FIFER LATIMER SCORES FIRST
WIN IN UNITED STATES

Peter Latimer from Markinch, Fife, a freshman student at Guilford College, Greensboro, North Carolina, won his first golf tournament in the United States this week.
Peter prevailed in a three-way play-off with a par 4 at the third extra hole to win the Emory Spring Invitational college tournament at the Smoke Rise Golf & Country Club, Stone Mountain in Georgia.
He had rounds of 72 and 73 over the 6,722yd par-72 course for an aggregate of 145, which was matched by John Cummings (Greensboro) (69-76) and Jeremy Evans (Emory) (73-72.
Latimer’s college – the Quakers – finished second in the team event, four shots behind winners Methodist University.
In December, Peter won an Old Dominion Athletic Conference "golfer of the week" award.
Peter, who will be 20 in October, won the Freddie Tait Gold Medal last year, a match-play tournament over the St Andrews New Course.
He has also been boys champion at three different golf clubs - St Andrews New, Lundin Links and Balbirnie Park. He played for the Fife boys and youths teams.
Latimer gained a golf scholarship to Guilford College, thanks to playing against a graduate of the North Carolina college, Andrew Biggerdyke, in the quarter-finals of the Carnegie Shield, the big five-day men's open tournament at Royal Dornoch.
Andrew won the tie but was so impressed with Peter's play that when he went home he recommended to Guilford College head golf coach Jack Jensen that he recruit the Fifer with a golf scholarship.