Rory Hie quits US college and may
try for Euro Tour player's card

One of the leading amateurs on the US college scene, Rory Hie is not returning to the University of South Carolina after the summer holidays for the final two years of his golf scholarship.
Instead he is turning professional and has not ruled out coming over to the European Tour Qualifying School.
Ranked No 6 in the R&A World Amateur Rankings, Hie would be exempt from Stage 1 of the qualifying process.
“I just feel it is time for me to move on,” said Hie, who won the Dogwood Invitational this summer after tying for second at the NCAA West Regional and finishing T-13 at the NCAA Championship.
Although he has not turned professional yet, Hie said he would do so in the autumn and enter the US PGA Tour Q-School, where he is exempt from pre-qualifying because he made the cut last month at the Nationwide Children’s Hospital Invitational on the Nationwide Tour.
"If things don’t work out in either of those, I will probably go to Asia and play the Asian Tour,” Hie said. “I’ll just have to see what happens.”
Hie said he has not signed with an agent and is “still trying to decide whether I need one or not.”