Ladies European Tour Scoreboard
LADIES GERMAN OPEN
Golfpark Gut Hausen, nr Munich
THIRD-ROUND TOTALS
Par 216 (3 x 72)
202 Paula Marti (Spa) 67 69 66
203 Martina Eberl (Ger) 71 65 67
206 Melissa Reid 68 67 71, Johanna Westerberg (Swe) 65 67 74
207 Trish Johnson (USA) 71 69 67
208 Jade Schaeffer (Fra) 66 72 70
209 Anna-Lise Caudal (Fra) 70 70 69, Emma Cabrera Bello (Spa) 66 72 71
210 Marianne Skarpnord (Nor) 71 71 68, Lydia Hall 74 70 66, Tania Elosegui (Spa) 71 70 69, Katharina Schallenberg (Ger) 71 70 69
211 Anja Monke (Ger) 71 70 70, Gwladys Nocera (Fra) 70 71 70
212 Sophie Walker 70 70 72
213 Iben Tinning (Den) 72 73 68, Georgina Simpson 75 70 68, Joanne Morley 72 72 69, Anna Knutsson (Swe) 72 71 70, Lucie Andre (Fra) 71 74 68
214 Emma Zackrisson (Swe) 71 73 70, Lee-Anne Pace (USA) 74 72 68, Ursula Wikstrom (Fin) 72 72 70
215 Riikka Hakkarainen (Fin) 71 74 70, Beatriz Recari (Spa) 71 71 73, Jessica Ji (Kor) 68 74 73, Isabella Maconi (Ita) 72 70 73
216 Bettina Hauert (Ger) 72 70 74, Lynn Kenny 68 77 71, Nikki Garrett (Aus) 74 70 72, Stefanie Michl (Aut) 71 74 71, Stefania Croce (Ita) 67 75 74, Krystle Caithness 72 73 71, Diana Luna (Ita) 74 72 70
217 Felicity Johnson 72 74 71, Vikki Laing 73 71 73, Maria Verchenova (Rus) 69 76 72, Julie Greciet (Fra) 75 70 72, Breanne Loucks 73 72 72, Maria Boden (Swe) 72 70 75, Amanda Moltke-Leth (Den) 74 70 73, Anna Tybring (Swe) 71 70 76
218 Karen Lunn (Aus) 67 79 72, Lotta Maria Wahlin (Swe) 73 70 75, Becky Brewerton 71 74 73, Federica Piovano (Ita) 72 72 74, Rebecca Hudson 71 74 73, Joanne Mills (Aus) 75 71 72, Martina Gillen 73 71 74, Henrietta Zuel 74 70 74, Samantha Head 72 71 75, Carmen Alonso (Spa) 72 74 72
219 Beth Allen (USA) 71 72 76, Elena Giraud (Fra) 72 69 78
220 Lisa Hall 73 72 75, Caroline Afonso (Fra) 73 71 76, Laura Gonzales Escallon (Bel) 76 70 74, Stacy Lee Bregman (Rsa) 73 73 74, Veronica Zorzi (Ita) 69 74 77, Claire Aitken 71 73 76, Cassandra Kirkland (Fra) 73 72 75, Clare Queen 69 75 76
221 Zuzana Masinova (Cze) 72 72 77, Laura Terebey (USA) 72 74 75
222 Kiran Matharu 73 73 76, Margherita Rigon (Ita) 73 72 77

There's more to Amanda Blumenherst

than golfing skills ....

United States Curtis Cup player Amanda Blumenherst, in her final weeks as a senior student at Duke University, has been awarded the Dinah Shore Trophy Award by the LPGA Foundation. The Dinah Shore Trophy Award recognises a female US collegiate golfer who excels in both academics and athletics. The nominees must also demonstrate outstanding leadership skills and community service.

Blumenherst, who also received the 2008 Dinah Shore Trophy Award, will earn her degree at Duke in history, with minors in English and theatre studies.

Blumenherst, pictured by Cal Carson Golf Agency in action in last year's Curtis Cup match over the Old Course, St Andrews, has maintained an impressive 3.81 GPA and 72.86 scoring average this season.

As part of the Dinah Shore Trophy Award, Duke University’s women’s golf program will receive a $10,000 grant. The award and the grant are both funded through The LPGA Foundation’s Dinah Shore Scholarship Fund and the Friends of Golf (FOG) organization.

During her four years at Duke, Blumenherst has been an active member of the Student Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC), serving on the executive board three of those years. She was also the lead organiser of Project Share, a Duke student-athlete-run program in which athletes ‘adopt’ families at Christmas time and provide them with presents for the holidays.

This past year, Blumenherst has played an active role in many initiatives, including Habitat for Humanity, Blue Devil Days – a panel of Duke student-athletes who help promote Duke athletics to prospective student-athletes – and an event called MLK “Million Meals.” This event allowed members of the women’s golf team to help package meals to be sent world-wide for populations in need of hunger relief.

Maria Hernandez and Arizona

University win NCAA titles

Arizona University won the NCAA Division 1 women's team championship for the first time since 1998 and Maria Hernandez (Purdue University) followed in the footsteps of another Spanish player, Azahara Munoz (Arizona University) as winner of the individual title at Caves Valley, Maryland.

With her victory, Hernandez, pictured right by Cal Carson Golf Agency, from the Spanish "bull run city" of Pampolona, may have sealed her national player of the year title. She won six times this season including her second Big Ten title. In the final round at Caves Valley, she birdied two of her last three holes to shoot 71 and finish at one-over 289, one shot ahead of Jennifer Song (Souothern California) and two clear of Sweden's Pernila Lindberg (Oklahoma State).

“I don’t think I believe it right now,” Hernandez said. “I knew today that I had to go all out.”

Maria, who has completed her four years at Purdue University, is ranked No 7 on the women's college circuit. She is in the field - as are Pernilla Lindberg, Azahara Munoz, Carlota Ciganda and most of the leading Europeans - for next month's British women's open amateur championship at Royal St David's Golf Club, Harlech in North Wales.

Curtis Cup player Jodi Ewart, after another very good season for New Mexico University, never touched that kind of form in the end-of-season championship.

Jodi, from Catterick, finished joint 39th in the field of 126 with scores of 78, 73, 78 and 75 for 16-over-par 304.

The other English player in the field, the 2007 English girls champion Ellie Givens (Denver University) from Darlington finished joint 63rd on 21-over-par 309 with scores of 73, 80, 80 and 76.

Scotland's Gemma Webster (Ohio State) scored 87, 87, 77 and then an excellent last round of 71 - a fitting way to end her US college golf career - for a total of 322 and 109th place.

LEADING INDIVIDUAL TOTALS

Par 288 (4 x 72)

289 Maria Hernandez (Purdue) 74 72 72 71.

290 Jennifer Song (Southern California) 72 73 71 74.

291 Pernilla Lindberg (Oklahoma State) 74 72 76 69.

293 Amanda Blumenherst (Duke) 75 73 74 71, Azahara Munoz (Arizona State) 78 71 72 72.

294 Nannette Hill (Wake Forest) 72 71 79 782, Calle Nielson (Virginia) 75 76 71 72.

295 Alice Kim (UC Davis) 74 75 70 76, Maria Jose Uribe (UCLA) 75 66 77 77.

296 Lisa McCloskey (Pepperdine) 74 69 78 75.

297 Carlota Ciganda (Arizona State) 74 76 75 72, Stephanie Connelly (UCF) 72 74 75 76, Cindy LaCrosse (Louisville) 76 786 75 70, Stephanie Sherlock (Denver) 70 73 79 75, Jaclyn Sweeney (Arizona State) 76 77 69 75.

Selected totals:

304 Jodi Ewart (New Mexico) 78 73 78 75 (jt 39th).

309 Ellie Givens (Denvere) 73 80 80 76 (jt 63rd).

322 Gemma Webster (Ohio State) 87 87 77 71 (109th).

LEADING TEAM TOTALS

1181 Arizona State.

1190 UCLA.

1191 Southern California.

1199 Oklahoma State.

1206 Denver.

1207 Duke.

1210 North Carolina.

1212 Virginia.

1213 Pepperdine.

24 Teams took part.

95th Scottish women's amateur closed championship final

Scotland's new women's amateur golf champion - Megan Briggs (Kilmacolm Golf Club). Image by Gillian Kirkwood. Click on it to enlarge.

Clark Rosebowl winner Sammy Vass (Tain), left, Southerness GC captain Ian Wilson, and new Scottish champion Megan Briggs (image by Gillian Kirkwood).

The four players who contested the semi-finals. Left to right: Jane Turner (Mortonhall), Megan Briggs (Kilmacolm), Louise Kenney (Pitreavie) and Elaine Moffat (St Regulus). Image by Gillian Kirkwood.

Photos taken last week of the Scottish Championship trophy winners,
finalists and semifinalists can be found on the Kirkwoodgolf Picasa site

Megan Briggs is new Scottish champion-

4&3 win in final over Louise Kenney

Megan Briggs (Kilmacolm) is the 95th Scottish women's closed amateur champion.
She beat Louise Kenney (Pitreavie) by 4 and 3 in the 18-hole final at Southerness Golf Club on the north shore of the Solway Firth this morning.
Megan, one down after two holes, took a grip on the final by winning four holes in a row from the fifth with par figures.
At the turn, the 19-year-old Renfrewshire county champion for the past four years and a Strathclyde University student, was three up on her Scotland international team-mate, Louise Kenney, a 26 year old schoolteacher
Megan has a handicap of one, Louse has a +1 rating.
Image of finalists on right (Louise, left, Megan, right) by courtesy of Fiona Farquharson, SLGA Tournament Officer. Click on it to enlarge.

FIGURES FOR FIRST NINE HOLES
Par ..........4-4-4-3-5-4-3-4-5--OUT 36
BRIGGS: 4-5-5-3-5-4-3-4-4--OUT 37 (one over par) Three up KENNEY:4-4-5-3-6-5-4-5-4--OUT 40 (three over par)

Kenney scored her first success since the second hole with a par at the short 10th. Briggs was bunkered off the tee and came out to 8ft but missed the putt. Kenney but fell back to three down again by bogeying the par-4 11th.

Kenney drove into the heather from the 11th tee, and mishit her second which just carried the ditch in front of the green. She played a good pitch but missed the putt. Briggs was on in two and, with two putts, went three up once more.
The 12th was halved in bogey 5s. Kenney drove into the bunker on the right and Megan just carried it. All Kenny could do was get it out. Megan put her second shot left of the green. Kenny hit a very good fairway wood on to the green. Megan chipped On. Kenney left her putt short but two-putted. Holed halved. Briggs still three up.

The long 13th was halved in birdie 4s and both drove well. Briggs three up with five to play.
Briggs made it back-to-back birdies with a 4 at the long 14th to go four up.

Kenney drove into the heather on the right. Briggs hit middle of the fairway with her drive. Kenney came up short of the green in two but two putted Briggs also two putts.

Both hit the green at the short 15th. Two putts head for a half in threes left Briggs the champion by 4 and 3. She holed a two-footer for the championship.

Megan, with three birdies to her credit, was one over par approximately for the holes play. Louise, who had two birdies. was roughly five over par at the finish.

The final was played in a very friendly spit. The captain of the Southerness club, Ian Wilson, remarked on it in his closing speech. Both players were very generous with their concessions.

It was quite windy - is Southerness every wind-less? - although not as bad as the qualifying days. A steady light drizzle for the first swix holes but it dried up. Not a warm day.

The scoring was disappointing with Louise Kenney probably disappointed with her driving. She had some great up and downs in the first half.

The Southerness fairways are wide but if you miss then you are often in heather and the resulting shot is unpredictable.

There is a match-play saying that you play your good golf getting to the final, not usually in it. That is almost certainly true as far as Louise Kenney is concerned. She peaked in her quarter-final win over the No 2 seed, Kylie Walker (Buchanan Castle), in which she had back-to-back eagles on the inward half and was four under par in winning by 3 and 2.

FIGURES FOR SECOND NINE HOLES
Par-------3-4-4-5-5-3
BRIGGS: 4-4-5-4-4-3
KENNEY 3-5-5-4-5-3

WHOM THEY BEAT

MEGAN BRIGGS

Qualified as No 4 seed

Round 1: Beat Wendy Nicholson (Broomieknowe) (29th qualifier) 8 and 7.

Round 2: Beat Katy McNicoll (Carnoustie Ladies) (No 3 seed) 1 hole.

Quarter-final: Beat Laura Murray (Alford) (No 5 seed) 4 and 3.

Semi-final: Beat Jane Turner (Mortonhall) (No 8 seed) at 19th.

Final: Beat Louise Kenney (Pitreavie) (No 10 seed) 4 and 3.

LOUISE KENNEY

Qualifying in 10th position of 32

Round 1: Beat Rachael McQueen (Troon Ladies) (2rd qualifier) 5 and 3.

Round 2: Beat Clare-Marie Carlton (Fereneze) (15th qualifier) 2 and 1.

Quarter-final: Bt Kylie Walker (Buchanan Castle) (No 2 seed) 3 and 2.

Semi-final: Bt Elaine Moffat (St Regulus) (22nd qualifier) 5 and 4.

Final: Lost to Megan Briggs (Kilmacolm) (No 4 seed) 4 and 3.

US LPGA Tour Scoreboard
CORNING CLASSIC
Corning Country Club, Corning, New York State
SECOND ROUND TOTALS
Par 144 (2 x 72) 6,223yd
1. Karine Icher (France) 64-66--130
2. Hee-Won Han 65-67--132
3. Sandra Gal (Germany) 65-69--134
3. Mikaela Parmlid (Sweden) 67-67--134
3. Seon Hwa Lee 67-67--134
3. Na Yeon Choi 66-68--134
3. Sarah Kemp 66-68--134
3. Soo-Yun Kang 65-69--134
9. Song-Hee Kim 67-68--135
9. Suzann Pettersen 67-68--135
9. Minea Blomqvist 65-70--135
9. Jimin Jeong 66-69--135
9. Reilley Rankin 67-68--135
14. Meredith Duncan 69-67--136
14. Mi Hyun Kim 69-67--136
14. Lorie Kane 70-66--136
14. Helen Alfredsson 67-69--136
14. Lindsey Wright 67-69--136
14. Beth Bader 70-66--136
20. Mika Miyazato 70-67--137
20. Nicole Castrale 66-71--137
20. Katherine Hull 68-69--137
20. Ji Young Oh 70-67--137
20. Hee Young Park 64-73--137
20. Wendy Doolan 70-67--137
26. Marcy Hart 69-69--138
26. Becky Morgan 69-69--138
26. Il Mi Chung 67-71--138
26. Natalie Gulbis 68-70--138
26. Michele Redman 72-66--138
26. Angela Stanford 69-69--138
26. Yani Tseng 68-70--138
26. Brittany Lang 70-68--138
26. In-Kyung Kim 69-69--138
26. Pat Hurst 69-69--138
26. Morgan Pressel 66-72--138
26. Paula Creamer 66-72--138
26. Sarah Lee 65-73--138
39. Janice Moodie 69-70--139
39. Amy Hung 68-71--139
39. Jamie Hullett 69-70--139
39. Stacy Prammanasudh 69-70--139
39. Vicky Hurst 70-69--139
39. Cristie Kerr 68-71--139
39. Momoko Ueda 72-67--139
39. Meena Lee 67-72--139
39. Ai Miyazato 69-70--139
39. Jiyai Shin 68-71--139
39. Jee Young Lee 72-67--139
39. Se Ri Pak 73-66--139
39. Kris Tamulis 69-70--139
52. Russy Gulyanamitta 70-70--140
52. Eunjung Yi 71-69--140
52. Na On Min 67-73--140
52. Jimin Kang 69-71--140
52. Rachel Hetherington 69-71--140
52. Alena Sharp 69-71--140
52. Sun Young Yoo 72-68--140
52. Michelle Wie 73-67--140
52. Mollie Fankhauser 70-70--140
52. Amy Yang 68-72--140
52. Stacy Lewis 71-69--140
63. Allison Hanna-Williams 70-71--141
63. Eva Dahllof 72-69--141
63. Shanshan Feng 69-72--141
63. Teresa Lu 71-70--141
63. Wendy Ward 72-69--141
63. Maria Hjorth 73-68--141
63. Brittany Lincicome 70-71--141
63. Anna Grzebien 70-71--141
63. Karen Stupples 73-68--141
63. Haeji Kang 68-73--141
63. Sung Ah Yim 70-71--141=
63. Anna Nordqvist 69-72--141
MISSED THE CUT
75. Carri Wood 69-73--142
75. Paige Mackenzie 71-71--142
75. Mindy Kim 69-73--142
75. Leah Wigger 75-67--142
75. Jill McGill 72-70--142
75. Brandie Burton 71-71--142
75. Angela Park 71-71--142
75. Louise Stahle 72-70--142
75. Shiho Oyama 69-73--142
75. Meaghan Francella 72-70--142
75. Carin Koch 71-71--142
75. Karin Sjodin 70-72--142
75. Shi Hyun Ahn 74-68--142
75. Moira Dunn 70-72--142
89. Kim Hall 71-72--143
89. Jin Joo Hong 71-72--143
89. Chella Choi 71-72--143
89. Laura Davies 72-71--143
89. Eun-Hee Ji 74-69--143
89. Sophie Gustafson 72-71--143
89. Christina Kim 71-72--143
89. Louise Friberg 72-71--143
89. Kris Tschetter 69-74--143
89. Stephanie Louden 72-71--143
89. Joo Mi Kim 72-71--143
100. Heather Bowie Young 75-69--144
100. Ashleigh Simon 70-74--144
100. Johanna Mundy 74-70--144
100. Kristy McPherson 73-71--144
100. Diana D'Alessio 71-73--144
100. Maggie Will 74-70--144
106. Erica Blasberg 72-73--145
106. Jennifer Rosales 70-75--145
106. Anna Rawson 75-70--145
106. Liselotte Neumann 74-71--145
106. Young Jo 74-71--145
106. Jeanne Cho-Hunicke 77-68--145
112. Irene Cho 71-75--146
112. Charlotte Mayorkas 75-71--146
112. M J Hur 73-73--146
112. Jeehae Lee 73-73--146
112. Becky Lucidi 77-69--146
112. Linda Wessberg 75-71--146
112. Jackie Gallagher-Smith 69-77--146
112. Marisa Baena 72-74--146
120. Katie Futcher 76-71--147
120. Inbee Park 70-77--147
120. Sophie Giquel 73-74--147
123. Brandi Jackson 76-72--148
123. Laura Diaz 76-72--148
123. Dorothy Delasin 72-76--148
123. Jin Young Pak 75-73--148
123. Sarah Jane Smith 73-75--148
128. Lisa Strom 73-76--149
128. Michelle Ellis 74-75--149
128. Tracy Hanson 71-78--149
128. Taylor Leon 73-76--149
128. Na Ri Kim 76-73--149
128. Candie Kung 75-74--149
128. Allison Fouch 74-75--149
128. Kyeong Bae 74-75--149
128. Laurie Rinker 75-74--149
137. Perry Swenson 78-72--150
137. Silvia Cavalleri 73-77--150
139. Carolina Llano 75-76--151
139. Julieta Granada 75-76--151
141. Jan Stephenson 77-75--152
141. Audra Burks 79-73--152
143. Birdie Kim 75-78--153
144. Nicole Jeray 79-75--154