KirkwoodGolf: BRIDGET JACKSON BOWL

Wednesday, June 28, 2006

BRIDGET JACKSON BOWL

SOPHIE STUBBS WINS AT HANDSWORTH

Shropshire county player Sophie Stubbs, a 22-year-old Shifnal Golf Club member, won the Bridget Jackson Bowl 36-hole women’s open golf tournament at Handsworth Golf Club, near Birmingham yesterday (TUES).

Sophie, who has just completed her golf scholarship four-year term at the University of Minnesota, had rounds of 70 and 72 for a total of 142, which which was two under par and two under the combined CSS.

Sophie, who has four of a handicap, won by one shot from Joanne Hodge (Knowle) and Emma Lyons (West Surrey).

Curtis Cup team selections Naomi Edwards and Melissa Reid, who had entered, did not in fact play but it as still a good-class field that Miss Stubbs beat.

Anna Stubbs (Consett), the holder of the title, retired after a first-round 80.

 

FINAL TOTALS

Par and SSS 72. CSS 72 both rounds.

142 Sophie Stubbs (Shifnal) 70 72.

143 Joanne Hodge (Knowle) 75 68, Emma Lyons (West Surrey) 72 71.

144 Elizabeth Bennett (Brokenhurst Manor) 72 72, Laura Eastwood (Yelverton) 70 74.

145 Ellie Givens (Blackwell Grange) 72 72, Rachel Jennings (Izaak Walton) 71 74.

146 Stephanie Evans (Vale of Llangollen) 72 74.

147 Kate Combes (Australia) 76 71, Sian James (Bristol & Clifton) 71 76.

148 Fiona Smith (Chelmsford) 74 74, Sally Hinton (Bridgnorth) 73 75.

149 Jody Fleming (Australia) 74 75, Laura Jones (Royal Liverpool) 74 75.

150 Lisa Ball (Matfen Hall) 78 72, Felicity Johnson (Harvborne) 77 73, Fiona thompson (Ellesborough) 75 75, Emma Sheffield (Newark) 76 76, Sarah-Jane Eaves (Cosby) 73 77.

151 Laura Collin (John O’Gaunt) 77 74, Sarah Attwood (Gog Magog _) 76 75, Claire Aitken (The London) 76 75.

153 Tracey Boyes (Meon Valley) 79 74, Harriet Owers-Bradley (Wollaton Park) 78 75, Samantha Birke (Wolstanton) 77 76, Janet Phipps (Exeter) 77 76.

154 Jenny Rhodes (South Staffs) 74 80, Glenna Beasley (Woburn) 71 83.

156 Kaye Orme (Saddleworth) 78 768, Becky Dowell (Enmore Park) 77 79.

157 Clare Howells (Moor Hall) 80 77, Holly Aitchison (Bedfordshire) 75 82.

158 Claire Starkie (Silsden) 768 80.

159 Lucy Gould (Bargoed) 81 78, Sahra Hassan (Vale of Glamorgan) 80 79, Julie Brown (Brocton Hall) 79 80, Gemma Hardie (Forest Pines) 76 83.

160 Elizabeth Over (Forest Pines) 83 77, Lisa Barton (Coventry) 77 83.

162 Gemma Easton (Bargoed) 78 84.

163 Annette Deeley (Handsworth) 85 78, Hanah Coles (Maxstoke Park) 82 81.

164 Emma Stodart (Rugby) 83 81, Emily Priest (Stourbridge) 81 83, Victoria Jones (Sandwell Park) 80 84.

166 Gemma Parkes (Cosby) 80 86.

167 Hayley Selman (Wolstanton) 82 85.

170 Debbie Loach (Enville) 81 89.

170 Natalie Harrison (Rhuddlan) 87 95.

Retired – Anna Scott (Consett) 80 retired.