AMERICAN COLLEAGE COACHES QUEUE UP TO SIGN SCOT FIONA LIDDELL

Fiona Liddell with the German Under-16 girls championship trophy  earlier this year.


By COLIN FARQUHARSON
Colin@scottishgolfview.com
American college golf coaches are falling over themselves to sign a Scottish teenager, Fiona Liddell, who is based in Germany where her Falkirk-born father Stephen is the club pro at Schloss Vornholz.
"It's amazing. So far we've had inquiries from 24 US universities who want Fiona to join their golf roster when she is old enough - and that won't be until August 2015," said father Liddell.
Fiona attends a German school, speaks the language fluently and won the German Under-16 girls championship earlier this year.
She played for Great Britain and Ireland in the Junior Vagliano Trophy match against the Continent of Europe at Chantilly GC, France last June.

Fiona, still only 16 years of age, will represent Scotland in the Junior Orange Bowl tournament at the Biltmore course, Coral Gables, Florida from December 27 to 30.
Incidentally, the SGU are not sending a boy to the event widely regarded as one of the biggest junior golf tournaments in world
golf.
Before that she will play in two other Florida junior events, the Honda Junior Classic and the Doral Publix Junior.
And from which American University are the Liddells likely to accept the best golf scholarship offer the year after next?
"Washington, ranked the third best team in women's college golf,
would be among the favourites, and that's where the Chinese star
prospect, Jing Yan is going to go," said Stephen Liddell.
Jing Yan, 17, won the British girls' title and then the British women's open amateur stroke-play championship, at Prestwick, in consecutive weeks earlier this autumn.