Sorenstam beaten in play-off for last of 16 places

LPGA TOUR: ADT CHAMPIONSHIP

QUALIFIERS
1
Mi Hyun Kim 67 70 - 137.
T2
Christina Kim 67 71 - 138.
Morgan Pressel 73 65 - 138.
T4
Cristie Kerr 69 71 - 140.
Lorena Ochoa 70 70 - 140.
T6
Paula Creamer 68 73 - 141.
Suzann Pettersen 73 68 - 141.
8
Sophie Gustafson 72 70 - 142.
T9
Nicole Castrale 771 72 - 143.
Juli Inkster 68 75 - 143.
T11
Seon Hwa Lee 74 70 - 144.
Catriona Matthew 69 75 -144
13
Sarah Lee 74 71 - 145.
14
Karrie Webb 76 70 - 146.
T15
Natalie Gulbis 72 75 - 147.
Ai Miyazato 75 72 - 147.
MISSED THE CUT
T15
Annika Sorenstam 74 73 - 147 (beaten in three-way play-off).
18
Jeong Jang 75 73 -148.
T19
Shi Hyun Ahn 74 75 - 149.
Maria Hjorth 79 70 - 149.
Angela Park 76 73 - 149.
22
Jee Young Lee 76 74 - 150.
23
Angela Stanford 77 74 - 151.
T24
Laura Davies 79 73 - 152.
Brittany Lincicome 77 75 -152.
Se Ri Pak 77 75.
T27
Meaghan Francella 77 76 - 153.
Inbee Park 79 74 - 153.
Reilley Rankin 76 77 - 153.
T30
Laura Diaz 73 81 -154.
Stacy Prammanasudh 77 77 - 154.
Sherri Steinhauer 76 78 -154.

RISING WELSH STAR RHIAN WYN THOMAS
AMONG LATEST ENTRIES FOR HACIENDA
DEL ALAMO WOMEN'S FESTIVAL

Rhian Wyn Thomas had not even started playing golf only four years ago.
Now the 20-year-old Aberystwyth-born member at Vale of Glamorgan Golf Club has a handicap of one ... is a member of the Welsh women's international squad ... and she is among the latest entries to the Hacienda del Alamo Women's Winter Golf Festival.
Coached by David Llewellyn, Rhian obviously had a natural aptitude for the game to come down to one from a standing start within four years.

"I took up golf after a chance meeting four years ago with Welsh national coach David Llewelyn at the Royal Welsh Show where he was giving free five minute lessons to encourage people to take up golf," said Rhian.
"I hit ten balls and he asked me what my handicap was, and I told him that this was the first time that I had held a golf club. He told me that I had a natural swing and should take up the game. At that time I had been playing tennis and had just won the Welsh Schools U-16 title.
In April 2003, I started playing golf with a handicap of 25 and by August 2003 I had reduced my handicap to 13.
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RHIAN'S GOLFING CV

2004 Runner-up Welsh Schools golf championship and played for Welsh schools
2005 Welsh colleges champion and played for Welsh colleges
2006 Semi-finalist in Welsh Ladies championship.
2006 Member of the Welsh Ladies team in the Home Internationals
2007 Runner-up in the Leveret Trophy at Formby Ladies Golf Club where I got an albatross 2 on a par-5
2007 Member of the Vale of Glamorgan Ladies team which won the Welsh club championship
2007 Member of the Glamorgan Ladies team which reached the county finals in Brockenhurst, Hampshire
2007 Member of the Welsh Ladies Team in the Home Internationals at Dunbar.
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"I now have a handicap of one and was a member of the Welsh Ladies team which played in the home internationals at Dunbar this year. I am also in the Glamorgan Ladies county team which reached the county finals in Hampshire this year.

"I am really looking forward to playing at Hacienda del Alamo Golf Resort, hopefully for the two weeks."

The Hacienda del Alamo Women's Winter Golf Festival will be hosted by the five-star golf resort in the Murcia Region of sunny southern Spain. There will be six competitions between February 10 (the first practice day) and February 23.

All the competitions are open to Lady Professionals, who will be competing for cash prizes, and Lady amateurs who must have a handicap of nine or under.
We would also like to see entries coming in from Senior lady amateurs, as long as they meet the handicap limit.
There will be separate prize lists for professionals and amateurs. If we get enough entries from senior ladies, then we will have prizes for them in a sub-division of the amateurs' list.
To find out all the details about accommodation, click on the words HACIENDA DEL ALAMO WOMEN'S FESTIVAL in the left hand column of your screen.
There are no entry forms and you do not have to pay any entry fees until you check in at the Tournament Desk in Hacienda del Alamo's palatial new clubhouse.
Simply E-mail Tournament Controller Colin Farquharson at colin@scottishgolfview.com, saying you wish to enter and if you are coming for two weeks or one (if only one, state first or second week), give your handicap and home club if you are an amateur, state if you are a professional and your home city and attachment if any.
Because there is a shortage of daylight hours in mid-February - even in sunny southern Spain - director of golf Billy Sim reckons we will have to limit the fields to between 60 and 70 players.
BOOK YOUR FLIGHTS NOW TO GET THE CHEAPEST RATES.
BOOK YOUR HACIENDA DEL ALAMO ACCOMMODATION NOW BEFORE IT FILLS UP.

PRESS RELEASE

HACIENDA DEL ALAMO'S
SPECTACULAR
NEW CLUBHOUSE IS NOW OPEN

A spectacular new clubhouse is now open at Hacienda del Alamo Golf Resort, hailed as “Spain´s New Number One”.
This unique construction overlooks the golf course and also has stunning views all the way to the Mar Menor and to the mountains of Murcia.
It is one of the most important buildings in the development of the resort and has already won a great deal of praise for its beautiful looks and remarkable setting.
Several years in the planning and two years in the building, its 2,000 square metres state of the art design features dramatic use of light and space
As well as being an operational golf clubhouse, restaurant, bar and shop, it is also an breathtakingly daring architectural marvel.
There is a large entrance reception area which is permanently manned. The office of the Director of Golf Billy Sim is behind this. The main entrance leads to the large Golf Shop where there is a golf check-in desk as well as the sales point for golf equipment and clothing.
Close to here there is also a TV lounge with Internet connection, a cards and games room and the billiards room.
The Spikes Bar and the restaurant are the main focus of this floor and they can be separated by a dividing wall or connected together to seat 250 people.The two spacious terraces have spectacular views over the course.
One floor above, a second “top” terrace allows views as far as the Mar Menor.
The restaurant will have what is described as “Show Cooking” so diners can watch the preparation of their food. It is also planned to have a running buffet during the daytime with normal snacks/ tapas available from the Spikes Bar.
The kitchen area in this respect also has all the latest modern equipment you would expect for us to provide a first class food and beverage service to all.The top level VIP lounge is restricted to Property Owners with Golf Shares and their guests and can also be used for private functions if requested. This area is also decorated to a high standard with original working fire place, large screen TV and library.
Back down on the entrance level, the locker rooms, toilets and shower areas are finished to a high standard with a sauna room in both male and female areas. There’s also a treatment area for massage and physiotherapy.
The lower floor is where all the golf operation offices are situated including golf supervisors office, accounts, caddie masters / course marshals, club storage, buggy parking for owners, rental buggies and trollies.
“This is a really beautiful design that really blends with the local environment and it is easy to see why the club house has won praise for its architecture even before it was finished” commented Director of Golf Billy Sim.
“Now we invite you all to come and see for yourself just how special it is.”
Situated in the beautiful Murcia countryside and close to stunning beaches, Hacienda del Alamo already boasts one championship golf course, a golf academy including a driving range and six-hole practice course, and others are planned.
The resort of 3,500 homes is built around the 7,400 yard championship golf course, designed by the renowned course designer Dave Thomas, whose portfolio includes the Brabazon at the De Vere Belfry and also La Manga.
There are those, like the Voice of Golf Peter Alliss himself and European Tour Pro Miguel Angel Jiménez who believe the golf course is one of the best in Europe. It is built on 92 hectares which is almost twice as large as the average golf course.
Chris Mann
Director of Communications
chris@hdagolf.com

MELISSA REID WINS DAILY

TELEGRAPH AMATEUR

GOLFER OF YEAR AWARD

Melissa Reid, 20, has won the Daily Telegraph's Women's Amateur Golfer of the Year award after a season in which she captured the British Women's Amateur Stroke-Play championship along with the silver medal at the Ricoh Women's British Open.
Reid, pictured right, also won two of the season's other premier stroke-play titles with her three rounds in the Helen Holm Trophy at Troon in May including a breathtaking 10-under-par 63 over Troon Portland. In a year when the women amateurs were returning more scores in the 60s than ever before, Reid also had a closing 68 against the par of 76 over the Old Course, St Andrews, as she won the St Rule Trophy.
It was Reid's performance in the Ricoh which told her the time was right to turn professional. With a wrist injury sustained after the British stroke-play having left her a little rusty, she failed to make it through the European Tour's qualifying school.

However, such are her amateur credentials that tour sponsors have been falling over each other to issue invitations for 2008. So far, it looks as though she could be playing in a minimum of a dozen tournaments.
Reid, who has been working with Sir Clive Woodward on bringing a more scientific approach to bear on her golf, said that she was thrilled to have won the Daily Telegraph's award. "I won the Daily Telegraph Girls' Championship in 2003 and it's great to have graduated to this," said the 20-year-old Reid. "I've loved everything to do with my amateur career."
Henrietta Brockway, who became the first player from the UK to win the British Girls' championship since Clare Queen in 2001, is the recipient of the Telegraph's second female amateur golf award, the Joyce Wethered Trophy.
Traditionally this prize, which was shared last year by Sally Watson and Carly Booth, goes to a young player who is combining golf with education. Brockway, 17, has given up on the education side of things but that has not stopped her from setting a first-class example to her peers in how to organise her golfing life.

Where other teenagers who play the game full-time can often end up frittering away their time, Brockway has a rigid daily routine which involves being in the gym at seven every morning.
In practising, she concentrates on different aspects of her play morning and afternoon.

At this time of the year, she has to sign off from her practice sessions at the Remedy Oak club near her Wiltshire home at four in the afternoon. In the summer, she will often be hard at work until seven.
Brockway's main ambition is to be a member of the GB and Ireland side in the 2008 Curtis Cup. She may turn professional at the end of the year, but she has not ruled out the possibility of returning to her studies at some point.

"The great thing about studying, which I love, is that you can go back to it at any time," said Brockway. "At one stage, I had my heart set on going to St Andrews University but playing serious golf takes up a lot of time and I didn't see how I could make both work."
Brockway, an avid bookworm and one who is currently tucked into a thriller, The Interpretation of Murder by Jed Rubenfeld, was off to read about the late Joyce Wethered, whose award she has collected.

Wethered, who bagged five successive English women's championships in the 1920s, was hailed by the legendary Bobby Jones as the best golfer, man or woman, he had ever seen.

CATRIONA MATTHEW JOINT FIFTH IN
LPGA'S SEASON-ENDING CHAMPIONSHIP

Catriona Matthew shot a three-under-par 69 to be lying joint fifth after the first round of the LPGA season-ending ADT Championship at Trump International Golf Club, West Palm Beach in Florida.
The field will be cut from 32 to 16 after the second round.
LEADING SCORES
Par 72
67 Christina Kim, Mi Hyun Kim.
68 Juli Inkster, Paula Creamer.
69 Catriona Matthew, Cristie Kerr.
70 Lorena Ochoa.
Other scores:
72 S Gustafson (jt 9th).
73 S Pettersen (jt 11th).
74 A Sorenstam (jt 14th).
79 L Davies, M Hjorth (jt 30th).