ASHTON INGRAM'S AMERICAN BEST SO FAR
- THIRD IN PATSY RENDLEMAN INVITATIONAL

Fort William teenager Ashton Ingram, after an indifferent first season of college golf at Belmont Abbey College, North Carolina, last year, has now found her feet and recapturing the form that made her made one of the North's leading girl prospects.
This week the 19-year-old achieved her highest ever US college circuit finish of third place in a field of 69 players for the Patsy Rendleman Invitational at Salisbury Country Club, North Carolina and payed a pivotal part in Belmont Abbey College winning the team event.
Only last week Ashton finished fourth in a college event at Myrtle Beach.
She scored 74 and 75 for a total of 149 over the par-72, 5983yd course, finishing eight shots behind the winner, Brittany Beltran (Pfeiffer University) (69-72) and one shot behind runner-up Kelsey Babos (Catawba University) (72-76).
Belmont Abbey team-mate Carley Warrington from Bradwell, Derbyshire had a hole in one at the sixth in the first round and went on to finish joint eighth with rounds of 79 and 76 for 155.
Charlene Reid from Antrim, Northern Ireland, a student at Pfeiffer University, scored 77 and 81 to fill 11th place on 158.
Belmont Abbey College (633) won the team title by three shots from Pfeiffer University (636) with Wingate University (638) third of 13 teams.