WALKER CUP HERO PUGH A FRESHMAN AT EAST TENNESSEE STATE

By COLIN FARQUHARSON
Colin@scottishgolfview.com

East Tennessee State University's men's golf roster is eight-strong - and five of the students are from Britain, which is the way it's been for the last few years.
Walker Cup hero Rhys Pugh from Pontypridd, Scottish junior international Scott Gibson, pictured right, from Dumfries, Tom Heggarty from Cheshire  and Sam Edwards from Bigbury (somewhere in England) are all freshmen at the start of the 2011-2012 college golf season.
Rhys Enoch from Cornwall is a senior student, so this is his fourth and last college year.
On the ETSU women's golf roster, Sian Evans from Gillingham, Kent is a sophomore student, Lauren Smith from Cramlington is a senior and the newest recruit is freshman Kelsey Coey from Bangor, near Belfast (Bangor is where Rory McIlroy lives).
This past week, the ETSU men's team should have been in action in a 54-hole event, the Inverness Intercollegiate at Inverness Golf Club, Toledo, Ohio but the 36 holes planned for the first day of the two-day event were washed out.

The tournament then became a one-day affair over 18 holes. You would have thought they would have made it 36 holes on the second day but presumably all the travel arrangements were in place for an early departure on the second day.

Rhys Enoch did best of the ETSU men with a 74 -three over par for a very long-par 71 course (7,255yd). That placed him joint 17th in a field of 69 players.

Tom Heggarty and Rhys Pugh, pictured left, making his debut and obviously still to find his feet in American conditions, tied for 46th place on 78.

Scott Gibson had a 79 which placed him joint 54th and Sam Edwards tied for 63rd place with an 80.

Dugan Murphy (Toledo), who obviously knows the course, won by FOUR shots with a five-under-par 66.

MARK GEDDES MAKES TOP 20 IN WASHINGTON STATE

Mark Geddes from Cheshire and compatriot Sam Whitehead - not quite sure to which part of England he belongs - both students at Grand Canyon University, Arizona finished joint 15th and 26th respectively in a field of 79 for the St Martin's Invitational college tournament at Olympia Golf and Country Club at Olympia in the state of Washington.
Geddes shot 77 and 69 for 139 over a par-71, 6110yd course while Whitehead had rounds of 77 and 73 for 150.
Winner by one shot with a total of three-under 139 was Jamie Hall (Hawaii-Hilo). He scored 72 and 67.
Grand Canyon (596) finished eighth of 15 in the team event won by CSU-Stanislaus (585).