KRYSTLE FLIES OUT TO RUN RULE
OVER THREE US UNIVERSITIES

Scottish Under-21 girls’ golf champion Krystle Caithness from Cellar Dyke, Fife, is heading for the United States before making up her mind which college’s four-year golf scholarship offer she is going to accept.
Curtis Cup reserve Krystle, who will be 18 on January 21, is to visit the campuses of Texas A&M, Ohio State and Georgia universities.
All three have front-rank women’s squads on the American women’s college golf circuit.
“My dad and I are going to fly out to the States on January 6 and we will come back on January 12 after visiting Georgia, then Texas A&M and finally Ohio State,” said Krystle, a St Regulus member who rates beating an international field to win the St Rule Trophy over 54 holes over her home courses at St Andrews as her highlight of the 2006 season.
Former Walker Cup player and himself a past US college student, Lorne Kelley, whose ProDream company is helping Miss Caithness find the best college for her, said:
“Krystle is probably the most talented player we have had the pleasure in dealing with during 2006. Now that her final decision approaches, I must admit it is exciting. She has had fantastic choices to make in the past six months but she has singled out these three colleges.
“All three universities have quality NCAA DI programmes and are all eager to land Krystle.”
Last week Miss Caithness was named in the Ladies Golf Union Elite Squad for winter training in preparation for next summer’s Vagliano Trophy match against the Continent of Europe and also the Commonwealth team tournament in South Africa.
She was second reserve for the GB&I team of eight for the past summer’s Curtis Cup match at Bandon Dunes, Oregon.
And Krystle’s wish for the New Year: “I would like to be more consistent in 2007.”
+There are already nine Scottish girls at colleges in America – Gemma Webster (Ohio State), Michele Thomson & Louise Fleming (Jacksonville State, Alabama), Ashton Ingram (Belmont Abbey College, North Carolina), Katy McNicoll (Lynn University, Florida), Kelly Brotherton (Tennessee-Chattanooga), Kate O’Sullivan (High Point, North Carolina) and Carly Booth and Sally Watson, both students at the IMG David Leadbetter Golf Academy in Florida. Scottish girls champion Roseanne Niven from Crieff is enrolling at the University of California Berkeley in January on a four-year golf scholarship and Sally Watson’s older sister Rebecca will start at the University of Tennessee next August.