US college circuit resumes after winter break

NO PING ABOUT JORDAN FINDLAY'S
PLAY BUT FRESHMAN TEAM-MATE
HAD FIRST-ROUND LEAD

The mid-winter break has done nothing for the golf game of former British boys champion Jordan Findlay from Fraserburgh.
A third-year student at East Tennessee State University, Jordan had a nightmare first day in the first US college tournament since late November.
Findlay was lying joint 70th at the end of the first round after a six-over-par 77 over the 6,793yd, par-71 Arizona National course in the Ping Arizona Collegiate.
In that round, Jordan had a triple bogey 7 at the 13th, and double bogey 6s at the third and eighth.
Worse was to come. In the second round, he started at the 11th and ran up a triple bogey 8 at this par-5 hole. Then he had a double bogey 6 at the 13th, followed by a double bogey 5 at the short 17th. He had his sixth double bogey of the day at the short fifth and still had three holes to play when bad light ended play for the day.
Jordan was 14 over par for the day.
Freshman team-mate Simon Doherty, pictured above, from Belfast, on the other hand, had a great first-round 65 with birdies at the second, third, fifth, seventh, 10th, 15th and 18th. He had only one bogey, at the 18th in halves of 31 and 34.
But young Doherty came off the boil in his second round. He took 40 shots to the turn with a triple bogey 6 at the short sixth and a double bogey 6 at the eighth. He had dropped six shots to par and was level par for the day when play was halted prematurely.

FIRST ROUND LEADERS
Par 71
65 S Doherty (East Tennessee State).
66 Ji Moon (UNLV), Robin Wingardh (Tennessee).
Other scores;
67 Seamus Power (East Tennessee State) (jt 4th).
69 Chris Paisley (Tennessee), Philip Pettit (Tennessee), Gareth Shaw (East Tennessee State) (jt 11th).
72 Mark Lamb (Arizona) (jt 31st).
73 Rhys Enoch (East Tennessee State) (jt 33rd).
74 Charles Ford (Tennessee).
76 Cian McNamara (East Tennessee State) (jt 61st).
77 Jordan Findlay (East Tennessee State) (jt 70th).


LEADING TEAMS
272 Tennessee.
274 East Tennessee State.
278 UNLV.
281 Arizona