINDLAY STARTS NEW US
COLLEGE SEASON WITH A 69

Fraserburgh exile Jordan Findlay, pictured right, back in the United States as a second-year golf scholarship student at East Tennessee State University, was the leading European player in joint ninth place at the end of the first round of the Carpet Capital Collegiate tournament at The Farm Golf Club, Rock Face in Georgia.
Findlay, playing in his first tournament of the new 2006-2006 US college golf season, shot a three-under-par 69 over the 7,002yd course, including a purple patch of birdies at the 11th, 12th and 14th and an eagle 3 at the 15th in halves of 36 and 33.
Team-mate Gareth Shaw from Lisburn, Northern Ireland had a 70 to be sharing 13th place.
Wallace Booth (Augusta State University) from Comrie, Perthshire had a 74 to be in joint 43rd place.
Edinburgh-born Welshman and Walker Cup player Rhys Davies (East Tennessee State) had a double bogey 6 at the 14th and further bogeys at the 16th and 17th in returning a disappointing 75 for a share of 51st place in the field of 90.
Irish freshman Seamus Power (East Tennessee State) from Waterford had a 76. Team-mate and compatriot Cian McNamara from Limerick had an 82.
Darren Blair (North Carolina State) set the first-round pace with a 65, one shot ahead of Vince Haffield (Clemson) and two ahead of Jake Younan-Wise (Texas Tech).
Alabama (276) led the team event from Clemson (278), North Carolina State (286), Georgia State (286) and Augusta State and Wake Forest (both 289).
East Tennessee State scored 290 to be in joint ninth place in the field of 18 college teams.


KATE & CO DOWN THE FIELD IN TENNESSEE

Kate O’Sullivan from Paisley, a student at High Point University, North Carolina, was sharing 70th place after a round of 80 in the Mason Rudolph women’s college tournament at Vanderbilt Legends Club, Franklin in Tennessee.
Team-mates Ann Marie Dalton from Carlow, Ireland and Jenna Kinnear from Belfast scored 81 and 85 respectively.
The lead was shared by three players on 69 – Mallory Hetzel (Georgia), Tiffany John (UCLA) and Taylor Leon (Georgia), a member of the winning United States Curtis Cup team at Bandon Dunes, Oregon earlier this summer..