SCOTTISH CHAMPION DUNCAN'S T4

 

FINISH IN FLORIDA

 

By COLIN FARQUHARSON

Scottish amateur champion George Duncan from Dunbartonshire, in his final few months as a four-year student a Lincoln Memorial University, Harrogate, Tennessee, finished joint fourth with a one-under-par total of 215 (72-73-70) in the Spring Kick-off Intercollegiate at Fleming Island Golf Club, Jacksonville, Florida.

Duncan, pictured right, finished seven shots behind the winner by four, Nick Stafford (Belmont Abbey College) (73-64-71).

In the same tournament, Carson Newman University student Fintan McKenna, a Royal Aberdeen GC member whose family live at Westhill, achieved his second lowest score, a 73, of the US college 2016-2017 season. Fintan, who birdied the 18th in his final round, finished T69 in a field of 83 players.

McKenna, pictured left, struggled early on in his first tournament of 2017 with rounds of 80 and 87 but found his true form over the final 18 holes.

Team-mate Tom Forster, a freshman from Oundle, England, finished T11 on 217 (+4) after getting an eagle at the 18th. His rounds were 72, 71 and 74.

Lincoln Memorial students Sam Broadhurst from Nuneaton and Harry Boyle from Bedfordshire tied for eighth place on 216. Broadhurst scored 71, 72 and 73; Boyle 76, 70 and 70.

Another LMU student, Ray Gordon, a third-year man from Alford, finished T23 on 222 with scores of 73, 72 and 77.
Michael Brodie (Lander University) from Perthshire finished T71 on 243 with rounds of 79, 84 and 80.


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