WOMEN'S DIXIE AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP

Wonder girl Alexis Thompson goes
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one stroke ahead of Holly Clyburn

Fourteen-year-old top-ranked US female amateur golfer Alexis Thompson of Coral Springs, Florida shot a second straight 69 at the Heron Bay Golf Club, Coral Springs to take a one-stroke lead on six-under-par 138 after the second round of theWomen's Dixie Amateur championship today.
The in-form Thompson, pictured right, won the Junior Orange Bowl girls' title, also in Florida, which finished only on Wednesday.
England's Holly Clyburn from Woodhall Spa, Lincolnshire is one shot back after an even par round of 72. Holly, 18-year-old English girls champion and recent winner of the Nick Faldo Series' girls title in Brazil, had led by two shots overnight with an opening round of five-under-par 67.
Lindy Duncan of Davie, Florida fired a two under par 70 to take sole possession Of third place. Sandra Changkija of Orlando, Florida also shot a 70 and is in fourth place followed by defending champion Candace Schepperle of Birmingham, Alabama and Marina Alex of Wayne, New Jersey who are tied for fifth at 143, five shots behind Thompson.
The halfway cut in the four-round event fell at 162, reflecting the gale force winds which attacked Heron Bay today. Fifty-one players made the cut and will battle Saturday and Sunday for the prestigious title.
In the Senior Women's Division three time US Senior women's amateur champion Diane Lang of Weston, Florida has a five-stroke lead over Brenda Pictor of Marietta, Georgia after blistering Heron Bay with a second round 69.
Lang's 145 two-round total gives her an excellent chance at winning the inaugural Women's Senior Dixie Amateur title which is over only three rounds.

HALFWAY SCOREBOARD
Par 144 (2x72)
138 Alexis Thompson (Coral Springs, Florida) 69 69.
139 Holly Clyburn (Woodhall Spa GC, Lincolnshire) 67 72.
141 Lindy Duncan (Davie, Florida & Duke Univ) 70 71.
142 Sandra Changkija (Orlando, Florida & Nova Southeastern Univ) 72 70.
143 Candace Schepperle (Birmingham, Alabama & Auburn Univ) 71 72, Marina Alex (Wayne, New Jersey & Vanderbilt Univ) 73 70.
144 Emilie Alonso (France) 74 70.
145 Brittany Smith (Rancho Murieta, California) 70 75, Suzie Lee (East Northport, New York & Commack High) 73 72.
146 Kyle Roig (Pembroke Pines, Florida & American Heritage High) 74 72.
147 Laura Blanco (Columbia & Pendleton School) 75 72.
148 Stefanie Kenoyer (Lighthouse Point, Florida & Furman Univ) 74 74.
149 Jessica Alexander (Riverview, Florida & Coastal Carolina Univ) 74 75, Jaye Green (Boca Raton, Florida & Florida Virtual School) 74 75, Yueer Feng (Orlando, Florida & Windermere Prep) 75 74, Nicola Race (Essex, England & Missouri Univ) 75 74.
150 Alex Stewart (Carson City, Nevada) 76 74.
151 Ashley Malinchak (Parkland, Florida & Westminster Acad) 77 74.
152 Katia Joo (Rancho Palos Verdes, California & Peninsula High) 75 77, Rebecca Lee-Bentham (Scarborough, Canada & Northview Heights High) 75 77, Trish Witherby (Richmond, Indiana & Richmond High) 76 76, Courtney McKim (Raleigh, North Carolina & Oklahoma State Univ) 79 73.
153 Isabelle Lendl (Bradenton, Florida) 78 75, Taylor Collins (Davie, Florida & Nova Southeastern Univ) 79 74.
154 Abby Bools (Hickory, North Carolina & East Carolina Univ) 76 78, Shelby Coyle (Pembroke Pines, Florida & American Heritage High) 76 78, Ashley Mooney (Port St Lucie, Florida & Daytona State Univ) 76 78, Andrew Watts (Gainsville, Florida & Univ of Florida) 76 78, Ani Gullugian (Irvine, California & UCLA) 77 77, Nicole Quinn (Wintermere, Florida & TFA) 77 77, Meghan Chapman (Seminole, Florida) 78 76, Olivia Lansing (Delwood, Minnesota & Drake Univ) 78 76, Laura Raffo (US) 80 74.
155 Federique Bruell (Aventura, Florida) 74 81.
156 April McCoy (Carrolton, Texas & Creekview High) 76 80, Alex Buelow (Palm City, Florida & Stetson Univ) 78 78, Kailey Walsh (Boca Raton, Florida & St Andrews Univ) 78 78, Elizabeth Alger (Tequesta, Florida & Florida Atlantic Univ) 79 77.
157 Paula Reto (Coral Springs, Florida & Purdue Univ) 79 78, Victoria Trapani (Hollywood, Florida & St Thomas Aquinas) 80 77, Anna Keith (Moultrie, Georgia & Vanderbilt Univ) 81 76, Carly Ragains (Highland Village, Texas & Marcus High) 81 76.
158 Meghan Stasi (Oakland Park, Florida) 77 81, Marilye Cadieux (Quebec, Canada & Florida Atlantic Univ) 79 79, Nora Lucas (Glenview, Illinois & Illinois Univ) 82 76, Andrea Kaelin (Fleming Island, Florida & Florida State Univ) 83 75, Ashleigh Albrecht (Murrieta, Georgia & Kentucky Univ) 84 74.
160 Alexandra Bodemann (Palm City, Florida & Wake Forest Univ) 79 81.
161 Rachel Kropf (Pompano Beach, Florida) 84 77.
162 Whitney Neuhauser (Barboursville, Virginia & Virginia Univ) 82 80, Catherine Elliott (Malvern, Pennsylvania & Pennsylvania Univ) 84 78.
MISSED THE CUT =======================
163 Kayla Stewart (Chattanooga, Tennessee) 82 81.
164 Alexa Rancourt (South Portland, Maine & Furman Univ) 83 81.
164 Emily Rymer (Orlando, Florida & The First Academy) 81 84.
165 Samantha Wagner (Clermont, Florida & Windermere Prep) 83 82, Alexandra Papell (Boca Raton, Florida, Florida) 84 81, Hunter Ross (Manakin Sabot, Virginia & Wake Forest Univ) 84 81.
166 Marisa Messana (Plantation, Florida & American Heritage School) 84 82.
167 Sydney Wilson (Lawrence, Kansas & Univ of Kansas) 82 85, Sunny Harris (Pensacola, Florida & Central Florida Univ) 84 83, Kristen Sammarco (Pembroke Pines, Florida & American Heritage School) 86 81, Lauren Giesecke (Kokomo, Indiana & Indiana University) 89 78.
168 Sarah Almond (Albemarle, North Carolina & Gray Stone School) 84 84, Kaile Tuccio (Windermere, Florida & Bishop Moore) 87 81.
171 Julia Hitchins (Palm Beach, Florida) 83 88.
176 Marina Karamanis (Barrington, Illinois & Illinois Univ) 88 88, Tariqah Walikraam (Hamilton, Bermuda) 89 87.
194 Ellen Privitera (Delray Beach, Florida) 96 98.

SENIORS CHAMPIONSHIP (over three rounds)
Par 144 (2x72) 6,000yd course.
145 Diane Lang (Weston, Florida & Weston CC) 76 69.
150 Brenda Pictor (Marrietta, Georgia & Pinetree CC) 79 71.
152 Marian Barker (Lubbock, Texas & Lubbock CC) 78 74.
153 Lisa Schlesinger (Laytonsville, Maryland & Norbeck CC) 77 76.
154 Mimi Hoffman (Springfield, Virginia & Belle Haven CC) 79 75.
158 Maggie Weder (Greenville, North Carolina & Ironwood) 79 79, Lynn Thompson (Cincinnati, Ohio & Obannon Creek GC) 85 73.
160 Anna Schultz (Rockwall, Texas & Honors Club) 83 77.
161 Jewell Malick (Rockwall, Texas & Honors Club) 81 80, Angela Stewart (Greenville, North Carolina & Ironwood) 82 79.
163 Ivy Steinberg (Cedar Valley, Canada & Granite Golf) 84 79.
166 Kelly Koselek (Toronto, Canada & Cedar Brae) 84 82.
167 Kathy Baker (Wellington, Florida & Wanderers) 87 80.
177 Jean Mowry (Hot Springs Village, Arizona) 92 85.
188 Babs McIntosh (Murrells Inlet, South Carolina & Wachesaw Plantation) 93 95.
192 Rita Dominguez (Rockville, Maryland & Redgate GC) 99 93.
195 Rhan Parham (Murrells Inlet, South Carolina & Wachesaw Plantation) 101 94.

Emma Wilson: "Wonderful to be given the opportunity to promote women's golf, and especially girls' golf."

NEW SLGA PRESIDENT EMMA WILSON

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REMEMBERS GOLDEN GREATS HELEN

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HOLM AND JEAN McCULLOCH

By COLIN FARQUHARSON
Emma Wilson, the new Scottish Ladies Golfing Association president, is a direct link with some of the country’s great women golfers of the 1930s and 1940s/
“I come originally from Lanark and came up through the West of Scotland Girls’ Golf Association, encouraged by names such as Helen Holm, Jean McCulloch, May Menzies and Irma Douglas,” says Emma who would reach county team standard as a player.
“I remember Helen Holm, pictured right, as a tall ,striking figure who came up and spoke quietly to you, inquiring how you had played and just generally very supportive of West girls.
“Also Jean McCulloch (another past Scottish champion) came to give us vocal support: ‘Girlies, come along now! We, of course, had little or no idea who these old dears were!
“It is only in later life that you realise the great love of golf they had and their pedigree. I exchanged a Christmas card with Miss McCulloch for a good number of years.”
Emma Wilson lives in Kirkcaldy now. She worked for Ladybird in Slough, then moved to Kirkcaldy in 1973.
“I was chief designer for Babygro Ltd for nine years. I missed my golf as it was so expensive down south.”
She has been strongly associated with Fife women’s golf at club and county level for the best part of 40 years. Of her appointment to be Ethel Jack’s successor as SLGA President, Emma says:
“It is a great honour to be following such illustrious Presidents of the SLGA and wonderful to be given the opportunity to promote women’s and especially girls’ golf by emphasising the many life-long friendships made and the camaraderie enjoyed among golfersm, both competitively and socially.
“I’m looking forward to supporting our Scotland teams – girls, women’s and seniors.”
She is a member of Elie & Earlsferry Ladies Golf Club and Leven Golfing Society and was captain of Kirkcaldy Golf Club in 1983. After being a Fife county team player, she became Fife county captain in 1983-84, county president in 2000 and an honorary member in 2006.
Emma was chairman of the SLGA in 2004-2005 and chairman of the selectors.
She played for the Midland Vets team and has taken over as captain of the Midland Vets for 2010.

EDITOR'S FOOTNOTES:

Younger readers might not be aware of the outstanding playing records of Helen Holm and Jean McCulloch. Here are the highlights of their careers:

HELEN HOLM (Troon Ladies)

Born: Helen Gray, Glasgow, March 14, 1907. Died: December 14, 1971.

British women's open amateur championship: Won title in 1934 and 1938.

Scottish women's (closed) amateur championship: Won title in 1930, 1932, 1937, 1948 & 1950. Beaten finalist: 1933, 1938, 1949, 1956 & 1957.

Curtis Cup appearances: 1936-1938-1948. Mrs Holm declined selection for the 1950 match in the United States because she considered her son was too young to be left at home.

JEAN McCULLOCH (West Kilbride)

Scottish women's (closed) amateur championship: Won title in 1913, 1928 and 1931.

The first Curtis Cup match was not played until 1932.

*From the West Kilbride Golf Club website: Jean McCulloch won the Scottish Ladies’ championship while still in her teens. It was the start of an astonishing career which would see her national champion twice more, a career in which she would win the West of Scotland Championship 40 years after her first national success and live to attend the 75th anniversary dinner in 1988 of that win at Machrihanish in 1913. In addition her encouragement to ladies’ golf, in particular girls' golf was to be a life-long commitment.

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Holly Clyburn: A great start in Florida to what looks like being a big year for the Lincolnshire lass (click on the image by Cal Carson Golf Agency to enlarge).

Holly Clyburn's hole in one helps her lead

by two shots in Women's Dixie Amateur

NEWS RELEASE ISSUED BY THE ENGLISH WOMEN' S GOLF ASSOCIATION

England international Holly Clyburn had a hole-in-one as she took the first-round lead in the Women’s Dixie Amateur Championship in Florida with a five-under par 67.

Eighteen-year-old Holly (Woodhall Spa) aced the 150yd 5th hole. Her super-shot helped her to a two-stroke lead over her playing partner, 14-year-old Alexis Thompson, Coral Springs, Florida, who was the 2007 Dixie Champion and won the Junior Orange Bowl girls' title earlier in the week.

The English girls’ champion from Lincolnshire returned her score as winds picked up during the day, making the 6,500yd lay-out at Heron Bay Golf Club, Coral Springs a true test for some of the world’s top ranked female amateurs.

Americans Lindy Duncan of Florida and Brittany Smith of California are both three strokes back after shooting 70.

The 2008 Dixie Amateur champion, Candace Schepperle from Birmingham, Alabama and Duke University, is four shots back after her 74.

The top 50 players plus ties will make the cut after the second round.

Holly, who is also the French Under-18 open champion and the Faldo series girls' champion, won the English Women’s Golf Association girls’ order of merit for 2009. She is in the GB&I squad for the 2010 Curtis Cup team.
Lyndsey Hewison

Press & PR Officer

EDITOR'S NOTE: Holly Clyburn is just one of five members of the 2010 Curtis Cup squad who have entered the 3rd Hacienda del Alamo February Festival in Spain. Entries close around the middle of this month for the February 13-20 programme which comprises of a better-ball pairs (male partners permitted) on the first Saturday, a 36-hole stroke play on the Monday and Tuesday and a 54-hole stroke-play on the Thursday-Friday-Saturday. There are Under-16, Under-18, Ladies and Senior Ladies prize categories in the two individual events.

Entry forms are available by clicking on the relevant words at the top of the left hand column on the Home Page of only this website.

ALL THE WOMEN'S DIXIE AMATEUR FIRST-ROUND SCORES
Par 72

Clyburn, Holly (Woodhall Spa GC, Lincolnshire, England) 67
Alexis Thompson (Coral Springs, Florida) 69
Lindy Duncan (Davie, Florida & Duke Univ) 70
Brittany Smith (Rancho Murieta, California & UC Davis) 70

Candace Schepperle (Birmingham, Alabama & Auburn Univ) 71

Sandra Changkija (Orlando, Florida & Nova Southeastern Univ) 72

Marina Alex (Wayne, New Jersey & Vanderbilt Univ) 73

Suzie Lee (East Northport, New York & Commack High) 73

Jessica Alexander (Riverview, Florida & Coastal Carolina Univ) 74

Emilie Alonso (France) 74.

Federique Bruell (Aventura, Florida) 74.

Jaye Green (Boca Raton, Florida & Florida Virtual School) 74.

Stefanie Kenoyer (Lighthouse Point, Florida & Furman Univ) 74

Kyle Roig (Pembrokes Pines, Florida & American Heritage High) 74.

Laura Blanco (Columbia & Pendleton School) 75.

Yueer Feng (Orlando, Florida & Windermere Prep) 75

Katia Joo (Rancho Palos Verdes, California & Peninsula High) 75.

Rebecca Lee-Bentham (Scarborough, Canada & Northview Heights High) 75.

Nicola Race (England & Missouri Univ) 75.

Abby Bools (Hickory, North Carolina & East Carolina Univ) 76.

Shelby Coyle (Pembroke Pines, Florida & American Heritage High) 76.
April McCoy (Carrolton, Texas & Creekview High) 76.

Ashley Mooney (Port St Lucie, Florida & Daytona State Univ) 76.

Alex Stewart (Carson City, Nevada) 76.

Andrea Watts (Gainsville, Florida & Univ of Florida) 76.

Trisha Witherby (Richmond, Indiana & Richmond High) 76.

Ani Gullugian (Irvine, California & UCLA) 77.

Ashley Malinchak (Parkland, Florida & Westminster Acad) 77.

Nicole Quinn (Windermere, Florida & TFA) 77.
Meghan Stasi (Oakland Park, Florida) 77.

Alex Buelow (Palm City, Florida & Stetson Univ) 78.

Meghan Chapman (Seminole, Florida & North Carolina State Univ) 78.

Olivia Lansing (Dellwood, Minnesota & Drake Univ) 78.

Isavelle Lendl (Bradenton, Florida) 78.

Kailey Walsh (Boca Raton, Florida & St Andrews Univ) 78.

Elizabeth Alger (Tequesta, Florida & Florida Atlantic Univ) 79.

Alexandra Bodemann (Palm City, Florida & Wake Forest Univ) 79.

Marilyne Cadieux (Quebec, Canada & Florida Atlantic Univ) 79.

Taylor Collins (Davie, Florida & Nova Southeastern Univ) 79.

Courtney McKim (Raleigh, North Carolina & Oklahoma State Univ) 79.

Paula Reto (Coral Springs, Florida & Purdue Univ) 79.

Laura Raffo (Hollywood, Florida & St Thomas Aquinas Univ) 80.

Anna Keith (Moultrie, Georgia & Vanderbilt Univ) 81.

Carly Ragains (Highland Village, Texas & Marcus High) 81.

Emily Rymer (Orlando, Florida & The First Acad) 81.

Nora Lucas (Glenview, Illinois & Illinois Univ) 82.

Whitney Neuhauser (Barboursville, Virginia & Virginia Univ) 82.

Kayla Stewart (Chattanooga, Tennessee) 82.

Sydney Wilson (Lawrence, Kansas & Univ of Kansas) 82.

Julia Hitchins (Palm Beach, Florida) 83.

Andrew Kaelin (Fleming Island, Florida & Florida State Univ) 83.

Alexa Rancourt (South Portland, Maine & Furman Univ) 83.

Samantha Wagner (Clermont, Florida & Windermere Prep) 83.

Ashleigh Albrecht (Murrieta, Georgia & Kentucky Univ) 84.

Sarah Almond (Albemarle, North Carolina & Gray Stone Day School) 84.

Catherine Elliott (Malvern, Pennsylvania) 84.

Sunny Harris (Pensacola, Florida & Cental Florida Univ) 84.

Rachel Kropf (Pompano Beach, Florida & Broward Virtual Univ) 84.

Maria Messana (Plantation, Florida & American Heritage Univ) 84.

Alexandra Papell (Boca Raton, Florida) 84.

Hunter Ross (Manakin Sabot, Virginia & Wake Forest Univ) 84.

Kristen Sammarco (Pembroke Pines, Florida) & American Heritage Univ) 86.

Kaile Tuccio (Windermere, Florida & Bishop Moore Univ) 87.

Marina Karamanis (Barrington, Illinois & Illinois Univ) 88.

Lauren Giesecke (Kokomo, Indiana & Indiana Univ) 89.

Tariqah Walikraam (Hamilton, Bermuda) 89.

Ellen Privitera (Delray Beach, Florida) 96.

Jane Linn (Fort Lauderdale, Florida & Hamilton Farms GC, New Jersey) disqualified.

Alyssa Randolph (Knoxville, Tennessee & Kentucky Univ) disqualified.

Dakoda Dowd (Palm Harbor, Florida & Halm Harbor High) withdrew (ill).

Gia Fanelli (West Palm Beach, Florida & Penn State Univ) withdrew (ill).

SENIORS CHAMPIONSHIP SCOREBOARD

Par 72

Diane Lang (Weston, Florida & Weston CC) 76.

Lisa Schlesinger (Laytonsville, Maryland & Norbeck CC) 77.

Marian Barker (Lubbock, Texas & Lubbock CC) 78.

Mimi Hoffman (Springfield, Virginia & Belle Haven CC) 79.

Brenda Pictor (Marrietta, Georgia & Pinetree CC) 79.

Maggie Weder (Greenville, North Carolina & Ironwood) 79.

Jewell Malick (Rockwall, Texas & Honors Club) 81.

Angela Stewart (Greensville, North Carolina & Ironwood) 82.

Anna Schultz (Rockwall, Texas & Honors Club) 83.

Kelly Koselek (Toronto, Canada) & Cedar Brae) 84.

Ivy Steinberg (Cedar Valley, Canada & Granite Golf) 84.

Lynn Thompson (Cincinnati, Ohio & Obannon Creek GC) 85.

Kathy Baker (Wellington, Florida & Wanderers) 87.

Jean Mowry (Hot Springs, Arizona & Hot Springs Village) 92.

Babs McIntosh (Murrells Inlet, South Carolina & Wachesaw Plantation) 93.

Rita Dominguez (Rockville, Maryland & Redgate GC) 99.

Rhan Parham (Murrells Inlet, South Carolina & Wachesaw Plantation) 101

CHANGES to the DECISIONS on the RULES OF GOLF

From January 1, no relief allowed from divot hole or repaired divot hole

By RON MENZIES
As usual, half way through the four-year life of an edition of The Rules of Golf, the R&A has published a new Decisions Book. This contains some 30 new decisions and amended versions of further 49 revised decisions which come into effect on January 1, 2010.
Many of these merit detailed consideration only by serious students of the rules, budding referees and quiz masters and require a thorough knowledge to understand their complexity. However, there is one change that will require immediate action by many club committees and the awareness of all golfers.
New decision 33-8/34 now removes the authority for a committee to make a local rule “providing relief without penalty from a divot hole or a repaired divot hole (i.e. filled with sand or seed mix).”
At least half the golf clubs in Scotland have such a local rule and these must be withdrawn immediately before any qualifying competitions for handicap purposes can be played.
Such a local rule contravenes Rule 13-1 which states that a ball must be played as it lies and has generally not been used in professional and major amateur competitions.
It is often mistakenly believed that this rule protects the golf course. If relief is given or indeed demanded from a seeded divot hole, a second divot hole is created and requires repair, leaving two seeded divots holes.
If the ball is played from the original hole it may require repair but only one hole remains.

Catriona Matthew, MBE - "It's the icing

on the cake," she says

FROM THE BBC SPORT WEBSITE

Catriona Matthew has described being appointed MBE in the New Year Honours List as "the icing on the cake" following a memorable 2009.
Matthew, 40, won the Ricoh British Open at Royal Lytham 11 weeks after giving birth to her second daughter.
"This is a wonderful surprise and a fantastic end to what has been a very special year," said Matthew.
"Having had Sophie in May, I never envisaged winning a major golf championship this year."
The four-time Solheim Cup player was also named Ladies European Tour Players' Player of the Year in December.
Her three-stroke triumph at Royal Lytham and St Annes in August made her the first Scottish woman to clinch victory in a major.
Over 15 years as a professional, Matthew, from North Berwick, has won six international titles and played for Europe at the Solheim Cup on five occasions.
"The reaction and the recognition I have had has been amazing and I'm very grateful to everyone for their support," said Catriona who has also accepted the appointment of vice-president of the Scottish Ladies Golfing Association.
This season, she finished second on the Ladies European Tour's Henderson Money List and was 26th on the American money list after only 10 starts on the LPGA Tour.
"The MBE really is the icing on the cake," said the Scot.
In a statement, the Ladies European Tour praised Matthew's efforts on the circuit, and congratulated her appointment.
The statement read: "Catriona has always been a wonderful ambassador for the game of golf but she shot to prominence in 2009 as one of the UK's finest sporting talents with her sensational victory at the Ricoh British Open.
"In recognition of her achievements, the Ladies European Tour membership recently voted her as the Players' Player of the Year and clearly she thoroughly deserves this honour.
"Her conduct on and off the course is exemplary and in sport there can be no greater role model."

Arizona Silver Belle Championship Scoreboard

RAVEN GOLF CLUB, SOUTH MOUNTAIN, ARIZONA
LEADING FINAL TOTALS
Par 216 (3x72)
209 Janine Fellows (Texas) 75 66 68, Katerina Ruzickova (Arizona) 71 70 68 (Janine won a sudden-death play-off at the first hole).
210 Lauren Weaver (Arizona) 70 68 72, Jennifer Yang (British Columbia) 71 67 72.
211 Casey Grice (Texas) 69 73 69, Tiffany Lim (Caliifornia) 72 70 69, Mariana Sims (Texas) 73 68 70.
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Age category of competitors ranged from 13 to 23 years.

Alexis Thompson and Romain Wattel with their Junior Orange Bowl Championship trophies. Click to enlarge.

Ross Kellett's conqueror Wattel wins Junior Orange Bowl

boys' play-off, Alexis Thompson takes girls' title

British amateur champion Matteo Manassero, on the very day that he became the world's No 1 amateur in the R&A World Amateur Golf Rankings, lost the lead he had held over the first three rounds and finished a close-up third in the Junior Orange Bowl International Championships' boys' category.
Manassero, 16, from Rome had rounds of 65, 70, 68 and 71 for a six-under-par total of 274 over the par-70 Biltmore course at Coral Gables, Florida.
He finished one shot behind French men's amateur champion Romain Wattel - who recently beat Motherwell's Ross Kellett in the final of the Argentina men's amateur championship - and Argentina's Emiliano Grillo. They tied on 273 before Wattel won a sudden-death play-off at the third extra hole.
Grillo had rounds of 68, 72, 66 and 67. Wattel scored 67, 71, 68 and 67. Wattel birdied the short 14th, long 15th and 17th to come home in 32 at the last time of asking. Grillo bogeyed the 13th and 14th but birdied the 15th and 16th.
Manassero had a costly bogey at the 16th which prevented him from figuring in a three-way play-off for the prestigious title.
England's representative, Jonathan Bell from the Royal Blackheath club, had a nightmare last round of 10-over-par 80, with two double bogeys, eight bogeys and birdies at the first and eighth. His total of 294 gave him joint 30th place in the final standings.
Alexis Thompson, as expected, made up a two-shot overnight leeway to win the girls' title by two strokes with rounds of 71, 72, 66 and 71 for level par 280. Alexis, from Coral Springs, was playing in her home state of Florida.
Overnight leader Ariya Jutanugarn (Thailand) fell away under pressure to sign off with a 76 for 283. She lost second place to Cindy Feng (US) who had rounds of 71, 72, 67 and 72 for 282.

LEADING BOYS' FINAL TOTALS
Par 280 (4x70) 6,699yd.
273 Romain Wattel (France) 67 71 68 67, Emiliano Grillo (Argentina) 68 72 66 67 (Wattel won play-off at third extra hole).
274 Matteo Manassero (Italy) 65 70 68 71.
282 Andrea Bolognesi (Italy) 67 71 70 74, Tom Lovelady (US) 69 67 71 75.
283 Justin Thomas (US) 69 71 69 74, Curtis Thyompson (US) 67 73 72 71.
284 Thomas Pieters (Belgium) 69 73 75 67, Patrick Rodgers (US) 70 74 72 68.
Selected score:
294 Jonathan Bell (England) 71 72 71 80 (jt 30th).
LEADING GIRLS' FINAL TOTALS
Par 280 (4x70). 6,061 yd.
280 Alexis Thompson (US) 71 72 66 71.
282 Cindy Feng (US) 71 72 67 72.
283 Ariya Jutanugarn (Thailand) 71 659 657 76.
286 Victoria Tanco (Argentina) 73 75 70 68.
288 Daisy Nielsen (Denmark) 69 77 74 68.
290 Moriya Jutanugarn (Thailand) 69 74 73 74.
291 Jessica Korda (US) 75 72 76 68.
292 Laetitia Beck (Israel) 71 77 71 73.

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REPORT FROM THE COURSE BY DAVID MACKINTOSH:

France's Romain Wattel and USA's Alexis Thompson are the new Junior Orange Bowl golf champions.
Wattel defeated Argentina's Emiliano Grillo in a three-hole playoff, after finishing tied after 72 holes on 7-under par 273. Both scored 67s in the final round.
Third-round leader, Italy's Matteo Manassero, the British Amateur Champion, finished one stroke behind on 274 after posting 71.
The girls' final round was a nail-biting affair. After eight holes favourite Thompson had made up the two-stroke overnight deficit but was stretched all the way on the back nine and admitted she was not sure that she could win until the last putt dropped.
“I caught up, then dropped back, played very solid golf on the back nine to get ahead, then Cindy birdied 15th and 17th, so the pendulum could have swung in any direction at the final hole, where I've had problems all week.”
Thompson, Feng and Jutanugarn all missed the green at the 18th but only Thompson saved par, walking off as much relieved as elated. “It is great to win this one, I've really wanted it for a number of years. When I can relax I'm sure I'm going to enjoy it.”
“Naturally it is a little disappointing,” Manassero said later, “and I did not play badly, but these guys played really great today, particularly on the back nine. I struggled a little with my game all week but full credit has to go to Emiliano and Romain.”
Wattel and Grillo both parred the 18th hole twice before the Frenchman clinched victory with a 16ft birdie putt although for most of the closing holes it seemed Manassero would triumph. After regaining the lead through 14 holes, the Italian's 100yd approach to the par-5 15th stopped inches from the hole: but both opponents also got up-and-down from around the green to match his birdie.
Manassero made just one mistake but it was enough. From the right hand rough his approach to the 16th flew long, the outcome a bogey while Grillo birdied, a two-shot swing. When Wattel birdied the 17th, suddenly the one-time leader was a stroke adrift.

EWGA to permit use of distance-measuring devices

but only at club level from January 1

NEWS RELEASE ISSUED BY THE ENGLISH WOMEN'S GOLF ASSOCIATION

The English Women’s Golf Association (EWGA) will permit the use of distance measuring devices (DMDs) in its competitions at club level from January 1, 2010.

The change will apply to EWGA medals, the Australian Spoons and the PING Four-ball Better-ball Tournament at club level – provided there is a local rule in place allowing the use of DMDs.

Until now, EWGA has banned the use of DMDs in all its competitions, in common with the R&A and the other home unions, apart from the EGU. But, it has become clear that this has caused problems at club level.

Many clubs have adopted a local rule to allow the use of DMDs in their competitions, but their women members have not been able to use the devices when playing in EWGA events. DMDs will continue to be banned at all EWGA regional and national competitions. This includes the Medal Finals, the regional and national finals of the Australian Spoons and the PING Plate and Grand Finals.

Counties will also be strongly advised not to allow the use of the devices in their competitions.
Lyndsey Hewison

Press & PR Officer

Arizona Silver Belle Tournament Scoreboard
RAVEN GOLF CLUB, SOUTH MOUNTAIN, PHOENIX
LEADING SECOND ROUND TOTALS
Par 144 (2x72)
138 Jennifer Yang (British Columbia) 71 67, Lauren Weaver (Arizona) 70 68.
140 Beverly Vatananuqulkit (California) 72 68.
141 Alexandra Kaui (Nevada) 75 66, Mariana Sims (Texas) 73 68, Katerina Ruzickova (Arizona) 71 70.
142 Anne Cheng (California) 73 69, Deborah Martinez Villareal (Texas) 72 70, Tiffany Lim (California) 72 70, Jane Rah (California) 72 70, Doris Chen (Florida) 71 71, Brittany Mai (Poway) 70 72, Casey Grice (Texas) 69 73.
+This tournament is open to girls in the age group 13 to 23.

MATTEO MANASSERO LEADS BY THREE IN CHASE FOR JUNIOR ORANGE BOWL TITLE British amateur champion Matteo Manassero is on course to become the first Italian winner of the boys' title in the prestigious Junior Orange Bowl international junior golf championship over the Biltmore course at Coral Gables, Florida. The 16-year-old from Rome shot a third-round, two-under-par 68 today for a 54-hole total of seven-under-par 203. If he did win he would be following in the footsteps of previous winners such as Mark Calcavecchia (1977), Tiger Woods (1991) and Ben Parker (2005). With one round to go, Manassero, No 2 in the R&A world amateur golf rankings, leads by three shots from Argentina's Emiliano Grillo, whose 66 was the best third-round score by a boy, and French men's amateur champion Romain Wattel. England's Jonathan Bell from the Royal Blackheath club, Kent, has played steadily for rounds of 71, 72 and 71 and a tally of four-over-par 214. He ran up a double bogey 5 at the short eighth in his third round and shots dropped more cancelled out his birdies at the 1st, fourt and 12th. Thailand's Ariya Jutanugarn leads the girls' event after a three-under 67 for three-under 207. But second-placed title favourite Alexis Thompson from Florida will fancy her chance of making up the two-stroke leeway after a 66 for 209. LEADING SCORES (both par 70) BOYS Par 210 (3x70) 203 Matteo Manassero (Ita) 65 70 68. 206 Emiliano Grillo (Arg) 68 72 66, Romain Wattel (Fra) 67 71 68. 207 Tom Lovelady (US) 69 67 71. 208 Andrea Bolognesi (Ita) 67 71 70. 209 Justin Thomas (US) 69 71 69. Selected score: 214 Jonathan Bell (Eng) 71 72 71. GIRLS Par 210 (3x70) 207 Ariya Jutanugarn (Thai) 71 69 67. 209 Alexis Thompson (US) 71 72 66. 210 Cindy Feng (US) 71 72 67. 216 Moriya Jutanugarn (Thai) 69 74 73, Monifa Sealy (T&T) 73 72 71. 218 Victoria Tanco (Arg) 73 75 70. 219 Laetitia Beck (Isr) 71 77 71. 220 Emilie Alonso (Fra) 73 78 69, Daisy Nielsen (Den) 69 77 74, Kristine Odaiyar (US) 71 77 72. DAVID MACKINTOSH REPORTS FROM THE COURSE: Seeking wire-to-wire victory, Italy's Matteo Manassero extended his lead to three strokes with a two-under par 68 in the third round of the 46th Junior Orange Bowl International, a three-day total of seven-under par 203 over the par-70 Biltmore course at Coral Gables. The British amateur champion leads Argentina's Emilano Grillo, who joined France's Romain Wattel in second place with a sparkling 6-birdie 66. As gusting winds toughened up the tight test, only five boys carded below par and three are now top-four in the championship race In the girls' section overnight leader Ariya Jutanugarn held firm against a barrage of birdies by Alexis Thompson and goes into the final round with a two-stroke advantage after a three-under- par 67. Thompson's girls' best-of-the-day 66 gave her outright ownership of second place, a stroke ahead of Cindy Feng. Last year's winner Victoria Tanco from Argentina carded even-par 70 and is 11 shots off the pace. This battle of super-talented 14-olds produced high-quality golf by any measure. Jutanugarn stretched her lead to five strokes early but over the back-nine as the wind blew up, the tall and powerful Thompson turned the pressure on the diminutive Asian Pacific champion, garnering four birdies in a five-hole stretch. Manassaro, only 16, got off to a dynamic start, birdieing three of the four opening holes, and went without a blemish on his card until the 12th hole. “I really struck the ball well today, best striking of the week, but my putting was not as good as the first two days,” the world number-2 ranked amateur said later. “It was to be expected. I'd putted so well in the first rounds.” The long-hitting leader's first three-putt came after 51 holes, an ambitious long attempt for birdie that came unstuck, immediately rectified on the following hole with flag-sticking wedge. “Tomorrow I'll just try and stay calm,” he said. Argentina's Grillo carded five birdies before his first error, at the 13th . When he was unable to rescue par at the 17th from a greenside bunker, his chase to close in on Manassero was over for the day. USA's Tom Lovelady fought a balky putter for 71. For complete results please visit http://www.jrorangebowl.com/Events-index-id-11-g_id-11.html

Dorothy Campbell, North

Berwick's first famous

golfing daughter

By COLIN FARQUHARSON
Until Catriona (Lambert) Matthew came along in the last two decades, there was no doubt that North Berwick’s most famous golfing daughter was Dorothy Campbell (1883-1945), winner of 11 major amateur championships in her lifetime, 10 of them between 1905 and 1912 and six of them in the United States and Canada.
She was the first British-born player to win the United States women’s amateur championship and also the first to achieve the coveted double of the British and American titles in the same year, 1909, when the venues were Royal Birkdale and Merion. In all she won the American title three times, her third triumph coming in 1924, 14 years after the second, and the British women’s title twice, in a three-year span.
A short but very straight hitter with an unorthodox hooker's grip, she had a short-game that was out of this world.

Dorothy was the first truly international women’s golf star. She achieved more in her amateur career than did Catriona Matthew – which takes some doing – but, of course, Dorothy played all her golf as an amateur.
Had there been a Ladies European Tour or LPGA Tour in the States in the first half of the 20th Century, I like to think that a player of Dorothy Campbell’s golfing talent and competitive nature, would also have made a successful transfer to the professional ranks. Who knows what she would have achieved in those circumstances.
One of the minor problems researching Dorothy Campbell’s life is that she was married twice and divorced twice so from Miss Campbell she became Mrs J V Hurd, then later Mrs Edward Howe.
Dorothy Iona Campbell was born at 1 Carlton Terrace, Edinburgh on March 24, 1883. Her parents were William Campbell, a metal merchant, and Emily Mary Campbell. Dorothy had six sisters and two brothers – all of whom played golf at a time when the game was not as popular as it is now.
By all accounts, Dorothy swung her first toy club when she was just 18 months, shades of Tiger Woods.
Her father died in 1899 when she was 16 and by 1904, Dorothy was living with her mother at Inchgarry House, Links Road, North Berwick where the Campbell family had enjoyed a number of summer holidays.
In 1896, Dorothy, age 13, joined North Berwick Ladies Golf Club and soon reduced her handicap of nine. She had no problem holding her own against the adult members. She was a pupil of famed golf professional Ben Sayers and learned to play the game over the North Berwick West Links.
Miss Campbell became the outstanding woman player in Scotland, reaching five Scottish Ladies’ (Close) Championship finals in a row from 1905 to 1909 inclusive, winning three of them in 1905-06-08.
The Scottish championship had only been instituted in 1903 (Alexa Glover beat Dorothy Campbell 3 and 2 in the semi-finals over the Old Course, St Andrews on her way to becoming the first title-holder) and the Scottish Ladies Golfing Association, founded in 1904, organised the national tournament for the first time in 1905 when North Berwick was the venue.
It was too good an opportunity for Dorothy Campbell to miss and she won the title over her home links, beating Molly Graham at the 19th in the final.
Dorothy, it should be said, was no stranger to the big occasion. Two weeks before the “Scottish” at North Berwick, she had made her debut in the British women’s open amateur championship at Royal Cromer and reached the last four and at the same venue, either immediately before or after the “British,” she appeared for a winning team playing under the England banner against the United States in a forerunner of the Curtis Cup match.
In the 1906 Scottish championship at Cruden Bay, Miss Campbell defended her title successfully, avenging that 1903 semi-finals defeat by Alexa Glover whom she beat by 3 and 1 in the final.
In 1907 Dorothy was pipped in her bid to complete a hat-trick of Scottish title wins. The final at Royal Troon went to the 21st hole before Miss F C Teacher took Miss Campbell’s measure on the day.
Dorothy bounced back to win her third and last Scottish title in 1908 at Gullane, where she beat Miss M Cairns 7 and 6 and she disappeared off the championship’s roll of honour after losing by 3 and 1 to Miss E Kyle in the 1909 final at Machrihanish.
In the British championship at Birkdale in 1909, Miss Campbell forgot to report the result of her third-round match (she had won on the 11th green) to the LGU officials who met to discuss whether this rendered her subject to disqualification.
Dorothy was allowed to continue in the championship which she won, beating Ireland’s Miss Florence Hezlet 4 and 3. That victory earned her an invitation to play in America and changed the course of her life. Subsequently, she returned to Britain only as a visitor.
By 1910 Dorothy Campbell was living in Canada and that year she pulled off a remarkable North American double, winning both the United States and Canadian women’s open championships.
She moved to the United States in 1913 when she married Jack V Hurd, a steel magnate, living in Pittsburg and a member of Oakmont Country Club.
The following year she re-crossed the Atlantic to win the British title for a second time, beating in the final at Royal Portrush Violet Hezlet whose sister Florence, Dorothy had beaten in the 1909 final of the tournament.
After giving birth to a son, Sigourney, Dorothy, by now an American citizen, went into semi-retirement from golf. But she made a comeback in a major championship, the 1920 United States women’s championship – and did astonishingly well. She reached the final before going down to Alexa Stirling.
Dorothy had won all her previous titles with a sweeping swing ..“square to square with a shut clubface” … in which she held the club two-handed in the palms of her hands, the wrists stiff and a hooker’s right thumb which was almost under the club. A classic example of “It’s not how, it’s how many!”
Mabel Stringer wrote of her short-game prowess: “Dorothy’s best stroke was a run-up shot that she used from distances of up to 50 feet. She used her goose-neck mashie, closing the small clubface and hitting the ball on the downswing. At Augusta Country Club in 1926, she holed two chip shots and ended up having a record low of 19 putts for 18 holes, lowering Walter Travis’s record by two strokes for putts in one round. In the final of the (US) North and South championship, she beat her opponent by twice holing out from 40 yards.”
At the height of her fame, one Mabel S Hoskins, writing in “Golf for Women,” said:
“Had Mrs Hurd (Dorothy Campbell) lengthened her swing, there is the bare possibility that she could have added distance but, with that short backwing and not exaggerated follow through, she kept the ball near to the middle of the course, far from trouble.”
But Dorothy realised in her 30s, that as she and her muscles aged, she had to adopt a more orthodox technique. George Sayers, son of her original swing coach, Ben, was by now professional at Merion Golf Club, Philadelphia and it was he who gave Dorothy the conventional Harry Vardon overlapping grip and changed her swing.

She sacrificed one whole golf season to work on her new grip and swing until it became second nature to her. It was to pay a last major dividend.
As her marriage to Jack Hurd came to an end – they were divorced in 1921, Dorothy began to compete once more and with considerable success.
Dorothy once calculated that she had won between 700 and 800 prizes in her golfing career, and we are not talking about monthly medals.
By now 41, Dorothy made her last championship appearance anywhere in 1924. It was in the US women’s amateur championship and she entered from Merion Cricket Club. Dorothy beat Mary K Browne, a former American singles tennis champion, in the final. Browne, in the semi-finals, had upset the hot title favourite, Glenna Collett, the 1922 champion and now playing over her home course, at Rhode Island Country Club.
As Rhonda Glenn summed up the final … “while Browne was a long hitter, she couldn’t upset the veteran with the hot putter.”
Dorothy virtually retired from competitive golf after that but she had such a good eye for the game and she never seemed to lose her rhythm and timing. She was persuaded to “come home” and play for Scotland in the women’s home internationals of 1928 – 17 years after her last appearance.
In story-book style, Dorothy won all three of her singles ties, including a memorable win over England’s Cecil Leitch at the 20th (it would have been a halved match nowadays). Cecil, in her vintage years, won the British title four times and lost twice in the final. Cecil also won the English closed title twice and lost in the final once.
By then aged 47, Dorothy came back again to play for Scotland in the 1930 home internationals. Dorothy’s new swing enabled her to continue playing competitively through the 1930s – and she won the United States seniors women’s title at the age of 54-55 in 1938
In 1936, Dorothy married Edward L Howes, chairman of the Princeton, New Jersey Bank and Trust Company. She was to divorce her second husband in 1943.
Apart from being a very accomplished golfer, Dorothy Campbell could have made a living as a professional writer. Ghost writing was not for her. She penned highly readable golf columns for such publications as The Golfer, and others for national circulation. She was one talented lady.
As Liz Pook writes: "In her twilight golfing years, she was a frequent visitor to many a tournament and a guest of the famous. Indeed she is mentioned with the greatest respect and admiration no fewer than 15 times within Glenna Collett’s “Ladies in the Rough.”
All good things come to an end and for Dorothy Campbell the end came in tragic circumstances when she was only 61.
On March 20, 1945 – four days before her 62nd birthday - she was visiting friends at Beaufort, South Carolina when she fell from the railway station platform in front of a train at the very small town of Yemassee (population in 2000 was only 807).

The mystery is why Dorothy fell from the platform. It is hardly likely it was as busy as a London Tube station and she had got too close to the front of the throng. There was no indication in the newspapers of the day that Dorothy had been taken ill and fainted on to the track. We shall never know now.

She had just bought a ticket for the New York-bound train that would take her to the home of her daughter-in-law, Mrs Sigourney V Hurd of Plainsville, New York. Sigourney, her only child, was away serving his country in the Philippines in World War II.
Dorothy’s name was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 1978.
Liz Pook sums up Dorothy’s career thus:
“There is no disputing the fact that Dorothy Campbell remains one of the finest lady golf champions of all time and certainly in contention as the best chip-and-run player that the British Isles has ever produced. And to think that her long and fascinating journey began with a little sixpenny club purchased in a toy shop in the High Street in North Berwick.”

Acknowledgements: Douglas Seaton (North Berwick Hall of Fame researcher & author), Liz Pook, Women Golfers’ Museum.

DOROTHY CAMPBELL ROLL OF HONOUR
British ladies amateur champion: 1909 & 1911. Beaten finalist: 1908. Semi-finalist: 1904, 1905, 1906
United States ladies amateur champion: 1909, 1910, 1924. Beaten finalist: 1920. Semi-finalist: 1911.

United States senior ladies amateur champion: 1938.
Scottish ladies amateur champion: 1905, 1906, 1908. Beaten finalist: 1907, 1909.
Canadian ladies amateur champion: 1910, 1911, 1912.
Western Pennsylvania ladies amateur champion: 1914, 1915, 1916.
US North & South ladies amateur champion: 1918, 1920, 1921.
Boston District ladies champion: 1922.
Florida West Coast champion: 1923 & 1925.
Philadelphia ladies amateur champion: 1925, 1926, 1927, 1929 1931, 1934.
Bermuda ladies amateur champion: 1931 & 19034.
Pennsylvania State ladies champion: 1934.
Women’s Home Internationals: Scotland – up to 1909, and again in 1911, 1928 & 1930.
Representative matches: England/Great Britain v United States: 1905 & 1909.

Any comments? E-mail them to Colin@scottishgolfview.com

First 'locals' enter Hacienda del
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Alamo February Festival

The first "local" entries for the 2010 Hacienda del Alamo February Festival, sponsored by Glenmuir, have been received as the countdown begins to the closing date of mid-January for entries to the February 13 to 20 bonanza of golf for ladies and girls - and males too if they want to partner them in the opening pairs event on the Saturday.
Marilynn Pearce and her husband Geoff will partner each other in the pairs. Marilynn has enter both the 36-hole (Monday-Tuesday) and three-round (Thursday-Friday-Saturday) senior sections of the Murcia Ladies Open and the Hacienda del Alamo Ladies Open.
Marilyn and Geoff are Hacienda del Alamo Golf Club members but do not live on the five-star resort near the small town of Fuente Alamo in the Murcia region of south-east Spain.
Ana and Derek are also partnering each other in the pairs before Ana tackles the Murcia Ladies Open followed by the Hacienda del Alamo Ladies Open.
They are property owners at the resort and also golf club shareholders
Just a reminder that there are Under-16 and Under-18 girls, Ladies and Senior Ladies prize categories within the two stroke-play events.
If we were to get at least 12 lady professionals to enter, then we would add categories for them. The prize fund for each would be at least 1,000 Euros.
You can download an entry form by clicking on the relevant words at the top of the left hand column on the Home Page of this website.
Hacienda del Alamo Golf Resort has extensive practice facilities which are as good if not better than anything you will find elsewhere in Spain. The Festival is mainly a fun event but for players of the class of English women's champion Charlie Douglass, English girls' champion Holly Clyburn and Scottish Under-21 champion in 2008 and 2009, Kelsey MacDonald, it is a unique opportunity early in the year to combine competitive play with quality practice.


ENTRIES SO FAR
Mary MacLaren: Murcia Ladies Open & Hacienda del Alamo Ladies Open.
Meghan MacLaren: Murcia U-16 Girls Open & HDA U-16 Girls Open.
Hannah Turland: Pairs with Hayley Davis, Murcia Ladies Open & HDA Ladies Open.
Alice Hewson: Pairs with Dominic Hewson, Murcia U-16 Girls Open & HDA U-16 Girls Open.
Charlie Douglass: Pairs with Holly Clyburn, Murcia Ladies Open & HDA Ladies Open.
Hayley Davis: Pairs with Hannah Turland, Murcia Ladies Open & HDA Ladies Open.
Georgia Gilling: HDA U-18 Girls Open.
Daisy Dyer: Pairs with Simon Brierley, Murcia Ladies Open & HDA Ladies Open.
Nicola Callander: Pairs with Ella Ofstedahl & Murcia U-16 Girls Open.
Ella Ofstedahl: Pairs with Nicola Callander.
Holly Clyburn: Pairs with Charlie Douglass & Murcia Ladies Open.
Lucie Walker: Murcia U-18 Girls Open & HDA U-18 Girls Open.
Hannah Barwood: Pairs with Amy Boulden, Murcia Ladies Open & HDA Ladies Open.
Jessica Bradley: Murcia U-18 Girls Open & HDA U-18 Girls Open,
Emma Harris: Murcia U-16 Girls Open & HDA U-16 Girls Open.
Emily Taylor: Murcia U-16 Girls Open & HDA U-18 Girls Open.
Amy Boulden: Pairs with Hannah Barwood, Murcia Ladies Open & HDA U-18 Girls Open.
Dulcie Sverdloff: Pairs with Aaron Sverdloff, Murcia U-16 Girls Open & HDA U-16 Girls Open.
Aaron Sverdloff: Pairs with Dulcie Sverdloff.
Kelsey MacDonald: Murcia Ladies Open & HDA Ladies Open.
Linda Marr: Murcia Ladies Open (Seniors) & HDA Ladies Open (Seniors).
Linda Wilson: Murcia Ladies Open (Seniors) & HDA Ladies Open (Seniors).
Gillian Gardiner: Murcia Ladies Open (Seniors) & HDA Ladies Open (Seniors).
Audrey Lee: Murcia Ladies Open (Seniors) & HDA Ladies Open (Seniors).
Becky Gee: Murcia Ladies Open & HDA Ladies Open.
Hollie Vizard: HDA U-16 Girls Open.
Charlotte Humphries: HDA U-16 Girls Open.
Katherine Carragher: Murcia U-16 Girls Open & HDA U-16 Girls Open.
Danielle Anderson: HDA Ladies Open.
Amelia Taylor: Pairs with Jenna Birch, Murcia U-16 Girls Open & HDA U-16 Girls Open.
Jenna Birch: Pairs with Amelia Taylor, Murcia Ladies Open & HDA Ladies Open.
Gabriella Cowley: HDA U-16 Girls Open
Amber Ratcliffe: Murcia U-16 Girls Open & HDA Ladies Open.
Kam Cheema: Pairs with Paul Coopey & HDA Ladies Open (Seniors).
Dana Greenslade: Murcia Ladies Open & HDA Ladies Open.
Marilynn Pearce: Pairs with Geoff Pearce & Murcia Ladies Open (Seniors), HDA Ladies Open (Seniors).
Geoff Pearce: Pairs with Marilynn Pearce.
Ana Wright: Pairs with Derek Wright & Murcia Ladies Open, HDA Ladies Open.
Derek Wright: Pairs with Ana Wright.
Lydia Johnston: Murcia U-18 Girls' Open & HDA U-18 Girls' Open.

Arizona Silver Belle Ladies' Championship Scoreboard
RAVEN GOLF CLUB, SOUTH MOUNTAIN
Leading first-round scores
Par 72
69 Mikayla Harmon (Arizona), Casey Grice (Texas).
70 Lauren Weaver (Arizona), Alexandra Kaui (Nevada), Brittany Mai (Poway), Samantha Postillon (Arizona).
71 Katerina Ruzickova (Arizona), Jessica Vasilic (California), Monica Petchakan (California), Caitlin Pisciotta (Georgia), Kaira Martin (Arizona), Jennifer Yang (British Columbia), Doris Chen (Florida).

Manassero still leads Junior Orange

Bowl despite short hole double bogey

British amateur champion Matteo Manassero from Rome had to settle for a one-shot halfway lead after running up a double-bogey 5 at the short 14th in the second round of the Junior Orange Bowl international championships' boys' section over the Biltmore course, Coral Gables in Florida today.
Manassero, pictured by courtesy of Tom Ward Photography, leader by two after an opening five-under-par 65, returned a level par 70 (33-37) for a 36-hole tally of five-under-par 135. His only other deviations from par were birdies at the short first and long eighth.
The Italian's closer challenger is Tom Lovelady from Birmingham, Alabama with rounds of 69 and 67 for 136. Lovelady had halves of 34 and 33 in his flawless second round in which he birdied the fifth, 10th and 16th.
Europe provides three of the leading four players with a second Italian, Andrea Bolognesi, and French men's champion Romain Wattel sharing third place on 138. Both youngsters have shot 67 and 71.
England's Jonathan Bell is lying in joint 14th position in a field of 58 after rounds of 71 and 72 for 143.
There is a new leader in the girls' championship with Ariya Jutanugarn from Thailand surging three shots clear on level par 140 after rounds of 71 and 69. She had five birdies in her second round, including the 16th and 18th in halves of 35 and 34.
Denmark's Daisy Nielsen who had shared the first-round lead on 69 with Ariya's sister, Moriya Jutanugarn (Thailand), had a nightmare 77, including two double bogey 6s in an outward half of 40. She has slumped to sixth place on 146.

Leading second-round scores
BOYS
Par 140 (2x70)
135 Matteo Manassero (Ita) 65 70.
136 Tom Lovelady (US) 69 67.
138 Andrea Bolognesi (Ita) 67 71, Romain Wattel (Fra) 67 71.
140 Oskar Arvidsson (Swe) 70 70, Emiliano Grillo (Arg) 68 72, Jim Liu (US) 72 68, Brandon Ng (Can) 70 70, Justin Thomas (US) 69 71, Curtis Thompson (US) 67 73.
Selected score:
143 Jonathan Bell (Eng) 71 72 (jt 14th).

LEADING GIRLS
Par 140 (2x70)
140 Ariya Jutanugarn (Thai) 71 69.
143 Cindy Feng (US) 71 72, Moriya Jutanugarn (Thai) 69 74, Alexis Thompson (US) 71 72.
145 Monifa Sealy (T&T) 73 72.
146 Daisy Nielsen (Den) 69 77.
147 Jessica Korda (US) 75 72, Kyle Roig (Puerto Rico) 72 75.
148 Ana Arrese (Spain) 71 77, Laetitia Beck (Israel) 71 77, Kristina Odalyar (US) 71 77, Victoria Tanco (Argentina) 73 75.
149 Min-Young Lee (South Korea) 77 72.

DAVID MACKINTOSH'S REPORT FROM THE COURSE
Italy's Matteo Manassero, the British amateur champion and overnight leader, posted an even-par 70 second round for a single stroke lead at the halfway stage of the 46th edition of the Junior Orange Bowl International.
The 16-year old stand-out from Rome leads Alabama's Tom Lovelady, who carded a best-of-the-day 67, a round equalled only by Peru's Joaquin Lolas. In blustery conditions French Junior Champion Romain Wattel and Italy's Andrea Bolognesi remained tied in third place after posting 71s. Six are tied on even-par 140.
Manassero admitted he was probably fortunate to have held onto the top spot. “I played rather poorly but I saved my score by very good chipping and putting,” he said. “I'd like to hope I can play better than that in the coming rounds.”
His sharp short game was highlighted by a holing a bunker shot for a birdie 2 at the 223yd par-3 eighth hole.
On the other hand, Lovelady, who missed last year's championship due to injury, and currently plays with a +4.6 USGA handicap, made his move into contention with precision golf, a bogey-free 67 where his three birdies all came at par-4s.
“I drove well and set up a lot of straightforward wedge approach shots on good angles,” the 16-year old from Birmingham, Alabama explained. “My putter was working well so in all it was a round without too much stress.”
In the girls' section favourites Alexis Thompson and defending champion Victoria Tanco had unexpected setbacks, permitting 14-year old Ariya Jutanugarn to vault into the lead at ever par 140 (71-69), three shots ahead of USA's Cindy Fong, Ariya's older sister Moriya and Thompson, all now tied for second place at 143.
Three-under par for 17 holes, Thompson held the on-course lead with just the long uphill closing par-4 to complete. She reached the green in four after visiting two bunkers and then, perhaps failing to realize the severity of the green, took FIVE putts, finishing with a 9 for 72.
Last year's girls' champion Tanco also failed to gain traction, sliding to eight shots off the pace with second-round 75.
Played over 72 holes stroke-play on the famed Donald Ross course at Biltmore Golf Club, the Junior Orange Bowl International Golf Championship is for boys and girls age 18 and under and features top young amateur golfers from around the world.
For complete results please visit
http://www.jrorangebowl.com

Denmark's Daisy Nielsen shares girls' lead in Florida

Manassero's putting 'great' - he leads Junior

Orange Bowl boys with a five-under-par 65

FROM DAVID MACKINTOSH, Coral Gables, Florida
British Amateur champion, 16-year old Matteo Manassero from Rome, took charge of the boys' opening round of the Junior Orange Bowl international junior championships with a blistering six-birdie, five-under-par 65 for a two-stroke lead.
"I can't say I that played perfectly," he said. "I missed several shots, but fortunately the misses were on the good side, which meant I was able to get chips close to save pars. What was great was my putting, and that is really why I was able to score low today."
Three were tied on 67: Manassero's compatriot Andrea Bolognesi, French men's champion Romain Wattel and United States' Curtis Thompson, who between them carded 16 birdies. In benign conditions under sunny skies and temperatures in the high 70s, 16 boys finished on level par or better.
Played over 72 holes stroke-play on the famed Donald Ross-designed Biltmore course, the Junior Orange Bowl International championships are for boys and girls age 18 and under and features top young amateur golfers from around the world.
Thailand's Moriya Jutanugarn and Denmark's Daisy Nielson, pictured above by Cal Carson Golf Agency, set the first round pace in the girls' division, tied on one-under par 69, two strokes ahead of a group of six players carding 71 that includes favourite Alexis Thompson.
Bangkok's Jutanugarn, 15, the Asia Pacific junior champion, produced three back-nine birdies to tie Nielson, 15, the Danish ladies match-play champion, who recovered strongly after a double-bogey at her third hole.
Florida's Thompson, is just 14 but already a major force in women's golf in America. This year she reached the final round of the US Women's Open. Last year she lost the JOB girls' championship to Argentina's Victoria Tanco in an enthralling six-hole play-off.
Thompson's one-over par round was marred by a double-bogey at the par-3 eighth while defending champion Tanco, after a delayed flight from South America, reached the Biltmore course with barely time to step into her golf shoes, yet produced a meritorious 73 after opening her day with a 7.
For complete results please visit
http://www.jrorangebowl.com/Events-index-id-11-g_id-11.html

Manassero matches Florida heat with a

five-under-par 65 in Junior Orange Bowl

British amateur champion Matteo Manassero set a blistering pace of five-under-par 65 in the first round of the Junior Orange Bowl international boys' championship in temperatures in the high 70s at the Biltmore course, Coral Gables, Florida today.
Teenager Manassero, No 2 in the R&A World Amateur Golf Rankings, birdied the last two holes - he had six birdies on the day - to finish the first round two shots clear of Italian compatriot Andrea Bolognesi (31-36), Curtis Thompson (Coral Springs, Florida) (32-35) and French amateur champion Romain Wattel (33-34) who recently beat Ross Kellett (Colville Park) in the final of the Argentina men's amateur international championship.
Manassero had halves of 33-32 against the par of 35-35 for the 6,699yd boys' course.
England's Jonathan Bell finished the first day in joint 18th place on one-over-par 71 with halves of 34-37.
In the girls' championship over a 6,061yd course, also par 70 (35-35), Denmark's Daisy Nielsen shared the first-round lead with Thailand's Moriya Jutanugarn. Both players had halves of 36-33 to finish the day two shots clear of a group of players, including one of the favourites, Alexis Thompson.
Defending champion Victoria Tanco (Argentina) is joint 11th on the 73 mark.
BOYS' LEADERS
Par 70 (35-35). 6,699yd.
65 Matteo Manassero (Italy) 33-32.
67 Andrea Bolognesi (Italy) 31-36, Curtis Thompson (Florida) 32-35, Romain Wattel (France) 33-34.
68 Emiliano Grillo (Argentina), Daniel Zuluaga (Colombia).
69 Tom Lovelady (Alabama), Thomas Pieters (Belgium), Justin Thomas (Kent).
70 Victor Alarcon (Venezuela), Oskar Arvidsson (Sweden), Assaf Cohen (Israel), Martin Keskari (Germany), Brandon Ng (Canada, Patrick Rodgers (Indiana), Jose Pablo Rolz (Guatemala).
Selected score:
71 Jonathan Bell (England) 34-37.
GIRLS' LEADERS
Par 70 (35-35). 6,061yd.
69 Moriya Jutanugarn (Thailand) 36-33, Daisy Nielsen (Denmark) 36-33.
71 Anna Arese (Spain), Alexis Thompson (Florida), Laetitia Beck (Israel), Cindy Feng (Florida), Ariya Jutanugarn (Thailand), Kristine Odalyar (Florida), Alexis Thompson (Florida).
72 Kyle Roig (Puerto Rico).
73 Emilie Alonso (France), Laura Blanco (Colombia), Diana Fernandez (Paraguay) Monifa Sealy (Trinidad & Tobago), Victoria Tanco (Argentina).

Dorothy Campbell, North Berwick's

first lady superstar

Until Catriona (Lambert) Matthew came along, North Berwick's most famous golfing daughter was Dorothy Campbell, writes Colin Farquharson.
Scottish titles, British titles, American titles, Canadian titles: 14 of them in all ... Dorothy was the first truly international lady amateur golf star.
Her long and so successful golfing career was over by then but she still died tragically in an unexplained railway accident in the Unites States in March 1945 when she was in her 60s.
Kirkwoodgolf will be recalling the life and times of Dorothy Campbell in the coming week.

Matteo Manassero hot in Junior Orange Bowl first round

Florida is the place to be over the Festive period. It's 78 degrees there, reports Scot David Mackintosh from the Biltmore course, Coral Gables where the Junior Orange Bowl international championships (boys and girls) teed off today.
David will be letting us have a summary of the first day's play a little later this evening (UK time) but he says you can tune in to the live scoring service on www.golfstat.com
We can tell you that British amateur champion Matteo Manassero from Italy is the leader of the boys' section out on the course at four under par at the time of writing.