WELLINGTON COLLEGE'S DOUBLE WHAMMY IN INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS FINALS AT CARNOUSTIE

   ALEXANDRA PETERS ... beat the boys over two rounds at Carnoustie

By COLIN FARQUHARSON
Colin@scottishgolfview.com
Welllington College, 35 miles southwest of London near Heathrow and Gatwick Airports, scored a double whammy success at the Independent Schools Golf Association Finals over Carnoustie's championship and Burnside courses earlier this week.
They won the team event ahead of Loretto School from Musselburgh with Birkdale third and Millfild and Leeds joint fourth.
And Wellington's English girl international Alex (Alexandra) Peters (pictured) won the individual title with a 67 over the shorter Burnside course and an excellent round of 71 over the Carnoustie championship course for a total of 138.
Apart from a handsome trophy, Alex Peters won Galvin Green waterproofs and a free lesson from Greg Labelle at the Butch Harmon School of Golf in Las Vegas (Editor's note: I presume return air tickets to Las Vegas went alongwith that!)
Alex finished five shots ahead of Will Hawksworth (Birkdale) (70-73) and Sami Bouzabia (Loretto) (69-74) 143 with Carl Kolloss (Loretto) (71-73) fourth on 144.
There were two other girls in the top 10 finishers - Sophie Keech (Millfield) (70-75), joint fifth on 145, and Sophie Godfrey (Worksop), joint eighth on 146 (69-77).

TEAM TOTALS
283 Wellington
287 Loretto
290 Birkdale
294 Millfield, Leeds
296 Whitgift
297 Worksop
303 George Heriot's, Stowe.
311 Woodbridge, Robert Gordon's College.
312 Haberdashers, Glasgow High
315 Rugby
316 St Paul's
322 Campbell College.
334 Taunton.

LEADING INDIVIDUALS
138 Alexandra Peters (Wellington) 67 71.
143 Will Hawksworth (Birkdale) 70 73, Sami Bouzabia (Loretto) 69 74.
144 Carl Kolloss (Loretto) 71 73.
145 Will Cooper (Wellington) 71 74, Ben Robinson (Stowe) 70 75, Sophie Keech (Millfield) 70 75.
146 Sophie Godfrey (Worksop) 69 77, Humza Rafique (Leeds) 69 77.

SELECTED TOTALS
148 Willem Kerr (George Heriot's) 74 74 (11th)
150 Ben Skinner (Loretto) 72 78 (15th).
153 Craig Lawrie (Robert Gordon's College) 71 82 (23rd)
155 Fraser Christie (George Heriot's) 72 83, Robbie Kemsley (Glasgow High) 74 81 (T25).
157 Ross Green (Robert Gordon's College) 77 81, Scott Jean (Glasgow High) 76 81 (T30).
164 Rory Halsey (Glasgow High) 82 82 (37th).
165 Finlay McPherson (Robert Gordon's College) 80 85 (41st).
185 Rory Smith (George Heriot's) 92 92 (50th).