Russell Knox, Duncan Stewart pipped in South Carolina

TWO USA WINS IN A ROW FOR
KATY FROM CARNOUSTIE

Carnoustie teenager Katy McNicoll, a second-year student at Lynn University in Boca Raton, Florida, has made it two wins in a row on the American women’s college golf circuit.
Katy, pictured right, who will be 19 in February, shot rounds of 72 and 74 for two-over-par 146 to win the Saint Leo Women’s Fall Preview tournament by three shots from team-mate Elise Brandt (77-72) at Lake Jovita Country Club, Florida.
“My short game was good and I drove the ball well both days,” said Katy who has now won more events in United States than her Scotland international brother Keir who was a leading player for the Lynn University men’s team until graduating last spring.
Lynn University women’s squad also won the Saint Leo team event – their third team win in their first four starts of the 2006-2007 college season – with a total of 600, some 20 shots ahead of runners-up Barry University with third-placed Florida Tech a distant third on 657.
Lynn University’s next tournament is not until late February.

SCOTS PIPPED FOR TITLES IN SOUTH CAROLINA

Highlanders Duncan Stewart from Grantown on Spey and Russell Knox from Inverness, both senior year students at Jacksonville University, Florida, were pipped for the individual and team titles in the Charleston Southern Fall Invitational college tournament at Crowfield Plantation Golf Club, Charleston in South Carolina.
Over a par-72, 6,928yd course, Russell scored 73, 68 and 68 for 209 to finish runner-up to Matt Cook (West Carolina University) with 68, 70 and 68 for 10-under-par 206.
Duncan Stewart, joint leader with one round to go, slipped down to third place on 210 with scores of 68, 70 and 72 in a field of 53 players.
South Carolina (861) won the team event from Jacksonville (872) with Western Carolina (873) third.

MICHELE JUST MAKES TOP 20 IN ALABAMA
North of Scotland women’s champion Michele Thomson from Ellon, a freshman student at Jacksonville State University, Alabama, had rounds of 75 and 77 for a final placing of joint 20th on 152 in the Troy Women’s Invitational tournament at Arrowhead Country Club, Montgomery in Alabama.
Andrea Donner from Surrey, a freshman at Murray State Universty, was the leading British finisher in joint 10th place with 73 and 75 for 148 – her second top-five placing since she arrived in America.
Portia Abbott, one of Michele’s team-mates from Wiltshire, had 79 and 75 for joint 25th place on 154.
The tournament was won by Elin Andersson, a Swedish senior student at South Alabama University, with 69 and 73 for a total of 142 over the 5,888yd, par-72 Arrowhead course.
South Alabama also won the team event with 587, five shots ahead of Louisiana-Monroe with Jacksonville State (596) third and Murray State (606) fourth in a field of 15 college teams.

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