WELSH GIRLS MAKE TOP 30 AT THE HATTER CLASSIC

By COLIN FARQUHARSON
Colin@scottishgolfview.com
Two Welsh girls, Kelly Miller (Daytona State), pictured right by Tom Ward, and Rachel Lewis (USC Upstate) finished joint 25th and joint 29th respectively in the Holiday Inn Express/Hatter Classic at Victoria Hills Golf Club, DeLand, Florida. The two-day tournament ended today.

Stetson College, nicknamed "The Hatters" and the hosts of this event , scored a double whammy with one of their students, Alex Buelow winning the individual title by the runaway margin of EIGHT strokes with rounds of 72, 71 and 72 for one-under-par 215 over a par-72 course of 6,070yd.

Kelly Miller had rounds of 85, 78 and 80 for 243.

Rachel Lewis, the Welsh girls champion from Cardiff, pictured left, scored 79, 80 and 85 for 244.
Stetson also won the team title by a comfortable margin. They totalled 897 while runners-up Dayton State Beach College finished on 924, a shot ahead of third-placed Jacksonville. USC Upstate (954) finished fifth of nine teams.

ROSIE DAVIES MAKES TOP 30 AT ONION CREEK

Rosie Davies, a sophomore student from London at Indiana University, finished T27 in a field of 75 players for the Challenge at Onion Creek, a two-day, 54-hole event which finished at Onion Creek Club, Austin, Texas today.
Rosie, pictured below right, lost a lot of ground with an opening score of 80 which she followed up with much better rounds of 72 and 74 for a total of 226 over a par-70 course of 5,808yd.

Gabrielle Dominguez (Texas Tech) was the individual winner with scores of 70, 69 and 73 for a two-over-par of 212.

Little bit of controversy on the second day in that two Augusta State University players, Natalie Willie a junior from Sweden, and Kirsty Rands, a senior from Surrey were both disqualified. Natalie had been in contention with opening scores of 70 and 73, Kirsty a bit further back with 81 and 77.

Too early for the Augusta State website to give us the inside story.

Texas Tech, having won the individual honours, also took the team title with a total of 874 - four ahead of joint runners-up Michigan and the University of Texas-San Antonio. Indiana (913) finished ninth of 13 teams.


LATER NEWS:
FROM THE AUGUSTA STATE UNIVERSITY WEBSITE

AUSTIN, Texas -- Augusta State was disqualified Tuesday afternoon following the final round of the Challenge at Onion Creek, hosted by Texas State University at Onion Creek Club. The tournament marked the end of the Lady Jaguars' Fall, 2011 schedule.
ASU, which stood in fifth place after 36 holes, was informed following its round of the disqualification. Two Lady Jaguars -- senior Kirsty Rands and junior Natalie Wille -- failed to sign their scorecards before turning them in to tournament officials and were disqualified. With only three counting scores, the Lady Jags were disqualified as well.

EDITOR'S COMMENT. What an amazing coincidence that the only two players in a field of 75 who did not sign their scorecards were both Augusta State University students, presumably playing in separate groups.