Paul Betty, Claire-Marie Carlton top of BUSA class

STIRLING STUDENTS
SWEEP THE BOARDS
AT ST ANDREWS BAY
Stirling swept the boards of the leading awards at the first of the British Universities Sports Association Regional Qualifiers (Scotland), played over the Devlin and Torrance courses at Fairmont St Andrews Bay.
Stirling students Paul Betty, pictured right, and Claire-Marie Carlton won the individual titles and Stirling won both the men’s and women’s team events.
Betty had rounds of 74 and 69 for a one-under-par total of 143 to win by a single shot from two Highland & Islands University students, Greg McBain (144) from Aberdeen and David Morrison (146) from Banff. Scott Borrowman (Stirling) shared third place on 146.
Miss Carlton had 10 shots to spare in the women’s event after rounds of 80 and 75 for 155. Runner-up was Alford’s Laura Murray (Robert Gordon’s) who won the Scottish schoolgirls title at this venue two years ago.
Emma Fairnie (Edinburgh) from the Borders was third on 167.
The next three Scottish qualifying events are at Lossiemouth (March 26-28), Macdonald Cardrona (Apri 21-22) and Carrick on Loch Lomond (May 1-2).
Players who gain the most points will qualify to compete against qualifiers from English and Wales venues for the BUSA individual stroke-play championship next summer.
The Scottish Golf Union is supporting the regional qualifying events and in return a small number of entries will be allocated to the SGU for Scottish non-student youth players.

Collated results:
FINAL TOTALS
MEN
143 Paul Betty (Stirling) 74 69.
144 Greg McBain (UHI Millennium Inst) 70 74.
146 David Morrison (UHI Millennium Inst) 73 73, Scott Borrowman (Stirling) 72 74.
148 Gordon Yates (Strling) 82 66.
149 Gavin Dear (Stirling) 75 74.
150 Cameron Gray (St Andrews) 73 77.
151 Mark Dickson (Edinburgh) 80 71, Kevin Garwood (Bournemouth) 74 77.
152 Grant Little (St Andrews) 79 73, Bobby Rushford (Stirling) 77 75, Bradley Brooke (Stirling) 77 75.
153 David Booth (Stirling) 69 74, Jonny Watt (Strlng) 76 77, Steven Hume (Abertay Dundee) 71 82.
154 James Warwick (UHI Millennium Inst) 83 71, Ross Dixon (St Andrews) 77 77, Fergus Niven (Edinburgh) 74 80.
155 Jason Edgeworth (St Andrews) 80 75, Ricardo Rebbechi (St Andrewss) 77 78, Brian Soutar (Heriot Watt) 75 80.
156 Karl Shephard (Stirling) 79 77, Charlie Swann (Bournemouth) 79 77, Euan Polson (Stirling) 75 81.
157 Malcolm Murray (UHI Millennium Inst) 82 75.
158 Mark Wilkie (Edinburgh) 81 77, Nick Feinbergh (St Andrews) 81 77, Colin Colraine (Strathlyde) 79 79, Gordon Stevenson (St Andrews) 78 80, Evan Bryceland (Stirling) 78 80.
159 Chris O’Hagan (Bournemouth) 82 77, Andrew Brown (Strathclyde) 81 78, Craig Cowie (Robert Gordon’s) 80 79, Henric Namander (Abertay Dundee) 76 83.
160 Jamie Gardiner (Robert Gordon’s 81 79, Mike Evans (Bournemouth) 79 81, Jack Musgrove (Edinburgh) 768 82.
162 Henry Killington (Bournemouth) 81 81, David McInroy (Strathclyde) 79 83.
165 Fraser Inglis (Glasgow) 78 86,.
166 David Currie (Glasgow) 88 78, Niall Finlay (Glasgow) 85 81, Richard Aspin (Strathclyde) 85 81, Gary Reid (Heriot Watt) 81 85.
167 Scott Green (Robert Gordon’s) 83 84.
168 Bruce Mackay (Heriot Watt) 89 79, Ali Leggate (Strathclyde) 84 84.
172 Graeme McInroy (Strathclyde) 85 87.

WOMEN
155 Claire-Marie Carlton (Stirling) 80 75.
165 Laura Murray (Robert Gordon’s) 85 80.
167 Emma Fairnie (Edinburgh) 86 81.
168 Emma Tipping (Stirling) 85 83.
173 Faye Haffey (Edinburgh) 93 80.
174 Morag Macpherson (St Andrews) 87 87.
179 Lesley Rolland (Napier) 94 85.
180 Joanna Krupa (Edinburgh) 92 88, Dawn Dewar (Stirling) 92 88.
182 Rachel Schwartz (Glasgow) 86 95.
183 Kerri Harper (Abertay Dundee) 94 89.
186 Coleen Winstanley (St Andrews) 95 91.
195 Jennifer Linklater (St Andrews) 97 98

TEAM EVENTS

MEN
430 Stirling 1 (Betty, Borrowman, Yates, Dear).
443 UHI Millennium Inst (McBain, Morrison, Warwick, Murray).
456 Stirling 2 (Rushford, Booth, Watt, Polson).
Other totals:
459 St Andrews 1. 460 Edinburgh. 465 Bournemouth, St Andrews 2. 466 Stirling 3. 486 Robert Gordon’s. 488 Strathclyde. 489 Heriot Watt. 497 Glasgow.

WOMEN
323 Stirling (Carlton, Tipping, Dewar).
339 Edinburgh (Fairnie, Haffey, Krupa).
360 St Andrews (Macpherson, Winstanley, Linklater).