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Rebecca Watson
 Rebecca Watson
Class:
Sophomore

Hometown:
Edinburgh, Scotland

High School:
Mary Erskine School

Height:
5-4

Birthdate:
03/03/1989

AT TENNESSEE:

2007-08:

Tied for 49th at the SEC Championships after firing a 242...Best tournament of the season was at the Las Vegas Showdown...In Vegas, Watson opened with a season-topping 73 and finished with a three-day season-best score of 226 to tie for 41st...Shot a 77-74-78=229 at her first-ever collegiate tournament, the Mercedes Benz Collegiate Championships...Had fourth-highest Lady Vol score (246) at NCAA East Regional...Named to SEC Freshman Academic Honor Rol and NGCA Academic All-America Team.

HIGH SCHOOL:

Captained the Mary Erskine School golf team for three years and helped it win the Edinburgh Schools' golf tournament in 2005....Played for the winning Scottish schools team in the annual match versus the best of the English schools in 2005...Selected for the same squad in 2007...Graduated with a 4.0 GPA...Was a member of the East of Scotland Institute of Sport...Played basketball for East of Scotland from 2004-05.

AMATEUR:

Watson was a member of the Scottish National Under-18 squad since 2005...Was tied for third amongst Scottish girls in the 2005 national rankings...Earned runner-up status at the Scottish regional final of the 2005 Golf Foundation Weetabix UK Championships...While in high school, traveled to Florida on three occasions and came home with top honors at the 2003 IJGT Champions Gate Tournament and the ninth PARS Junior International Golf Championship in 2005...In the same year, tied for 15th in the Doral Publix Junior Golf Classic in Miami, Fla...Tied for sixth in stroke play at the 2006 Strathtyrum Tournament at the prestigious St. Andrews Links Golf Course.

PERSONAL:

Majoring in enterprise management and international business...Admires Princess Diana, Nelson Mandela and Martin Luther King, Jr...Has a 17-year-old sister, Sally, who competed in the 2008 Curtis Cup on the Old Course at St. Andrews...Calls her biggest thrill in golf when she won her first match for Scotland...Rebecca Jane Hogg Watson was born on March 3, 1989, in Edinburgh, Scotland...Her parents are Graham and Maggie Watson.

Collegiate Quick Facts

Rounds18
Strokes1,427
Average79.3
Rounds of Par or UnderNone
Low Round73, Las Vegas Showdown
Low Tournament (54 holes)226; Las Vegas Showdown
Top-10 FinishesNone
Best Finisht41st; Las Vegas Showdown

Scorecard

2007-08
Mercedes-Benz*t61st77-74-78=229
Las Vegas Showdownt41st73-77-76=226
Lady Puerto Ricot86th82-80-80=242
UCF Challenge*t91st81-81-80=242
SEC Championshipst49th79-83-80=242
NCAA East Regionalt98th85-78-83=246
Low Round73 (Las Vegas Showdown)
Low Total226 (Las Vegas Showdown)

* Indicates competed as an individual

YEARRNDSSTKSAVGLOW
2007-0818142779.373
TOTALS18142779.373
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