Solid start by Lynn (72) and

Clare (73) to ANZ Ladies

Masters in Queensland

Lisa Hall faces an uphill task if she is to win the ANZ Ladies Masters two years in a row at Royal Pines Resort, Queensland, Australia after starting the tournament with a four-over-par 76 over the 5892 metres course. Generally, the scoring was low with four players setting the pace on five-under-par 67 - Marianne Skarpnood, the former British girls champion from Norway, Welsh Solheim Cup player Becky Brewerton, South Korea Ii-Hee Lee and South African Lee Anne Pace.
Scots Lynn Kenny, pictured above, and Clare Queen made solid starts with rounds of 72 and 73 respectively. Lynn, who plays out of Archerfield Links, missed the cut last week in New Zealand but looked more like the player who breezed through the LET Q School at La Manga last month. She bogeyed the second and fourth but settled to birdie the short fifth and the par-4 sixth. She dropped a shot at the eight to be out in one-over-par 37 but came home in one under with a bogey at the 10th and birdies at the long 12th and par-4 17th

Clare, who did not play in New Zealand, made a fast start with birdies at the long third and fort fifth but she gave her gains back with bogeys at the seventh and ninth to turn in level 37. Again she got ahead of the game early on the inward half with birdies at the 10th and short 11th but she sagged over the final holes with successive bogeys at the 15th, 16th and 17th.

Laura Davies continues to struggle Down Under. She did not play well in the NZ Ladies Open and in Australia she has saddled herself with an opening round of seven-over-par 79.

ALL THE FIRST-ROUND SCORES

Par 72

67 II-Hee Lee (Kor), Becky Brewerton (Wal), Marianne Skarpnord (Nor), Lee-Anne Pace (Rsa).
68 Carmen Alonso (Spa), Hye Youn Kim (Kor), Stacy Lee Bregman (Rsa), Ursula Wikstrom (Fin).
69 Gwladys Nocera (Fra), Haeji Kang (Kor), Nikki Campbell (Aus), Rebecca Flood (Aus), Beth Allen (USA), Katherine Hull (Aus), Ji-Yai Shin (Kor), Alison Walshe (USA), Cherie Byrnes (Aus)
70 Jin Joo Kim (Kor), Frances Bondad (Aus), Karrie Webb (Aus), Sarah Oh (Aus), Rachel Hetherington (Aus), Tamie Durdin (Aus), Samantha Head (Eng), Dana Lacey (Aus), He Yong Choi (Kor), Mollie Fankhauser (USA), Rachel Bailey (Aus), Ji-Hye Jang (Kor)
71 So Yeon Ryu (Kor), Carlie Bridge (Aus), Johanna Westerberg (Swe), Stacey Tate (Nzl), Lotta Wahlin (Swe), Lorie Kane (Can), Ya-Ni Tseng (Tpe), Felicity Johnson (Eng), Emma Cabrera-Bello (Spa), Christine Hallstrom (Swe), Wendy Berger (Aus), Ai Miyazato (Jpn), Lindsey Wright (Aus), Bobea Park (Kor), Georgina Simpson (Eng), Karen Lunn (Aus), Anna Rawson (Aus)
72 Tamara Beckett (Aus), Nancy Harvey (Can), Whitney Hillier (Aus), Lisa Jean (Aus), Christel Boeljon (Ned), Rebecca Hudson (Eng), Diana Dalessio (USA), Susie Mathews (Aus), Da-Na Kang (Kor), Lynn Kenny (Sco), Anne-Lise Caudal (Fra), Nikki Garrett (Aus), Linda Wessberg (Swe), Hee-Kyung Seo (Kor), Chang-Hee Lee (Kor), Stephanie Na (Aus), Aram Cho (Kor)
73 Wendy Doolan (Aus), Sarah Kemp (Aus), Smriti Mehra (Ind), Florentyna Parker (Eng), Yuki Sakurai (Jpn), Sarah-Jane Smith (Aus), Kristie Smith (Aus), Beth Bader (USA), Joanne Mills (Aus), Beatriz Recari (Spa), Melodie Bourdy (Fra), Julie Tvede (Den), Clare Queen (Sco)
74 Vicky Thomas (Aus), Cecilie Lundgreen (Nor), Laurette Maritz (Rsa), Rebecca Coakley (Irl), Diana Luna (Ita), Martina Eberl (Ger), Julia Boland (Aus), Tania Elosegui (Spa), Melissa Reid (Eng), Stacey Keating (Aus), Jade Schaeffer (Fra), Titiya Plucksataporn (Tha), Maria Verchenova (Rus), Danielle Montgomery (Eng), Ji-Na Lim (Kor)
75 Marousa Polias (Aus), Heidi McCulkin (Aus), Riko Higashio (Jpn), Angela Tatt (Aus), Trish Johnson (Eng), Nina Reis (Swe), Stefanie Michl (Aut), Loraine Lambert (Aus), Bo Mi Suh (Kor), Verity Knight (Aus), Michelle Ellis (Aus), Sarah Nicholson (Nzl), Anna Knutsson (Swe), Matia Maffiuletti (Ita), Vikki Tutt (Aus)
76 Mianne Bagger (Den), Jenny Sevil (Aus), Bettina Hauert (Ger), Ashley Ona (Aus), Kirsty S Taylor (Eng), Elizabeth McKinnon (Nzl), Kiran Matharu (Eng), Carmen Railton (Aus), Lydia Hall (Wal)
77 Sophie Walker (Eng), Katy Jarochowicz (Aus), Leah Hart (Aus), Marjet van der Graaff (Ned), Sharon O'Neill-Hempstock (Aus), Jenni Kuosa (Fin), Chie Arimura (Jpn), Katharina Schallenberg (Ger), Bing Lim (Mal), Nicole Montgomery (Aus), Joanna Mantle (Aus), Jane Kim (Aus)
78 Jane Suckling (Aus), Lisa Hall (Eng), Karen Quinn (Aus), Kate Combes (Aus), Eva Steinberger (Aut), Brandie Burton (USA), Emma Zackrisson (Swe), Sunny Park (Aus), Bree Turnbull (Aus), Rosemary MacDonald (Aus), Ko-Chen Yeh (Tai)
79 Tamara Hyett (Aus), Viva Schlasberg (Swe), Torie O'Connor (Aus), Laura Davies (Eng), Angela Harris (Aus)
81 Justine Lee (Aus)
82 Polly Travica (Aus), Angela Tunchon (Aus), Jessica Noh (Aus)
83 Bronwyn Mullins-Lane (Aus), Kirsty J Fisher (Eng), Elisabeth Esterl (Ger).

FROM THE LADIES EUROPEAN TOUR WEBSITE:
Welsh golfer Becky Brewerton grabbed a share of the first round lead at the ANZ Ladies Masters in Australia today.
She and three others opened with five-under-par 67s, upstaging the likes of world No.2 Yani Tseng, who shot 71, world No.5, Jiyai Shin who had 69 and the six-time event champion Karrie Webb.
The 26-year-old Solheim Cup player shared pole position with Norway’s Marianne Skarpnord, South African Lee-Anne Pace and South Korean Il-Hee Lee, who were all flawless with five birdies apiece.
Starting her round at the 10th hole, Brewerton reeled off five birdies over the back nine and turned in 30. She recovered from a double bogey six at the second hole with back-to-back birdies for an inward total of 37, even par.
The 2007 Ladies English Open champion is making her fourth appearance at Royal Pines Resort on the Gold Coast in Queensland, where she shot an opening round of 66 in 2007 before finishing tied for eighth behind Webb.
“This is one of my favourite courses and I’ve done quite well here. I’ve got good memories and it suits my game well. If you can drive it long and straight you’ve got a real advantage,” Brewerton said.
Brewerton recorded eight top ten finishes last season and was 15th on the New Star Money List for the third time running. She has been working hard over the winter in an attempt to bring her game up to the next level and has been put through her paces by her new fitness trainer Steve Bond.
She cited a stronger mental approach as the key to overcoming the double bogey she took after snap hooking her ball into the root of a tree. “I think before if I had made a mistake like that I would have given myself too hard a time and ended up on one or two under when I should have been at least five under. In situations like that the work I have been doing has definitely helped,” she said.
The 22-year-old Skarpnord equalled Brewerton’s 67 with three birdies on the front nine and two on the back. Her best finish was runner up to world No.4 Suzann Pettersen at the AIB Ladies Irish Open in July last year.
Pace, who will turn 28 later this month, was the sole leader to have played in the breezier, but warm, afternoon conditions. Her best finish on tour was a tie for fourth at the SAS Ladies Masters in Norway last year.
Lee, another talented player from the Korean Ladies Professional Golf Association (KLPGA), was runner-up to Shin in the Woori Ladies Tournament early last year. She started her round at the 10th and turned in 32 before picking up two more birdies coming home.
She is known as one of the dragon ladies, having been born in the year of the dragon. Like many of her generation, her idol is Se Ri Pak.