Amy Farrell leads Irish girls' qualifying with a three-over 75
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Amy Farrell (Moate) is top of the leaderboard after the first qualifying round of the Lancome Irish Girls Close Championship at the Grange Golf Club. Amy shot a 3 over par round of 75 which included birdies at the par 4 fifth hole and par 3 eighth and returned level par on the back nine.
Paula Grant (Lisburn) lies one shot adrift on 76 in a round that included two birdies and an eagle at the par 5 489 yard 17thth. Defending champion Emma O'Driscoll lies in 10th place on 82.
FIRST QUALIFYING ROUND
Par 72, CSS 73
75 Amy Farrell (Moate)
76 Paula Grant (Lisburn)
78 Patrice Delaney (Birr) Sarah Murray (Co. Louth) Sinead Sexton (Lahinch)
79 Amy Chambers (Dunfanaghy)
80 Laura Grant (Lisburn) Sarah Boden (Kilkeel)
81 Laura Fekkes (Larne)
82 Emma O'Driscoll (Ballybunion) Anna Courtney (St. Anne's) Holly Robinson (Co. Sligo) Jessica Carty (Holywood) Jean O'Driscoll (Muskerry)
83 Megan Thompson (Ballyclare) Sarah Helly (Enniscrone) Emily McGuinness (Greenore) Jessica Boal (Larne)
84 Kelsey Coey (Clandeboye) Jenny Hennessy (Ennis) Olivia Mehaffey (Royal Co. Down Ladies)
85 Rebecca Tully (Holywood) Shauna Brady (Co. Sligo) Eadaoin Cronin (Bantry Bay) Julie Coyne (Youghal)
86 Hannah Henderson (Ballyclare) Chloe Ryan (Castletroy) Siobhan Greene (Holywood)
87 Jill O'Driscoll (Muskerry) Mary Doyle (The Heath)
88 Chloe Fitzpatrick (The Heath)
89 Shannen Brown (The Heath) Avril Peevers (Tralee) Jenny Sykes (Dun Laoghaire) Emma Murphy (Wexford)
Rebecca O'Regan (Newlands)
90 Aisling Hill (Roscommon) Amber Gleeson (Castle) Niamh Ward (Lurgan)
91 Aileen Harnett (Milltown)
92 Sarah Fay (Westmanstown) Tyne McGee (Malone) Roisin Brady (Mannan Castle) Gillian Reilly (Abbeyleix) Darcey Carr (Miltown)
93 Emma Dunne (Castlewarden)
94 Edel Coyne (Youghal) Judithe Allen (Greenisland) Gemma McCarthy (Clonmel)
95 Lisa O'Shea (Shannon) Amy Gillen (Co. Meath) Ashley Constantine (Stackstown) Katie Allen (Lurgan) Blaithin O'Brien (Roscommon)
96 Laura Doherty (Howth)Chloe Duggan (Lahinch) Victoria Craig (Clandeboye) Chloe Weir (Shandon Park) April Timothy (Roscommon)
97 Eimear Delaney (Birr)
98 Naomi James (Castlewarden)
99 Rebecca Weir (Larne)
99 Jenny Maguire (Foxrock)
100 Savannah Thompson (Bangor) Miren Maguire (Foxrock)
102 Rebecca O'Neill (Larne) Rachel Taylor (Laytown & Bettystown)
105 Zoe Black (Bangor) Chloe Burke (Roscommon)
106 Nicola Stokes (Laytown & Bettystown)
109 Jill Jennings (Carlow)
111 Saoirse O'Donoghue (Tara Glen)

EWAN COULD YET BE A GREAT SCOTT

IN JUNIOR OPEN AT LUNDIN LINKS

FROM COLIN FARQUHARSON
The only golf writer at THE Junior Open
St Andrews’ Ewan Scott needs to be a bit more economical with his putting if he is to make a winning charge over the final round of the Junior Open at Lundin Golf Club's links course, Fife
Scott, only just turned 15 and the first Scot ever to win the English Under-14s open b oys' title last year,  three-putted five times in slipping back from a promising opening round of 70 to a disappointing 76 for 146. Although he is seven shots behind leader Kenta Konishi (Japan), who had the tournament low round of three-under-par 68 for three-under 139,
Scott is “only” four shots behind second-placed Guillermo Pereira (Chile) (69 to 143) and three in arrears of Daniel Nielsen (Denmark) and Australia’s Anthony Murdaca
So a very good closing round by the Fifer on home soil could see him climb into a final top three or four finish which, in this quality company, would be a good performance.
England’s Nick Ward (Redbourn) is on 144 after a 71.
South Korea’s Hyo-Joo Kim leads the girls’ field on 142 with rounds of 72 and 70. She is one ahead of Thailander Pinrath Loomboonruang (73-70).
England’s Emily Taylor (Royal Lytham), overnight girls’ leader with a 70, dropped back with a 76 to 146 in the more difficult, windy conditions.
Carnoustie Ladies’ Ailsa Summers improved by five shots for a 79 and 163.
Overnight leader Daniel Nielsen from Denmark dropped out of the pole position after a second-round 74 – five shots worse than his first-ever round over a links course – on the second day of the Junior Open under blue skies in the early part of the morning but an increasing wind.
The new leader from early in the afternoon – with about six hours of play to go – was Kenta Konishi, a 16-year-old from Japan, who plays off +4. Konish returned a three-under-par 68, the lowest of the tournament so far, to set the clubhouse target of three-under-par 139.
Konishi’s two-round tally stayed at the top unchallenged for the rest of the long day. He will start the final day with a three-stroke lead.
Nielsen slipped back to 143 after a round which included a double bogey 7 at the ninth where he drove out of bounds on the right.
“The conditions were a little bit more difficult today with the wind,” said the 14-year-old one-handicapper who helped Denmark finish third in Turkey in the European boys’ team championship which did not finish until the weekend. He did not fly into Edinburgh Airport until 5pm on Sunday, leaving no time to squeeze in a practice round.
“I didn’t putt as well today as I did for the 69.”
Konishi, who had a par-matching 71 in the first round, notched four birdies and a solitary bogey, at the first, in halves of 35 and 33 for his 68. He birdied the third, eighth, short 12th and long 13th.
Guillermo Pereira from Chile took over second place after a 69 for 142, a shot ahead of Daniel Nielsen and Australia’s Anthony Murdaca who improved from 74 to 69 even in the more difficult conditions.
Welsh youngster Otto Mand, in contention after an opening 70, dropped down the leaderboard with an 81 for 151.
The leading girl is Hyo-Joo Kim (South Korea) whose second-round 70 for level par 142 equalled Emily Taylor’s best of the day girls’ score returned after 8pm on Monday.
Kim, from Seoul, is only 14 and has one of a handicap.
Emily Taylor slipped back to 146 with a 76 without a single bogey and a run of three bogeys in a row from the sixth.
“I made some silly mistakes,” said Emily.
Hyo-Joo Kim leads by only one shot from Thailand’s Pinrath Loomboonruang who had a 70 to her opening 73 for 143. Two shots farther back, sharing third place, are Cecilia Cho, the +5 15-year-old from New Zealand and Hikari Fujita from Japan. Cecilia had a double bogey at one hole on her way to a 73 while Hikari improved by five strokes for a 70.
For half the field, the higher handicappers of the Silver and Bronze Categories, the championship is over from a playing point of view. On Wednesday the final spotlight is on the 60-odd boys and girls in the Gold Category, i.e. those with low handicaps - and some of them have very low handicaps.
The RandA, taking heed of a severe weather forecast for the early part of tomorrow morning, have delayed the start until 10am and two tees - the first and the eighth - will be used from then on.
The higher handicaps will be there in the afternoon for the grand presenation of prizes and awards to all the different geographical categories.
ROUND TWO TOTALS
Par 142 (2x71)
BOYS
139 Kenta Konishi (Japan) 71 68.
142 Guillermo Pereira (Chile) 73 69.
143 Anthony Murdaca (Australia) 74 69, Daniel Nielsen (Denmak) 69 74.
144 Haydn Porteous (S Africa) 70 74, Nick Ward (England) 73 71, Tuck Soon Chan (Malaysia) 71 73.
146 Atiwit Janewattanond (Thailand) 73 73, Ewan Scott (Scotland) 70 76.
147 Julian Lerda (Argentina) 72 75, Petr Gal (Czech Rep) 73 74.
149 Ashbeer Saini (India) 73 76, Alex Gleeson (Ireland) 71 78.
150 Marc Ong (Singapore) 73 77, Gonzalo Leon (Ecuador) 73 77.
151 Otto Mand (Wales) 70 81.
152 Kevin Kwon (Canada) 78 74, Tyler Hodge (New Zealand) 80 72, William Clarke (Brazil) 75 77, Jose Mendez (Costa Rica) 72 80.
153 David Lee (United States) 75 78.
155 Chuan Lin Jian (China) 77 78, Richard Broadhurst (Italy) 79 76, Stephan Sorg (Switzerland) 75 80.
157 Eithel McGowan (Peru) 81 76, Matthew Moucharafieh (Lebanon) 80 77, Allan Kronfeld (Russia) 80 77, Ali Abdulla Al-Bishi (Qatar) 77 80.
158 Paul Yannik (Germany) 80 78, Benjamin Follett-Smith (Zimbabwe) 77 81.
159 Samuel Jabba (Colombia) 78 81, Mateusz Gradecki (Poland) 75 84, Anthony Tam (Hong Kong) 83 76.
162 Shai Bendavid (Israel) 83 79, Egeti Liiv (Estonia) 79 83, Mohit Mediratta (Kenya) 84 78, Enej Sarkanj (Slovenia) 78 84.
163 Gustavo Morantes (Venezuela) 84 79, Marcos Cabarcos (Panama) 80 83, Mubariz Ahmad (Pakistan) 84 79, Issa Abou El Ela (Egypt) 83 80.
164 Nicholas Teuten (Uruguay) 85 79, Kevin Jae Kim Gomez (Honduras) 81 83..
165 Jose Luis Sanchez (Colombia) 84 81, Jack Van De Heyning (Belgium) 83 82.
166 Dwayne Pearman (Bermuda) 85 81.
167 Kristof Eiring (Hungary) 78 89.
168 Daniel Holland (Malta) 80 88, Roland Cuculiza (Nicaragua) 83 85.
170 Carlos Lisboa (Paraguay) 84 86, Kornelijus Baliukonis (Lithuania) 89 81, Taha Ergun (Turkey) 88 82.
171 Alejandro Villasana (Mexico) 89 82.
172 Yassine Ben Halima Tunisia) 87 85, Jeremy Abel (Luxembourg) 88 84, Brian Taikiri (Papua New Guiinea) 86 86, James Pennington (Swaziland) 82 90.
173 Stephanus Bonafatius (Namibia) 89 84, Phil Minkley (Mauritius) 85 88, Enrique Walsh (El Salvador) 85 88.
174 Redge Camacho (Guam) 85 89, Svens Ermansons (Latvia) 86 88.
175 Fahad Bin Tarique (Bangladesh) 88 87.
176 David Pevala (Slovakia) 89 87.
182 Kush Vashee (Zambia) 91 91.
184 Harrison Collins (Bahamas) 86 98.
187 Sachin De Silva (Sri Lanka) 94 93.
188 Nabeel Desai (Botswana) 93 95.
189 Sai Eccles (Cayman Islands) 93 96.
195 Lyubomir Kostov (Bulgaria) 96 99.
198 Constaninos Christodoulides (Cyprus) 99 99.
201 Benjamin Kacheuka (Malawi) 90 111.

GIRLS
142 Hyo-Joo Kim (Korea) 72 70.
143 Pinrath Loomboonruang (Thailand) 73 70.
145 Cecilia Cho (New Zealand) 72 73, Hikari Fujita (Japan) 75 70.
146 Emily Taylor (England) 70 76.
154 Nanna Madsen (Denmark) 77 77, Katerina Vlasinova (Czech Rep) 81 73.
155 Gurbani Singh (India) 79 76.
156 Karen Chung (United States) 77 79.
157 Emily McLennan (Australia) 81 76, Ana Ruga (Venezuela) 80 77, Valentine Loge (Belgium) 79 78.
158 Katia Pogacar (Slovenia) 77 81, Alix Kong (Canada) 79 79, Coralia Arias (Ecuador) 78 80.
159 Aretha Herng Pan (Malaysia) 80 79.
160 Lina Aguillon (Colombia) 81 79, Phoebe Tan (Singapore) 82 78, Kitty Tam (Hong Kong) 81 79, Vivienne Chin (Malaysia) 83 77.
161 Natalia Heckova (Slovakia) 77 84.
162 Silvia Garces (Colombia) 83 79, Izel Pieters (S Africa) 83 79, Monja Maetzler (Switzerland) 82 80.
163 Vilma Paloma Ferreira (Paraguay) 83 80, Ailsa Summers (Scotland) 84 79.
164 Margherita Magri (Italy) 79 85.
166 Hadas Libman (Israel) 84 82.
167 Sena Ersoy (Turkey) 81 86, Dominika Gradecka (Poland) 79 88.
170 Zsofia Szurovszky (Hungary) 89 81.
172 Margine Arguello (Nicaragua) 86 86,
173 Ana Ruiz (Mexico) 83 90, Devanshi Naik (Zambia) 89 84.
174 Maria Noriega (Peru) 83 91.
178 Catalina Fernandez (Uruguay) 89 89.
182 Jessica Jones (Wales) 90 92, Naomi Wafula (Kenya) 89 93.
186 Ouname Mhotsha (Botswana) 96 90, Ieva Cace (Latvia) 91 95, Adriana Pineda (Honduras) 96 90.
187 Julia Debowski (Brazil) 94 93.
189 Monea Matahni (Tunisia) 92 97.
192 Emily Ribbins (Cayman Islands).95 97.
193 Tazbin Sarker (Bangladesh) 97 96.
194 Deborah Ephraim (Ghana) 98 106.
195 Glafkie Christodoulides (Cyprus) 99 96.
197 Migle Rusteikaite (Lithuania) 98 99.
202 Goodness Diamini (Swaziland) 95 107.
210 Shamiso Makwara (Zimbabwe) 105 105.

Scottish Under-18 girls championship at Eyemouth GC

RACHAEL WATTON SHOWS HER CLASS IN FIRST QUALIFYING
ROUND WITH A PAR 73

Mortonhall’s Rachael Watton confirmed her status as one of the favourites for the Scottish Under-18 girls’ match-play golf championship at Eyemouth this week with a level par round of 73 to lead the first qualifying round.
Rachael, pictured by Cal Carson Golf Agency,  had birdies at the short third, the fourth, the long 10th and the long 18th in halves of 36 and 37. Her bogeys came at the long first second, shot sixth and 11th.
Closest rivals going into Wednesday’s second qualifying round, at the end of which the leading 32 will go forward to the match-play stages, are Gillian Scanlan (Hamilton) on 76 and Loretto School pupil Lesley Atkins (Gullane) with a 77.
Scanlan matched Watton’s 36 to the turn with birdies at the fourth and fifth and bogeys at the second, short third and seventh but she took 40 shots for the inward half, bogeying the 11th and 16th.
Rachel Hanlon (St Regulus), recent winner of the East of Scotland girls championship, did not play up to her potential in returning an 88
ALL THE FIRST QUALIFYING ROUND SCORES
Par 73
1 WATTON, Rachael 73 F Par
2 SCANLAN, Gillian 76 F +3
3 ATKINS, Lesley 77 F +4
4 HIDE, Jennifer 78 F +5
5 YOUNG, Clara 78 F +5
6 MCCOOK, Hannah 78 F +5
7 BRIGGS, Eilidh 79 F +6
8 MACDONALD, Gabrielle 79 F +6
9 DRYBURGH, Gemma 79 F +6
10 TAYLOR, Rachael 80 F +7
11 STEVENSON, Linsey 81 F +8
12 MCKECHIN, Alyson 81 F +8
13 CLYNE, Megan 81 F +8
14 MELDRUM, Jill 81 F +8
15 WHYTE, Lauren 81 F +8
16 QAYUM, Natasha 82 F +9
17 MCKAY, Mhairi 82 F +9
18 WATSON, Eilidh 83 F +10
19 REID, Katie 83 F +10
20 POLSON, Rachel 83 F +10
21 HUTTON, Alexis 83 F +10
22 KEMP, Paige 84 F +11
23 SMALL, Catherine 84 F +11
24 SIMPSON, Gillian 85 F +12
25 WARD, Keren 85 F +12
26 MCINTOSH, Kate 85 F +12
27 EVERETT, Rosie 85 F +12
28 GOODWIN, Alison 86 F +13
29 MEEK, Jessica 86 F +13
30 COSH, Lesley 86 F +13
31 TUNN, Eleanor 87 F +14
32 MUNRO, Heather 87 F +14
---PROJECTED CUT-OFF POINT ON THURSDAY
FOR 32 QUALIFIERS FOR CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH-PLAY
33 SCOTT, Hannah 87 F +14
34 HANLON, Rachel 88 F +15
35 MCGARVA, Katie 88 F +15
36 FERRIE, Jorden 88 F +15
37 TAYLOR, Nicola 88 F +15
38 MUNRO, Samantha 88 F +15
39 ROBB, Hannah 88 F +15
40 MACCALLUM, Kirsten 89 F +16
41 MCCRACKEN, Katie 89 F +16
42 CHALMERS, Jemma 90 F +17
43 BEVERIDGE, Kimberley 90 F +17
44 JAFFREY, Connie 91 F +18
45 MCGILLIVRAY, Louise 91 F +18
46 ARNOTT, Gillian 91 F +18
47 KER, Danielle 92 F +19
48 MACTAGGART, Tara 92 F +19
49 SCOTT, Kirstin 96 F +23
50 SEIVWRIGHT, Tegan 97 F +24
51 QAYUM, Alexandra 97 F +24
52 MCWILLIAM, Shannon 98 F +25
53 DUNCAN, Lauren 99 F +26
54 CAMPBELL, Aileen 101 F +28
55 BORWICK, Olivia 102 F +29
56 WILSON, Leanne 105 F +32
57 MCGUIRE, Shannen 110 F +37
58 GOODWIN, Catherine 111 F +38
59 MATHEWSON, Laura 115 F +42
NR YULE, Kara +32 15 NR
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Junior Open second round at Lundin links

Kenta Koshi from Japan takes up the running after a 68

Overnight leader Daniel Nielsen from Denmark dropped out of the pole position after a second-round 74 – five shots worse than his first-ever round over a links course – on the second day of the Junior Open under blue skies but a bit of a breeze at Lundin Golf Club, Fife today.
The new leader early in the afternoon – with about six hours of play still to go – is Kenta Konishi, a 16-year-old from Japan, who plays off +4. Konish returned a three-under-par 68, the lowest of the tournament so far, to set the clubhouse target of three-under-par 139.
Nielsen slipped back to 143 after a round which included a double bogey 7 at the ninth where he drove out of bounds on the right.
“The conditions were a little bit more difficult today,” said the 14-year-old one-handicapper who helped Denmark finish third in Turkey in the European boys’ team championship which did not finish until the weekend. He did not fly into Edinburgh Airport until 5pm on Sunday, leaving no time to squeeze in a practice round.
“I didn’t putt as well today as I did for the 69.”
Konishi, who had a par-matching 71 in the first round, notched four fivdies and a solitary bogey at the first in halves of 35 and 33 for his 68. He birdied the third, eighth, short 12th and long 13th.
Guillermo Pereira from Chile took over second place after a 69 for 142.
The leading girl in early afternoon was Hyo-Joo Kim (South Korea) whose second-round 70 for level par 142 equalled Emily Taylor’s best of the day girls’ score returned after 8pm on Monday.
Kim, from Seoul, is only 14 and has one of a handicap.
Because of a bad weather warning for early morning on Wednesday, play on the final day at Lundin Golf Club will be delayed until 10am when there will be a two-tee start for the 68 players who will contest the last round in the Gold Category for those with lower handicaps

ROUND TWO TOTALS
Par 142 (2x71)

BOYS
139 Kenta Konishi (Japan) 71 68.
142 Guillermo Pereira (Chile) 73 69.
143 Anthony Murdaca (Australia) 74 69, Daniel Nielsen (Denmak) 69 74.
144 Haydn Porteous (S Africa) 70 74, Nick ~Ward (England) 73 71.
146 Atiwit Janewattanond (Thailand) 73 73, Ewan Scott (Scotland) 70 76.
147 Julian Lerda (Argentina) 72 75.
149 Ashbeer Saini (India) 73 76.
150 Marc Ong (Singapore) 73 77, Gonzalo Leon (Ecuador) 73 77.
152 Kevin Kwon (Canada) 78 74, Tyler Hodge (New Zealand) 80 72, William Clarke (Brazil) 75 77.
153 David Lee (United States) 75 78.
155 Chuan Lin Jian (China) 77 78.
158 Paul Yannik (Germany) 80 78.
159 Samuel Jabba (Colombia) 78 81, Mateusz Gradecki (Poland) 75 84.
162 Shai Bendavid (Israel) 83 79.
165 Jose Luis Sanchez (Colombia) 84 81.
171 Alejandro Villasana (Mexico) 89 82.

GIRLS
142 Hyo-Joo Kim (Korea) 72 70.
145 Cecilia Cho (New Zealand) 72 73, Hikari Fujita (Japan) 75 70.
155 Gurbani Singh (India) 79 76.
156 Karen Chung (United States) 77 79.
157 Emily McLennan (Australia) 81 76.
160 Lina Aguillon (Colombia) 81 79, Phoebe Tan (Singapore) 82 78.
162 Silvia Garces (Colombia) 83 79.
166 Hadas Libman (Israel) 84 82.