Karen Stupples drops to joint fourth in
Lorena Ochoa Invitational

Karen Stupples has dropped down from an eighth share of the lead to joint fourth on her own after two rounds of the Lorena Ochoa Invitational tournament at Guadalajara, Mexico.
The 2004 British Women's Open champion had a second round of one-under-par 71 for a 36-hole tally of five-under-par 139.
American Angela Stanford has taken over the pole position at 10-under 134 with scores of 68 and 66.
Lorena Ochoa is not doing so well in her own tournament. She is joint 22nd on 144.
SECOND-ROUND SCOREBOARD
Par 144 (2 x 72) 6644yd
134 A Stanford 68 66.
136 Yani Tseng 68 68.
138 M Lee 69 69.
139 K Stupples 68 71.
149 J Inkster 71 69, Sun Yung Yoo 70 70, Jee Young Lee 69 71, A Sorenstam 68 72, Seon Hwa Lee 68 72, Nicole Castrale 68 72.
Selected scores:
142 K Hull 71 71, B Lang 68 74 (jt 15th).
143 C Kerr 71 72, A Park 73 70, T Lu 72 71, L Diax 70 73 (jt 17th).
144 J Park 74 70, M Hjorth 74 70, L Ochoa 73 71, H Alfredsson 70 74, C Kim 70 74 (jt 22nd).

Fife Ladies County Golf Association held a prizegiving supper at Elmwood College, Cupar. Leading prizewinners are pictured. County champion Fiona Hastie is second from right in front row; beaten finalist Louise Kenney is second from the left in front row (image courtesy of Alma Robertson). Click on the image to enlarge it.

EGWA appoint John Green as finance
director and company secretary

PRESS RELEASE ISSUED BY THE ENGLISH WOMEN'S GOLF ASSOCIATION
The English Women’s Golf Association has appointed a finance director and company secretary. He is John Green, an accountant who has held senior management positions with major companies.
John is a member of the EWGA management board and has taken up his duties with immediate effect. He said: “I am very much looking forward to this new role.”
John has spent most of his career with British Gas and IBM, specialising in finance and Information Technology.
During his time with British Gas, John’s responsibilities included ensuring that all computer systems were protected and ran efficiently. He was closely involved in the centralisation of all IT at the company and his ground-breaking work on investment appraisal of IT was the subject of a paper published by the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants. He carried out board level work on enhancing shareholder value shortly before British Gas was split into Centrica and Transco.
At IBM, John managed projects for organisations including Barclays Bank, Boots, Diageo and Adtranz. He introduced many new and money-saving processes.
Most recently he has developed his own finance and training consultancy. John also lectures in finance and accountancy for the Open University.
In his spare time John enjoys swimming, cycling and entering competitions. He is married with two grown-up children.
Lyndsey Hewison
Press & PR Officer

Liz Bennett heading for LET Q

School, ready to ring curtain

down on amateur career

Liz Bennett (Brokenhurst Manor), winner of the English Women's Golf Association Order of Merit for 2008, is the latest member of this year's GB&I Curtis Cup team to announce that she is heading for the Ladies European Tour Qualifying School at La Manga in January.

Scottish champion Michele Thomson (McDonald Ellon) and Krystle Caithness, who has abandoned her four-year golf scholarship at George University, have also indicated that they see their future in the professional ranks and will be trying to win LET players' cards in January.

Ms Bennett, pictured by Cal Carson Golf Agency on the first tee at St Andrews in the Curtis Cup match, who is 26, says in the new EGWA Newsletter:

"I feel the time is right to move on. I have done what I wanted to do in amateur golf and I feel I'm ready to compete with the professionals.

"I've really enjoyed my amateur career. I had four fantastic years at univesity in America and it was great to come back and play for England and for Great Britain & Ireland. But now it's time to move on."

The top 10 final placings in the EGWA Order of Merit were:

1 Liz Bennett (Brokenhurst Manor).

2 Rachel Jennings (Izaak Walton).

3 Naomi Edwards (Ganton).

4 Kerry Smith (Waterlooville).

5 Florentyna Parker (Royal Birkdale).

6 Jodi Ewart (Catterick).

7 Charlotte Ellis (Minchinhampton).

8 Hannah Barwood (Knowle).

9 Holly Aitchison (Bedfordshire).

10 Rachel Connor (Manchester).

Clare Queen (70) but Lynn Kenny and
Jenna Wilson both on 78 mark

Clare Queen had a two-under-par 70 to be lying joint ninth but fellow Scots Lynn Kenny and Jenna Wilson had 78s to be sharing 76th place at the end of the first round of the Saint Four Ladies Masters at Jeju Island, South Korea today.
France's Gwladys Nocera was the only "Westerner" to break up a monopoly of the leading places by South Korean players.
Gwladys shot a 68 to share second place, three behind Sun Ju Ahn, who, like the majority of the South Korean players, speaks no English.
FIRST-ROUND SCOREBOARD
Par 72
65 Sun Ju Ahn
68 Chae A Oh, Gwladys Nocera (Fra)
69 Soo Young Moon, Veronica Zorzi (Ita), So Yeon Ryu, Ju Mi Kim, Hee Kyung Seo
70 Jeong Eun V Lee, Bo Mi Kim, Clare Queen (Sco), Margherita Rigon (Ita), Ursula Wikstrom (Fin), Chae Young Yoon, Hye In Lee, An-Na Oh, Soo-Yun Kang
71 Johanna Head (Eng), Da Ye Na, Hei Ji Kim, Hui Jeong Kim, So Young Ii Kim, Marjet Van Der Graaff (Ned), Bo Bae Kim, Min Sun Ii Kim, Hyun-Ji Kim, Ae-Ree Pyun, Anna Rawson (Aus), Hye-Yong Choi, Amy Yang
72 Sun Wook Lim, Nathalie David-Mila (Fra), Ha-Na Jang, Bo Mi Suh, Anna Rossi (Ita), Chang-Hee Lee, Bo-Bea Park, Bo Ri Lee Yu-Jin Choi, Cecilie Lundgreen (Nor), Ha-Neul Kim, Frederique Seeholzer (Swi), Bit Na Kim
73 Yoon Jung Won, Hye Jung Choi, Hyeon-Ju Lee, Mi-Hee Jung, Laurette Maritz (Rsa), Bo Kyung Kim, Hye Youn Kim, Florence Luscher (Swi), Ji Na Lim, Young Ae Ham, Hye Lee Kim, Han Min Jee
74 Ji Yeon Woo, Um-Ji Kang, Min Sun Kim, You Jin Ji, Mi-Hyun Cho, Hye Jin Jung, Aram Cho, Young Ran Jo, Lara Tadiotto (Bel), Hyun Hee Moon, Hae Jung Kim, Kyeong Eun Bae, Bo-Me Lee, Min Ji Nam, Sarah Oh (Aus)
75 Jae Eun Chung, Eun-Bi Jang, Min Gee Song, Ana Larraneta (Spa), Mi Ji Park, Sang Hee Kim, Ran Hong
76 Ellen Smets (Bel), Sarah Nicholson (Nzl), Cassandra Kirkland (Fra), Lydia Hall (Wal), Sophie Walker (Eng), Eun Jung Shin, Seul A Yoon, Kate Combes (Aus), Carmen Alonso (Spa), Jenni Kuosa (Fin), Ye Song Lee
77 Frances Bondad (Aus), Ji-Yeon Lee, Kaisa Ruuttila (Fin), Ji-Hye Jang, Kyu Ri Kim, Danielle Montgomery (Eng), Il Mi Chung
78 Lynn Kenny (Sco), Jenna Wilson (Sco), Titiya Plucksataporn (Tha)
79 Il-Hee Lee, Samantha Head (Eng)
83 Vittoria Valvassori (Ita)
Retired: Zuzana Kamasova (Svk)