REBECCA WOOD IS NEW YORKSHIRE CHAMPION

FROM THE ENGLISH WOMEN'S GOLF ASSOCIATION WEBSITE
Rebecca Wood joined the elite group of players who have been champions in two counties when she won the Yorkshire title at Lindrick Golf Club.
Rebecca, who plays at Hallamshire, was also the 2007 Derbyshire champion at a time when she was a member at Glossop and District. She is a past member of the England U18 squad and was a successful student golfer when she studied at Sheffield Hallam University.
Rebecca, the leading qualifier with rounds of 74 and 72 for 146, won her latest title when she beat former international Emma (Duggleby) Brown (Malton and Norton) by two holes in the Yorkshire championship final. The losing semi-finalists were Carley Warrington (Sickleholme) and defending champion Sara Garbutt (Ganton).
+Rebecca Wood is pictured with the Yorkshire championship trophy (from the Yorkshire LCGA website).

NEW EVENT FOR DADS AND DAUGHTERS AT TADMARTON HEATH

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Golfing fathers and daughters are being sought for a new, national competition being launched this autumn.
The 27-hole foursomes medal will take place at Tadmarton Heath in Oxfordshire on Saturday, September 3.
Among the early entrants are Welsh international Katherine O’Connor and her father Arthur, who will be hoping to take advantage of local knowledge since both are members at Tadmarton.
“I think it is a great idea and I am really looking forward to playing with my dad,” said Katherine, pictured left, the current Oxfordshire county champion.
“The Mothers and Daughters event is quite a famous national competition and it would be nice to think that this event would become equally as popular.”
The competition is open to fathers and daughters of any age with active CONGU handicaps.
Entry forms can be downloaded from the Tadmarton Heath website at www.tadmartongolf.co.uk. The closing date is July 16.

CHARLOTTE ELLIS IN A HURRY TO LEAD ENGLISH QUALIFIERS

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International Charlotte Ellis from the Minchinhampton club overcame a rushed start to shoot shot two-under par 70 and take the halfway lead in qualifying at the English women’s amateur championship at West Sussex Golf Club today. The event is sponsored by Tourism Ireland.
The 25-year-old Gloucestershire player, pictured by Cal Carson Golf Agency at Royal Troon, who last month won the Helen Holm Scottish open stroke-play, mistakenly thought she was teeing off at 12.50pm – an hour later than her actual time of 11.50am.
“I had about 20 minutes to get ready so I hit a few balls in the net but I had no time for any putting. It wasn’t the best preparation!” she said.
However, she had got the measure of the greens in practice and within a few minutes she had birdied the first hole. Charlotte joked afterwards: “It’s obviously the way forward.”
She followed up by holing a 20-footer for another birdie on the 3rd and reached the turn at two-under. She didn’t drop a shot until the short 15th, where she misclubbed. She dropped another at 17, but compensated with birdies on 16 and 18.
Charlotte’s confidence is high after her Helen Holm victory where, she said: “I wasn’t hitting the ball particularly well at Troon but my putting was good, averaging 27 a round. It was good to come out on top when not hitting it at my best. I was really chuffed, it’s a nice one to tuck under my belt.”
She heads a packed leaderboard at West Sussex, with three players right behind her on one-under par. They include defending champion Hayley Davis (Ferndown), Ellie Robinson (Middlesborough) who is back from university in the US, and Lucy Williams (Mid-Herts), the 2008 English mid-amateur champion. A further shot back is Hannah Grant (Enmore Park) and girl international Alex Peters (Notts Ladies’).
Lucy Williams was the first player to beat par and she did it with the help of a brand new driver. “I got it three days ago, I liked it and it’s gone straight in the bag,” she said.
It did the job of keeping her ball on the fairway and out of the heather which, together with the cunningly placed bunkers, proved costly to many players in the field.
“I hit most fairways but I had some unconventional pars with ups and downs!” said Lucy, who putted well throughout and notched up six birdies, including 17 and 18th.
There were good performances from some of the youngsters in the field. Shelby Smart (Knowle), 16, and 15-year-old Welsh stroke-play champion Charley Hull (Woburn) are in a group on two-over par. A further shot behind is English U15 champion Georgia Hall (Remedy Oak) and fellow girl international Emily Taylor (Royal Lytham and St Annes), 16.
The local challenge is led by Alice Barnes of the host club and Katherine Russell (Royal Ashdown Forest) who both shot 79 and share 25th place. Stacey Rodger (West Hove) scored 80 and is in a group in 29th place.
After tomorrow’s second stroke-play round the top 32 players will qualify for the match-play stages which start on Thursday. The final will be played on Saturday morning. Spectators are welcome.
Hole-by-hole scoring: www.englishwomensgolf.org
Lyndsey Hewison
EWGA Press and PR Officer
Tel. 01603 507 416
Email: lyndsey.hewison@ntlworld.com

ALL THE FIRST QUALIFYING ROUND SCORES
70 Charlotte Ellis (Minchinhampton)
71 Lucy Williams (Mid-Herts)
Ellie Robinson (Middlesbrough)
Hayley Davis (Ferndown)
72 Hannah Grant (Enmore Park)
Alexandra Peters (Notts Ladies)
73 Jess Wilcox (Blankney).
74 Charlotte Thompson (Channels)
Shelby Smart (Knowle)
Charley Hull (Woburn)
Holly Clyburn (Woodhall Spa)
75 Rachel Drummond (Beaconsfield)
Georgia Hall (Remedy Oak) 
Emily Taylor (Royal Lytham)
76 Jerry Lawrence (Rochester and Cobham Park)
Charlotte Field (Bishops Stortford)
Lisa Ball (Matfen Hall)
Sophie Keech (Lyme Regis) 
77 Rachael Goodall (Heswall)
Charlotte Wild (Mere)
Hannah Barwood (Knowle)
Tara Watters (Muswell Hill)
78 Nikki Foster (Pleasington)
Emma Sheffield (Newark)
79 Lucy Padley (Knowle)
Katherine Russell (Royal Ashdown Forest)
Alice Barnes (West Sussex)
Harriet Key (South Herts)
Emma Carberry (Highwoods, Bexhill)
80 Daisy-May Kenny (Cuddington)
Amber Ratcliffe (Royal Cromer)
Stacey Rodger (West Hove)
Natalie Lowe (Prestbury)
Nicole Shaw (West Essex)
Lauren Blease (Burhill)

PROJECTED CUT TO LEADING 32 AFTER ROUND 2  
81 Maggie Lowe (Woking Ladies)
Aimee Paterson (North Hants)
Daisy Dyer (Chigwell)
Danielle Anderson (Rochford Hundred)
82 Clarissa Bushell (West Sussex)
Alice Hewson (Berkhamsted)
Abbie Cowlard (Stockport)
Daisy Kane (West Sussex)
Sophie Powell (Manchester)
Melissa McMahon (Lyme Regis)
Aileen Greenfield (Pyecombe)
Sarah-Jane Boyd (Truro)
83 Chelsea Masters (Highwoods, Bexhill) 
84 Jemma Aldridge (Sundridge)
85 Daisy Wakelin (East Brighton)
Julia Brook (Croham Hurst) 
Jo Hodge (The Kendleshire)
86 Leanne Ball (Aston Wood)
87 Melissa Nicol (Moor Hall)
88 Kay Bowman (West Hill)
Lucinda Mileham (Aldwickbury Park)
Sarah Howe (Ipswich)
91 Hope Beland (Royal Eastbourne)

STIRLING STUDENTS PLAYING FOR BRITAIN IN EURO CHAMPIONSHIPS

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The University of Stirling men's golf team will represent Great Britain at the European Universities Championships following a Grand Slam of recent results.
Golf scholars from Scotland's University for Sporting Excellence won every available British student team title, earning them selection by British Universities and Colleges Sport (BUCS) to compete at the European University Sports Association (EUSA) Golf Championships in Slovenia this September.
Selection was secured when the team took the BUCS Golf Matchplay title last week, defeating Bournemouth University 6.5-2.5 in a repeat of last year's final.
It was the tenth time in 12 years Stirling have won the team event and adds to victory in the BUCS Strokeplay Championship, the Scottish Universities Sport (SUS) Strokeplay and Matchplay Championships.
Second year Environmental Geography student Mike Howard remained undefeated as part of the six-man team coached by former European Tour professional Dean Robertson to the matchplay title at Ganton Golf Club in North Yorkshire.
"I was really pleased with how I played, but it was an excellent team performance in both the singles and foursomes," said Howard, from Southport in Merseyside, who followed his display at Ganton with fifth spot at the Scottish youths championship at the weekend. 
Howard's team-mates were: captain Bobby Rushford (Falkirk), Graeme Robertson (Larbert), Alexander Culverwell (Edinburgh), David Booth (Rotherham) and Jack McDonald (Kilmarnock), a Winning Students scholarship golfer.

HAMPSHIRE TRIO WIN NATIONAL ROSESPOON AWARD

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Three Hampshire players – including a mother and daughter - have capped a month of success with wins in the first EWGA Silver Rosespoon Awards of 2011.
The Silver Rosespoons are awarded to the club golfers who return the best strokeplay competition scores in the country during each month of the playing season. Spoons go to the winners of four handicap divisions and for the best gross score. Elaine Barrow, the Hampshire junior organiser from Brokenhurst Manor, her daughter Charlotte, 14, and another county junior, Kirsty MCulloch,13, of Stoneham, are among those who have been successful in the awards for April.
Elaine won the Rosespoon for the best gross score of the month with a 69, which was four-under the scratch score at Brokenhurst Manor, where she and Charlotte are both members.
The girls both won their spoons for scores returned during the Hampshire junior championship at Brokenhurst Manor. Charlotte won the overall girls’ championship, helped by a superb first round of 72, net 67, which was six under the SS. Kirsty, who was playing off 33, won the cup for the higher handicappers with 52 stableford points having returned a remarkable gross 89, net 56 – 17 under SS.
Earlier in April, Elaine and Charlotte Barrow won the prestigious Mothers and Daughters scratch foursomes at Royal Mid-Surrey.
April Silver Rosespoon winners:
Division I (up to 10 handicap)
Charlotte Barrow (Brokenhurst Manor), handicap 5, who scored net 67, 6-under the SS of 73
Anita Prosser (Porters Park), handicap 8, who scored net 67, 6-under the SS of 73
Division 2 (11-20)
Poppy Holt (Harrogate), handicap 19, who scored 46 stableford points, 11-under the SS of 73
Division 3 (21-30)
Molly Doyle (Harpenden Common), handicap 28, who scored 48 stableford points, 13-under the SS of 72
Division 4 (31-36)
Kirsty McCulloch (Stoneham), handicap 33, who scored 52 stableford points, 17-under the SS of 73
Best gross score: 69 Elaine Barrow (Brokenhurst Manor), handicap 3

For full details of the competition and how to enter, visit www.englishwomensgolf.org
Lyndsey Hewison
EWGA
Press and PR Officer
Tel. 01603 507 416
Email: lyndsey.hewison@ntlworld.com

OUTSTANDING ROUND OF 70 AT CRIEFF BY FIONA RAMSAY

FROM THE P AND K WEBSITE Weather conditions were not easy (for the qualifying round of the P and K county championship) over Crieff Golf Course. In fact so much so that only two players broke 80. One player, however, really was on form and that was squad member Fiona Ramsay who not only broke 80 but almost broke 70! Fiona, picture from the P and K website, returned a scratch 70 which was four under the par of the course and five under the CSS, amazing golf. Fiona had one eagle (at the long seventh), seven birdies (second, fifth, eighth, ninth, 12th, 17th and 18th) and five bogeys (first, fourth, sixth, 11th, and 15th) in two halves of 35 (three under par and one under par respectively). Emily Ogilvy was second placed with a 77. Four-handicapper Fiona also took the handicap place with 66 followed by junior member Nicola Robertson with 73. Full results: CSS 75 Scratch70 Fiona Ramsay (Crieff). 77 Emily Ogilvy (Auchterarder). 80 Caroline Dunbar (Aberfeldy) (unavailable for match-play), Eilidh Watson (Muckhart). 81 Nicola Robertson (Dunlane), Dawn Butchart (Strathmore), Jillian Milne (Craigiehill). 83 Jane Yellowlees (Murrayshall), Steph Crolla (Muckhart). 84 Hazel Wylie (Comrie), Heather Anderson (Blairgowrie)  (unavailable for match-play), Laura Walker (Muckhart). 85 Carol Muir (Craigiehill), Gwen Lambie (Dunkeld). 86 Hannah Robb (Strathmore), Fiona Johnston (Alyth). 87 Kay Knight (Pitlochry), Janet Griffiths (Strathmore). SATURDAY MATCH-PLAY DRAW09:30 Fiona Ramsay v Janet Griffiths 09:37 Steph Crolla v Hazel Wylie 09:45 Dawn Butchart v Gwen Lambie 09:52 Hannah Robb v Nicola Robertson 10:00 Eilidh Watson v Fiona Johnston 10:07 Carol Muir v Jillian Milne 10:15 Jane Yellowlees v Laura Walker 10:22 Emily Ogilvy v Kay Knight The top qualifier of the Handicap Championship is Dunkeld and Birnam player Carol Lambie who returned a net 74. The Gibb Trophy draw is:10:30 Carol Lambie (Dunkled and Birnam) v Sandra Service (Alyth). 10:37 Helen Payne (Milnathort) v Linda Scott (Alyth). 10:45 Sue Jones (Milnathort) v Alison Walker (Aberfeldy). 10:52 Elaine Davidson (Crieff) v Morag Penny (Crieff).