Mitchell earns prestigious scholarship

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TOMMY Mitchell, from Old Deer, near Mintlaw, has earned a prestigious golf scholarship at Rice University in Texas.

Mitchell attended Mintlaw Academy before finishing his secondary education at The Woodlands College Park High School in Houston, where he was named the Montgomery County scholar-athlete of the year for golf. Before moving to America with his family in 2005, Mitchell was a winner of the north-east under-14 cham- pionship

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