CHARLIE MACNEAL LEADS SCOTS' DOMINATION OF BOYD QUAICH 2013

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 Left to right: Boyd Quaich winner Charlie Macneal, Des McSweeney (vice-principal of St Andrews University, and Jordon McColl. Picture by courtesy of Michael Joy.

By COLIN FARQUHARSON
Colin@scottishgolfview.com
Headed by trophy winner Charlie Macneal from Ayrshire, all of the top seven finishers in the 72-hole international students' tournament for the Boyd Quaich over the Old and New Courses at St Andrews were filled by Scots this week.
Charlie, who was Ayrshire boys' champion when he was a Troon Welbeck member and played for Scotland against England in the schoolboys international , has since joined Prestwick Golf Club since returning to Scotland from being a student at the University of Louisville, Kentucky. 
Macneal won the prestigious Boyd Quaich by the unusually wide margin of seven shots with an eight-under-par total of 278, made up of New-Old-New-Old rounds of 69-66-72-71.
Joint runners-up were Jordon McColl from Dundee, a student at Lander University, West Carolina, and Angus Carrick (Stirling University)
 Jordon had scores of 70-69-77-69 for 285. That third-round 77 over the New Course  cost him second place on his own.
Carrick scored 70-71-73-71.
Steven Smith, a former Lothians boys champion from Kirknewton, finished fourth on 286. Smith is a student at Western Carolina University.
Greg Smail (Craigielaw), joint ninth in the Cameron Corbett Vase at Haggs Castle over the weekend, finished fith on 287 in the Boyd Quaich. He is a student at Louisiana-Monroe.
Joshua Jamieson from St Andrews, the 2011 Scottish boys open stroke-play champion who has just completed his first year at Northwestern University, Illinois - that's where Luke Donald was a student,  finished joint sixth on 292 with Calum Hill (Western New Mexico) from Perth.
Hill had an 81 over the New Course in his third round, a 10-over-par score that probably cost him second or third place.

BOYD QUAICH INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS' TOURNAMENT
St Andrews Old and New Courses.
FINAL TOTALS
Par 286 (2x72, 2x71)
278 Charlie Macneal (Louisville, Kentucky) 69 66 72 71
285 Jordon McColl (Lander, Western Carolina) 70 69 77 69, Angus Carrick (Stirling) 70 71 73 71
286 Steven Smith (Western Carolina) 69 71 77 69
287 Greg Smail (Louisiana-Monroe) 75 72 71 69
292 Joshua Jamieson (Northwestern) 74 72 74 72, Calum Hill (Western New Mexico) 68 70 81 73.
293 Darragh Coghlan (Trinity Coll, Dublin) 77 68 76 72, Hugo Menendez (Indiana) 72 74 72 75.
294 Kristofer Karlsson (Embry-Riddle, USA) 72 76 76 70, Joe Lyons (NUI Galway) 77 72 73 72, Matthew McClean (Ulster) 78 71 71 74.
295 Oliver Roberts (Stirling) 76 72 77 70, Tertius Van de Berg (Pretoria, S Africa) 75 74 73 73, Chris Stewart (Central Lancs) 77 72 73 73
296 Robbie Pierse (Univ Coll, Dublin) 75 73 74 74, Freddie Edmunds (St Andrews) 78 69 74 75
297 David Mills (Indiana) 73 73 77 74
298 Simon McInnis (Waterloo) 74 76 76 72, Sam Maltby (Bournemouth) 80 71 75 72, Warner Van Niekerk (Pretoria, S Africa) 78 69 73 78, Ben Skinner  (Western New Mexico) 76 70 72 80
299 Alex Gleeson (Univ Coll, Dublin) 75 74 77 73
300 Ruairi Kennelly (Trinity Coll, Dublin) 79 71 73 77
391 Robert Prior (Lander) 74 77 75 75
302 Joe Heraty (Central Lancs) 78 74 78 72
303 Robert Smith (Swansea) 75 74 81 73
305 James Mercurio (Oxford) 76 75 80 74, Ben Leigh (Exeter) 78 73 79 75.
311 Joubert Spies (Stellenbosch, S Africa) 75 77 80 79.

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