US COLLEGE NEWS

Jacqueline Sneddon 12th in

Arizona shoot-out behind

wonder girl Amy Anderson


Jacqueline Sneddon from Meigle, Perthshire, a student at Grand Canyon University, Arizona, finished 12th in a field of 43 players for the Mountain Shoot-out women's college tournament at Flagstaff, Arizona.
Jacqueline, pictured right, had rounds of 76 and 82 for a total of 158 over the par-72, 6103yd course.
The winner was the US girls champion Amy Anderson who has won her first three events on the US women's college circuit as a freshman student at North Dakota State University - how lucky are they to have signed up such a talented player who might well have gone to one of the top-notchers, such as Arizona State, Duke, etc. Obviously, Amy escaped the notice of the big guns' talent scouts before she won the US Under-18s title.
Amy scored 74 and 70 for 144 to win by NINE strokes from Meghan Bremer (77-76) of Northern Arizona University who won the team title with a total of 628.
Grand Canyon were last of seven with 641.

Hannah and Nicola down the field in Kentucky
Missouri University's pair of English students, Hannah Lovelock and Nicola Race, finished 24th and joint 32nd respectively in the Napa River Cardinal Cup women's college tournament at the Cardinal Club, Louisville in Kentucky.
Over a par-72 course of 6,219yd, Lovelock scored 74, 79 and 74 for 227, five fewer than Race who had rounds of 75, 80 and 77. Nicola and her coach will be disappointed at that performance. They are expecting great things for her this 2009-2010 college golf season after her transfer in from a smaller college where she was a regular winner for its golf team.
Canadian Sara-Maude Juneau (Louisville) was the individual winner on home turf with scores of 72, 69 and 72 for three-under-par 213 - three shots ahead of Stacey Miller (Illinois State) (72-69-75).
Louisville won the team title with a record low total for the tournament of 866 - 32 shots ahead of runners-up Kentucky. Maryland (899 came third) and Missouri (900) fourth of 12 teams.

Course note: One reader has questioned why we almost always give the par and length of the course for US college events. Editor's answer: For one thing these statistics are nearly always listed in the excellent GolfStat results service. If this information were provided as a matter of course for British and Irish tournaments of any description, we would give it, because we think it is important. There's a difference between returning say a score of 75 to 78 over a course of under 6,000yd than there is returning a 75 to 78 over a course of 6,500yd and more. It is noticeable that in recent years, the length of courses for US college golf competitons is increasing year by year. Some of the male students' events are now being played over courses in excess of 7,000yd - far longer than even SGU Order of Merit tournaments.
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