Pamela Pretswell, overnight leader lost her touch in third round at Falsterbo, Sweden (image by Cal Carson Golf agency, click on it to enlarge).

Kylie 10 shots off the lead in second place

as Pamela crashes with an 80

Buchanan Castle’s Kylie Walker moved into second place as overnight leader Pamela Pretswell (Bothwell Castle) had a disastrous round to drop out of contention with one round to go in the European women’s amateur championship at Falsterbo Golf Club on Sweden’s southern tip today.
Kylie matched the par of 71 for a 54-hole tally of four-over 217 but finished the day seven strokes adrift the leader, Sweden’s Caroline Hedwall who shot a brilliant inward half of 31 for a 66 and a three-under-par total of 210.
Hedwall, who reached the final of the British women’s open amateur championship at North Berwick last summer and plays on the US college circuit, birdied the 11th, 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th and 18th to get one hand on the championship trophy.
Walker birdied the fourth, seventh and 14th but bogeyed the sixth, eighth and 16th in halves of 34 and 37.
Her GB&I Vagliano Trophy team-mate Pretswell, who had looked so impressive in compiling a 69 for a two-shot lead on Thursday, had her worst day on a golf course for a long time in returning a nine-over 80 for joint ninth position on 222.
The feature of Pamela's rise to front-line amateur status over the past couple of years has been her ability to hit fairways and greens in regulation, and having little variation from par. But she lost her touch in Sweden today.
The 20-year-old Glasgow University student had double bogeys at the first, fifth, 16th and 18th in halves of 38 (four over) and 42 (five over). She did have birdies at the second and seventh but dropped five shots to par over the last three holes when on the point of salvaging a score in the mid-70s.
Danielle McVeigh (Royal Co Down), winner of the British women’s open amateur stroke-play title at Royal Aberdeen last Friday, had her second round of 75 in a row, to be sharing fourth place on 220, 10 shots behind Hedwall. McVeigh had only one birdie, at the seventh, and bogeyed the sixth, ninth, 10th, 12th and 13th in her uninspired round.
Majorca-based Lauren Mackin, the third Scot in the field, missed the cut – 60 players with totals of 233 or better – with an 83 for 243 and joint 101st place.

THIRD ROUND LEADERS
Par 213 (3x71)
210 Caroline Hedwall (Swe) 70 74 66.
217 Kylie Walker (Sco) 70 76 71.
219 Marion Ricordeau (Fra) 74 74 71.
220 Lara Katzy (Ger) 74 75 71, Daisy Nielson (Den) 71 77 72, Danielle McVeigh (Ire) 70 75 75.
221 Rachel Jennings (Eng) 74 75 72, Lucie Andre (Fra) 72 72 77.
222 Emma Nilsson (Swe) 76 77 69, Louise Larsson (Swe) 70 78 74, Holly Clyburn (Eng) 76 72 74, Pamela Pretswell (Sco) 73 69 80.
Selected scores:
225 Rhian Wyn Thomas (Wal) 73 79 73 (jt 18th).
227 Amy Boulden (Wal) 77 74 76 (jt 29th).
231 Hannah Barwood (Eng) 80 75 76 (jt 50th).
MISSED THE CUT
(60 players with 233 or better)
236 Tara Davies (Wal) 80 78 78 (jt 70th).
238 Rachel Connor (Eng) 83 76 79 (jt 75th).
243 Sarah Cunningham (Ire) 78 84 81, Lauren Mackin (Sco) 77 83 83, Charlene Reid (Ire) 80 79 84 (jt 101st).