Breanne five shots clear
with one round to to in

Irish open stroke-play

PRESS RELEASE ISSUED BY IRISH LADIES GOLF UNION
Welsh Curtis Cup star Breanne Loucks (Wrexham), pictured right by Cal Carson Golf Agency (all rights reserved), leads the field by five strokes going into Sunday's third and final round of the Irish women’s open amateur stroke-play championship at Elm Park Golf Club, Dublin.
In blustery but dry conditions, Loucks fired an impressive 69 and then a 72 for a 36-hole tally of 141 over the testing par-73 lay-out where all but one of the tees was played off the men’s blue medal markers.
Thirteen-year-old Lisa Maguire (Slieve Russell), runner-up to her 13-year-old twin sister Leona at the Irish women's close championship at Westport, was next best on 146 with a fine 74 added to her opening one under 72.
French Under-18 international Audrey Goumard, with an opening 70, matched Maguire’s tally as did Turkish International Nejla Gercek after a fine 72 in the afternoon.
Irish women’s close champion Leona Maguire added a 75 to her opening 72 to lie just one shot further back alongside Carlow’s Aedin Murphy who punched well above her weight to return a one over par 74 following an opening 73.

Danielle McVeigh (Royal Co. Down Ladies) was best in the afternoon with a 71 to leave her eight shots off the pace.

The in-form Niamh Kitching (Claremorris) signed for a disappointing 81 in the afternoon following a level par 73 in the morning while, just six shots off the pace, former title-holder Tara Delaney (Carlow) is well placed to attack on the home stretch.
The top 40 who survived today’s cut, at 13 over par, commence their final round at 8am on Sunday with the leaders teeing off at 10.20am.

QUALIFIERS

Par 146 (2 x 73)

141 Breanne Loucks (Wal) 69 72.
146 Nejla Gercek (Tur) 74 72, Lisa Maguire (Slieve Russell) 72 74, Audrey Goumard (Fra) 70 76.
147 Aedin Murphy (Carlow) 74 73, Roseanne Niven (Sco) 73 74, Leona Maguire (Slieve Russell) 72 75, Tara Delaney (Carlow) 72 75.
149 Danielle McVeigh (Royal Co Down Ladies) 78 71, Charlotte Wild (Eng) 76 73.
150 Charlotte Ellis (Eng) 75 75, Louise Kenney (Sco) 73 77.
151 Leigh Whittaker (Ger) 77 74, Deirdre Smith (Co Louth) 76 75, Tara Watters (Eng) 76 75.
152 Jane Turner (Sco) 80 72, Alexandra Bonetti (Fra) 79 73, Rhian Wyn Thomas (Wal) 78 74, Emilie Alonso (Fra) 76 76.
153 Jo Nicolson (Wal) 78 75, Nina Holleder (Ger) 77 76, Gemma Hegarty (Greencastle) 75 78.
154 Shirley Harvey (Ballyclare) 80 74, Gillian O'Leary (Cork) 78 76, Rosanna Crepiat (Fra) 76 78, Niamh Kitching (Claremorris) 73 81.
155 Pamela Pretswell (Sco) 77 78.
156 Tara Davies (Wal) 77 79, Anne McCormack (Roscommon) 76 80.
157 Elcin Ulu (Tur) 82 75, Ragna Bjork Olafsdottir (Ice) 77 80, Rebecca Watson (Sco) 77 80.
158 Dawn Marie Conaty (Ashbourne) 81 77, Karen Delaney (Carlow) 80 78, Megan Briggs (Sco) 79 79, Sarah Faller (Galway) 78 80, Tinna Johannsdottir (Ice) 77 81.
159 Claire MacDonald (Sco) 83 76, Claire-Marie Carlton (Sco) 76 83, Louise Mernagh (Woodenbridge) 75 84.

MISSED THE CUT

160 Maura Morrin (The Curragh) 75 85.
161 Lauren Mackin (Spa) 83 78, Veronika Holisova (Cze) 80 81, Monique Smit (SAf) 79 82, Mary McKenna (Donabate) 76 85, Deirdre Walsh (Milltown) 75 86.
162 Victoria Bradshaw (Bangor) 84 78, Rachel Cassidy (Stirling Univ) 81 81, Elle Sandak (Aus) 80 82, Nano Brennan (Elm Park) 79 83, Ciara Butler (Newlands) 78 84.
163 Matia Maffiuletti (Ita) 84 79, Valdis Thora Jonsdottir (Ice) 84 79, Aoife Lowry (Tipperary) 81 82, Sarah Cunningham (Ennis) 80 83.
164 Fiona Howard (Eng) 82 82, Jocelyn Carthew (Sco) 81 83.
166 Hermione Fitzgerald (Eng) 84 82.
167 Pat Doran (Donabate) 83 84.
168 Sarah Helly (Enniscrone) 88 80, Emma Fairnie (Sco) 81 87.
169 Eilidh Briggs (Sco) 82 87.
170 Naoimh McMahon (Shannon) 81 89.
171 Catherine Tucker (Limerick) 84 87. Agnes Doherty (Ballyliffin) 82 89.
172 Mairead MacNamara (Woodbrook) 88 84.
175 Laurence Herman (Bel) 84 91.
177 Christine Armanasco (Claremorris) 85 92.
184 Sarah Crowe (Tipperary) 92 92.

Retired: Gertie McMullen (The Island) 85 -, Maria Dunne (Skerries) 88 -, Vicki Power (Dundalk) 94 -.

SUNDAY'S TEE TIMES

8.0 C MacDonald, Audrey Goumard.

8.10 R Crepiat, R Wyn Thomas.

8.20 C-M Carlton, A Bonetti, E Alonso.

8.30 L Mernagh, S Faller, T Johannsdottir.

8.40 D M Conaty, K Delaney, M Briggs.

8.50 R B Olafsdottir, R Watson, E Ulu.

9.0 P Pretswell, T Davies, A McCormack.

9.20 N Kitching, G O'Leary, S Harvey.

9.30 J Nicolson, N Holleder, G Hegarty.

9.40 D Smith, T Watters, J Turner.

9.50 C Ellis, L Kenney, L Whittaker.

10.0 Leona Maguire, D McVeigh, C Wild.

10.10 A Murphy, R Niven, T Delaney.

10.20 B Loucks, N Gercek, Lisa Maguire.

Irish Women's Open Stroke-play Scoreboard
Elm Park Golf Club, Dublin.
SECOND ROUND
141 Breanne Loucks (WAL) 69 72
146 Lisa Maguire (Slieve Russell) 72 74
146 Audrey Goumard (FRA) 70 76
147 Aedin Murphy (Carlow) 74 73
147 Roseanne Niven (SCO) 73 74
147 Leona Maguire (Slieve Russell) 72 75
147 Tara Delaney (Carlow) 72 75
149 Danielle McVeigh (RCDL) 78 71
149 Charlotte Wild (ENG) 76 73
150 Charlotte Ellis (ENG) 75 75
150 Louise Kenney (SCO) 73 77
151 Leigh Whittaker (GER) 77 74
151 Deirdre Smith (Co. Louth) 76 75
151 Tara Watters (ENG) 76 75
152 Alexandra Bonetti (FRA) 79 73
152 Emilie Alonso (FRA) 76 76
153 Jo Nicolson (WAL) 78 75
153 Nina Holleder (GER) 77 76
154 Shirley Harvey (Ballyclare) 80 74
154 Gillian O'Leary (Cork) 78 76
154 Rosanna Crepiat (FRA) 76 78
154 Niamh Kitching (Claremorris) 73 81
155 Pamela Pretswell (SCO) 77 78
156 Anne McCormack (Roscommon) 76 80
157 Ragna Bjork Olafsdottir (ISL) 77 80
158 Dawn Marie Conaty (Ashbourne) 81 77
158 Karen Delaney (Carlow) 80 78
158 Megan Briggs (SCO) 79 79
159 Claire Marie Carlton (SCO) 76 83
159 Louise Mernagh (Woodenbridge) 75 84
160 Maura Morrin (The Curragh) 75 85
161 Monique Smit (RSA) 79 82
161 Deirdre Walsh (Milltown) 75 86
162 Victoria Bradshaw (Bangor) 84 78
162 Elle Sandak (AUS) 80 82
163 Valdis Thora Jonsdottir (ISL) 84 79
163 Naoimh McMahon (Shannon) 81 82
166 Hermione Fitzgerald (ENG) 84 82
167 Pat Doran (Donabate) 83 84
168 Sarah Helly (Enniscrone) 88 80
169 Eilidh Briggs (SCO) 82 87
170 Aoife Lowry (Tipperary) 81 89
171 Agnes Doherty (Ballyliffin) 82 89
175 Laurence Herman (BEL) 84 91
177 Christine Armanasco (Claremorris) 85 92.

FIRST ROUND

74 Nejla Gercek (TUR)
75 Gemma Hegarty (Greencastle)
76 Mary McKenna (Donabate)
77 Rebecca Watson (SCO)
77 Tara Davies (WAL)
77 Tinna Johannsdottir (ISL)
78 Ciara Butler (Newlands)
78 Rhian Wyn Thomas (WAL)
78 Sarah Faller (Galway)
79 Nano Brennan (Elm Park)
80 Jane Turner (SCO)
80 Sarah Cunningham (Ennis)
80 Veronika Holisova (CZE)
81 Emma Fairnie (SCO)
81 Jocelyn Carthew (SCO)
81 Rachel Cassidy (Stirling Univ)
82 Elcin Ulu (TUR)
82 Fiona Howard (ENG)
83 Claire MacDonald (SCO)
83 Lauren Mackin (ESP)
84 Catherine Tucker (Limerick)
84 Matia Maffiuletti (ITA)
85 Gertie McMullen (The Island)
88 Mairead MacNamara (Woodbrook)
92 Sarah Crowe (Tipperary)

RTD Maria Dunne (Skerries) 88 RTD
RTD Vicki Power (Dundalk) 94 RTD

First-day North Division results at Downfield

Angus beat Aberdeenshire,

P&K beat Northern Counties

Angus shocked title-holders Aberdeenshire on the opening day of the North Division women’s inter-county team golf championship at windy Downfield Golf Club, Dundee today.

Angus won 5 ½-3 ½ after losing the foursomes 2-1. Their singles fightback was inspired by young Rebecca Wilson (Monifieth), pictured right by Cal Carson Golf Agency (all rights reserved), holding Curtis Cup player and Scottish champion Michele Thomson (McDonald Ellon) to a square match in the top tie.
Then Katy McNicoll (Carnoustie) beat Aberdeenshire champion Donna Pocock (Murcar Links) by 3 and 2.
There were other Angus wins in the singles by Heather Anderson (Downfield), Shonagh Raitt (Forfar) and Jackie Brown (Monifieth).
In the other match, Perthshire & Kinross, for whom Curtis Cup player Carly Booth (Comrie) won both her ties, beat Northern Counties 6-3.
The winners of the Northern Division team title at the end of the three-day programme go forward to the Scottish county finals at Inchmarlo Golf Centre, Banchory from September 19 to 21.
Details:
ANGUS 5 ½, ABERDEENSHIRE 3 ½
Foursomes: R Wilson & A Ramsay lost to M Thomson & L Murray 4 and 3; M Summers & A Hunter bt C Wilson & L McLardy 5 and 3; K McNicoll & S Raitt lost to S Wood & D Pocock 1 hole (1-2).
Singles: Wilson halved with M Thomson, McNicoll bt Pocock 3 and 2, H Anderson bt Wood 3 and 2, Raitt bt S Thomson 5 and 4, J Brown bt J Harrison 3 and 2, Ramsay lost to Murray 3 and 2 (4 1/2-1 ½).

NORTHERN COUNTIES 3, PERTHSHIRE & KINROSS 6
Foursomes: K MacDonald & C Gruber bt L Walker & E Muirhead 2 and 1; M Smith & S Vass lost to E Ogilvy & C Booth 5 and 3; J Milne & P Mackay lost to A Bushby & A Niven 7 and 6 (1-2).
Singles: MacDonald lost to Walker 6 and 5, Gruber bt J Milne 4 and 2; A Ingram lost to Ogilvy 5 and 4, Mackay lost to Booth 4 and 3, Vass bt Niven 1 hole, Smith lost to Bushby 5 and 4 (2-4).

Sunday matches:

Angus v Northern Counties.

Perthshire & Kinross v Aberdeenshire.

South Division inter-county team championship

Galloway's squad ready for the match against Borders (below). Images by courtesy of Bob Bolton. Click on them to enlarge.

BORDERS BEAT GALLOWAY IN TORWOODLEE OPENER

Borders beat Galloway 6-3 in the opening match of the South Division women's inter-county team golf championship at Torwoodleee Golf Club, Galashiels today.
Borders took a 2-1 lead from the morning foursomes and added to it by winning the singles session 4-2.
Defending champions Dumfries-shire are the other team in the three-cornered contest which decides the team that will be the South Division representatives in the Scottish county finals at Inchmarlo Golf Centre, Banchory from September 19 to 21.
Details:
GALLOWAY 3, BORDERS 6
Galloway names first
Foursomes: S McMurtrie & C Meldrum bt J.Anderson & K Inkpen 1 hole, J Brydson & A Shamash lost to L Campbell & I Craigie 9 and 7, C Merrick & E Vance lost to P Costello & G Oliver 4 and 2 (1-2).
Singles - McMurtrie lost to Anderson 3 and 2, Meldrum bt L Campbell 2 holes, Shamash bt A Melvin 4 and 2, Brydson lost to Oliver 4 and 3, J Campbell lost to Craigie 7 and 6, Merrick lost to Costello 5 and 4 (2-4).

Laura Davies, Gwladys Nocera
(and Michele Wie) miss the
cut in US Women's Open

Angela Park leads the United States Women's Open field with the second round still to be completed at Interlachen Golf Club, Edina, Minnseota.
A 2hr 27min suspension of play due to thunderstorms meant that a few players were unable to complete their rounds before darkness fell, so a halfway cut mark has still to be imposed.
LATER NEWS: The second round was completed on Saturday morning (USA time) and the cut decreed thgat only those with totals of 150 or better would qualify for rounds three and four.
Laura Davies missed out with 70 and 81 for 151.
So too did France's LET No 1 Gwladys Nocera with 81 and 73 for 154.
And Michele Wie failed on 156 with 81 and 75.

LEADERBOARD
140 A Park 73 67.
141 M Blomqvist 72 69, Inbee Park 72 69, H Alfredsson 70 71.
142 P Creamer 70 72, Jeong Jang 73 69, C Kerr 72 70, C Kung 72 70.
143 Ji-Yai Shin (Kor) 69 74, Teresa Lu (Tai) 71 72, Momoko Ueda (Jpn) 72 71, Maria Jose Uribe (Col) 69 74, Stacy Lewis 73 70
144 Mi-Hyun Kim (Kor) 72 72, In Kyung Kim (Kor) 71 73, Song-Hee Kim (Kor) 68 76, Nicole Castrale 74 70, Katherine Hull (Aus) 72 72
145 Ya-Ni Tseng (Kor) 71 74, Jimin Kang (Kor) 73 72, Young Kim (Kor) 74 71, Annika Sorenstam (Swe) 75 70, Hwa seon Lee (Kor) 75 70, Pat Hurst 67 78
146 Jennifer Rosales (Phi) 74 72, Sherri Turner 76 70, Shi Hyun Ahn (Kor) 73 73, Sakura Yokomine (Jpn) 71 75, Brittany Lang 71 75
147 Giulia Sergas (Ita) 73 74, Stacy Prammanasudh 75 72, Sydnee Michaels 71 76, Karen Stupples (Eng) 74 73, Catriona Matthew (Sco) 70 77, Lorena Ochoa (Mex) 73 74, Brittany Lincicome 74 73, Na Ri Kim (Kor) 76 71, Na Yeon Choi (Kor) 76 71, Sun Ju Ahn (Kor) 76 71, Laura Diaz 77 70, Meg Mallon 75 72, Alison Walshe (am) 73 74
148 Eun Hee Ji (Kor) 76 72, Morgan Pressel 74 74, Suzann Pettersen (Nor) 77 71
149 Linda Wessberg (Swe) 70 79, Paola Moreno 73 76, Meena Lee (Kor) 75 74, Jane Park 78 71, Angela Stanford 76 73, Christina Kim 73 76, Janice Moodie (Sco) 78 71
150 Il Mi Chung (Kor) 76 74, Na On Min (Jpn) 77 73, Karrie Webb (Aus) 75 75, Hee-Won Han (Kor) 74 76, Michele Redman 74 76, Lindsey Wright (Aus) 78 72, Karin Sjodin (Swe) 74 76, Sherri Steinhauer 75 75, Marcy Hart 78 72, Amanda Blumenherst 72 78.
MISSED THE CUT
151 Laura Davies (Eng) 70 81, Jenny Shin 73 78, Carin Koch (Swe) 76 75, Moira Dunn 74 77, Mina Harigae (am) 72 79
152 Grace Park (Kor) 75 77, Cydney Clanton 77 75, Heather Young 76 76, Hilary Lunke 74 78, Kelli Kuehne 76 76, Carri Wood 76 76, Alexis Thompson 75 77
153 Laurie Brower 81 72, Ha Na Jang 73 80, Natalie Gulbis 73 80, Martha Nause 78 75, Anna Grzebien 76 77, Diana D'Alessio 79 74
154 Candy Hannemann 78 76, Jeanne Cho-Hunicke 81 73, Jill McGill 78 76, Se Ri Pak (Kor) 76 78, Amy Hung (Tha) 77 77, Sophie Gustafson (Swe) 77 77, Gwladys Nocera (Fra) 81 73
155 Jennifer Song 79 76, Joanne Lee 78 77, Juli Inkster 74 81, Heather Daly-Donofrio 74 81, Leah Marie Wigger 74 81, Jennie Lee 74 81, Shanshan Feng (Chn) 77 78
156 Chieko Amanuma (Jpn) 80 76, Eva Dahllof (Swe) 77 79, Birdie Kim (Kor) 79 77, Liselotte Neumann (Swe) 78 78
157 Jean Reynolds 75 82, Patricia Meunier-Lebouc (Fra) 77 80, Alena Sharp 77 80
158 Kristen Park 80 78, Ashleigh Simon (Rsa) 79 79, Jamie Fischer 80 78, Meaghan Francella 79 79, Silvia Cavalleri (Ita) 76 82, Courtney Ellenbogen 79 79, Sin Ham 78 80
159 Bettina Hauert (Ger) 79 80, Rachel Bailey (Eng) 80 79, Kristen Samp 79 80
160 Virada Nirapathpongporn (Tha) 81 79, Kyeong Eun Bae (Kor) 79 81, Kathleen Ekey 80 80
162 Lynn Valentine 80 82
163 Tara Goedeken 80 83
164 Angela Oh 87 77
165 Lauren Doughtie 78 87
166 Sarah Almond 87 79
167 Vanessa Brockett 87 80

US Duramed Futures Tour Scoreboard
HORSESHOE CASINO CLASSIC
Lost Marsh Golf Couse, Hammond, Indiana
FIRST ROUND
Par 69 (34-35).
1 Lisa Ferrero (Lodi, Calif.) 34-35 - 69.
1 Sarah Lynn Sargent (St. Charles, Ill.) 36-33 - 69.
1 Taya Battistella (Portland, Ore.) 35-34 - 69.
4 Eunjung Yi (Murrieta, Calif.) 37-33 - 70.
4 Stacey Tate (Auckland, New Zealand) 37-33 - 70.
4 Vicky Hurst (Melbourne, Fla.) 32-38 - 70.
4 Yeon Joo Lee (Seoul, South Korea 35-35 - 70.
4 Ashley Prange (Noblesville, Ind.) 37-33 - 70.
4 Jin Hyun Kim (Seoul, South Korea) 35-35 - 70.
10 Kelly Froelich (Raizeux, France) 37-34 - 71.
10 Sarah-Jane Kenyon (Queensland, Australia) 34-37 - 71.
10 Caroline Larsson (Stockholm, Sweden) 35-36 - 71.
10 Benedikte Grotvedt (Nesbru, Norway) (am) 36-35 - 71.
10 Gerina Mendoza (Roswell, New.Mexico) 36-35 - 71.
10 Jin Young Pak (Kang Leung, South Korea) 34-37 - 71.
16 Y. J. Jin (Seoul, South Korea) 36-36 - 72.
16 Song Yi Choi (Seoul, South Korea) 37-35 - 72.
16 Kim Welch (Sacramento, Calif.) 35-37 - 72.
16 Elin Andersson (Eskilstuna, Sweden) 38-34 - 72.
16 Mindy Kim (Diamond Bar, Calif.) 40-32 - 72.
16 LeAnna Wicks (Brighton, Mich.) 33-39 - 72.
22 Lorraine Ballerano (Myrtle Beach, S.C.) 37-36 - 73.
22 Noon Huachai (Bangkok, Thailand) 37-36 - 73.
22 Jessica Carafiello (Coral Springs, Fla.) 39-34 - 73.
22 Sara Brown (Tucson, Ariz.) 38-35 - 73.
22 Mandy Goins (Frankfort, Ky.) 34-39 - 73.
22 Kim Augusta (Rumford, R.I.) 38-35 - 73.
22 Yoora Kim (Seoul, South Korea) 37-36 - 73.
22 Hannah Yun (a) (Bradenton, Fla.) 39-34 - 73.
22 Stephanie Otteson (Wilson, N.Carolina) 36-37 - 73.
22 Nicole Jeray (Berwyn, Ill.) 36-37 - 73.
22 Carling Coffing (Middletown, Ohio) 39-34 - 73.
22 Jamie Stevenson (Mayfield, Utah) 39-34 - 73.
22 Ashley Grier (Hagerstown, Maryland) 36-37 - 73.
22 Tanya Dergal (Durango, Mexico) 36-37 - 73.
22 Katie Allison (Little River, S.Carolina) 37-36 - 73.
22 Manuela Tarazona (Buenos Aires, Argentina) 36-37 - 73.
22 Amanda Costner (Claremore, Okla.) 40-33 - 73.
22 Meghan Little (Sturgis, South Dakota) 33-40 - 73.
22 Moah Chang (Los Angeles, Calif.) 37-36 - 73.
22 Vikki Laing (Musselburgh, Scotland) 37-36 - 73.
22 Lauren Todd (Phoenix, Ariz.) 38-35 - 73.
43 Jaclyn Burch (Satellite Beach, Fla.) 38-36 - 74.
43 Sarah Olsen (Grosse Ile, Mich.) 40-34 - 74.
43 Briana Vega (Andover, Mass.) 40-34 - 74.
43 Jennifer Ackerson (Dallas, Texas) 40-34 - 74.
43 Carol Green-Robertson (Tazewell, Va.) 37-37 - 74.
43 Leah Whiting (Hilo, Hawaii) 40-34 - 74.
43 Marci Turner (Tompkinsville, Ky.) 39-35 - 74.
43 Kelly Lagedrost (Brooksville, Fla.) 38-36 - 74.
43 Tiffany Tavee (Tempe, Ariz.) 36-38 - 74.
43 Chella Choi (Seoul, South Korea) 40-34 - 74.
43 Courtney Mahon (Lee's Summit, Mo.) 35-39 - 74.
43 Ashley Knoll (The Woodlands, Texas) 39-35 - 74.
43 Brenda McLarnon (Belfast, Ireland) 37-37 - 74.
43 Adriane Duke (Jonesboro, Arkansas) 40-34 - 74.
43 Mo Martin (Altadena, Calif.) 37-37 - 74.
43 Melissa Eaton (Port Shepstone, S Africa) 39-35 - 74.
59 Jeehae Lee (Seoul, South Korea) 36-39 - 75.
59 Stephanie George (Myerstown, Pa. 35-40 - 75.
59 Heather Angell (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 41-34 - 75.
59 Aimee Cho (Orlando, Fla.) 37-38 - 75.
59 Jenny Hansen (Cairo, Neb.) 39-36 - 75.
59 Jenny Gleason (Clearwater, Fla.) 40-35 - 75.
59 Cindy Lee-Pridgen (Sabah, Malaysia) 36-39 - 75.
59 Samantha Richdale (Kelowna, British Columbia) 37-38 - 75.
59 Angela Buzminski (Oshawa, Ontario) 38-37 - 75.
59 Ulrika Ljungman-Smith (Stockholm, Sweden) 36-39 - 75.
59 Annie Young (Highland, Utah) 39-36 - 75.
59 Lili Alvarez (Durango, Mexico) 38-37 - 75.
59 Jessica Shepley (Oakville, Ontario) 38-37 - 75.
59 Rak Kyung Oh (Anaheim, Calif.) 37-38 - 75.
59 Stephanie Ruiz (Edmond, Okla.) 41-34 - 75.
59 Julia Huh (Pasadena, Md.) 39-36 - 75.
59 Anastasia Kostina (Nakhabino, Russia) 39-36 - 75.
59 Libby Smith (Essex Junction, Vermont) 37-38 - 75.
77 Bing Lim (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) 36-40 - 76.
77 Eileen Vargas (Ibague, Colombia) 39-37 - 76.
77 Maria Laura Elvira (Buenos Aires, Argentina) 37-39 - 76.
77 Devan Andersen (Guadalajara, Mexico) 38-38 - 76.
77 Jacklynn Miller (North Bay, Ontario) 36-40 - 76.
77 Jenna Pearson (Wheaton, Ill.) 41-35 - 76.
77 Jenny Suh (Fairfax, Virginia) 38-38 - 76.
77 Amanda McCurdy (Little Rock, Ark.) 38-38 - 76.
77 Brandi Jackson (Greenville, S.C.) 39-37 - 76.
77 Kristina Tucker (Stockholm, Sweden) 41-35 - 76.
77 Juli Erekson (Mapleton, Utah) 38-38 - 76.
77 M. J. Hur (Seoul, South Korea) 39-37 - 76.
77 Marcela Leon (Monterrey, Mexico) 36-40 - 76.
77 Haeji Kang (Seoul, South Korea) 37-39 - 76.
77 Sohi Moon (Seoul, South Korea) 38-38 - 76.
92 Alissa Kuczka (Phoenix, Ariz.) 41-36 - 77.
92 Jutta Degerman (Helsinki, Finland) 40-37 - 77.
92 Jessica Schneider (Elgin, Illinois) 40-37 - 77.
92 Amanda Mathis (Opelousas, Louisiana) 37-40 - 77.
92 Dana Je (Orlando, Fla.) 38-39 - 77.
92 Charlotte Campbell (Heathrow, Fla.) 39-38 - 77.
92 Lori Atsedes (Ithaca, N.Y.) 39-38 - 77.
92 Missy Pederson (Plymouth, Minn.) 39-38 - 77.
92 Jill Frantz (Iowa City, Iowa) 37-40 - 77.
92 Amy Schmucker (Cold Spring, Minn.) 36-41 - 77.
102 Christine Cho (Kent, Wash.) 41-37 - 78.
102 Michelle Toth (Toronto, Ontario) 38-40 - 78.
102 Sophia Sheridan (Guadalajara, Mexico) 40-38 - 78.
102 Haley Gildea (East Greenwich, R.I.) 39-39 - 78.
102 Ashley Gomes (Pleasanton, Calif.) 39-39 - 78.
102 Sam White (Potomac, Md.) 40-38 - 78.
108 Susan Choi (Natick, Mass.) 39-40 - 79.
108 Esther Moon (Nashville, Tenn.) 39-40 - 79.
108 Sammi Sloan (a) (Lansing, Ill.) 41-38 - 79.
108 Misun Cho (Cheongju, South Korea) 39-40 - 79.
108 Cortney Reno (Grosse Ile, Mich.) 42-37 - 79.
108 Megan Godfrey (Homewood, Ill.) 38-41 - 79.
108 Sae Hee Son (Seoul, South Korea) 38-41 - 79.
108 Shayna Miyajima (Maui, Hawaii) 40-39 - 79.
108 Alexandra Braga (Los Angeles, Calif.) 39-40 - 79.
108 Bridget Dwyer (Kailua, Hawaii) 40-39 - 79.
108 Eom Ji Park (Vancouver, BC) 39-40 - 79.
108 Andrea VanderLende (Longwood, Fla.) 41-38 - 79.
108 Christina Lecuyer (Edmonton, Alberta) 38-41 - 79.
121 Shelley Anderson (Clarksville, Tenn.) 41-39 - 80.
121 Carmen Bandea (Atlanta, Ga.) 40-40 - 80.
121 Nikki Hadd (Crestview, Fla.) 40-40 - 80.
124 Michelle Jarman (Wilmington, N.C.) 42-39 - 81.
124 Marina Choi (Los Angeles, Calif.) 39-42 - 81.
124 Kylene Pulley (Kokomo, Ind.) 42-39 - 81.
124 Maggie Simons (Raleigh, N.C.) 43-38 - 81.
124 Elizabeth Stuart (Tampa, Fla.) 40-41 - 81.
124 Claudine Foong (Aurora, Ontario) 36-45 - 81.
124 Katie Fraley (Brandenburg, Ky.) 39-42 - 81.
131 Sofie Andersson (Angelholm, Sweden) 40-42 - 82.
131 Alejandra Shaw (Vina Del Mar, Chile) 37-45 - 82.
131 Courtney Erdman (Altadena, Calif.) 42-40 - 82.
134 Catherine Matranga (Fort Worth, Texas) 41-42 - 83.
134 Morgan Olds (Stamford, Conn.) 41-42 - 83.
136 Rachel Newren-Harmon (Salt Lake City, Utah) 41-43 - 84.
136 Amber Prange (Noblesville, Ind.) 42-42 - 84.
138 Sasha Medina (Ponce, Puerto Rico) 41-44 - 85.
139 Leah Weigle (Sand Springs, Okla.) 45-41 - 86.
130 Vera Meixner (Seeboden, Austria) (am) 44-42 - 86.
130 Brittainy Klein (Henderson, Ky.) 41-45 - 86.
MISSED 18-HOLE CUT
Tarah McNaughton (Bradenton, Fla.) 45-42 - 87.
Jeana Finlinson (Bloomington, Ind.) 44-44 - 88.

Inchmarlo venue incentive for

Aberdeenshire to win North

Divisional title at Downfield

The big incentive for the Aberdeenshire team to retain the North Division women's inter-county women's golf team championship after the next three days' play at Downfield Golf Club, Dundee is a home-course choice of venue for this year's Scottish county finals from September 19-21.
They will be held at Inchmarlo Golf Resort, Banchory for the first time and will be contested by the winners of the four divisional championships.
Fife and Renfrewshire have already book their places in the finals. This week the North and South Divisions (at Torwoodlee, Galashiels) will decide their champion representatives.
After winning the North Division title last year, Aberdeenshire almost went on to win the national title but lost out on a countback to Midlothian. On paper, Shire have the edge over Angus, Northern Counties and Perthshire & Kinross, their team of eight includes Curtis Cup player and Scottish champion Michele Thomson (McDonald Ellon), picture above by Cal Carson Golf Agency (all rights reserved), and semi-finalist Laura Murray (Alford).
But match-play results do not always follow the formbook and it should be a keen four-cornered contest.
Perthshire & Kinross have their own Curtis Cup player, 16-year-old Carly Booth (Comrie) while Northern Counties have Kelsey MacDonald (Nairn Dunbar), who was the top seed for the "Scottish" at Lossiemouth, and Angus also have two up-and-coming players in Katy McNicoll (Carnoustie) and Rebecca Wilson (Monifieth).

TEAMS

ABERDEENSHIRE - J Harrison (Cruden Bay), L McLardy (Murcar Links), L Murray (Alford), D Pocock (Murcar Links), M Thomson (McDonald Ellon), S Thomson (Murcar Links), C Wilson (Murcar Links), S Wood (Aberdeen Ladies).
ANGUS - H Anderson (Downfield), J Brown (Monifieth), A Hunter (Monifieth), S Raitt (Forfar), K McNicoll (Carnoustie), A Ramsay (Kirriemuir), M Summers (Panmure Barry), R Wilson (Monifieth).
NORTHERN COUNTIES - C Gruber (Royal Dornoch), A Ingram (Fort William), K MacDonald (Nairn Dunbar), E Mackay (Nairn Dunbar), P Mackay (Royal Dornoch), J Milne (Elgin), M Smith (Tain), S Vass (Tain).
PERTHSHIRE & KINROSS - C Booth (Comrie), A Bushby (Strathmore), J Milne (Craigie Hill), C Muir (Craigie Hill), E Muirhead (Pitlochry), A Niven (Crieff),E Ogilvy (Auchterarder), L Walker (Muckhart).
PROGRAMME
Foursomes start at 9.04 daily with singles at 2pm.
Saturday - Aberdeenshire v Angus, Perthshire & Kiniross v Northern Counties.
Sunday - Angus v Northern Counties, Perthshire & Kinross v Aberdeenshire.
Monday - Northern Counties v Aberdeenshire, Perthshire & Kinross v Angus.

DUMFRIESHIRE DEFEND SOUTH TITLE AT TORWOODLEE

The South Division inter-county team championship will be held at Torwoodlee Golf Club, Galashiels, also over the next three days.

Dumfries-shire are the defending champions.

PROGRAMME

Saturday - Borders v Galloway.

Sunday - Galloway v Dumfries-shire.

Monday - Dumfries-shire v Borders.

+With a little bit of luck, we hope to be able to display all Saturday's results at Downfield and Torwoodlee on this website on Saturday evening ... continuing the service over the three days. E-mail address is: Colin@scottishgolfview.com

England women's champion heads

squad for girls' internationals

at Panmure in August

PRESS RELEASE ISSUED BY ENGLISH WOMEN'S GOLF ASSOCIATION
English women's amateur champion Hannah Barwood is in England’s eight-strong team for the Girls’ International Matches at Panmure Golf Club, Carnoustie from August 5-7.

The 17-year-old from Gloucestershire will be joined by Suffolk’s Heidi Baek, Lincolnshire’s Holly Clyburn, Lancashire’s Rachel Connor and Kelly Tidy; Hampshire’s Katie Mundy, Nottinghamshire’s Alex Peters and Yorkshire’s Helen Searle.

The reserves are Hayley Davis from Dorset, Ellie Robinson from Yorkshire, Hannah Turland from Wiltshire and Charlotte Wild from Cheshire.

Hannah Barwood, pictured above by Cal Carson Golf Agency (all rights reserved), defeated two Curtis Cup players to win the English title at Ganton in May. She won the under-21 trophy at the Welsh open stroke-play championship and captured the English schools’ title three times in four years.

Heidi Baek, 14, is the English girls’ under-15 champion and helped England win the team trophy at this season’s Scottish under-16 open stroke-play championship.

Holly Clyburn, 17, won the under-18 title at the 2007 English stroke-play championship and has won her county title for the past two years.

Rachel Connor, 17, was a quarter-finalist in the English championship. She has an excellent record in top ladies’ scratch events, the Leveret at Formby this season and the Royal Birkdale Scratch Trophy.

Alex Peters, 14, won the girls’ title at this season’s Fairhaven Trophy. She also became the youngest Nottinghamshire champion and partnered her mum, Ann, to a win in the Mothers and Daughters scratch foursomes. She’s a past English under-13 title-holder.

Katie Mundy, 17, made her debut in these matches last year when she was also in Hampshire’s team at the County Finals and reached the final of the Faldo Series.

Helen Searle, 15, was the runner-up in the Yorkshire championship where she lost to former English champion and Curtis Cup player Naomi Edwards. She represented England at the 2007 European Young Masters.

Kelly Tidy, 16, is the Lancashire champion and was one of the leading English players in the St Rule Trophy. She’s a past winner of both the English under-13 and under-15 titles.

The team, captained by Julie Brown (Brocton Hall), is:

Heidi Baek (Felixstowe Ferry).

Hannah Barwood (Knowle).

Holly Clyburn (Woodhall Spa).

Rachel Connor (Manchester).

Katie Mundy (Dunwood Manor).

Alex Peters (Notts Ladies).

Helen Searle (West End).

Kelly Tidy (Royal Birkdale).

Reserves (in alphabetical order):

Hayley Davis (Ferndown).

Ellie Robinson (Middlesborough).

Hannah Turland (Tidworth Garrison).

Charlotte Wild (Mere)
Lyndsey Hewison

Press & PR Officer
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Kirsty Taylor set to make comeback

after brain tumour surgery

FROM THE LADIES EUROPEAN TOUR WEBSITE
By BETHAN CUTLER
England’s Kirsty Taylor is set to return to competitive action next week when she tees up in The Oxfordshire Ladies English Open from July 4-6.
Taylor, the 2005 Wales Ladies Champion of Europe, underwent brain surgery in January followed by a six week course of radiotherapy.
She is still awaiting the all -clear but feels ready to make her first appearance on the Ladies European Tour since the Dubai Ladies Masters in December.
“I like the Oxfordshire Golf Club but in golfing terms I have no expectations,” said Taylor, who was a joint runner-up four times on tour last year. “It’s more of a test to see where I am fitness wise and concentration wise; to enjoy the week and to see everybody.”
Taylor’s home in Gloucestershire is just an hour and 15 minutes’ drive from The Oxfordshire Golf Club in Thame and her husband Alastair will caddie for her throughout the tournament.
“If I get tired and get a headache then Alastair will encourage me to come in as I would be daft to carry on,” said Taylor, who successfully played in the ISS UK Charity Golf Day at Stoke Park Golf Club on June 2.
“The next step is a scan in August and I'm having to wait until then until everything calms down inside my head. I saw the oncologist on Friday and the blood tests she had done came out really well,” she added.
Following a successful year of golf in 2007, when she finished the year ranked 18th on the New Star Money List, Taylor had to withdraw from January’s Women’s World Cup of Golf, played at Sun City in South Africa. She was due to partner Trish Johnson in the event but Danielle Masters went as her replacement after Taylor was diagnosed with the brain tumour.
Taylor, Masters, Johnson and Becky Brewerton had been playing in a pro am at Desert Springs Golf Club in Spain when, on the morning of January 9, the day that they were due to fly back to England, Taylor had a fit.
She had her first surgery on January 18, with another operation 10 days later. “It hasn’t been the best year of my life. I’ve just turned 37 and I’m hoping that my 38th year is going to be better than my 37th,” Taylor added.
She can’t drive for now and has taken up gardening to keep herself busy, with some cycling to Minchinhampton Golf Club, which is five miles away from her home.
“The support I have received has been unbelievable. I’ve had flowers, cards, texts from players and other people in the golfing world and members of clubs have all been fantastic, especially as I can’t drive; that is a bummer.
“I’ve missed the people and the competition but I can’t say I’ve missed the airports and the travel. I don’t think I’ve ever had a period at home like this since I was very young.
“I’m not going to be one of those people who says: “I’m lucky to be here”. It’s changed my outlook on life but I’ll probably still get annoyed if I have a bogey! It’s made me appreciate how lucky we are with what we do for a living.”
After the initial test at The Oxfordshire, Taylor may also tee up in the S4/C Wales Ladies Championship of Europe at Machynys Peninsula Golf Club from August 14-17, the scene of her spectacular victory in 2005, where she set a Tour record eleven-under-par 61 in the first round. “At the moment my plan is to play the English and the Welsh but that may change depending on how I feel. I don’t need to be dashing around the place at this stage,” she said.
She is the first to admit that she is unlikely to produce fire-works at The Oxfordshire next week. However, teeing up in all three rounds would be a huge achievement indeed.
To support Taylor and all of her fellow professionals, including the defending champion Becky Brewerton, come along to The Oxfordshire Golf Club in Thame next week.
++The Ladies European Tour has confirmed that amateurs Roseanne Niven (Crieff) and Carly Booth (Comrie) have both accepted invitations to compete in the The Oxfordshire English Ladies Open next week. The Scottish professionals in the field are Kathryn Imrie, Clare Queen, Lynn Kenny and Jenna Wilson.

United States Womes's Open under way at Interlachen

Good start by Catriona Matthew as

Michelle Wie has 81, including a 9

Michelle Wie crashed out of contention on the opening morning of the US Women's Open.
She ran up a 9 at the par-4 ninth hole, reaching the turn in 42 and falling nine shots behind the early leaders.
The 18-year-old from Hawaii eventually finished on 81 - 11 more than North Berwick's Catriona Matthew who got the kind of start you need in a major: a three-under-par 70 which put her three shots behind the joint first-day leaders, Pat Hurst and Ji Young Oh.
The "Big Two," Lorena Ochoa and Annika Sorenstam, did not set the heather alight with scores of 73 and 75 respectively.
But at least they broke 80. Ladies European Tour No 1 Gwladys Nocera from France had an 81 which put her 146th equal in a field of 156. Very disappointing.
Wie, who had to qualify for the first time since the eighth grade, arrived at Interlachen, Minnesota showing signs that her wrist injuries were healed and her confidence improving.
One hole left her in a state of shock.
She pulled her tee shot into the right rough, then tried to hit a low approach through the trees to an elevated green. The shot came up about 30 yards short, and she bladed her wedge over the green, facing a steep, downhill chip.
She tried a flop shot, but it came up inches short of the fringe. Using a putter for her fifth shot, the ball bounced out quickly, rolled down the ridge and off the green. Her chip reached the top of the slope, then trickled back to her feet as she turned away before it stopped rolling. Her seventh shot made it up the ridge to 5 feet behind the hole, but she missed the putt.
A year ago, Wie also shot 42 the last nine she played at the Women's Open. Then she withdrew halfway through the second round at Pine Needles last year.
To be fair, Wie had shown improved form of late. She was second at her 36-hole US Women's Open qualifier, and tied for 24th last week on the LPGA Tour.
Hot favourite Lorena Ochoa was six shots off the early pace with an uninspired 73, uninspired that is by the Mexican's very high standards.
But Scotland's Catriona Matthew started well to post a three-under-par 70 over the 6,789yd course.
Janice Moodie did not do so well. The Glasgow-born player had a 78.
But Laura Davies matched Catriona's 70.
At 6,789yd, this is the longest course used at a US Women's Open. The most surprising thing about the first day was the number of amateurs who were able to handle it, and the bigger names who couldn't.
Whatever the course, whatever the tournament, the one constant factor on the LPGA Tour nowadays is the number of South Koreans on the leaderboard. The US Women's Open is no exception.
FIRST-ROUND SCOREBOARD
Par 73, 6,789yd
67 Ji Young Oh, Pat Hurst.
68 Song-Hee Kim.
69 Maria Jose Uribe (am), Louise Friberg, Ji-Yai Shin..
70 Catriona Matthew, Laura Davies, Helen Alfredsson, Paula Creamer. Linda Wessberg.
71 Sydnee Michaels (am), Yani Tseng, Teresa Lu, In-Kyung Kim, Rachel Hetherington, Ai Miyazoto, Jee Young Lee, Sakura Yokomine, Brittany Lang.
72 Cristie Kerr, Mina Harigae (am), Candie Kung, Katherine Hull, Momoko Ueda, Reilley Rankin, Tiffany Lua (am), Jessica Korda (am), Minea Blomqvist, Inbee Park, Amanda Blumenherst (am).
Selected scores:
73 Alison Walshe (am), Lorena Ochoa, Crhistina Kim, Natalie Gulbis, Stacy Lewis (am), Mi-Jeong Jeon, Amy Yang.
74 Karen Stupples, Morgan Pressel
75 Karrie Webb, Annika Sorenstam.
76 Se Ri Pak, Maria Hjorth.
78 Lotte Neumann, Janice Moodie.
81 Michelle Wie, Gwladys Nocea.

Leicestershire & Rutland through to

English county finals at Long Ashton

PRESS RELEASE ISSUED BY ENGLISH WOMEN'S GOLF ASSOCIATION
Leicestershire & Rutland have won through to the final of the English women's county championship at Long Ashton Golf Club, Bristol, from September 15-19.
The county finals will be contested by the winners of the county match weeks in each of the six regions of the English Women’s Golf Association.
Dorset have already qualified from the South West region, alongside Hertfordshire from the East and Sussex from the South.
Leicestershire & Rutland made certain of their place at the Midlands North week at Willesley Park where they won all five of their matches. Their closest rivals were Lincolnshire with four wins, followed by Nottinghamshire with three, Staffordshire and Derbyshire with 1½ apiece, while Shropshire failed to win a match.
The winning Leicestershire & Rutland team was:
Tracy Bourne (Willesley Park), capt., Jenny Cooper (Glen Gorse), Chloe Dexter (Beedles Lake), Kym Larratt (Kibworth), Helen Lowe (Scraptoft), Jo Morris (Willesley Park), Moira Page (Glen Gorse), Helen Summ (Willesley Park), Jamie-Leigh Voss (Kirby Muxloe).
Match results
Monday
Lincolnshire 6 Nottinghamshire 3.
Leicestershire & Rutland 6½ Staffordshire 2½.
Derbyshire 6 Shropshire 3.
Tuesday
Leicestershire & Rutland 6 Shropshire 3.
Lincolnshire 6½ Staffordshire 2½.
Nottinghamshire 6½ Derbyshire 2½.
Wednesday
Leicestershire & Rutland 7 Nottinghamshire 2.
Lincolnshire 5½ Derbyshire 3½.
Staffordshire 7½ Shropshire 1½.
Thursday
Leicestershire & Rutland 6½ Lincolnshire 2½.
Nottinghamshire 6½ Shropshire 2½.
Derbyshire 4½ Staffordshire 4½.
Friday
Leicestershire & Rutland 7½ Derbyshire 1½ .
Nottinghamshire 6½ Staffordshire 2½.
Lincolnshire 7 Shropshire 2
Lyndsey Hewison
Press & PR Officer

Rachael Goodall wins
Harper Salver at Bath

PRESS RELEASE ISSUED BY THE ENGLISH WOMEN'S GOLF ASSOCIATION
Cheshire county champion Rachael Goodall returned a four-under par total of 144 to pip English champion Hannah Barwood by a stroke in the Harper Salver 36-hole open tournament at Bath Golf Club.
Rachael, pictured above, 17, from Heswall, opened with a level par 74 and followed up with an afternoon 70, which equalled the low round of the day.
Meanwhile Hannah, also 17, from nearby Knowle, scored 72 and 73 for 145.
Another Knowle player took the handicap honours. Shelby Smart, aged 13, was two-under her handicap both morning and afternoon and now plays off six.
Danielle Anderson of Rochford Hundred, Essex, had a hole in one on the 14th hole and received a memento from the organisers, the Bristol & District Lady Golfers’ Association.
The event, which is sponsored by local author Diney Costeloe, attracted players from 39 clubs as far away as Yorkshire, Dorset and Essex.
LEADING TOTALS
Par 148 (2 x 74)
144 Rachel Goodall (Heswall) 74 70.
145 Hannah Barwood (Knowle) 72 73.
148 Julia Norman (Exeter) 71 77.
150 Charlotte Austwick (Pike Hills) 77 73, Laura Cutler (Warley Park) 76 74.
Handicap section
144 Shelby Smart (Knowle) 72, 72.
145 Gillian Kinnear (Copthorne) 75 70, Portia Abbott (Kingsdown) 74 71.

Renfrewshire head to Scottish county finals as West Division champions

West Division champions Renfrewshire players and officials after their success at Hilton Park, which qualifies them for the Scottish finals at Inchmarlo Golf Centre, Banchory from September 19 to 21. Click on the image to enlarge it.

Ladies Golf Union team beat St Rule over Eden Course

The Ladies Golf Union team who beat St Rule 4.5 to 1.5 in their annual greensomes match over the Eden Course. Each side fields six pairs in the match which was first played in 1984.

St Rule lead 10-9 overall with four matches halved. The match was not played in 1992 and 1993. St Rule last won the match in 2003. Click on the image to enlarge.

Carol Semple Thomson wins

North & South seniors' title

You cannot keep Carol Semple Thompson out of the golfing news. Following her successful captaincy of the United States Curtis Cup team at the Old Course, St Andrews, Carol was named for a place in the Golf Hall of Fame in Florida later this year ... now she has demonstrated she can still play a lot better than your average golfer by winning the North & South senior women's amateur championship at Pinehurst, North Carolina.
Carol was born in 1950.

LEADING TOTALS
Par 216 (3x72)
1. Carol Semple Thompson 75-78-72--225
2. Sandy Woodruff 78-80-71--229
2. Noreen Mohler 78-77-74--229
4. Pat Brogden 74-83-75--232
5. Alison Reifers 81-78-75--234
6. Marianne Towersey 79-82-75--236
7. Chris Epperly 77-83-77--237
8. Jan Phillips 82-84-72--238
8. Nancy Smith 83-80-75--238
10. Debbie MookSang 80-86-73--239
10. Karen Ferree 77-82-80--239
12. Shirley Budden 83-79-78--240
12. Pat Milton 80-81-79--240
12. Peggy Woodard 78-81-81--240
15. Taffy Brower 83-79-79--241
16. Barbara Pagana 88-81-73--242
17. Cynthia Friend 83-83-79--245+
17. Elaine Johnson 83-88-74--245
17. Mary Ann Bierman 83-86-76--245
17. Evelyn Blackmon 83-85-77--245

The winning Fife line-up with the East Division trophy at Broomieknowe.

FIFE WOMEN BOUND FOR SCOTTISH FINALS AFTER TAKING

EAST DIVISION TITLE

Fife crushed Stirling & Clackmannan 7-2 to clinch the East Division women’s inter-county team golf championship at Broomieknowe Golf Club, Bonnyrigg today (Wed).
Fife’s victory gives them a place alongwith the other three divisional champions in the Scottish inter-county finals at Inchmarlo Golf Centre, Banchory from September 19 to 21.
Last year’s Scottish and East Division title-holders Midlothian ended the three-day programme with a convincing 7-2 win over East Lothian but they lost the vital first-day match to Fife 5-4 and could never make up the leeway after that unless Fife slipped.
Top points-scorers in the tournament were Fife's Krystle Caithness and Fiona (Lockhart) Hastie. They both had 5pt.
Third day details:
STIRLING & CLACKMANNAN 2, FIFE 7
Foursomes: E Allison & J Harrison lost to K Caithness & J Carthrew 2 and 1; L Allan & L McGregor bt F Hastie & E Moffat 2 and 1; A Davidson & V Stevenson lost to S Jackson & K Sharp 3 and 2 (1-2).
Singles: Davidson lost to Caithness 5 and 4, Allan lost to Hasie 7 and 5, McGregor halved with Carthew, S Mitchell lost to K Milne 4 and 2, Stevenson halved with Jackson; Alliosn lost to Moffat 5 and 4 (1-5).
MIDLOTHIAN 7, EAST LOTHIAN 2
Foursomes: R Livingstone & J Turner bt F Prior & E Fairnie 4 and 2; K Marshall & W Nicholson bt H Wardell & S Penman 1 hole; K Blackwood & C MacDonald bt L Nicholson & K Brotherton 3 and 2 (3-0).
Singles: Livingstone bt Brotherton 4 and 2, Turner bt Prior 6 and 4, W Nicholson lost to Fairnie 5 and 4; C Hargan bt R Carroll 5 and 4, Blackwood bt S McEwan 6 and 5, Macdonald lost to L Nicholson 1 hole (4-2).

HOW THEY FINISHED
1 Fife 6pt, 2 Midlothian 4pt, 3 East Lothian 2pt, 4 Stirling & Clackmannan 0pt.

RENFREWSHIRE HEAD FOR SCOTTISH FINALS
AS WEST DIVISION WOMEN'S CHAMPIONS

Renfrewshire will go to the Scottish women’s county golf finals at Inchmarlo Golf Centre, Banchory from September 19 to 21 as West Division champions.
Torrentional rain flooded the greens and washed out the afternoon singles play on the third and final day at Hilton Park Golf Club, Glasgow.
The match results were declared on the foursomes in which Renfrewshire beat Dunbartonshire & Argyll 2-1 and Ayrshire beat Lanarkshire 2 ½-1/2.
Renfrewshire finished the programme with two wins and a draw for 5pt, one ahead of Ayrshire who had two wins and one defeat.
“Player of the tournament” was Ayrshire’s Debbie Watt with five wins out of five.
Details:
LANARKSHIRE ½, AYRSHIRE 2 ½
Foursomes: S Wood & R Rankin lost to D Watt & R McQueen 5 and 3; E Cuthill & J Paterson halved with L Hendry & R Purdom; M Hughes & L Lloyd lost to L Williamson & A Glennie 2 and 1.
Singles washed out.
RENFREWSHIRE 2, DUNBARTONSHIRE & ARGYLL 1
Foursomes: D Jackson & L Stewart lost to K Walker & J Meldrum 5 and 3; E Briggs & M Briggs bt J Galbraith & L Ruane 1 hole; G McGinlay & C-M Carlton bt G Webster & A Telfer 3 and 2.
Singles washed out.
HOW THEY FINISHED
1 Renfrewshire 5pt, 2 Ayrshire 4pt, 3 Dunbartonshire & Argyll 2pt, 4 Lanarkshire 1pt.

Roseanne Niven accepts invitation to

play in Ladies English Open

LATE NEWS: Roseanne Niven (Crieff), the only British player to reach the last four of the British women's open amateur championship at North Berwick earlier this month, has withdrawn from the North of Scotland women's championship at Strathmore Golf Centre, Alyth from July 7 to 9.

Roseanne (pictured right by Cal Carson Golf Agency, all rights reserved), has received an invitation from the Ladies European Tour to play in the Ladies English Open from July 4 to 6 at The Oxfordshire and would not be back in Scotland in time to play in the Monday qualifying round.

Carly Booth (Comrie) is also listed on the LET website as an amateur invite. She is playing for Scotland in the European girls' team championship which starts at Murcar Links on Tuesday, July 8

Laura and Emily head North of Scotland championship entries for Strathmore

Last year's finalists, Laura Walker (Muckhart) and Emily Ogilvy (Auchterarder), are among the big entry for the North of Scotland women's golf championship at Strathmore Golf Club, Alyth from July 7 to 9.
Laura won the title at the 20th in the final at Lossiemouth 12 months ago.
Order of play in the qualifying round on July 7, which will produce 16 qualifiers for the scratch championship is (alternating seven and eight-minute intervals):
9.0 E Ogilvy (Auchterarder) and partner; K McNicoll (Carnoustie Ladies), L Walker (Muckhart); A Ramsay (Kirriemuir), A Bushby (Strathmore); H Anderson (Downfield), A Ryan (Tain), J Brown (Monifieth).
9.30 M Smith (Tain), A Hunter (Monifieth), J Sneddon (Alyth); M Summers (Panmure Barry), C Penman (Carnoustie Ladies), F Hay (Deeside); F Miller (Carnoustie Ladies), A Niven (Crieff), A Ingram (Fort William).
10.0 F Blair (Carnoustie Ladies), E Muirhead (Pitlochry), J Yellowlees (Murrayshall); G Lambie (Dunkeld), S Arbuckle (Panmuire Barry), G Dowling (Inverness); M Hope (Blairgowrie), S Bushby (Strathmore), A Gowrie (Inverness).
10.30 N Fleming (Alyth), J Griffiths (Strathmore), J Clark (Panmure Barry); A Summers (Panmure Barry), F Sinclair (Carnoustie Caledonia), J Petrie (Panmure Barry); L Hardie (Aberdeenshire), J Henderson (Royal Motnrose), M Aird (Strathmore).
11.0 S Sneddon (Carnoustie Caledonia), C Whicher (Aberdeen Ladies), N Morrison (Dunblane), S Mackinnon (McDonald Ellon), J Lang (Alyth), L McGillivray (Banchory); I McGraw (Auchterarder), G Pennycook (Alyth), A Freeman (Panmure Barry).
11.30 S Tait (Newmachar), P Drysdale (Alyth), M Duthie (Panmure Barry); H Kelly (Panmure Barry), F Johnston (Alyth), M Faulkner (Royal Montrose); S Belton (Kirriemuir), K MacCallum (McDonald Ellon), A Hope (Newmachar).
12.0 C Turner (Alyth), A Alston (Royal Montrose), G Wilson (Monifieth); G Murray (Cruden Bay), J Taylor (Strathmore), H Gibson (Alyth); K Esslemont (Cruden Bay), C Bryce (Ballater), S Cummins (Royal Montrose); J Kennedy (Blairgowrie), A Grewar (Strathmore), I Joss (Newmachar).
12.30 C Choudhary (Callander), F Gibson (Ballater), J Chalmers (Monifieth); R McLean (Cruden Bay), C Lambie (Dunkeld), S MacDonell (Inverness); C Robertson (Dunkeld), EThomson (Aberdeen Ladies), L Kelly (Newmachar).
1.0 J Sneddon (Alyth), F Watterson (Newburgh; S Bradley (Kirriemuir), E Barrack (Aberdeen Ladies), M Robertson (Strathmore); B Lyburn (Blairgowrie),E Herries (Banchory), D Massie (Newmachar); E Aird (Strathmore), S Adamson (Banchory), F Martin (Kirriemuir).
1.30 S Fenner (Strathmore), E Anderson (Deeside), C Peebles (Alyth); L McWilliam (Banchory), R McGeoghegan (Strathmore), D Wallace (Blairgowrie).
1.52 C McNab (Strathmore), M Walker (Aboyne), N Rice-Melville (Downfield).
2.0 J Groom (Strathmore), J Pritchard (Newmachar), S Irvine (Blairgowrie).

ROOM FOR FOUR MORE TEAMS IN PAUL
LAWRIE SCHOOLS CHALLENGE

Torry Academy, Aberdeen teacher Derek Johnstone has room for four more teams in the Paul Lawrie Schools Team Challenge golf tournament at Peterculter Golf Club, near Aberdeen on Monday, September 1.
Pupils must be on the school roll at September 1.
Entry fee is £24 per team of three pupils - boys and/or girls. There is a scratch and a handicap team competition with all three scores to count. Shotgun start at noon.
Team entries will be accepted from Highland, Grampian and Tayside schools and must be in Mr Johnstone's hands by the end of term, Friday, July 4.
Postal address is:
Mr Derek Johnstone, Torry academy, Tullos Ciorcle, Aberdeen AB11 8HD.


ends

Carol Semple Thompson to be

awarded a place in World

Golf Hall of Fame

Captain of the United States Curtis Cup for this year's historic match over the Old Course, St Andrews, Carol Semple Thompson, a seven-time winner of USGA championships, will be recognized alongside posthumous inductees Denny Shute, Craig Woodand golf writer Herbert Warren Wind as part of the 2008 Class at this year's World Golf Hall of Fame induction ceremony.
The announcement was this week at Interlachen Country Club, site of the 2008 U.S. Women's Open.

Shute, Thompson, Wind and Wood will be inducted alongside golf course architect Pete Dye and one other inductee who will be announced later this summer.
"Carol's life in golf is that of the quintessential amateur," said Carol Mann, World Golf Hall of Fame member and ambassador. "Her game is strong, but her grace, humility, dedication, and humour are her strongest assets. She has contributed with intelligence and integrity, preserving the best interests of the game of golf in each of her leadership roles.

"Her parents, Phyllis and Bud, both past leaders of the USGA, would be very proud of this new honour and recognition as a 2008 inductee into the World Golf Hall of Fame."
On the news of Shute, Wind and Wood, Hall of Fame member Ben Crenshaw said, "The induction of these individuals is richly deserved, and I think anyone who studies what they have achieved would be overjoyed for them and their families.

"When I heard the news, I went immediately to Mr. Wind's book 'The Story of American Golf' and was struck by the irony of it all. In that book, Mr. Wind so eloquently details the pursuits of Denny Shute and Craig Wood, two men with incredibly successful careers that often overlapped. And now, so many years later, the three will forever be linked again as they join the Hall of Fame's Class of 2008."
Shute, selected in the Veterans Category, had 15 PGA Tour victories to his credit, including three majors: the 1933 British Open and 1936 and 1937 US PGA championships. For 63 years, Shute carried the title as the last man to win back-to-back US PGA Championship titles until Tiger Woods achieved the same in 1999 and 2000.

Shute was a member of three U.S. Ryder Cup teams: 1931, '33 and '37.
Shute first started winning as an amateur in West Virginia before returning to his native Ohio to win the Ohio Amateur in 1927 and the Ohio Open from 1929-31. From 1945 until he retired in 1972, he was the head professional at Portage Country Club in Akron, Ohio. Shute was born in Cleveland, Ohio, on Oct. 25, 1904 and died May 13, 1974.
Thompson, selected in the Lifetime Achievement Category, is one of only 11 golfers to have won the United States Women's Amateur and British Ladies Open Amateur, events she won in 1973 and '74 respectively.

She has won six additional USGA championships: the 1999-2002 USGA Senior Women's Amateurs and the 1990 and '97 United States Women's Mid-Amateurs. She has played in more than 100 USGA championships, including 32 U.S. Women's Opens.

Thompson played on a record 12 USA Curtis Cup teams and captained the victorious 2006 and 2008 USA teams. She has played for the United States in five Women's World Amateur Team Championships (She is pictured above by Cal Carson Golf Agency on the first tee at the Old Course during the recent Curtis Cup match).
Thompson has served on the USGA Women's Committee and Executive Committee, as well as on the Advisory Committee for the PGA of America. She won the USGA's 2003 Bob Jones Award, the Association's top award given in recognition of distinguished sportsmanship in golf, and the 2005 First Lady of Golf Award presented by the PGA. She was born on Oct. 27, 1948 in Sewickley, Pa., where she still resides.
Wind, selected in the Lifetime Achievement Category, wrote for The New Yorker from 1947 to '53 and again from 1960 to '90, when he retired. He spent the interim years writing for Sports Illustrated, and, in April 1958, termed the phrase "Amen Corner" when writing about holes 11, 12 and 13 at Augusta National Golf Club. Wind also wrote several books about golf including "The Story of American Golf" and "Five Lessons: The Modern Fundamentals of Golf," written with fellow Hall of Fame member Ben Hogan.
Wind graduated from Yale University and earned a master's degree in English at Cambridge University in England. He won the USGA's Bob Jones Award in 1995 and remains the only writer to have ever done so. He also served as a volunteer on two USGA committees for nearly 30 years. Wind was born Aug. 11, 1917, in Brockton, Mass., and died May 30, 2005.
"Mr. Wind, in my mind, is the foremost golf writer in America," Crenshaw added. "He knew so many people and witnessed so much in golf history and had the talent to make people come to life through his writing. He enriched my life beyond golf and encouraged my love of golf history. He was a remarkable person."
Wood, elected on the PGA TOUR Ballot with 65 percent of the vote, earned 21 US PGA Tour titles, including the 1941 Masters, where he became the first wire-to-wire winner of that tournament.

Wood won the U.S. Open the same year, becoming the first person to capture the first two major championships in one year. He also was a member of three Ryder Cup teams: 1931, '33 and '35.
Wood was born in Lake Placid, N.Y., on Nov. 18, 1901, and died May 8, 1968. In 1948, Wood's home city of Lake Placid honoured him by renaming the Lake Placid Golf and Country Club the Craig Wood Golf Course.
"The World Golf Hall of Fame continues to recognize the greatest players and contributors that this game has seen, regardless of the era in which they lived," said Jack Peter, senior vice president and COO of the Hall of Fame. "The Class of 2008 will be a convergence of those from a bygone era with those who continue in golf today."
Dye, Shute, Thompson, Wind and Wood -- plus the final inductee yet to be announced -- will be honoured at the 2008 World Golf Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony on Monday, Nov. 10, at the World Golf Village in St. Augustine, Fla.
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Carly Booth in Ladies' English Open field

Comrie's Carly Booth, who had her 16th birthday on June 21, is among the entries for the Ladies European Tour event, The Oxfordshire Ladies English Open, from July 4 to 6.

FIFE SET TO WIN EAST TITLE AND
QUALIFY FOR SCOTTISH FINALS

Unless Stirling & Clackmannan can upset the form book on the final day, Fife are set to be crowned East Division women’s inter-county golf team champions at Broomieknowe Golf Club, Bonnyrigg on Wednesday.
The Scottish county finals at Inchmarlo Golf Centre, Banchory from September 19 to 21 are contested by the four divisional champions.
Fife followed up their win over divisional and national title-holders Midlothian with a resounding 8-1 win over East Lothian while Midlothian got off the mark with a 6 ½-2 ½ win over Stirling & Clackmannan.
Fife’s strength-in-depth line-up made a 3-0 clean sweep of the foursomes at East Lothian and then won five of the six singles through Krystle Caithness (picture above by Cal Carson Golf Agency (all rights reserved), Fiona (Lockhart) Hastie, Jocelyn Carthew, Katrina Milne and Elaine Moffat.
Midlothian established a 2pt lead in their foursomes against Stirling & Clackmannan and then won four singles with Rachael Livingstone, Wendy Nicholson, Karen Marshall and Claire MacDonald all successful.
Day 2 details:
FIFE 8, EAST LOTHIAN 1
Foursomes: K Caithness & J Carthew bt L Nicholson & H Wardell 5 and 4; F Hastie & E Moffat bt F Prior & S McEwan 3 and 1; S Jackson & K Sharp bt K Brotherton & E Fairnie 1 hole (3-0).
Singles: Caithness bt R Carroll 7 and 6, Hastie bt L Nicholson 1 hole, Carthew bt Fairnie 5 and 4, Jackson lost to Brotherton 3 and 1, K Milne bt Prior 8 and 7, Moffat bt Wardell 4 and 3 (5-1).

STIRLING & CLACKMANNAN 2 ½, MIDLOTHIAN 6 ½
Foursomes: A Davidson & L McGregor halved with J Turner & R Livingstone; E Allison & M Tough lost to C Hargan & K Marshall 5 and 3; L Allan & S Mitchell lost to K Blackwood & F De Vries 3 and 2 (1/2-2 ½).
Singles: Davidson lost to Livingstone 4 and 2, Allan bt Hargan 3 and 2, McGregor lost to W Nicholson 3 and 2, V Stevenson bt De Vries 3 and 2, Mitchell lost to Marshall 2 holes, Allison lost to MacDonald 3 and 2 (2-4).

HOW THEY STAND
1 Fife 2 wins – 2 pt
2 Midlothian 1 win, 1 defeat – 1pt.
2 East Lothian 1 win, 1 defeat – 1pt.
4 Stirling & Clackmannan 2 defeats – 0pt

FINAL MATCHES
Stirling & Clackmannan v Fife.
Midlothian v East Lothian.

West title up for grabs on

final day at Hilton Park

Following the defeat of defending champions Dunbartonshire & Argyll by Ayrshire and Renfrewshire’s draw with Lanarkshire, the West Division women’s inter-county team championship is up for grabs on the final day at Hilton Park Golf Club, Glasgow.
Renfrewshire head the table after Day 2 with 1 1/2pt, following up their first-day win over Ayrshire with a 4 ½-4 ½ share of the spoils with Lanarkshire.
Renfrewshire’s Eilidh Briggs, picture right by Cal Carson Golf Agency (all rights reserved), got a hole in one at the short sixth.
Lanarkshire took a 2pt lead in the foursomes but were pegged back by Ayrshire’s four successes in the singles by Sara McCorkell, Megan Briggs, Claire-Marie Carlton and Donna Jackson.
Ayrshire jumped into a 3-0 lunchtime lead by making a clean sweep of the foursomes but Dunbartonshire & Argyll almost, but not quite, turned the tables in the singles with wins by Kylie Walker, Gemma Webster, Judy Galbraith and Louisa Ruane .
The final-day matches pit Renfrewshire against Dunbartonshire & Argyll and Ayrshire against Lanarkshire. If Renfrewshire win, then they will go to the Scottish county finals at West Division champions in September. If they don’t, then the pocket calculators will be needed to sort out a potential logjam at the top of the table.

Whatever happens the stage is set for some thrilling action, enough to make everyone forget about the midges!
Day 2 results:
DUNBARTONSHIRE & ARGYLL 4, AYRSHIRE 5
Foursomes: K Walker & G Webster lost to M MacPherson & D Watt 4 and 2; J Galbraith & J Meldrum lost to L Hendry & R McQueen 3 and 2; S Cadden & L Ruane lost to L Williamson & A Glennie 3 and 2 (0-3).
Singles: Walker bt MacPherson 3 and 2, Webster bt J Linklater 1 hole, Galbraith bt McQueen 5 and 4, Ruane bt Williamson 4 and 3, L McGeachy lost to Hendry 5 and 3, Cadden lost to D Watt 4 and 3 (4-2).
RENFREWSHIRE 4 ½, LANARKSHIRE 4 ½
Foursomes: C-M Carlton & M Briggs lost to P Pretswell & S Wood 3 and 2; D Jackson & L Stewart halved with E Cuthill & A Devine; E Briggs & G McGinlay lost to M Hughes & L Lloyd 4 and 3 (1/2-2 ½).
Singles: G Kyle lost to Pretswell 5 and 4, McCorkell bt Cuthill 1 hole, E Briggs lost to Wood 3 and 2, M Briggs bt R Rankin 3 and 2, Carlton bt J Paterson 8 and 6, Jackson bt Lloyd 1 hole (4-2).

HOW THEY STAND
1 Renfrewshire 1 win, 1 draw = 1 1/2pt
2 Dunbartonshire & Argyll 1 win, 1 defeat - 1pt.
2 Ayrshire 1 win, 1 defeat - 1 pt.
4 Lanarkshire 1 draw, 1 defeat - 1/2pt

FINAL MATCHES
Dunbartonshire v Renfrewshire
Ayrshire v Lanarkshire.

Midland Vets Draw

DRAW FOR THE SVLGA (Midland) – SUMMER MEETING
30th June at Braehead

9.30am M. Tough, K. Keir, C. Kenny,
9.37am M. Hope, L. Bennett, S. Bushby
9.45am F. Liddle, F. de Vries, E. Wilson
9.52am E. Fertacz, S. Quinn, J. Blyth
10.00am N. Fleming, J. Flannigan, W. McCallum
10.07am I. Harvey, A. Chisholm, A. Moffat
10.15am E. Cunningham, B. Brown, H. Gibson
10.22am S. Travers, J. Bald, S. Copland
10.30am L. McGraw, A. Robertson, H. Thomson
10.37am M. Seymour, J. Mulgrew, K. McKellar
10.45am A. More, D. Peterson, C. Malcolm
10.52am M. Glennie, M. Chapman, G. Haines
11.00am J. Montgomery, E. Milligan, D. Whytock
11.07am R. Rickard, E. Arkley, D. Bennett
11.15am D. Reid, C. Reekie, M. Muncey
11.22am L. Crozier, P. Hebner, S. Christie
11.30am M. Forbes, P. Cockshoot

No doubt where the courtesy cars are coming from or heading to ... (image by Susan Simpson).

An E-mail Postcard from US Women's Open

sent by the Ladies Golf Union's Carnoustie-born Director of Championships, Susan Simpson.

She writes:

Greetings from the land of 10,000 lakes and 10 million mosquitos.

Very hot weather by our standards but locals think it is cool !! 80 degrees + and not good for the pale Scots – already looking a bright shade of red!
By the way, the first pro here at Interlaachen was Willie Kidd from Monifieth. He was Patty Berg’s teacher (member here until she died)

US Women’s Open goes to great lengths
By BRADLEY S. KLEIN
Senior Writer, GOLFWEEK
Long straight drivers of the golf ball will have a distinct advantage at this week's US Women’s Open.
Interlachen Country Club in Edina, Minnesota, home to the championship from Thursday to Sunday is the longest course to hold the US Women’s Open.
With five par-5s, four of them reachable in two by powerful hitters, the 6,789-yard, par-73 lay-out offers a potential birdie-fest to players who can control their tee shots.
At the same time, its tree-lined fairways severely punish wayward drives. In short – actually, long – it’s a typical USGA-style parkland course.
The 160-acre site is part of a spacious, leafy suburb seven miles southwest of downtown Minneapolis. The course dates to a 1911 lay-out by Willie Watson that was transformed into its current guise by Donald Ross from Dornoch in 1919.
Bobby Jones made headlines there in 1930 when he won the U.S. Open, the third leg of his Grand Slam. Interlachen subsequently held the 1935 U.S. Women’s Amateur (won by Glenna Collett Vare), the 1986 U.S. Senior Amateur (won by Bo Williams), the 1993 Walker Cup (U.S. over G.B. & I, 19-5), and the 2002 Solheim Cup (U.S. over Europe, 15 1/2-12 1/2).
Interlachen offers rolling fairways, 25-28 yards wide, that require precise shot-making if the ball is to stay in play. The greens are on the small size, averaging 5,000 square feet, with considerable pitch from back to front. Many of the greens are perched on modest plateaus and require well-struck approaches, lest the ball roll off into bunkers and chipping hollows.
The rough will be graduated, with the bulk of the primary cut at 3 inches deep. Green speeds will average 11.5-12 on the Stimpmeter – much faster than for everyday LPGA events.
There’s a twist to the normal (members') lay-out, thanks to the nines being flipped. The move places a road crossing earlier in the round, before heavy spectator traffic builds toward the back nine. More importantly, it defers the club’s most famous hole, normally the par-5 ninth, until the end, where it should provide dramatic theatre.
Both nines end on what could prove to be decisive holes. The 413-yard, par-4 ninth hole calls for a semi-blind tee shot to a landing area 30 feet below the tee. The hole plays into the prevailing westerly wind and requires a long approach to a putting surface 30 feet above the fairway.
As hard as the roly-poly fairway is to hit, the green is even more elusive – all three tiers of it.
Interlachen’s 530yd, par-5 18th hole is a fine stage for the culmination of a match. The broad, open expanse of the green provides ideal viewing.
The key to playing it is a strong tee shot that favors the right side – leaving a second shot that must carry a huge mid-fairway lake that runs to within 50 yards of the putting surface. It was here that Jones skipped his second shot across the pond on his way to a birdie.
Like many classic-era golf courses, Interlachen demands controlled shot-making. That’s never an easy matter, the more so when the fairways cant and ground beneath one’s feet is uneven, so that the ball rarely comes to rest on a level plane.
At the US Women’s Open, contestants will have to try finding their own comfort level.

Down Mexico Way ... that's

where Jessie met the wise

woman with a crystal ball

FROM THE DURAMED FUTURES TOUR'S WEEKLY NEWSLETTER
It sounds almost mystical when Jessie Shepley (pictured right) tries to explain her recent metamorphosis and how she went from being a talented under-achieving golf professional who posted only one top-10 finish in three years, to already notching four top-10 finishes in nine events this year.
In her fourth season, she has rocketed to fifth on the Duramed Futures Tour’s season money list, showing signs of what many always thought she could be.
When pressed for details, Shepley describes how she went to Mexico in January for a pro-am tournament and met a wise woman named “Rosalba,” who told the Canadian that she was giving away precious energy she needed for herself. The mother of three, whom Shepley had never met, seemingly laid out the pro’s life for her to see, then helped her understand where she needed to start if she wanted the 2008 season to be any different than previous years.
“I guess I had really sort of lost myself a little bit,” said Shepley, 25, of Oakville, Ontario. “This lady, Rosalba, helped me see that I needed to keep all of my energy centred within myself and that I wasn’t maximizing my time out here. I knew it was time for a change.”
First of all, there was no reason why Shepley, a strong 5ft 9in player who had grown up playing high school basketball, volleyball and golf, couldn’t excel on the Duramed Futures Tour. The former two-time SEC All-Conference player from the University of Tennessee had finished fifth individually at the 2003 and 2004 NCAA Women’s Golf Championship. She had the goods.
But clearly, for a strong player like Shepley, there was a mysterious “disconnect.”
And if she had been looking more closely, she would have seen it back when Violeta Retamoza showed up at Tennessee and took Shepley’s No. 1 spot on the team’s roster without a fight.
“Back in college, when Vi showed up, I was like, ‘OK, she’s No. 1 and I’ll just be No. 2,’” said Shepley. “But then, it was the same thing out here. I’m the kind of person that it’s very, very difficult for me to keep myself in the centre, and sometimes I feel like a jerk when I do it, but what I’ve finally realized is if I want to be out here and be successful, I have to be No. 1 in my own life.”
That’s easier said than done for a gentle-spirited woman who is nurturing by nature. In the past, whenever life got rocky for any of her peers on the Tour, Shepley came to the rescue. If anyone was struggling with anything, Shepley was always there to lend a hand or an ear – often at her own expense.
“She has a heart the size of the universe and she still wants to mother people,” said fellow Tour member, Lili Alvarez of Durango, Mexico. “But she gives so much to others that there’s not always enough left for herself.”
And then there was the issue of trying to step up and be successful for her country. The last Canadian on the LPGA who has won or performed with significance has been Lorie Kane, who is well past her 20s. Of the rising Canadian pros, Salimah Mussani of Burlington, Ontario, has won on the Duramed Futures Tour and Tour alum Alena Sharp of Hamilton, Ontario, had a career-best season last year on the LPGA. But where was Shepley, perhaps the one many thought could be the “next great Canadian?”
“I think I was putting a lot of pressure on myself and everyone was expecting me to qualify for the LPGA or to at least play better out here,” she said. “Everything was about results, results, results. Finally, it hit me that my golf score is just a number that I shoot and that’s it. I wish I’d realized that sooner.”
Of course, those numbers can tell golfers a lot if they are paying attention. In her first season in 2005, Shepley finished 106th on the Tour’s money list with a scoring average of 73.75. Those numbers dropped to 57th and 73.69 in 2006, and to 48th, rising to 74.44 in 2007. So far in 2008, she is ranked No. 5 on the money list with a stroke average of 72.23. Her four top-10s in nine events include runner-up finishes in Kansas and at last week’s Duramed Championship in Ohio, both played on two of the better courses during the season.
“I’m not sure when the lightning-bolt moment was, but you can tell by the way she’s playing that she is making golf her priority now,” said fellow Tour member Alissa Kuczka of Phoenix. “As far as she hits the ball and as well as she hits it, there’s no reason she should have been shooting the kind of numbers she was shooting last year.”
Last fall, Shepley moved to Orlando, where she began working in earnest with swing coach Seon Foley. The two began changing her swing alignment, swing takeaway at the top, and her weight shift during the swing.
Then she began working on her fitness and her mental approach to life. She read numerous “personal realization” types of books. And she dared herself to move beyond the stagnant place she had remained for the first three years of her professional career. Somehow, Shepley knew there was more out there for her to find.
“This universe holds so many laws that helped create us, so I have tried to learn how to use the energy that exists all around us to be positive and to find something bigger than my golf or myself,” she said.
And there were other realizations: “My favourite saying is that the only things in life that you truly enjoy are the things you work for and earn,” she added. “I wasn’t doing that. I needed to be more responsible to my sponsors, my teachers and myself. And I had to decide to do what I need to do, not always just what I want to do.”
Maybe it is maturity. Maybe it is a young pro finally getting it together. Maybe it was the blunt truth by a sagely Mexican stranger who rattled her consciousness. Or maybe it was simply a player who realized she was wasting her talent as the years clicked by.
“I have days now when I’m driving my car in the middle of nowhere and I can see myself winning, and the next thing I know, I have goose bumps and I’m crying,” said Shepley, still seeking her first professional win. “I definitely want it more.”
With that kind of passion now directed inward, that day could be here before she knows it.

Midlothian under pressure

after first-day loss to Fife

Scottish county champions Midlothian have it all to do in the East Division women’s inter-county team championship after losing their opening match 5-4 to Fife at Broomieknowe Golf Club today.
To qualify for a defence of the national title at Inchmarlo Golf Centre, Banchory from September 19 to 21, Midlothian must first retain the East title and, having lost to Fife they must now win both their remaining matches and hope that either East Lothian or Stirling & Clackmannan can dent the Fife 100 % record.
Fife took the foursomes 2-1 against Midlothian and then shared the singles in which three ties went to the 18th green, two of them finishing all square.
East Lothian beat Stirling & Clackmannan 5-4, thanks to a 3-0 clean sweep of the morning foursomes. Stirling & Clackmannan, with former British champion Alison Davidson beating Scotland’s international team skipper Lesley Nicholson (pictured above by Cal Carson Golf Agency), by one hole in the top singles took the afternoon session 4-2 but that was not enough to cancel out the morning deficit.
Former Scottish champion Hilary (Monaghan) Wardell gained a vital singles point for East Lothian by beating Louise McGregor 2 and 1.
Details:
MIDLOTHIAN 4, FIFE 5
Foursomes: R Livingstone & J Turner bt K Caithness & J Carthew 4 and 3; K Blackwood & C MacDonald lost to F Hastie & E Moffat 6 and 4; C Hargan & W Nicholson lost to S Jackson & K Sharp 2 holes (1-2).
Singles: Livingstone lost to Caithness 3 and 2, Turner lost to Hastie 3 and 2, Hargan bt Carthew 2 holes, K Marshall halved with Moffat, MacDonald bt L Bennett 4 and 2, Blackwood halved with K Milne (3-3).
STIRLING & CLACKMANNAN 4, EAST LOTHIAN 5
Foursomes: A Davidson & L McGregor lost to L Nicholson & H Wardell 3 and 2; S Mitchell & L Allan lost to F Prior & S McEwan 4 and 2; V Stevenson & E Allison lost to K Brotherton & E Fairnie 7 and 5 (0-3).
Singles: Davidson bt Nicholson 1 hole, Allan bt Brotherton 2 and 1, McGregor lost to Wardell 2 and 1, Stevenson bt R Carroll 3 and 2, M Tough bt McEwan 5 and 3, J Harrison lost to Fairnie 5 and 4 (4-2).

D&A make good start to

defence of West title

West Division title-holders Dunbartonshire & Argyll made a winning start to the defence of their inter-county title with a 5-4 win over Lanarkshire at Hilton Park Golf Club, Glasgow today. Lanarkshire champion Pamela Pretswell (pictured right by Cal Carson Golf Agency) had a good 3 and 2 win over St Rule Trophy winner Kylie Walker in the top singles tie but Dunbartonshire & Argyll, having taken the morning foursomes 2-1, were able to divide the singles 3-3 for a 1pt overall win.
Renfrewshire beat Ayrshire 5 ½-3 ½ by taking the foursomes 2-1 and the singles 3 ½-2 ½.
The winners of the West Division title at the end of the three-day programme go forward to the Scottish county finals at Inchmarlo Golf Centre, Banchory from September 19 to 21.
Details:
DUNBARTONSHIRE & ARGYLL 5, LANARKSHIRE 4
Foursomes: K Walker & G Webster bt S Wood & P Pretswell 1 hole; J Galbraith & J Meldrum bt E Cuthill & A Devine 1 hole; S Cadden & L McGeachy lost to L Loyd & M Hughes 4 and 3 (2-1).
Singles: Walker lost to Pretswell 3 and 2, Webster bt R Rankin 6 and 5, JMeldrum lost to Wood 3 and 2, L Ruane bt Lloyd 1 hole, Galbraith bt Devine 3 and 2, A Telfer lost to Cuthill 3 and 2 (3-3).
RENFREWSHIRE 5 ½, AYRSHIRE 3 ½
Foursomes: C-M Carlton & M Briggs lost to M MacPherson & D Watt 3 and 2; E Briggs & G McGinlay bt L Hendry & R McQueen 2 and 1; D Jackson & L Stewart bt R Purdom & A Glennie 1 hole (2-1).
Singles: M Briggs halved with MacPherson, Carlton bt J Linklater 5 and 4, E Briggs bt McQueen 1 hole, S McCorkell lost to L Williamson 3 and 2, G Kyle bt Hendry 2 and 1, Jackson lost to Watt 2 and 1 (3 1/2-2 ½).

Englishman who coached Morgan Pressel

awarded PGA Master Professional status

PRESS RELEASE ISSUED BY PGA.
An English golf coach who made his name across the Atlantic including guiding Morgan Pressel to become the youngest ever women's major winner, has received one of the highest accolades in the game.
Martin Hall, the former professional at Trentham in Staffordshire in the early 80s but now based at Ibis Golf & Country Club in Florida, has been awarded PGA Master Professional status in recognition of his brilliant coaching career.
The 52-year-old drew inspiration from great American coaches Jim Flick, Peter Kostis and Bob Toski. It was his subsequent friendship with them that led to him moving to the USA to pursue his passion for teaching and coaching.
Rated one of the best coaches by world famous Golf Digest magazine, Hall was also an instrumental figure in the Nicklaus/Flick golf schools, helping establish academies around the world and coaching in 16 countries from Japan to Canada.
More exciting for Hall was spending time with Nicklaus and also Tom Watson, and being able to pick their brains."It gave me a close up profile of what a world class champion is like outside of the ropes," says Hall.
"Not withstanding their enormous athletic ability, both were very certain, very sure of themselves and tremendously determined and competitive. I asked Jack how he could win 18 major championships?
"He said he knew he was never going to hit it left in the last nine holes of a major. That has given me great insight, under pressure he was absolutely intent that the toe of the club didn't pass the heel until after impact."
To me that knowledge really has clout, it's not something you read in a book."
Two other key figures in his life have been his wife, Lisa, the two-time Solheim Cup player and four time Tour winner, and Pressel whose victory in the Kraft Nabisco Championship last year made her at just 18, the youngest ever to win a major.
"I knew she was really good when she shot two 77s after qualifying as a 12-year-old for the US Open. She's quite a player," he said.
His own golf career began at 12 after his family moved to the countryside from Stoke."I wanted to be a footballer but we moved to the country and there was nothing to do," he said."One day in the summer holidays, when my parents were out, I took my mother's clubs, took a bus to Newcastle Golf Club in North Staffordshire and headed straight onto the first tee and played nine holes."
A life-long love-affair with golf duly began. His first job was as an assistant at Wentworth but he also played three years on the European Tour.
But it's in coaching where he has really made his mark and he's become a much sought after speaker with guest slots at both the US PGA and PGA teaching and coaching conferences under his belt.
"It's a big honour to get this PGA Master Professional award particularly because I've been out of the country for nearly 25 years," said Hall."It's when something like this comes along that it makes you realise all the hard work was worth it."

Saturday tee times for Elm Park GC, Dublin

MAGUIRE TWINS TO LEAD IRISH

CHALLENGE AT OPEN STROKE-PLAY

PRESS RELEASE ISSUED BY IRISH LADIES GOLF UNION
Leona Maguire (Slieve Russell), pictured right, sets out to add the Irish Open Stroke-play title to her Irish Women’s Close victory in May when play commences in the 54 hole tournament on Saturday at Elm Park Golf Club, Dublin.
Leona’s 12-year-old twin sister Lisa, runner-up to Leona at the Women’s Close in Westport, will be one of her main rivals in the 72-player field, all playing off a handicap of 4 or less. The playing standard has risen in recent years and this year’s championship sees a record 38 overseas competitors travelling from Australia, Belgium, Czech Republic, England, France, Germany, Iceland, Italy, Scotland, South Africa, Spain, Turkey and Wales.
With a host of Senior and Junior Internationals on show, the Maguires will need to be at their best to lift the silverware on Sunday afternoon.

Breanne Loucks (Wrexham), fresh from her appearance in last month’s Curtis Cup at St Andrews, heads a strong field which includes internationals preparing for the Women’s European Team Championships in early July and the complete French Under-18 team due to travel to the Junior European Team Championships the following weekend.
Aside from the Maguires, Ireland’s strongest challengers will be Niamh Kitching (Claremorris), Tara Delaney (Carlow), Danielle McVeigh (Royal Co Down Ladies), Maura Morrin (The Curragh), Gillian O’Leary (Cork) and recently capped Dawn Marie Conaty (Ashbourne).
Two rounds of 18 holes will commence at 7.30am on Saturday morning with the top 40 plus ties playing the final 18 holes on Sunday.

With no entry fee for spectators, the tournament provides the perfect opportunity to see the sensational Maguire twins compete on home soil alongside Europe’s elite amateurs. The final round starts 7.30am on Sunday with the leaders teeing off at 12 noon.
SATURDAY'S STARTING TIMES

07:30 & 12:30 Niamh Kitching (Claremorris), Laurence Herman (BEL), Nina Holleder (GER).

07:40 & 12:40 Tara Delaney (Carlow), Emilie Alonso (FRA), Pamela Pretswell (SCO).

07:50 & 12:50 Karen Delaney (Carlow), Audrey Goumard (FRA), Megan Briggs (SCO).

08:00 & 13:00 Danielle McVeigh (RCDL), Alexandra Bonetti (FRA), Charlotte Wild (ENG).

08:10 & 13:10 Victoria Bradshaw (Bangor), Rosanna Crepiat (FRA), Charlotte Ellis (ENG).

08:20 & 13:20 Aoife Lowry (Tipperary), Naoimh McMahon (Shannon), Shirley Harvey (Ballyclare).

08:30 & 13:30 Karen O'Neill (Douglas), Sarah Carty (The Island), Pat Doran (Donabate).

08:40 & 13:40 Aedin Murphy (Carlow), Eilidh Briggs (SCO), Tara Watters (ENG).

08:50 & 13:50 Louise Mernagh (Woodenbridge), Claire-Marie Carlton (SCO), Jo Nicolson (WAL).

09:00 & 14:00 Lisa Maguire (Slieve Russell), Hermione Fitzgerald (ENG), Monique Smit (RSA).

09:10 & 14:10 Leona Maguire (Slieve Russell), Breanne Loucks (WAL), Gillian O'Leary (Cork).

09:20 & 14:20 Deirdre Smith (Co. Louth), Roseanne Niven (SCO), Leigh Whittaker (GER).

09:40 & 14:40 Maura Morrin (The Curragh), Louise Kenney (SCO), Valdis Thora Jonsdottir (ISL).

09:50 & 14:50 Dawn Marie Conaty (Ashbourne), Elle Sandak (AUS), Anne McCormack (Roscommon).

10:00 & 15:00 Deirdre Walsh (Milltown), Ragna Bjork Olafsdottir (ISL), Christine Armanasco (Claremorris).

10:10 & 15:10 Sarah Faller (Galway), Tara Davies (WAL), Tinna Johannsdottir (ISL).

10:20 & 15:20 Catherine Tucker (Limerick), Rebecca Watson (SCO), Sarah Cunningham (Ennis).

10:30 & 15:30 Rachel Cassidy (University of Stirling), Elcin Ulu (TUR), Rhian Wyn Thomas (WAL).

10:40 & 15:40 Sue Phillips (Woodbrook), Matia Maffiuleiti (ITA), Nejla Gercek (TUR).

10:50 & 15:50 Ciara Butler (Newlands), Emma Fairnie (SCO), Sarah Crowe (Tipperary).

11:00 & 16:00 Mary McKenna (Donabate), Fiona Howard (ENG), Sandra Atkinson (Woodbrook).

11:10 & 16:10 Emma O'Driscoll (Ballybunion), Lauren Mackin (ESP), Vicki Power (Dundalk)11:20 & 16:20 Gemma Hegarty (Greencastle), Jocelyn Carthew (SCO), Claire MacDonald (SCO).

11:30 & 16:30 Maria Dunne (Skerries), Jane Turner (SCO), Veronika Holisova (CZE).

South Korean overtakes Norway's

Suzann Pettersen for LPGA win

South Korean Eun-Hee Ji achieved her maiden win on the LPGA Tour with a come-from-behind, two-stroke victory over Norway's Suzann Pettersen at the Wegmans LPGA, Rochester, New York State on Sunday.
Three of the top four were from South Korea.
Eun-Hee Ji shot a five-under 67 to finish at 16-under 272 at the tricky Locust Hill course. A 22-year-old in her second year on the tour, Ji had a previous best finish of second to Pettersen in South Korea in October in the Kolon Championship.
"I'm like a fly in the sky," Ji said through a translator. "I cannot describe what I feel right now. Last year, Suzann beat me and today I beat Suzann, so now I have a confidence. ... If all the tournaments are like today, I could probably win more."
Pettersen shot a 72 and surrendered a three-stroke lead on a sunny, 75-degree day. Ji got in front for the first time with a 7-foot birdie putt on No. 15, where Pettersen missed a 5-footer for par.
The 28-year-old Norwegian has finishes of second, third and ninth this year. She won five times on the tour in 2007.
"I just got out-raced," Pettersen said. "There's so many good young players. They just stay in there. ... You just got to keep knocking on that door. Hopefully it will open."
Jeong Jang (69), who won in Rochester in 2006, tied for third at 12 under with fellow South Korean Hee-Won Han (69).
Cristie Kerr (69), preparing for her title defence in this week's U.S. Women's Open, finished fifth at 11 under, two ahead of top-ranked Lorena Ochoa (69), Christina Kim (68), Japan's Ai Miyazato (72) and South Korean Inbee Park (74).
Ochoa, a six-time winner this year, won in Rochester in 2005 and 2007. With $2 million in season earnings, she extended her lead over Annika Sorenstam (69) to more than a half-million dollars. The Swede, who finished at two under in a tie for 33rd, is stepping away from the tour at the end of the season.
Michelle Wie continues her softly-softly "comeback" ... she closed with a 68 to tie for 24th at four under par.
Ji already had ties for fourth and ninth this year and earned $300,000 in the $2 million tournament to surge from 42nd to 10th on the money list with $471,413.
In just four events last year, she also earned a tie for fifth at the Women's British Open. She took up golf at age 13 and won the Korea Women's Amateur Championship in 2003.
Pettersen's three-shot lead dissolved over the first three holes. Ji opened with a 12-foot birdie putt and Pettersen bogeyed No. 2, her approach shot obstructed by a tree. Ji deftly chipped in from the back fringe on No. 3 to draw level.
Pettersen's chip to 3 feet from thick rough in front of the par-5 eighth got her two ahead again. She restored her three-stroke cushion when she sank a 10-foot birdie putt on No. 11 and Ji missed from 5 feet on the next hole.
The momentum swung back when Ji made a 30-foot birdie on No. 13 and Pettersen drove into the left rough and failed to get up and down from a greenside bunker. After Ji moved into the lead at No. 15, both players birdied the par-5 17th. Ji extended her lead to two with a tap-in on the final green after Pettersen missed from 5 feet for par.
Catriona Matthew finished joint 33rd on 286 with scores of 73, 69, 70 and 74. She earned $12,404.
Janice Moodie came joint 40th on 287 to earn $9,141 with scores of 74, 69, 72 and 72.
LEADING FINAL TOTALS
272 Eun-Hee Ji (South Korea) 70 71 64 67 ($300,000).
274 Suzann Pettersen (Norway) 70 75 67 72 ($183,985).
276 Jeong Jang (South Korea) 68 71 69 68, Hee-Won Han (South Korea)_ 69 74 64 69 ($118,360 each).
277 Christie Kerr (US) 68 70 70 69 ($83,103).]
279 Christina Kim (US) 71 67 73 69, Lorena Ochoa (Mexico) 72 70 68 68 ($24,899 each).
Other scores:
286 Catriona Matthew (Sco) 73 69 70 74 (jt 33rd) ($12,404).
287 Janice Moodie (Sco) 74 69 72 72 (jt 40th) ($9,141).

Stephanie Otteson birdies last for

first win on Futures Tour

PRESS RELEASE ISSUED BY DURAMED FUTURES TOUR
MASON, Ohio, June 22, 2008 - It came down to the final stroke in regulation on the 18th green as Stephanie Otteson of Wilson, North Carolina, rolled home a 30ft birdie putt to cap a round of even-par 71 and earn her first professional win at the $110,000 The Duramed Championship. The second-year Tour pro finished the tournament at nine-under-par 204, and earned a $15,400 check for the victory.
Jessica Shepley (68) of Oakville, Ontario, posted her second runner-up finish of the season and finished with a three-round total of 205 (-8), one shot back.
Two-time tournament winner Mindy Kim (72) of Diamond Bar, Calif., finished with a three-day score of 206 (-7) for solo third.
It looked as if the Tour's third play-off of the year was about to get underway when Shepley drained a clutch 21ft birdie putt on the 18th green to move into a three-way tie with Kim and Otteson at eight-under par.
But Otteson ended all speculation with her dramatic putt and became the Duramed FUTURES Tour's seventh tournament champion of the 2008 season.
"Absolutely amazing," said Otteson of her final putt. "It was just one of those situations where you hope and pray it goes in and it just happened to fall in for me this time."
For Otteson, who started playing golf at age of 14, it was a dream come true. It marked her first victory since winning the Wilson County (N.C.) Junior Golf Association Championship in her hometown when she was 16.
Her good friend, former University of North Carolina-Wilmington teammate and travel partner, Michelle Jarman of Wilmington, N.C., was with her every step of the way walking the final round.
With her victory, Otteson has charged into the No. 8 position on the Tour's season money list. The North Carolinian has burst on the scene, surpassing her 12th-place finish last week in Decatur, Ill., last week at the Michelob ULTRA Duramed FUTURES Players Championship. Her previous career-best finish was a seventh-place showing at last year's event in Bloomfield, Conn. With her victory, she surged up to eighth on the season money list.
"This is a really big turning point for me and helps me realize that I belong out here," Otteson said. "It was something I couldn't anticipate. I always knew I had the talent and the drive, but it almost seemed like it didn't come together."
Cloudy skies and winds picked up as the final group made it to the 16th hole and another thunderstorm appeared to be bearing down on The Golf Center at Kings Island. After enduring more than a two-hour weather delay on Saturday, Otteson wasn't ready to head to the clubhouse.
"I wanted to keep going," Otteson said. "I did not want to go inside because I wanted us to duke it out with what we had right then and there."
Otteson was determined to finish strong in today's final round, remembering a 78 she carded at last year's Connecticut tournament after heading into the final day in third place. This time, she maintained the lead through all three rounds, sharing the first-day lead with Kim after both players opened at 7-under-par 64.
"To be honest, I feel like a completely different player than I was in Connecticut," Otteson said. "I felt more calm, almost relieved."
The round didn't start out as Otteson planned. She made bogey on two of her first three holes.
"I told myself it was just the fourth bogey I had made the entire week," Otteson said. "I knew I had some good birdie holes coming up and I tried to stick to my game."
In search of her first professional win, Shepley was knocking on the door until the very end. The gallery exploded when Shepley drained her putt, with all eyes now turned to Otteson and Kim standing in the 18th fairway.
"She (Stephanie) was playing great all week," said the Canadian. "When you see that final putt go in, your heart just sinks, but I'm really happy with how I finished."
Otteson heard the crowd erupt as she walked up the final fairway, but she wasn't aware of Shepley's score.
"I tried to sneak around and look at the leaderboard, but I couldn't see it," Otteson said. "After Mindy (Kim) hit her ball in the water, I just wanted to lay up and try to make as good of a shot as I could. I didn't know [how Shepley stood] until I walked up on the green.
Tied through 17 holes with Otteson, Kim's second shot on the last hole found a water hazard as she aimed for the green. The error cost her one shot and a chance to tie Shepley for second place.
"I thought I hit it well," Kim said. "I used a 3-wood, but it wasn't enough."
Kim moved back to the No. 1 spot on the season money list, past rookie and fellow two-time tournament champion Vicky Hurst of Melbourne, Fla., on the season money list, who spent the week at the LPGA Wegmans in Pittsford, N.Y. Kim earned $7,838 for her third-place finish. Shepley moved up from ninth to fifth on the money list, earning $11,000 for her second-place performance.
The Duramed FUTURES Tour closes out its Midwest Swing as it heads to Hammond, Indiana, for the Horseshoe Casino Classic at Lost Marsh Golf Course.
For complete scores and more information, visit www.duramedfuturestour.com.

US Futures Tour Scoreboard
DURAMED CHAMPIONSHIP
The Golf Center, Kings Island, Mason, Ohio
FINAL TOTALS
Par 213 (3 x 71) 6,183yd.
1 Stephanie Otteson (Wilson, N.C.) 64-69-71 - 204 $15,400.
2 Jessica Shepley (Oakville, Ontario) 67-70-68 - 205 $11,000.
3 Mindy Kim (Diamond Bar, Calif.) 64-70-72 - 206 $7,838.
T4 Eunjung Yi (Murrieta, Calif.) 69-74-64 - 207 $4,508.
T4 Sarah-Jane Kenyon (Queensland, Australia) 70-66-71 - 207 $4,508.
T4 Katie Allison (Little River, S.C.) 69-66-72 - 207 $4,508.
T7 Chella Choi (Seoul, South Korea) 72-68-68 - 208 $2,702.
T7 Maru Martinez (Maracaibo, Venezuela) 69-67-72 - 208 $2,702.
T9 Gerina Mendoza (Roswell, N.M.) 70-71-69 - 210 $2,042.
T9 Brandi Jackson (Greenville, S.C.) 72-67-71 - 210 $2,042.
T11 Caroline Larsson (Stockholm, Sweden) 75-67-69 - 211 $1,611.
T11 Jenny Gleason (Clearwater, Fla.) 67-74-70 - 211 $1,611.
T11 Whitney Wade (Glasgow, Ky.) 70-70-71 - 211 $1,611.
T14 Song Yi Choi (Seoul, South Korea) 67-75-70 - 212 $1,328.
T14 Rachel Bailey (Faulconbridge, Australia) 72-69-71 - 212 $1,328.
16 Nicole Jeray (Berwyn, Ill.) 74-68-71 - 213 $1,185.
T17 Lisa Meldrum (Montreal, Quebec) 70-72-72 - 214 $998.
T17 Jenny Suh (Fairfax, Va.) 72-72-70 - 214 $998.
T17 Lili Alvarez (Durango, Mexico) 73-68-73 - 214 $998.
T17 Sophia Sheridan (Guadalajara, Mexico) 67-74-73 - 214 $998.
T17 Kristina Tucker (Stockholm, Sweden) 69-71-74 - 214 $998.
T17 Leah Wigger (Louisville, Ky.) 70-76-68 - 214 $998.
T23 Kim Welch (Sacramento, Calif.) 69-75-71 - 215 $888.
T23 Cortney Reno (Grosse Ile, Mich.) 70-72-73 - 215 $888.
T23 Janell Howland (Boise, Idaho) 71-70-74 - 215 $888.
T23 Pamela Feggans (Patna, Scotland) 71-75-69 - 215 $888.
T27 Marcela Leon (Monterrey, Mexico) 74-68-74 - 216 $839.
T27 Angela Buzminski (Oshawa, Ontario) 74-72-70 - 216 $839.
T27 Yeon Joo Lee (Seoul, South Korea) 70-68-78 - 216 $839,
T27 Samantha Richdale (Kelowna, British Columbia)72-74-70 - 216 $839.
T27 Lori Atsedes (Ithaca, N.Y.) 73-73-70 - 216 $839.
T32 Lorraine Ballerano (Myrtle Beach, S.C.) 75-69-73 - 217 $780.
T32 M. J. Hur (Seoul, South Korea) 74-70-73 - 217 $780.
T32 Dana Je (Orlando, Fla.) 72-71-74 - 217 $780.
T32 Kristen Samp (Moberly, Mo.) 72-72-73 - 217 $780.
T32 Stephanie George (Myerstown, Pa.) 71-72-74 - 217 $780.
T32 Clarissa Childs (Glendale, Calif.) 73-70-74 - 217 $780.
T32 Mandi McConnell (Grand Blanc, Mich.) 72-72-73 - 217 $780.
T32 Maggie Simons (Raleigh, N.C.) 72-72-73 - 217 $780.
T32 Hannah Yun (Bradenton, Fla.) (am) 70-72-75 - 217.
T32 Jeehae Lee (Seoul, South Korea) 70-69-78 - 217 $780.
T42 Briana Vega (Andover, Mass.) 75-68-75 - 218 $738.
T42 Lisa Ferrero (Lodi, Calif.) 70-75-73 - 218 $738.
T42 Christi Cano (San Antonio, Texas) 71-70-77 - 218 $738.
T42 Mo Martin (Altadena, Calif.) 72-74-72 - 218 $738.
T46 Y. J. Jin (Seoul, South Korea) 73-71-75 - 219 $709.
T46 Kelly Lagedrost (Brooksville, Fla.) 71-72-76 - 219 $709.
T46 Mandy Goins (Frankfort, Ky.) 72-72-75 - 219 $709.
T46 Manuela Tarazona (Buenos Aires, Argentina) 73-71-75 - 219 $709.
T46 Sarah Olsen (Grosse Ile, Mich.) 74-72-73 - 219 $709.
T46 Sarah Lynn Sargent (St. Charles, Ill.) 74-72-73 - 219 $709.
T46 Gina Umeck (Redlands, Calif.) 72-74-73 - 219 $709.
T53 Jin Young Pak (Kang Leung, South Korea 70-74-76 - 220 $676.
T53 Meghan Little (Sturgis, S.D.) 70-74-76 - 220 $67.
T53 Carling Coffing (Middletown, Ohio) 70-72-78 - 220 $676.
T53 Ulrika Ljungman-Smith (Stockholm, Sweden) 73-69-78 - 220 $676.
T53 Hwanhee Lee (Las Vegas, Nev.) 71-74-75 - 220 $676.
T53 Taya Battistella (Portland, Ore.) 72-74-74 - 220 $676.
T59 Sae Hee Son (Seoul, South Korea) 75-69-77 - 221 $650.
T59 Bing Lim (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) 72-72-77 - 221 $650.
T59 Hana Kim (Los Angeles, Calif.) 73-72-76 - 221 $650.
T59 Jessica Schneider (Elgin, Ill.) 70-75-76 - 221 $650.
T59 Rak Kyung Oh (Anaheim, Calif.) 72-74-75 - 221 $650.
T59 Haeji Kang (Seoul, South Korea) 70-76-75 - 221 $650.
T65 Sara Brown (Tucson, Ariz.) 71-73-78 - 222 $632.
T65 Sasha Medina (Ponce, Puerto Rico) 73-70-79 - 222 $632.
T65 Christine Boucher (Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec) 72-72-78 - 222 $632.
T65 Bridget Dwyer (Kailua, Hawaii) 71-75-76 - 222 $632.
T69 Morgan Olds (Stamford, Conn.) 71-73-79 - 223 $622.
T69 Jean Reynolds (Newnan, Ga.) 72-74-77 - 223 $622.
T71 Misun Cho (Cheongju, South Korea) 76-70-78 - 224 $616.
T71 Melissa Eaton (Port Shepstone, South Africa) 72-74-78 - 224 $616.
T71 Amber Prange (Noblesville, Ind.) 72-74-78 - 224 $616.
T74 Sam White (Potomac, Md.) 71-72-82 - 225 $613.
T74 Tanya Dergal (Durango, Mexico) 69-77-79 - 225 $613.
76 Stella Lee (Seoul, South Korea) 73-73-80 - 226 $610

Rebecca Hudson wins play-off

for Tenerife Ladies Open

FROM THE LADIES EUROPEAN TOUR WEBSITE

By BETHAN CUTLER
England’s Rebecca Hudson birdied the third extra hole of a sudden-death play-off against Anne-Lise Caudal from France to capture the Tenerife Ladies Open at Golf Costa Adeje today.

Hudson, pictured right, 29, from Doncaster, began the final round one shot behind Caudal and posted a final round 69 in regulation play to finish on 10-under-par 278 in total.

Caudal, who won the previous week’s tournament in Portugal, was a shot ahead with one hole to play, but bogeyed the par-5 18th after hitting her second shot into a greenside bunker, from where she took four shots to get down. She signed for a final round 70.

Both players birdied the 472-yard 18th hole at the first extra time of asking. Hudson rolled in a 12 footer for birdie while Caudal replied by holing hers from four feet. They both made pars on the 18th at the second extra hole, both players just missing their birdie chances.

After Caudal took a par 4 at the third extra hole, the 377yd 17th, Hudson sank her 3ft birdie putt to claim her second individual Ladies European Tour title and a first prize of €45,000. It was her first LET victory since the 2006 OTP Bank Ladies European Open in Hungary, although she also won the European Cup in Spain in April, which was a team event.
“I didn’t expect Anne-Lise to bogey the last in regulation play so to actually get into the play-off and then win it, I’m thrilled,” said Hudson, who is playing in her sixth season on the LET.

“I did not expect her to make any mistakes. Making a 5 on that hole is a bit like a dropped shot because it is quite a short par-5 but it was playing into the wind today. It was difficult so I didn’t expect her to make a 6.

"When she did it was a bit of a shock but I managed to hole that 12 footer on the first way round and that was crucial. Pressure or however the situation is took its toll and what happened, happened. I’ll definitely have a nice bottle of something tonight.”

Hudson said she would celebrate her victory with fellow Tour player and long-time friend Kirsty Fisher, who was caddying for her over the weekend after missing the cut herself.

Caudal was pleased to cap a month of strong performances, during which she posted tied fourth, third, first and second in Germany, Holland, Portugal and Tenerife respectively. “I am happy with my day. I played good today but just made a bogey on the 18th. After that I played well in the play-off but Rebecca made a good shot on the 17th. I’m happy with my result and my month,” she said.

Referring to her bunker shot on the 18th, which she played out just short of the green, she said: “The sand is not very easy here and you don’t know what the ball can do. I hit a good shot but I don’t know what happened.”

She will now take a two-week break.

European number one Gwladys Nocera shot a final round 68 to finish on a total of seven-under-par and shared third with Spanish amateur Carlota Ciganda, who led at the halfway stage of the tournament and had a final round of 71.

Another Spanish amateur, Marta Silva (72), finished on six-under-par in a share of fifth with England’s Melissa Reid (73) and Russian Maria Verchenova (72). Spain’s Paula Marti (69) finished in a share of eighth position with Denmark’s Lisa Holm Sorensen (73) on five-under-par.

FINAL TOTALS

Par 288 (4 x 72)

Players from Spain unless stated

278 Rebecca Hudson (Eng) 70 68 71 69, Anna-Lise Caudal (Fra) 70 69 69 70 (Hudson won sudden-death play-off at third hole).
281 Carlota Ciganda (amateur) 69 66 75 71, Gwladys Nocera (Fra) 69 71 73 68
282 Marta Silva (amateur) 71 71 68 72, Maria Verchenova (Rus) 68 69 73 72, Melissa Reid (Eng) 70 71 68 73
283 Lisa Sorensen (Den) 73 66 71 73, Paula Marti 72 71 71 69
284 Krista Ursula Wikstrom (Fin) 69 68 73 74, Anja Monke (Ger) 69 74 71 70, Lotta Maria Wahlin (Swe) 73 70 75 66, Louise Stahle (Swe) 69 69 73 73, Martina Eberl (Ger) 72 73 69 70
285 Tania Elosegui 72 74 68 71, Nikki Garrett (Aus) 72 74 69 70
286 Felicity Johnson (Eng) 70 70 73 73, Mianne Bagger (Den) 74 73 68 71, Joanne Mills (Aus) 72 70 73 71, Federica Piovano (Ita) 71 70 75 70
287 Zuzana Kamasova (Svk) 70 72 77 68, Julie Greciet (Fra) 67 74 73 73, Diana Luna (Ita) 70 73 69 75, Denise Becker (Ger) 69 75 72 71, Eva Steinberger (Aut) 71 72 66 78
288 Leah Hart (Aus) 72 72 70 74, Becky Brewerton (Wal) 73 74 70 71, Trish Johnson (Eng) 68 72 75 73, Emma Cabrera Bello 75 71 71 71
289 Martina Gillen (Ire) 73 74 71 71
290 Vittoria Valvassori (Ita) 74 72 70 74, Laura Terebey (US) 69 74 74 73, Marta Prieto 75 70 71 74, Azahara Munoz 76 72 71 71, Stefanie Michl (Aut) 71 74 73 72, Carmen Alonso 69 72 74 75
291 Karen Lunn (Aus) 72 72 74 73, Dana Lacey (Aus) 69 75 71 76, Marina Arruti 75 72 69 75, Lisa Hall (Eng) 74 73 70 74, Lynn t Brooky (Nzl) 71 75 72 73, Nicole Gergely (Aut) 72 71 75 73, Melodie Bourdy (Fra) 73 73 73 72, Clare Queen (Sco) 71 73 71 76
292 Julie Tvede (Den) 71 72 73 76, Samantha Head (Eng) 73 73 74 72
293 Elin Ohlsson (Swe) 70 75 74 74
294 Beatriz Recari 73 72 71 78, Ana-Belen Sanchez 77 70 78 69, Kaisa Ruuttila (Fin) 72 71 77 74
295 Cherie Byrnes (Aus) 73 74 74 74, Lydia Hall (Wal) 72 74 73 76, Maria Boden (Swe) 73 72 77 73
296 Rui Yokomine (Jpn) 75 73 72 76, Marianne Skarpnord (Nor) 74 72 73 77, Laura Cabanillas Gomez 76 72 73 75
297 Rebecca Coakley (Ire) 72 76 74 75, Sarah Nicholson (Nzl) 76 70 76 75
298 Sofia Renell (Swe) 79 69 74 76, Kathryn Imrie (Sco) 73 74 74 77, Joanne Clingan 74 72 76 76, Marjet Van Der Graaff (Ned) 74 74 75 75
299 Georgina Simpson (Eng) 77 69 80 73
300 Isabella Maconi (Ita) 78 68 72 82
301 Emma Lyons (Eng) 73 75 71 82
302 Kate Combes (Aus) 75 73 75 79
304 Karen-Margrethe Juul (Den) 74 73 80 77

Ladies European Tour Scoreboard
TENERIFE LADIES OPEN
Golf Costa Adeje, Tenerife
THIRD ROUND TOTALS
Par 216 (3 x 72)
Players from Spain unless otherwise stated
208 Anne Lise Caudal (Fra) 70 69 69
209 Eva Steinberger (Aut) 71 72 66, Melissa Reid (Eng) 70 71 68, Rebecca Hudson (Eng) 70 68 71
210 Marta Silva 71 71 68, Lisa Holm Sorensen (Den) 73 66 71, Maria Verchenova (Rus) 68 69 73, Ursula Wikstrom (Fin) 69 68 73, Carlota Ciganda (amateur) 69 66 75
211 Louise Stahle (Swe) 69 69 73
212 Diana Luna (Ita) 70 73 69
213 Gwladys Nocera (Fra) 69 71 73, Felicity Johnson (Eng) 70 70 73
214 Tania Elosegui 72 74 68, Martina Eberl (Ger) 72 73 69, Leah Hart (Aus) 72 72 70, Anja Monke (Ger) 69 74 71, Paula Marti 72 71 71, Julie Greciet (Fra) 67 74 73
215 Mianne Bagger (Den) 74 73 68, Nikki Garrett (Aus) 72 74 69, Clare Queen (Sco) 71 73 71, Dana Lacey (Aus) 69 75 71, Joanne Mills (Aus) 72 70 73, Carmen Alonso 69 72 74, Trish Johnson (Eng) 68 72 75
216 Marina Arruti 75 72 69, Vittoria Valvassori (Ita) 74 72 70, Beatriz Recari 73 72 71, Marta Prieto 75 70 71, Denise Charlotte Becker (Ger) 69 75 72, Julie Tvede (Den) 71 72 73, Federica Piovano (Ita) 71 70 75
217 Becky Brewerton (Wal) 73 74 70, Lisa Hall (Eng) 74 73 70, Emma Cabrera Bello 75 71 71, Laura Terebey (USA) 69 74 74
218 Martina Gillen (Irl) 73 74 71, Lynn Brooky (Nzl) 71 75 72, Isabella Maconi (Ita) 78 68 72, Stefanie Michl (Aut) 71 74 73, Karen Lunn (Aus) 72 72 74, Lotta Wahlin (Swe) 73 70 75, Nicole Gergely (Aut) 72 71 75
219 Emma Lyons (Eng) 73 75 71, Azahara Munoz 76 72 71, Lydia Hall (Wal) 72 74 73, Marianne Skarpnord (Nor) 74 72 73, Melodie Bourdy (Fra) 73 73 73, Elin Ohlsson (Swe) 70 75 74, Zuzana Kamasova (Svk) 70 72 77
220 Rui Yokomine (Jpn) 75 73 72, Samantha Head (Eng) 73 73 74, Kaisa Ruuttila (Fin) 72 71 77
221 Laura Cabanillas 76 72 73, Kathryn Imrie (Sco) 73 74 74, Cherie Byrnes (Aus) 73 74 74
222 Rebecca Coakley (Irl) 72 76 74, Sofia Renell (Swe) 79 69 74, Jo Clingan (Eng) 74 72 76, Sarah Nicholson (Nzl) 76 70 76, Maria Boden (Swe) 73 72 77
223 Kate Combes (Aus) 75 73 75, Marjet Van Der Graaff (Ned) 74 74 75
225 Ana B Sanchez 77 70 78
226 Georgina Simpson (Eng) 77 69 80
227 Karen Margrethe Juul (Den) 74 73 80

US Curtis Cup player Tiffany

Joh wins WAPL title

United States Curtis Cup team player at St Andrews, Tiffany Joh has won the US Women's Amateur Public Links championship for a second time in three years.
The 21-year-old beat Jennifer Song (South Korea) by 2 and 1 in the 36-hole final over the Erin Hills couse, Wisconsin. Joh played second fiddle for most of the field before squaring the contest with a birdie at the 31st hole. She led for the first time with another birdie at the 33rd and finished it off with a par at the 35th.
Both Song and Joh are the daughters of university professors. Song’s father teaches fluid mechanics at a university in Korea while Joh’s dad is an accounting professor at San Diego State. Song shared low-amateur honours at last year’s U.S. Women’s Open and will give it another try next week in Edina, Minn., before heading back to Korea.
Joh has yet to qualify for the US Women’s Open, failing to get through sectional qualifying. She now returns to UCLA to take summer school classes..
Final results from the U.S. Women’s Amateur Public Links Championship, played June 16-21 at the par-73, 6,178-yard Erin (Wis.) Hills Golf Course:
FINAL (36 holes)
Tiffany Joh bt Jennifer Song 2 and 1.
SEMI-FINALS
Tiffany Joh bt Tiffany Lua 4 and 3.
Jennifer Song bt Stephanie Kono 2 holes.
QUARTER-FINALS
Stephanie Kono bt Michelle Shin 5 and 4.
Jennifer Song bt Lauren Doughtie 4 and 3.
Tiffany Lua bt Stacey Kim 3 and 2.
Tiffany Joh bt Lee Lopez 2 and 1.
ROUND OF 16
Michelle Shin bt Angela Oh at 19th.
Stephanie Kono bt Alexandra Stewart 5 and 4.
Lauren Doughtie bt Emily Powers 3 and 2.
Jennifer Song bt Ha-Na Jang 4 and 3.
Tiffany Lua bt Tzu Chi Lin at 20th.
Stacey Kim bt Michelle Bowles 4 and 3.
Lee Lopez bt Aimee Neff 3 and 2.
Tiffany Joh bt Jaye Marie Green 2 holes.
ROUND OF LAST 32
Michelle Shin bt Ellen Mueller 5 and 3.
Angela Oh bt Grace Na 6 and 5.
Stephanie Kono bt Ani Gulugian 4 and 2.
Alexandra Stewart bt Shasta Averyhardt 3 and 2.
Lauren Doughtie bt Erica Creed 6 and 5.
Emily Powers bt Kristen Schelling 6 and 5.
Ha-Na Jang bt Madelle Swaney 5 and 4.
Jennifer Song bt Kayla Mortellaro 1 hole.
Tzu Chi Lin bt Emily Street 4 and 3.
Tiffany Lua bt Jennie Lee 1 hole.
Michelle Bowles bt Mayule Tomimbang 3 and 2.
Stacey Kim bt Brianna Do 1 hole.
Lee Lopez bt Lynette Duran 3 and 1.
Aimee Neff bt Jenny Lee 2 holes.
Jaye Marie Green bt Rebecca Kim 1 hole.
Tiffany Joh bt Sydnee Michaels 3 and 2.

ROUND OF LAST 64
Ellen Mueller bt Lizette Salas 2 and 1.
Michelle Shin bt Becca Huffer 3 and 2.
Angela Oh bt Caroline Kim 7 and 6.
Grace Na bt Carly Werwie 2 holes.
Stephanie Kono bt Laura Luethke 5 and 3.
Ani Gulugian bt Julie Yang 3 and 2.
Shasta Averyhardt bt Demi Frances Runas 4 and 3.
Alexandra Stewart bt Gennifer Mendez 2 holes.
Lauren Doughtie bt Erica Moston 2 and 1.
Erica Creed bt Stephany Fleet 1 hole.
Emily Powers bt Megan Dowdy 4 and 3.
Kristen Schelling bt Victoria Trapani 6 and 5.
Ha-Na Jang bt Kelly Nakashima 2 and 1.
Madelle Swaney bt Sarah Brown 1 hole.
Kayla Mortellaro bt Mari Chun 3 and 2.
Jennifer Song bt Kristina Merkle 1 hole.
Tzu Chi Lin bt Katie Kempter at 20th.
Emily Street bt Pennapa Pulsawath 2 and 1.
Jennie Lee bt Joy Trotter 3 and 2.
Tiffany Lua bt Ryann O'Toole 4 and 3.
Mayule Tomimbang bt Candice Wiley 5 and 4.
Michelle Bowles bt Aurora Kan 6 and 5.
Stacey Kim bt Inah Park 4 and 3.
Brianna Do bt Kimberly Kim 3 and 2.
Lynette Duran bt Kate Ackerson 2 and 1.
Lee Lopez bt Kathleen White at 19th.
Jenny Lee bt Brooke Beeler 3 and 2.
Aimee Neff bt Amanda Blumenherst 2 and 1.
Rebecca Kim bt Kelly Fuchik 3 and 2.
Jaye Marie Green bt Ashley Sholer 2 holes.
Sydnee Michaels bt Christine Song 6 and 5.
Tiffany Joh bt Wonjoo Choi 3 and 2.

News from the US Duramed Futures Tour

Pamela beats cut but Vikki

fails despite 69 in Round 2

PRESS RELEASE ISSUED BY DURAMED FUTURES TOUR

Stephanie Otteson of Wilson, North Carolina, sank birdie putts on her final two holes to finish off a round of 2-under-par 69 and grab sole possession of the lead during a rain-delayed second round at The Duramed Championship at Kings Island, Mason in Ohio.

First-round co-leader Mindy Kim of Diamond Bar, Calif., is one shot back after firing a 1-under-par 70. Katie Allison of Little River, S.C., is in third after recording a 5-under-par 65, sharing the day's lowest score with Sarah-Jane Kenyon of Queensland, Australia.

Airhorns blared at 5:46 p.m. EDT to interrupt the afternoon and players were rushed into the clubhouse as play was halted because of lightning in the area. A 64-minute weather delay ensued and play was picked back up at 7:50 p.m.
The temperature dropped into the mid-60s as play resumed, but the display of golf from the leading group of Otteson, Kim and Jessica Shepley (70) of Oakville, Ontario, was hotter than ever.
The trio showed no signs of rust, as all three carded birdies on the 17th hole after the delay. Otteson converted an 18-foot birdie putt and Shepley rolled home a 30-foot birdie putt. Kim followed suit with a birdie of her own and dropped in an additional 20-foot birdie putt on the 18th green that sat on the lip of the cup before falling in.
Otteson wasn't to be outdone, countering with a six-foot birdie putt to grab solo lead of the tournament at 9-under par. The second-year pro from the University of North Carolina-Wilmington posted eight birdies in Friday's first round. Her best finish is a seventh-place tie last year at the CIGNA Golf Classic in Bloomfield, Conn.

She is primed for an encore following her season-best 12th-place finish last week at the Michelob ULTRA Duramed FUTURES Players Championship in Decatur, Ill.
"I'm really excited, but I just have to keep trucking along because there's still a lot of golf to be played," Otteson said. "I really didn't mind the break because it gave me a chance to refocus my mind."
Allison finished off her bogey-free round with five birdies to card the day's lowest round with Kenyon. Allison was coming off an 11th-place showing at the Aurora Health Care Championship and broke through the top 10 at the Tour's major championship in Illinois last week.
"I've been trying to feel more comfortable with my short game to take the pressure off the long game," Allison said. "I played the front nine different than yesterday and I had good, legitimate birdies."

Seventy-six players made the cut at 4-over-par 146.

They included Pamela Feggans (pictured above) from Patna, Ayrshire with rounds of 71 and 75 for 146.

They did not include fellow-Scot Vikki Laing from Musselburgh. Vikki had one of her better rounds on the Futures Tour - a two-under-par 69 - but she had too much ground to make up after an opening-day 78. With an aggregate of 147, Vikki missed out on the Sunday action by just one shot.
Tee times for Sunday's final round will be split off the first and 10th tees at 8 a.m. due to a 40 percent chance of thunderstorms projected to hit the area at 11 a.m. The leaders will tee off at 10 a.m. off the first tee.
Live radio coverage of Sunday's final round will stream from Noon-2 p.m. EDT courtesy of Teamline, found on the Real-Time Scoring page at www.duramedfuturestour.com or by visiting http://www.duramedchampionship.com/.

A second-round podcast of Stephanie Otteson can be downloaded at the above sites.

Weather: Sunny with a high of 81 degrees and winds blowing from 10-15 mph from the southwest. Scattered thunderstorms with winds up to 25-30 mph with temperatures dropping to 64 degrees in the late afternoon.

Larsson Battles Back From Uncharacteristic First Round
It's rare to see Caroline Larsson's name towards the bottom of the scoreboard, but the Stockholm, Sweden, product ended her first round in a tie for 102nd. A reversal of fortune was in order for the second-year professional on Saturday as she polished off a round of 4-under-par 67 with five birdies to highlight the morning play and pull into a 20th-place tie.
Light-hearted Larsson laughed after enduring a "snowman" (an 8) on her third hole yesterday - a quadruple bogey scored on a par-4. She marched back into the top of the field today after posting back-to-back birdies on two occasions after opening her round with the only bogey on her scorecard.
"I really wasn't worried about making the cut," Larsson said. "I didn't get mad at it, because you've just got to laugh at a hole like that."
The Oakley-clad Swede kept improving her Korean vocabulary in the scoring tent, reading off her results in Korean to an impressed playing partner Stephanie Kim of Orlando, Fla. The South Korean players on Tour are continually amazed with Larsson's effort to learn a new language."She's a special lady and keeps getting better all the time," said Sae Hee Son of Seoul, South Korea.
To read Larsson's current blog about trying to learn Korean, visit http://www.duramedfuturestour.com/.

Sarah-Jane Kenyon's Season-Long Odyssey Continues
The worst-case scenario for Sarah-Jane Kenyon of Queensland, Australia, and her caddie Duane was a 24-hour round-trip drive - in less than two days. Kenyon intended to drive to Pittsford, New York State to play a Monday qualifying round and attempt to get into the field at the Wegmans LPGA.
That meant leaving after Sunday's final round of the Michelob ULTRA Duramed FUTURES Players Championship in Decatur, Ill., to drive through the night and get ready for an 8 a.m. tee-time in upstate New York.

If Kenyon had made the trip, but failed to qualify for the LPGA event, she and Duane would have completed the journey back to Ohio the same day in time to get ready for The Duramed Championship.
Shortly after posting a 5-under-par 65 in her final round at the Tour's major championship last week, Kenyon found herself patiently waiting out a 38-minute weather delay -- ultimately derailing her travel plans.

The soft-spoken Aussie received an 8 GB Apple iPod Touch to continue Duramed's promotion of the Sunday Low Round Award and opted to stay overnight in Illinois to make the comparatively short four-hour trek to Mason, Ohio, rather than attempting to Monday-qualify in New York.
Kenyon, who has non-exempt LPGA Tour status, has made the most of only three appearances on the Duramed FUTURES Tour 2008 schedule while juggling six LPGA entries. She has posted two runner-up finishes in three starts on the Duramed FUTURES Tour, where her only professional win came in 2005.
A well-rested Kenyon produced the day's lowest score alongside Katie Allison. Kenyon capped off another stellar round with an approach shot on the 18th hole that had backspin and left her with a tap-in for birdie.

US Futures Tour Scoreboard
DURAMED CHAMPIONSHIP
The Golf Center, Kings Island, Mason, Ohio
SECOND-ROUND TOTALS
Par 142 (2 x 71) 6,183yd
1 Stephanie Otteson (Wilson, N.C.) 64-69 - 133.
2 Mindy Kim (Diamond Bar, Calif.) 64-70 - 134.
3 Katie Allison (Little River, S.C.) 69-66 - 135.
4 Sarah-Jane Kenyon (Queensland, Australia) 70-66 - 136.
4 Maru Martinez (Maracaibo, Venezuel 69-67 - 136.
6 Jessica Shepley (Oakville, Ontario) 67-70 - 137.
7 Yeon Joo Lee (Seoul, South Korea) 70-68 - 138.
8 Jeehae Lee (Seoul, South Korea) 70-69 - 139.
8 Brandi Jackson (Greenville, S.C.) 72-67 - 139.
10 Whitney Wade (Glasgow, Kentucky) 70-70 - 140.
10 Chella Choi (Seoul, South Korea) 72-68 - 140.
10 Kristina Tucker (Stockholm, Sweden) 69-71 - 140.
13 Christi Cano (San Antonio, Texas) 71-70 - 141.
13 Janell Howland (Boise, Idaho) 71-70 - 141.
13 Gerina Mendoza (Roswell, N.M.) 70-71 - 141.
13 Rachel Bailey (Faulconbridge, Australia) 72-69 - 141.
13 Jenny Gleason (Clearwater, Fla.) 67-74 - 141.
13 Sophia Sheridan (Guadalajara, Mexico) 67-74 - 141.
13 Lili Alvarez (Durango, Mexico) 73-68 - 141.
20 Caroline Larsson (Stockholm, Sweden) 75-67 - 142.
20 Nicole Jeray (Berwyn, Ill.) 74-68 - 142.
20 Marcela Leon (Monterrey, Mexico) 74-68 - 142.
20 Ulrika Ljungman-Smith (Stockholm, Sweden) 73-69 - 142.
20 Hannah Yun (a) (Bradenton, Fla.) 70-72 - 142.
20 Lisa Meldrum (Montreal, Quebec) 70-72 - 142.
20 Carling Coffing (Middletown, Ohio) 70-72 - 142.
20 Cortney Reno (Grosse Ile, Mich.) 70-72 - 142.
20 Song Yi Choi (Seoul, South Korea) 67-75 - 142.
29 Briana Vega (Andover, Mass.) 75-68 - 143.
29 Sasha Medina (Ponce, Puerto Rico) 73-70 - 143.
29 Clarissa Childs (Glendale, Calif.) 73-70 - 143.
29 Stephanie George (Myerstown, Pa.) 71-72 - 143.
29 Kelly Lagedrost (Brooksville, Fla.) 71-72 - 143.
29 Sam White (Potomac, Md.) 71-72 - 143.
29 Dana Je (Orlando, Fla.) 72-71 - 143.
29 Eunjung Yi (Murrieta, Calif.) 69-74 - 143.
37 Sae Hee Son (Seoul, South Korea) 75-69 - 144.
37 Lorraine Ballerano (Myrtle Beach, S.C.) 75-69 - 144.
37 M. J. Hur (Seoul, South Korea) 74-70 - 144.
37 Y. J. Jin (Seoul, South Korea) 73-71 - 144.
37 Morgan Olds (Stamford, Conn.) 71-73 - 144.
37 Sara Brown (Tucson, Ariz.) 71-73 - 144.
37 Kristen Samp (Moberly, Mo.) 72-72 - 144.
37 Mandi McConnell (Grand Blanc, Mich.) 72-72 - 144.
37 Jin Young Pak (Kang Leung, South Korea) 70-74 - 144.
37 Meghan Little (Sturgis, S.D.) 70-74 - 144.
37 Maggie Simons (Raleigh, N.C.) 72-72 - 144.
37 Kim Welch (Sacramento, Calif.) 69-75 - 144.
37 Bing Lim (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) 72-72 - 144.
37 Christine Boucher (Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec) 72-72 - 144.
37 Jenny Suh (Fairfax, Va.) 72-72 - 144.
37 Mandy Goins (Frankfort, Ky.) 72-72 - 144.
37 Manuela Tarazona (Buenos Aires, Argentina) 73-71 - 144.
54 Hana Kim (Los Angeles, Calif.) 73-72 - 145.
54 Hwanhee Lee (Las Vegas, Nev.) 71-74 - 145.
54 Jessica Schneider (Elgin, Ill.) 70-75 - 145.
54 Lisa Ferrero (Lodi, Calif.) 70-75 - 145.
58 Sarah Olsen (Grosse Ile, Mich.) 74-72 - 146.
58 Sarah Lynn Sargent (St. Charles, Ill.) 74-72 - 146.
58 Misun Cho (Cheongju, South Korea) 76-70 - 146.
58 Angela Buzminski (Oshawa, Ontario) 74-72 - 146.
58 Stella Lee (Seoul, South Korea) 73-73 - 146.
58 Bridget Dwyer (Kailua, Hawaii) 71-75 - 146.
58 Pamela Feggans (Patna, Scotland) 71-75 - 146.
58 Rak Kyung Oh (Anaheim, Calif.) 72-74 - 146.
58 Melissa Eaton (Port Shepstone, South Africa) 72-74 - 146.
58 Leah Wigger (Louisville, Ky.) 70-76 - 146.
58 Amber Prange (Noblesville, Ind.) 72-74 - 146.
58 Mo Martin (Altadena, Calif.) 72-74 - 146.
58 Haeji Kang (Seoul, South Korea) 70-76 - 146.
58 Jean Reynolds (Newnan, Ga.) 72-74 - 146.
58 Taya Battistella (Portland, Ore.) 72-74 - 146.
58 Samantha Richdale (Kelowna, British Columbia) 72-74 - 146.
58 Gina Umeck (Redlands, Calif.) 72-74 - 146.
58 Tanya Dergal (Durango, Mexico) 69-77 - 146.
58 Lori Atsedes (Ithaca, N.Y.) 73-73 - 146.
MISSED THE CUT
Stephanie Kim (a) (Orlando, Fla.) 75-72 - 147.
Jaclyn Burch (Satellite Beach, Fla.) 74-73 - 147.
Amanda Mathis (Opelousas, La.) 76-71 - 147.
Alejandra Shaw (Vina Del Mar, Chile 77-70 - 147.
Chris Brady (Longboat Key, Fla.) 74-73 - 147.
Vikki Laing (Musselburgh, Scotland) 78-69 - 147.
Danah Ford (Indianapolis, Ind.) 73-74 - 147.
Kelly Froelich (Raizeux, France) 73-74 - 147.
Ashley Grier (Hagerstown, Md.) 73-74 - 147.
Ashley Prange (Noblesville, Ind.) 72-75 - 147.
Shayna Miyajima (Maui, Hawaii) 73-74 - 147.
Courtney Erdman (Altadena, Calif.) 75-73 - 148.
Lynn Valentine (East Lyme, Conn.) 75-73 - 148.
Yoora Kim (Seoul, South Korea) 74-74 - 148.
Kim Augusta (Rumford, R.I.) 74-74 - 148.
Brittainy Klein (Henderson, Ky.) 74-74 - 148.
Cristina Baena (Pereira, Colombia) 73-75 - 148.
Rachel Newren-Harmon (Salt Lake City, Utah) 73-75 - 148.
Lauren Todd (Phoenix, Ariz.) 71-77 - 148.
Andrea VanderLende (Longwood, Fla.) 72-76 - 148.
LeAnna Wicks (Brighton, Mich.) 76-73 - 149.
Jenna Pearson (Wheaton, Ill.) 76-73 - 149.
Elin Andersson (Eskilstuna, Sweden) 77-72 - 149.
Carmen Bandea (Atlanta, Ga.) 77-72 - 149.
Annie Young (Highland, Utah) 74-75 - 149.
Jill Frantz (Iowa City, Iowa) 71-78 - 149.
Carol Green-Robertson (Tazewell, Va.) 70-79 - 149.
Jennifer Ackerson (Dallas, Texas) 72-77 - 149.
Juli Erekson (Mapleton, Utah) 75-75 - 150.
Cindy Lee-Pridgen (Sabah, Malaysia) 75-75 - 150.
Anastasia Kostina (Nakhabino, Russia) 76-74 - 150.
Michelle Jarman (Wilmington, N.C.) 74-76 - 150.
Elizabeth Stuart (Tampa, Fla.) 77-73 - 150.
Noon Huachai (Bangkok, Thailand) 78-72 - 150.
Courtney Mahon (Lee's Summit, Mo.) 71-79 - 150.
Katie Fraley (Brandenburg, Ky.) 72-78 - 150.
Adriane Duke (Jonesboro, Ark.) 73-77 - 150.
Alissa Kuczka (Phoenix, Ariz.) 75-76 - 151.
Eileen Vargas (Ibague, Colombia) 74-77 - 151.
Catherine Matranga (Fort Worth, Texas) 76-75 - 151.
Kellee Booth (McKinney, Texas) 74-77 - 151.
Ashley Knoll (The Woodlands, Texas) 77-74 - 151.
Benedikte Grotvedt (a) (Nesbru, Norway) 74-77 - 151.
Maria Laura Elvira (Buenos Aires, Argentina) 78-73 - 151.
Charlotte Campbell (Heathrow, Fla.) 73-78 - 151.
Sohi Moon (Seoul, South Korea) 72-79 - 151.
Amanda McCurdy (Little Rock, Ark.) 75-77 - 152.
Haley Gildea (East Greenwich, R.I.) 76-76 - 152.
Jana Peterkova (Czech Republic) 72-80 - 152 .
Kimberly Goedecke (Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.) 75-78 - 153.
Tiffany Tavee (Tempe, Ariz.) 74-79 - 153.
Ashley Gomes (Pleasanton, Calif.) 72-81 - 153.
Devan Andersen (Guadalajara, Mexico) 78-76 - 154.
Hillery Wilson (a) (Hudson, Ohio) 79-75 - 154.
Amy Schmucker (Cold Spring, Minn.) 80-74 - 154.
Julia Huh (Pasadena, Md.) 76-79 - 155.
Kylene Pulley (Kokomo, Ind.) 77-78 - 155.
Stacey Tate (Auckland, New Zealand) 77-78 - 155.
Christine Cho (Kent, Wash.) 79-76 - 155.
Heather Angell (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 80-76 - 156.
Libby Smith (Essex Junction, Vt.) 78-80 - 158.
Esther Moon (Nashville, Tenn.) 81-77 - 158.
Kelly Schaub (Greeley, Colo.) 75-84 - 159.
Rebecka Heinmert (San Jose, Calif.) 78-81 - 159.
Jutta Degerman (Helsinki, Finland) 81-80 - 161.
Brenda McLarnon (Belfast, N Ireland) 80-82 - 162.
Sofie Andersson (Angelholm, Sweden) 84-78 - 162.
Jin Hyun Kim (Seoul, South Korea) 85-79 - 164.