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Laura Hendricksen won the £350 first prize with a two-under-par round of 70 at Dunham Forest GC today in the WPGA one-day series.

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LYNN KENNY EXPLAINS HOW EXERCISE HELPS HER SWING

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as part of the LET’s ‘Healthy May’ campaign.

Scottish professional golfer Lynn Kenny answers a health and fitness questionnaire as part of the LET’s ‘Healthy May’ campaig.


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Lynn: Describe how your exercise program benefits you and your golf game.
My exercise program has been designed to help strengthen weaknesses in my swing. For example, my shoulder blades were popping out on my backswing so I needed to strengthen certain areas in my back and my core and legs just to hold the positions that my coach wanted me in. I need to do the gym stuff to make sure that the swing stays in the right place and can last the year.

Describe when and why you started exercising for golf. I started doing it when I got into the GB&I squad so that’s early 2000, 2002 maybe, which was quite late compared to other girls, but that was when it was starting to become more of a thing for golf. Fitness for golf wasn’t really heard of until Annika and Tiger came onto the scene and then it was really important to be fit for golf. Maybe it was the late 90s. I’ve always been a fit person because I did a lot of other sports so it wasn’t a massive issue. I used to be a good squash player and tennis. I was a sporty person.


Describe how your pre-season exercise program is different to your in-season exercise program. For example, do you focus on different aspects of fitness? Are your goals different?
I’d say my out of season program is just more intense. It’s the same stuff it’s just more focused towards building up the CV for the second half and so I can play the season round after round after round. It’s a lot of focus on building the right muscles for the golf swing. In the on-season it’s more about maintenance so it’s not so intense or frequent. It’s lighter sessions and keeping things where they were to start with. I try to go to the gyms in the hotels if they have them but it’s hard. I’ve got some Thera-Bands and a spiky ball and stuff. You can go for a run wherever to keep the heart going.


With respect to your pre-season program, please describe your exercise program.
I do pulleys on a frame, six or seven exercises specific to the golf swing for the body and the core and then I move to the free weights and I do triceps and then I do stretching. I do a few stretches and then I do CV for 25 minutes, half an hour. I try to beat the distance in the time frame or something to get a bit of competition in there as well. I do a bit of rowing for five minutes to warm up. All in its about an hour and 15 minutes.

With respect to your in-season program, please describe your exercise program (where possible, include the type of exercises you do, the frequency, dosage, duration of each exercise session etc).
If I can when we’re at tournaments, I’ll do the machine stuff and then I’ll do the swing specific stuff but sometimes that’s not available so I’ll improvise with the stretchy bands that I’ve got to do the same movements and keep the muscles moving. There’s always a machine of some sort to do CV so that’s enough and then more stretching probably after the round of golf and before the round of golf just to keep the body supple.

Describe your warm-up program (include the type of exercises you do and how long your warm-up routine takes to perform). For golf, I’ll arrive an hour and a half to two hours before my tee time depending on whether I need to stretch or not. I’ll do an all over body stretch mainly focusing on the back and the legs to make sure they are nice and loose so I can do a good turn. My warm up on the range is starting with the wedges building up to the driver and I’ll finish with some putting and off to the tee.

What is the most enjoyable thing about your exercise program?
None of it: when I finish!

What is the least enjoyable thing about your exercise program?
When I arrive!

How do you manage to maintain a fitness program when you are touring?
It’s all about maintenance on the tour. You can’t do more.

Which components of fitness (e.g. muscle strength, balance, muscle endurance, cardiovascular fitness, flexibility, power) do you think are most important for playing golf?
Most important is probably core and legs. You need to have flexibility for your turn and it’s hard to pin-point. I’d say you need a bit of everything. Definitely core and legs for the power.

Describe how important maintaining a healthy, balanced diet is for you and your golf game.
I think that it’s important to have a healthy, balanced diet for anyone, not just golfers.

How do you manage to maintain a healthy diet when you are touring?
You’re asking the wrong person! I try to eat pasta the night before tournaments and although the girls laugh when I eat burgers I don’t eat burgers all the time! I’ll try to eat fish and pasta. It’s not easy to find what you like on tour as what is available is different so I tend to eat things I’m familiar with.

What tips would you give golfers who really dislike exercising or to those golfers who say that exercise is only for elite golfers?
I don’t enjoy going to the gym and never have but when I’ve been I can see the benefits in my golf game since I’ve been at the gym. No matter what level you’re at you will get some benefits. Doing a bit of CV will ensure that you last for 18 holes and you can play into your 70s.

PRETSWELL JOINT FOURTH IN SWEDEN

Curtis Cup amateur Pamela Pretswell from Hamilton surged up the leaderboard in the Ljungbyhed Park Women's Open in Sweden with a second-round 72 for 145. The Bothwell Castle GC member is now lying joint fourth, six shots behind the leader by three, Sweden's Jessica Karlsson (67-72) The rest of the Scots in the field of 123 players did not do so well in this Ladies European Tour developmental circuit event. Katy McNicoll (Carnoustie) and Ayrshire's Pamela Feggans are on 150, Katy with scores of 72-78, Pamela 74-76. They are joint 31st. Gemma Webster from Glasgow was joint 94th with rounds of 80-78 for 158. LJUNGBYHED PARK WOMEN'S OPEN Sweden. SECOND-ROUND TOTALS Par 142 (2x71) 139 Jessica Karlsson (Swe) 67 72. 143 Isabella Deilert (Swe) (am) 69 73. 143 Ana Larrangeta (Spa) 69 74. SELECTED SCORES 145 Pamela Pretswell (Sco) (amateur) 73 72 (T4) 146 Anna Scott (Eng) 75 71 (T6) 148 Rhian Wyn Thomas (Wal) 73 75, Tara Delaney (Ire) 72 76 (T15) 149 Rachel Bell (Eng) 71 78 (T20) 150 Katy McNicoll (Sco) 72 78, Pamela Feggans (Sco) 74 76 (T31) 152 Kirsty S Taylor (Eng) 74 78 (T43) 153 Lindsay Brown (Eng) 73 80 (T59) 154 Joanne Clingan (Eng) 77 77 (T65) ends

KELSEY V EILIDH CRUNCH QUARTER-FINAL MATCH

By COLIN FARQUHARSON Colin@scottishgolfview.com  It's crunch time for Kelsey MacDonald in Friday morning's quarter-finals of the 98th Scottish women's amateur golf championship over the Tain links in Ross-shire. Twelve months ago, the Nairn Dunbar player was defending champion when she lost to Eilidh Briggs (Kilmacolm) in the same round at Machrihanish. Kelsey's next opponent this week is ... Eilidh Briggs. It's the pick of the quarter-finals after another cold and wet, sunless day at Tain and both Eilidh and Kelsey played well to win their opening ties in the match-play stages. The 19-year-old Briggs girl, whose older sister Megan is making headway in the other half of the draw, beat Nichola Ferguson (Milngavie) 6 and 4 and then KOd the 2005 champion, Martine Pow (Selkirk) by 3 and 2. MacDonald won by 6 and 5 against Royal Dornoch's Scotland senior international Alison Bartlett and then marked up a 4 and 3 win over Samantha Munro (Aberdour) who had earlier beaten Aberdeenshire champion Sheena Wood (Aberdeen Ladies) by 6 and 5. "I'm playing well, quite steady," said Stirling student Eilidh who is the reigning Scottish Under-18 girls match play champion, a title she won after losing in the final of the Scottish women's championship to Louise Kenney (Pitreavie) who couldnt get time off from her teaching duties to defend the title. "It was a different direction of wind today. It made the outward half tougher but I still managed to get five up on Martine after 10 holes. I'm looking forward to playing Kelsey again. It should be a great match." In the other match in the lower half of the draw it's local hope Sammy Vass against the No 2 seed Laura Murray from Alford. Sammy, home for the summer from college in Florida, won through at the 22nd at around 6.45pm in her match against the rising East Lothian star, 16-year-old Clara Young (North Berwick), a Junior Vagliano Trophy player for GBand I at Royal Porthcawl last June. Vass could so easily have three-putted to lose on the 18th green because she was some 22 strides away from the hole on the back left of the green in two. But here was a case of where local knowledge is such a big help. Sammy knew precisely the line and the pace needed for her putt as she rolled it quite close for a half in 4s to take the match into extra holes. Laura Murray was taken to the 18th green in both her ties, holing a 15ft putt to see off the challenge of Dumfries youngster Rachel Walker and reach the last eight. "Rachel is quite a prospect. It was a really tight match all the way even though I had four birdies along the way. That's how good a player young Rachel is" In the top half of the draw it will be top seed Jane Turner (Craigielaw) versus Drumpellier's Susan Wood (a repeat of last year's Machrihanish quarter-final which Jane won), and 2009 champion Megan Briggs (Kilmacolm) against Muckhart's Eilidh Watson. Wood beat Linsey Stevenson (Elie and Earlsferry Ladies) by one hole in a match between two players who had won 5 and 4 in the morning. Eilidh Watson, the only P and K county player to make it through to the match-play stages, beat Monifieth's Jemma Chalmers 3 and 1 after being two down at the turn. Chalmers, the 28th qualifier, had pulled off the shock result of the first-round ties when she beat the No 6 seed Ailsa Summers (Carnoustie Ladies) by one hole. Never easy to play someone from the same county, in this case Angus, in a national tournament and that was possibly part of the problem for Ailsa.   Megan Briggs had some of the best figures of the day with an eagle (at the 11th) and three or four birdies as she won by 5 and 4 against new Northern Counties champion Hannah McCook (Grantown on Spey). Four down after seven, Hannah had a tiger by the tail - "She holed a lot of good putts and there wasn't much I could do about that," said McCook ruefully. Last year Megan Briggs lost to sister Eilidh in the semi-finals. This year they are in opposite halves of the draw and might well meet in Saturday morning's final. Its a possibility but they will have to beat some in-form players for that to happen. At the moment, there is no clearcut title favourite although I would expect one to emerge after Friday's matches which would pull out big galleries - if only the weather would improve to something like you would expect in mid-May, not mid-March. Jane Turner is getting away with playing poorly - by her standards - in the opening holes before she gets into her stride. The Robert Gordon University student was three down after five holes to Claire Hargan (Cardross), a former international who organised this championship as an SLGA staff member over the last two or three years. But Turner turns the heat on her opponents after the turn. She won the 10th, 12th, 13th, halved the 14th and 15th in birdies and then birdied the 17th for a 2 and 1 win. The short 17th - which the ladies play as a par-4 - is supposed to be one of course designer Old Tom Morris's best short holes on any of his lay-outs. Jane Turner wishes she could wrap it up and take it around with her because she has had one eagle 2 there and the rest birdie 3s.   Jane did pay credit to her opponent Hargan who did not have much time off to play competitive golf while she worked for the SLGA. "There were a lot of birdies between us in the match and I think we were both under par at the finish," said Jane. +Although Sammy Vass of Tain got through at the fourth extra hole in the championship, her two golfing aunts - both Scotland senior caps - Anne Ryan and Mary Smith lost their Clark Rosebowl quarter-final ties in "extra time." Anne lost at the 20th to Carole Whyte, Mary lost at the 20th to Lauren Whyte (no relation).        ==========================================================    FLASHBACK TO LAST YEAR'S QUARTER-FINALS AT MACHRIHANISH Eilidh Briggs bt Kelsey MacDonald Megan Briggs bt Alyson McKechin Jane Turner bt Susan Wood Louise Kenney bt Rachel Watton     ============================================================

SCOTTISH WOMEN'S AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP RESULTS

SECOND ROUND
Jane Turner bt Claire Hargan 2 and 1.
Susan  Wood bt Linsey Stevenson 1 hole
Eilidh Watson bt Jemma Chalmers 3 and 1.
Megan Briggs bt Hannah McCook 5 and 4.
Eilidh Briggs bt Martine Pow 3 and 2.
Kelsey MacDonald bt Samantha Munro 4 and 3.
Sammy Vass bt Clara Young at 22nd
Laura Murray bt Rachel Walker 1 hole.

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FRIDAY'S QUARTER-FINALS
8.30 Jane Turner v Susan Wood.
8.40 Eilidh Watson v Megan Briggs
8.50 Eilidh Briggs v Kelsey MacDonald
9.00 Sammy Vass v Laura Murray

SEMI-FINALS AT 1.30 AND 1.50

CLARK ROSEBOWL
QUARTER-FINALS
Carol Whyte bt Anne Ryan at 20th
Heather Munro bt Lynn Terry 6 and 5
Hannah Scott bt Jenny Potter 2 and 1
Lauren Whyte bt Mary Smith at 20th

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TWELVE YEAR OLD LUCY WINS HER WOMEN'S COUNTY TITLE

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Worcestershire golfer Lucy Walton has just played herself into the record books by winning her ladies’ county championship at the age of 12. She’s possibly the youngest ever county champion in the country, pipping such players as Hertfordshire’s Ella Ofstedahl and Wiltshire’s Hannah Turland who won their respective titles in 2011 and 2008 at the age of 13. Lucy won the Worcestershire and Herefordshire title on the 19th hole of the final at Redditch when she beat 14-year Ciara Kelly, the winner of last year’s Abraham Trophy for England’s most improved girl golfers. Lucy also currently holds the county girls’ title, which she won last July. “She was absolutely thrilled to win,” said Lucy’s mum, Di. “Last year she got to the quarter finals and her aim this year was to get to the semis, but she didn’t think she had a chance of winning.” Lucy (The Worcestershire) and Ciara (Hagley) are members of an England Golf Birdies training squad and both defeated past champions in the semi-finals, Lucy beating Karen Greenfield (Kidderminster), and Ciara beating Anna Rock (Kidderminster). Lucy’s rise to the top has been rapid. She first had a taste of golf when she was seven and a family friend took her to a Tri-golf event. She took up the game seriously at 10 and now holds a handicap of six. She’s from a sporty family: her father, Peter, coaches the England U18 rugby team and her mother, Di, and brother, Jack, are both hockey players. But Lucy is the only golfer – and has enjoyed great support from fellow lady members. “Because we don’t play we’ve had to rely heavily on club members and without exception people have been amazing,” said Di. “The ladies have been fantastic with her.” Now, Lucy’s target is to better last year’s performance in the English U13 girls’ championship when she came third.  Among the other teenagers who have won 2012 county championships are Gloucestershire’s Shelby Smart who has won her title three times in the last four years – and she’s still only 17! Inci Mehmet of Surrey is 15, while Sophie Keech of Dorset, Katrina Gani of Warwickshire, Amber Ratcliffe of Norfolk and Katie Warren of Wiltshire are all 16. For further information please contact: Lyndsey Hewison Press Officer England Golf lyndsey.hewison@ntlworld.co.uk

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LAURA MURRAY TAKEN ALL THE WAY BY LOCAL PLAYER AT TAIN

By COLIN FARQUHARSON
Colin@scottishgolfview.com
Top seed Jane Turner cleared her first match-play hurdle without too many problems at a damp and still cold but comparatively windless Tain links, Ross-shire this morning.
In contrast No 2 seed Laura Murray from Alford came under severe pressure over tthe closing holes from local player Claire Ross (Tain) before winnng by one hole. Scroll down for more details of this match.
Craigielaw GC member Jane Turner beat the No 32 qualifier, Germany-based (where her dad is a club pro) Fiona Liddell, by 6 and 4, having been three holes up after 10.
"My figures were pretty good ... I played well again," said Jane who has twice been a semi-finalist in the national championship.
Sixteen-year-old Fiona, joint third in the Scottish Under-16 girls open stroke-play at Strathmore last month, won a play-off against local player and Scotland senior cap Anne Ryan yesterday evening to claim the last of the 32 places in the match-play.
Fiona Liddell is a name we are going to be hearing more about over the next year or two but this championship - and a tie against a bang in form Jane Turner - was a bridge too far for the youngster at the moment.
Turner's afternoon opponent for a place in the quarter-finals will be former Scotland international Claire Hargan (Cardross).
Claire, who ran this tournament over the past year or two as the SLGA Tournament Director (she has recently joined the RandA Rules Staff), beat Cara Gruber (Royal Dornoch) by 3 and 2.
Hargan was up after 10 holes.
Susan Wood (Drumpellier), the No 24 qualifier, "punched" above her weight by beating the No 9 seed, Wendy Nicholson (Broomieknowe) 5 and 4.
Susan now plays Linsey Stevenson (Elie and Earlsferry Ladies), a 5 and 4 winner against former Scottish schoolgirls champion Elaine Cuthill (Lanark).
 Former champion Megan Briggs (Kilmacolm) reached the last 16 with a 4 and 3 win over Broomieknowe's Kate McIntosh.he
Jemma Chalmers, the No 28 qualifier from Monifieth, produced the first real shock of the match-play stages by beating another Angus youngster, Ailsa Summers (Carnoustie Ladies), the No 6 seed and Angus women's county champion for the fourth time in a row, by one hole.
Jemma built up a four-hole lead over the first 12 holes but Ailsa came back at her to cut her deficit to one. Then Jemma holed a 30ft putt at the 16th to two up with three to play. Ailsa got one hole back before running out of holes.
No 2 seed Laura Murray was given a hard fight by local player Claire Ross before squeezing through by one hole.
"I was four up after 10 holes but Claire was something like two under par for the back nine," said a relieved Laura after it was over.
"I lost the 15th, then the 16th to a birdie to be only one up on the 17th tee. I holed a 10ft putt at the 17th to get away with a half. That was a crucial putt, looking back."
The 18th was halved, Claire Ross having a go at holing a long birdie putt which would have squared the match. She was close enough with the putt to be conceded it. Laura two-putted from about 6 feet for the clinching half.

Results:

 CHAMPIONSHIP
FIRST ROUND
Jane Turner (Craigielaw) bt Fiona Liddell (Schloss Vornholz) 6 and 4
Claire Hargan (Cardross) bt Cara Gruber (Royal Dornoch) 3 and 2.
Susan Wood (Drumpellier) bt Wendy Nicholson (Broomieknowe) 5 and 4.
Linsey Stevenson (Elie and Earlsferry Ladies) bt Elaine Cuthill (Lanark) 5 and 4.
Jemma Chalmers (Monifieth) bt Ailsa Summers (Carnoustie Ladies) 1 hole.
Eilidh Watson (Muckhart) bt Rachel Polson (Peterculter) 2 and 1.
Megan Briggs (Kilmacolm) bt Kate McIntosh (Broomieknowe) 4 and 3.
Hannah McCook (Grantown on Spey) bt Mhairi McKay (West Kilbride) 6 and 4.
Eilidh Briggs (Kilmacolm) bt Nichola Ferguson (Milngavie) 6 and 4.
Martine Pow (Selkirk) bt Alyson McKechin (Elderslie) 6 and 5. Samantha Munro (Aberdour) bt Sheena Wood (Aberdeen Ladies) 6 and 4.
Kelsey MacDonald (Nairn Dunbar) bt Alison Bartlett (Royal Dornoch) 6 and 5.
Clara Young (North Berwick) bt Jacqueline Sneddon (Alyth) 4 and 3.
Sammy Vass (Tain) bt Karen Marshall (Baberton) 6 and 5.
Rachel Walker (Dumfries and Galloway) bt Louise Fraser (Kingsknowe) 6 and 5.
Laura Murray (Alford) bt Claire Ross (Tain) 1 hole.

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       SAMANTHA MUNRO (Aberdour) ... through to last 16 (Cal Carson Golf image)

      EILIDH WATSON (Muckhart) ... Through to last 16 (Cal Carson Agency image)

       SAMMY VASS (Tain) ... Through to last 16 (Cal Carson Golf Agency image)

KELSEY MacDONALD (Nairn Dunbar) .. Through to last 16 (Cal Carson Golf image)

CLARK ROSEBOWL

FIRST ROUND
Anne Ryan (Tain) bt Susan MacVicar (Gairloch) 5 and 4.
Carol Whyte (Windyhill) bt Kirsten Blackwood (Glencorse) 2 and 1.
Lynne Terry (Cruden Bay) bt Lorraine Morrow (Eastwood) 5 and 4.
Heather Munro (Monifieth) bt Nicola Taylor (Dunnikier Park) 6 and 4.
Jenny Potter (Cathkin Braes) bt Linda Bain (Lochend) 4 and 3.
Hannah Scott (Broomieknowe) bt Ashley Ann Alston (Royal Montrose) 4 and 2.
Lauren Whyte (St Regulus) bt Denise Cowan (Ranfurly Castle) 4 and 3.
QUARTER-FINALS

Mary Smith (Tain) bt Lynne Fraser (Fortrose and Rosemarkie) 7 and 6

LOUISE MACGREGOR COMPLETES STIRLING AND CLACKMANNAN TITLE HAT-TRICK

Louise MacGregor (Falkirk Golf Club) has won the Stirling and Clackmannan county championship for th third time in a row.

In the resumed final at Bathgate Golf Club - it was started last Wednesday but had to be abandoned after seven holes because of heavy rain.

Louise was four holes to the good on the resumption and she went on to beat Claire Capocci (Bridge of Allan) 7 and 5.

Louise went on to win holes 8, 11 and 12th. Louise was level par for the 12 holes, which considering the weather was fantastic golf.

 

 

 

Hope this reaches you in a cold Tain. Thanks again for your help.

JESS SCHIELE TURNS ON THE STYLE TO CLIMB TO THIRD PLACE

Jess Schiele (Oklahoma City) from Grimsby produced the round of the day - a five-under-par 68 - to climb the leaderboard to third place after 36 holes of the NAIA Women's Colllege Championships at Link Hills Golf and Country Club, Greeneville in Tennessee.
Jess had started her end of the college season climax slowly with a 77 but she got into top gear on the second day.
Starting at the 10th hole, she dropped a shot at the 11th but then covered her remaining holes in six under par with birdies at the 13th, first, second, fifth, sixth and nine with halves, as she played them of 36 and 32.
Jess's 145 tally has her three shots behind the leader, Nikki Stewart (Savannah College, Georgia) who also broke 70 second time round - a 69 after an opening 73.
In second place in the huge field of 144 players is Megan Woodland (Victoria) with rounds of 73-70 for 143.
British Columbia lead the team event on 604, a shot ahead of Savannah with  Shorter (606) in third place. Oklahoma City (618) are lying seventh in a field of 28 teams.


PAUL SIMPSON DROPS BACK IN NJCAA MEN'S DIV 1 CHAMPIONSHIP

Aboyne's Paul Simpson, a freshman student at Midland College, Texas, dropped from joint 11th to joint 18th in the the NJCAA Men's Division 1 Championship at Sand Creek Station with a 75 for a 36-hole tally of 147 over a 6948yd course with a par of 72.
He is seven shots behind the new tournament leader Mathias Boesmans (Western Texas) who shot a 69 for 140 to be two ahead of Christian Hunter (Central Alabama) (74-68) and Austin McNeil (Darton) (71-71).
Carnoustie's Chris Bell (Odessa) (77-75) is level with Luke Richardson (Midland) (78-74) in joint 47th place on 152. Luke hails from Essex.
A third Midland College student, Richard Farmer from Brighton is actually ahead of Chris and Luke on 150, joint 34th with a pair of 75s.
It's tight in the team event -
586 Indian Hills, 587 Western Texas, 588 Midland, 589 Odessas in a field of 23 teams