DUNCAN STEWART PIPPED FOR
EIGHTH US COLLEGE VICTORY

Jacksonville University senior-year student Duncan Stewart from Grantown on Spey went so close to notching up an eighth victory in his four years on the American college golf circuit in the Pat Hicks Thunderbird Invitational tournament at Sunbrook Golf Club, St George’s in Utah.
Stewart, pictured right, who had been one of four players sharing the first-round lead on five-under-par 67, set the clubhouse target of nine-under-par 135 with a second-round 68 over the 6,781yd, par-72 course.
That look like being the winning total until Aaron Weston (Colorado State) followed up an opening 71 with a 64 to tie with Stewart.
Weston won the play-off with a birdie from 4ft at the first extra hole.
It was Duncan Stewart’s first tournament of the second half of the college season.
Russell Knox from Inverness, one of Stewart’s team-mates at Jacksonville, Florida, tied for 19th place with a pair of 71s for two-under-par 142.
A third Jacksonville Scot, Jamie Kennedy from Edinburgh, finished 101st in the field of 112 with scores of 81 and 82 for 163.
Jacksonville University (588) finished 10th equal behind winners Southern Utah (562) in the team event which had a field of 18 colleges.
LEADING INDIVIDUALS
135 Aaron Weston (Colorado State) 71 64, Duncan Stewart (Jacksonville) 67 68 (Weston won play-off at first extra hole).
136 Nic Van Vuuren (Utah Valley State) 67 69.
Other scores:
142 Russell Knox (Jacksonville) 71 71 (jt 19th).
150 Sean McNamara (Colorado State) 80 70 (jt 61st).
163 Jamie Kennedy (Jacksonville) 81 82 (101st).
LEADING TEAMS
562 Southern Utah.
565 Denver.
570 Oral Roberts.
575 Utah.
576 Colorado State.
Also:
588 Jacksonville (jt 10th).