STIRLING UNIVERSITY WOMEN TOP OF THE CLASS IN CONNECTICUT

Left to right: Chris Purdie (assistant coach), Emily Laws, Chloe Goadby, Gemma Batty (capt), 
Hazel MacGarvie, Mirren Fraser and Dean Robertson (head coach)

Stirling University's women's golf squad provided the individual winner, Chloe Goadby from St Andrews, and the overall team champions by a 10-stroke margin at the Yale Intercollegiate women's tournament at New Haven, Connecticut.
This success comes hardly on the heels of an excellent performance at the same venue by the Stirling men's team in the Macdonald Cup.
Stirling University men's head coach, former Walker Cup player Dean Robertson, believes the Stirling women's triumph is the first by an overseas university at an American NCAA tournament.
The leading placings in the 15-team event, in which the final day's play was rained off, were:
580 Stirling
590 Lamar
594 Delaware, Harvard.
595 Charlotte
598 Seton Hall
601 Yale
602 Boston College
603 Princeton
607 Albany
612 Penn

Chloe Goadby had rounds of 71 and 69 for two-under-par 140, heading a field of 90 top US women's college golfers by three strokes.
Stirling team-mate and former Scottish U18 girls champion Hazel MacGarvie, the first-round leader with a sparkling 68, finished joint second on 143 after a second-round 75.
Gemma Batty was another Stirling top-10 finisher. She had two rounds of 73 for 146 and a joint ninth placing.

Leading women's individual totals:
140 Chloe Goadby (Stirling) 71 69.
143 Hazel MacGarvie (Stirling) 68 75, Maya Walton (Princeton) 71 72
144 Elodie Chapelet (Lamar) 70 74, Michelle Xie (Harvard) 72 72.
145 Madison Barnett (Charlton) 74 71.
146 Gemma Batty (Stirling) 73 73, Belinda Hu (Harvard) 76 70.

Other Stirling totals:
151 Emily Laws 73 78 (T29)
160 Mirren Fraser 80 80 (T71).

Dean Robertson added:
"Team cohesion and superb preparation, given the Stirling men's success in the McDonald Cup last week, helped the women's team to such a tremendous achievement.
"Special mention goes to Chloe Goadby who was victorious in the individual tournament with a total score of two-under-par and who continues to grow in stature in the women's game. Freshman Hazel MacGarvie came a close joint 2nd and is a massive talent waiting to be nurtured."

ALSO NOTE THAT JILLIAN FARRELL (CARDROSS) PLAYING OUT OF CHARLOTTE WAS 20TH ON 150 CLICK HERE FOR ALL INDIVIDUAL SCORES -- THEN CLICK ON PLAYERS

Left to right: Bobby Rushford (assistant coach), Laird Shepherd, Alasdair McDougall, Robert Foley, Jordan Sundborg, Michael Lawrie, Colin Edgar, Dean Robertson (Head Coach)

The Stirling University men's team provided the first three in the Macdonald Cup men's event:
207 Robert Foley (Stirling) 72 66 69.
210 Laird Shepherd (Stirling) 71 69 70, Jordan Sundborg (Stirling) 68 70 72.
Other Stirling student scores and placings in a field of 81 players were:

226 Colin Edgar 74 72 80 (T47)
228 Michael Lawrie 77 76 75 (T50)
233 Alasdair McDougall 77 77 79 (T61)

Despite achieving the individual 1-2-3, Stirling were pipped by one shot by the Yale University A squad in the team event. Yale also had three players in the top nine but also five in the top 20 and six in the leading 30. That added up to a one-point advantage over Stirling in the leading placings. Third-placed Harvard finished 21 strokes behind Stirling.
Leading placings in the 14-team men's event:
852 Yale A
853 Stirling University
874 Harvard
883 Yale B
885 Princeton, Central Connecticut.