STEPHANIE NOT AT HER BEST BUT STILL FINISHES AHEAD OF THREE US CURTIS CUP PLAYERS

By COLIN FARQUHARSON
Colin@scottishgolfview.com
Five players from the forthcoming Curtis Cup match - four Americans and Ireland's Stephanie Meadow - featured in the weekend's SEC Women's Championship at Blessings Golf Club, Fayetteville, Arkansas.
Stephanie, after a bright start with a one-under-par 71, which included four birdies, did not play anywhere near her best in the second and third rounds which cost her 79 and 80 shots respectively.
But Meadow's 14-over-par total of 230 and joint 12th place saw her finish ahead of three of the US Curtis Cup line-up - Alabama University team-mate Brooke Pancake (232 for T17), Erica Popson (Tennessee) (233 for T21) and Austin Ernst (Louisiana State) (240 for T36).
The only US Curtis Cup player to finish ahead of Stephanie was Emily Tubert (Arkansas) who came third with scores of 78, 70 and 73 for 221 - two shots behind the winner, Patricia Sanz (Auburn) (69-73-77 for three-over 219).
Meadow had a quadruple bogey 9 at the 16th in her final round in which her last three holes saw her drop six shots to par.
In her birdie-less second-round she had a double bogey 7 at the ninth.
Auburn (916) won the team title ahead of Arkansas (917) with Alabama (922) third and Florida (924) fourth of 12.
The US Curtis Cup players' scores, against a three-round par of 216 (6,112yd)  behind Meadow were:
232 Brooke Pancake 73-80-79.
233 Erica Popson 83-75-75.
240 Austin Ernst 78-83-79.
Nothing to give the GB and I team sleepless nights ahead of the June 8-10 match at The Nairn Golf Club.

LIZI SWEETNAM SIGNS OFF WITH TOP-10 FINISH AND
CONFERENCE TEAM CHOICE 

Lizi Sweetnam from Leighton Buzzard is coming up to end of her three and a half years at Arkansas Tech University and I received a nice note from her dad thanking Kirkwoodgolf all the coverage of her college golf during that period.
David Sweetnam writes:
"Arkansas Tech couldn't catch up Harding University's first-round lead  in the inaugural Great American Conference Golf Championships at Hot Springs Country Club, Arkansas and had to settle for a runner-up finish. They had earlier beaten Harding twice in preparatory tournaments. 
"Arkansas Tech freshman Rebecka Surtevall (Stockholm, Sweden) became the first Golden Sun golfer to win individual medallist honours in a conference tournament with a score of 232. She shot 80, 77 75 to finish in front of second- round leader Becca Godman (79-77-77 for 233).
"Lizi (Sweetnam) signed off her US college career by finishing seventh overall (83-82-79 for 244) but she was then selected in the All-Conference First Team alongside team-mate Rebecka Surtevall. 

"Arkansas Tech scored the lowest third round team score of 315 to finish on 967,  11 shots behind winners Harding on 956. 

"In her last two seasons at Seminole State College, Oklahoma she qualified individually for the NJCAA National Championship, before transferring to Arkansas Tech University. 
"Last season Lizi won a Conference ring when Arkansas Tech won the Gulf South Conference and she finished her final year with an GAC Conference 1st team selection."
Not a bad record, don't you think?

TOP TEN FINISH BY OFF-FORM HAYLEY

Hayley Davis from Dorset, coming up to the end of her first year at Baylor University, Texas, finished joint ninth in the Lady Buckeye Sprint Invite but the former English champion will not have been pleased with her scores - 80, 75 and 75 for a 14-over-par total of 230.
Hayley, pictured, finished 18 shots behind the runaway winner (by eight shots) Rachel Rohanna (Ohio State) who had scores of 75-69-68. She seemed to be playing a different course (6,268) from the rest of the field of 69 players.
Baylor finished fourth of 11 on 924, compared with Ohio State's winning total of 895.

ELIZABETH HAYCOCK FINISHES FOURTH

Elizabeth Haycock from Birmingham and Kimberley Bradbury from Buxton, Derbyshire - both students at Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, finished fourth and T30 respectively in the CAA Women's Championship at St James Plantation, Southport, North Carolina at the weekend.
Professional's daughter Elizabeth (pictured) shot 72-78-73 for seven-over-par 223 over a 6,066yd course to finish six shots behind the winner by four, Charlotte Lorentzen (Georgia State) (75-69-73 for 217).
Kmberley had scores of 79-83-80 for 242 and a share of 30th place in a field of 53 players.
UNCW (North Carolina-Wilmington) (909) won the team event by four shots from James Madison University with Old Dominion (924) fifth of 10.