Paisley, Renwick share 11th place in

Invitational at Statesboro, Georgia

Walker Cup team place contender Chris Paisley (Tennessee University) from Newcastle will start the final round in joint 11th place at the Schenkel E-Z-Go Invitational men's college tournament at Forest Heights County Club, Statesboro, Georgia.
Chris has had rounds of 71 and 73 for a 36-hole tally of 144 over the par-72, 6947yd course.
Team-mate and compatriot Darren Renwick, pictured above, from Worthing, Sussex is on the the same level park with scores of 74 and 70.
Tom Sherreard (Georgia State), a third English player in the field is back in a share of 34th place in a field of 96 with scores of 70 and 77 for 147.
South Carolina and Florida are sharing the team title lead on 579 - but only one shot ahead of Tennessee (580) with North Carolina State (582) a close-up fourth in a field of 18 teams
HOW THEY STAND AFTER THREE ROUNDS
Par 144 (2 x 72). 6947yd
140 Taylor Floyd (Augusta State) 69 71, Matt Hill (North Carolina State) 71 69, Tim McKenney (Florida) 72 68.
Selected scores:
144 Chris Paisley (Tennessee) 71 73, Darren Rwnwick (Tennessee) 74 70 (jt 11th).
147 Tom Sherreard (Georgia State) 70 77 (jt 34th).
TEAM POSITIONS
579 South Carolina, Florida.
580 Tennessee.
582 North Carolina State.
584 Kentucky, Georgia State.
18 Teams competing

Jodi (only two bogeys in two rounds)

drops down to jt 4th in "Longhorn"

Curtis Cup player Jodi Ewart from Catterick, Yorkshire has shot only two bogeys and four birdies over the first 36 holes of this week's big US women's college golf circuit event - the Betsy Rawls Longhorn Invitational - but she is joint fourth in a field of 93, underlining the quality of this field in particular and the high standard of play in general in America.
Jodi, who was in a six-way tie for the lead after the first 18 holes at the University of Texas Golf Club at Austin, deviated from par only twice in her second round of 72 for 142.
She bogeyed the short second and birdied the long 11th.
Spain's Maria Hernandez, from Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, has taken up a one-shot lead with scores of 70 and 69 for 139. Her nearest rival is Lucy Nunn (Arkansas) with a pair of 70s for 140.
French Canadian Maude-Aimee LeBlanc (Purdue) is in third place on 141 with scores of 70 and 71.
Spanish ace and former British girls champion Azahara Munoz (Arizona State) is sharing fourth place with Jodi Ewart on 142 (72-70).
There's still everything to play for in the team title race with Arizona State and Purdue locked together in the lead on 578 - four strokes ahead of third-placed Arkansas with New Mexico (590) in fourth place and top-rated Duke (601) fifth of 16 teams.
LEADING SECOND-ROUND TOTALS
Par 144 (2 x 72) 6,324yd)
139 Maria Hernandez (Purdue) 70 69.
140 Lucy Nunn (Arkansas) 70 70.
141 Maude-Aimee LeBlanc (Purdue) 70 71.
142 Jodi Ewart (New Mexico) 70 72, Azahara Munoz (Arizona State) 72 70.
Selected scores:
145 Carlota Ciganda (Arizona State) 73 72 (jt 7th).
147 Giulia Molinaro (Arizona State) 71 76 (jt 13th).
149 Amanda Blumenherst (Duke) 76 73, Benedicte Toumpsin (South Carolina) 77 72 (jt 23rd).
151 Carolina Westrup (Florida State) 77 74 (jt 32nd).
LEADING TEAMS
578 Arizona State, Purdue.
582 Arkansas.
590 New Mexico.
601 Duke.
16 Teams competing

Lanarkshire Ladies County

Golf Association's

Centenary Dinner

Lanarkshire Ladies County Golf Association held its Centenary Dinner at Kirkhill Golf Club this week. Above is a picture of the members of the top table. They are:

Front: county captain May Hughes, honorary president Margo Bauer, in front of past capts Mary McKay, Anne Prentice, Jean Cameron, Anne Burden, Isobel Kempsell, Jean Reid, Pat Hutton, Margaret Allan, Janice Paterson, Joyce Scott, Sheena Boyd and Elizabeth Nelson.

On the right Margo Bauer cuts the Centenary Cake.

Pictures by courtesy of Jean Cameron.

Jodi in six-way tie for lead on 70 in

Betsy Rawls Longhorn Invitational

Curtis Cup player Jodi Ewart (New Mexico University) from Yorkshire was sharing the lead with five other players on the two-under-par 70 mark after the first round of the Betsy Rawls Longhorn Invitational women's college tournament at the University of Texas Golf Club, Austin, Texas.
Jodi birdied the third, 11th and 14th and dropped only one shot, at the 18th, over a par-72 course of 6,324yd.
Sharing the top spot were Canada's Maude-Aimee LeBlanc, her Purdue team-mate, Spain's Maria Hernandez, Lucy Nunn (Arkansas), Stefanie Kenoyer (Furman) and Jennifer Osborn (Arizona State).
Arizona State (287) are setting the pace in the team event, ahead of Arkansas (288), Purdue and Vanderbilt on 291 and New Mexico (292) in a field of 17 teams.
INDIVIDUAL LEADERBOARD
FIRST ROUND
Par 72. 6324yd
70 Maude-Aimee LeBlanc (Purdue), Jodi Ewart (New Mexico), Maria Hernandez (Purdue), Lucy Nunn (Arkansas), Stefanie Kenoyer (Furman), Jennifer Osborn (Arizona State).
71 Brooke Goodwin (Vanderbilt), Megan Greehan (Vanderbilt), Giulia Molinaro (Arizona State), Juliana Murcia (Arizona State), Kelli Shean (Arkansas), Kendall Dyce (Oklahoma).
Selected scores:
72 Azahara Munoz (Arizona State) (jt 13th).
73 Carlota Ciganda (Arizona State) (jt 15th).
76 Amanda Blumenherst (Duke) (jt 44th).

Song Yi Choi gets mad and leads with

a 64 on first day of new Futures Tour


PRESS RELEASE ISSUED BY THE DURAMED FUTURES TOUR
BY LISA MICKEY
WINTER HAVEN, Florida – Third-year professional Song Yi Choi came up two shots short of qualifying for this week’s LPGA Tour tournament in Mexico on Monday, but she was right where she wanted to be in today’s first round of the Duramed FUTURES Tour season-opening event. Choi fired an eight-under-par score of 64 today to take the lead at the $100,000 Florida’s Natural Growers Charity Classic.
“I was really mad when I didn’t qualify in Mexico earlier this week, so I was focused today,” said Choi, 23, of Seoul, South Korea. “I’m pretty tired, but I was also very comfortable in today’s round.”
Choi got it going quickly at Lake Region Yacht and Country Club, draining a 20-foot birdie on the third hole, and then running in a string of four birdies on holes 5, 6, 7 and 8 – all from within six feet, except for a 50-foot bomb on the seventh hole.
The par-72, 6,176-yard course was receptive to scoring today, even with wind kicking up this afternoon on the wind-blown holes bordering Lake Hamilton. But on this first day of spring with the smell of orange blossoms in the air, Choi was steady. She rolled in a 25-footer on the 10th and a 20-footer on the 12th hole. Her only bogey came on the 14th hole with three putts from 30 feet, but the unflappable player rallied back with birdies from 15 feet and six feet on her final two holes.
“I shot a 69 and I feel like I’m playing catch-up golf,” said Janell Howland of Boise, Idaho, who played in Choi’s group today. “She just hits it close and makes a lot of putts. She’s solid.”
Playing in the afternoon, Choi hit 16 greens and 12 fairways in regulation and needed only 26 putts in today’s opening round. After the round, she admitted that finishing No. 6 on the Tour’s 2008 money list – just out of the top priority LPGA cards – made her even more determined to finish in the top five this year.
She plans to play in more LPGA Monday Qualifying Tournaments and will fly to Phoenix next week for Monday’s qualifier. But for now, Choi has her mind set on getting a top-status LPGA card, one way or another.
“I’ll forget about my round today and start a brand new day tomorrow,” she said.
Tour veteran Stephanie George of Myerstown, Pennsylvinia, grabbed the morning’s low round with a 68 (-4), carding five birdies and one bogey. The ninth-year pro said she was able to make a move today because she spent the off-season “simplifying” her swing with golf teacher Martin Hall in West Palm Beach, Fla.
“My goal was to make it as simple as possible and to also be aggressive,” said George, 30, a two-time winner on the Duramed Futures Tour and a former LPGA Tour member.
Tour rookie Kristie Smith of Perth, Australia was the first player to climb the leaderboard this morning with a three-under-par score of 69 in her opening round as a Tour professional, but she was tied later by rookie Christine Song of Fullerton, California, amateur Hannah Yun of Bradenton, Florida, Jean Reynolds of Newnan, Ga., and Tour veteran Janell Howland.
A total of 19 players carded rounds under par with 37 players finishing at even-par 72 or better.
Weather: Sunny with temperatures in low-80s with wind around 10 mph.
Family Away From Home
Third-year Duramed Futures Tour member Anastasia Kostina of Nakhabino, Russia is enjoying the comforts of home this week with a Russian host family in Lakeland, Florida. Kostina met Michael and Julia Radivilov two years ago and stayed with them in private housing last year. The couple invited her back to stay in their home this year, even though the tournament moved across the county from Lakeland to Winter Haven. It’s a good 30-to-40min commute to the tournament site each day, but Kostina doesn’t mind.
“Staying with them really feels like home,” said Kostina. “They remind me of my parents so much. They’ve never met my parents, but they talk to them all the time on Skype [an international Internet provider].”
Her Russian host family serves up familiar food, such as a “white mushroom” Russian soup, crepes and a cabbage pastry. Thanks to a satellite dish, they even watch Russian TV shows. And away from the golf course, Kostina spends time with the family listening to Russian music and reading Russian books.
Sometimes a little comfort on the road goes a long way, Kostina said.

Don’t Mess With Dan’s Little Sister
Duramed Futures Tour rookie Selanee Henderson of Apple Valley, California, can pretty much hold her own anywhere, thanks to being the little sister of Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) mixed martial artist Dan Henderson.
Her big brother was a college wrestler at Arizona State University, then a two-time Greco-Roman U.S. Olympic Team wrestler in the 1992 and 1996 Olympic Games before he got into the pay-per-view fighting sensation that combines martial arts, kickboxing, traditional boxing and ju jitsu.
“It’s not the fake stuff,” said Selanee. “He’s never been knocked out and he has his own Wikipedia page.”
Her brother also has endorsements in his sport and he has his own clothing brand. When asked if she is involved in his brand, little sister laughed.
“Why would I wear fighting clothes?” she said. “We’re in two different worlds. He makes a lot on endorsements and he sponsors me, but he’s keeping a tab on it.”
Strength and tenacity seems to run in the family. Selanee’s father wrestled at Long Beach State and her oldest brother wrestled at San Diego State. Growing up in a house with two brothers, the golfer said she learned to fight back whenever they “would hold me upside down and tickle me.”
Brother Dan’s next big fight is in July in Las Vegas, but Selanee admits that she hopes she’ll have to miss that one.
“It’s during the same week as the U.S. Women’s Open and I hope I’m there, instead of Vegas.”
Sorry, Dan. No harm intended.

Futures Tour Scoreboard
FLORIDA'S NATURAL GROWERS CHARITY CLASSIC
LAKE REGION YACHT & COUNTRY CLUB
FIRST ROUND SCORES
Par 72 (36-36). 6166yd.
1 Song Yi Choi (Seoul, South Korea) 31-33 - 64
2 Stephanie George (Myerstown, Pa.) 34-34 - 68
3 Kristie Smith (Perth, Australia) 35-34 - 69
3 Christine Song (Fullerton, Calif.) 36-33 - 69
3 Hannah Yun (a) (Bradenton, Fla.) 35-34 - 69
3 Jean Reynolds (Newnan, Ga.) 36-33 - 69
3 Janell Howland (Boise, Idaho) 35-34 - 69
8 Tzu-Chi Lin (Beaumont, Calif.) 36-34 - 70
8 Samantha Richdale (Kelowna, British Columbia) 37-33 - 70
8 Nicole Hage (Coral Springs, Fla.) 33-37 - 70
8 Seo-Jae Lee (Seoul, South Korea) 34-36 - 70
8 Mo Martin (Altadena, Calif.) 33-37 - 70 13
13 Melissa Eaton (Port Shepstone, South Africa) 36-35 - 71
13 Angela Oh (Maple Shade, N.J.) 36-35 - 71
13 Alejandra Shaw (Vina Del Mar, Chile) 35-36 - 71
13 Selanee Henderson (Apple Valley, Calif.) 34-37 - 71
13 Andrea Vander Lende (Longwood, Fla. 35-36 - 71
13 Hwanhee Lee (Las Vegas, Nev.) 37-34 - 71
13 Lisa Ferrero (Lodi, Calif.) 35-36 - 71
20 Jessica Shepley (Oakville, Ontario) 37-35 - 72
20 Bing Lim (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) 37-35 - 72
20 Jenny Gleason (Clearwater, Fla.) 36-36 - 72
20 Kylene Pulley (Kokomo, Ind.) 37-35 - 72
20 Benedikte Grotvedt (Nesbru, Norway) 34-38 - 72
20 Tiffany Prats (Williston, Fla.) 34-38 - 72
20 Alison Walshe (Westford, Mass.) 38-34 - 72
20 Lisa Meldrum (Montreal, Quebec) 38-34 - 72
20 Michelle Jarman (Wilmington, N.C.) 38-34 - 72
20 Yeon Joo Lee (Seoul, South Korea) 36-36 - 72
20 Mina Harigae (Monterey, Calif.) 37-35 - 72
20 Caroline Larsson (Stockholm, Sweden) 38-34 - 72
20 Dana Je (Orlando, Fla.) 37-35 - 72
20 Christi Cano (San Antonio, Texas) 37-35 - 72
20 Yoora Kim (Seoul, South Korea) 38-34 - 72
20 Dewi Claire Schreefel (Diepenveen, Netherlands) 38-34 - 72
20 Violeta Retamoza (Aguascalientes, Mexico) 38-34 - 72
20 Charlotte Campbell (Heathrow, Fla.) 36-36 - 72
38 Elisa Serramia (Barcelona, Spain) 38-35 - 73
38 Sarah Olsen (Grosse Ile, Mich.) 36-37 - 73
38 Hannah Jun (San Diego, Calif.) 36-37 - 73
38 Tiffany Tavee (Tempe, Ariz.) 38-35 - 73
38 Sohi Moon (Seoul, South Korea) 37-36 - 73
38 Kelly Lagedrost (Brooksville, Fla.) 37-36 - 73
38 Angela Buzminski (Oshawa, Ontario) 38-35 - 73
38 Katie Allison (Little River, S.C.) 39-34 - 73
38 Mary J. Kim (Seoul, South Korea) 36-37 - 73
38 Sara Brown (Tucson, Ariz.) 37-36 - 73
38 Liz Janangelo (West Hartford, Conn.) 35-38 - 73
38 Janice Olivencia (Caguas, Puerto Rico) 37-36 - 73
38 Lili Alvarez (Durango, Mexico) 38-35 - 73
38 Lindsey Bergeon (Sarasota, Fla.) 35-38 - 73
38 Sofie Andersson (Angelholm, Sweden) 38-35 - 73
38 Sookhee Baek (Altamonte Springs, Fla.) 37-36 - 73
38 Ashley Prange (Noblesville, Ind.) 37-36 - 73
38 Sae Hee Son (Seoul, South Korea) 39-34 - 73
38 Maru Martinez (Maracaibo, Venezuela) 37-36 - 73
38 Rachel Bailey (Faulconbridge, Australia) 37-36 - 73
38 Marcela Leon (Monterrey, Mexico) 40-33 - 73
38 Misun Cho (Cheongju, South Korea) 38-35 - 73
38 Emily Bastel (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 36-37 - 73
38 Danah Ford (Indianapolis, Ind.) 38-35 - 73
62 Christina Jones (Jensen Beach, Fla.) 38-36 - 74
62 Rak Kyung Oh (Seoul, South Korea) 37-37 - 74
62 Kimberly Goedecke (Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.) 38-36 - 74
62 Vicki Goetze-Ackerman (Cartersville, Ga.) 36-38 - 74
62 Lori Atsedes (Ithaca, N.Y.) 40-34 - 74
62 Su A Kim (Seoul, South Korea) 37-37 - 74
62 Ashli Bunch (Morristown, Tenn.) 38-36 - 74
62 Angela Jerman (Columbus, Ga.) 36-38 - 74
62 Briana Vega (Andover, Mass.) 38-36 - 74
62 Michaela Cavener (Ponca City, Okla.) 39-35 - 74
62 Kim Welch (Sacramento, Calif.) 36-38 - 74
62 Lorraine Ballerano (Myrtle Beach, S.C.) 35-39 - 74
62 Carol Robertson (Virginia Beach, Va.) 40-34 - 74
62 Onnarin Sattayabanphot (Bangkok, Thailand) 35-39 - 74
62 Whitney Wade (Glasgow, Ky.) 39-35 - 74
62 Y. J. Jin (Seoul, South Korea) 38-36 - 74
62 Lehua Wise (Kauai, Hawaii) 36-38 - 74
62 Libby Smith (Essex Junction, Vt.) 36-38 - 74
62 Chris Brady (Charlotte, N.C.) 37-37 - 74
81 Esther Choe (Scottsdale, Ariz.) 39-36 - 75
81 Jasi Acharya (Columbus, Mont.) 40-35 - 75
81 Sophia Sheridan (Guadalajara, Mexico) 37-38 - 75
81 Rebecka Heinmert (Hassleholm, Sweden) 36-39 - 75
81 Marci Turner (Tompkinsville, Ky.) 41-34 - 75
81 Lee Ann Walker-Cooper (Southport, N.C.) 36-39 - 75
81 Amanda Mathis (Opelousas, La.) 39-36 - 75
81 Ashley Grier (Hagerstown, Md.) 38-37 - 75
81 Brenda McLarnon (Belfast, Ireland) 37-38 - 75
81 Jenna Pearson (Wheaton, Ill.) 41-34 - 75
81 Aimee Cho (Orlando, Fla.) 40-35 - 75
81 Jenny Suh (Fairfax, Va.) 37-38 - 75
81 Stephanie Kim (a) (Orlando, Fla.) 37-38 - 75
81 Juli Erekson (Mapleton, Utah) 37-38 - 75
81 Sin Ah Ham (Seoul, South Korea) 37-38 - 75
81 Carling Coffing (Middletown, Ohio) 36-39 - 75
81 Stella Lee (Seoul, South Korea) 38-37 - 75
81 Cindy Lee-Pridgen (Sabah, Malaysia) 36-39 - 75
81 Sue Ginter (Appleton, Wis.) 36-39 - 75
100 Sarah Beth Jacobs (Nashville, Tenn.) 39-37 - 76
100 Meghan Little (Sturgis, S.D.) 39-37 - 76
100 Min Seo Kwak (Seoul, South Korea ) 40-36 - 76
100 Nicole Jeray (Berwyn, Ill.) 40-36 - 76
100 Whitney Myers (York. Pa.) 39-37 - 76
100 Devan Andersen (Guadalajara, Mexico) 39-37 - 76
100 Kelly Schaub (Greeley, Colo.) 39-37 - 76
100 Perry Swenson (Charlotte, N.C.) 38-38 - 76
100 Garrett Phillips (St. Simons Island, Ga.) 38-38 - 76
100 Victoria Kiser (a) (Orlando, Fla.) 39-37 - 76
100 Wendi Patterson-Golden (a) (Bradenton, Fla.) 39-37 - 76
100 Laura Crawford (Lancaster, S.C.) 40-36 - 76
100 Kelly Froelich (Raizeux, France) 40-36 - 76
100 Sam White (Potomac, Md.) 40-36 - 76
114 Kira Meixner (a) (Richmond, British Columbia) 40-37 - 77
114 Jennifer Ackerson (Dallas, Texas) 41-36 - 77
114 Tracy Hanson (Coeur D'Alene, Idaho) 40-37 - 77
114 Maggie Simons (Raleigh, N.C.) 40-37 - 77
114 Madeleine Holmblad (Stockholm, Sweden) 40-37 - 77
114 Stacey Tate (Auckland, New Zealand) 37-40 - 77
114 Stephanie Oukeo (Paris, France) 38-39 - 77
114 Susan Nam (Edmonton, Alberta) 38-39 - 77
114 Tanya Dergal (Durango, Mexico) 39-38 - 77
114 Stephanie Otteson (Wilson, N.C.) 37-40 - 77
114 Jill Frantz (Iowa City, Iowa) 39-38 - 77
125 Christine Cho (Kent, Wash.) 38-40 - 78
125 Ashley Knoll (The Woodlands, Texas) 41-37 - 78
125 Eom Ji Park (Vancouver, BC) 38-40 - 78
125 Noon Huachai (Bangkok, Thailand) 41-37 - 78
125 Kim Augusta (Rumford, R.I.) 40-38 - 78
130 Carmen Bandea (Atlanta, Ga.) 37-42 - 79
130 Renee Skidmore (Everett, Wash.) 38-41 - 79
130 Anastasia Kostina (Nakhabino, Russia) 41-38 - 79
130 Nicola Eaton (Port Shepstone, South Africa) 38-41 - 79
130 Malinda Johnson (Eau Claire, Wis.) 41-38 - 79
130 Moah Chang (Los Angeles, Calif.) 40-39 - 79
130 Jieun Oh (Je Ju, South Korea) 41-38 - 79
130 Gerina Mendoza (Roswell, N.M.) 40-39 - 79
130 Kristina Tucker (Stockholm, Sweden) 41-38 - 79
139 Yoo Kyeong Kim (Incheon, South Korea) 39-41 - 80
139 Jessica Carafiello (Coral Springs, Fla.) 44-36 - 80
141 Taya Battistella (Bend, Oregon) 45-36 - 81
142 Cassandra Blaney (Champions Gate, Fla.) 40-42 - 82
143 Mary Moan (New Haven, Conn.) 41-42 - 83
144 Lilly Kobayashi (Santa Monica, Calif.) 41-43 - 84

Lorena's seven-under 65 on Homecoming

World No 1 Lorena Ochoa is back home where it all began for her - and she celebrated return to Mexico with a seven-under-par 65 at the Bosque Real Country Club course (par-72, 6886yd) , near Mexico City to lead the LPGA Mastercard Classic
Ochoa had an eagle (at the 541yd ninth) and five birdies over a difficult, hilly course to lead by two shots from South Korean Na Yeon Choi on 67.
Brittany Lang and Yani Tseng were sharing third place on 68.
FIRST ROUND SCORES
Par 72
1. Lorena Ochoa 65
2. Na Yeon Choi 67
3. Brittany Lang 68
3. Yani Tseng 68
3. Pat Hurst 68
6. Shiho Oyama 69
6. Suzann Pettersen 69
6. Lindsey Wright 69
6. Hee Young Park 69
6. Grace Park 69
6. Ji Young Oh 69
6. Seon Hwa Lee 69
13. Mika Miyazato 70
13. Johanna Mundy 70
13. Janice Moodie 70
13. Kristy McPherson 70
13. Liselotte Neumann 70
13. Song-Hee Kim 70
13. Natalie Gulbis 70
13. Sun Young Yoo 70
13. Se Ri Pak 70
13. Haeji Kang 70
23. Jane Park 71
23. Soo-Yun Kang 71
23. Eunjung Yi +71
26. Leah Wigger 72
26. Erica Blasberg 72
26. Louise Stahle 72
26. Vicky Hurst 72
26. Cristie Kerr 72
26. Alena Sharp 72
26. Karine Icher 72
26. Teresa Lu 72
26. Hee-Won Han 72
26. Kim Hall 72
26. Birdie Kim 72
37. Sarah Lee 73
37. Carolina Llano73
37. Alejandra Martin Del Campo 73
37. Marisa Baena 73
37. a-Maria Jose Uribe 73
37. Meena Lee 73
37. Paula Creamer 73
37. Silvia Cavalleri 73
37. Jee Young Lee 73
37. Sarah Jane Smith 73
37. Jin Young Pak 73
37. Jennifer Rosales 73
37. Wendy Doolan 73
50. Joo Mi Kim 74
50. Kris Tschetter 74
50. Stephanie Louden 74
50. Mikaela Parmlid 74
50. Anja Monke 74
50. Stacy Lewis 74
50. Marcy Hart 74
50. Stacy Prammanasudh 74
50. Katie Futcher 74
50. Jiyai Shin 74
50. Il Mi Chung 74
50. Heather Young 74
50. Allison Fouch 74
50. Young Kim 74
50. Meaghan Francella 74
50. Eun-Hee Ji 74
50. Helen Alfredsson 74
50. Minea Blomqvist 74
50. Michele Redman 74
50. Mollie Fankhauser 74
50. Kris Tamulis 74
50. Kyeong Bae 74
72. Amy Yang 75
72. Beth Bader 75
72. Jimin Jeong 75
72. Na On Min 75
72. Christina Kim 75
72. Jill McGill 75
72. Giulia Sergas 75
72. Laura Davies 75
72. Sandra Gal 75
72. Becky Morgan 75
72. Candie Kung 75
72. Carri Wood 75
72. Sarah Kemp 75
72. Russy Gulyanamitta 75
72. Chella Choi 75
87. Jamie Hullett 76
87. Danielle Downey 76
87. Jeanne Cho-Hunicke 76
87. Taylor Leon 76
87. Linda Wessberg 76
87. Moira Dunn 76
87. Lisa Strom 76
87. a-Margarita Ramos 76
87. Anna Grzebien 76
96. Charlotte Mayorkas 77
96. Brandie Burton 77
96. Irene Cho 77
96. Katherine Hull 77
96. Shi Hyun Ahn 77
96. Jeehae Lee 77
96. Sung Ah Yim 77
96. Eva Dahllof 77
96. a-Alejandra Llaneza 77
105. Paige Mackenzie 78
105. Aree Song 78
105. Julieta Granada 78
105. M.J. Hur 78
105. Lorie Kane 78
105. Inbee Park 78
105. Karen Stupples 78
105. Anna Rawson 78
105. Cindy Rarick 78
114. Audra Burks 79
114. H.J. Choi 79
114. Becky Lucidi 79
114. Reilley Rankin 79
118. Diana D'Alessio 80
118. Sophie Giquel 80
118. Amy Hung 80
118. Michelle McGann 80
122. Young Jo 81
122. Brittany Lincicome 81
122. Louise Friberg 81
122. Michelle Ellis 81
122. Meredith Duncan 81
127. a-Giovana Maymon 84
127. a-Maria Maymon 84
127. a-Gabriela Lope Butron 84
127. a-Regina Plasencia 84
131. Dorothy Delasin 92

Carolyn Cudone, winner of five straight

USGA championships, dies at the age of 90

By RHONDA GLENN of the United States Golf Association
Carolyn Cudone, a merry, gracious player and the only golfer to win five straight United States Golf Association championships, died on Thursday at Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. She was 90 years old.
Cudone, picture above from the USGA Museum, won the USGA Senior Women’s Amateur Championship five times from 1968 to 1972. Of the more celebrated players who have won the Senior Women’s Amateur more than once – Dot Porter, Anne Quast Sander, Marlene Streit and Carol Semple Thompson – none touched Cudone’s five straight victories, although Thompson won four straight from 1999 to 2002.
Just one week ago, on March 12, she was inducted into the Myrtle Beach Hall of Fame.
Growing up in Staten Island, New York., Cudone was the scourge of Metropolitan women’s golf. She won the New Jersey Women's Amateur five times, 11 New Jersey stroke-play and five Women’s Metropolitan Golf Association match-play titles.
During the 1950s and early 1960s, when women’s amateur golf garnered big headlines, Cudone captured a number of important titles, including the 1958 North & South Women’s Amateur, the 1960 Women’s Eastern Amateur and the 1962 Hollywood International Four-Ball with her fellow Met player, Cookie Swift Berger, as her partner.
Cudone was a member of the 1956 USA Curtis Cup team, where she clinched her lone match, a foursomes encounter with her partner Mary Ann Downey against Janette Robertson and Veronica Anstey, 6 and 4.
It was one of only four points the USA managed in a losing cause against Great Britain and Ireland’s six points.
A strong player, Cudone smacked her fairway woods in shots that screamed low off the clubface, then rose and dropped to the green, much like Patty Berg, who Cudone somewhat matched in her physical stature.
While she assembled a wonderful collection of titles, Cudone never quite cracked the elite group of women amateurs of her era: JoAnne Gunderson, Barbara McIntire, Anne Quast and Barbara Romack. Her nemesis was the feisty Polly Riley. A canny match-play specialist, Riley knocked Cudone out of the semi-finals of the 1953 US Women’s Amateur, beat her in the third round of that championship in 1955 and eliminated her in the fourth round in 1958.
Cudone continued to chase the game’s elite, consistently playing in the national championships and, with her husband Philip, spending the winter on the Florida Orange Blossom circuit.It was as a senior golfer, however, that Cudone proved herself. She played in the USGA Senior Women’s Amateur 10 times, won five of the titles and twice finished as runner-up.
Time dulls her achievements a bit, and Cudone herself couldn’t recall them clearly in an interview several years ago. Her double-digit win in 1968 caused her to say, “I did? By 10 shots? Wow, that’s pretty good.”
In her later years, Cudone lived in Myrtle Beach, where she had settled with her late husband. She founded the Myrtle Beach Junior Golf Program in 1981 and led the organization for 21 years before turning over the reins at the age of 83.
She was a gracious winner and a cheerful loser who loved to laugh.
+Rhonda Glenn is a Manager of Communications for the USGA.

Paul Lawrie Junior Jug Tournament launched

The Paul Lawrie Foundation Junior Jug tournament has been added to the SGU and SLGA under-18 schedule.
It will feature qualifying events at Nairn Dunbar, Inchmarlo, Downfield, Craigielaw, Kingsfield, Cowglen and Southerness, with the top four handicap and scratch players, either male or female, qualifying for the final at Dundonald Links on September 5.
Lawrie, who made the announcement at an SGU academy day at The Carrick on Loch Lomond, said: "It is vital for young players to gain as much competitive experience as they can in quality events. I am pleased to be part of the ongoing development of Scottish golfers."

Hawaii doing, Ami? Very well

with her first top 20 US finish

Ami Storey from Ponteland Golf Club, six miles northwest of Newcastle, is beginning to find her feet on the United States college golf circuit - and relishing trips to far away places such as Hawaii!

A freshman student at Kansas State University, young Ami, pictured right, has achieved her first top-20 finish in the States with a joint 17th final placing in a field of 53 for the Dr Donnis Thompson Invitational at Kaneohe Klipper Golf Club, Honolulu.

Over a 5,907, par-72 course, Ami started well but tired in hotter March temperatures than she is used to in her native North-east of England. She had rounds of 74, 77 and 81 for a total of 232.

Noticeable too that the scores of the first and second, Kayla Mortellaro (Idaho University) and Lauren Johnson (Texas A&M), both deteriorated. Their first-round scores were easily their best.

Mortellaro scored 69-75-75 for three-over 219, one ahead of Johnson with 71-76-73.

Texas A&M (907) won the team event ahead of Idaho (913) and Indiana (917) with Kansas State (924) finished sixth of 10.

So a great trip for Ami Storey. First time in Hawaii and first time in top 20.

Peter Latimer named Old Dominion

Conference's Player of Week

Peter Latimer from Markinch, a student at Guilford College, Greensboro in North Carolina, has been named Old Dominion Athletic Conference Player of the Week after top-scoring for his college team who finished third in the Minnesota State Spring Invitational.
Latimer, pictured, a two-time first team All-ODAC pick in golf, paced the Quakers with rounds of 79 and 72 for a 151 total and an eighth-place finish.

The Scot's performance marked his third top-10 finish of the 2008-2009 college golf season and lowered his stroke average to a team-best 75.19 in 16 rounds. This marks Latimer's sixth ODAC Player of the Week award.
Guilford's third-place finish in the Minnesota State Spring Invitational was its sixth top-five finish in as many tournaments.

Annika announces first baby due in the autumn

Well, former world No 1 lady professional Annika Sorenstam has not wasted any time after stepping away from the LPGA Tour. She has announced today on her website that she and her husband, Mike McGee, are expecting their first child in the autumn.
Sorenstam retired from the LPGA Tour late last year after 72 victories and 10 majors, saying she wanted to start a business and a family.
"We have had a lot of exciting changes in the past few months, and adding a new addition to our family later this fall will certainly be at the top of that list," Sorenstam said. "We are absolutely thrilled and look forward to this new chapter of our lives."
Annika was born near Stockholm on October 1970. She was married to David Esch from 1997 to 2005.
She married Mike McGee on January 10 this year.

Suzie Laing, international golfer becomes
Susannah Laing,
California-based actress

By COLIN FARQUHARSON

Exit Suzie Laing (Ladies Golf Club), Scottish international golfer.

Enter, stage right, Susannah Laing, "female actor; location: California."

Suzie, from the Laing the Jewellers family, played for Scotland in the home internationals of 2002 at The Berkshire (where she was pictured above by Tom Ward), and also in the European team championship at Frankfurt.

She also spent four years at the University of San Francisco, then played professional golf for a spell on the West Coast of the States and also the Futures Tour.

Thereafter, the trail went cold, stone cold until one evening I was trawling the websites of the world when I came across the website "castingcallpro" and, lo and behold, there was our Suzie's CV, and professionally-taken picture (see above, right) by Aimee Bernard.

Susannah, to use her stage name, is doing commercials and film work in America

The website says she gained BA in "Media & Film" at San Francisco University and she has also studied acting at Strathclyde University.
She has appeared at the Mirren Theatre in a Stuart Paton production, "Passing Places."

Susannah Laing will have her 28th birthday next Wednesday, March 25.

If you want to have a look at her CV yourself, then cut and paste the following:

http://www.us.castingcallpro.com/view.php?uid=117639

If you can throw any more light on Susannah's new career in California, send the information to Colin@Scottishgolfview.com

In fact, if Susannah herself wants to give us an update of how her acting career is progressing, we would be delighted to hear from her too.

NEWS FROM THE US WOMEN'S COLLEGE CIRCUIT

Portia pleases with a joint

third and team-title win

Portia Abbot (Jacksonville State University, Alabama), from Kingsdown, Wiltshire, finished a creditable joint third in a field of 79 for the Samford University Intercollegiate women's tournament at Limestone Springs Golf Club, Oneonta in Alabama this week.
Senior (final year) student Portia, pictured above, had rounds of 77 and 72 for 149, only three shots behind the two-stroke winner, Katelyn Stanler (Samford) with 71 and 75.
Portia's compatriot and freshman team-mate, Laura Cutler from Essex came joint 27th on 149 with scores of 85 and 74. Well done, Laura for outscoring the winner with that nine-shot final-round improvement!
Shirley Harvey (South Alabama) from Belfast had scores of 79 and 77 for a share of 16th place on 156.
Andrew Downer (Murray State) from Bramley, Surrey came joint 48th with scores of 84 and 80 for 164.
Jacksonville State University players filled three of the top four places and, not surprisingly, they won the team event with a total of 599, 14 shots ahead of the host university, Samford with Murray State (620) third and South Alabama (621) fourth in a field of 15 teams.

ROSEANNE NIVEN JOINT NINTH v SAN JOSE STATE
British women's open amateur stroke-play champion Roseanne Niven (California-Berkeley) from Crieff finished joint ninth individually in the San Jose State v California-Berkeley match over the Metropolitan Golf Links, Oakland in California.
San Jose State won 295 to 308.
Roseanne had a round of 80 over the par-72, 6069yd course.
Erica Moston (San Jose State) top-scored with a two-under-par 70.

JACQUELINE SNEDDON jt 3rd IN DESERT CLASSIC
Jacqueline Sneddon (Grand Canyon University, Arizona) finished joint third of 28 in a one-round event, the Dutch Desert Classic, over a 5,824yd,par-072 course at the quaintly-named Sundance Golf Club, Buckeye in Arizona.

Jacqueline, from Meigle, had halves of 37 and 42 in compiling a 79, compared with winner and team-mate Jennifer Lutz's 36-39 for a 75 and runner-up Torie Ives (Wisconsin-Eau Claire) 35-43 for a 78.

Grand Canyon (321) won the team title ahead of Wisconsin-Eau Claire (331).

GEMMA HARDIE 18th IN BIG CALIFORNIA FIELD

Gemma Hardie (Central Arkansas), a freshman student from Scunthorpe, scored 84, 84 and 79 for a total of 247 and a share of 18th place in a field of 101 players at the Hiddenbrooke Intercollegiate women's tournament over a par-72, 6,005yd course at Hiddenbrooke Golf Club, Vallejo in California.

Winner by four shots with scores of 74, 82 and 73 for 229 was Central Arkansas team-mate Nicole Forshner.

Central Arkansas (947) won the team event by 14 sxhots from Northern Arizona with Lamar (966) third in an 18-team field.

Carnie is best of Brevard College

Scots in North Carolina event

Newburgh-on-Ythan Golf Club member Grant Carnie from Ellon, a junior (third year) student at Brevard College, finished joint 12th in a field of 82 for the Montreat College Spring Invitational college tournament at Glen Cannon Golf Club, Brevard, North Carolina.
Carnie, pictured right, had the joint best first round of 71 over a par-72, 6,700yd course, but a second-round 77 for 148 saw him finish six shots behind the winner, Brad Williams (Limestone College) with scores of 72 and 70.

Brevard College has four Scots on its golf roster.

Myles Johnson, a senior (fourth and final year) student from Bo'ness had rounds of 74 and 79 for a share of 25th place on 153.

Craig Galloway, also a senior year student, from East Calder, West Lothian, tied for 32nd place on 155 with scores of 77 and 78.
Aberdeen Deeside Golf Club member Tom Rennie, a freshman (first year) student, had rounds of 80 and 77 for 157 and a share of 39th place.
Brevard College (594) finished second to Limestone College (589) in a field of 14 colleges for the team event.

GRAEME MOLLOY JT 33rd AT FORT WORTH

Graeme Molloy (Grand View College, Des Moines) finished in a tie for 33rd place on 149 with scores of 73 and 76 in a field of 78 for the UST Texas Intercollegiate tournament at Hawks Creek Golf Club, Fort Worth.

Graeme, from Glasgow, had rounds of 73 and 76 to finish 12 shots behind the four-stroke winner, Nathan Rau (Mobile) with great scores of 68 and 69 over the 6,847yd, par-72 course.

Grand Viewe (592) finished fifth of nine in the team event won by Oklahoma Baptist (570) from Texas Wesleyan (576).

Michelle Wie signs for IMG

PRESS RELEASE
IMG, the world’s premier sports, entertainment and media company, announced today that LPGA Tour professional Michelle Wie has signed with the company for exclusive worldwide management and marketing representation.
Although just 19-years old, Wie has been the centre of attention in the golf world for many years after a prolific amateur career that saw her set a number of records for her accomplishments at a very young age.
She has also earned a number of other important distinctions in the game including being the fourth female, and youngest ever, to play in a US PGA Tour (men's) event in 2004 as well as becoming the first female player to reach the quarter-finals of the US Men’s Public Links championship in 2005, where she lost to the eventual champion, Clay Ogden.
Wie holds the record for the lowest round shot by a female in a US PGA Tour event, scoring rounds of 68 in both the 2004 and 2006 Sony Opens, becoming the first female to register a round under 70 on the US PGA Tour in the process. In May, 2006, at age 16, she also became the first female medalist in a local qualifier for the Men’s U.S. Open.
“I’m very excited about this season which represents a fresh new start for me,” said Wie. “There is such great talent and competition on the LPGA Tour and my focus is on building the foundation for a long and successful career, and of course, getting that first tournament win. I believe that IMG, with all of their resources worldwide and achievements in professional golf, will help me reach those goals.”
Born October 11, 1989 in Honolulu, Hawaii, Wie began playing golf at the age of four and her rise was meteoric. In October, 2005, just a week shy of her 16th birthday, Wie turned professional, and last December, earned full playing status for the 2009 season by finishing in a tie for seventh place at the LPGA Tour Final Qualifying Tournament.
“We have all watched the rise in popularity of women’s golf, and Michelle Wie certainly is a prime example of the outstanding talent on the LPGA Tour and the bright future of the sport,” said Clarke Jones, Senior Vice President, Global Director Golf Clients for IMG.
“Michelle is an amazing talent and IMG is delighted to be working with her and her family to provide the best management and marketing support in the world, allowing her to focus on her top priority – competing week in and week out on the golf course.”

Olivia Jordan-Higgins Top of the Pops

at CSU and Big South Conference

PRESS RELEASE ISSUED BY ENGLISH WOMEN'S GOLF ASSOCIATION

Channel Islander Olivia Jordan-Higgins has scooped two honours on the US women’s college circuit. The 21-year-old from Royal Jersey has been named "Athlete of the Week" by Charleston Southern University and "Woman Golfer of the Week" by the Big South Conference.

A third-year student at CSU, this is the first time Olivia, pictured right, has won the college award and she beat students from men’s golf, women’s basketball, softball, baseball, women’s tennis and track and field. She’s won the conference title five times already this year.

Olivia’s latest honours are due to her performance in two recent events. She led her university team to third place in the Low Country Intercollegiate tournament and was fourth individually in a field of 60 players. It was her fourth top 10 finish of the season and she was ahead of 20 other Big South competitors.

Olivia was also was 37th out of 215 golfers in the Kiawah Island Intercollegiate and finished in front of 14 Big South players.

Back home, she has been selected to again represent Jersey in the team of four women golfers in this summer’s Island Games in Aland in the Baltic Sea. Two years ago they won team gold and Olivia took the individual silver after a fourth-round play-off.

Elsewhere, Nicola Race, 19, continued her successful run with second place in the Lion Invitational tournament at Tangelwood Resort, Texas. She had a first round 81 – no-one in the field of 87 broke 80 – and added a second round 73 to finish two shots behind the winner. Nicola, from Witham in Essex, is a student at the Redlands Community College in Oklahoma, and her play helped them win the team title. She is already the National Junior College Champion and will transfer to the University of Missouri in August.

Hertfordshire’s Hannah Burke, 21, was sixth in the Baylor Spring Invitational at Twin Rivers Golf Club, Waco in Texas. Hannah, who is a student at Baylor University, was lying third after rounds of 77 and one-over 73 but dropped back with a final round 79.

The Mid-Herts player is in the LGU’s preliminary selection squad for this summer's Vagliano Trophy match between GB&I and the holders, the Continent of Europe, in Hamburg.

Stacey Rodger, from West Hove in Sussex and a freshman student at Missouri State University, improved from joint 32nd to a final position of joint 20th with a round of 76. Earlier she had scored 78 and 80.

Cheshire’s Laura Jones helped the Oklahoma City University team to a three-stroke win in the Spring Break Intercollegiate at Palm Golf Club, Nevada. She had scores of 75, 74 for 149 and a 10th place finish in a field of 50, six shots behind the individual winner, Malin Thorberg (California Baptist) with 73 and 70 for 143. Laura is a member at Royal Liverpool.

R&A joins forces with Scottish Golf to

keep clubs on course for Golf Week

The R&A has joined forces with Scottish Golf by providing a £10,000 cash boost to help fund the Scottish Golf Awareness Week, aimed at helping clubs to promote their facilities and increase adult golf club membership across the country.
The R&A’s support announced today will help the initiative target potential golf club members and highlight the many benefits of golf club membership as well as provide clubs with a toolkit of information devised to help them maximise opportunities to market their facilities.
The national campaign, the first initiative of its kind launched by the Scottish Golf Union and Scottish Ladies’ Golfing Association, will commence the week following the US Masters and clubs across the country are being encouraged to get involved, although activity does not need to be restricted to that week alone.
It is hoped that the golf week or ‘Love Golf – Join the Club’ initiative will kick start the 2009 season and beyond, in seeking to attract much needed members to maintain the health of the game in the home of golf.

The cash injection from golf’s world rules and development body is very welcome in the current challenging economic climate affecting industries across the globe as well as the sport and leisure sectors.
Duncan Weir, pictured above, R&A Director of Golf Development said, “The R&A sees it as one of its roles to not only encourage people to play golf but to join clubs and this is why we decided to offer financial support towards this Golf week initiative.
Scotland as the home of golf is unique in golfing terms and we are keen to see golfers joining clubs and maintaining the strong and vibrant club scene that so many have enjoyed for so many years.”
Andy Salmon, Scottish Golf Development Manager who is driving this innovative campaign, added, “We are delighted that The R&A has lent its support to this new initiative to encourage nomadic golfers to join golf clubs.
“This backing enables us to deliver our plans and provide a significant level of support to our affiliated clubs. There is no question that strong clubs are the key to a healthy sport and we are excited about the prospects for Golf Awareness Week.”
Case studies helping clubs to share best practice as part of the information pack available on the ‘Love Golf – Join the Club’ campaign is available by visiting the Scottish Golf website http://www.scottishgolf.org/

Michele qualifies for NE Alliance pro-am foursomes

Michele Thomson (McDonald Ellon), still holder of the Scottish women's amateur title but also a rookie pro on the Ladies European Tour, has qualified to be the first female player for many years - possibly the first ever - to play in the North-east Alliance pro-am match-play foursomes at Murcar links next week.
It could lead to her first payday as a pro golfer.
Read the story and see our new picture of Michele by switching over to our other website, www.scottishgolfview.com

Three English players accept Faldo invites

to play at Mission Hills in China event

Three English golfers have accepted invitations from Nick Faldo to play in the Faldo Series Asia Grand Final, which tees off at Mission Hills Golf Club in China on March 25.
They are Steven Brown, Thomas Clements and Hannah Barwood.
Brown, from Chobham, Surrey, was the winner of the 2008 Faldo Series Grand Final held last October in Brazil.
Thomas Clements is another Faldo Series winner.
Hannah Barwood is the current English women's amateur champion.
They will join 60 players from 12 different Asian countries at Mission Hills where they will not only compete over 54 holes on the Faldo Course but will also spend time with Nick Faldo himself.

Commented Faldo: “I’m delighted that we are now able to offer opportunities for players to experience a little of what it is like to compete in different nations with sometimes very different golfing conditions. These kinds of experiences give these young players – be they from Asia, South America or Europe – a taste for what life can be like as professional golfers in what is becoming an increasingly international game. I wish them the best of luck and look forward to seeing them again at Mission Hills.”

For information on the Faldo Series Asia visit www.nickfaldo.com

New arrival

Just to let those "in the know" know that my eldest daughter, Claire and her husband Kenny had a baby boy just after noon today. 7lb 6oz. No name yet.
He is the spitting image of his big brother Robert.
That makes Boys 4 Girls 0
Will post a nice picture of him soon.
Gillian.

Quality field for Leveret Trophy

at Formby Ladies, Lancashire

By FIONA ANDERSON (former Scottish women's amateur champion and organiser of the Leveret Trophy tournament, pictured right)
The 36-hole ladies' open scratch event for the Leveret Trophy at Formby Ladies (Lancashire) on Saturday, March 28 has attracted a high-class, quality field.

On account of the restricted daylight hours the entry is limited to 54 players and the handicaps range from a staggering +4 to 3.

Naomi Edwards (Ganton) off +4, a Curtis Cup player, past English Ladies champion and current Yorkshire champion, is drawn to play with Emma Brown nee Duggleby, off +3. Emma, is also a Curtis Cup player & past English, British and Yorkshire champion but neither of these accomplished players has succeeded in winning the Leveret Trophy, yet!

Out to stop them, will be defending champion Rachel Connor (Manchester), +1, who feels the Leveret is a great opener to the domestic season.

Local player, Cori Lee, +1 of the West Lancashire Ladies, winner in 2006, is keen to get back to form after injury and sees this as the ideal opportunity.

Kelly Tidy +1 from Royal Birkdale is out to impress the Great Britain & Ireland selectors with a good performance over a course she knows well. Kelly, is drawn with another very promising, young player, 15-year-old, Alex Peters, +2 from Notts Ladies.

Playing in her third Leveret, Alex is keen to enjoy some stern competition before going to Paris this Easter with the England team for the French Under-21 girls' open championship. Altogether, there are 21 players with handicaps of scratch or better entered this year.
Formby Ladies are delighted to have such a strong field of English and Welsh players. It is also heartening to see the next generation of golfers competing such as Bronte Law (Bramhall), Elizabeth Mallett (Sutton Coldfield Ladies) and Brogan Townend, (Pleasington) who are all members of the England team competing in the 2009 SLGA Under-16 girls' open stroke-play at Craigielaw, near Ednburgh in April. They will be keen to show that it won’t be long before they, too, are ready to ‘step up to the plate’.

Sadly, those with handicaps above 3.1 have been balloted out, showing just how highly the Leveret Trophy is rated by many of our top lady amateurs. The winner this year will certainly be a worthy champion.
Any spectators are welcome to attend – a copy of the draw is published on our website at http://www.formbyladiesgolfclub.co.uk/ - Leveret Trophy - if there is anyone you particularly want watch then please come along.

SLGA name teams for

forthcoming events

The Scottish Ladies Golfing Association has announced the following teams for forthcoming events:

SLGA Under-16 girls' open stroke-play championship (Craigielaw GC, April 9-10):

Team 1 - Lesley Atkins (Minto), Eilidh Briggs (Kilmacolm), Hannah McCook (Abernethy) (pictured right, apologies to Hannah for getting her first name wrong in the original announcement).
Team 2 - Louise McGillivray (Banchory), Alyson McKechin (Elderslie), Ailsa Summers (Carnoustie Ladies)
Captain - Claire Hargan (Mortonhall)

Helen Holm Scottish women's open amateur stroke-play championship (Troon Portland & Royal Troon Golf Clubs, April 24-26):
Kelsey MacDonald (Nairn Dunbar), Kylie Walker (Buchanan Castle).

Welsh women's open amateur stroke-play championship (Royal Porthcawl GC, May 2-3):
Carly Booth (Comrie), Kelsey MacDonald (Nairn Dunbar), Kylie Walker (Buchanan Castle). Travelling Reserve: Megan Briggs (Kilmacolm).

Starting times for SLGA Under-16

girls' stroke-play at Craigielaw

The SLGA Under-16 girls' open stroke-play championship at Craigielaw Golf Club, near Edinburgh on Thursday and Friday, April 9 and 10 was again oversubscribed with 111 entries for 102 available places in the draw.
The ballot fell at 19 of a handicap.
A two-tee start will be in operation both days with the same draw applying Thursday and Friday with the exception of a switch around of the starting tees.

TEE 10 ON THURSDAY; TEE 1 ON FRIDAY
8.30 Louise McGillivray (Banchory) (6), Meghan MacLaren (Wellingborough) (4), Hannah-Rachel Edmunds (Woodhall Spa) (7).
8.40 Hannah McCook (Abernethy) (5), Amber Ratcliffe (Royal Cromer) (7), Steph Hall (Lindrick) (6).
8.50 Ailsa Summers (Carnoustie Ladies) (6), Amy Marper (Hillsborough) (5), Gemma Clements (Studley Wood) (6).
9.0 Ashley Cramond (Warwickshire) (4), Olivia Winning (Rotherham) (4), Sophie Alexander (Deeside) (6).
9.10 Sophie Myles (Ilkley) (5), Bethany Garton (Royal Lytham & St Annes) (4), Gabrielle MacDonald (Craigielaw) (7).
9.20 Lianna Bailey (Notts Ladies) (6), Jennifer Hide (Royal Norwich) (6), Chloe Williams (Wrexham) (6).
9.30 Emily Chan (South Herts) (5), Abigail Laker (Burford) (6), Alyson McKechin (Elderslie) (6).
9.40 Hayley Davis (Ferndown) (1), Jamie-Leigh Voss (Kirby Muxloe (+1), Amny Boulden (Llandudno) (2).
9.50 Bronte Law (Bramhall) (2), Emily Taylor (Royal Lytham & St Annes) (3), Hannah Turland (Tidworth Garrison) (2).
10.0 Elizabeth Mallett (Sutton Coldfield Ladies) (3), Heidi Baek (Felixstowe Ferry) (+1), Eilidh Briggs (Kilmacolm) (3).
10.10 Lesley Atkins (Minto) (3), Brogan Townend (Pleasington) (2), Lauren Taylor (Woburn) (1).

TEE 1 ON THURSDAY; TEE 10 ON FRIDAY
8.30 Samantha Munro (Aberdour) (10), Jemma Chalmers (Monifieth) (10), Eodain Cronin (Bantry Bay) (10).
8.40 Megan Aird (Strathmore) (10), Mhairi McKay (West Kilbride) (10), Amelia Covell (Huddersfield Fixby) (10).
8.50 Rachel Polson (Peterculter) (10), Emma Murphy (Wexford) (11), Lucie Walker (Ormskirk) (11).
9.0 Lauren Whyte (St Regulus) (10), Amy Chambers (Dunfanaghy) (10), Nicola Taylor (Dunnikier) (10).
9.10 Lucy Evans (Lilleshall Hall) (8), Alice Watson (Park Hill) (9), Paula Grant (Lisburn) (8).
9.20 Lydia Johnston (Harleyford) (9), Julie Vass (Tain) (8), Ellie Goodall (Selby) (9).
9.30 Myriam Hassan (Southerndown) (9), Keren Ward (Glen) (9), Laura Jane Barrow (Brokenhurst Manor) (9).
9.40 Jasmine Johnston (Gosfield Lake) (9), Kate McIntosh (Broomieknowe) (9), Emily Cheshire (Notts Ladies) (9).
9.50 Jessica Boal (Larne) (8), Rebecca Horner (Woodham) (8), Jade Downes (Boothferry) (9).
10.0 Rachel Bruce (Ponteland) (9), Katie Bradbury) (Cottrell Park) (8), Charlotte Hindmoor (Blackwell Grange) (9).
10.10 Florence King (Forest Hill) (8), Linsey Stevenson (Elie & Earlsferry) (8) Kyra H9orlock) (Broadstone) (8).

TEE 10 ON THURSDAY; TEE 1 ON FRIDAY
12.20 Amy Taylor (Kirriemuir) (13), India Clyburn (Woodhall Spa) (13), Shannen McGuire (Canmore) (14).
12.30 Emma Caddow (Colville Park) (11), Hannah Scott (Broomieknowe) (12), Grace Anderson (Morpeth) (12).
12.40 Emily Aird (Strathmore) (13), Jessica Meek (Carnoustie Ladies) (12), Jenny Hennessy (Ennis) (13).
12.50 Emma Hale (Troon Bentinck) (14), Tara MacTaggart (Minto) (11), Nicola Haynes (Gosforth Park Ladies) (12).
1.0 Kirsten MacCallum (Newburgh on Ythan) (11), Amelia Taylro (St Annes Old Links) (13), Francesca Young (Ferndown) (11).
1.10 Megan Clyne (Deeside) (11), Katie McCracken (Powfoot) (11), Emily-mae Hall (Coxmoor) (12).

TEE 1 ON THURSDAY; TEE 10 ON FRIDAY
12.20 Annabel Bailey (Notts Ladies) (15), Alexia Hutton (Falkirk Tryst) (15), Heather Munro (Monifieth) (14).
12.30 Alexandra Tait (St Regulus) (14), Gail Wilson (Monifieth) (14), Chloe Beckwith (Blyth) (15).
12.40 Eilidh Watson (Muckhart) (15), Alison Goodwin (Glenbervie) (16), Kelly McNulty (Whitley Bay) (15).
12.50 Poppy Finlay (Vicars Cross) (16), Erin Millar (Pitlochry) (15), Courtney Milburn (Heysham) (15).
1.0 Harriet Wilson (Lincoln) (14), Hollie Vizard (Pleasington) (14), Rachel Walker (Crichton) (14).
1.10 Clara Young (North Berwick) (19), Charlotte Ann Barrow (Brokenhurst Manor) (19), Rosie Everett (Kilspindie) (18).

Nicola Race finishes second in

Lion Invitational in Texas

Nicola Race (Redlands Community College, El Reno, Oklahoma) finished second in the Lion Invitational women's college tournament this week at Tanglewood Resort, Pottsboro in Texas.]

Over a par-72, 5,914yd course, Nicola, pictured right, from Witham, Essex, had rounds of 81 and 73 for 154, two shots behind the winner, Raelyn Smith (Angelo State) who scored 80 and 72.

Judging by the fact that nobody in the field of 87 broke 80 in the first round, it must have been a bad weather, probably high winds, of which Texas gets more than its fair share.

Nicola did finish four shots ahead of the joint-third pair and her effort helped Redlands win the team title at the head of a field of 16 colleges.

LEADING INDIVIDUAL TOTALS
Par 144 (2 x 72) 5914yd

152 Raelyn Smith (Angelo State) 80 72.

154 Nicola Race (Redlands) 81 73.

158 Kass McGrath (Cameron University) 81 77, Maria Jimenez (Central Oklahoma) 82 76.

LEADING TEAM TOTALS

654 Redlands.

667 Central Oklahoma.

Andrew Cooley finishes joint 11th

at Barona Creek despite triple 7

Andrew Cooley (San Diego State University) from Surrey and Ayrshire's Euan Brown (St Mary's-California) finished joint 11th and 65th respectively in the Barona Collegiate Cup at Barona Creek Golf Club, California over a very long course of some 7,393yd with a par of 72.
Despite the length of the lay-out, Cooley contrived to shoot 12 birdies over his final 36 holes after getting only one in his first circuit.
Cooley had rounds of 73, 70 and 72 for one-under-par 215, 12 shots behind the winner, Dustin Morris (Colorado State) who scored 70, 67 and 66 to win by three from Steve Saunders (New Mexico) (69-69-68).
Back to Master Cooley. His final par-matching round contained, remarkably a triple bogey 7 at the eighth and single shots dropped at the second and seventh. He balanced this with birdies at the first, sixth,1 3th, 14th and 16th.
Euan Brown, also a freshman, scored 79, 84 and 86 for 249. He had one birdie in 54 holes but, sadly, two triple bogeys and three double bogeys.
Colorado State (1051) took the team title ahead of San Diego State (1057) and New Mexico (1069) with San Diego third on 1076.
St Mary's-California (1131) came eight of 10.

Sally Watson finishes third in

Kathy Whitworth Invitational

Curtis Cup player Sally Watson today achieved her best tournament performance since she came back into action following a major knee operation a few days after she played for Great Britain & Ireland against the United States over the Old Course, St Andrews late May last year.
Sally, who will be 18 in July and is a student at the David Leadbetter Golf Academy, Bradenton, Florida, finished third in the Kathy Whitworth Invitational which drew a field of 72 of the best girl golfers in America and beyond to the Mira Vista Country Club, Fort Worth, Texas.
Watson, pictured right by Cal Carson Golf Agency in action at the Curtis Cup, who will enrol in August at Stanford University, California - alma mater of Tiger Woods, Mhairi McKay and Michelle Wie, to name but three - had a pair of 71s for a two-under-par total of 142, two shots behind Jane Rah from California and Erynn Lee from Washington. Rah scored 69 and 71, Lee a pair of 70s. Lee was declared the winner, the better second round being the tie-breaker.

Former Irish girls champion Stephanie Meadow, a student at the International Junior Golf Academy, Hilton Head Island, South Carolina tied for fourth place with scores of 73 and 70 for 153.
Former world tennis ace Ivan Lendl's daughters, Daniela (79-78) and Isabelle (79-80), finished on 157 and 159 respectively.
LEADING TOTALS

Par 144 (2 x 72)

Players from US unless stated

140 Erynne Lee 70 70, Jane Rah 69 71 (Lee won on better second round).

142 Sally Watson (Sco) 71 71.

143 Gabriella Dominguez 70 73, Natalie Reeves 72 71, Rachel Morris 73 70, Stephanie Meadow (NIre) 73 70.

Selected scores:

151 Laetitia Beck (Isr) 75 76.

157 Daniela Lendl 79 78.

159 Isabelle Lendl 79 80

NEIL HENDERSON FINISHES JT 52nd

IN PINEHURST INTERCOLLEGIATE

North Berwick's Neil Henderson, a student at Old Dominion University, Norfolk in Virginia, improved six places to a final position of joint 52nd in a field of 104 players for the Pinehurst Intercollegiate over the No 8 course at the North Carolina golf complex.
Freshman Henderson, a former Scottish schoolboys champion, had rounds of 76, 76 and 74 for 226, birdieing the third, sixth and 12th in his final score which did not include the double bogeys that marred his first and second rounds.
T J Howe (Penn State) won the individual title with rounds of 73, 69 and 67 for 209 - three shots ahead of Drew Weaver (Virginia Tech), the 2007 British Amateur champion, who had scores of 72, 69 and 71.
Penn State (862) won the team title ahead of Virginia Tech (867). Old Dominion (890) came a creditable eighth in a field of 20 teams.

Hannah Burke finishes jt

6th in Baylor Invitational

Hannah Burke (Baylor University, Texas) faded from joint third to a final position of joint sixth in a field of 84 for the Baylor Spring Invitational women's college tournament at Twin Rivers Golf Club, Waco in Texas.

Hannah, pictured, followed an opening 77 with a one-over-par 73 which suggested she was coming into form at just the right time to win her home university's golf tournament.

But it was not to be. The Hertfordshire player who is in the Ladies Golf Union preliminary selection squad for this summer's Vagliano Trophy match between GB&I and the holders, the Continent of Europe, in Hamburg, finished with a round of 79 for a total of 13-over--par 229.

She had a dismal outward half of 41 with bogeys at the first, third, fifth, sixth and ninth. Things got worse at the 11th where she had a double bogey 6. A birdie at the 13th was only a brief glimmer in the gloom as she had another bogey at the 14th before finished with her best run of consecutive pars (4) for 38 home.

Stacey Rodger, from Mile Oak, Sussex and a freshman student at Missouri State University, improved from joint 32nd to a final position of joint 2oth with a round of 76 for 234. Earlier she had scored 78 and 80.

Stacey had birdies at the second, 12th, 15th and 17th in her final round but also had bogeys at the fourth, fifth, seventh, ninth (out in 39), 13th, 14th, 17th and 18th. In fact, she had only six pars in her final 18 holes.

But she avoided the disasters of the first round (a quadruple bogey 8) and the second round (a double bogey 6).

Katie Ackerson (Southern Methodist) was the individual winner with scores of 74, 74 and 75 for 223 over a par-72 course of 6,349yd.

Suteera Chanachai (New Mexico State) was runner-up on 225 with scores of 76, 74 and 75.

Pennapa Pulsawath (Iowa State) came third on 227 with rounds of 76, 74 and 77.

Illinois State (927) won the team title ahead of New Mexico State (931) with Baylor and Missouri State tieing for third place on 933 in a field of 14 teams.

Just champion! That's how Callum Trahan was feeling after the presentation ceremony at Hilton Head, South Carolina.

Banchory boy Callum Trahan wins play-off

for first title on International Junior Tour

Callum Trahan from Banchory, a member of Murcar Links Golf Club and a current student of the Hank Haney International Junior Golf Academy, Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, has scored his first victory on the US-based International Junior Golf Tour.

Competing in the Boys' 16 to 19 years Division over 36 holes at the Port Royal Plantation Resort, Hilton Head, Trahan triumphed in a play-off at posting a three-over-par total of 147.

After the opening round he found himself a little disappointed with a round of six-over-par 80. Starting Sunday’s round, Trahan was six stroke off the lead. Not to be discouraged the Scot came out firing on all cylinders - four birdies and an eagle in his first
nine holes for a five-under-par front nine.

Callum maintained his momentum till the end improving on his first-round 80 by a remarkable 13 shots with a 67 for 147.

“Coming into today’s round, I knew I had to keep the ball in play. After my front nine, I knew I still had to scramble to get to the fron. I had to make some putts and I would have a chance at victory.”

In the end, Trahan did enough to tie with fellow Hank Haney International Junior Golf Academy classmate Greg Schmaus from Uppder Saddle River, New Jersey who shot 75 and 72 for 147.

Out they went again in a sudden-death play-off. After the first hole was halved in par, Trahan sank a 15ft putt for a winning par at the second hole.

Rounding out the top three was Scott Simpson of Morrison, Illinois with consistent rounds of 74 and 75 for 149.

Trahan received a bonus prize for having the lowest boys' round - a J Lindeberg White Slater Belt from the IJGT's newest sponsor, J Lindeberg.

Callum will not automatically qualify for a place in the International Junior Golf Tour's Champion of Champions' tournament, to be held in Florida in May.

It's a dramatic change of fortunes for Trahan who, only the week or so before the tournament, was hit in the face by an errant golf ball and had to have 10 stitches to repair the wound.

Ireland name their four

for French Under-21s

FROM THE IRISH LADIES GOLF UNION WEBSITE
Louise Mernagh (Woodenbridge) and Aedin Murphy (Carlow), pictured right by Cal Carson Golf Agency at the 2008 women's home internationals at Wrexham, will join the Maguire twins, Leona and Lisa, as Ireland's representatives at the French International Lady Juniors' (under 21) amateur championship from April 9 to 13 at Paris St Cloud Golf Club.
Two rounds of 18-hole stroke-play will be played over the first two days of competition to determine the top 32 qualifiers who will continue on to the matcplay stages of this event. The next 16 players who are under 18 years of age, and do not qualify in the top 32, will take part in the under-18 match-play event.
Leona Maguire won the Under-18 years section last year while sister Lisa was narrowly beaten in the semi-finals of the Under-21 event.

... and six for Scottish Under-16s at Craigielaw
The following six players have been selected to represent Ireland at the Scottish Under-16 girls' open stroke-play championship at Craigielaw Golf Club, near Edinburgh on April 9 and 10:

Jessica Boal (Larne)
Amy Chambers (Dunfanaghy)
Eadaoin Cronin (Bantry Bay)
Paula Grant (Lisburn)
Jenny Hennessy (Ennis)
Emma Murphy (Wexford)

It will be the first experience of international competition for this development squad, who will be looking to emulate the success of Leona Maguire who won the scratch title in 2007. The format consists of 36 holes stroke-play, with one round being played each day.
Combined with the individual stroke-play competition is an international team event for which the ILGU has nominated two teams of three players.

Long courses tough for Neil Henderson

and Euan Brown in US college events

Former Scottish schoolboys golf champion Neil Henderson shot a pair of 76s for a two-round tally of 152 - eight over par for a very long par-72 course (7,035yd) to be lying in joint 58th position in a field of 104 players for the Pinehurst Intercollegiate over the No 8 course at the Pinehurst complex, North Carolina.
Henderson, from North Berwick, is a freshman student at Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia.
He had one double bogey in his second round compared with two in his first-day round.
Nathan Sutherland (Miami of Ohio University) leads with 68 and 72 for 140.
Old Dominion (595) are 10th in a field of 20 teams, headed by Michigan State (580).
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Euan Brown (St Mary's University-California) from Ayrshire is in joint 63rd position at the Barona Collegiate Cup, being played at Barona Creek Golf Club, Lakeside in California.

Freshman Euan has scored 79 and 84 for 163 over an even longer course than Neil Henderson is experiencing at Pinehurst - 7,393yd with a par of 72.

Euan had a triple bogey 8 at the first and a double bogey 5 at the short 11th in his second round. He has had one birdie, at the 15th second time round, over the 36 holes.

Englishman Andrew Cooley (San Diego State), pictured above, has had rounds of 73 and 70 for 143 and is sharing 13th place behind the triple joint leaders of 137.

Andrew had a great second nine of 32 in his second round. He recovered brilliantly for a double bogey 5 at the short third to birdie the fifth, sixth, 12th, 14th, 15th, 16th and 18th.

LEADING TOTALS

Par 144 (2 x 72) 7393yd

137 Matt Hoffenberg (San Diego State) 69 68, Dustin Morris (Colorado State) 70 67, Blake Trimble (San Diego) 69 68.

Selected scores:

143 Andrew Cooley (San Diego State) 73 70 (jt 13th).

163 Euan Brown (St Mary's-California) 79 84 (jt 63rd).

LEADING TEAMS

697 San Diego State.

709 New Mexico.

711 Colorado State.

Selected score:

764 St Mary's-California (9th of 10).

HANNAH BURKE IN CONTENTION AT TWIN RIVERS

Vagliano Trophy team place contender Hannah Burke (Baylor University) from Hertfordshire is lying third after two rounds of the Baylor Spring Invitational over a 6,349yd, par-72 course at Twin Rivers Golf Club, Waco in Texas.

Hannah, a member of the GB&I preliminary selection for the match against the Continent of Europe at Hamburg, has had rounds of 77 and 73 for 150.

Her second round was the joint best score over the first 36 holes of the three-round tournament.

She birdied the third, fifth, eighth and 10th but cancelled out these high spots with bogeys at the second, sixth, ninth, 16th and 18th.

Stacey Rodgers (Missouri State) from Mile Oak, Sussex has scored 78 and 80 to be sharing 32nd place on 158 in a field of 84 players.

Stacey had no birdies in her second round but a double bogey at the sixth. She had three birdies in her first round which also included a quadruple bogey 8 at the 13th.

Kate Ackerson (Southern Methodist) leads the field with a pair of 74s for 148, one ahead of Maggie Murphy (New Mexico State) (75-74) and then comes Hannah Burke, one of three players on 150.

Perth & Kinross women golfers win Team Award

By DAWN BUTCHART, Perth & Kinross county captain
The Perth and Kinross women's county golf team have won the Perth and Kinross Sports Personality of the Year Team Award.
Comrie's Wallace Booth and Gavin Dear (Murrayshall) won the joint individual awards with Eve Muirhead (Pitlochry), for curling, was in second place.
Eve has retained her Junior World Curling Championship in Vancouver where she beat Canada 8-6 in a nail-biting final. This is the third year that Eve has been in the team, last year as skip and the year before as third man. She is now off to Korea to take part in the Ladies' World championships.

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Lucky Neil gets to play Pinehurst

... but long course costs him a 76

North Berwick's Neil Henderson (Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia) was lying in joint 53rd position after a first-round 76 in the Pinehurst Intercollegiate over the Pinehurst No 8 course, North Carolina.

Lucky Neil, a former Scottish schoolboys champion and also winner of the Scottish junior champion of champions competition before he to be able to play any of the Pinehurst courses, originally designed by Donald Ross after he emigrated from Dornoch!

That's one thing about the US college golf circuit. Never mind the scores - look at the courses they are getting to play, and the places they see!

Neil, pictured above, started at the 10th and bogeyed that hole, also the 14th, the first and the seventh before he had a double bogey 5 at the short eighth and another shot dropped at the ninth in halves, as he played them, of 36 and 40 over a par-72 course of just over 7,000yd - much longer than amateurs usually are asked to play in this country.

Leading after 18 holes of this scheduled three-round tournament was Nathan Sutherland (Miami of Ohio by one shot from Tommy McDonagh (Penn State).

LATER NEWS

Neil Henderson began his second round today at the 10th and bogeyed that hole again before birdieing the 12th but running up a double bogey 6 at the 14th.

England name nine for Scottish

Under-16 open championship

PRESS RELEASE ISSUED BY ENGLISH WOMEN'S GOLF ASSOCIATION

A squad of nine talented youngsters have been selected for the English Women’s Golf Association squad to compete in the Scottish Under-16 open stroke-play championship at Craigielaw, near Edinburgh on April 9 and 10.

They are:

Heidi Baek (Felixstowe Ferry)

Hayley Davis (Ferndown)

Bronte Law (Bramhall)

Elizabeth Mallett (Sutton Coldfield Ladies)

Emily Taylor (Royal Lytham & St Annes)

Lauren Taylor (Woburn)

Brogan Townend (Pleasington)

Hannah Turland (Tidworth Garrison)

Jamie-Leigh Voss (Kirby Muxloe).

This event provides the players with an opportunity to gain championship experience and to prepare for the season ahead. England has a good record in the competition and will be aiming for a third successive win in the team event for the Nations Cup.

Two England teams have been selected for the Nations Cup.

Team one - Heidi Baek, Hayley Davis, Lauren Taylor.

Team two - Bronte Law, Hannah Turland, Jamie-Leigh Voss.

Heidi and Hannah were both in last year’s successful side.

The squad for Craigielaw is:

Heidi Baek, 15, was the 2007 English U15 champion and a member of last year’s winning England team at the girls’ Home Internationals.

Hayley Davis,16, is the South-West U15 champion and won both U16 titles at the recent Hacienda del Alamo winter festival in Spain. Hayley is pictured above by Cal Carson Golf Agency.

Bronte Law, 14, won the 2009 Andalucia Junior European Open and is the Northern girls’ champion.

Elizabeth Mallett, 14, won the English U16 schools title when she was 12. Last year she won the Warwickshire and Midlands schools championships.

Emily Taylor, 14, won the Northern girls U14 title as a 12-year-old and was runner-up in last year’s English girls’ U15 championship.

Lauren Taylor, 14, is the English U15 girls’ champion and the English U18 stroke-play title-holder.

Brogan Townend, 14, was fifth in the 2008 English girls’ U15 championship and runner-up in the Northern girls’ U14s.

Hannah Turland, 14, is the Wiltshire ladies’ and girls’ champion and a past winner of the English U13 girls’ title.

Jamie-Leigh Voss, 15, is the English schools’ champion and also holds the Leicestershire ladies’ and girls’ titles.
Lyndsey Hewison

Press & PR Officer

English seniors halve with Cambridge University

at Royal Worlington ... but they cut it rather fine

PRESS RELEASE ISSUED BY ENGLISH WOMEN'S GOLF ASSOCIATION
England’s seniors were held to a draw in their annual match against the Cambridge University ladies at Royal Worlington in Suffolk.
The seniors have an excellent record in this event, having lost only one fixture since the match started in the mid-1990s. On this occasion, though, they cut it rather fine – securing the half with the last putt of the day.
Team captain Jan Stockham commented: “As some of the university girls had longer handicaps than the senior ladies we gave them a start of between one and four-up for the afternoon singles. This was probably a misjudgement as the girls had already played most of their matches and are coming to the end of their season.”
The morning foursomes, played over nine holes, were halved with 1½ points apiece. In the singles, Jo Rumsey of Essex won a tight battle on the last green while Sue Orwell of Cambs & Hunts secured a second point. However, the university girls edged ahead with three singles wins and the outcome of the match depended on the last game on the course.
Suffolk’s Lottie Edmunds delivered the seniors’ crucial point when she won her match on the last green. The seniors’ team was completed by Jo Ashmore of Norfolk, Polly Brown of Cambs & Hunts and Elaine James of Bedfordshire.
Results (English seniors’ names first).
Foursomes (1 1/2-1 1/2)
Jo Rumsey & Jo Ashmore lost to Louisa Tarn & Leanne Mullen 1 hole.
Lottie Edmunds & Polly Brown bt Katie Taylor & Kate O’Donnell 2 holes.
Elaine James & Sue Orwell halved with Etta Martin Smith & Alexia Sohet
Singles (3-3)
Rumsey bt Tarn 1 hole.
Ashmore lost to Mullen 2 and 1.
Edmunds bt Taylor 2 holes.
Brown lost to O’Donnell 5 and 4.
Orwell bt Martin Smith 3 and 2.
James lost to Sohet 5 and 4.

Well done, Kirsty for her lowest

score so far for Mississippi

Congratulations to Surrey county team player Kirsty Rands, now a freshman student at the University of Mississippi for returning her lowest score so far on the United States women's college golf circuit.
After rounds of 81 and 83, Kristy returned an 75 over the par-72, 6,424yd course at the University Club, Baton Rouge, Louisiana in the Louisiana State University Classic.
Kristy, pictured, did not have any birdies in her final round but she stemmed the flow of bogeys to shots dropped only at the first, third and fourth.
She finished tied 91st in a field of 96.
There was a three-way tie for the top spot between Calle Nielsen (Virginia), Lucy Nunn (Arkansas) and Belgium's Benedicte Toumpsin (South Carolina).
Lucy Nunn won the sudden-death play-off at the second extra hole.
LEADING FINAL TOTALS
Par 216 (3 x 72). 6424yd
209 Lucy Nunn (Arkansas) 72 68 69, Calle Nielsen (Virginia) 67 71, 71, Bene3dictre Toumpsin (South Carolina) 70 71 68.
Selected totals:
212 Jacqueline Hedwall (Louisiana State) 68 74 70 (jt 7th).
239 Kirsty Rands (Mississippi) 81 83 75 (jt 91st).

SCOTT CARMICHAEL TIED 22nd AT PELICAN BAY
Baberton GC member Scott Carmichael, a student at Johnson & Wales University-Florida, tied for 22nd place with Craig Isabel (Webber International) from Stanford Le Hope on 230 in the 20th Eagle Invitational college tournament at Pelican Bay Country Club, Dayton Beach in Florida.
John Pannone (South Carolina-Beaufort) headed a field of 79 players with scores of 73, 70 and 75 for a total of 218.
Team-mate Reed Howard, with rounds of 71, 73 and 76 f inished second on 220.
LEADING FINAL TOTALS
Par 216 (3 x 72). 6796yd
218 John Pannone (South Caroline-Beaufort) 73 70 75.
220 Reed Howard (South Carolina-Beaufort) 71 73 76.
Selected totals:
230 Craig Isabel (Webber International) 77 77 76, Scott Carmichael (Johnson & Wales) 74 78 78.

Lorrin Golf to sponsor English

amateur women's order of merit

PRESS RELEASE ISSUED BY ENGLISH WOMEN'S GOLF ASSOCIATION
The English Women’s Golf Association is pleased to announce that the golf holiday company, Lorrin Golf, will sponsor its order of merit for 2009 and 2010.
The order of merit provides a league table for over 400 English women and girl amateur golfers who compete in international, national and county events. The two most recent overall winners were Hampshire’s Liz Bennett, who has now joined the Ladies European Tour, and Derbyshire’s Melissa Reid, who was the LET rookie of the year last season.
Lorrin Golf is a golf tour operator arranging golf holidays to premier resorts throughout Europe, USA, Caribbean, Dubai and Thailand.
Lorrin Golf also runs a leading golf academy in St Andrews. Its director, David Kelly, a former British university golf champion, commented:
“At Lorrin Golf we are committed to performance and to presenting the very best that the game of golf has to offer. So, sponsoring the EWGA order of merit and helping to raise the profile of the country’s best women golfers, is perfect for us.”
EWGA chief executive Jim Robinson said: “England’s finest women and girl golfers are superb players and we are delighted that Lorrin Golf is helping us to showcase their talents. These players draw attention to golf and this encourages more people to take up the sport and enjoy the pleasures of the game.”
Meanwhile, the early-season race to the 2009 title is currently led by Hertfordshire’s Charlie Douglass, who reached the quarter-finals of the Spanish championship. Charlie, 20, plays at Brocket Hall and has been a member of EWGA’s Performance Squad.
The Lorrin Golf-sponsored table can be viewed on the EWGA website, www.englishwomensgolf.org, and will be updated weekly once the full season is underway in April.
For more information about Lorrin Golf visit www.lorringolf.com

Maguire twins are hot tips for

Woodenbridge Scratch Cup

PRESS RELEASE ISSUED BY IRISH LADIES GOLF UNION
Fourteen-year-old Irish champion Leona Maguire, pictured right, and her twin sister Lisa are hot favourites to capture the opening women’s Scratch Cup of the Irish domestic season when Ireland’s elite tee off at Woodenbridge Golf Club, Co Wicklow on Sunday (March 22).
In addition to providing additional practice for players competing in the Under-18 Inter-provincials at Easter, Woodenbridge has taken the opportunity to revive its very popular Glam-Am that ran so successfully throughout the 1980s and 1990s.

A two-tee start sees Ireland’s elite tee off early on Sunday morning and after lunch, two players are joined by a lady and man from Woodenbridge in a team event, with the players keeping their own score for the 36-hole Scratch Cup.

After multiple outings in the Milltown mixed foursomes, Bob Moran and Pauline Martin initiated the annual event in the early 1980s and both will grace the field with their presence on Sunday.
Woodenbridge, celebrating its 125th year anniversary, has had its share of success on the women’s amateur stage over the years. In 1956, Rose Bayly honoured the club with her first of two international caps, followed by Denise McCarthy throughout the 1980s and 1990s and more recently, Louise Mernagh with girls' international honours.
The four teams participating in the Girls Inter-provincials in mid-April are well represented and are joined by leading amateurs Gillian O’Leary, Anne McCormack and Sarah Cunningham to name but a few.

Paul Ferrier fades in final round


at Southern Highlands, Nevada

Former Scottish boys' match-play champion Paul Ferrier, a first-year student at the University of Charlotte, North Carolina, slumped with a seven-over-par 79 in the final round to finish joint 48th in a field of 80 for the Southern Highlands Collegiate tournament at Southern Highlands Golf Club, Las Vegas, Nevada.
Ferrier, pictured on right, had earlier had a pair of 74s over one of the longest courses he has ever played - 7510yd, par 72 - to be in 31st place with one round to go.
Starting at the 10th on the last day, Ferrier birdied three long holes, the 13th, the 18th and third but he had a triple bogey 8 at his last hole, the long ninth, a double bogey 6 at the first and also dropped shots at the 14th, 16th, second, sixth and seventh in halves of 36 and 43 as he played them.
The 2007 Scottish boys title-winner had a double bogey 5 at the short 17th in the second round.
Scotland international James Byrne (Arizona State) from Banchory finished in 70th place with scores of 83, 73 and 80. In his final round Byrne had birdies at the third, fourth and seventh but ran up double bogeys at the short 12th and long 18th.
Gavin Reid (Southern California) from Northern Ireland finished 77th with scores of 78, 85 and 76.
Cameron Tringale (Georgia Tech) won the individual title by five strokes with scores of 67, 70 and 68 for 11-under-par 205.
UNLV (855) won the team title ahead of Oklahoma State (856) with Charlotte in joint 11th position of 15 teams.
LEADING INDIVIDUALS
205 Cameron Tringale (Georgia Tech) 67 70 68.
210 Matthew Giles (Southern California) 67 71 72, Morgan Hoffman (Oklahoma State) 72 62 76.
Selected totals:
227 Paul Ferrier (Charlotte) 74 74 79 (jt 48th).
234 James Byrne (Arizona State) 81 73 80 (70th).
240 Gavin Reid (Southern California) 79 85 76 (77th).
LEADING TEAMS
855 UNLV. 856 Oklahoma State. 870 Georgia. 872 Florida. 879 Southern California.
Selected total:
904 Charlotte (jt 11th of 15).

Janice Florence had 28 consecutive

title wins at Oldmeldrum

Just to sign off our series on players who have won consecutive club titles.

We told you last week about Pat Shepherd who won 30 in a row at Turriff and 33 in all.

Oldmeldrum Golf Club member Mike Pocock has now supplied us what should be the final piece in the jigsaw - for the moment.

Janice Florence, pictured right, now the head greenkeeper at Inchmarlo Golf Resort, won the Oldmeldrum ladies club championship 28 times in a row from 1973 to 2000. She then won it again in 2005, 2007 and 2008, making 31 in all.

The coincidental link between Pat Shepherd and Janice Florence is that it was Janice who ended Pat's consecutive title run at Turriff.

Scots help East Tennessee State to Hawaii victory

MICHAEL STEWART'S BEST YET IN STATES

AND JORDAN FINDLAY MAKES TOP 20

Irvine-born Michael Stewart, coming up to the end of his reign as 2008 Scottish boys' match-play champion, on Saturday achieved his highest finish yet in his freshman year on the American college golf circuit as a student at East Tennessee State University.
Making the most of a first trip to Hawaii, the 19-year-old Stewart, pictured right by courtesy of Tom Ward Photography, finished fifth in the Kauai Collegiate Cup tournament over a 6871yd, par-72 course at Kauai.
He had rounds of 73, 70 and 72 for a one-under-par total of 215 - six shots behind the winner, Logan Blondell (Georgia Southern) who scored 70, 69 and 69 for eight-under 208.
Stewart's team-mates, Seamus Power from Waterford, Paul O'Kane from Castledawson (Northern Ireland), Welshman Rhys Enoch from Cornwall, and Jordan Findlay, the former British boys champion from Fraserburgh, finished second, joint seventh, joint seventh and joint 20th respectively in a field of 64 players, as they would say in shooting terminology, "a very good grouping."
Findlay, strung three scores in the 70s together for the first time in several months, scoring 76, 74 and 73 for a total of 223 and a joint 20th place finish in a field of 64 players.
The Scots played their part in East Tennessee State tieing for the team title with Georgia Southern in a field of 11 teams.
LEADING FINAL TOTALS
Par 216 (3 x 72). 6981yd
208 Logan Blondell (Georgia Southern) 70 69 69.
209 Seamus Power (East Tennessee State) 71 69 69.
Selected totals:
215 Michael Stewart (East Tennessee State) 73 70 72 (5th).
218 Paul O'Kane (East Tennessee State) 73 74 71, Rhys Enoch (East Tennessee State) 72 74 72 (jt 7th).
223 Jordan Finlay (East Tennessee State) 76 74 73 (jt 20th).
64 players took part.
LEADING TEAM TOTALS
860 East Tennessee State, Georgia Southern.
878 Wayland Baptist.
11 teams took part.

KATY TOPS FOR LOSING LYNN

Carnoustie's 21-year-old Katy McNicoll, a final-year student at Lynn University, Boca Raton in Florida, top-scored for her college team but they lost a one-round stroke-play match at home to Harvard University at the weekend.
Katy, with a 78 on a very windy day, came fourth individually behind three Harvard players, Claire Sheldon, Christine Cho and Emily Balmert who scored 75, 76 and 77 over the Boca Woods Country Club's par-72 course of 6050yd.
With the best four scores to count for the team total, Harvard beat Lynn 309 to 325.

Kirsty O'Connor 2nd, Hannah Coles 5th

and Andrew Downer jt 14th in Florida

Welsh women's amateur champion Kristy O'Connor (Ball State University, Indiana) from Burnley finished runner-up and Hannah Coles (Radford University, Virginia) from Maxstoke Park, Warwickshire came joint fifth in a field of 87 players for the El Diablo Intercollegiate women's tournament at El Diablo Golf & Country Club, Citrus Springs, Florida.
Kirsty is pictured right on the day last summer when she won the Welsh title.
Over a par-72 course of 5,902 yards the title was won by Thailand student P Phol-uaypurn (Florida Atlantic University) by the runaway margin of 10 strokes with rounds of 68, 71 and 74 for a fine three under par aggregate of 213.
Kirsty O'Connor scored 77, 69 and 77 for seven-over-par 223.
Hannah Coles had rounds of 75, 78 and 73 for 226.
Also in the top 15 was Andrew Downer (Murray State University, Kentuckyt) from Bramley, Surrey with scores of 80, 81 and 75 for a share of 14th place on 236.
Kirsty O'Connor's effort helpd Ball State (Indiana) win the team title by 13 shots from Florida Atlantic and James Madison who both totalled 927 in a field of 15 teams.

St Andrews University invited to

play in US college tournament

FROM THE SCOTTISH UNIVERSITIES SPORTS WEBSITE
A top team of student golfers from St Andrews will fly the flag for Britain and Europe when they take part in a major American college golf tournament next month.
The University of St Andrews team will be the only non-US representatives competing in the 2009 US Intercollegiate which takes place at Stanford University, California in April.
The invitation to St Andrews to go head to head with the best college golfers in the States is being seen as a major feather in the cap of Scottish university sport.
St Andrews is one of only a handful of non-US universities ever asked to take part in the prestigious college tournament which in the past has witnessed performances from such aspiring talents as Tiger Woods, Tom Watson and Notah Begay.
The Fife team of Will Wrisedale, Steve Pointon, Mike Gray, John Cork and Cammy Gray will be up against the cream of young American talent from Arizona, California, Oregon and Texas.
Travelling with the Scottish team will be University of St Andrews Director of Sport and Exercise Stephen Stewart and team head coach Steve North of Braemar Golf, who is the Director of Instruction at the St Andrews Links Golf Academy where the university players are coached in the state of the art golf academy..
Stephen Stewart said: “It’s a huge honour to be invited to Stanford and a fantastic opportunity for our lads to pit themselves against some of the most talented young golfers in the world.
“It’s very rare for a non-US team to get the chance to compete in this tournament. We will learn a lot and savour the experience - but our aim is to compete and show that Scottish university golf is there on merit.
“We’re got a really good team, a great team spirit and can’t wait to fly the flag for St Andrews and Scottish golf in front of American crowds.
“We’re really grateful to Braemar Golf for giving our head coach Steve North the time to travel out to Stanford with the team.”
A total of 17 college golf teams will line up for the 2009 US Intercollegiate which will be played at the par-70, 6742-yard Stanford Golf Course on April 18 and 19.

Double bogey at short 17th knocks back

Paul Ferrier's hopes of par round

LATER NEWS OF FINAL
ROUND: Paul Ferrier had a 79 for 227 ... James Byrne an 80 for 234 and Gavin Reid a 76 for 240. Back at breakfast time with an updated story and scoreboard.

EARLIER
Former Scottish boys' match-play champion Paul Ferrier (Charlotte University) repeated his two-over-par first round of 74 on the second day of the Southern Highlands Collegiate tournament in Nevada - but he dropped from a share of 23rd place to joint 31st place.
Over probably the longest golf course Paul has played - 7,510yd, par 72) - the Baberton Golf Club member birdied the fourth, sixth and 10th but bogeyed the fifth, 10th and 14th.
He was heading for a creditable par-matching round of 72 until he ran up a double-bogey 5 at the short 17th.
James Byrne (Arizona State) from Banchory got back on track with a 73 - birdies at the 17th and 18th - after an uncharacteristic first round of 81. James was in joint 67th place before Sunday's play.
Gavin Reid (Southern California) from Ballynahinch, Northern Ireland had a bad day with one triple bogey and two double bogeys in halves of 44 and 41 adding up to an 85 and 79th place in a field of 80 after 36 holes.
Morgan Hoffman (Oklahoma State) shot into a three-shot lead with a marvellous second round of 10 under par 62 for a 10-under tally of 134. He leads by three from Cameron Tringale (Georgia Tech) who is on 137 with scores of 67 and 70.
Oklahoma State (561) lead from UNLV (573) with Arizona third on 576. Charlotte (600) are currently 11th of 15 teams.

KIRSTY STILL SCORING IN THE 80s
No sign of a turn for the better yet in the US college playing fortunes of young Surrey county team player Kirsty Rands (Mississippi).
Freshman Kirsty had second-round 83 to add to her opening 81 over a par-72, 6424yd course. She is lying 93rd in a field of 95 with a total of 164.
Calle Nielson (Virginia) leads the field by two shots with scores of 67 and 71 for 138.

SCOTT CARMICHAEL IN TOP 10 AT DAYTONA BEACH
Scott Carmichael (Johnson & Wales University-Florida) is lying joint ninth in a field of 79 after the first round of the 20th Eagle Invitational tournament at Pelican Bay Country Club in Daytona Beach, Florida.
(Thanks to Neil Henderson's mum, Linda, for confirmed that Scott is a Scot and is a member of Baberton Golf Club).
Howard Reed (South Carolina Beaufort) and Matthew Clouse (Lee University) share the lead on 71.