A fine action image of Sammy Vass by courtesy of Tom Ward Photography (click on it to enlarge).

Sammy Vass and Kyle Godsman sign

up to join US colleges in autumn

By COLIN FARQUHARSON
Two of the North's leading teenage golfers - Sammy Vass (Tain) and Kyle Godsman (Hopeman) - have accepted golf scholarships from United States universities and will start their four-year courses in the autumn.
Sammy, who will be 18 in October, is the North of Scotland girls champion and played for Scotland in the European girls team championship at Murcar Links last summer.
Sammy is heading for the University of Central Florida, based at Orlando with a roll of 48,000 students, which makes it the fifth biggest university in America. The temperature in Orlando today, by the way, was 91 degrees (partly cloudy)!
Kyle, pictured by Cal Carson Golf Agency, winner of the North of Scotland boys' championship last month at Inverness, will enrol at the University of South Carolina-Aiken alongwith another Scottish recruit, Mark Dickson (Gullane).
Emilee Klein, the former LPGA Tour player who is now the women's head coach at Central Florida University, said:
"I'm very excited to have both Sammy Vass and Carolin Pinegger (an Austrian girl international) coming to UCF. They are both going to be huge assets to the team. They are both great guys who are also excellent golfers. Sammy has an excellent short game, a lot of desire and heart and she is somebody who is going to make a great impact on the team."
ProdreamUSA, the Glasgow-based company headed by former Walker Cup player Lorne Kelly, arranged the recruitment of Vass, Godsman and Dickson for the respective universities.

Other Scots placed by ProdreamUSA for the start of the 2009-2010 US college golf season include:

Gavin Hay to Carson-Newman University.

David Lee to Lincoln Memorial University.

Robert McCleneghan to Davis & Elkins College.

David Shields to Davis & Elkins College.

Colin Sutherland to Davis & Elkins College.

Chris McManus to Bethany College.

Frazer Ogston to Texas Wesleyan University.

Mark Thomson to Ohio Valley University.

Jordan McColl to New Mexico Junior College.

Linzi Allan to Newman University.

English/Welsh/Irish teenagers

Max Broadfield to Savannah College of Art & Design.

Jamie Chapman to Lincoln Memorial Univesity.

Christopher Davis to Western New Mexico University.

Peter Horner to Shorter College.

Alexander Irvin to Berry College.

Richard O'Donovan to Nova Southeastern University.

Harry O'Sullivan to Savannah College of Art & Design.

Sam Oliver to Davis & Elkins College.

Ben Price to Bethany College.

Thomas Rees to Post University

Daniel Richards to Davis & Elkins College.
Matthew Tweddell to Hawaii Pacific University.

Joe Viner to Ohio Valley University.

Alyssa Balding to Newman University.

Megan Birdsey to Newman University.

Anna Carling to Arkansas State University.

Abbey Gittings to Nova Southeastern University.

Rebecca McGinley to East Tennessee State Univesity.

Melissa Siviter to Belmont Abbey College.

S J Ban to Fresno City College.

Daniel Dawson to Inian Hills Community College.

Nathan Edwards to Nex Mexico Junior College.

Christopher Fletcher to Irvine Valley College.

Joe Fraser to Paris Junior College, Texas.

Tommy Jerome to Frank Phillips College.

Jonathan Levey to Frank Phillips College.

Jack Mulroy to Fresno City College.

James Nelson to Western Texas College.

Seamus Stevens to Frank Phillips College.

Christopher Wilde to Frank Phillips College.

Sean Young to Potomac State Colelge.

Holly Clyburn to Redlands Community College.

Kelly McPhail to Redlands Community College.