Ladies European Tour Scoreboard
SAS LADIES MASTERS
Fritzoe Gard, Larvik, Norway
FINAL TOTALS
Par 219 (3x73)
207 Diana Luna (Ita) 67 70 70
208 Laura Cabanillas (Spa) 70 68 70
209 Felicity Johnson 69 72 68, Tania Elosegui (Spa) 71 69 69, Beth Allen (USA) 72 68 69, Iben Tinning (Den) 71 71 67, Lisa Holm Sorensen (Den) 62 74 73, Veronica Zorzi (Ita) 66 68 75, Samantha Head 66 73 70, Stephanie Na (Aus) 70 71 68
210 Melissa Reid 67 72 71
211 Virginine Lagoutte-Clement (Fra) 73 69 69, Sophie Giquel (Fra) 66 73 72, Becky Brewerton 71 70 70, Trish Johnson (USA) 69 70 72, Johanna Westerberg (Swe) 69 72 70, Carmen Alonso (Spa) 67 75 69, Emma Cabrera Bello (Spa) 68 74 69
212 Linda Wessberg (Swe) 75 70 67, Marianne Skarpnord (Nor) 70 69 73, Christel Boeljon (Ned) 70 71 71, Lee-Anne Pace (USA) 72 69 71, Anna Knutsson (Swe) 72 68 72, Rebecca Hudson 68 71 73
213 Georgina Simpson 72 70 71, Anna-Lise Caudal (Fra) 69 76 68, Gwladys Nocera (Fra) 71 69 73
214 Rebecca Coakley 70 74 70, Breanne Alicia Loucks 73 68 73, Denise-Charlotte Becker (Ger) 71 73 70
215 Lotta Maria Wahlin (Swe) 73 72 70, Martina Eberl (Ger) 70 74 71
216 Marta Prieto (Spa) 69 74 73, Cassandra Kirkland (Fra) 69 70 77
217 Sophie Walker 74 70 73, Hazel Kavanagh 71 73 73, Lynnette Teresa Brooky (Nzl) 72 71 74, Karen-Margrethe Juul (Den) 72 73 72
218 Malene Jorgensen (Den) 71 74 73, Marjet Van Der Graaff (Ned) 70 73 75
219 Katharina Schallenberg (Ger) 68 75 76, Nina Reis (Swe) 71 74 74, Cecilie Lundgreen (Nor) 71 72 76, Federica Piovano (Ita) 73 72 74
220 Bing Lim (Mal) 70 73 77, Jessica Ji (Kor) 70 75 75
221 Elizabeth Bennett 71 74 76, Bronwyn Mullins-Lane (Aus) 72 73 76
224 Mianne Bagger (Den) 69 76 79
225 Julie Tvede (Den) 73 71 81

Nine new caps in Continental team

for Vagliano Trophy match

NEWS RELEASE ISSUED BY THE EUROPEAN GOLF ASSOCIATION
The Continent of Europe team to play Great Britain & Ireland in the Vagliano Trophy match at Hamburg Golf Club on July 24 and 25 is:

Laura GONZALES-ESCALLON Belgium
Lucie ANDRE France
Rosanna CREPIAT France
Marion RICORDEAU France
Caroline MASSON Germany
Pia HALBIG Germany
Marieke NIVARD Netherlands
Adriana ZWANK Spain
Caroline HEDWALL Sweden
Reserves:
Ines DIAZ NEGRETE Spain
Thea HOFFMEISTER Germany

Experienced captain Macarena Campomanes will be looking to successfully defend the 2007 victory achieved against the Great Britain and Ireland team over the Torrance Course, Fairmont St Andrews in 2007.
As the biennial Vagliano Trophy Match approaches, held this year in Hamburg, Germany, the Continent of Europe team has nine new names. The first three listed are the current German, Spanish and Portuguese International Ladies’ Amateur champions respectively.
French National Ladies’ Champion, Marion Ricordeau is also World Ladies’ University Champion.
NCAA player Caroline Masson, was International Spanish and German Ladies’ Amateur Champion in 2008 and was recently third in the Ladies’ British Open Amateur Championship. Fellow national, Pia Halbig, won the 2009 Slovenian Ladies Amateur Championship.
Marieke Nivard was top individual in the European Nations’ Cup and, in 2008, won the Duke of York Young Champions’ Trophy, the German Girls’ Open and the Dutch National Stroke Play Championship.
A player awarded All-America honours, Adriana Zwanck is a former International Spanish Amateur Champion and European Ladies’ Team Champion team member.
2007 International European Ladies’ Amateur champion, Caroline Hedwall was also a member of the Swedish team winning the Espirito Santo Trophy in Australia late last year.
Nathalie Mansson of Sweden was originally named in the team, but her unavailability has provided the former first reserve, Rosanna Crepiat with her position prior to this press release.
Richard Heath
EGA Championship Manager

Four Aberdeenshire golfing girls who have plenty to smile about - they have all won their home clubs' WOMEN'S championships this season. Left to right: Louise McGillivary (Banchory), Lauren Duncan (Aboyne) Sophie Alexander (Deeside) and Rachel Polson (Peterculter). Image by Cal Carson Golf Agency. Click on it to enlarge.

Hot scoring by Sophie, Kelly

in Oldmeldrum heat-wave

By COLIN FARQUHARSON

The scoring - very hot, indeed - matched the weather at Oldmeldrum Golf Club for today's Aberdeenshire girls' medal competition.

There were two net 66s over the 5,203yd ladies' course which hs a par of 71 (36-35) and a Standard Scratch of 72.

Deeside's Sophie Alexander headed the scratch returns with a fine round of 73 (39-34) which, off a handicap of seven, gave her a net 66. Sophie's handicap has recently gone up from six to seven. Once we get the CSS worked out for today - organiser Ethel Farquharson is basking in the Spanish sunshine at Hacienda del Alamo Golf Resort until next Tuesday - then we can be fairly confident that Sophie's handicap will come back down again.

The other net 66 was returned by 16-year-old Oldmeldrum girl Kelly Guthrie, pictured above by Cal Carson Golf Agency. The remarkable feature about Kelly is that (a) she did not take up golf until last year, (b) she has cut her handicap from 30 to 16 this season, and (c) she was making her debut on the Aberdeenshire girls' competition circuit.

Kelly is almost self-taught apart from "two or three lessons from Hamish Love," the Oldmeldrum club pro.

She almost drove the first green - some 205 yards away, all uphill - and started with a gross birdie 3. Her halves were 40 and 42. Even without knowing what the CSS, we can confidently predict that Kelly Guthrie's handicap is coming down again

But what a prospect for Aberdeenshire girls to "discover" out of the blue.

LEADING SCRATCH SCORES

Par 71 (36-35)

73 Sophie Alexander (Deeside) 39-34.

81 Rachel Polson (Peterculter) 43-38.

82 Kelly Guthrie (Oldmeldrum) 40-42.

84 Kimberley Beveridge (Aboyne) 41-43, Tegan Seivwright (Deeside) 40-44.

85 Lauren Duncan (Aboyne) 40-45.

87 Louise McGillivary (Banchory) 40-47.

88 Kirsten MacCallum (Newburgh-on-Ythan) 44-44.

NET SCORES

66 Kelly Guthrie (Oldmeldrum) (16), Sophie Alexander (Deeside) (7).

71 Tegan Seivwright (Deeside) (13).

73 Sharon McWilliam (Aboyne) (27).

75 Kimberley Beveridge (Aboyne) (9), Rachel Polson (Peterculter) (6).

78 Lauren Duncan (Aboyne) (7), Kirsten MacCallum (Newburgh on Ythan) (10).

80 Louise McGillivary (Banchory) (7).

81 Vicki Powell (Deeside) (18).

83 Kristina Vannet (Peterculter) (8) 83.

86 Emma Read (Deeside) (15).