Harriet Owers-Bradley

the key to Yale success

in dramatic finish

Harriet Owers-Bradley from Nottingham, a sophomore (second year) student at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut - the third oldest university in America and an Ivy League institution, put aside her studying at the weekend to achieve her best individual and team golf performance in the States.

Harriet, pictured right with the English Midlands championship trophy she won last summer, shot the best round (a one-over-par 73 over a 6,000yd course) by anyone in the Winthrop University Intercollegiate tournament at Rock Hill Country Club, South Carolina.

That earned her a share of third place, only four shots behind the winner.

But the excitement did not end there for Harriet, a member at Wollaton Park Golf Club, a former club champion and a past beaten finalist in the English girls' championship.

There was a tie for the team event, a rarity on the US college golf circuit, between Yale Universty and the hosts, Winthrop University.

That called for a sudden-death play-off featuring the five members of each team. It was decided on a stroke aggregate basis and it started and finished at the difficult par-4 18th, uphill and with the three-tiered green, in front of a huge crowd of fellow-players and other students.

Harriet, with the help of a pitch and a putt, was one of the four Yale players to get a par 4 and Yale won the play-off on aggregate at that first extra hole.

The Yale website reads:

"A large part of the Bulldogs' (the Yale team) success was due to Harriet Owers-Bradley's stellar third round. After rounds of 81 (+9) and 78 (+5), Harriet came storming back to shoot a 73 (+1), the lowest round of the tournament."

It was Yale's second team win of the season, proving that they have golf skills to match their high IQs.

LEADING TOTALS

Individual

Par 216 (3 x 72)

228 Brittany Dabule (Winthrop) 77 73 78.

229 Kylie Bollenbach (Oral Roberts) 77 75 77.

232 Harriet Owers-Bradley (Yale) 81 78 73, Teresa Puga (Minnesota) 76 77 79.

72 players took part.

Teams

939 Yale University, Winthrop University (Yale won sudden-death play-off at first extra hole).

941 Oral Roberts University.

12 Teams took part.