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Record number of R&A individual bursars for 2008

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 A record number of 91 students will receive Foundation Bursary funding this year from The R&A. Individual bursaries range from £500 to £3,000. Students from Belgium, Iceland, Italy, New Zealand and Zambia are among those awarded bursaries to enable golfers to combine their studies with competitive play.

The R&A’s total annual spend on university golf currently exceeds £320,000 and includes grants to support golf programmes at 12 universities in Great Britain and Ireland.

The Old and Eden Courses in St Andrews will provide the venues for The R&A bursars tournament in April. For the first time, World Amateur Golf Ranking points are at stake in this event and the winning male student will gain an automatic place in Europe’s 2008 Palmer Cup team to play against the United States of America at Glasgow Gailes at the end of June. In the women’s event, the winner will be offered a place in the field at one of the Ladies European Tour events this season.

The names of the 91 bursars, together with their place of study and home club, are:

Helena Arnadottir - Iceland (Reykjavik); Allessandra Averna - Universata Bocconni (Molinetto, Italy); Adam Best - Teesside (Cleveland); Paul Betty - Stirling (Hayston); David Booth - Stirling (Rotherham); Megan Briggs - Strathclyde ( Kilmacolm); Euan Brown - Strathclyde (Kilmarnock Barassie); Holly Calvert - Stirling (Silloth); Rachel Cassidy - Stirling (The Island); Louise Coffey - Ulster (Warrenpoint).

Federico Colombo - Milan (Brianza, Italy); Sarah Cunningham - Maynooth (Ennis); Cian Curley - Maynooth (Newlands); Lucinda Davies - Birmingham (Peterborough Milton); Matthew Davies - Birmingham (Kington); Mark Davies - Exeter (Coventry Hearsall); Gavin Dear - Stirling (Murrayshall); Mark Dickson - Edinburgh ( Alwoodley); John Duff - Aberdeen (Newmachar); Daniel Elder - Dundee (Carnoustie); Emma Fairnie - Edinburgh ( Dunbar).

Stephanie Farrar - Stirling (Sandiway); Nick Feinberg - St Andrews (Troy, USA); Sam Foster - Exeter (Coventry Hearsall); Kevin Garwood - Bournemouth (Surrey National); James Gill - St Andrews ( Hamilton, New Zealand); Cameron Gray - St Andrews (West Kilbride); Iwan Griffiths - Swansea (Aberdare); Carwyn Hammond - Northumbria (Pontardawe); Chris Harkins - Glasgow (Ayr Belleisle); Sean Heads - Northumbria (Hexham); Joanne Hodge - Buckinghamshire Chilterns (Knowle); Steven Hume - Abertay (Murrayshall); Nikki Hunter - Northumbria (Gosforth).

Vincent Kabaso - Bridgwater College (Roan Antelope, Zambia); Mark Kerr - Napier, Edinburgh (Craigmillar Park); Niamh Kitching - Limerick (Claremorris); Grant Little - St Andrews (Brampton); Alexander Main - Edinburgh (Thornton); Alex McCloy - Ulster (Ballymena); Anne McCormack - Maynooth (Roscommon); Kelan McDonagh - Maynooth (Athlone); Jarred McKnight - Loughborough (Whittington Heath); Naoimh McMahon - Limerick (Shannon); Louise Mernagh - Maynooth (Woodenbridge); James Monaghan - Maynooth (The Island); Gillian Monteith - Strathclyde (Portpatrick); Fraser Moore - Stirling (Falkirk Tryst); David Morrison - North Highland College, Dornoch (Duff House Royal).

Alex Morton - Birmingham (Shifnal); Alan Murdoch - Stirling (Stranraer); Aedin Murphy - Maynooth (Carlow); Laura Murray - Robert Gordon, Aberdeen (Alford); Torel Neider - Myerscough (Tallinn, Estonia); Ciaran O’Connor - Dublin (Athlone); Philippe Okan - St Andrews (Meerbusch, Germany); Gillian O’Leary - Dublin (Cork); Christopher O’Neill - Cardiff (Radyr); Edward Parker - Birmingham (Crewe); James Patterson - Queens, Belfast ( Royal Portrush); Christina Petersson - Northumbria (Gavle, Sweden); Euan Polson - Stirling (Inverness).

Pamela Pretswell - Glasgow (Bothwell Castle); Pierre Relecom - Brussels ( Royal Waterloo, Belgium); Darren Renwick - Chichester College (Worthing); Samuel Riddell - Birmingham (Chipping Sodbury); Andrea Romano - Bologna (Modena, Italy); Anna Roscio - Turin (Turin, Italy); Alexander Rule - Loughborough (Hartley Wintney); Bobby Rushford - Stirling (Grangemouth); Elliot Shaw - Cardiff (The Herefordshire); Karl Shepherd - Stirling (Renishaw Park).

James Smedley - Sheffield Hallam (Hallowes); Andrew Smedley - Birmingham (Notts); Gordon Stevenson - St Andrews (Whitecraigs); Ami Storey - Northumbria (Ponteland); Colin Thomson - Stirling (East Renfrewshire); Catherine Tucker - Limerick (Limerick); Graham Turner - Stirling (West Linkton); Andrew Wallace - Stirling (Glenbervie); Brendan Walton - Maynooth (The Island); Simon Ward - Ulster (Co Louth); Jonathan Watt - Stirling (Brokenhurst Manor); James White - Stirling (Lundin); Jon White - Plymouth (Saunton); Craig Wilkinson - Northumbria (Blyth); Lucy Williams - Birmingham (Mid Herts); Jonathan Williams - Cardiff (Vale of Glamorgan); Richard Williams - Cardiff (Vale of Glamorgan); Ian Winstanley - Leeds (Formby); Gordon Yates - Stirling (Hilton Park).

Source: Randa