NICK FALDO JUNIOR SERIES GRAND FINAL SCORES

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JACQUELINE MAKES TOP 20 IN WASHINGTON STATE

Perthshire student Jacqueline Sneddon from Meigle finished 17th in a field of 38 at the Western Washington Invite women's college golf tournament, hosted by Bellingham Golf & Country Club in Washington State.
Jacqueline, a first-year student at Grand Canyon University, Arizona, had rounds of 81 and 82 for a total of 163 over a testing, 6,154yd course with a par of 73.
Team-mate Jessica McKay won by four strokes with scores of 73 and 74 for 147.
Grand Canyon University (650) finished fifth in the team event behind winners Western Washington.

ST RULE LADIES WIN FIFE SCRATCH 5 LEAGUE

St Rule Ladies have won this year's Fife Scratch 5 League.
Two divisions participated for the “Dunlop Quaich”. The first division included Dunfermline, Elie & Earlsferry, Ladybank, St Regulus and St Rule.
The second division included Balbirnie Park, Burntisland, Kirkcaldy, Scotscraig and Thornton GC.
The “Dunlop Quaich” had previously been won for four out of the last five years by St Regulus Golf Club.
The St Rule team this year included a wide age range from Junior to Senior Internationalist.

Picture shows team members (left to right):
Lady Angela Bonallack, Isobel Harvey, Fiona de Vries and Karen Marshall. (Hannah Harvey missing from photograph).

TWO BRITS IN TOP TEN WITH ONE ROUND TO
GO IN WASHINGTON STATE TOURNAMENT

Yorkshire's Jodi Ewart was in joint sixth place while Roseanne Niven from Crieff shared 10th place in a field of 82 as this week's major women's tournament on the American college golf circuit - the Edean Ihlanfedlt Invitational - went into its third and final round at Sahalee Golf & Country Club in Washington State.
New Mexico University second-year student Ewart, from Catterick, has scored 75 and 71 for a 36-hole tally of two-over-par 146 over the 6,127yd par-72 course.
Jodi, the English women's stroke-play champion and on the GB&I short leet for next year's Curtis Cup match over the Old Course, St Andrews, had birdies a at the fourth, sixth and 14th with bogeys at the 10th and 15th.
Niven, in her second year at the University of California Berkley has had rounds of 73 and 76 for 149. She birdied the eighth and ninth but bogeyed fourth of the last eight holes.
Leading the field is Alison Walshe (Arizona) with 72 and 69 for 141.

LEADING INDIVIDUAL SCORES
SECOND ROUND
Par 144 (2 x 72). 6,127yd
141 Alison Walshe (Arizona) 72 69.
142 Anna Nordqvist (Arizona State) 70 72.
145 Kendea Little (Oregon) 76 69, Paolo Moreno (Southern California) 73 72, Belen Mozo (Southern California) 70 75.
146 Jodi Ewart (New Mexico) 75 71, Danielle Cvitanov (San Francisco) 77 69.
Other scores:
148 Azahara Munoz (Arizona State) 76 72 (9th).
149 Roseanne Niven (California) 73 76, Dewi-Claire Schreefel (Southern California) 78 71 (jt 10th).
LEADING TEAMS
587 Southern California.
596 Arizona State.
597 Oregon.
601 Arizona.
602 California.
Other total:
620 New Mexico (12th of 16 teams)

Trophy winners after the Greenlees Lunch at Prestwick St Nicholas Golf Club this week. Left to right: Rosemary Donaldson (Troon Ladies), Pearl Orr (Cochrane Castle), Rosa Maxwell (Prestwick St Nicholas), Frances Livingston (Milngavie). Picture courtesy of Carol Fell. Double click on the image to increase its size.

COCHRANE CASTLE WIN GREENLEES TROPHY

Cochrane Castle Golf Club were the winners of this year’s Greenlees Trophy as champions of Division 1 in the West of Scotland women’s club golf leagues. They finished with 48pt, well ahead of runners-up Prestwick Nicholas who had 43.5pt.
Cardross and Lanark are relegated to Division 2 next season.
Troon Ladies had an even bigger margin in hand of their rivals at the top of the final Division 2 table. They amassed 52pt with runners-up Douglas Park on the 45.5pt. Haggs Castle and East Renfrewshire were relegated to Division 3.
The team that scored the most points over the season were Division 3 champions Milngavie with 57pt to their credit. Cowglen were second with 49pt.
Willeen McCallum is hoping to retire after 18 years as West of Scotland Greenlees Secretary – if a successor can be found.

+To read the full report and see photographs and even a short video of Pearl Orr's acceptance speech, go to the West of Scotland Ladies Golf Website.

GB&I CAP FOR LAURA MURRAY

AT NORTH BERWICK THIS

WEEKEND

Robert Gordon's University student Laura Murray (pictured right) has been called into the Great Britain & Ireland Select for this weekend's training match against the Junior GB&I team at North Berwick Golf Club.
Laura, a 19-year-old Alford GC member, made her debut for Scotland in last month's women's home internationals.
She steps up into the GB&I team alongwith Rachel Jennings (Izaak Walton) to replace Curtis Cup players Breanne Loucks and Melissa Reid who are unavailable for the match which will tee off on Friday and end on Sunday.
The only other Scot in the GB&I team is Michelle Thomson (McDonald Ellon), the 19-year-old Aberdeenshire champion and quarter-finalist in this year's British women's open amateur championship.
Scots in the Junior GB&I Team are Carly Booth (Comrie), Megan Briggs (Kilmacolm) and Pamela Pretswell (Bothwell Castle).
Sally Watson (Elie & Earlsferry) and Ellie Givens from Darlington had to drop out from the original selection because they are students at colleges in America. Sally has returned to the David Leadbetter Academy in Florida while Ellie is a freshman student at Denver University.

The revised teams are:

GB&I SELECT - L Bennett (Brokenhurst Manor), N Edwards (Ganton), S Hassan (Vale of Glamorgan), R Jennings (Izaak Walton), L Murray (Alford), F Parker (Royal Birkdale), K Smith (Waterlooville), M Thomson (McDonald Ellon). Captain - M McKenna.

JUNIOR GB&I TEAM - C Booth (Comrie), V Bradshaw (Bangor), M Briggs (Kilmacolm), H Brockway (Yeovil), R Connor (Manchester), Lisa Maguire (Slieve Russell), P Pretswell (Bothwell Castle), K Tidy (Manchester). Captain - T Matthews.

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Carly Booth and Stiggy Hodgson with their championship trophies at Dubai Creek. Image by courtesy of the Daily Telegraph. Double click on it to enlarge the size.

CARLY BOOTH WINS DAILY TELEGRAPH GIRLS' TITLE BY NINE

FROM THE DAILY TELEGRAPH WEBSITE

By WILLIAM JOHNSON in Dubai

Stiggy Hodgson equalled the amateur course record of 67 at Dubai Creek yesterday to storm to victory in the boys' section Daily Telegraph's Junior Golf Championship.

Carly Booth from Comrie, the Scottish Under-18 and Under-21 champion and the European Young Masters' girls' title-holder, added the Daily Telegraph girls' title to her list of achievements in 2007. She won in Dubai by the runaway margin of nine strokes, following in the footsteps of fellow Scott Sally Watson, the Daily Telegraph girls' champion of 12 months ago.

Hodgson, 17, gradually gained the upper hand over his close friend, Andrew Cooley, coming home in a superb five under par. That overturned a narrow overnight deficit on Cooley and Oscar Sharpe, 15, to win the prestigious trophy by a margin of three strokes.
At the turn, Surrey teenager Cooley was still in front but a double bogey on the 12th, at which he had only a wedge to reach the green in two, brought about an ultimately decisive three-stroke swing.
A jubilant Hodgson said: "I felt really sorry for Andrew on that hole because he is a good mate but you can't afford to have friends on the golf course – you have to make them your enemies.
"I had a birdie putt at the same hole and I knew if I made it the consequences would be crucial and so it proved."
Hodgson went on to lip out of the hole with his six-iron to the 169-yard 14th. It was a fraction away from being the 20th hole-in-one of the Sunningdale player's short career and he still does not know how it failed to go in.
The new champion, who joins an illustrious list of former winners of a popular junior event which this year attracted more than 40,000 entries, felt under enormous pressure justifying his reputation of being the best player among the 12 qualifiers in view of his +3 handicap.
After holing a massive putt at the last to ensure a comfortable victory with a three-under-par score of 210, he said: "This is my biggest achievement of a great year and I'm so pleased because I have beaten some outstanding players to do this."
The girls' final was effectively settled on the second of the three stamina-sapping days at the Creek when Carly Booth, the remarkable 15-year-old from Comrie, Perthshire opened up a nine-shot lead over her eight rivals.
Booth, who also plays off +3, was content to preserve her enormous advantage and came home safely with it intact on 219, six over for the tournament.
Alexandra Peters, the only girl younger than Booth in the talented field, chased her home with a total of 228, which was emphatically better than Mikki Foster's third-place score of 235.
The long-hitting Booth said: "I am really happy. It is a great tournament. I made a few mistakes today but I knew I had plenty in hand."
FINAL TOTALS

BOYS

Par 213 (3 x 71)

210 S Hodgson (Sunningdale) 74 69 67.

213 A Cooley (Chabham) 70 72 71.

217 J Carney (Solihull) 73 75 69.

222 A Wills (Sandiway) 70 77 75.

224 O Sharpe (Minchinhampton) 73 69 82.

228 T Robson (Portsmouth) 77 78 73.

229 A Hedges (Sundridge Pk) 76 79 74.

231 N Mannion (Teeside) 77 75 79, L Benford (Barton-on-Sea) 74 78 79.

237 M Pitcher (Thursley) 81 78 78.

243 R Tredgett (Chelmgard) 79 81 83.

246 R Burden (W Essex) 80 88 78.
GIRLS

Par 213 (3 x 71)

219 C Booth (Comrie) 74 72 73.

228 A Peters (Notts Ladies) 78 77 73.

235 N Foster (Accrington) 79 77 79.

236 C Douglass (Brocket Hall) 78 82 76, N Dunn (Harrogate) 77 80 79.

237 E Taylor (Gainsborough) 76 83 79.

243 M Carroll (Launceston) 79 76 88.

254 R McQueen (Troon Bentinck) 88 86 80.

265 L Blease (Coombe Hill) 88 85 92.