US GIRLS OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP

THUNDERSTORM HOLDS UP SALLY
WATSON'S BID IN SECOND ROUND


South Queensferry teenager Sally Watson won her opening tie in the United States girls' open golf championship and was then on the Carmel Country Club course when a huge thunderstorm hit the Charlotte area of North Carolina, forcing a suspension of further play for the day.
Sally, 15, was in excellent form in her opening tie. She was four under par for the 14 holes it took her to beat Kimberly Johnson from San Diego by 5 and 4.
Miss Watson will probably need to repeat that quality of performance in her second-round tie against Kimberly Donovan from Hopkinton, Mass. Miss Donovan was a member of the last winning United States Junior Solheim Cup team. She beat Spain's Belen Mozo 3 and 2. Miss Mozo won the British women's open amateur championship at Royal County Down, Northern Ireland earlier this summer.
Sally had played only four holes of her second-round match when the thunderstorm hit the area. She and the other contestants in the round of the last 32 were scheduled to resume their ties very early on Thursday morning (US time).
Sally's older sister Rebecca has been on the course as well - as Sally's caddie.
Rebecca will be returning to the United States in the autumn of 2007 to enrol as a student at the University of Tennessee, ranked in the top 10 of the US women's college golf teams for the second year in a row.