Lucy, Sinead and Natasha down

the field in Aztec Invitational

Past Welsh girls champion Lucy Gould from Bargoed and Ireland's Sinead O'Sullivan from Galway - team-mates in the East Tennessee State University squad - tied for 34th place in a starting field of over 100 for the Aztec Spring Invitational women's college tournament at Salt Creek golf course (par 72, 6,187yd).
The weather for the second day was simply horrendous with a 35mph wind and lashing rain. Not surprisingly the number of No Returns reached double figures.

Senior (final year) student Lucy, pictured above, had rounds of 76, 85 and 74 for 235 and junior (third year) student Sinead had the same total with scores of 77, 80 and 78. Lucy started the last day in 53rd place and improved 19 spots with her good last round.

England's Natasha Podmore, a student at San Francisco University, had scores of 77, 81 and 83 for a total of 241. She slipped from tied 40th to joint 55th with her disappointing last round.

The tournament was won by three shots by Hillary Packard (UC Irvine) with scores of 68, 77 and 73.

Joint runners-up were Malin Enarsson (San Diego State), Lee Lopez (Long Beach State) and Erica Moston (San Jose State).

San Jose State, the tournament hosts, won the team title with 900, six ahead of UC Irvine.

LEADING FINAL TOTALS

Individuals

218 Hillary Packard (UC Irvine) 68 77 73.

221 Malin Enarsson (St Diego State) 74 76 71, Lee Lopez (Long Beach State) 74 77 70, Erica Moston (San Jose State) 69 76 76.

Selected totals:

235 Lucy Gould (East Tennessee State) 76 85 74, Sinead O'Sullivan (East Tennessee State) 77 80 78 (jt 34th).

241 Natasha Podmore (San Francisco) 77 81 83.

Teams

900 San Jose State. 906 UC Irvine. 914 San Francisco. 921 Arkansas-Little Rock. 923 Texas State. 926 East Tennessee State. 18 teams took part.