Scots students fly to S Africa

for world uni championships

Three Scottish students fly out on Thursday to Johannesburg for next week's world university golf championships at Sun City, South Africa.

The 72-hole tournaments start next Tuesday and ends on the Friday.

The men will play at Gary Player Country Club, a course in excess of 7,000yd. The women will play at Lost City golf course.
David Booth and Paul Betty (both Stirling University) and Laura Murray (Robert Gordon University), pictured right by Cal Carson Golf Agency (all rights reserved), are members of the official seven-strong Great Britain team.
Also in the official Great Britain team are Adam Best (Teeside University), Andrew Shakespear (Bournemouth University), Anna Scott (Georgia State University) and Lucy Williams (Birmingham University).
Curtis Cup reserve Danielle McVeigh (Royal Co Down Golf Club), a student at Texas A&M University for the past two years, will be defending the women's title she won in Thailand last year.

Danielle has left Texas A&M University after two years. She is joining NUIM – National University of Ireland, Maynooth.

There are already fve students on the Paddy Harrington Golf Scholarship programme and she is joining this programme. Others on the programme are Sarah Cunningham, Anne McCormack, Louise Mernagh, Aedin Murphy and Ciara Walsh. Lucy Simpson is also joining this year.
Gillian O'Leary (University College Cork) and Niamh Kitching (Limerick University) are also in the official Ireland team South Africa, which includes male students Cian Curley, Ciaran O'Connor, Kelan McDonagh and James Patterson.
From the official championship website, it would seem that England's Hannah Burke (Baylor University, Texas) has entered as an individual. Her name is down for a practice round, which would suggest she is going to be there!