NEWS FROM THE US COLLEGE REGIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS

MEN'S NCAA Division 2 South/South-east Regional
Rock Barn Golf and Spa, Conover, North Carolina. Par 72. Yardage 7,064

Ben Taylor (Nova Southeastern) (71-70-70), pictured,  from Leatherhead finished joint second on 222 with J P Griffin (Georgia Southwestern) (68-72-71) and Taylor Smith (Georgia College) (69-72-70), one shot behind the winner, Matt Atkins (SC-Aiken) (70-70-70 for six-under 210
Gavin Hay (Carson-Newman) from Glasgow had a very good final round of 69, which included seven birdies and a double bogey 7 at the long 14th, for a final total of one-over 217. His middle round of 78 after an opening 70 let the Scot down. He had 13 birdies in all over the 54 holes.
Gavin finished T11 in the final of 108 players.
Paul McPhee (Lynn University) also had a good last round, also a 69, which contained four birdies. Two double bogey 6s in his earlier rounds dragged him. down. Paul finished T19 on 220 (76-75-69) alongside Adam Hedges (Belmont Abbey) from Bromley. Adam scored 72-70-78.
Mitch Farrer (Nova Southeastern) from West Sussex had rounds of 78-75-71 for 224 and a T44 finish.
Liam Ashby (Carson-Newman) from Dublin finished T63 on 227 with scores of79-74-74.
Daniel Young (Lynn University) from Perth shot 81-74-73 (pity about that first round) for 228 and a T70 finish.
Scott Lambert (UNC-Pembroke) from Matfen Hall, NE England, did not have one of his better tournaments. He finished T82 on 230 with scores of 78-77-75. But his college finished fourth and advance to the national championships.
In the team event it was Georgia College (869), Barry (870), Nova Southeastern and UNC Pembroke (876). The NCAA Div 2 championships are at the Cardinal Club, Louisville, Kentucky from May 15-19.

MEN'S NCAA Division 2 East/Atlantic Regional
Hershey Country Club, Pennsylvania. Par 71. Yardage 6,984

Different-class performance here by the winner, Paul Tighe, a junior year student at Wilmington University. Over a tough course that has staged Nationwide Tour pro events and in some very rough weather, Paul headed the field of 108 players by eight strokes with scores of 72-73-72.
Thomas Rees (Post) from Cardiff finished T12 on 231 with scores of 76-75-80.
Alastair Forsythe, pictured, from Glasgow and Phil Rutherford from Nuneaton, both students at Davis and Elkins College, West Virginia, finished T20 on 234. Forsythe, in his final year so this would have been his final event on the US college circuit, shot 81-76-77, while freshman Rutherford's scores were 77-76-82.
Ross Earnshaw (Post) from York finished T24 on 234 (77-77-81).
Christopher Young (Davis and Elkins), a sophomore student from Cardross) totalled 238 for a T35 finish with scores of 80-82-76.
Another Scot and another D and E student, Ciar Porciani from Ayrshire, shot 85-75-80 for a T47 finished on 240.
Wilmington won the team event ahead of Indiana and Concord with Post fourth and St Thomas Aquinas fifth. The first five advance to the NCAA Div 2 championships so Davis and Elkins, sixth in a field 20 teams, just missed out.