The Saint Mary's College golf squad with Euan Brown third from the right. You can enlarge the image by clicking on it.

California dreaming? Well, not

for Euan Brown, he's already there!

Oh, to be in California, now that winter's here in Scotland!

But Ayrshire-born six-footer Euan Brown is already there in California. Lucky boy.

Euan is in his first year as a golf scholarship student at Saint Mary's College, which is based in the Moraga community about 12 miles east of Oakland.

Euan is a former pupil of Troon's Marr College.

He was the Ayrshire boys' stroke-play champion of 2007, the same year that he won the Ayrshire boys' order of merit.