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DOUGLAS CROWNED IRISH SENIOR CUP CHAMPIONS

Munster champions Douglas captured their thirteenth Irish Senior Cup following a 3½-1½ win over Connacht Champions Claremorris in this afternoon’s final at Malone Golf Club today.
Douglas drew on all of the experience of Eavan Higgins and Kate MacCann to see the Leesiders home. Once again this afternoon they captured their points, preserving their 100% record, against Kung Fanning and Kate Gallagher.
In the top match, Sarah Helly rounded off a great tournament with three wins from three after defeating Karen O’Neill on 17 to reduce the deficit to one match.
Focus then swung to the fourth match where Julie Coyne led by two holes standing on the 16th tee. The Youghal youngster defied her years and held her nerve with solid iron play to end Sarah Gallagher’s challenge and closed out the match at the next green.
Celebrations of the highest order then ensued as Douglas claimed their 13th Irish Senior Cup crown and first championship since 1990.
Earlier in the day, Helly was formidable in her 13th green victory over current International Charlene Reid at the top of the order. Her performance sparked her team-mates into action and Emily McHugh followed suit, dispatching Sonja Verschuur by the same margin.
In the second match, Naoimh Quigg was unlucky to find an unplayable lie on seventeen allowing Kung Fanning to secure a 2 and 1 win and a place in the final for Claremorris.
In the second semi-final, seasoned campaigners Eavan Higgins and Kate MacCann made light work of their morning rounds winning on fifteen and fourteen respectively for Douglas.
Aisling O’Leary replied for Enniscorthy with a 4 and 2 victory over Karen O’Neill but an unlikely comeback was not on Julie Coyne's agenda as she closed out her tie with a regulation par on the fifteenth.

TODAY'S RESULTS

 SEMI-FINALS

Royal Portrush 1 Claremorris 4
Charlene Reid lost to Sarah Helly 6 and 5.
Naoimh Quigg lost to Kung Fanning 2 and 1
Helen Jones halved with Kate Gallagher (called in)
Maura Diamond halved with Sarah Gallagher (called in)
Sonja Verschuur lost to Emily McHugh 6 and 5.

Douglas 3½ Enniscorthy 1½
Karen O'Neill lost to Aisling O'Leary 4 and 2.
Eavan Higgins bt Ciara Sharkey 4 and 3.
Kate MacCann bt Jennifer King 6 and 4.
Julie Coyne bt Margaret Mooney 6 and 5.
Aoife Lane halved with Connie Doyle (called in)

FINAL
Claremorris 1½, Douglas 3½

Sarah Helly bt Karen O'Neill 2 and 1
Kung Fanning lost to Eavan Higgins 3 and 2
Kate Gallagher lost to Kate MacCann 2 holes
Sarah Gallagher lost to Julie Coyne 3 and 1.
Emily McHugh halved with Aoife Lane (called in)

LPGA FUTURES TOUR SCOREBOARD

$100,000 Eagle Classic
Richmond Country Club, Virginia
FIRST ROUND
Par 72 (36-36). Yardage 6278

1    Min Seo Kwak (Seoul, South Korea)   31-34 - 65
2    Daniela Iacobelli (Viera, Fla.)           32-34 - 66
3    Brittany Johnston (Akron, Ohio)        33-35 - 68
     Natalie Sheary (West Hartford, Conn.)34-34 - 68
     Jill Briles-Hinton (Richmond, Va.)       34-34 - 68
6    Lisa Ferrero (Lodi, Calif.)                  34-35 - 69
     Sydnee Michaels (Temecula, Calif.)     34-35 - 69
     Cara Freeman (San Tan Valley, Ariz.)  34-35 - 69
     Jane Rah (Torrance, Calif.)                35-34 - 69
     Paz Echeverria (Santiago, Chile)        33-36 - 69
11   Marina Choi (Los Angeles, Calif.)      36-34 - 70
     Mo Martin (Altadena, Calif.)              33-37 - 70
     Yu-Ling Hsieh (Chinese Taipei)          34-36 - 70
     Veronica Felibert (Caracas, Venezuela)36-34 - 70
     Sophia Sheridan (Guadalajara, Mexico)35-35 - 70
     Kathleen Ekey (Sharon Township, Ohio)36-34 - 70
     Misun Cho (Cheongju, South Korea)     34-36 - 70
     Cydney Clanton (Concord, N.C.)          35-35 - 70
     Jenny Lee (Simi Valley, Calif.)            34-36 - 70
     Elizabeth Dotson (White Bluff, Tenn.)  34-36 - 70
21   Garrett Phillips (St. Simons Island, Ga.) 36-35 - 71
     Laura Kueny (Whitehall, Mich.)            36-35 - 71
     Hannah Burke (Welnyn Garden City, UK)36-35 - 71
     Jasi Acharya (Columbus, Mont.)             35-36 - 71
     Hanna Kang (Seoul, South Korea)          36-35 - 71
     Jenny Gleason (Clearwater, Fla.)           34-37 - 71
     Saehee Son (Seoul, South Korea)                         34-37 - 71
     Jodi Ewart (North Yorkshire, England)                   34-37 - 71
     Sara Brown (Tucson, Ariz.)                              38-33 - 71
     Macarena Silva (Santiago, Chile)                        33-38 - 71
     Chelsea Curtis (New Seabury, Mass.)                     36-35 - 71
     Tiffany Tavee (Tempe, Ariz.)                            34-37 - 71
     Ashli Bunch (Morristown, Tenn.)                         36-35 - 71
     Mallory Blackwelder (Versailles, Ky.)                   34-37 - 71
     Hannah Yun (Bradenton, Fla.)                            35-36 - 71
     Sue Kim (Langley, B.C.)                                 35-36 - 71
     Stephanie Na (Adelaide, Australia)                      36-35 - 71
     Jean Chua (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)                      34-37 - 71
     Elise Swartout (Ann Arbor, Mich.)                       34-37 - 71
     Maria Laura Elvira (Buenos Aires, Argentina)            37-34 - 7`1
41   Melissa Eaton-Jackson (Port Shepstone, South Africa)    36-36 - 72
     Stephanie Connelly (Pasadena, Md.)                      35-37 - 72
     Jutta Degerman (Kaunianinen, Finland)                   35-37 - 72
     Olivia Jordan-Higgins (Channel Islands, UK)             35-37 - 72
     Tracy Stanford (Midland, Texas)                         37-35 - 72
     Caroline Westrup (Ahus, Sweden)                         37-35 - 72
     Kendall Dye (Edmond, Okla.)                             36-36 - 72
     Susan Nam (Edmonton, Alberta)                           36-36 - 72
     Lizette Salas (Azusa, Calif.)                           37-35 - 72
     Lyberty Anderson (a) (Chesterfield, Va.)                36-36 - 72
     Dawn Shockley (Estes Park, Colo.)                       35-37 - 72
     Erica Moston (Belmont, Calif.)                          37-35 - 72
     Izzy Beisiegel (St. Hilaire, Quebec)                    37-35 - 72
     Lori Atsedes (Ithaca, N.Y.)                             37-35 - 72
     Lauren Doughtie (Suffolk, Va.)                          37-35 - 72
     Rachael Schmidt (Elk River, Minn.)                      35-37 - 72
     Sandra Changkija (Orlando, Fla.)                        36-36 - 72
     Eileen Vargas (Ibague, Colombia)                        37-35 - 72
     Nicole Smith (Riverside, Calif.)                        34-38 - 72
     Jenny Suh (Fairfax, Va.)                                36-36 - 72
     Vanessa Vela (Bogota, Colombia)                         35-37 - 72
62   Gerina Piller (Roswell, N.M.)                           33-40 - 73
     Britney Choy (Wahiawa, Hawaii)                          36-37 - 73
     Ayaka Kaneko (Honolulu, Hawaii)                         37-36 - 73
     Inhong Lim (Seoul, South Korea)                         37-36 - 73
     Victoria Park (Irvine, Calif.)                          37-36 - 73
     Meredith Duncan (Shreveport, La.)                       37-36 - 73
     Sara Maude Juneau (Fossambault, Quebec)                 39-34 - 73
     Ashley Prange (Noblesville, Ind.)                       38-35 - 73
     Adrienne White (Red Deer, Alberta)                      38-35 - 73
     Benedikte Grotvedt (Nesbru, Norway)                     37-36 - 73
     Jamie Hullett (Mesquite, Texas)                         35-38 - 73
     Courtney Mahon (Lee's Summit, Mo.)                      35-38 - 73
     Victoria Elizabeth (Dayton, Ohio)                       36-37 - 73
     Candace Schepperle (Birmingham, Ala.)                   35-38 - 73
     Whitney Wade (Glasgow, Ky.)                             36-37 - 73
77   Jackie Barenborg (Vero Beach, Fla.)                     36-38 - 74
     Jessica Shepley (Oakville, Ontario)                     39-35 - 74
     Molly Aronsson (Shelburne, Vt.)                         37-37 - 74
     Katie Kempter (Albuquerque, N.M.)                       36-38 - 74
     Sofie Andersson (Angelholm, Sweden)                     37-37 - 74
     Mallory Fraiche (New Orleans, La.)                      36-38 - 74
     Annie Brophy (Spokane, Wash.)                           38-36 - 74
     Nicole Jeray (Berwyn, Ill.)                             38-36 - 74
     Rachel Connor (Manchester, England)                     40-34 - 74
     Valentine Derrey (Paris, France)                        35-39 - 74
     Laura Bavaird (Grosse Ile, Mich.)                       33-41 - 74
     Juliana Murcia Ortiz (Bogota, Colombia)                 38-36 - 74
     Kelly Froelich (Raizeux, France)                        36-38 - 74
     Rebecca Kim (Tigard, Ore.)                              36-38 - 74
     Miriam Nagl (Berlin, Germany)                           37-37 - 74
92   Lauren Hunt (Little River, S.C.)                        37-38 - 75
     Christina Jones (Jensen Beach, Fla.)                    37-38 - 75
     Marcela Leon (Monterrey, Mexico)                        34-41 - 75
     Seul Ki Park (Northbrook, Ill.)                         38-37 - 75
     Kirby Dreher (Fort St. John, B.C.)                      36-39 - 75
     Ashley Medders (Alma, Ga.)                              38-37 - 75
     Kim Augusta (Rumford, R.I.)                             38-37 - 75
     Carling Coffing (Middletown, Ohio)                      40-35 - 75
     Kelly Jacques (Longmont, Colo.)                         39-36 - 75
     Jennifer Hong (Granger, Ind.)                           39-36 - 75
     Stefanie Kenoyer (Lighthouse Point, Fla.)               39-36 - 75
     Amy Eneroth (Spokane, Wash.)                            37-38 - 75
     Gloriana Soto (San Jose, Costa Rica)                    35-40 - 75
     Stephanie Kim (Bayside, N.Y.)                           38-37 - 75
     Jenna Pearson (Wheaton, Ill.)                           36-39 - 75
     Dolores White (Lakeland, Fla.)                          38-37 - 75
     Tanya Dergal (Durango, Mexico)                          37-38 - 75
109  Alison Whitaker (Melbourne, Australia)                  37-39 - 76
     Danielle Mills (Pointe-Claire, Quebec)                  39-37 - 76
     Briana Vega (Andover, Mass.)                            36-40 - 76
     Leah Wigger (Louisville, Ky.)                           38-38 - 76
     Lili Alvarez (Durango, Mexico)                          37-39 - 76
     Kylene Pulley (Kokomo, Ind.)                            42-34 - 76
     Alexandria Buelow (a) (Palm City, Fla.)                 37-39 - 76
     Laura Jansone (Jurmala, Latvia)                         38-38 - 76
117  Ashley Smith (Calgary, Alberta)                         37-40 - 77
     Heather Angell (Winston-Salem, N.C.)                    40-37 - 77
     Shasta Averyhardt (Flint, Mich.)                        38-39 - 77
     Madeleine Holmblad (Stockholm, Sweden)                  37-40 - 77
     Kristin Ingram (Pasadena, Calif.)                       36-41 - 77
     Cathryn Bristow (Auckland, New Zealand)                 36-41 - 77
     Sofi Toccafondi (Del Viso, Argentina)                   39-38 - 77
     Pamela Ontiveros (Gomez Palacio, Mexico)                38-39 - 77
     Angela Buzminski (Oshawa, Ontario)                      39-38 - 77
     Megan McChrystal (Stuart, Fla.)                         38-39 - 77
127  Laura Crawford (Lancaster, S.C.)                        41-37 - 78
     Jessi Gebhardt (Chandler, Ariz.)                        37-41 - 78
     Erika Malik (Hinsdale, Ill.)                            36-42 - 78
     Stacey Miller (Bloomington, Ill.)                       39-39 - 78
     Aimee Neff (Carmel, Ind.)                               40-38 - 78
     Alexandra Casi (East Palestine, Ohio)                   35-43 - 78
     Jessica Yadloczky (Casselberry, Fla.)                   38-40 - 78
134  Laura Nochta-Martin (Cortland, Ohio)                    40-39 - 79
     Karlin Beck (Pike Road, Ala.)                           41-38 - 79
     Lene Krog (Lier, Norway)                                39-40 - 79
     Janine Fellows (Houston, Texas)                         40-39 - 79
     Mesha Levister (Louisburg, N.C.)                        40-39 - 79
     Lyndsay McBride (Elkhart, Ind.)                         38-41 - 79
     Xyra Suyetsugu (Honolulu, Hawaii)                       38-41 - 79
141  Sarah Brown (Lopatcong, N.J.)                           39-41 - 80
142  Noon Huachai (Bangkok, Thailand)                        35-46 - 81
     Nikki Hadd (Crestview, Fla.)                            38-43 - 81
144  Ashley Knoll (The Woodlands, Texas)                     39-44 - 83

US WOMEN'S AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP REACHES WEEKEND CLIMAX

FROM THE GOLFWEEK WEBSITE
By Beth Ann Baldry
BARRINGTON, Rhode Island – Moriya Jutanugarn has a habit of explaining long birdie putts thus: “I got lucky.” Common sense tells golf observers that there’s more coursing through the Jutanugarn’s veins than sheer luck. This is one dominant sister act.
Not since Aree and Naree Song has the US women’s game seen two siblings light up the amateur circuit quite like the Jutanugarns. Both sets of sisters, incidentally, grew up in Thailand.
Ariya, 15, is Golfweek’s No. 1 junior while her 17-year-old sister Moriya is ranked second. Ariya, knocked out in the second round by Duke’s Lindy Duncan, took over as caddie for her older sister and helped Moriya advance to the semi-finals of the U.S. Women’s Amateur.
Ariya Jutanugarn won the U.S. Girls’ Junior last month and the Junior PGA by 10 strokes last week. Moriya, the more sociable of the two sisters, believes it might be her turn.
“I know if she can do it, I can do it,” Moriya said. “That’s in my mind.”
A three-putt on the first hole at Rhode Island Country Club left Moriya’s confidence shaken. She struggled all day to find her groove against Casey Danielson, an energetic 16-year-old from Wisconsin. Their quarterfinal match never had more than a 1-up advantage until Jutanugarn closed it out, 2 up, on the 17th hole.
A four-foot birdie putt on No. 16 put the easygoing Thai player, 1 up. Danielson went long and left with her tee shot on No. 17 and left herself with a difficult up and down. Jutanugarn two-putted from the fringe to end the match.
“All of my matches have been close,” said an exhausted-looking Moriya, who won the first three rounds, 1 up. Moriya damaged her left wrist hitting out of the rough at the Broadmoor last month during the U.S. Women’s Open and pulled out of the U.S. Girls’ Junior. It’s still troubling her, though not enough to keep Jutanugarn from fighting her way through the lower half of the bracket.
On Saturday, Jutanugarn will square off against a confident Austin Ernst, the 2011 NCAA Champion from LSU who feels “on top of the world” this week. Ernst is two matches away from becoming the first player since Vicki Goetze-Ackerman to win both the U.S. Women’s Amateur and NCAA titles in the same calendar year. Goetze-Ackerman, who retired from the LPGA several years ago, accomplished the feat in 1992.
“That would be outrageous,” Ernst said.
Ernst and her mother, Melanie, have stayed with a host family this week just off the 14th fairway. Every day her father, Mark, checks in prior to her match with a text message and Drew, 22, usually texts his younger sister afterward. The Ernst family thrives on competition – whether it’s card games, ping pong or pool – but they’re close.
“When we play, it’s pretty cut-throat,” Melanie said, laughing.
Both Ernst kids gave up other sports around age 12 to concentrate on golf. Austin said her brother’s daily competition grew her game tremendously. Drew played college golf at Coastal Carolina and will graduate in December.
“You can learn so much stuff from guys,” Austin said. “He has always lent a helping hand.”
Ernst took an early lead against UCLA’s Stephanie Kono on the first hole and had control of the match the entire afternoon. Kono, a staple at USGA events, never has advanced to a championship final. When Ernst closed out the match on the 14th green, Kono was gracious to everyone around her and then wiped tears away as she walked back toward the clubhouse with her father.
The UCLA senior never looked sharp in what is likely her final Women’s Am appearance.
“She probably didn’t play as well as she wanted to today,” Ernst said of her opponent. “I didn’t make many mistakes, and when I did, I recovered with par. It was just a solid round.”

FRIDAY'S RESULTSRhode Island Country Club.
Par 71. Yardage: 6,399
Quarterfinals
(qualifying totals in brackets)
Brooke Pancake, Chattanooga, Tennessee (144) bt Erynne Lee, Silverdale Washington (145), at 21st
Danielle Kang, Westlake Village, California (144) bt Demi Frances Runas, Torrance, California (144), 4 and 3
Austin Ernst, Seneca, South Carolina (142) bt Stephanie Kono, Honolulu, Hawaii (144), 5 and 4
Moriya Jutanugarn, Thailand (137) bt Casey Danielson, Osceola, Wisconsin (145), 2 and 1

SEMI-FINAL PAIRINGS
Brooke Pancake v Danielle Kang
Austin Ernst v Moriya Jutanugarn
 

SCOTS WELL BEATEN ON LAST DAY OF VETERAN LADIES' JAMBOREE

Scotland were trounced 8.5-0.5 by South on the final day of the Veteran Ladies Jamboree at Wellingborough Golf Club.
The Scots, having taken 1.5pt out of a possible 2 from the first day, were strong challengers to win the trophy once again but, there's many a slip twixt cup and lip ...
The writing was on the wall in large letters that it was not going to be Scotland's day when South made a 3-0 clean sweep in the foursomes.
The singles session was not much better from a Scotland point of view. South took that 5.5-0.5.
The final placings were:
1 South 2pt (on countback)
2 Midlands 2pt
3 Scotland 1.5pt
4 North 0.5pt

FINAL DAY RESULTS:

MIDLANDS 5.5, NORTH 3.5

SCOTLAND 0.5, SOUTH 8.5
Foursomes (0-3)
Elaine Allison and Lorna Bennett lost to Carole Weir and Lulu Housman 5 and 3.
May Hughes and Mary Smith lost to Chris Quinn and Carole Caldwell 2 holes.
Karen Ballantyne and Kathleen Sutherland lost to Irene Brien and Cathy Armstrong 3 and 2.
Singles (0.5-5.5)
Ballantyne lost to Quinn 7 and 6.
Bennett lost to Weir 1 hole.
Heather Anderson lost to Caldwell 1 hole.
Smith halved with Housman.
Alex Glennie lost to Jeannie O'Keeffe 4 and 2.
Hughes lost to Brien 2 holes.

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