Another North-east golfing teenager bound for United States

GRANT CARNIE TO JOIN BREVARD COLLEGE,NORTH CAROLINA
IN JANUARY

Another teenage North-east golfing prospect is bound for the United States on a golf scholarship.
Grant Carnie, junior champion of both McDonald Ellon and Newburgh golf clubs, flies out to North Carolina on January 8 to enrol at Brevard College, North Carolina.
Earlier this year, Carnie finished third in the Paul Lawrie Junior Match-play Challenge at St Andrews Bay, finished second in the North-east District Junior Order of Merit and won the Inverallochy junior open.
There are already two Scots on the Brevard College golfing roster – Myles Johnson from Bo’ness and Craig Galloway from West Lothian. They are both sophomore (second-year) students).
Grant Carnie can look forward to a spring trip to California with his new golfing mates and Brevard College’s schedule also includes trips to South Carolina, Tennessee and Georgia.
Grant’s father Murray Carnie is Head of the Physical Education department at Mintlaw Academy, a national hockey coach and staff coach at the Grampian Institute of Sport as well as being a good friend of Paul Lawrie.
Carnie senior is one of the few sportsmen or women who can claim to have played for Scotland at two sports. Murray Carnie was capped at Under-18 level in tennis and both Under-18 and Under-21 in hockey.
+Other North-east young golfers at college in America are Lewis Kirton (University of Louisville, Kentucky), Michele Thomson (Jacksonville State University, Alabama), Keith Spence (Jacksonville University, Florida), Jordan Findlay (East Tennessee State University), Adam Lindsay (Iowa Wesleyan University), Andrew Hay (Webber Internatonal College, Florida), Chris Baron (Belmont Abbey College, North Carolina).
+James Byrne from Banchory will join Arizona State University next autumn.