TOUGH START FOR YOUNG ROSEANNE
ON AMERICAN COLLEGE CIRCUIT

Crieff’s Roseanne Niven, a student at the University of California Berkeley only since the start of the year, finished 72nd in a field of 84 players in only her second tournament on the American women’s college circuit.
The Arizona Wildcat Invitational brought together all the leading ladies from the US colleges at the Arizona National course near Tucson, a 6,166yd lay-out with a demanding par of 71.
Roseanne, the current Scottish Under-18 girls match-play champion, had five double bogeys, two of them at her last two holes, the 15th and 16th, in a closing 84, following scores of 87 and 78, for a total of 36-over-par 249.
Over the three rounds, the Scot had one quadruple bogey and eight double bogeys.
It is all a learning process for Roseanne at the moment. She is playing long, tough courses she has never seen before against better-class opposition than she has met previously. Once she finds her feet in a “strange” land, Miss Niven, who turned 18 only last Saturday, will soon go on to better things.
Jodi Ewart from Catterick, a freshman student at New Mexico University finished joint 16th , saving her best to last with a par-matching 71 for eight-over-par 221. Her earlier rounds were 72 and 78.
In her final round, Jodi birdied the fifth, 11th, 12th and 14th but cancelled them out with bogeys at the first, third, sixth and 15th.
Miss Ewart had one eagle and nine birdies over the three rounds.
United States Curtis Cup player Amanda Blumenherst (Duke) shot three great rounds of 70, 69 and 71 for a three-under-par 210 total and an impressive victory by four shots from two Europeans – former British girls champion Anna Nordqvist (Arizona State) from Sweden and Dewi Schreefel (Southern California) from the Netherlands.
Azahara Munoz (Arizona State), the Spaniard who won the British girls’ open title at Lanark in 2004, was one of five players who shared thifourth palce on 216.
Belen Mozo (Southern California), Spanish winner of the British women’s and girls’ open amateur titles in Northern Ireland last summer, finished joint 20th on 224.
Arizona State (868) won the team title by eight shots from Duke with Southern California (881) third.
LEADING INDIVIDUAL TOTALS
Par 213 (3 x 71)
210 Amanda Blumenherst (Duke) 70 69 71.
214 Anna Nordqvist (Arizona State) 77 67 70, Dewi Schreefel (Southern California) 72 72 70.
216 Azahara Munoz (Arizona State) 74 69 73, Angela Oh (Tennessee) 71 74 71, Jennifer Osborn (Arizona State) 74 67 75, Kristen Svicarovich (Vanderbilt) 73 70 73, Jennifer Tangtiphaiboontana (Stanford) 74 70 72.
Other totals:
221 Jodi Ewart (New Mexico) 72 78 71 (jt 16th).
224 Belen Mozo (Southern California) 75 73 76 (jt 20th).
249 Roseanne Niven (California) 87 78 84 (72nd).
TEAM TOTALS
868 Arizona State. 876 Duke. 881 Souothern California. 895 Brigham Young. 897 New Mexico, Pepperdine. 903 Tennessee. 907 Arizona. 912 UCLA. 914 Vanderbilt, Stanford. 931 UNLV. 934 California. 935 Virginia. 937 Washington.