CARLY BOOTH & CO ELIMINATED AT THE BERKSHIRE

Jane Turner, Katy

McNicoll qualify

for next stage of

Ricoh Women's

British Open

Twenty six players - including Scottish amateurs Jane Turner (Craigielaw) and Katy McNicoll (Carnoustie Ladies) have made it through to the Final Qualifying for Ricoh Women's British Open
championship.
Mid-Herts amateur Hannah Burke, who plays the American college circuit as a student at Baylor University, Texas, shared the lead on three-under par 69 alongside former Curtis Cup players and now Ladies European Tour pros Elizabeth Bennett (Brokenhurst Manor) and Rachel Bell (Ganton) in yesterday's pre-qualifying 18-hole competition at The Berkshire Golf Club.
The Final Qualifying will be played at Fairhaven Golf Club, Lancashire on Monday, July 27.
Ricoh's Women's British Open will be held at Royal Lytham & St Annes, also in Lancashire, from July 30 to August 2.
In all, the leading 26 players from the 101-player field returned scores of +1 over par 73 at The Berkshire's Blue Course, in mixed conditions, and made it through to the next stage.
Twenty spots are available into the championship field from Final Qualifying.
championship at Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club, Lancashire from July 30 to August 2.
Jane Turner had a par-matching round of 72 to be joint sixth best among the qualifiers from The Berkshire. Highlight of 19-year-old Jane's scorecard was an eagle 3 at the long 11th. She also birdied the long sixth in halves of 36.
Katy McNicoll, pictured above by Cal Carson Golf Agency, an impressive winner of the North of Scotland women's amateur championship at Newmachar last week, hit the limit mark of 73 and it is a tribute to how much the rest of her game has improved that she was able to qualify despite taking as many as 36 putts.
Katy birdied four par-5s, the third, sixth, 11th and 16th, in halves of 37 and 36.
The qualifiers included Rachel Connor, daughter of Manchester Golf Club's Scottish-born professional Brian.
Scots who failed to make the grade included former Scottish amateur champion Jenna Wilson (Strathaven) with a 79, Scotland amateur international Laura Murray (Alford) with an 81, Auchterarder amateur and Scotland cap Emily Ogilvy with an 82, Curtis Cup teenager Carly Booth (Comrie) with a 12-over-par 84 and Mearns Castle Golf Academy coach Karyn Burns with an 86.
Carly, now 17, had a nightmare round of a triple bogey 7 at the 15th and double bogeys at the second, sixth, and 17th in halves of 42. She had one birdie, at the long 15th.
Jenna Wilson had one triple bogey and one double bogey in halves of 39 and 40.
Laura Murray had three double bogeys in halves of 39 and 42.
Emily Ogilvy had one triple bogey and two double bogeys in halves of 42 and 40.
Karyn Burns had halves of 42 and 44.
QUALIFIERS
Par 72
69 Hannah Burke (Mid-Herts) (am), Elizabeth Bennett (Eng), Rachel Bell (Eng).
71 Matia Maffulietti (Ita), Louise Davis (Wal).
72 Ana Larraneta (Spa), Henrietta Zuel (Eng), Claire Coughlan-Ryan (Ire), Jane Turner (Craigielaw) (am), Rachel Connor (Manchester) (am), Kirsty Taylor (Eng), Simi Mehra (India), Rebecca Flood (Aus) (am).
73 Lauren Taylor (Woburn) (am), Anna Rossi (Ita), Jo Clingan (Eng), Lora Fairclough (Eng), Katy McNicoll (Carnoustie Ladies) (am), Tara Watters (Muswell Hill) (am), Sahra Hassan (Wal), Hannah Barwood (Knowle) (am), Charlotte Ellis (Minchinhampton) (am), Ellie Givens (Blackwell Grange) (am), Sandra Eggermont (Hol), Frederique Seeholzer (Swi), Bing Lim (Malaysia).
MISSED THE CUT
74 Hannah Turland (Tidworth) (am), Corisande Lee (West Lancashire) (am), Laurette Maritz (SAf), Tracey Boyes (Eng) (am), Marousa Polias (Aus), Nicky Henderson (Aus).
75 Kym Larratt (Kibworth) (am), Jo Pritchard (Wal), Kelly Tidy (Royal Birkdale) (am), Nathalie David-Mills (Fra), Alex Keighley (Eng), Danielle Masters (Eng), Holly Clyburn (Woodhall Spa) (am), Charlotte Dalton (Ladbrook Park) (am), Charlotte Wild (Mere) (am), Laura Eastwood (Eng), Holly Aitchison (Eng).
76 Kiran Matharu (Eng), Vittoria Valvassori (Ita), Kerry Knowles (Eng), Julie Tvede (Den), Joanne Oliver (Eng), Marian Riordan (Ire), Sally Shayler (Eng) (am), Bronwyn Mullins-Lane (Aus), Laura Collin (John O'Gaunt) (am), Hannah Jenkins (Cradoc) (am), Caroline Grady (Eng), Caroline Rominger (Swi), Kimberley Crooks (Seaford) (am), Barbara Genuini (Fra).
77 Jutta Degerman (Fin), Jacqueline Hedwall (Swe) (am), Sarah Heath (Eng), Sian James (Eng) (am), Helen Sparrow (Eng), Claire Aitken (Eng), Stephanie Na (Aus), Whitney Wright (US).
78 Tilly Holder (Woburn) (am), Maria Ringdahl (Swe), Hannah Grant (Enmore Park) (am), Anna Maria Milie (Ita), Karen Heywood (Eng), Zuzana Masinova (Cze), Kelly Travers (Eng), Susan Moon (US), Alexandra Peters (Notts Ladies) (am), Valentine Derrey (Fra) (am), Amy Goodman (Eng), Sandy Lambert (Eng), Lucy Williams (Mid-Herts) (am).
79 Charlie Douglass (Brocket Hall) (am), Emily Taylor (Royal Lytham) (am), Jenna Wilson (Strathaven).
80 Tara Delaney (Ire), Caroline Goasguen (Fra), Jamie-Leigh Voss (Kirby Muxloe) (am), Rachel Adby (Eng), Liza Shervill (Eng).
81 Kirsty Fisher (Eng), Laura Murray (Alford) (am), Maria Tulley (Eng), Clare Durbin (Eng), Marie Allen (Eng), Natalie Lowe (Macclesfield) (am), Cassandra Blaney (US).
82 Sarah Attwood (Eng) (am), Krisztina Fodor (Hun), Emma Brown (Malton & Norton) (am), Kelly Hutcherson (Eng), Emily Ogilvy (Auchterarder) (am).
83 Laure Sibille (Fra).
84 Carly Booth (Comrie) am).
86 Lynne Cummins (Eng), Kary Burns (Mearns Castle), Vanessa Bell (Eng).