Orange Blossom Tour

LIZ BENNETT LOSES AT 19th IN
FLORIDA SEMI-FINAL

Great Britain & Ireland Curtis Cup team candidate Liz Bennett from Hampshire, winner of last week's South Atlantic Ladies amateur golf championship in Florida, failed in her bid to complete a notable back-to-back double triumph on the Orange Blossom Tour.
The 25-year-old Brokenhurst Manor player, pictured right, lost at the 19th to Meghan Bolger, who this week was named in the American Curtis Cup team for St Andrews at the end of May, in the semi-finals of the Jones/Doherty women's amateur match-play championship at Coral Ridge Country Club near Fort Lauderdale.
The other semi-final was a battle between two of former world tennis ace Ivan Lendl's golfing daughters. Isabelle Lendl, 16-year-old conqueror of Aberdeenshire champion Michele Thomson (McDonald Ellon) in Thuirsday's quarter-finals, beat the defending champion, 17-year-old Marika Lendl, by 4 and 2.
There will be one English player in Saturday's finals.
Rachel Connor, teenage daughter of Manchester Golf Club's Scots-born professional Brian, will meet American Kyle Roig in the First Flight final.
Rachel won by 4 and 3 in the semi-finals over American Taylor Collins. Roig beat Sarah Hassan (Vale of Glamorgan) 3 and 2 in the other.
Carol Semple Thomson, skipper of the US Curtis Cup team for St Andrews, is through to the final of the seniors' championship.

Today's semi-finals resulted:

CHAMPIONSHIP

Players from US unless stated.

Isabelle Lendl bt Marika Lendl 4 and 2.

Meghan Bolger bt Liz Bennett at 19th.

FIRST FLIGHT

Rachel Connor (Manchester) bt Taylor Collins 4 and 3.

Kyle Roig bt Sahra Hassan (Vale of Glamorgan) 3 and 2.

SENIORS

Carol Semple Thompson bt Connie Shorb at 19th.

Ann Fulginiti Carolyn Creekmore 2 holes.