70 DEGREES IN UTAH, BUT NOT SUCH
A HOT DAY FOR CONNIE JAFFREY!
Things did not go well for Scotland's top-ranked female amateur golfer, Connie Jaffrey, a freshman at Kansas State University, on the first day of the Brigham Young @ Entrada Classic at Snow Canyon, St George in Utah on a bright sunny day when the temperature touched 70 degrees, writes Colin Farquharson
After the first day's 36 holes of a two-day 54-hole event, the Troon Ladies player, beaten finalist in last year's Scottish women's championship at Prestwick, is lying T47 in a field of 84 players after rounds of 76 and 78 for 154.
Jaffrey, pictured, had back-to-back double bogeys in her first round - at the par-3 14th and the par-4 15th. She salvaged a four-over round over a 6,146yd course with birdies at the eighth, first and fourth, having started he round with a bogey at the fifth.
No details available yet of Connie's second-round 78 but obviously her fortunes did not pick up on the second circuit.
The Scot, who played for GB and I in the Astor Trophy team tournament in Australia in January, is 16 strokes behind the leader by two, Vanessa Ha (San Francisco) (70-68 for six-under 138).
California (568) are leading the team race ahead of hosts BYU (581) with Yale (589) third. Kansas State (599) are back in seventh place in a field of 15 teams.
SEAN BURGESS TRAILS LOCALS IN NEVADA
Sean Burgess from Nairn, a third-year student at Oakland University, Michigan, is T75 in a field of 87 players after two rounds of the 54-hole Jack Rabbit Invitational at Primm Valley Golf Club, Nevada.
Sean has had rounds of 79 and 75 for a two-round tally of 154
The Scot is trailing the leader, Kurt Kitayama (Nevada-Las Vegas) by 23 shots but, to be fair, Kurt is burning it up with rounds of 67 and 64 for a professional-class 13-under-par tally of 131.
In fact, the Nevada-Las Vegas players are having a ball over a course they obviously know well. The first three positions are occupied by UNLV players with Kitayama three shots ahead of team-mates John Oda (67-67) and Redford Bobbitt (69-65).
Surprising that UNLV don't have a clear lead in the team event. Tennessee are tied for first place with them on 539. Oakland are lying sixth of 15 on 580.
A HOT DAY FOR CONNIE JAFFREY!
Things did not go well for Scotland's top-ranked female amateur golfer, Connie Jaffrey, a freshman at Kansas State University, on the first day of the Brigham Young @ Entrada Classic at Snow Canyon, St George in Utah on a bright sunny day when the temperature touched 70 degrees, writes Colin Farquharson
After the first day's 36 holes of a two-day 54-hole event, the Troon Ladies player, beaten finalist in last year's Scottish women's championship at Prestwick, is lying T47 in a field of 84 players after rounds of 76 and 78 for 154.
Jaffrey, pictured, had back-to-back double bogeys in her first round - at the par-3 14th and the par-4 15th. She salvaged a four-over round over a 6,146yd course with birdies at the eighth, first and fourth, having started he round with a bogey at the fifth.
No details available yet of Connie's second-round 78 but obviously her fortunes did not pick up on the second circuit.
The Scot, who played for GB and I in the Astor Trophy team tournament in Australia in January, is 16 strokes behind the leader by two, Vanessa Ha (San Francisco) (70-68 for six-under 138).
California (568) are leading the team race ahead of hosts BYU (581) with Yale (589) third. Kansas State (599) are back in seventh place in a field of 15 teams.
SEAN BURGESS TRAILS LOCALS IN NEVADA
Sean Burgess from Nairn, a third-year student at Oakland University, Michigan, is T75 in a field of 87 players after two rounds of the 54-hole Jack Rabbit Invitational at Primm Valley Golf Club, Nevada. Sean has had rounds of 79 and 75 for a two-round tally of 154
The Scot is trailing the leader, Kurt Kitayama (Nevada-Las Vegas) by 23 shots but, to be fair, Kurt is burning it up with rounds of 67 and 64 for a professional-class 13-under-par tally of 131.
In fact, the Nevada-Las Vegas players are having a ball over a course they obviously know well. The first three positions are occupied by UNLV players with Kitayama three shots ahead of team-mates John Oda (67-67) and Redford Bobbitt (69-65).
Surprising that UNLV don't have a clear lead in the team event. Tennessee are tied for first place with them on 539. Oakland are lying sixth of 15 on 580.
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