CARLY BOOTH FINISHES JT 29th
IN ARIZONA TOURNAMENT

Carly Booth from Comrie finished joint 29th in a quality field of 112 for the Joanne Winter Arizona Silver Belle women’s amateur golf tournament at Hillcrest Golf Club, Sun City in Arizona.
The 15-year-old European Young Masters champion is spending the winter in Arizona and attending Red Mountain High School at Mesa, near Phoenix.
Carly scored 72, 75 and 77 for an eight-over-par total of 224 over the 6,241yd course.
Over the 54 holes, she has eight birdies, two double bogeys (a 7 at the long 13th in Round 3 and a 6 at the par-4 2nd in Round 2) and 12 bogeys. She was level par for the par-3s and the par-5s.
Carly had no birdies in her final round but she birdied the sixth, seventh, eighth and 10th during her second round. In the first round, the Scot birdied the first, eighth, 10th and 13th.
In this prestigious tournament, with age parameters of 13 to 23 - entry fee $200 - the first seven finishers had sub-par totals.
Two US college first-year students, Taylore Earle (Pepperdine University) and Glory Yang (UCLA), tied for victory on eight-under-par 208. There was no play-off.
High School girl Rachel Morris, 15, finished third.
Kimberly Kim, the 2006 US women’s amateur champion, tied for fifth place on 212.
LEADING TOTALS
Par 216 (3 x 72)
208 Taylore Earle 74 66 68, Glory Yang 70 67 71.
209 Rachel Morris 72 70 67.
210 Sara Brown 71 69 70.
212 Stephanie Kim 69 76 67, Kimberly Kim 73 70 69.
Other total:
224 Carly Booth 72 75 77 (jt 29th).
258 Ashley Malaska 87 82 89 (110th of 112).