Press Release

JULIE TVEDE JUST MAKES
IT PAST WINNING POST IN
SOUTH AFRICAN OPEN

Overnight leader by six strokes, Julie Tvede from Demark had only one shot of an advantage left in hand as she passed the winning post in the 2008 Acer Women’s South African Open at Durban Country Club.
Julie, who had seemingly outstripped the field with her opening rounds of 66 and 69, finished with a 74 for a 10-under-par total of 209 over the par-73 lay-out.
The heat and a fairly strong wind coming off the sea on the front nine seemed to affect the all the players today.
Tvede, Ladies European Tour image on left, who had a bogey free second round, had a shaky start this morning. Her first tee shot went into the rough and buried itself in a divot on the left of the fairway. With a rescue club she punched it out, but finished up with a bogey start to her day.
On the par-4 seventh, Tvede dropped another shot after a being bunkered and missing from 10ft for a par.
Things started to look up when the Dane claimed her first birdie of the day on the par-5 eighth and she was one shot clear of the field at the turn.
She claimed two more birdies at the 11th and 14th further two birdies on the 11th and 14th holes, but bogeyed the short 15th with three putts and dropped another shot after bunkering her approach at the 16th. Another shot went by the wayside at the 17th but she hung on down the 18th to win by the narrowest of margins from France's Anne-Lisa Caudal who had the best round of the last day, a four-under-par 69, for 210.
"I was very comfortable today, even though I was playing alongside Julie, I just played each shot as it came," said Anne-Lisa who birdied the par-5 third and fifth to put the pressure on the leader.
At the turn Caudal was only one shot behind Tvede. Her drive off the 14th landed her in the bunker, but she recovered to within 150 metres. She then chipped up onto the green and holed the putt for her fourth birdie of the day.
On the par-4 16th Caudal pushed her drive right of the fairway, but managed a good wedge shot to the 150 metre mark, and then holed the putt.
In the final analysis it was a bogey 5 at the 17th, where she hooked her drive into a bush, that was to cost the French player the chance to tie and go into a play-off.
She played a nine iron onto the green but could not hole a par-saving putt.
At the 18th, Caudal had to settle for a par and defeat by one-shot after failed to take a birdie opportunity.
Norway's Marianne Skarpnord finished third on 212 after a closing 70. Then came two South Africans, Stacy Bregman (72-214) and Lee-Anne Pace (71-215).
Leading British finisher was former champion Rebecca Hudson from Doncaster. Rebecca, who won last week's South African Ladies Tour event, signed off with a 74 for fifth place on 217.
Good news for the local crowd was the performance from Westville resident Pam Hayward. Hayward, who played for the first time on the Ladies African Tour this year, took the honours as the leading amateur with a final round of 77 for three-over-par 222.
The Pinetown Girls High teacher, who lost in the playoff two weeks ago at the Eastern Cape Amateur Championships, only started playing competitive golf three years ago.
The Ladies African Tour moves to Nelspruit for the first time next week, with the start of the Pam Golding Ladies International being played at the Nelspruit Golf Club on Thursday.
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FINAL TOTALS
Par 219 (3 x 73)
Players from South Africa unless stated.
(am) denotes amateur.
209 Julie Tvede (Den) 66 69 74.
210 Anne-Lise Caudal (Fra) 69 72 69.
212 Marianne Skarpnord (Nor) 73 69 70.
214 Stacy Bregman 72 70 72.
215 Lee-Anne Pace 70 74 71.
217 Rebecca Hudson (Eng) 68 75 74.
221 Lisa Holm Sorensen (Den) 70 77 74.
222 Pam Hayward (am) 75 70 77.
223 Monique Smit (am) 73 73 77, Laurette Maritz 74 76 73.
224 Antonella Cvitan (Swe) 74 73 77.
225 Lill Kristin Saether (Nor) 73 74 78, Emma Lyons (Eng) 73 76 76
227 Morgana Robbertze 76 70 81, Cecilia Ekelundh (Swe) 75 79 73.
228 Bertine Strauss (am) 69 76 83, Maria Boden (Swe) 75 77 76, Mandy Adamson 73 74 81.
229 Johanna Westerberg (Swe) 75 76 78, Cecilie Lundgreen (Nor) 75 78 76.
230 Florence Luscher (Swi) 74 75 81, Zuzana Kamasova (Slovakia) 82 74 74, Sohvi Harkonen (Fin) 70 79 81.
231 Emma Zackrisson (Swe) 75 83 73, Caryn Louw 78 77 76, Bonita Bredenhann (Nam) (am) 71 73 87; Karin Borjeskog (Swe) 68 77 86.
232 Frederique Seeholzer (Swi) 79 77 76, Henriette Frylinck (am) 79 79 74, Sandra Carlborg (Swe) 78 78 76.
233 Jillian Wyne (Can) 78 78 77, Kim Williams (am) 78 70 85, Tandi von Ruben (am) 80 74 79, Anna Temple (US) 77 76 80, Gina Switala (am) 81 73 79, Ashleigh Holmes (am) 75 78 80.
234 Kaisa Ruuttila (Fin) 74 76 84, Michelle de Vries 80 75 79
236 Amy French (Aus) 79 77 80, Jo Clingan (Eng) 79 74 83, Nicole Becker (am) 78 75 83.
237 Kelly Hutcherson (Eng) 76 79 82.
238 Maria Beautell (Spa) 75 78 85
239 Sandra Winter (am) 78 78 83, Jenna Schonfeld (am) 84 80 75, Mercia Pretorius (am) 73 81 85, Rose Naliaka (Ken) 79 83 77, Julie Berton (Fra) 83 75 81.
241 Nicole Garcia (am) 84 78 79
242 Tsebo Betty(am) 83 79 81, Nicole Carlse (am) 80 81 82; Lise Botha 79 84 80
245 Sarah Faller (Ire) (am) 84 72 89, Connie Chen (am) 74 90 81, Nora Angehrn (Swi) 78 82 85
246 Marne Roos (am) 83 76 87
247 Crizelda van Niekerk 87 74 86
250 Sune Du Plooy (am) 79 74 97
252 Alana van Greuning (am) 85 79 88

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