Golf: Students in fine fettle for season

Published on 11/09/2012 00:29

SCHOLARSHIP golfers from the University of Stirling will start the season buoyed by recent continental events against opponents from Canada and the USA.

Five students from the University’s International Sports Scholarship Programme tested their skills against leading North American amateurs on a tour of Toronto before a 10-man team hosted golfers from Stanford University at the weekend. These matches will all stand the current European University champions in good stead as they start the University season in October. And the international competition continues for Marketing and Sports Studies student Graeme Robertson, who is named in the three-man Scotland squad for the World Amateur Team Championship in Turkey next month. Robertson was unable to prevent a narrow 4.5 - 5.5 defeat against the world-renowned Stanford University on Sunday at Prestwick GC.

In the Stirling team, there were wins for McDonald, Mathias Eggenberger, Patrick Spraggs, Dewi Merckx and a halve for team captain Zander Culverwell.

In Canada, Stirling recorded an impressive win against the University of Waterloo, but were unable to prevent hosts Humber College from prevailing by one shot over an adapted 18-hole stroke play individual and team event held at Coppinwood GC.