GEMMA DRYSCORES FIRST US WIN

By COLIN FARQUHARSON Colin@scottishgolfview.com Aberdeen-born Gemma Dryburgh has scored her first win as a Tulane University, New Orleans student. The Scotland girl international, pictured, starting her second year at Tulane, had rounds of 69, 70 and 69 for an eight-under-par total of 208 to finish two shots clear of a field of 62 players in the Old Waverly Intercollegiate at Spartanburg Country Club, South Carolina. Her 54-hole aggregate is a Tulane University record.  Tulane finished in second place behind Kentucky - beaten by only two shots - in the team event. Ironically, if Tulane's Finnish freshman (who hadn't qualified but was playing as an individual), been in the team they would have won easily. Gemma not only rewrote the Tulane 54 hole scoring record she beat two of the 2012 USA Curtis Cup team, by 9 shots in one case and 11 shots in another. As her dad, Aberdeen oil executive John Dryburgh says: "An excellent performance by Gemma and a perfect start to her college season." ELIZABETH HAYCOK WINS TOWSON INVITATIONAL Elizabeth Haycock (Old Dominion University)  from Birmingham was another British winner in the opening events of the 2012-2013 US college golf season. Junior (third) year student Elizabeth won the Towson Invitationl at Towson Golf and Golf Club, Phoenix, Maryland with a pair of 75s for 150, a total matched by Harin Lee (St John's) with rounds of 77 and 73.  Haycock won the tie-breaker which was not specified in the ODU website report. Kimberley Bradbury from Derbyshire finished joint eighth in a field of 154 with scores of 78-76 for 154. Old Dominion finished runners-up to winners St John's in a team event contested by 17 squads. STEPHANIE OUTSIDE TOP 20 AT CHARLESTON British champion Stephanie Meadow finished T22 in the Cougar Classic at Yeamans Hall Club, Charleston in South Carolina. The Northern Ireland player, a student at Alabama University, shot 72-73-72 for one-over-par 217 in a low-scoring tournament won by Spain's Camilla Hedberg (Florida) with rounds of 69-66-68 for 13-under 203. US Curtis Cup player Lindy Duncan (Duke) finished second on 207 with rounds of 69, 70 and 68. Former England girls cap Heidi Baek, a student at Maryland University, finished T113 on 237 with scores of 78, 80 and 79. Florida (852) won the team title ahead of Duke (858) nd Southern Caifornia (863) in a field of 24 squads. EMMA CLEGG DOWN THE FIELD IN NEBRASKA Lancashire's Emma Clegg, a student at Missouri State University, finished 14 shots behind the winner, Alexandra Rossi (SMU) in the Chip-N Club Invitational at the Country Club of Lincoln, Nebraska. Emma shot 76-78-79 for 233 Rossi had rounds of 70-81-68 to finish two ahead of US Curtis Cup player Amy Anderson (North Dakota State) (74-73-74) SAMMY VASS TEAM-MATE WINS AT SPARTANBURG Tain's Sammy Vass (Gardner-Webb University) finished T27 in a field of 73 at the Terrier Intercollegiate at Spartanburg Country Club, South Carolina. Sammy scored 77-79 for 156, 13 shots behind the winner and team-mate, Mary K Donovan (68-75 for 143)). Gardner-Webb finished runners-up to UNC-Pembroke in the team event contested by 13 squads.