Janice Moodie seventh - earns $37,138

Se Ri Pak wins LPGA Classic play-off

Se Ri Pak birdied the third play-off hole to beat Brittany Lincicome today in a rain-shortened Bell Micro LPGA Classic at Mobile, Alabama.
The Hall of Famer from South Korea used a nice bunker shot to set up the shot that sealed her 25th career win and first since 2007's Owens Corning Classic. Pak hit within 10 feet below the hole on a fairway bunker shot from 164 yards to give herself a birdie chance while Lincicome saved par with a long downhill putt.
Norway's Suzann Pettersen also made the play-off, but bogeyed the second hole on the par-4, 402-yard 18th and headed to the clubhouse.
Pak is unbeaten in six career play-offs.
The trio had tied after 54 holes of the scheduled four-rounder at 13-under-par 203.
Glasgow's Janice Moodie won $37,138 for a seventh place finish.
FINAL TOTALS
Par 216 (3x72)
1 Se Ri Pak 69 66 68 203 $195,000
T2 Suzann Pettersen 68 70 65 203 $103,574
T2 Brittany Lincicome 70 66 67 203 $103,574
T4 Jee Young Lee 66 73 66 205 $55,322
T4 Na Yeon Choi 69 70 66 205 $55,322
T4 Azahara Munoz 65 73 67 205 $55,322
7 Janice Moodie 67 72 67 206 $37,138
8 Song-Hee Kim 70 70 67 207 $32,537
9 Angela Stanford 70 70 68 208 $29,250
T10 Shanshan Feng 71 69 69 209 $25,634
T10 Sun Young Yoo 68 70 71 209 $25,634
T12 Hee-Won Han 71 72 67 210 $21,603
T12 Karrie Webb 71 69 70 210 $21,603
T12 Wendy Ward 71 65 74 210 $21,603
15 Kristy McPherson 73 67 71 211 $19,061
T16 Sarah Jane Smith 74 71 67 212 $14,993
T16 Mariajo Uribe 71 73 68 212 $14,993
T16 Brittany Lang 73 71 68 212 $14,993
T16 Jennifer Rosales 73 70 69 212 $14,993
T16 Inbee Park 71 71 70 212 $14,993
T16 Katie Futcher 71 71 70 212 $14,993
T16 Cristie Kerr 67 74 71 212 $14,993
T16 Kris Tamulis 73 69 70 212 $14,993
T16 Amy Hung 70 71 71 212 $14,993
T16 Amanda Blumenherst 68 73 71 212 $14,993
T26 Chella Choi 71 72 70 213 $10,770
T26 Morgan Pressel 70 72 71 213 $10,770
T26 Meaghan Francella 71 70 72 213 $10,770
T26 Katherine Hull 66 74 73 213 $10,770
T26 Jiyai Shin 70 70 73 213 $10,770
T26 Shi Hyun Ahn 69 70 74 213 $10,770
T26 Haeji Kang 69 69 75 213 $10,770
T33 Karine Icher 69 74 71 214 $7,493
T33 Taylor Leon 71 72 71 214 $7,493
T33 Yani Tseng 73 70 71 214 $7,493
T33 Alena Sharp 76 67 71 214 $7,493
T33 Karin Sjodin 70 72 72 214 $7,493
T33 Hee Young Park 69 73 72 214 $7,493
T33 Juli Inkster 71 71 72 214 $7,493
T33 Pernilla Lindberg 71 71 72 214 $7,493
T33 Jeong Jang 71 70 73 214 $7,493
T33 Mika Miyazato 70 70 74 214 $7,493
T33 Meena Lee 67 72 75 214 $7,493
T44 Giulia Sergas -2 F -1 73 72 70 215 $5,389
T44 Pat Hurst -1 F -1 75 69 71 215 $5,389
T44 Amy Yang +1 F -1 70 72 73 215 $5,389
T44 Stacy Prammanasudh +1 F -1 71 71 73 215 $5,389
T44 Karen Stupples +2 F -1 70 71 74 215 $5,389
T49 Jin Young Pak -1 F E 74 71 71 216 $4,214
T49 Heather Bowie Young E F E 71 73 72 216 $4,214
T49 Natalie Gulbis E F E 72 72 72 216 $4,214
T49 Allison Hanna E F E 72 72 72 216 $4,214
T49 Diana D'Alessio E F E 73 71 72 216 $4,214
T49 Eunjung Yi +1 F E 68 75 73 216 $4,214
T49 Leah Wigger +1 F E 73 70 73 216 $4,214
T49 Momoko Ueda +1 F E 74 69 73 216 $4,214
T49 Ai Miyazato +3 F E 70 71 75 216 $4,214
T58 Mi Hyun Kim +1 F +1 74 70 73 217 $3,325
T58 Mindy Kim +2 F +1 72 71 74 217 $3,325
T58 Michele Redman +3 F +1 69 73 75 217 $3,325
T58 Hye Jung Choi +5 F +1 67 73 77 217 $3,325
T58 Jimin Kang +5 F +1 70 70 77 217 $3,325
T63 Soo-Yun Kang +1 F +2 73 72 73 218 $2,958
T63 Jimin Jeong +2 F +2 75 69 74 218 $2,958
T63 Marianne Skarpnord +3 F +2 69 74 75 218 $2,958
T63 Jill McGill +3 F +2 72 71 75 218 $2,958
T63 Sophie Gustafson +4 F +2 72 70 76 218 $2,958
T68 Irene Cho +3 F +3 69 75 75 219 $2,727
T68 Katie Kempter +4 F +3 72 71 76 219 $2,727
T70 Wendy Doolan +3 F +4 72 73 75 220 $2,596
T70 Libby Smith +4 F +4 71 73 76 220 $2,596
T70 Stephanie Louden +4 F +4 73 71 76 220 $2,596
73 Michelle Wie +4 F +5 72 73 76 221 $2,530

US Duramed Futures Tour Scoreboard
$50,000 Mercedes-Benz of Kansas City Championship
Leawood South Country Club, Leawood, Kansas
TOURNAMENT CUT TO 18 HOLES BECAUSE OF RAIN
FINAL TOTALS
Par 71
1 Ryann O'Toole (San Clemente, Calif.) 31-34 - 65 (-6) $7,000
2 Dewi Claire Schreefel (Diepenveen, Netherlands) 33-34 - 67 (-4) $5,000
3 Christine Song (Fullerton, Calif.) 33-35 - 68 (-3) $3,562
T4 Lori Atsedes (Ithaca, N.Y.) 35-34 - 69 (-2) $2,030
Angela Oh (Maple Shade, N.J.) 33-36 - 69 (-2) $2,030
Lehua Wise (Kauai, Hawaii) 32-37 - 69 (-2) $2,030
T7 Juli Erekson (Chicopee, Mass.) 34-36 - 70 (-1) $953
Jessica Shepley (Oakville, Ontario) 38-32 - 70 (-1) $953
Lisa Ferrero (Lodi, Calif.) 35-35 - 70 (-1) $953
Jessi Gebhardt (Chandler, Ariz.) 35-35 - 70 (-1) $953
Whitney Wade (Glasgow, Ky.) 36-34 - 70 (-1) $953
Erica Moston (Belmont, Calif.) 36-34 - 70 (-1) $953
T13 Alexandra Braga (Los Angeles, Calif.) 36-35 - 71 (E) $471
Leanne Bowditch (Queensland, Australia) 36-35 - 71 (E) $471
Gerina Mendoza (Roswell, N.M.) 36-35 - 71 (E) $471
Amanda Costner (Claremore, Okla.) 33-38 - 71 (E) $471
Mo Martin (Altadena, Calif.) 37-34 - 71 (E) $471
Nontaya Srisawang (Chiang Mai, Thailand) 34-37 - 71 (E) $471
Emma Calderone (Toronto, Ontario) 34-37 - 71 (E) $471
Ai-Chen Kuo (Luzhou City, Taiwan) 36-35 - 71 (E) $471
Lili Alvarez (Durango, Mexico) 36-35 - 71 (E) $471
Christi Cano (San Antonio, Texas) 36-35 - 71 (E) $471
Stephanie Connelly (Pasadena, Md.) 36-35 - 71 (E) $471
Jenny Suh (Fairfax, Va.) 36-35 - 71 (E) $471
Isabelle Beisiegel (St. Hilaire, Quebec) 32-39 - 71 (E) $471
T26 Selanee Henderson (Apple Valley, Calif.) 34-38 - 72 (+1) $343
Perry Swenson Livonius (Charlotte, N.C.) 36-36 - 72 (+1) $343
Jutta Degerman (Kaunianinen, Finland) 34-38 - 72 (+1) $343
Chelsea Curtis (New Seabury, Mass.) 34-38 - 72 (+1) $343
Seul Ki Park (Northbrook, Ill.) 36-36 - 72 (+1) $343
Danielle Mills (Pointe-Claire, Quebec) 37-35 - 72 (+1) $343
Cindy LaCrosse (Tampa, Fla.) 37-35 - 72 (+1) $343
Hana Kim (Los Angeles, Calif.) 35-37 - 72 (+1) $343
Camila Mori (Santiago, Chile) 37-35 - 72 (+1) $343
Rachel Bailey (Faulconbridge, Australia) 35-37 - 72 (+1) $343
Y. J. Jin (Seoul, South Korea) 37-35 - 72 (+1) $343
Jane Rah (Torrance, Calif.) 37-35 - 72 (+1) $343
Tiffany Tavee (Tempe, Ariz.) 35-37 - 72 (+1) $343
Jenny Gleason (Clearwater, Fla.) 34-38 - 72 (+1) $343
Sara Ovadia (Santa Barbara, Calif.) 37-35 - 72 (+1) $343
Sofie Andersson (Angelholm, Sweden) 35-37 - 72 (+1) $343
Lucy Nunn (Lawton, Okla.) 34-38 - 72 (+1) $343
Taryn Durham (Glasgow, Ky.) 35-37 - 72 (+1) $343
T44 Nannette Hill (Pelham, N.Y.) 36-37 - 73 (+2) $291
Carmen Bandea (Atlanta, Ga.) 34-39 - 73 (+2) $291
Christine Cho (Kent, Wash.) 36-37 - 73 (+2) $291
Tanya Dergal (Durango, Mexico) 36-37 - 73 (+2) $291
Jenny Lee (Simi Valley, Calif.) 37-36 - 73 (+2) $291
Kendall Dye (Edmond, Okla.) 36-37 - 73 (+2) $291
Jane Chin (Mission Viejo, Calif.) 37-36 - 73 (+2) $291
Jessy Tang (Daytona Beach, Fla.) 39-34 - 73 (+2) $291
Pornanong Phatlum (Chaiyaphum, Thailand) 37-36 - 73 (+2) $291
Sarah Brown (Lopatcong, N.J.) 36-37 - 73 (+2) $291
Lauren Hunt (Little River, S.C.) 36-37 - 73 (+2) $291
Garrett Phillips (St. Simons Island, Ga.) 36-37 - 73 (+2) $291
Esther Choe (Scottsdale, Ariz.) 36-37 - 73 (+2) $291
Sophia Sheridan (Guadalajara, Mexico) 37-36 - 73 (+2) $291
Caroline Westrup (Ahus, Sweden) 38-35 - 73 (+2) $291
Eileen Vargas (Ibague, Colombia) 35-38 - 73 (+2) $291
Min Seo Kwak (Seoul, South Korea) 36-37 - 73 (+2) $291
Brandi Jackson (Greenville, S.C.) 37-36 - 73 (+2) $291
Malinda Johnson (Eau Claire, Wis.) 36-37 - 73 (+2) $291
Elisa Serramia (Barcelona, Spain) 35-38 - 73 (+2) $291
Seema Sadekar (Toronto, Ontario) 36-37 - 73 (+2) $291
Kelly Lagedrost (Brooksville, Fla.) 37-36 - 73 (+2) $291
T66 Jennifer Bermingham (Long Beach, Calif.) 39-35 - 74 (+3) $257
Veronica Felibert (Caracas, Venezuela) 37-37 - 74 (+3) $257
Marcela Leon (Monterrey, Mexico) 36-38 - 74 (+3) $257
Sara Brown (Tucson, Ariz.) 38-36 - 74 (+3) $257
Laura Crawford (Lancaster, S.C.) 37-37 - 74 (+3) $257
Hanna Kang (Seoul, South Korea) 38-36 - 74 (+3) $257
Ashley Prange (Noblesville, Ind.) 37-37 - 74 (+3) $257
Jordan Craig (a) (Connellsville, Pa.) 38-36 - 74 (+3)
Julia Potter (a) (Granger, Ind.) 38-36 - 74 (+3)
Dori Carter (Valdosta, Ga.) 36-38 - 74 (+3) $257
Kristen Simpson (Norfolk, Va.) 37-37 - 74 (+3) $257
Marina Choi (Los Angeles, Calif.) 36-38 - 74 (+3) $257
Tzu-Chi Lin (Taichung, Taiwan) 36-38 - 74 (+3) $257
Cathryn Bristow (Auckland, New Zealand) 38-36 - 74 (+3) $257
Sophie Jang (Seoul, South Korea) 38-36 - 74 (+3) $257
Kelly Froelich (Raizeux, France) 35-39 - 74 (+3) $257
Hannah Yun (Bradenton, Fla.) 37-37 - 74 (+3) $257
Aimee Cho (Orlando, Fla.) 36-38 - 74 (+3) $257
Noon Huajai (Bangkok, Thailand) 39-35 - 74 (+3) $257
Danah Ford Bordner (Indianapolis, Ind.) 36-38 - 74 (+3) $257
Ayaka Kaneko (Honolulu, Hawaii) 36-38 - 74 (+3) $257
Lauren Doughtie (Suffolk, Va.) 35-39 - 74 (+3) $257
Benedikte Grotvedt (Nesbru, Norway) 38-36 - 74 (+3) $257
Blair Lamb (Flat Rock, N.C.) 37-37 - 74 (+3) $257
Sydney Cox (Edmond, Okla.) 36-38 - 74 (+3) $257

Some of the competitors at Kilspindie Golf Club today. Image courtesy of Lesley Nicholson.

East Lothian Girls' May Medal

The East Lothian Girls played their May Medal at Kilspindie Golf Club today in beautiful sunshine. There were some excellent scores posted with a number of girls reducing their handicaps
Results were as follows:
SSS - 69, CSS -68
1st scratch – Clara Young 74
2nd scratch – Keren Ward 75
1st handicap – Sarah Dunlop 88 (27) 61
2nd handicap – Lara Frostwick 80 (17) 63
3rd handicap – Nandini Nagra 91 (26) 65
4th handicap – Rosie Everett 82 (16) 66

Big-hitting Laura makes it Win No 74 in Ladies German Open

FROM THE LADIES EUROPEAN TOUR WEBSITE
England’s Laura Davies defied tough, cold and windy conditions, to fire a closing four-under-par 68 and claim her 74th career victory at the UniCredit Ladies German Open, presented by Audi, in Munich.
Davies, 46, shot 10-under-par over the final two rounds at Golfpark Gut Häusern and came from nine strokes behind after Friday’s second round.
She finished with an 11-under 277 total, two ahead of compatriot Melissa Reid (73) and three ahead of third round leader Ashleigh Simon of South Africa (75). Australian Karen Lunn took outright fourth after a 69 and finished one stroke back, with Sweden’s Helen Alfredsson (71), Denmark’s Iben Tinning (71) and Sweden’s Linda Wessberg (75) sharing fifth.
It was Davies’ 40th Ladies European Tour victory following her win at the Pegasus New Zealand Women’s Open in February, when she became the Tour’s oldest ever winner. The last time she played in Germany was in 1992 when she won the European Ladies’ Open at Golf Club Beuerberg and she fancied her chances as soon as she saw the course.
“A couple of players had said to me, ‘Go to Germany, you’re going to love it’, and they were spot on,” said Davies. “I love playing golf courses which allow me to have fun and use my driver and cut some corners. This is built for me. I think the architect had me in mind.”
The four-time major champion started the day four shots behind Simon, but said that the key was that she didn’t have a bogey all weekend: “I had four birdies and I didn’t have a bogey on the weekend and that’s always a good thing.”
She was off to a flying start when she birdied the 311-yard par-four first hole, which was playing down wind. She aimed for the green with her driver and finished pin high, just off the edge.”I started off with that lovely drive down the first and relaxed straight away,” she said.
Laura then drove the green on the 381yd par-4 seventh: “I pitched one up there and nearly holed the putt actually. It was just hanging in for an eagle but then that got my round going, to be honest,” she said.
Davies grabbed a three-way share of the lead after Simon, playing two groups behind, bogeyed the same hole. With her birdie on 17, which was virtually a tap-in, she opened up a two shot lead over Reid.
On her approach to the 17th green, she said: “It was the worst shot I hit all day. It was a wedge that I sort of blocked out to the right, hit on the side of the green and trickled down to five inches. I hit some lovely shots all day and missed the putts and then go and get one lucky like that, so that was nice.”
She later admitted in a television interview that she stood on the 18th fairway, which is a 519-yard par-five, with a seven-iron in her hand, thinking “please don’t shank it,” and hit a beautiful third shot to within 12 feet of the flag. She took a par but Reid was unable to birdie the last two holes meaning Davies took the title, the €49,500 first prize and a convertible AUDI A5.
Davies loves her cars and had earlier joked that she was going to drive off in the AUDI R8 Spider that she had been given to drive for the week so she was “over the moon.” She was also delighted to extend her lead at the top of the Ladies European Tour’s Henderson Money List.
“That’s the key for these four weeks that I’m playing: I want to have a good run and try to establish a good position on the (Henderson) Money List,” she said. She has now earned €128,481 form five events and is approximately €60,000 ahead of second placed Reid.
Having fallen just short of back-to-back titles after winning her maiden event last week in Turkey, Reid said: “I’m disappointed. I came here to win. I just didn’t hole anything the last 27 holes.
“Me and Lee, (Griffiths) were just saying we must have missed 15 putts inside 10 feet on the last 27 holes so we missed a lot but fair play to Laura. She played great today in that wind: it’s a really good score.”
COLIN FARQUHARSON'S SCOTSWATCH:
Krystle Caithness earned 8,250 Euros for an eighth place finish, six strokes behind winner Laura Davies in
The Cupar-based Fifer had rounds of 74, 69, 66 and 74 for a five-under-par total of 283.
She had the momentum to mount a challenge after her Saturday 66 but she lost it over the first nine holes of her final circuit.
Caithness double-bogeyed the first and also dropped shots at the seventh and ninth to reach the turn in 40. She perked up after that with birdies at the 11th, 13th and 18th but further bogeys, at the 10th and 17th, in her inward 34 deprived her of a top five finish.
Lynn Kenny (Archerfield Links) from Dunblane tied for 20th place on 287 with scores of 76, 69, 72 and 70. She earned 4059 Euros.
The two Scottish schoolgirls who made the cut - 14-year-old South-Korean born Julie Yang, a pupil at Loretto Golf Academy, Musselburgh, and 17-year-old rookie pro Carly Booth from Comrie, a student at Glenalmond School, finished joint 31st and 43rd respectively.
Julie, the only amateur to survive the halfway cut, had very steady rounds of 71, 73, 71 and 74 for a one-over-par total of 289. She would have finished under par but for a double bogey 6 - her only one of the 72 holes - at the 16th in her final round.
Carly earned 1881 Euros with scores of 70, 75, 74 and 73 for a total of four-over-par 292. Booth is not picking up big money yet but she is making the cuts which is all-important in her rookie year. It's a good habit to develop.
After a week off, trying to avoid travel chaos caused by the Icelandic volcano, the players will reconvene for the next event on the Ladies European Tour schedule, which is the Allianz Ladies Slovak Open at Gray Bear Golf Course in Tále, from 27-30 May.
FINAL TOTALS
Par 288 (4x72)
Prize money in Euros.
277 Laura Davies (England) 71 72 66 68 (49,500).
279 Melissa Reid (England) 70 65 71 73 (33,495).
280 Ashleigh Simon (South Africa) 71 70 64 75 (23,100).
281 Karen Lunn (Australia) 74 66 72 69 (17,820).
282 Helen Alfredsson (Sweden) 70 71 70 71, Iben Tinning (Denmark) 67 74 70 71, Linda Wessberg (Delsjo Golf Klubb, Sweden) 70 64 73 75 (11,814 each)
283 Krystle Caithness (Scotland) 74 69 66 74 (8,250).
284 Jade Schaeffer (France) 70 74 70 70, Emma Cabrera-Bello (Spain) 71 71 71 71, Caroline Afonso (France) 71 71 70 72, Lisa Holm Sorensen (Esbjerg Golfklub, Denmark) 69 74 69 72 (6,435 each).
285 Lee-Anne Pace (South Africa) 68 69 73 75 5,313.00 »»
286 Nina Reis (Lysegarden, Sweden)74 71 70 71, Breanne Loucks (WAL) Wales 70 73 71 72 »»
Nikki Garrett (Australia)) 72 69 71 74, Veronica Zorzi (Italy) 72 70 70 74, Alison Walshe (Ireland) 72 71 69 74, Caroline Masson (Germany)72 68 68 78 (4,702.50 each).
287 Lynn Kenny (Archerfield Links) 76 69 72 70, Beth Allen (USA) 73 71 70 73, Elizabeth Bennett (Brokenhurst Manor) 75 70 69 73, Melodie Bourdy (Golf Bordelais, France) 72 74 68 73,
Felicity Johnson (Harborne) 72 73 68 74 (4,059 each).
288 Frances Bondad (Australia) 73 73 71 71, Kristie Smith (Perth, Australia) 71 71 74 72, Tandi Cuningham (Wanderers GC, South Africa) 73 71 71 73, Ursula Wikstrom (Finland) 75 68 70 75,
Rebecca Hudson (England) 69 71 72 76, Marjet van der Graaff (Golf Team Holland) 73 72 66 77 (3,514 each).
289 Malene Jorgensen (Odense GC, Denmark) 71 75 71 72, Rebecca Coakley (Team (reland0 71 69 72 77 (3,118.50 each), Julie Yang (South Korea) (am) 71 73 71 74.
290 Smriti Mehra (India) 71 74 73 72 2,821.50, Nicole Gergely (Austria) 74 72 69 75 »»
Becky Brewerton (Wales) 74 67 73 76, Kyra van Leeuwen (Netherlands) 71 71 71 77 (2,821 each).
291 Hannah Jun (USA) 73 73 74 71, Trish Johnson (Desert Springs) 71 75 72 73, Julie Greciet (France) 70 75 71 75, Marta Prieto (Spain) 71 74 70 76, Florentyna Parker (Golf Lounge Hamburg) 70 75 70 76 (2,369.40 each).
292 Florence Luscher (Switzerland) 72 74 75 71, K M Juul (DEN) Denmark 73 73 75 71, Mollie Fankhauser (USA) 74 72 74 72, Carly Booth (Scotland) 70 75 74 73, Laura Cabanillas (Benahavis Pueblo, Spain) 69 75 73 75, Sophie Sandolo (Italy) 70 76 71 75 (1,881 each).
293 Jeehae Lee (South Korea) 74 71 78 70, Maria Boden (SWE) Sweden 73 73 75 72, Tara Delaney (Team Ireland) 74 72 73 74, Stacy Lee Bregman (South Africa) 71 74 79 69, Anja Monke (Germany) 72 72 70 79 (1,518 Euros)
294 Hazel Kavanagh (Spawell Driving Range, Ireland) 72 72 72 78 (1,320)
296 Dana Lacey-Johnson (Australia) 71 73 74 78, Caroline Rominger (Switzerland)72 74 71 79 (1,221 each)
297 Claire Aitken (Mid Kent G C) 74 72 72 79 (1,122).
298 Lisa Hall (England) 70 76 77 75 (1,089).
299 Elin Emanuelsson (Sweden) 70 75 74 80(1,056).
303 Emma Zackrisson (SWE) Sweden 75 71 74 83 (1,023).
Retired: Christel Boeljon (NL) Golf Team Holland 69 68 80 - (990).

US Futures Tour event cut to 36 holes due to rain

NEWS RELEASE FROM THE US DURAMED FUTURES TOUR
LEAWOOD, Kansas- Second-round play of the $100,000 Mercedes-Benz of Kansas City was cancelled today due to forecast rain in the area. Final-round play began at 8:45 a.m. local time at the Leawood South Country Club.
Duramed Futures Tour professionals returned to the Leawood South Country Club this morning to finish second-round play after it was suspended on Saturday due to the course being rendered unplayable. Players were repaired for the final round based on first-round results.
"Due to Saturday's rain saturating the course and with more rain on the way, we decided to cancel second-round play, make the cut, and begin the final round," said Christy Barks, Vice-president of Tournament Operations.
"The ultimate goal is to complete 36 holes of play."
Ninety players made the 18-hole cut at 74 (+3). Twenty-five players currently stand at even-par 71 or lower after the first round.
For scores and more information, visit www.duramedfuturestour.com.
Weather: Showers. Temperatures in the mid to high 50s. Winds from the east – northeast at 8 mph.

Emily Ogilvy (left) and Laura Walker after this afternoon's Perth & Kinross county championship final (image courtesy of Dawn Butchart).

Laura beat Emily in classic Perth & Kinross final

Schoolteacher Laura Walker (Muckhart) won the Perth & Kinross women's county championship for the second time in three years over the Blairgowrie Lansdowne course today.

The leading qualifier, Laura beat Emily Ogilvy (Auchterarder), the No 3 seed, by one hole in a quality match in which the better ball was seven under par.
Team-mates at the same United States university some years ago, Laura and Emily last met in the 2007 North of Scotland women’s championship final at Lossiemouth where Laura won at the 20th.
Their Blairgowrie clash was almost just as close once more. Laura, Scottish girls champion in 2002, had two chip-ins which, in the final analysis, proved to be the difference between two well-matched players.
Walker chipped in for an eagle 3 at the long seventh and again at the 10th for a birdie to square the match.
Laura went one up at the 11th but Emily squared it at the next. It was nip-and-tuck from there on in until they stood on the 18th tee all square. Walker was able to win the last for the county title. But what a match!
The handicap final was won by Susan McDougall (Aberfeldy), the leading qualifier. Playing off 25 of a handicap, she beat Linda Mailer (King James VI) by one hole.
Weekend results:

SCRATCH

FIRST ROUND

Laura Walker (Muckhart) bt Janice Lang (Alyth) 6 and 5.

Alexandra Bushby (Blairgowrie) bt Julie White (Auchterarder) 4 and 3.

Eilidh Watson (Muckhart) bt Annabel Niven (Crieff) 4 and 3.

Gwen Lambie (Dunkeld & Birnam) bt Jacqueline Sneddon (Alyth) at 19th.

Emily Ogilvy (Aucherarder) bt Moira Begbie (Ladybank) 6 and 5.

Fiona Ramsay (Crieff) bt Janet Griffiths (Strathmore) 2 and 1.

Jane Yellowlees (Murrayshall) bt Alyson Houston (Milnathort) 2 holes.

Jillian Milne (Craigie Hill) bt Norma Fleming (Blairgowrie) 6 and 4.
QUARTER-FINALS
Walker bt Bushby 4 and 3.
Watson bt Lambie 2 and 1.
Ogilvy bt Ramsay 7 and 5.
Milne bt Yellowlees 7 and 6.
SEMI-FINALS

Walker bt Watson 2 and 1.

Ogilvy bt Milne 4 and 3.
FINAL
Walker bt Ogilvy 1 hole.

HANDICAP CHAMPIONSHIP

QUARTER-FINALS

Susan McDougall (Aberfeldy) bt Alyson Stockley (Craigie Hill) 1 hole.

Kathy McKay (Crieff) bt Helen Payne (Alyth) 6 and 5.

M Forbes (Muckhart) bt Elaine Davidson (Crieff) 3 and 2.

Linda Mailer (King James VI) bt Fiona Johnston (Alyth) 2 and 1.
SEMI-FINALS
McDougall bt McKay 4 and 3.
Mailer bt Forbes 3 and 2.
FINAL
McDougall bt Mailer 1 hole.

Loretto Golf Academy wonder girl bids for

Welsh-Irish stroke-play double at Newlands

Julie Yang, the 14-year-old South Korean born pupil at Loretto Golf Academy, will be bidding to pull off a Welsh-Irish title double when she competes in the Irish women's open amateur stroke-play championship at Newlands Golf Club, Dublin on Saturday-Sunday, June 5-6.
Julie beat Nikki Foster (Pleasington) at the first hole of a play-off to win the Welsh open stroke-play title at Southerndown on Sunday, May 2.
Since then Julie has won the Independent Schools Golf Association individual title and, after leading all the way, was pipped over the final round by Lucie Andre (France), the top-ranked European female amateur of 2008, for the German women's open amateur championship at Dusseldorf last Sunday.
For an encore, Julie was the only amateur to survive the cut in this weekend's Ladies European Tour event, the German Ladies Open, at Munich and finished on one-over-par 289 after a double bogey 6 at her third last hole.
In last year’s Irish women's open amateur stroke-play championship, Lisa Maguire (Slieve Russell) beat England’s Hannah Burke at the seventh extra of a sudden-death play-off to claim the 2009 title.
This year, Lisa and her twin sister Leona, along with Danielle McVeigh (Royal Co Down Ladies) will be unable to compete in the premier event due to their selection for the Curtis Cup team to play the USA in Massachusetts, 14-15 June.
A strong field will see 71 competitors play 36 holes stroke play on Saturday with the top 40 playing a final 18 holes on Sunday.
Tee times for the first two rounds:
1st tee am & 10th tee pm.
07:30 & 13:00 Shauna O'Brien (Clonmel) Emma Murphy (Wexford) Nicola Coffey (Woodbrook)07:40 & 13:10 Jessica Carty (Hollywood) Amy Farrell (Moate) Aoife Lowry (Tipperary).
07:50 & 13:20 Sinead O'Sullivan (Galway) Monique Smit (RSA) Leigh Whittaker (GER).
08:00 & 13:30 Niamh Kitching (Limerick) Megan Briggs (SCO) Hermione Fitzgerald (ENG)08:10 & 13:40 Deirdre Smith (Co. Louth) Jane Turner (SCO) Tara Davies (WAL).
08:20 & 13:50 Sinead Benedetti (Roscommon) Caoimhe Quinn (Dungannon) Linda Toomey (Limerick).
08:30 & 14:00 Charlie Douglass (ENG) Gillian O'Leary (Cork) Louise Kenney (SCO).
08:40 & 14:10 Caroline Murphy (Grange) Agnes Doherty (Ballyliffin) Maura Diamond (Royal Portrush).
08:50 & 14:20 Amy Boulden (WAL) Mary Dowling (New Ross) Jessica Speechley (AUS).
09:00 & 14:30 Fiona Briggs (ENG) Sarah Helly (Enniscrone) Sandra Atkinson (Woodbrook)09:10 & 14:40 Julie Yang (SCO) Ellie Robinson (ENG) Louise Mernagh (Woodenbridge)
09:20 & 14:50 Nicola Roessler (GER) Maria Dunne (Skerries) Jenna Birch (ENG)
10th tee am & 1st tee pm
07:30 & 13:00 Barbara Cooney (Laytown & Bettystown) Jenny Hennessy (Ennis)07:40 13:10 Louise Coffey (Malone) Karen O'Neill (Douglas) Anna Carling (WAL).
07:50 & 13:20 Sue Phillips (Woodbrook) Katherine O'Connor (WAL) Emma Sheffield (ENG)08:00 & 13:30 Anne McCormack (Roscommon) Sarah Crowe (Tipperary) Tara Gribben (Warrenpoint).
08:10 & 13:40 Nikki Foster (ENG) Gemma Bradbury (WAL) Victoria Bradshaw (Bangor).
08:20 & 13:50 Niamh O'Connor (Woodbrook) Kate Gallagher (Claremorris) Mary Leahy Browne (Kilkenny).
08:30 & 14:00 Stacey Keating (AUS) Charlotte Wild (ENG) Sarah Cunningham (Ennis).
08:40 & 14:10 Lauren Mackin (ESP) Samantha Birks (ENG) Karen Delaney (Carlow).
08:50 & 14:20 Ashley Ona (AUS) Charlene Reid (Royal Portrush) Alisa Theunis (LUX).
09:00 & 14:30 Holly Robinson (Co. Sligo) Lily Owens (Malahide) Verity Scott (ENG).
09:10 & 14:40 Laura Murray (SCO) Hannah Burke (ENG) Laura McCarthy (Muskerry).
09:20 & 14:50 Justine Lee (AUS) Aedin Murphy (Carlow) Kelly Tidy (ENG).

Sunday: Round 3 for top 40 players (+ties).
08:30 thru 10:50 with leaders going out last

Nicole and Abbey help Nova

Southeastern win NCAA
Division 2 women's team

championship

Nicole Whitmore, pictured first right, a junior student from Milton Keynes, and Abbey Gittings, pictured far right, a Warwickshire county player from Tamworth, helped Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale in Florida, to win the NCAA Division 2 women's team championship in temperatures in the high 80s at Longbow Golf Club, Mesa in the Arizona Desert on Saturday.

Nicole had scores of 75, 75, 73 and 79 to finished joint seventh in a field of 72 behind winner and team-mate Sandra Changkija (74-67-71-72 for level par 284 over a 6159yd, par-71 course). Sandra won by six shots after leader Maria Luz Besio (Newberry College) had a nightmare last round of 82 after scores of 71, 68 and 69. Maria finished runner-up on 290.

Abbey Gittings had scores of 74, 80, 74 and 79 for joint 16th place 307.

Carley Warrington (Belmont Abbey) from Bradwell finished joint 42nd with scores of 81, 79, 80 and 80.

Nova Southeastern (1180) won the team title by a comfortable margin from Rollins College (1220) and Florida Southern (1221) in a field of 12 college squads.

LPGA TOUR REPORT, SCORES

Janice Moodie lying seventh
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in LPGA Classic


Glasgow's Janice Moodie is heading for her highest finish and biggest payday on the LPGA Tour for some time. The Scot is lying in seventh position, four shots off the pace, with one round to go in the Bell Micro LPGA Classic at Mobile, Alabama.
The former Solheim Cup player, pictured right by Cal Carson Golf Agency, has had scores of 67, 72 and 67 for 10-under-par 206.
Norway's Suzann Pettersen shot a 7-under 65 on Saturday for a share of the lead with Brittany Lincicome and Se Ri Pak.
Pettersen followed two birdies with an eagle on the par-5 sixth, and joined Lincicome (67) and second-round leader Pak (68) at 13 under 203 on the Crossings Course at Magnolia Grove, part of the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail.
A six-time winner on the LPGA Tour, Pettersen once again is in contention after finishing second twice and third once in the first five events of the season.
But six players were within two shots of the lead, setting up a last-day scramble.
"With all those names at the top of the leaderboard, nobody's going to back down," said Lincicome, the long-hitting 24-year-old Floridian. "Nobody's going to shoot a high number. A lot of the long hitters are at the top. Sixty-five would be nice."
It was certainly enough for Pettersen to make a big move. She lost by a stroke to Yani Tseng in the Kraft Nabisco Championship, but has gone 35 holes without a bogey.
"I've been feeling good all year," said Pettersen, dealing with a nagging hip injury. "I've been playing really good. I've been outplayed a couple of times when I felt like what I had was going to be good enough, but that's this game. That's the beauty of this game."
The trio and others will jockey for the win with a two-tee morning start Sunday because bad weather is forecast for the afternoon.
Na Yeon Choi (66), Jee Young Lee (66) and Azahara Munoz (67) were 11 under. Michelle Wie had a 76 to drop to 5 over, last among the 73 players who made the cut.
Pettersen pulled even with Pak by opening the back nine with two more birdies and briefly took the lead with another birdie on No. 15. Pak answered right back on No. 16 with her only birdie of the back nine.
As for Pettersen's torn hip muscle, she said the doctor prescribed rest but that's not in the cards quite yet.
"It's not ideal, but I can make it work," Pettersen said.
Pak's 68 kept the Hall of Famer under 70 for the third straight round and in position for her 25th win and first since the 2007 Owens Corning Classic. She won the Tournament of Champions on the same course in 2001 and 2002.
Pak had three birdies on the front 9, and like Pettersen she turned in a bogey-free day.
"There's nothing I can do special, just go out there and play like I did the last three days," Pak said. "This golf course fit perfectly this week. I feel really happy about the way I'm playing. No complaints at all."
She has no complaints about the scenario either. "I think this is a better way to start the final round because sometimes leading by one or two shots, you're really having a lot of pressure," Pak said.
Lincicome overcame an opening bogey. Her 30-plus foot eagle putt on No. 6 more than wiped that out.
"I started out a little rough," she said. "I was a little nervous. It took a couple of holes to get into a rhythm.
"I'm going to keep doing the same things I'm doing and focus on my tempo. The only time I hit a bad shot is when I get a little quick. I'm just going to take a lot of deep breaths and calm myself down."
And maybe listen to her 10-year-old nephew, who predicted her score.
"The air conditioning temperature in the car on the drive here was 67 this morning, so he said I was going to shoot a 67," Lincicome said. "I just need him to pick a number for me (Sunday)."
Pettersen has revised her pre-tournament estimate about what score it might take to win on a course that underwent substantial renovations last year.
"I thought about 15-16 (under) would be a good number, but I think you've got to go low (Sunday)," she said. "There's reachable par 5s and some shorter par 4s.
"I think you need another really low one."
Choi fell back with a bogey on the final hole. It was her seventh bogey of the first three days.
Munoz, a 22-year-old rookie from Spain and last year's British women's open amateur champion at Harlech, shot a 67 to rebound from a 6-over round Friday and put herself back in contention going into the finale.
"Of course I'm going to be nervous," she said. "But this is the spot you want to be in. This is what you practice for."
Michelle Wie is not having a good tournament. She is currently last of the 73 qualifiers with scores of 72, 73 and 76 for 221.
THIRD ROUND TOTALS
Par 216 (3x72) 6512yd
T1 Suzann Pettersen 68 70 65 203
T1 Brittany Lincicome 70 66 67 203
T1 Se Ri Pak 69 66 68 203
T4 Jee Young Lee 66 73 66 205
T4 Na Yeon Choi 69 70 66 205
T4 Azahara Munoz 65 73 67 205
7 Janice Moodie 67 72 67 206
8 Song-Hee Kim 70 70 67 207
9 Angela Stanford 70 70 68 208
T10 Shanshan Feng 71 69 69 209
T10 Sun Young Yoo 68 70 71 209
T12 Hee-Won Han 71 72 67 210
T12 Karrie Webb 71 69 70 210
T12 Wendy Ward 71 65 74 210
15 Kristy McPherson 73 67 71 211
T16 Sarah Jane Smith 74 71 67 212
T16 Mariajo Uribe 71 73 68 212
T16 Brittany Lang 73 71 68 212
T16 Jennifer Rosales 73 70 69 212
T16 Inbee Park 71 71 70 212
T16 Katie Futcher 71 71 70 212
T16 Cristie Kerr 67 74 71 212
T16 Kris Tamulis 73 69 70 212
T16 Amy Hung 70 71 71 212
T16 Amanda Blumenherst 68 73 71 212
T26 Chella Choi 71 72 70 213
T26 Morgan Pressel 70 72 71 213
T26 Meaghan Francella 71 70 72 213
T26 Katherine Hull 66 74 73 213
T26 Jiyai Shin 70 70 73 213
T26 Shi Hyun Ahn 69 70 74 213
T26 Haeji Kang 69 69 75 213
T33 Karine Icher 69 74 71 214
T33 Taylor Leon 71 72 71 214
T33 Yani Tseng 73 70 71 214
T33 Alena Sharp 76 67 71 214
T33 Karin Sjodin 70 72 72 214
T33 Hee Young Park 69 73 72 214
T33 Juli Inkster 71 71 72 214
T33 Pernilla Lindberg 71 71 72 214
T33 Jeong Jang 71 70 73 214
T33 Mika Miyazato 70 70 74 214
T33 Meena Lee 67 72 75 214
T44 Giulia Sergas 73 72 70 215
T44 Pat Hurst 75 69 71 215
T44 Amy Yang 70 72 73 215
T44 Stacy Prammanasudh 71 71 73 215
T44 Karen Stupples 70 71 74 215
T49 Jin Young Pak 74 71 71 216
T49 Heather Bowie Young 71 73 72 216
T49 Natalie Gulbis 72 72 72 216
T49 Allison Hanna 72 72 72 216
T49 Diana D'Alessio 73 71 72 216
T49 Eunjung Yi 68 75 73 216
T49 Leah Wigger 73 70 73 216
T49 Momoko Ueda 74 69 73 216
T49 Ai Miyazato 70 71 75 216
T58 Mi Hyun Kim 74 70 73 217
T58 Mindy Kim 72 71 74 217
T58 Michele Redman 69 73 75 217
T58 Hye Jung Choi 67 73 77 217
T58 Jimin Kang 70 70 77 217
T63 Soo-Yun Kang 73 72 73 218
T63 Jimin Jeong 75 69 74 218
T63 Marianne Skarpnord 69 74 75 218
T63 Jill McGill 72 71 75 218
T63 Sophie Gustafson 72 70 76 218
T68 Irene Cho 69 75 75 219
T68 Katie Kempter 72 71 76 219
T70 Wendy Doolan 72 73 75 220
T70 Libby Smith 71 73 76 220
T70 Stephanie Louden 73 71 76 220
73 Michelle Wie 72 73 76 221