Kylie and Carly stay on track at La Manga

but Katy McNicoll fails to beat Round 2 cut

Kylie Walker and Carly Booth qualified with ease for the third and final round of the Ladies European Tour Qualifying Stage 1 tournament at La Manga, south-east Spain today.

But the third Scot in the field, Carnoustie's Katy McNicoll, a professional unless Kylie and Carly who are still amateurs, failed to figure among the leading 70 players after today's second round and has been eliminated.

The leading 46 after the Stage 1 third round, being played on Thursday instead of today after the opening day was abandoned because of bad weather, will go forward to join the exempt players in the four-round Final Qualifying tournament at La Manga from Friday through to Monday.

Kylie, currently joint 10th, repeated her first-day 72 and is on level par 144 - four shots behind the joint leaders, Spain's Maria Hernandez, who followed up a 71 with a 69 for 140, and Australian Kristie Smith, daughter of a professional. Smith shot 69 and 71 to hit the four-under-par mark.

In third place overnight will be Galway-born US Curtis Cup player Alison Walshe whose 141 tally has been made up of a 71 and a 70 for 141.

Leading English players are two amateurs, Hannah Ralph and Kym Larratt on one-under-143. Hannah has scored 73 and 70, Kym 71 and 72.

Carly Booth has had steady rounds of 74 and 73 for 147 and is sharing 20th place. But Katy McNicoll, pictured above by Cal Carson Golf Agency, added a 78 to her first-day 83 and, with a two-round total of 161, missed by six shots the cut-off point of 11-over-par 155 or better.

QUALIFIERS FOR THIRD ROUND STAGE 1
Par 144 (South Course par 73, North Course par 71)
140 Maria Hernandez (Spain) 71 69, Alison Smith (Australia) 69 71.
141 Alison Walshe (Ireland/US) 71 70.
142 Hannah Jun (US) 71 71.
143 Dewi-Claire Schreefel (Netherlands) 71 72, Diana D'Alessio (US) 73 70, Maria Jose Uribe (Columbia) 76 67, Hannah Ralph (England) (amateur) 73 70, Kym Larratt (England) (amateur) 71 72.
144 Kylie Walker (Scotland) (amateur) 72 72, Sara Beautell (Spain) 75 69, Marieke Nivard (Netherlands) (amateur) 74 70, Pernilla Lindberg (Sweden) 73 75.

145 Laure Sibille (France) 73 72, Caroline Masson (Germany) (amater) 74 71, Antonella Cvitan (Sweden) 76 69.

146 Nathalie David-Mila (France) 74 72, Kim Welch (US) 73 73, Jeehae Lee (South Korea) 74 72.

147 Therese Nilsson (Sweden) 76 71, Julie Maisongrosse (France) (amateur) 78 69, Carly Booth (Scotland) (amateur) 74 73, G Young Park (South Korea) 75 72.

148 Danielle Masters (England) 76 72, Celine Herbin (France) 78 70.

149 Line Hansen (Denmark) (amateur) 80 69, Viva Schlasberg (Sweden) 73 76.

150 Mariana Macias Capuzzi (Spain) 76 74, Jess Wilcox (England) (amateur) 77 73, Frederique Szeeholzer (Switzerland) 76 74, Nicole Smith (US) 77 73, Mallory Blackwelder (US) 78 72.

151 Corisan de Lee (England) (amateur) 77 74, Rebecca Flood (Australia) 77 74, Mollie Fanklhauser (US)( 80 71, Tara Davies (Wales) (amateur) 77 74, Stacey Keatring (Australia) (amateur) 78 73.

152 Elin Andersson (Sweden) 77 75, Tonya Choate (US) 81 71, Elma Nimmenpaa (Finland) (amateur) 82 70, Jo Clingan (England) 76 76, Kate Combes (Australia) 78 74.

153 Emelie Lind (Sweden) 78 75, Sophie Sandolo (Italy) 77 76, Lien Willems (Belgium) 78 75, Maru Martinez (Venezuela) 77 76, Vicky Thomas (Australia) 77 76, Rhian Wyn Thomas (Wales) (amateur) 81 72, Franziska Blum (Germany) (amateur) 78 75, Rachel Drummond (England) (amateur) 77 76, Itziar Elguezabal (Spain) 78 75, Laura Boe-Hansen (Denmark) (amateur) 79 74, Kaisa Ruuttila (Finland) 78 75.

154 Sanna Johanssson (Sweden) 78 76, Sarah Abercromby (Denmark) 76 78, Jill Magnusson (Sweden) 78 76, Laura Eastwood (England) 77 77, Caroline Bon (New Zealand) (amateur) 77 77, Henr8ietta Zuel (England) 79 75, Lucie Andrew (France) (amateur) 77 77, Clare Choi (Australia) 81 73, Nicole Forshner (Canada) 78 76, Monica V Christiansen (Denmark) 81 73.

MISSED THE CUT

156 Madelene Augustsson (Sweden) 76 80, Marion Ricordeau (France) (amateur) 83 73, Galina Rotmistrova (Russia) 84 72, Mari Suursalu (Estonia) 76 80, Caroline Grady (England) 77 79, Elina Ikavalko (Finland) (amateur) 81 75, Tilly Magill (England) (amateur) 81 75, Woori Shin (South Korea) 82 74.

157 Liebelei Lawrence (Greece) (amateur) 77 80, Michelle Smith (England) 79 78, Jutta Degerman (Finland) 77 80, Hermione Fitzgerald (England) (amateur) 82 75, Maria Martin Lopez (Spain) 79 78, Isabella Ramsay (Sweden) 78 79, Sohvi Harkonen (Finland) 86 71, Frederique Dorbes (France) 76 81.

159 Matia Maffiuletti (Italy) 84 75, Naoko Shiraishi (Japan) 82 77.

160 Vittoria Valvassori (Italy) 86 74, Jessica Carafiello (US) 86 74, Marian Ringdahl (Sweden) 80 80, Kirsty J Fisher (England) 84 76.

161 Tracey Boyes (England) (amateur) 84 77, Katy McNicoll (Scotland) 83 78, Franziska Neef (Germnany) (amateur) 78 83, Sasha Medina (Puerto Rico) 84 77, Charlotte Dalton (England) (amateur) 83 78.

162 Rebecca Green (Australia) 86 76, Patricia Beliard (France) 83 79.

163 Hannah Grant (England) (amateur) 83 80, Marian J De Miguel (Spain) 83 80.

164 Sabina Imboden (Switzerland) 85 79, Kimberley Crooks (England) 88 76.

165 Jane Binning (England) (amateur) 91 74, Caroline Goasguen (France) 85 80.

166 Giusy Paolillo (Italy) 85 81, Rosa Svahn (Finland) 87 79, Angela Hawkes (New Zealand) 88 78, Caroline Martens (Norway) 87 79.

167 Noonnatada Huajai (Thailand) 88 79.

168 Jackie Gonzalez (Venezuela) 86 82.

169 Clare Durbin (England) 82 87, Tara Dwyer-Smith (England) 92 77.

171 Tijana Kraljevic (Serbia) 88 83.

179 Henriette Schilling (Germany) (amateur0 92 87.

182 Audrey Goumard (France) (amateur) 93 98.

Retired: Monica Pineda (US) -, Olivia Le Borgne (France) (amateur) 86 -, Vera Schimanskaya (Rus) -, Cheryl Smith (England) 97 -.

Disqualified: Florence Luscher (Switzerland).