It's the Wonder of Walker! Anne's biggest

win as UC Davis head golf coach

Strathaven exile Anne Walker, pictured right, has scored her biggest win as women's head golf coach of the University of California Davis University since she left the coaching staff at University of California-Berkeley a year ago to take over the relatively new women's golf programme at Davis which is near Sacramento in central California.
This is what the UC Davis website had to say about it:
The 27th-ranked UC Davis women's golf team posted its biggest win its brief history this week, dominating a high-powered field that included top-ranked UCLA to post a nine-shot win at the Turtle Bay Collegiate Invitational, hosted by the University of Hawaii at Kahuku.
Nearly half of the 18 teams in the 54-hole tournament are currently ranked in the top 50 by Golfweek, including No. 1 UCLA, No. 8 USC and No. 10 Cal which finished second through fourth, respectively.
The Aggies (nickname for the UC Davis team), who led after each round, finished at four-over 868 with UCLA a distant second at 13-over 877. USC was third at 15-over, Cal finished at 19-over and No. 49 Oregon rounded out the top five at 32-over.
"This really shows that we will be competing each week and that we're one of the best teams on the west coast," said head coach Anne Walker.
UC Davis won its first tournament since 2007 and capped a fall season which included two top-four finishes, experience which paid off on Wednesday.
"I believed all fall we were a top-25 team," said Walker. "I told the team (before the round) we've been here before. We have to take what we've learned and apply it."
The Aggies will be off now until competing in the Long Beach State Invitational in February.

Former British women's open amateur stroke-play champion Roseanne Niven from Crieff is a senior year student at California-Berkeley where Vikki Laing was a playing contemporary of Ann Walker before Ann graduated but stayed on join the women's golf team's management and coaching staff.
Roseanne finished joint 66th in the Turtle Bay tournament with rounds of 78, 79 and 79 for 236 over a par-72 course of some 6,300yd.
She had three double bogeys and a quadruple bogey 7 at a short hole in the second round.
Lizette Salas (Southern California) was the individual winner by five strokes from a field of 94 players with scores of 71, 67 and 70 for eight-under-par 208.

+Ann Walker is not the only Scot who is head women's golf coach at a United States university. Leith-born Colette Murray runs the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga women's golf team.