WORLD UNIVERSITIES CHAMPIONSHIPS

GORDON AND HEATHER

SIXTH AND SEVENTH

IN ITALY

Gordon Yates (Stirling University), right, finished joint sixth and Dunblane’s Heather MacRae (San Diego State University), left, seventh in the individual men’s and women’s standings at the world university golf championships at Circolo Golf Torino in Italy.

Great Britain came third and Ireland fifth behind Japan and United States in the men’s team event while the GB women finished seventh and Ireland ninth behind winners United States in the women’s team championship.

Yates started the 72-hole tournament as one of the leaders but followed up a 67 and a 69 with 72 and 73 for a seven-under-par total of 281 – eight shots behind Japan’s Yuta Ideda and Taipei’s Chen-Chih Chiang who both totalled 15-under 273.

Daniel Willett from Sheffield and Jacksonville State University finished joint fourth with Ireland’s Aengus McAllister on 280.

The two other members of the GB men’s team, Jason Palmer and Ed Parker, both from the University of Birmingham, were unable to come anywhere matching the efforts of team-mates Willett and Yates, otherwise Great Britain would have at least finished runners-up.

Unlike Yates, Curtis Cup reserve Heather MacRae started slowly with a pair of 76s but finished strongly with a 73 and 70 for seven-over-par 295 – nine shots behind the winner, American Stacy Lewis from the University of Arkansas.

Catherine Tucker was the top Irish competitor in 24^th place on 311.

Heather’s team-mates, Faye Sanderson (Northumbria University) and Olivia Briggs (Stirling) were not able to lend much support to the Scot in the team event. Sanderson finished 28^th on 315 and Briggs joint 35^th on 324.

SUMMARY OF FINAL TOTALS

MEN – INDIVIDUAL

273 Y Ikeda (Jap) 74 64 68 67, C-C Chiang (Tai) 70 66 66 71.

276 A Manning (US) 71 67 70 68.

280 A McAllister (Ire) 69 75 67 69, D Willett (GB) 69 72 71 68.

281 G Yates (GB) 767 69 72 73, P Relecom (Bel) 68 71 73 69.

Other totals:

282 M Campbell (Ire) 73 71 69 69.

284 A McCloy (Ire) 70 72 73 69.

290 N O’Connor (Ire) 72 72 70 76.

292 J Palmer (GB) 75 71 74 72.

294 P O’Hanlon (Ire) 73 73 73 75.

299 A McKinley (Ire) 78 74 72 75, E Parker (GB) 77 70 75 77.

MEN-TEAM

841 Japan.

847 United States.

851 Great Britain.

853 Canada.

854 Ireland.

855 Chinese Taipei.

857 New Zealand.

861 South Africa.

876 Italy.

879 France.

881 Thailand.

897 Switzerland.

920 Russia.

938 Slovenia.

987 Germany.

WOMEN- INDIVIDUAL

286 S Lewis (US) 72 71 71 72.

289 M Vertechenova (Rus) 75 73 73 68.

291 E Hara (Jap) 712 71 76 72.

293 M Saiki (Jap) 76 74 72 71, S Brown (US) 71 77 71 74.

294 P-L Yu Tai) 74 77 71 72.

295 H MacRae (GB) 76 76 73 70, V Valvassori (Ita) 75 76 71 73.

Other scores:

311 C Tucker (Ire) 77 76 77 81.

315 F Sanderson (GB) 77 83 77 78.

316 G O’Leary (Ire) 81 74 83 78.

324 O Briggs (GB) 82 83 81 78.

355 E Getty (Ire) 85 92 88 90.

WOMEN-TEAM

579 United States.

581 Japan.

590 Russia.

592 Chinese Taipei.

595 Italy.

599 France.

610 Great Britain.

611 Thailand.

613 Ireland.

629 South Africa.

639 New Zealand.

640 Germany.

655 Canada.

708 Slovakia.