Stirling duo lead at Fife students' tournament 

REPORT FROM BEN PHILIP

Robert Foley (Stirling University) shot a highly impressive 68 to stretch his lead in the men’s tournament at the 13^th Fife Tournament to four strokes over the Kittocks Course at Fairmont St Andrews today.

Meanwhile, recent Yale Intercollegiate International champion Chloe Goadby (Stirling) moved to the top of the women’s standings, a one- under 73 pushing her three strokes clear of the field. The final round starts Sunday morning at 8.30am. 

With clearer skies and only the remnants of the high winds of round one, there was the opportunity for low scoring and the men, first out, didn’t fail to impress. After day one’s scores being led by a 73, nine golfers matched or bettered that as the leaders separated themselves at the top of the leaderboard.

This was led by Foley, who used a four-under start across the first six holes to fuel a three-under total for the day and one-under for the tournament.

 Trying to chase him down are two of the Maynooth squad from Ireland, Cathal Butler and Ronan Mullarney, who share second place at +3, after shooting 70 and 71 respectively. Butler bettered his team-mate after the only birdie recorded in the men’s field on the final hole.

The strong showing at the top of the leaderboard by the Irish institution is rewarded with the lead in the team competition. Maynooth are four strokes clear of St Andrews I with Stirling I a further sevem strokes back.

In the women’s competition, Jen Saxton (Stirling) finally gave up the lead of a Tour event on the fourth day, a six-over 80 seeing her drop down to third position. Above her, the best two scorers of the day were rewarded with moves up the leaderboard.

Goadby took advantage of the par 5s to shoot a one-under 73t and move into the lead at +2. The best round of the day, however, belonged to Kirsten Brown (St Andrews), who picked up five birdies on the way to a two-under 72, moving her one shot ahead of Saxton.

In the women's team event, Stirling I are leading, underpinned by Goadby’s solid performance, eight shots clear of St Andrews I with Saxton’s Stirling III a further  three shots back.

The final round starts from 08.30 with the top 30 men and 12 women battling out for the title and for valuable Macpherson Order of Merit points.

For full results and tee times please see:

https://www.golfbox.dk/livescoring/tour/#/competition/1249739/leaderboard 

Ben Philip | Head of Competitions | Scottish Student Sport (SSS)

3rd Floor | 48 Pleasance | Edinburgh | EH8 9TJ

MEN'S SECOND-ROUND SCOREBOARD
Kittocks Course, Fairmont St Andrews.
Par 142 (2x71) SSS 75 CSS 78 75 141 Robert Foley (Stirling) 73 68.
145 Cathal Butler (Maynooth) 75 70, Ronan Mullarney (Maynooth) 74 71.
147 Monty Scowsill (Exeter) 77 70, George Burns (St Andrews) 74 73.
151 Mark Napier (Stirling) 79 72.
152 Caolan Rafferty (Maynooth) 81 71, Rodrigo Andrade Castillo (St Andrews) 78 , Michael Schinkel (Highlands and Islands) 78 74.
153 Eugene Smith (Maynooth) 82 71, Eanna Griffin (Maynooth) 81 72, Matthew Myers (St Andrews) 78 75, James Blyth (Exeter) 75 78.
154 Scott Macpherson (Stirling) 80 74, Alasdair McDougall (Stirling) 79 75, Alistair McNaughton (Highlands and Islands) 78 76, Bjorn Bojesen (St Andrews) 78 76, David Nagiev (Stirling) 77 77.
156 Jordan Hood (Maynooth) 82 74, Graeme Greer (Scottish Rural University) 80 76, Alasdair McDougall (Newcastle) 79 77.
157 Ellis Hart (Stirling) 82 75, Jamie MacKintosh (Highlands and Islands) 81 76, Jack Rogan (St Andrews) 80 77.
158 Colin Edgar (Stirling) 82 76,
159 Tobias Hein (St Andrews) 84 75, Daniel Morris (Stirling) 83 76, Oscar Hein (Bournemouth) 82 77.
160 Conor Rochon (St Andrews) 82 78.
162 Robert Watson (Strathclyde) 85 77, Adam Mulhall (Stirling) 85 77, Callum Cochrane (Newcastle) 84 78, Tom Bradley (Exeter) 81 81, Riccardo Cellerino (Highlands and Islands) 80 82, Liam Frean (St Andrews) 79 83.

MISSED CUT TO TOP 30 PLAYERS AND TIES

163 Alex Bagnall (St Andrews) 88 75, Peter Kerr (St Andrews) 87 76, Cameron Franssen (St Andrews) 84 79, Nicholas Inderthal (St Andrews) 83 80, Kieran McCormick (Highlands and Islands) 82 81, Finlay Asher (St Andrews) 75 88.
164 Craig Leith (Robert Gordon U) 88 76, Aaron McGinlay (Strathclyde) 83 81, Christopher Kulukundis (St Andrews) 82 82.
165 Rob J Paterson (Aberdeen) 86 79, Lewis West (Robert Gordon U) 86 79, Elliot Innes (St Andrews) 86 79, Andrew Mulholland (Aberdeen) 84 81, Ethan Davies (Stirling) 83 82, Daniel Lane (Exeter) 82 83, Jack Malone (Stirling) 80 85.
166 Alexander Wilson (St Andrews) 92 74, Jordan Sundborg (Stirling) 90 76, Jack Pope (Exeter) 89 77, Stephen Alexander (St Andrews) 87 79, Ross Nelson (Stirling) 84 82, Graham (Highlands and Islands) 79 87.
167 Matthew Fitzsimons (Stirling) 92 75, Shasa Decker (Stirling) 88 79.
168 Joe Du Feu (Stirling) 89 79.
169 Callum Ferguson (Edinburgh) 87 82, Tom Cochrane (St Andrews) 85 84, Aneesh Mistry (St Andrews) 85 84.
170 Jamie Stoddart (St Andrews) 92 78, Ben Church (Newcastle) 88 82, Jamie Parker (Stirling) 81 89.
177 Stewart McCaw (Stirling) 99 78, Connor Hansen (St Andrews) 90 87.
178 Lewis Black (Stirling) 91 87.
179 Lewis Fraser (Stirling) 92 87.
180 Finlay Goodlad (Stirling) 92 88, Sean Davidson (Stirling) 90 90.
183 Christopher Cheng (Reading) 92 91.
188 Fergus Bannon (Stirling) 99 89
No return: Joe White (Liverpool)
Retired: Laird Shepherd (Stirling), Carl Kolless (St Andrews) 86 -.'

MEN'S TEAM STANDINGS
450 Maynooth 1.
454 St Andrews 1.
461 Stirling 1
462 Exeter 1
468 St Andrews 3
471 St Andrews 2.
472 Highlands and Islands 2
474 Stirling 4
476 Stirling 2
482 Highlands and Islands 1
485 Stirling 3
487 St Andrews 4
488 Newcastle 1
497 St Andrews 5
501 Stirling 5
513 Stirling 6

WOMEN'S SCOREBOARD
Kittocks course, Fairmont St Andrews.
Par 148 (2x74) SSS 75 CSS 78 76
150 Chloe Goadby (Stirling) 77 73.
153 Kirsten Brown (St Andrews) 81 72
154 Jennifer Saxton (Stirling) 74 80.
155 Marie Danielsson (St Andrews) 81 74.
157 Clodagh Walsh (Maynooth) 76 81.
158 Gemma Batty (Stirling) 83 75.
159 Hazel MacGarvie (Stirling) 83 76
161 Lieve Van Veggel (St Andrews) 83 78
162 Alexandra Saunders (Exeter) 81 81
164 Alexa Hammer (St Andrews) 85 79, Mary Doyle (Maynooth) 85 79.
165 Harriet Llewellyn (Exeter) 87 78.

MISSED CUT TO LEADING 12 PLAYERS
165 Penny Brown (Stirling) 84 81
166 Molly Dowling (Maynooth) 85 81
167 Emily Laws (Stirling) 86 81
168 Mirren Fraser (Stirling) 89 79
170 Caitlin Boa (Highlands and Islands) 83 85.
171 Fern Clark (St Andrews) 92 79, Claudia Ovens (Exeter) 87 84.
172 Georgina Hirst (St Andrews) 85 87
174 Louise Duncan (Edinburgh) 93 81, Michaela Patzeltova (Scottish Rural Univ) 91 83, Georgina Holden (St Andrews) 87 87.
175 Cassie Kneen (St Andrews) 94 81
191 Emily Mollard (Exeter) 106 85
Retired: Iga Jozefiak (St Andrews)

WOMEN'S TEAM STANDINGS
308 Stirling 1.
316 St Andrews 1.
319 Stirling 3
321 Maynooth 1
324 St Andrews 2
333 Exeter 1
335 Stirling 2
346 St Andrews 3
356 Exeter 2