WHATEVER HAPPENED TO DAVID
INGLIS? WONDER BOY'S CAREER
HAS NOSEDIVED AS A PRO

By COLIN FARQUHARSON

If any Scottish amateur had looked a gilt-edged prospect to make it - and make it big - in the pro ranks it was David Inglis from Glencorse.
In the year 2000, he beat David Skinns in the 36-hole final of the British boys championship at Hillside.
In 2003, David (pictured right) was a member of the successful GB&I team in the Walker Cup match at Ganton. He played in all four sessions and lost only one tie.
Inglis by then had gone to the University of Tulsa on a four-year scholarship and was a success on the American circuit.
David, as expected, turned pro in America ... and his golfing career has nosedived ever since.
Married to an American girl and resident in West Palm Beach, Florida, David made a brief return to Scotland last year to play in the Scottish Challenge at Murcar Links. He made little or no impact.
Things have gone from bad to worse this year as David pursues his pro career on one of America's better known satellite circuits, the Gateway Tour.
January started off not too badly with finishes of joint 11th, joint 30th and tied 19th in his first three events. His earnings were $2,285, $1,305 and $1718 - just about enough to pay the rent.
Then came five cuts missed in a row - no money coming in for over a month.
David broke the dismal spell in the mid-March Gateway Tour event in which he tied for 24th place with earnings of $1,277.
Since then another five cuts in a row have been missed.
Perhaps not surprisingly, David Inglis withdrew from this week's Gateway Tour event.
Total earnings for the first five months of 2007 amount to $6,584 give or take a buck. A far cry from the lucrative career predicted for the red-haired Scot on the US PGA or even the European Tour.
He is, of course, still a young man. There is plenty of time to turn his fortunes around. Didn't Ian Woosnam, for instance, go to SEVEN Final Qualifying Schools before he won a card to play the European Tour? But that was then and this is now.
What's gone wrong with David Inglis? If he knew the answer himself, he would not be in such a dire position in which he must be seriously considering he has chosen the wrong profession.
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