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FORREST CATCHES FIRE AFTER TURN 

By COLIN FARQUHARSON
Colin@scottishgolfview.com
Grant Forrest, Scotland's highest world-ranked amateur and a third-year student at San Diego University, California, had an up-and-down round of two-over-par 74 today in the San Diego Classic college tournament at San Diego Country Club, Chula Vista.
The 2012 Scottish amateur champion, a winner three times on the US college circuit, had a nightmare outward half of 40. Having started with a birdie at the first, Forrest couldn't hit the proverbial barn door over the next few holes and bogeyed the third, fourth and sixth with a double bogey 6 tucked in there at the fifth.
But Forrest stepped up a gear after the turn. He birdied the 12th and got an eagle 3 at the 16th. Pity about a bogey at the 17th, but he got it home in 34 for a two-over-74 and a share of 27th place in the field of 84 players.
But San Diego are playing second fiddle at the moment to their great rivals, San Diego State, who have Xander Schauffele in the lead by two with a five-under 69 and they also lead the team event with a total of 283, three ahead of Southern California and four in frotn of third-placed San Diego in the field of 13 teams.
It's a three-round event so Forrest has 36 more holes to make up seven shots on the current leader.

GEORGE DUNCAN JT 3rd IN TENNESSEE

 
George Duncan from Dunbartonshire, a freshman at Lincoln Memorial University, Harrogate in Tennessee, finished joint third in a field of 96 players at the Tusculum Invitational college tourament at Link Hills Country Club, Greeneville, Tennessee.
Duncan led the field with a three-under-par opening round of 68 over the 6,763yd course but took 74 blows for the second circuit and his 142 final total was two shots behind the two players who tied on 140 - Andrew Hall (Walters State) (72-68) and Lincoln Memorial team-mate Rand Wasson (69-71)
Another LMU student, Luke Butler, a junior student from Worcester, finished T16 on 146 (73-73)
Lincoln Memorial (575) won the team title by two shots from Lee University with two teams joint third on 586 - Tennessee Wesleyan and Tusculum College.
Walters State (594) finished fifth of 14.

DAVID BOOTE T34 AT LAS VEGAS
David Boote, a sophomore student at Stanford University, California, from Epsom, finished T34 in a field of 81 players at the SH Collegiate Masters at Southern Highlands Country Club, Las Vegas in Nevada.
Boote had rounds of 77, 78 and 73 for a total of 12-over-par 228 over a long par 72 course of 7,374yd
Top ranked amateur Patrick Rodgers, a team-mate of Boote at Stanford, won by 2 shots with scores of 74, 679 and 74 for one-over 217.
Team honours were won by UNLV 886) with Oklahoma State and Stanford tieing for second place on 888 in a field of 15 teams.