Last year's British girls' champion

is bound for Purdue University

Two bits of news we missed recently:

Belgium's Laura Gonzalez-Escallon, winner of last year's British girls' open championship at Monifieth, has signed a Letter of Intent to enrol at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana in the autumn ... and she won the 2009 German Ladies Amateur Championship at Dusseldorf last month.

It is the second tournament victory of the season for the La Hulpe, Belgium, native who won the Doral-Publix Junior Golf Classic in a four-hole play-off earlier in the year.
With the win at the German Amateur, Escallon earned a wild card entry into the Ladies German Open, a Ladies European Tour event. Laura, picture by Cal Carson Golf Agency, played as an amateur and made the cut, finishing tied for 46th with a four-round total of 290 (76-70-74-70, +2). She had the second-best finish for an amateur in the tournament.

Editor's Note: For some reason Laura has not entered next week's Ladies British open amateur championship at Harlech.