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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1977
Golf jock’ is a Scotsman
By Colin Crombie
“Jock” has another meaning now
that Ian Stratton is with the Texas
A&M Golf Team.
Stratton, 19, was born in Irvine,
Scotland and has lived in South Af
rica for the past 6 years.
“Jock’s a Scotsman,” he ex
plained, speaking with a South Afri
can accent. And in Great Britain,
that’s what the word means.
Bob Ellis, the Texas A&M golf
coach, first heard of Stratton when
he met Phil Ritson, the South Afri
can golf coach, at the San Diego
Junior World Tournament in July of
this year.
Ellis picked Stratton because of
the South African reputation in golf
and because of Ritson’s reputation.
“When he (Ritson) recommended
someone to me, I listened,” Ellis
said. As a result, Stratton was
awarded a golf scholarship in August
and he arrived in College Station on
August 19.
“I started playing golf when I was
five or six,” Stratton said. He won
three regional golf tournaments for
his age division in Scotland.
His family then moved to Johan
nesburg, South Africa, where he
improved his talent. After one year
there, Stratton was playing for the
South African Under-19 Side.
With that team he won the
Slazinger Golf Trophy, which he
described as the “second most im
portant trophy in South Africa, ” and
several regional (Transvaal) golf
tournaments.
Stratton was also successful with
the six-member Southern Transvaal
under-19 side.
“I played 40 games (match play)
for them and was never beaten
once,” he said. (Match play has an
individual, hole by hole scoring, as
opposed to stroke play, which is a
tally of strokes per hole. Stroke play
is used in major tournaments.)
Stratton practices daily on the
Texas A&M golf course.
“It s quite an easy course, fairly
short, but the wind blows a bit and
it can get difficult,” he said.
The Fall Conference at Texarkana
(Sep. 11, 12 and 13) will be Strat
ton’s first game for Texas A&M if he
qualifies. He joins other newcomers
Mark Taylor of Illinois, Jay Kent of
Texas, and Richard Cromwell of
Florida. Taylor has won the Na
tional Insurance Youth Classic.
Stratton will also join returning
A&M golfers Tim Carlton of
Louisiana, all-American Dave Ogrin
of Illinois and Doug Ward of Arkan
sas.
Last year Texas A&M ranked sec
ond in Southwest Conference golf
and was 11th in the nation.
During the South African winter
(summertime in America) the golf
courses in the Transvaal province
dry uo and are hard to play on.
“I’d lost a bit of interest in the
game,” Stratton said. Then he was
awarded the scholarship, which has
covered most of his dorm expenses.
Stratton, a freshman majoring in
marketing, lives in Cain Hall.
“It is most definitely the best
dorm in the university, possibly the
best dorm in the nation,” he said.
He has had no problems in settling
in apart h orn “the way they speak in
Texas,” he said.
“America has a good golf program
through college,” Stratton said.
“There’s nothing like that in South
Africa. He pointed out that the
American program produces better
senior players.
But “South African juniors are
stronger (at golf) than American
juniors,” he said, and called South
Africa a good country for golf.”
Stratton is not the only foreign
athlete at Texas A&M, but he is the
first to play golf. There is a possibil
ity that other foreign golfers may
play for Texas A&M.
“There’s some that we re keeping
our eyes on,” Ellis said and he
added that the greatest recruiting
'islii
tool is a foreign player who i
here.
Of the six sports in theft
A&M Athletic Department, Mi
the only other to have had f u T
team members. Two South
cans, Manfred Kohrsandji
Wheeler, arc presently on thetj
team Two athletes from Ghana™
the first and only other f or ,
athletes.
Freddie Nelson, cross com
track coach, said that there is
particular reason for so few fo
athletes at A&M. He added
Texas A&M mainly recruits ho
Texas, because there
good athletes here.
Will there be more {«[,
athletes at Texas A&M
ture?
“If we could get good
yes,” Nelson said.
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Golf Tournament schedule for fall, 1977.
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