JESSICA SCHIELE JOINT FIFTH IN AUSTIN, TEXAS

Jessica Schiele, pictured right, from Grimsby, a student at Redlands College, El Reno in Oklahoma, did best of the three British players in a field of 86 for this week's St Edwards Invitational women's college 36-hole tournament at Grey Rock Golf Club, Austin in Texas.

Over a par-71, 6,060yd course, Jessica finished joint fifth on 150, thanks to a splendid sub-par second round of 70, which represented a 10-shot improvement on her opening score.

Linzi Allan (Newman University, Wichita) from Ayrshire shared 52nd place with scores of 89 and 81 for 170.

Team-mate Megan Birdsey from Bedfordshire shot 84 and 89 for 173 and joint 66th place.

The winner, Joanna de Sa Peirera (Incarnate Word University) shot a pair of 72s for two-over-par 144.

Redlands finished third in a field of 16 for the team event.

SIAN AND KATIE MAKE TOP 20 IN FLORIDA

In another US women's college event this week, the Sir Pizza Cards Challenge, at Weston Hills Country Club, Florida, Sian Evans (East Tennessee State University) from Gillingham and Katie Mundy (Florida International University) from Hampshire finished joint 15th in a field of 78.

Sian, pictured left, the Kent women's county champion had rounds of 73, 80 and 74 for 227, while Katie, pictured right by courtesy of the English Women's Golf Association, hit that mark with scores of 78, 73 and 76 over the par-72, 6,211yd course.

Anna Carling (Arkansas State University) from the Vale of Glamorgan tied for 21st place on 229 with scores of 80, 74 and 74.

Lauren Smith from Cramlington, an East Tennessee State team-mate of Sian Evans, scored 84, 89 and 92 for 265.

Florida International finished runners-up in the team event to Texas State. East Tennessee State finished ninth of 14.


JACQUELINE AND TIFFANY SHARED THIRD PLACE AT PHOENIX

Jacqueline Sneddon from Meigle, Perthshire and Tiffany Hewetson from Brighton - both students at Grand Canyon University, Arizona -  tied for third place in the Arizona Christian Spring Invitational women's college tournament at Moon Valley Golf Club, Phoenix.
Grand Canyon students dominated the small-field competition, filling the first first five places.
Jacqueline, in her fourth and final year at GCU, and freshman Tiffany both scored 77s over the par-72, 6,000yd course.
Team-mate Phoebe Cipa won by two shots with a round of 71.


Life on the American college golf circuit is sometimes far from the glamorous image it may have when viewed from this side of the Atlantic by young men and women who would like to be playing over there.

IT'S NOT ALL WINE AND ROSES ON THE US COLLEGE CIRCUIT

At the conclusion earlier this week of the Golfweek Division 11 Spring Invitational at Reunion Resort, Florida, the Barton College men's team, joint winners with Lynn University from Boca Raton, did not fly back to their base at Wilson, North Carolina. They did not even make the journey by train.
No, it was a 10-hour, 640-mile van ride, starting soon after the end of the tournament, right through the night, to arrive back at the campus around 4.30am.
Most of the players then had classes at 8am.