Scots vets lead Irish seniors

by one point at Cruden Bay

The Scottish Veteran Ladies Golf Association select will start the second and last day of their annual Mary McKenna Salver match with a 2 1/2-1 1/2 lead over the Irish Seniors team at Cruden Bay Golf Club.

The match finishes with eight singles, the first of which tees off at 11am on Sunday.

The Scots' winners today were Lorna Bennett and Fiona De Vries who beat Sheena McElroy and Marilyn Henderson 3 and 2, and Jill Harrison, pictured left by Cal Carson Golf Agency, and Fiona Hunter who beat Helen Jones and Mary McKenna by one hole in a match of rare quality - the better ball was an amazing 10 under par.

Ireland's win came from Valerie Hassett and Violet McBride who beat May Hughes and Kathleen Sutherland by 2 and 1.
The halved match featured Scotland's Heather Anderson and Mary Smith against Ireland's Mary Madden and Pauline Walsh.

RESULTS

Scots names first

FOURSOMES (2 1/2-1 1/2)

Lorna Bennett & Fiona De Vries bt Sheena McElroy & Marilyn Henderson 3 and 2.

Heather Anderson & Mary Smith halved with Mary Madden & Pauline Walsh.

May Hughes & Kathleen Sutherland lost to valerie Hassett & Violet McBride 2 and 1.

Jill Harrison & Fiona Hunter bt Helen Jones & Mary McKenna 1 hole.

Some of the prizewinners at Stonehaven today: (left to right) Kirsten MacCallum, Olivia Borwick, Kristina Vannet and Tegan Seivwright. Zoe Marr was unable to stay for the prizegiving (Cal Carson Golf Agency image).

Olivia (age 13) wins Aberdeenshire girls' opening

Stableford with fine total of 45 points

Olivia Borwick, a 13-year-old, 29-handicap junior member of McDonald Ellon Golf Club, had an excellent Stableford points round of 45 to win the Aberdeenshire girls' first competition of the new season at an overcast, quite cold Stonehaven Golf Club today.

Runner-up with 42pt, laying off 34, was Zoe Marr (Inverurie), daughter of the Meldrum House professional, Neil Marr, who coaches Paul Lawrie & Scottish Golf Union boys.

POINTS SCORES

CSS 68 (+1)

45 Olivia Borwick (McDonald Ellon) (29).

42 Zoe Marr (Inverurie) (34).

37 Kirsten MacCallum (McDonald Ellon) (10), Kristina Vannet (Peterculter) (13).

33 Tegan Seivwright (Deeside) (16).

32 Kimberley Beveridge (Aboyne) (13), Rachel Polson (Peterculter) (9).

30 Claire Prouse (Hazlehead) (7), Hannah Bycroft (Alford) (26).

29 Emma Read (Deeside) (19), Kirstin Seam (Torphins) (11).

28 Sophie Alexander (Deeside) (7).

24 Louise McGillivray (Banchory) (6).

23 Vicki Powell (Deeside) (20), Caitlin Geddes (Northern) (11).

Eileen Manson heads Northern

Counties qualifiers at Nairn

Thurso's Eileen Manson, pictured right, headed the 16 match-play qualifiers on the first day of the Northern Counties women's golf championship at Nairn Golf Club today.
In windy conditions, Eileen's round of 79 - four over par and two over the CSS - was good enough to give her the No 1 seed position ahead of Pam MacKay (Royal Dornoch) and Christine McAndrew (Nairn Dunbar) who both returned 80s.
Pam gained the No 2 seed berth after a card countback.
Defending champion Cara Gruber (Royal Dornoch had an 81.
Match-play qualifiers
Par 75. CSS 77
79 E Manson (Thurso).
80 P Mackay (Royal Dornoch), C McAndrew (Nairn Dunbar).
81 J Vass (Tain), C Gruber (Royal Dornoch).
84 J Louden (Nairn).
85 A Bartlett (Royal Dornoch), L Coghill (Royal Dornoch).
87 M Vass (Tain), S Vass (Tain), J Milne (Elgin).
88 S McVicar (Gairloch).
89 J Nicol (Inverness), G Dowling (Inverness), M Howieson (Inverness).
90 S MacDonnell (Inverness).
Sunday's match-play ties
First round

8.45 Manson v MacDonnell.

8.53 M Vass v Coghill.

9.01 Gruber v McVicar.

9.09 Nicol v J Vass.

9.17 McAndrew v Dowling.

9.25 Milne v Louden.

9.33 Bartlett v S Vass.

9.41 Howieson v Mackay.
Quarter-finals at 2.02, 2.12, 2.22 and 2.32

DURAMED FUTURES TOUR REPORT

Liz Janangelo takes early

lead in Lafayette

Wind-blown players from the morning tee times came off the course in the first round of the Duramed Futures Tour's $90,000 Louisiana Pelican Classic wanting to know only one thing.
“What golf course was Liz playing today?” asked Jessica Shepley of Oakville, Ontario.
Indeed, Liz Janangelo of West Hartford, Conn., navigated her way around The Wetlands Golf Course with ease to post an opening-round score of seven-under-par 65 to take the early lead. It was a day that featured six birdies, one bogey and one eagle on her scorecard.
It also was a round that included a front-nine score of 29 (-7), which was a career-best nine-hole number for the former Duke University four-time All-American. Janangelo became the 10th member of the Tour to break 30 for nine holes. Only two other players have broken 30 on a par-36 course, including Peggy Kirsch in 1989, and Lorena Ochoa in 2002.
But setting new milestones wasn’t what was on Janangelo’s mind today. After a tie for 29th at the season-opening tournament in Winter Haven, Fla., and a missed cut two weeks ago in Daytona Beach, Fla., the 2008 LPGA Tour member was hoping only to settle her mind and get back to the kind of golf that helped her win twice on the 2007 Duramed FUTURES Tour.
“This was the first time I’ve played golf that I haven’t really cared,” she said. “I’ve put a lot of pressure on myself and today, I carried my own bag and it was just me out there – kind of like my college days. That’s what I thought about.”
The former U.S. Curtis Cup Team member played her first nine holes (the course’s back nine) at even-par 36, but the front nine was a different story. She rolled in a birdie from five feet on No. 3, holed out a pitching wedge from 120 yards for eagle on the par-4 fifth hole, and then birdied her last four holes – all from eight feet or less. She needed only 25 putts.
“I haven’t done this in a long time,” said Janangelo, who has been working with sports psychologist Bob Rotella. “I have to just believe in myself and know that I’ve been here before and that I play with some of the best players in the world every week. This is a breakthrough.”
Her round also was the number every player in the full field of 144 chased all day. Rookie Christine Song of Fullerton, Calif., and veteran Nicole Jeray of Berwyn, Ill., each carded rounds of three-under-par 69 in the morning, while Haeji Kang of Seoul, South Korea was the only player who cracked 70 in the afternoon, joining Song and Jeray in a tie for second.
Sae Hee Son of Seoul, South Korea, Samantha Richdale of Kelowna, British Columbia and Lisa Ferrero of Lodi, Calif., are tied for fifth at two-under-par 70.
“I feel like I’m confident – like everything is going to go in,” said Song, 17, whose last win was three years ago on the American Junior Golf Association (AJGA). “If I can just do the same thing tomorrow, I’ll be happy.”
Jeray, 38, used her veteran experience while playing in today’s windy conditions. The LPGA Tour member said she stayed patient, even when she hit errant shots. At least three times, she saved par from five feet or more and had two sand saves.
“It’s playing tough enough that I could have shot an 80 or a 69, just depending on what happened in the crosswinds,” said Jeray, a three-time Tour winner. “The last two holes are playing so hard into the wind that I feel like I gained two shots on the field with pars there.”
A weather watcher, Jeray said her performance benefited by knowing the location of the prevailing winds on the course and the direction of the “grain” (how the grass grows) on most of the greens.
“I know where north, south, east and west is at all times and on days like these, that matters when you’re hitting your shots,” she said.
Sometimes luck counts, too. Or, lack of luck.
Irish-born US Curtis Cup player at St Andrews last year, Alison Walshe of Westford, Mass., was at four-under par after 14 holes – only one shot off the lead -- but her tee shot on No. 15 hit the cart path at an odd angle and kicked 100 yards left. The rookie took bogey, and then bogeyed the 16th after what she called “a stupid chip.” She finished at bogey-bogey on the 17th and 18th to card an even-par 72.
“The shot on 15 was just a bad break, but half the game is luck,” she said. “And those last three holes are tough in the wind. Sometimes, it’s just a guessing game.”
There was no guesswork, however, when it came to the difficulty of the 390-yard 18th hole today. Playing dead into the wind, the par-4 hole, which is bordered down the right side and in front of the green by a water hazard, doused more than a few hopes. The 18th played as the toughest hole with a scoring average of 4.8 strokes, rendering only two birdies all day. Three of the last four holes registered as the most difficult of the first round.
A total of 12 players finished under par and a total of 26 players are at even-par 72 or better.
“It’s good to get a low score early before we have bad weather,” said Kang of the expected weekend forecast, which calls for rain and high wind on Saturday.
Weather: Mostly cloudy with temperatures in the high 70s and wind between 12-15 mph.
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Jodi Ewart lying second with one

round to go in California

Curtis Cup player Jodi Ewart (New Mexico University) from Yorkshire is two shots off the pace in second place with one round to go in the Mountain West Women's Conference Championship at Bayonet-Black Horse Golf Club, Seaside in California.
Catterick Golf Club member Jodi, the defending champion, has had rounds of 74 and 73 for a three-over-par tally of 147 over the par-72, 6027yd course.
She had birdies at the third, seventh and 12th but bogeys at the first, 10th, 15th and 17th in her second round.
In her opening round, Jodi , pictured by Cal Carson Golf Agency, had a double bogey 6 at the ninth to set against birdies at the seventh and 13th and bogeys at the eighth and 17th.
Jonelle Martinez (Wyoming University) leads with 70 and 75 for 145.
Brooke Beeler (Texas Christian), Rebecca Helblom (New Mexico) and Therese Koelbaek (UNLV) are sharing third place on 148.

Duramed Futures Tour Scoreboard
$90,000 Louisiana Pelican Classic
The Wetlands, Lafayette, Louisiana
FIRST ROUND
Par 72 (36-36) 6421yd
1 Liz Janangelo (West Hartford, Conn.) 29-36 - 65
2 Christine Song (Fullerton, Calif.) 35-34 - 69
2 Nicole Jeray (Berwyn, Ill.) 35-34 - 69
2 Haeji Kang (Seoul, South Korea) 36-33 - 69
5 Sae Hee Son (Seoul, South Korea) 34-36 - 70
5 Samantha Richdale (Kelowna, British Columbia) 35-35 - 70
5 Lisa Ferrero (Lodi, Calif.) 36-34 - 70
8 Allison Hanna-Williams (Portland, Ore.) 37-34 - 71
8 Amanda Costner (Claremore, Okla.) 34-37 - 71
8 Libby Smith (Essex Junction, Vt.) 34-37 - 71
8 Stephanie Otteson (Wilson, N.C.) 37-34 - 71
8 Seema Sadekar (Toronto, Ontario) 35-36 - 71
13 Angela Buzminski (Oshawa, Ontario) 36-36 - 72
13 Jenny Gleason (Clearwater, Fla.) 36-36 - 72
13 Ashley Grier (Hagerstown, Md.) 35-37 - 72
13 Alison Walshe (Westford, Mass.) 35-37 - 72
13 Nicola Eaton (Port Shepstone, South Africa) 33-39 - 72
13 Danah Ford (Indianapolis, Ind.) 36-36 - 72
13 Andrea VanderLende (Longwood, Fla.) 33-39 - 72
13 Garrett Phillips (St. Simons Island, Ga.) 35-37 - 72
13 Mo Martin (Altadena, Calif.) 36-36 - 72
13 Jean Reynolds (Newnan, Ga.) 35-37 - 72
13 Nicole Hage (Coral Springs, Fla.) 37-35 - 72
13 Seo-Jae Lee (Seoul, South Korea) 36-36 - 72
13 Ashley Prange (Noblesville, Ind.) 36-36 - 72
13 Perry Swenson (Charlotte, N.C.) 35-37 - 72
27 Camila Mori (Santiago, Chile) 35-38 - 73
27 Hannah Yun (Bradenton, Fla.) 36-37 - 73
27 Stacey Bieber (Winnipeg, Manitoba) 39-34 - 73
27 Ulrika Ljungman-Smith (Daytona Beach, Fla.) 35-38 - 73
27 Madeleine Holmblad (Stockholm, Sweden) 35-38 - 73
27 Juli Erekson (Mapleton, Utah) 36-37 - 73
27 Lili Alvarez (Durango, Mexico) 37-36 - 73
27 Meghan Little (Sturgis, S.D.) 36-37 - 73
27 Mary J. Kim (Seoul, South Korea) 34-39 - 73
27 Sofie Andersson (Angelholm, Sweden) 35-38 - 73
27 Yoora Kim (Seoul, South Korea) 38-35 - 73
27 Song Yi Choi (Seoul, South Korea) 35-38 - 73
27 Charlotte Campbell (Heathrow, Fla.) 38-35 - 73
27 Caroline Larsson (Stockholm, Sweden) 38-35 - 73
27 Stella Lee (Seoul, South Korea) 35-38 - 73
42 Jimin Jeong (Kyungki, South Korea) 36-38 - 74
42 Catherine Matranga (Fort Worth, Texas) 36-38 - 74
42 Nontaya Srisawang (Chiang Mai, Thailand) 37-37 - 74
42 Rak Kyung Oh (Seoul, South Korea) 36-38 - 74
42 Su A Kim (Seoul, South Korea) 35-39 - 74
42 Lori Atsedes (Ithaca, N.Y.) 37-37 - 74
42 Tiffany Tavee (Tempe, Ariz.) 38-36 - 74
42 Alexandra Braga (Los Angeles, Calif.) 38-36 - 74
42 Maria Laura Elvira (Buenos Aires, Argentina) 37-37 - 74
42 Amanda Mathis (Opelousas, La.) 38-36 - 74
42 Hannah Jun (San Diego, Calif.) 38-36 - 74
42 Sarah Olsen (Grosse Ile, Mich.) 38-36 - 74
42 Christi Cano (San Antonio, Texas) 36-38 - 74
42 Laura Crawford (Lancaster, S.C.) 36-38 - 74
42 Misun Cho (Cheongju, South Korea) 37-37 - 74
42 Onnarin Sattayabanphot (Bangkok, Thailand) 36-38 - 74
42 Mina Harigae (Monterey, Calif.) 37-37 - 74
42 Janell Howland (Boise, Idaho) 40-34 - 74
42 Chris Brady (Charlotte, N.C.) 35-39 - 74
42 Hwanhee Lee (Las Vegas, Nev.) 37-37 - 74
42 Aimee Cho (Orlando, Fla.) 39-35 - 74
42 Selanee Henderson (Apple Valley, Calif.) 36-38 - 74
64 Melissa Eaton (Port Shepstone, South Africa) 38-37 - 75
64 Ashley Knoll (The Woodlands, Texas) 39-36 - 75
64 Alejandra Shaw (Vina Del Mar, Chile) 37-38 - 75
64 Briana Vega (Andover, Mass.) 36-39 - 75
64 Christine Cho (Kent, Wash.) 37-38 - 75
64 Min Seo Kwak (Seoul, South Korea) 35-40 - 75
64 Sohi Moon (Seoul, South Korea) 37-38 - 75
64 Tanya Dergal (Durango, Mexico) 36-39 - 75
64 Lehua Wise (Kauai, Hawaii) 36-39 - 75
64 Gerina Mendoza (Roswell, N.M.) 36-39 - 75
64 Susan Nam (Edmonton, Alberta) 37-38 - 75
64 Jessica Carafiello (Coral Springs, Fla.) 38-37 - 75
64 Carling Coffing (Middletown, Ohio) 37-38 - 75
64 Dewi Claire Schreefel (Netherlands) 36-39 - 75
64 Whitney Wade (Glasgow, Ky.) 39-36 - 75
64 Jenna Pearson (Wheaton, Ill.) 35-40 - 75
64 Pornanong Phatlum (Thailand) 36-39 - 75
81 Michelle Jarman (Wilmington, N.C.) 38-38 - 76
81 Stephanie George (Myerstown, Pa.) 38-38 - 76
81 Becky Lucidi (Poway, Calif.) 40-36 - 76
81 Sara Brown (Tucson, Ariz.) 40-36 - 76
81 Whitney Myers (York. Pa.) 40-36 - 76
81 Lee Ann Walker-Cooper (Southport, N.C.) 37-39 - 76
81 Janice Olivencia (Caguas, Puerto Rico) 37-39 - 76
81 Susan Choi (Natick, Mass.) 38-38 - 76
81 Brandi Jackson (Greenville, S.C.) 40-36 - 76
81 Esther Choe (Scottsdale, Ariz.) 39-37 - 76
81 Stephanie Oukeo (Paris, France) 36-40 - 76
81 Malinda Johnson (Eau Claire, Wis.) 36-40 - 76
81 Heather Angell (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 38-38 - 76
81 Sam White (Potomac, Md.) 40-36 - 76
81 Violeta Retamoza (Aguascalientes, Mexico) 38-38 - 76
81 Michaela Cavener (Ponca City, Okla.) 38-38 - 76
81 Erina Yamato (Japan) 40-36 - 76
81 Dana Je (Orlando, Fla.) 35-41 - 76
81 Stacey Tate (Auckland, New Zealand) 40-36 - 76
100 Kimberly Goedecke (Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.) 40-37 - 77
100 Sookhee Baek (Altamonte Springs, Fla.) 39-38 - 77
100 Jessica Shepley (Oakville, Ontario) 39-38 - 77
100 Kelly Lagedrost (Brooksville, Fla.) 36-41 - 77
100 Lisa Meldrum (Montreal, Quebec) 37-40 - 77
100 Maggie Simons (Raleigh, N.C.) 36-41 - 77
100 Sophia Sheridan (Guadalajara, Mexico) 40-37 - 77
100 Rachel Bailey (Faulconbridge, Australia) 40-37 - 77
100 Y J Jin (Seoul, South Korea) 42-35 - 77
100 Katie Miller (Jeannette, Pa.) 39-38 - 77
100 Kim Augusta (Rumford, R.I.) 40-37 - 77
111 Santie Koch (Potgietersrus, South Africa) 41-37 - 78
111 Moon Su (Incheon, South Korea) 41-37 - 78
111 Benedikte Grotvedt (Nesbru, Norway) 39-39 - 78
111 Noon Huachai (Bangkok, Thailand) 40-38 - 78
111 Bridget Dwyer (Kailua, Hawaii) 38-40 - 78
111 Lorraine Ballerano (Myrtle Beach, S.C.) 39-39 - 78
111 Moah Chang (Los Angeles, Calif.) 41-37 - 78
111 Jenny Suh (Fairfax, Va.) 39-39 - 78
111 Jieun Oh (Je Ju, South Korea) 40-38 - 78
111 Cindy Lee-Pridgen (Sabah, Malaysia) 36-42 - 78
121 Jennifer Ackerson (Dallas, Texas) 40-39 - 79
121 Tiffany Prats (Williston, Fla.) 37-42 - 79
121 Lindsey Bergeon (Sarasota, Fla.) 39-40 - 79
121 Katie Fraley (Brandenburg, Ky.) 42-37 - 79
121 Stephanie Kim (a) (Orlando, Fla.) 40-39 - 79
121 Carol Robertson (Virginia Beach, Va.) 36-43 - 79
127 Laura Bavaird (Grosse Ile, Mich.) 39-41 - 80
127 Devan Andersen (Guadalajara, Mexico) 39-41 - 80
127 Gina Umeck (Redlands, Calif.) 39-41 - 80
127 Marci Turner (Tompkinsville, Ky.) 44-36 - 80
127 Marcela Leon (Monterrey, Mexico) 42-38 - 80
127 Dana Bates (Thousand Palms, Calif.) 41-39 - 80
133 Georgette Rolle (Nassau, Bahamas) 39-42 - 81
133 Renee Skidmore (Everett, Wash.) 41-40 - 81
133 Kylene Pulley (Kokomo, Ind.) 42-39 - 81
133 Jill Frantz (Iowa City, Iowa) 42-39 - 81
133 Sin Ah Ham (Seoul, South Korea) 43-38 - 81
133 Taya Battistella (Bend, Ore.) 39-42 - 81
133 Kim Welch (Sacramento, Calif.) 38-43 - 81
140 Tzu-Chi Lin (Taichung, Taiwan) 42-41 - 83
141 Eva Yoe (Hong Kong, China) 42-42 - 84
141 Kelly Froelich (Raizeux, France) 40-44 - 84
Withdrew: Kristie Smith (Perth, Australia), Lilly Kobayashi (Santa Monica, Calif.)