Chris Paisley wins Arizona

Collegiate as Jordan Findlay

goes into free fall for a 90

Chris Paisley from Newcastle, a student at Tennessee University, will head from Arizona to Georgia for the Jones Cup tournament later this week as the man in outstanding form.

Paisley, 22, pictured above, shot rounds of 68, 66 and 67 over the testing Arizona National course at Tucson to win the Arizona Collegiate tournament - one of the first events of the second half of the 2008-2009 US college golf season.

Paisley's total of 12-under-par 201 saw him win by three shots from Matt Hoffenberg (San Diego State) and by five from third-placed Zack Byrd (Coastal Carolina).
If it was a career highlight for British international Paisley, it was a career low point for former British boys' champion Jordan Findlay from Fraserburgh, in his fourth and final year as a student at East Tennessee State University.

After promising rounds of 73 and 71 to be two over par going into the final round, Jordan crashed to an almost unbelievable round of 90 - 19 over par for the 6900yd course.

The Buchan 21-year-old, who reached not one but two British boys' championship finals, had a triple bogey 8, six double bogeys and five single bogeys and just one birdie in his round of 90.

Over the 54 holes, Findlay had one triple bogey and nine double bogeys.

If Findlay got worse as the tournament progressed, team-mate and fellow Scot Michael Stewart, the Scottish boys' match-play champion from Troon, fought back well from a first-round 80 to score 69 in the second and 72 in the third for a total of 221. He climbed up from joint 79th after 18 holes to a final placing of joint 27th - a great recovery in a quality field.

Pepperdine (855) won the team title from San Diego State University (858), for whom Surrey student Andrew Cooley slumped to a final round of 81 after shooting a 69 in the second. Tennessee (862) were third. East Tennessee State Tied with UNLV for fourth place on 866 in a field of 17 teams.

LEADING FINAL TOTALS

P 213 (3 x 71) 6900yd

201 Chris Paisley (Tennessee) 68 66 67
204 Matt Hoffenberg (San Diego State) 69 68 67.

206 Zack Byrd (Coastal Carolina) 72 65 69.

Selected totals

211 Seamus Power (East Tennessee State) 75 66 70 (jt 6th).

213 Darren Renwick (Tennessee) 70 71 72 (jt 9th).

221 Rhys Enoch (East Tennessee State) 73 75 73, Michael Stewart (East Tennessee State) 80 69 72 (jt 27th).
222 Andrew Cooley (San Diego State) 72 659 81 (jt 31st).

224 Paul O'Kane (East Tennessee State) 79 72 73 (jt 44th).

234 Jordan Findlay (East Tennessee State) 73 71 90 (jt 76th).

246 Peter Wilson East Tennessee State) 88 79 79 (jt 92nd).

LEADING TEAM TOTALS

855 Pepperdine. 858 San Diego State. 862 Tennessee. 866 East Tennessee State & UNLV (jt 4th of 17 teams).