THAT'S THE SPIRIT! SCOTS GIRLS GET
THEIR ACT TOGETHER IN TEXAS

Scotland's Michele Thomson from Ellon and Emily Ogilvy from Auchterarder finally found their form on the third day of The Spirit mixed amateur international golf tournament at Whispering Pines Golf Club, Trinity in Texas today.
After disappointing better-ball scores of 78 and 81 over the 6,300yd, par-72 course, the Scots girls matched the par of 72 and each got a birdie, Emily at the long fifth and Michele at the par-4 seventh.
The lasses outscored the lads over the third round - Scott Mann (Carnoustie) and Scott Borrowman (Dollar) could manage only a better-ball 75, three over par.
The Scots' combined team total of 448 puts them well down the leaderboard - 21st of the 23 countries competing (Ireland did not enter).
England's Gary Boyd, Daniel Willett, Naomi Edwards and Elizabeth Bennett lead with a 54-hole total of 407 - three ahead of Korea and six in front of third placed United States.

ALL THIRD-ROUND TOTALS
1 - 407 England (195 G Boyd & D Willett 63 67 65. 212 N Edwards & E Bennett 71 70 71).
2- 410 Korea.
3 - 413 United States.
4 - 418 Norway, Chinese Taipei.
6 - 419 Australia, France.
8 - 420 Canada.
9 - 424 New Zealand, South Africa.
11 - 428 Czech Republic.
12 - 433 Netherlands.
13 - 434 Germany.
14 - 435 Italy, Sweden.
16 - 437 Belgium.
17 - 439 Wales (217 A Runcie & J Howie 74 72 71. 222 S Hassan & T Davies 71 75 76).
18 - 440 Argentina.
19 - 442 Iceland.
20 - 443 Finland.
21 - 448 Scotland (217 S Mann & S Borrowman 76 69 75. 231 M Thomson & E Ogilvy 78 81 72).
22- 451 Puerto Rico.
23- 467 Brazil.

ENGLISH TRIO IN TOP SIX AT ORLANDO

Bethune Cookman College, Daytona Beach students Fern Grimshaw from Dorset, Becky Dowell from Thornecombe and Emma Taylor from Devon finished third, fourth and sixth in the one-round North Shore Shoot-out women's college event at North Shore Golf Club, Orlando, Florida.
Elizabeth Alger and UCF colleague Stephanie Connelly tied for victory on 223.
Elizabeth scored 71, 74 and 78, Stephanie 77, 71 and 72.
Fern Grimshaw came next with 72, 82 and 77 for 231. She was followed by Becky Dowell with 74, 78 and 85 for 237.
Emma Taylor totalled 242 with 80, 81 and 81.
The course measured 6,035yd and had a par of 72.

ANDREA DOWN THE FIELD IN TENNESSEE

Andrea Downer (Murray State University) from Surrey is still trying to recapture the form that made her a winner on the US women's college circuit earlier in the 2007-2008 season.
This week she tied for 56th place in a field of 81 players for the F&M Bank APSU Intercollegiate tournament over 18 holes at Clarksville Country Club, Clarksville in Tennessee.
Andrew scored an 86 - 13 shots more than the winner, Kelli Warner (Eastern Kentucky).
The course measured 5,850yd and had a par of 71.

Ladies European Tour

AUSSIE LACEY WINS FROM AMATEUR HALL AS
FINAL QUALIFYING SCHOOL ENDS IN ITALY

By BETHAN CUTLER
From Ladies European Tour Website
Australia’s Dana Lacey won the Ladies European Tour’s Final Qualifying School for the 2008 season after a dramatic final day at Le Fonti Golf Club in Italy.
The 25-year-old from Perth, Western Australia was one of 30 players to earn full playing privileges for the 2008 season, with the other 22 players in the field earning a conditional card. Lacey, who led the tournament after the second day’s play, fired rounds of 69, 67, 72 and 67 for a 72-hole total of 275,13-under-par.
Welsh amateur Lydia Hall, 19, finished a shot further back and was the runner-up after a final round of 71. She will now turn professional after earning her full card for 2008.
Another Australian, Frances Bondad, 19, from Sydney, took third place on 11-under-par and four players tied for fourth on 10-under-par.
Lacey held a conditional Ladies European Tour card in 2007 but spent most of the season competing on the Duramed Futures Tour in America. She fared better at her second qualifying attempt and will play the full 2008 season in Europe.
“I’m extremely happy. This is my first professional win ever. I am over the moon,” said Lacey, who had fellow LET professional Melanie Holmes Smith of Australia on caddie duties for the final round.
“I played fantastic today. I hit 18 greens and holed some putts that I needed to. It was just a really cruisy, easy day. I started out a bit rough. I bogeyed the first and birdied the next and bogeyed the next but I got my nerves on track.”
Lacey posted six further birdies from the sixth hole. A two-hole play-off between five players determined who took the last two full cards. England’s Natalie Booth and Camille Fallay of France were successful over Italy’s Isabella Maconi, America’s Beth Allen and Australia’s Bronwyn Mullins-Lane.
Maconi and Allen were eliminated at the first extra hole, the par-three 17th, while Mullins-Lane lost out at the par-four 18th.
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GREAT FINISH (seven birdies in 15 holes)

GETS JENNA A TOP-30 CARD FOR

NEXT SEASON'S LADIES' EURO TOUR

Congratulations to Scottish amateur champion Jenna Wilson - who has probably joined the professional ranks forthwith after winning joint 23rd ranking at the Ladies European Tour Final Qualifying School at Le Fonti Golf Club, near Bologna in Italy today.
That means the 23-year-old from Strathaven, pictured right, will be able to play in any LET event she wants to play in on the 2008 Tour.
Jenna showed she's made of the right stuff with a magnificent final round of four-under-par 68 for a 72-hole total of two-under-par 286.
At the start of the day, having survived the third-round cut with nothing to spare, she faced an uphill task to improve her position into the top 30 in the final standings.
But she responded with her best golf of the week which augurs well for her future professional career.
Over the first three rounds, Jenna had one eagle and five birdies. Over the first 15 holes of her final round, she had seventh birdies and was actually seven under par for the day with three to play, having birdied the second, third, fourth, seventh (out in 32), 13th, 14th and 15th.
She bogeyed the last three holes but, by that time, she had done enough to secure her place on next year's Ladies European Tour.
Worth noting that Jenna was one of 10 amateurs to gain the top 30 cards.
THOSE WHO WON THE TOP 30 CARDS (Category 8)
Par 288 (4 x 72)
1-275 Dana Lacey (Australia) 69 67 72 67 (E1,200).
2-276 Lydia Hall (amateur) (Wales) 68 70 67 71.
3-277 Frances Bondad (Australia) 72 69 67 69 (E750).
4-278 Stefanie Michl (Austria) 73 70 69 66, Martina Gillen (Ireland) 68 71 71 68 (E550 each), Caroline Afonso (France) (am) 68 71 70 69, Emma Cabrera-Bello (Spain) (am) 70 670 67 71.
8-279 Nora Angehrn (Switzerland) 65 74 72 68 (E450).
9-280 Melodie Bourdy (France) 68 68 68 75.
10-281 Vittoria Valvassori (Italy) (am) 69 73 72 67, Anna Knutsson (Sweden) 68 70 71 72 (E350).
12-282 Julie Greciet (France) (am) 68 71 72 71.
13-283 Nicole Gergely (Austria) 70 72 70 71 (£300).
14-284 Emma Zackrisson (Sweden) 71 71 71 71 (E250), Rachael Bell (Ganton) (am) 70 68 70 75.
16-285 Katharina Schallenberg (Germany) (am) 71 72 70, Marjet van der Graaf (Netherlands) (am) 66 74 74 71, Lill Kristin Saether (Norway) 72 71 72 70, Itziar Elguezabal (Spain) 73 72 69 71, Jehanne Jail (France) 72 72 70 71, Stacy Lee Bregman (South AFrica) 72 69 72 72, Anne Norman Hansen (Denmark) 75 68 69 73 (E40 each).
23-286 Jenna Wilson (Strathaven) (am) 69 75 74 69, Julie Tvede (Denmark) 74 74 70 68, Lee-Anne Pace (South Africa) 74 70 71 71, Jo Clingan (England) 69 73 73 71, Rui Yokomine (Japan) 69 75 70 72.
28-287 Nina Reis (Sweden) 68 73 73 73.
29-288 (after play-off) Natalie Claire Booth (England) 73 72 7 71, Camille Fallay (France) (am) 71 73 69 75.
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THOSE RANKED 31 TO 52 FOR 2008 LET SEASON (Category 10b)
31-288 (after play-off) Bronwyn Mullins-Lane (Australia) (am) 73 70 73 72, Beth Allen (US) 72 70 73 73, Isabella Maconi (Italy) 69 76 68 75.
34 -289 Elin Ohlsson (Sweden) 72 74 72 71, Anne-Lise Caudal (France) 73 71 73 72, Sarah Nicholson (New Zealand) 73 73 71 72, Kate Combes (Australia) 75 68 73 73, Christine Hallstrom (Sweden) 71 73 71 74, Kaisa Ruuttila (Finland) 71 75 69 74, Xonia Wunsch (Spain) 73 74 67 75, Natascha Fink (Austria) 72 73 68 76.
42-291 Sara Beautell (Spain) 72 72 74 73, Karin Borjeskog (Sweden) 70 72 76 73, Denise Becker (Germany) (am) 68 77 72 74, Mette Buus (Denmark) 73 74 70 74, Lena Tornevall (Sweden) 75 70 71 75, Emma Lyons (England) (am) 71 67 78 75, Frederique Seeholzer (Switzerland) 71 73 72 75, Martia Ohlsson (Sweden) 68 73 68 82.
50-292 Liza Walters (England) 73 72 73 74, Zuzana Kamasova (Slovakia) 71 74 72 75.
52-296 Barbara Paruscio (Italy) 76 71 71 78.

THE IRISH ANGLE ... FROM THE IRISH LGU

Ireland’s Martina Gillen earned her Ladies European Tour Card for the 2008 season with an impressive four under par 68 in her final round at the LET Final Qualifying School at Le Fonti Golf Club, Italy.
Gillen finished joint fourth, five shots off leader Dana Lacy (Australia), and will join Rebecca Coakley on next year’s Ladies European Tour as Ireland’s sole representatives.
Gillen got off to a flying start, birdieing her opening two holes and went on to fire another four birdies over the next eight holes. Joint leader through 13, she dropped two shots over the closing holes but her earlier hard work was well rewarded as she signed for her second 68 of the week and augur’s well for an encouraging season in 2008.
Ireland’s other representatives Claire Coughlan and Hazel Kavanagh missed out on qualification for today’s final round by one and five strokes respectively, earlier in the week.
The top 30 competitors secured Category 8 membership of the 2008 Ladies European Tour with the following 22 players attaining Category 10b membership with some playing restrictions.

Perth & Kinross Ladies County Golf Association leading trophy winners.

Back row (left to right): Liz Fertacz, Catherine Peebles, Sue Jones, Meriel Walker.

Front row (left to right): Dawn Butchart (county captain), Alexandra Bushby (county champion), Jane Yellowlees.

Perth & Kinross Ladies County Golf Association's new committee

Perth and Kinross Ladies County Golf Association held its AGM, Prizegiving and Dinner last night at Craigie Hill Golf Club. Janet Griffiths completed her two-year term as Captain and a new Captain, Dawn Butchart, was elected.

The new P&K committee are pictured above.

Back row (left to right): Pam Drysdale, Joan Merry, Liz Fertacz, Match Secretary Shona Leighton, Treasurer Catherine Monks, Mary Hope, Junor Convener Carol Lambie and Carol Muir.

Front row (left to right): County Secretary Alexandra Bushby, Vice Captain Lenore Kyle, County Captain Dawn Butchart and County President Liz Miskimmin.

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