OVERNIGHT COLLEGE NEWS FROM AMERICA

DUNCAN AND RUSSELL WELL TO THE
FORE IN SOUTH CAROLINA

The “Jacksonville Jocks” are on the march again. Duncan Stewart from Grantown on Spey and Russell Knox from Inverness – both senior-year students at Jacksonville University, Florida - are up with the leaders with one round to go in the Charleston Southern Fall Invitational college tournament at Charleston, South Carolina.
In fact, Stewart, pictured right, winner of six individual events on the American college circuit, is homing in on win No 7. Duncan, winner of the Chiberta Grand Prix in southwest France during his summer holidays, is sharing the lead with Matt Cook (West Carolina) on 138, six under par for the 6,928yd, par-72 course.
Both players have had rounds of 68 and 70.
Russell Knox, who played for Scotland in the European youth team championships in Spain during the summer, is sharing third place on the 141 mark with rounds of 73 and 68.
Jacksonville University, bidding for a third team win in the early weeks of the 2006-2006 college golf season, are in second place on 581, three behind leaders South Carolina. Hosts Charleston Southern (583) are third best in a field of 10 colleges.

MICHELE SHARING 13TH PLACE IN ALABAMA

Michele Thomson, the North of Scotland women’s champion from Ellon, is sharing 13th place after one round of the Troy Women’s Invitational college tournament over the 5,888yd, par-72 Arrowhead Country Club course at Montgomery, Alabama.
Michele, a freshman student at Jacksonville State University, Alabama had a round of 75 – six shots behind the leader, Swedish player Elinor Andersson (South Alabama).
Portia Abbott from Wiltshire, one of Michele Thomson’s team-mates, had a 79.
Jacksonville State (305) are in sixth place behind leaders South Alabama (292) in the team event.

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