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Sunday, May 13, 2007

THEY THINK IT’S ALL OVER – WELL IT
IS FOR GEMMA WEBSTER

The American college golf season ended for Gemma Webster – and a lot of others – at the weekend when they failed to make it through to the NCAA championship finals.
Gemma, a student at Ohio State University, finished joint 67th in a field of 107 for the NCAA Division 1 women’s Central Regional tournament at the University of Michigan’s course at Ann Arbor.
She had rounds of 75, 84 and 76 for a total of 235 -27 shots behind the winner, Jacqui Concolino (Vanderbilt) who shot 67, 68 and 73 for five-under 208.
Belen Mozo, (South Carolina), the Spanish player who won both the British girls’ and women’s open titles last summer, finished joint fourth on 213 with scores of 70, 72 and 71.
Ireland international Tara Delaney (Kent State) came joint 24th with 75, 74 and 77 for 226.
Her sister Karen, also a Kent State student, scored 82, 77 and 80 for 239 and a share of 81st place.
England’s two Baylor University, Texas players, Hannah Burke and Sian Reddick, finished joint 46th and 97th respectively. Hannah had rounds of 77,77 and 74 for 229 while Sian Reddick scorfed 83, 81 and 85 for 249.
Southern California (869), Georgia (880) and Texas Christian (883) headed the eight colleges whose teams qualified for the NCAA championship finals.

JODI EWART’S LATE DOUBLE BOGEY – BUT
SHE’S GOING TO THE NCAA CHAMPIONSHIP


Jodi Ewart from Yorkshire, a student a the University of New Mexico, ran up a double bogey 6 at her very last holes after birdies at the third, seventh and 13th had her gunning for a top three or four place in the women’s West Regional championship at Estrada at Snow Canyon golf course, St George in Utah.
Freshman Jodi had rounds of 71, 75 and 72 to finish joint seventh on 218 over the 6,234yd, par-71 course.
Ireland’ Dawn-Marie Conaty (Memphis) had a triple bogey and two double bogeys in requiring 47 shots for the first nine holes in her closing round of 88. She had earlier scored 82 and 79. She finished on 249 and 93rd place.
It was a Swedish 1-2 at the top of the leaderboard with Pernilla Lindberg (Oklahoma State) winning with a total of 206, made up of 68, 68 and 70. Runner-up was her compatriot, Anna Nordqvist, a former winner of the British girls’ title, with 72, 74 and 67 for 213.
Oklahoma State (874), Stanford (874) and Arizona State (876) headed the eight teams found for the NCAA championship finals. They included New Mexico which means that the season has not ended yet for Jodi Ewart. She has a chance to cap what has been an excellent first year on the US college circuit.
The University of California did not make the top eight so the college golf season is over for Scottish Under-18 match-play champion Roseanne Niven from Crieff who has been five months at the college.
Roseanne did not complete her second round. She scored 84 in her first and third rounds.

DANIELLE DROPS OUT OF LOUISIANA TOP TEN

Ireland’s Danielle McVeigh (Memphis) finished joint 25th in a field of 108 for the women’s East Regional championship at the University Club, Baton Rouge in Louisiana.
Danielle had rounds of 69, 71 and 77 for 217, dropping from joint 10th after 36 holes.
Sydnee Michaels (UCLA) won the individual title with 66, 68 and 69 for 13-under-par 203, despite a brilliant final round of 63 by US Curtis Cup player Amanda Blumenherst (Duke) wo tied for second place on 206.
Duke (844), UCLA (846) and Wake Forest (858) headed the NCAA championship qualifiers.

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