ABBEY TEES OFF WITH SECOND PLACE AT YALE

Staffordshire's Abbey Gittings, one of the most successful English players on the US women's college circuit over the past year or two, is off and running again with a second-place finish in the Yale Women's Inter-collegiate.
Abbey, pictured above, will perhaps need a competition or two to get back to peak sharpness. She finished six shots behind the winner, Nova Southeastern University clubmate Daniela Ortiz in this event at Yale University Golf Club, New Haven, Connecticutt.
Ortiz had rounds of 73, 67 and 67 again for 207, nine under par for the 5,901yd lay-out.
Abbey scored 73, 69 and 71.
Welsh girl cap Rachel Lewis has transferred from USC Upstate to Nova Southeastern at Fort Lauderdale, Florida  and she finished T33 with scores of 75, 77 and 79 for 231.
Nova Southeastern ran away with the team title, with a total of 859 - 26 shots ahead of runners-up Penn State. There were 16 teams in the field.

GEMMA, RACHEL DOWN THE FIELD 

Aberdonians Gemma Dryburgh and Rachel Polson, both winners on their last outings, finished down the field in their more recent competition.
Gemma was T34 in the Mason Rudolph Women's Championship at The Legends GC, Franklin in Tennessee.
Over a par-72 course of some 6,312yd, Gemma scored 77, 73 and 74 for 230.
The winner by three shots, Emilie Burger (Georgia) scored 216 with three rounds of 72. 
Newcomer from England, Elizabeth Mallett (UNC), a former beaten finalist in the British girls championship, finished T52 on 235 with disappointing scores - disappointing because she is a far better player than these suggest 84, 77 and 74.
Some girls take longer to settle to a new life in the States.   
Rachel Polson from Peterculter, Aberdeenshire, a student at Florida Tech, finished T17 in a field of 54 players at the Lady Falcon Tournament at LPGA International, Daytona Beach, Florida.
Rachel scored 78 and 80 for 158 - 17 shots behind the joint winners, Annie Dulman (Rollins) (70-71) and Megan Kiley (Florida Southern) (71-70).

 SAMMY VASS MAKES TOP 10 
 
Scotland's Sammy Vass from Tain finished 10th in a field of 48 at the Highlander Invitatinal at Draper Valley, Virginia.
Sammy shot a pair of 76s for 152 - seven shots bheind the winner, Meagan Wallace of Winthrop (71-74).
Sammy's college, Gardner-Webb won the team title ahead of Winthrop with Radford third.
Paisley-born Kirsty Condon, a Radford student, finished 29th on 165 with scores of 85 and 80;