Lynn Kenny finishes joint 17th in Australia
LAURA DAVIES COMES FROM BEHIND TO WIN NSW OPEN
- HER 69TH WORLDWIDE.
FROM THE AUSTRALIAN LPG WEBSITE:
The cream rose to the top today as Laura Davies fired a final round of five under par 67 to claim the 2008 LG Bing Lee Women's New South Wales Open by two strokes from Sarah Oh.
The 44-year-old from England, a four-time major champion, carded rounds of 70, 70 and 67 in the 54-hole Australian Ladies Professional Golf tournament, which has Rolex Women’s World Golf Ranking status.
She finished on a total of nine-under-par 207, two strokes ahead of the 19-year-Oh who impressed in only her third professional tournament with rounds of 70, 68 and 71 for a seven-under-par total.
Sweden’s Lotta Wahlin, 21, finished in third place on five-under-par.
Davies began the day two strokes behind the overnight leader Oh, but after shooting six birdies and one bogey in the final round, she secured the Ken Lee Trophy and a first prize of $18,750.
It was big Laura's 69th worldwide victory in a career spanning 22 years and the perfect warm- up to this coming week’s MFS Women’s Australian Open at Kingston Heath Golf Club in Melbourne.
Davies will also compete in the ANZ Ladies Masters the following week at Royal Pines Resort on the Queensland Gold Coast, along with the likes of Australian superstar Karrie Webb, who is defending champion at both events.
“This is a big thing for me,” said Davies, who has won at least once in every year since she turned professional, bar 2005.
“It’s not easy to beat these players. There were some really good players in the field this week. Me and my caddie Johnny, we just had a laugh out there.
“Even if you don’t win you have to enjoy it - and that’s what we did today. The greens were just to my liking and I always look forward to coming to Australia.”
Davies, whose most recent previous win was the UNIQA Ladies Golf Open in Austria in September, began the final round slowly but she picked up momentum from the par-4 fourth hole. She fired birdies at the fourth, sixth and seventh on the front nine before chipping in for birdie at the tough par-4 11th hole to tie for the lead with Oh.
Davies took a one-shot advantage after the par-3 12th hole, where she hit a seven-iron to 15 feet and holed the birdie putt.
She extended her lead to three strokes at the next hole, the par-5 13th, when she knocked her third shot stiff from the front left greenside bunker. After a wayward drive at the 14th, she was forced to chip out onto the fairway, but holed a 7ft bogey putt to remain two ahead of Oh.
There was a nail-biting moment at the par-4 16th hole where, having hit a massive drive to within 20 metres of the green, Davies hit her second shot into the front greenside bunker. However she holed a 10ft par-saving putt to maintain her lead with two holes to play.
Oh set up birdie chances at the last two holes, but could not catch Davies, who recorded a par, par finish.“I was just happy to play with Laura today,” said Oh, adding:
“It was a great experience. I asked her a few things about how to hit it high and how to hit it low and she just said it’s all about timing.”
Elsewhere, Bronwyn Mullins-Lane carded her fifth career hole-in-one at the 124-metre, par 3 ninth hole in the final round. That earned her two bonus prizes of $1,000 prize as the hole was part of the Bing Lee Hole-in-One Hot Spot. She also scooped the $1,000 ALPG Tour Hole-in-one Club pool.
FROM THE AUSTRALIAN LPG WEBSITE:
The cream rose to the top today as Laura Davies fired a final round of five under par 67 to claim the 2008 LG Bing Lee Women's New South Wales Open by two strokes from Sarah Oh.
The 44-year-old from England, a four-time major champion, carded rounds of 70, 70 and 67 in the 54-hole Australian Ladies Professional Golf tournament, which has Rolex Women’s World Golf Ranking status.
She finished on a total of nine-under-par 207, two strokes ahead of the 19-year-Oh who impressed in only her third professional tournament with rounds of 70, 68 and 71 for a seven-under-par total.
Sweden’s Lotta Wahlin, 21, finished in third place on five-under-par.
Davies began the day two strokes behind the overnight leader Oh, but after shooting six birdies and one bogey in the final round, she secured the Ken Lee Trophy and a first prize of $18,750.
It was big Laura's 69th worldwide victory in a career spanning 22 years and the perfect warm- up to this coming week’s MFS Women’s Australian Open at Kingston Heath Golf Club in Melbourne.
Davies will also compete in the ANZ Ladies Masters the following week at Royal Pines Resort on the Queensland Gold Coast, along with the likes of Australian superstar Karrie Webb, who is defending champion at both events.
“This is a big thing for me,” said Davies, who has won at least once in every year since she turned professional, bar 2005.
“It’s not easy to beat these players. There were some really good players in the field this week. Me and my caddie Johnny, we just had a laugh out there.
“Even if you don’t win you have to enjoy it - and that’s what we did today. The greens were just to my liking and I always look forward to coming to Australia.”
Davies, whose most recent previous win was the UNIQA Ladies Golf Open in Austria in September, began the final round slowly but she picked up momentum from the par-4 fourth hole. She fired birdies at the fourth, sixth and seventh on the front nine before chipping in for birdie at the tough par-4 11th hole to tie for the lead with Oh.
Davies took a one-shot advantage after the par-3 12th hole, where she hit a seven-iron to 15 feet and holed the birdie putt.
She extended her lead to three strokes at the next hole, the par-5 13th, when she knocked her third shot stiff from the front left greenside bunker. After a wayward drive at the 14th, she was forced to chip out onto the fairway, but holed a 7ft bogey putt to remain two ahead of Oh.
There was a nail-biting moment at the par-4 16th hole where, having hit a massive drive to within 20 metres of the green, Davies hit her second shot into the front greenside bunker. However she holed a 10ft par-saving putt to maintain her lead with two holes to play.
Oh set up birdie chances at the last two holes, but could not catch Davies, who recorded a par, par finish.“I was just happy to play with Laura today,” said Oh, adding:
“It was a great experience. I asked her a few things about how to hit it high and how to hit it low and she just said it’s all about timing.”
Elsewhere, Bronwyn Mullins-Lane carded her fifth career hole-in-one at the 124-metre, par 3 ninth hole in the final round. That earned her two bonus prizes of $1,000 prize as the hole was part of the Bing Lee Hole-in-One Hot Spot. She also scooped the $1,000 ALPG Tour Hole-in-one Club pool.
+Many thanks to Bethan Cutler of the Ladies European Tour for supplying the final totals which were not on the Australian LPG website:
FINAL TOTALS
Par 216 (3 x 72)
207 L Davies (England) 70 70 67 ($18,750).
209 S Oh (Australia) 70 68 71 ($12,500).
211 L Wahlin (Sweden) 70 71 70 ($7,500).
212 L Hall (Wales) 71 71 70 ($6,250).
213 M Reid (England) 74 71 68, J Mills (Australia) 69 73 71 ($4,875 each).
214 K S Taylor (England) 70 75 69, G Nocera (France) 73 70 71, K Hull (Australia) 68 71 75 ($3,791 each), K Smith (Australia) (amateur) 71 72 71, J Lee (Australia) (amateur) 70 73 71.
215 G Simpson (England) 74 72 69, F Bondad (Australia) 74 69 72, M Eberl (Germany) 68 73 74, C Ekelundh (Sweden) 70 76 69 ($2,406 each), A Watkinson (Australia) (amateur) 73 69 73.
Other scores:
216 L Kenny (Scotland) 74 69 73 ($1,706) (jt 17th).
217 J Westerberg (Sweden) 72 74 71 ($1,500) (jt 21st).
218 M Bourdy (France) 72 74 72 ($1,335) (jt 23rd).
219 E McKinnon (NZ/Scotland) 76 69 74, A Moltke-Leth (Denmark) 74 72 73 ($1,075 each) (jt 26th).
220 R Coakley (Ireland) 71 70 79, K-M Juul (Denmark) 72 73 75 ($825 each) (jt 35th).
221 D Montgomerie (England) 71 72 78, A Monke (Germany) 72 76 73 ($737 each) (jt 39th).
223 C Queen (Scotland) 79 70 74, J Schaeffer (France) 71 78 75 ($525 each) (jt 51st).
231 B Hauert (Germany) 75 74 82 (65th) ($275).
MISSED THE CUT
150 K Matharu (England) 75 75, S Arricau (France) 75 75, M Prieto (Spain) 71 78.
151 V Valvasorri (Italy) 79 72, M Bagger (Denmark) 72 79, C Kirkland (France) 75 76, E Esterl (Germany) 79 72.
152 F Johnson (England) 75 77, S Walker (England) 74 78, L Kreutz (France) 75 77, A-N Hansen(Denmark) 74 78.
153 N David-Mila (France) 81 72.
156 S Sandolo (Italy) 75 81.
169 A Rossi (Italy) 83 86.
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