US COLLEGE GOLF - Third win for Connie Jaffrey

Connie Jaffrey (Troon ladies) secured her third win on the US College circuit last week when she left the field trailing in the Marilynn Smith Sunflower Invitational. Played at Colbert Hills Manhattan, Kansas from 17^th to 19^th September.

An opening round of 66 and two rounds of 72 gave Jaffrey a 6 under par total of 210, which was a full six shots ahead of her nearest challenger.

Jaffrey’s individual performance helped her Kansas State team to a commanding seventeen shot victory in the team event.

Best individual scores:-

Par 72

210 (-6) - Connie Jaffrey (Kansas State) 66/72/72

216 (E) - Johanna Samuelsson (Tulsa) 73/72/71

218 (+2) - Chloe Weir (Kansas State) 71/71/76

219 (+3) - Ashleigh Greenham (Rutgers) 78/66/75 

221 (+5) - Sabrina Bonanno (Little Rock) 77/70/74

221 (+5) - Lizzie Winyarat (Kansas, Univ. of) 76/73/72

221 (+5) - Reid Isaac (Kansas State) 72/77/72

Team Scores

881 (+17) Kansas State

898 (+34) Kansas, Univ. of 

899 (+35) Tulsa

904 (+40) Rutgers

906 (+42) North Texas

908 (+44) Arkansas State

918 (+54) Little Rock

932 (+68) Central Arkansas

951 (+87) Georgia Southern

Also performing well in The USA is Stuart Easton (Irvine), a third-year student at Western Kentucky University, who finished joint fifth in a field of 75 players at the Memphis Intercollegiate tournament in Tennessee recently, writes Colin Farquharson.

Stuart had rounds of 72, 69 and 73 for a two-under-par total of 214, which left him four strokes behind the winner by two strokes, Hunter Richardson (UT Michigan),who recorded rounds of 67, 71 and 72 for 210.

Western Kentucky (873) finished fourth of 13 in the team event behind winners Middle Tennessee State (868), runners-up Arkansas State (869) and third-placed Little Rock (872).