INTERNATIONAL COLLEGIATE

STIRLING’S GORDON BEATS STAR US
COLLEGE PLAYERS BY FIVE SHOTS

Stirling University’s Gordon Yates pulled off a great individual win in the 2nd International Collegiate Championship over the Torrance Course at St Andrews Bay today.
He shot rounds of 67, 68 and 68 for a 13-under-par total of 203 – five shots ahead of Dustin Johnson (Coastal Carolina).
Yates, a former Scotland boy and youth international, led the field recently in the Leven Gold Medal before subsiding to eighth place.
On a team level – and on the American college circuit – team performances count more than individual displays, Stirling University made a gallant bid to keep up with the “big boys” from America.
They eventually finished a creditable sixth of 10 teams, only four strokes behind the fourth-placed Texas Tech.
The Stirling team were lying second to North Carolina at the end of 18 holes and were still hanging on in the No 2 spot overnight.
But in Sunday’s final round, Stirling subsided to a team total of 294 – a big drop-off from their first two scores of 285 and 286. That gave Stirling a final team aggregate of 865 compared with title winners North Carolina’s 855.
Defending champions Wake Forest – they won over the same course when the International Collegiate was first place in 2002 – and Coastal Carolina came with a run on the last day.
Wake Forest got to within two shots of overhauling North Carolina but had to be content with the runner-up spot.
Coastal Carolina’s Sunday team score of 278 was the lowest achieved by any of the 10 teams over the two days and hoisted them up to third place on 858.
TEAMS’ FINAL TOTALS
835 North Carolina 279 289 287.
857 Wake Forest 287 289 281.
858 Coastal Carolina 286 294 278.
861 Texas Tech 292 285 284.
864 Texas A&M 294 290 280.
865 Stirling 285 286 294.
868 Baylor 293 290 285.
877 Georgia Southern 295 298 284.
880 R&A Bursars 295 293 292.
907 St Andrews 307 294 306.
LEADING INDIVIDUALS
203 G Yates (Stirling) 67 68 68.
208 D Johnson (Coastal Carolina) 70 68 70.
210 M Ureta (North Carolina) 70 71 69, C McCartin (Wake Forest) 70 70 70, J Younan-Wise (Texas Tech) 75 68 67, D Groves (Wake Forest) 73 70 67, C Turnquist (Baylor) 70 70 70.
211 O Floren (Texas Tech) 70 69 72, R Riesen (North Carolina) 67 73 71, C Hooper (Coastal Carolina) 72 71 68.
212 Z Byrd (Coastal Carolina) 70 76 76.
214 B Burgoon (Texas AM) 72 72 67, B Allcorn (Baylor) 77 70 67.
Other totals:
215 A Romona (R&A) 75 72 68 (jt 14th).
217 M Campbell (R&A) 69 73 74 (jt 17th).
219 P Betty (Stirling) 73 74 72 (jt 24th).
224 E Polson (Stirling) 71 74 79 (jt 38th).
225 B Rushford (Stirling) 79 71 75, G Davidson (St Andrews) 74 79 72, M Jones (R&A) 73 76 76 (jt 42nd).
226 M Kerr (R&A) 78 74 74, S Borrowman (Stirling) 74 73 79 (jt 45th).
228 M Dickson (St Andrews) 75 71 82 (jt 50th).
229 R Dixon (St Andrews) 82 73 74 (jt 52nd).
230 R Rebecchi (St Andrews) 79 73 78 (jt 54th).
234 I Griffiths (R&A) 80 74 80 (jt 59th).
238 J Lockie (St Andrews) 79 77 82 (62nd) .