Wednesday, September 27, 2006

UNITED STATES COLLEGE NEWS


MICHELE AND LEWIS SETTLING
DOWN ON US COLLEGE CIRCUIT

Aberdeenshire exiles Michele Thomson from Ellon and Lewis Kirton from Oldmeldrum - both just starting four-year golf scholarships in the United States - had also something else in common in the American college events which finished this week.
They both finished 26th.
Michele Thomson came joint 26th in a field of 90 on her debut for Jacksonville State University, Alabama.
Competing in the Unlimited Potential Classic, the Ellon teenager, winner of the North of Scotland women’s title for the past two years, had rounds of 76, 75 and 78 for a 10-over-par total of 229 over the par-73, 6,149yd Shaftesbury Glen course at Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
Michele finished 17 shots behind the winner, Araceli Felgueroso (Coastal Carolina) who shot 71, 70 and 71 for a five-shot win from Kelly Garlack (Southern Illinois).
Jacksonville State University (910) finished seventh of 15 in the team evnt behind Charleston (890).
Michele was the third best of the five JSU players in the field and was joint second best (one under par) in the field of 90 players for scoring at the par-3 holes.
She was joint ninth for total par figures with 38 out of 54.
Newmachar Golf Club member Lewis Kirton. a freshman student at the University of Louisville-Kentucky, finished 26th of 78 in a quality field for the Mattaponi Springs Intercollegiate tournament at Rutherglen, Virginia.
Lewis, pictured above right, had scores of 72, 73 and 74 for a three-over-par total of 219 over the par-72, 6,911yd course.
Giving Kirton, a Great Britain & Ireland boy international, a taste of the standard of play in some American college events, the first 16 players all broke par for their 54-hole totals. The winner was Dan Woltman (Wisconsin) at 14-under 202 with 65, 70 and 67.
But Lewis did have the satisfaction of helping Louisville-Kentucky to score a joint win in the team event. They finished with a 13-under-par total of 851 – the same as Pennsylvania State. A one-hole play-off featuring all 10 team players did not break the deadlock and the teams were declared joint winners.
Kirton scored third best of the five ULK players in the tournament and he has settled very quickly. He scored 74-75-80 for 229 and joint 15th place in his debut event, the Rich Harvest Farms Invitational at Dekalb, Illinois where Louisville-Kentucky won the team event.

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