JAMES WHITE, SUSAN JACKSON TOP OF THE CLASS AT LOSSIE

By COLIN FARQUHARSON Colin@scottishgolfview.com Fife golfers James White, a member of Lundin Golf Club, and Ladybank's Susan Jackson scored a double whammy in the Scottish universities stroke-play championships over the Moray Golf Club's Old and New links courses at Lossiemouth today. Stirling student White, winner of the Scottish boys' match-play champion in 2006 and son of a former Tartan Tour professional, produced two very good rounds to come from joint sixth place overnight to win the men's title by three strokes from halfway leader Bobby Rushford, also a Stirling student, from Grangemouth. Edinburgh student  Jackson, joint leader at halfway in the women's event, also finished strongly to win by a shot from Jane Turner (Robert Gordon) from Penicuik, the British women's universities stroke-play champion for the past two years and a full Scotland women's international. James White produced two rounds of four-under-par 68 over the Moray Old course on the final day for a seven-under-par total of 277 for the 72 holes. Leader Rushford could not hold him at bay although his closing rounds of 71 and 74 for 280 were creditable enough. Colin Thomson completed a Stirling University 1-2-3 with a very good final day. He had been joint eighth at halfway but finished strongly with a 69 and 70 for 281. Susan Jackson was headed by Jane Turner in the morning third round over the New Course as Turner shot a 75 for 228 while Jackson had a 79 for 229. But over the last round, Jackson responded to the pressure with an excellent sub-par round of 68 for 287, to pip Turner (70 for 288) for the title in a dramatic finish. Susan has a liking for the Lossie links - she won the Clark Rosebowl at the Scottish women's amateur championship there in 2008. Welsh international Gemma Bradbury (St Andrews), joint leader after two rounds, fell away to finish fifth with closing scores of 75 and 74 for 309. Third place went to Jordana Graham (Stirling) who slashed two shots off the New Course women's record with a brilliant final round of 63 (31-32). That gave her a total of 299, only one shot behind runner-up Turner.  LEADING MEN'S FINAL TOTALS 277 James White (Stirling) 70 71 68 68. 280 Bobby Rushford (Stirling) 67 6871 74. 281 Colin Thomson (Stirling) 71 71 69 70. 285 John Wybar (Aberdeen) 73 68 71 73. 287 Steven Smith (Heriot Watt) 73 70 71 73, Adrian Cord (Canada) 72 67 73 75. 288 Jon Corke (St Andrews) 75 71 72 70, David Booth (Stirling) 70 67 80 71. 289 Nick McAndrew (Aberdeen) 74 73 73 69, Graeme Robertson (Stirling) 66 72 76 75. 290 Graeme McDougall (Strathclyde) 72 74 73 71, Fraser Moore (Stirling) 72 67 76 75. 291 Daniel Sommerville (Dundee) 71 71 71 78. 292 Daniel Daley (Abertay Dundee) 73 73 77 69. 293 Alex Culverwell (Stirling) 75 75 69 74, John Duff (Aberdeen) 73 76 75 69, Kit Holmes (Stirling) 74 71 72 76. 294 Mark Hoffman (Canada) 80 71 75 68, Cole Sedgwick (St Andrews) 78 72 71 73, Sean Thompson (Stirling) 71 78 73 72. 296 Freddie Edmunds (St Andrews) 75 75 77 69, Sean Fotheringhame (St Andrews) 78 71 76 71, Michael Daily (Stirling) 76 72 78 70, Gordon Munro (Rob ert Gordon) 72 72 75 77. 297 Elliot Brown (St Andrews) 71 76 73 77. 298 Euan Brown (Strathclyde) 79 73 77 69. 299 Dewi Merkx (Stirling) 76 75 74 74, Andrew Wallace (Strling) 72 75 75 77, Blair Pelling (St Andrews) 72 73 78 76. 300 Darren Timms (Stirling) 80 76 73 71, Joe Marchbank (St Andrews) 81 72 76 71, Dave Curtis (Glasgow) 73 78 76 73. 301 Connor Finlay (Dundee) 80 72 73 76. WOMEN'S FINAL TOTALS 297 Susan Jackson(Edinburgh) 78 72 69 68. 298 Jane Turner (Robert Gordon) 80 73 75 70. 299 Jordana Graham (Stirling) 83 74 79 63. 302 Ashley Smith (St Andrews) 83 73 73 73. 308 Gemma Bradbury (St Andrews) 76 74 76 82. 309 Harrier Beasley (Stirling) 81 79 75 74.  312 Gillian Scanlan (Strathclyde) 82 77 79 74. 318 Rebecca Wilson (Stirling) 86 75 84 73. 330 Mikaela Nordblad (St Andrews) 82 81 83 84.