SCOT, PLOUGHING A LONE FURROW, SHOOTS HIS LOWEST USA SCORE

CALUM HILL STAYS IN FORM BUT 

LACKS SUPPORT AT W NEW MEXICO

By COLIN FARQUHARSON
Colin@scottishgolfview.com
Kinross student Calum Hill continued to plough a lone furrow for Western New Mexico University men's team in their final fixture of the first half of the 2014-2015 US college golf season.

In the Price's Give 'Em Five Invite tournament at Butterfield Trail Golf Club, El Paso, Texas, Hill shot his lowest round of the season - a five-under-par 67 over a long course of 7,370yd - in finishing joint ninth on 10-under-par 206 (also his lowest aggregate) in a field of 84 players ... but Western New Mexico's all-British squad could do no better than tie for ninth place among 14 teams.
Third-year student Hill, pictured above, birdied 17 of the 54 holes in this tournament - five in the first round, seven in the second and five again in the third round. 
Hill tied for ninth place, Anthony McGeorge was T35, Tom Neve T39, Harry Wetton T54 and Ben Skinner T79.
Freshman Ross White from Dollar has played as an individual in the last two fixtures and is still finding his feet in US conditions. In this one, White shot 77, 71 and 82 for 230 and finished 80th.
But the Dollar player did not finish last ... that place was occupied by another Scot, Ayrshire's David Wilson (New Mexico State), the 2011 Scottish boys' match-play champion.
Wilson had scores of 79, 72 and 84 for 19-over-par 235. Despite that his team, New Mexico State, managed to win a second team title in a row.
Calum Hill's three rounds were 70, 67 and 69 for 206 - eight shots behind two players who tied on 18-under-par 198, which is almost a professional standard of scoring over three rounds.
McGeorge, a sophomore from Holsworth, sht 72, 70 and 71 for 213
Neve, a third-year student from Epsom, had scores of 785, 72 and 67 for 214.
Wetton, a second-year man from Bedford, gave an erratic performance which swayed between very good and very bad. His rounds were 67, 80 and 72 for 219.
Skinner, a junior from Hertfordshire, finished 30 shots behind the joint winners with rounds of 79, 75 and 74 for 228.
New Mexico State (818) pipped Missouri-Kansas State (819) by one shot for the team title with Kansas (822) third. Western New Mexico were well out of the hunt with a total of 847 for joint ninth place.