DRAW FOR IRISH STROKE-PLAY AT THE ISLAND GC, MAY 26

NEWS RELEASE ISSUED BY THE IRISH LADIES GOLF UNIONIreland’s Leona Maguire (Slieve Russell) launches her defence of the Irish Women’s Open Amateur Strokeplay title when competitors tee it up at The Island Golf Club on Saturday 26 May.Maguire, fresh from her selection on the GB&I Curtis Cup team to play the USA in Nairn next month, led from wire-to-wire to win last year’s Championship at Elm Park from Curtis Cup team mate Stephanie Meadow (Royal Portrush), who’s college commitments sees her as a leading omission from this year’s field.
Leona’s twin sister Lisa is sure to feature in the final groupings on Sunday afternoon as are high performance panelists Paula Grant (Lisburn) and Jessica Carty (Holywood) who are showing some strong early season form. With a quarter of the 72 strong quality field playing off scratch or lower, current Internationals Gillian O’Leary (Cork), Charlene Reid (Royal Portrush) and Emma O’Driscoll (Ballybunion) will face stiff overseas competition from a host of internationals travelling from Belgium, France, England, Scotland and Wales.
Past Irish Champions Mary Dowling (New Ross), Karen Delaney (Carlow) and Deirdre Smith (Co. Louth) join recently crowned Munster champion Amy Farrell (Moate) while Leinster Interprovincal Champions Maria Dunne (Skerries) and Áedín Murphy (Carlow) and youngsters Jean O'Driscoll (Muskerry), Olivia Mehaffey (RCD Ladies) and Ariana Coyle Diez (Elm Park) are sure to feature in Sunday morning’s late pairings as the leaders tee off at the end of the field.
72 competitors will play 36 holes stroke play on Saturday morning and afternoon with the top 40 making the cut for the final 18 holes on Sunday. With complimentary entry for spectators, visitors to The Island are most welcome.Ireland will defend their Nations Cup after defeating Spain, Wales, Germany, England and Scotland in last year’s event.

IRISH WOMEN’S OPEN AMATEUR STROKEPLAY – THE ISLAND, SATURDAY 26 MAY
Tee 107:30 Alison Taylor (Malahide) Aoife Lowry (Tipperary) Sophie Harrison (Sutton)
07:40 Ashleigh Wilton (The Island) Anna Courtney (St. Anne's) Laura Grant (Lisburn)
07:50 Patrice Delaney (Birr) Sarah Helly (Enniscrone) Kirsty Condon (ENG)
08:00 Victoria Craig (Clandeboye) Niamh McSherry (Lurgan) Lisa O'Shea (Shannon)
08:10 Chloe Weir (Shandon Park) Hannah Henderson (Ballyclare) Niamh Ward (Lurgan)
08:20 Leona Maguire (Slieve Russell) Lorellen Gros (FRA) Emily Taylor (ENG)
08:30 Ariana Coyle Diez (Elm Park) Olivia Mehaffey (RCD Ladies) Sammy Vass (SCO)
08:40 Holly Robinson (Co. Sligo) Louise Mernagh (Woodenbridge) Ashley Constantine (The Island)
08:50 Shauna O'Brien (Clonmel) Clodagh Hopkins (Woodbrook) Darcey Carr (Milltown)
09:00 Laura Doherty (Howth) Orla Egan (Roscrea) Zoe Allen (Lurgan)
09:10 Joelle van Baarle (BEL) Mary Dowling (New Ross) Victoria Bradshaw (Bangor)
09:20 Kelsey Coey (Clandeboye) Jessica Ross (Donaghadee) Christine Armanasco (Belturbet)

Tee 1007:30 Eilidh Briggs (SCO) Sarah Cunningham (Ennis) Maria Dunne (Skerries)
07:40 Cliodhna McCarthy (Stackstown) Rebecca O'Regan (Newlands) Julie McCarthy (Forrest Little)
07:50 Alyson McKechin (SCO) Deirdre Smith (Co. Louth) Paula Grant (Lisburn)
08:00 Megan Briggs (SCO) Lucy Simpson (Massereene) Sue Phillips (Woodbrook)
08:10 Charlene Reid (Royal Portrush) Jessica Wilcox (ENG) Karen O'Neill (Douglas)
08:20 Lauren Blease (ENG) Jessica Meek (SCO) Jessica Carty (Holywood)
08:30 Lisa Maguire (Slieve Russell) Karen Delaney (Carlow) Hannah McCook (SCO)
08:40 Katherine O'Connor (WAL) Gabrielle MacDonald (SCO) Jean O'Driscoll (Muskerry)
08:50 Kristina Rothengatter (GER) Emma O'Driscoll (Ballybunion) Sinead Sexton (Lahinch)
09:00 Nicole Whitmore (ENG) Gillian O'Leary (Cork) Jane Turner (SCO)
09:10 Tara Gribben (Warrenpoint) Aedin Murphy (Carlow) Amy Farrell (Moate)
09:20 Nicola Coffey (Woodbrook) Shannen Browne (The Heath) Suzie Hayes (Hermitage)

TOP SEEDS MURRAY AND TURNER MEET IN FINAL OF SCOTTISH WOMEN'S CHAMPIONSHIP

 LAURA MURRAY (above) and JANE TURNER (below) pictured by Cal Carson Golf Agency in early action in the semi-finals at Tain.

BY COLIN FARQUHARSON
Colin@scottishgolfview.com

Luck did not have anything to do with it but it was success at the third attempt for Laura Murray (Alford) and Craigielaw's Jane Turner as the top two seeds from the two qualifying rounds earlier in the week swept through Friday's quarter-finals and semi-finals to take pride of place for the first time in Saturday's 18-hole final at the 98th Scottish women's amateur golf championship at Tain Golf Club, Ross-shire. Both had failed at the semi-final stage twice before - Laura in 2008 and 2010, Jane in 2009 and 2011 - but if they had suffered from brink-of-final nerves in the past, they certainly did not third time round. Both were impressive winners morning and afternoon over a course which soaked up a fair bit of rain overnight and again until the skies cleared at lunchtime. Turner, the 22-year-old No 1 seed from Penicuik and a graphic design student at Robert Gordon University (she graduates this summer), had to play only 26 holes as she beat Susan Wood (Drumpellier) 5 and 4 before chalking up a 7 and 6 semi-final win over Eilidh Watson (Muckhart), the 17-year-old who pulled off one of the shocks of the championship week when she knocked out the No 3 seed, Megan Briggs (Kilmacolm) at the 19th in the morning after Briggs, four up at one stage, had three-putted the sodden 18th green to be pulled back to all square. Similarly, Laura Murray, 23, who works part-time as a swimming pool lifeguard at the Kippie Lodge Sports Club at Milltimber to help fund her golfing travels, had to play only 28 holes to clear the quarter and semi-final hurdles. Laura beat the home hope, Sammy Vass (Tain) by 5 and 4 in the morning and then had a surprisingly easy win by 6 and 4 over last year's beaten finalist and reigning Scottish girls match-play champion, Eilidh Briggs (Kilmacolm). Eilidh reached the final at Machrihanish last year but she was forced to play catch-up golf after Laura won the first two holes with par figures. "Winning the early holes certainly settled me," said Laura later "But strangely enough I was far more nervous in the earlier rounds when I was twice taken to the 18th green. "My coach, Keil Beveridge, - brother of up and coming Aboyne girl Kimberley Beveridge - told me over the phone last night to relax and just let it happen - and that's what I did. Keil has worked a lot with me over the winter and played with me in the North-east Alliance men's tournaments, all of which has put my swing together again after I finished last year not knowing where I was going in a golfing sense. "Keil does not believe in filling up your head with theory. He has a simplistic approach to coaching and and it has worked very well for me." Murray went three up at the eighth and then used her strength of the tee to wrap up victory. She birdied three long holes on the home straight - the par-5 11th, 13th and 14th, to win by 6 and 4 with two-under-par figures. Jane Turner was roughly one over par in beating Eilidh Watson by 7 and 6. To be fair to Jane, also a big-hitter, her match was over before she got to the par-5 13th and 14th at which she would almost certainly have got home in two for two-putt birdies. Turner, despite being the leading qualifier, and making steady headway through to the last eight, had still to master the early holes going into her semi-final tie. So when Jane went three up after her four "bogey" holes, the writing was very much on the wall for young Eilidh Watson. Turner kept up her charge, winning the sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth for a seven-hole lead. There was no way back from that for Watson and three halved holes finished the one-sided contest on the 12th green. But the Muckhart teenager has had a very good championship, capped by that winning comeback from four down to KO Megan Briggs, and the SLGA selectors will have noted the name. The Turner v Murray 18-hole final will tee off at 9am. I hope they get the gallery they deserve.                                        HANNAH SCOTT IN ACTION IN THE CLARK ROSEBOWL FINAL                                                              Image by Cal Carson Golf Agency HANNAH SCOTT  (Broomieknowe) WINS CLARK ROSEBOWL ON 18th GREEN The Clark Rosebowl subsidiary match-play competition was won by Hannah Scott (Broomieknowe) who beat Heather Munro (Monifieth) by one hole in the final. Munro was two up after 10 holes but Scott turned it around by winning the 11th, 13th, 14th (with a birdie) and the 18th. NEXT YEAR AT LONGNIDDRY .... PRESTWICK FOR THE CENTENARY IN 2014 Incidentally, next year's Scottish women's championship goes to an East Lothan venue - Longniddry Golf club. The Centenary staging of the championship in the year 2014 goes, rather fittingly, to the Prestwick Golf Club in Ayrshire. Fittingly because when the Scottish womens championship was started in 1903 (the event was not played during World War 1 or II which explains why the 100th championship was not played in 2003), Prestwick was or had been an Open championship venue, steeped in the history of the early years of organised, competitive golf in Scotland, or should I say the world ... SCROLL DOWN FOR A RECAP OF ALL THE DAY'S RESULTS AT TAIN

FRIDAY RESULTS AT SCOTTISH WOMEN'S AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP

98^th SCOTTISH WOMEN'S AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP

Tain Golf Club, Ross-shire

QUARTER-FINALS

Jane Turner (Craigielaw) bt Susan Wood (Drumpellier) 5 and 4.

Eilidh Watson (Muckhart) bt Megan Briggs (Kilmacolm) at 19^th.

Eilidh Briggs (Kilmacolm) bt Kelsey MacDonald (Nairn Dunbar) 7 and 6.

Laura Murray (Alford) bt Sammy Vass (Tain) 5 and 4.

SEMI-FINALS

Turner bt Watson 7 and 6.

Murray bt Eilidh Briggs 6 and 4.

CLARK ROSEBOWL

SEMI-FINALS
Heather Munro (Monifieth) bt Carol Whyte (Windyhill) at 19^th

Hannah Scott (Broomieknowe) bt Lauren Whyte (St Regulus) 3 and 2.

FINAL

Scott bt Munro 1 hole.

PAMELA PRETSWELL WINS PRO EVENT IN SWEDEN

Curtis Cup amateur Pamela Pretswell more than justified her decision not to play in this week's Scottish women's amateur championship at Tain by winning the Ljungbyheds Park Women's Open, a Ladies European Tour developmental circuit 54-hole event in Sweden today . The Hamilton-based, 22-year-old Bothwell Castle GC member is playing with and amongst female professionals on a regular basis with the objective of raising her game to the standard required to gain pass marks at the LET Qualifying School next January. Pamela, who will be playing for GB and I against the United States in next month's Curtis Cup match at The Nairn, failed to make it at this year's Q School. She shot rounds of 73, 72 and a great final score of four-under-par 67 for a one-under-par total of 212 and a two-stroke victory in Sweden. Swedish amateur Isabella Deilert (69-73-72) finished second on 214. Carnoustie's Kate McNicoll finished joint 31 on 10-over-par 223 with scores of 72-78-73. Ayrshire's Pamela Feggans totalled 226 for 38th place with scores of 74-76-77. It's been a good week for the selectors of the GB and I Curtis Cup team. On Thursday, Kelly Tidy, one of their team of eight, won the English women's amateur championship. Now Pretswell has endorsed her selection too. +The last Scottish female amateur to win a professional event was Gillian Stewart from Inverness. Soon after being left out of the GB and I team for a Curtis Cup match at Muirfield, Gillian turned pro and soon became a successful competitor on the forerunner of what is now the Ladies European Tour KIRKWOODGOLF SENT A MESSAGE OF CONGRATULATIONS ON BEHALF OF EVERYONE AT THE "SCOTTISH" AT TAIN. HERE IS PAMELA PRETSWELL'S REPLY: Thank you Colin, it has been a great couple of weeks in Sweden. Very happy. I have moved up to 2nd in the Order of merit which is a great bonus. Head to Kiev tomorrow for the next event then home for a few days before heading up north to meet Team GB&I I would have won just over €5000 if I had been a pro. Should be a good final tomorrow at Tain, hope the weather is ok - it has been very windy and cold in Sweden, feels just like home! Thanks, Pamela SCROLL DOWN FOR THE LETAS WEBSITE REPORT LJUNGBYHED PARKS WOMEN'S OPEN Ljungbyheds GC, Sweden LEADING FINAL TOTALS Par 213 (3x71) 212 Pamela Pretswell (Sco) (am) 73 72 67. 214 Isabella Deilert (Swe) (am) 69 73 72 216 Linnea Strom (Swe) (am) 77 71 68, Nanna Koertz Madsen (Den) 73 74 69. SELECTED TOTALS 219 Tara Delaney (Ire) 72 76 71 (T10) 222 Rachel Bell (Eng) 71 78 73, Anna Scott (En) 75 71 76 (T26) 223 Katy McNicoll (Sco) 72 78 73 (T31) 226 Pamela Feggans (Sco) 74 76 77 (38th).

Pamela first amateur winner on LETAS Tour

FROM THE LETAS WEBSITE
With her victory, Pamela Pretswell (Bothwell Castle Golf Club) became the first amateur to win an event on the Ladies European Tour Access Series since the tour was launched in 2010.
She will now leap from 23^rd position to second place on the LETAS order of merit, from which the top three players will automatically qualify to play on the Ladies European Tour in 2013 at the end of the year.
All of the top four places were taken by amateur competitors. Sweden’s Isabella Deilbert was second on one over par after rounds of 69, 73 and 72, followed by fellow Swede Linnea Ström and Denmark’s Nanna Koerstz Madsen two strokes further back in a share of third.  
Mary Mattson of the United States and Swedish duo Emma Nilsson and Anna Dahlberg Söderström ended in share of fifth place on four over par.
Because of her amateur status, Pretswell won’t earn the €5,062 first prize money. The first and second place prize money of €2,374 will be shared between Mattson and Dahlberg Söderström, the leading professionals.
The 2010 British Strokeplay champion Pretswell rated the victory as the highlight of her career.  
“It’s massive for me and definitely my biggest achievement,” she said after her win.
“I’m thinking about turning professional and will go back to Qualifying School in January if I don’t qualify through the Access Series.
“I’m really happy because I’ve been learning a lot on tour and I’m looking forward to the next tournament. I’ve really seen the importance of how good every shot must be and you’ve to play really well.”  
Pretswell represented Scotland and Great Britain in tennis from the age of five to 14 before turning to golf. She said: “I just got tired of playing tennis and wanted to try something different.”
She felt at home playing in cloudy and windy conditions in southern Sweden, which she considered similar to those in western Scotland and made a brilliant start with a pair of opening birdies. She then made a 15 foot birdie putt at the fourth to get to three under par for the round.
After holing a ten-footer for birdie at the eighth and making a good up and down at the ninth, she recorded an outward total of four under par 31.
A pair of birdies at the 10^th and 12^th was followed by bogeys on the closing two holes and a level par inward nine was good enough to secure the win.  
Pretswell said that there would be no time for celebrations as she was heading straight to Ukraine for the GolfStream Ladies Open taking place from May 22-24 at Kiev Golf Club.
She said: “I’m looking forward to playing in more Access Series events. I’ve learned from the other girls and it’s really rubbing off on me.”

MUNROSS TROPHY DRAW - MONTROSE LINKS WOMEN'S OPEN

DRAW FOR MUNROSS TROPHY - SUNDAY 27 MAY 2012

09.00/14.00     K Reid (Mon); C Penman (CCL)        

09.08/14.08     S Raitt (F); F Millar (CCL)
09.16/14.16     C Robertson (CL); S Young (RML); S Chapman (PB)
09.24/14.24     H Munro (Mon); E Aird (Bl); J Brown (Mon)
09.32/14.32     A Ramsay (Kir); A Summers (CCL)
09.40/14.40    
09.48/14.48    
09.56/14.56     R Polson (P); A Alston (RML)          
10.04/15.04     L Murray (A); C Hargan (C); R Wilson (G)
10.12/15.12     E Watson (Muc); L Bain (Lo); T Seivwright (D)
10.20/15.20     L Whyte (StR); K Beveridge (Ab); J Sneddon (Al)
10.28/15.28     E Greenlees (D&C); M McKay (WK); R Rankin (L)
10.36/15.36     I Stephen (RC); K Brodie (St); K Burgess (S)
10.44/15.44     C Young (NB); L Stevenson (E&E); R Walker (D&C)
10.52/15.52     K McIntosh (B); T MacTaggart (M); J Linklater (Lg)
11.00/16.00     C Jaffray (TL); H Scott (B); L Atkins (GL)
11.08/16.08     L Morrow (E); E Hale (TL); S McWilliams (Ban)

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A         Alford                                                 M         Minto                          
Ab       Aboyne                                                Mon     Monfieth
Al        Alyth                                                   Muc     Muckhart
B         Broomieknowe                                    NB       North Berwick
Ban      Banchory                                             P          Peterculter      
Bl        Blairgowrie                                         PB       Panmure Barry
C         Cardross                                              RC       Ranfurly Castle
CC       Carnoustie Caledonia                          RML    Royal Montrose Ladies
CL       Carnoustie Ladies                               S          Silverknowes
D         Deeside                                               StR      St Regulus
D&C    Dumfries &

County                             St

         Strathmore
E&F    Elie & Earlsferry                                TL       Troon Ladies  
E          Eastwood                                            WK      West Kilbride                        
F          Forfar                                                 
G         Grange
GL       Gullane Ladies                                   
K         Kirriemuir                                          
L          Lanark
Lg        Largs
Lo        Lochend

KELSEY AND MEGAN BRIGGS BEATEN IN TAIN QUARTER-FINALS

By COLIN FARQUHARSON
Colin@scottishgolfview.com
Two past champions - Kelsey MacDonald (2010 at Craigielaw) and Megan Briggs (2009 at Southerness) - were beaten in this morning's quarter-finals of the 98th Scottish women's amateur championship, played in a drizzle and over a links course which soaked up a lot of overnight rain but was beginning to show puddles here and there by lunchtime.
Kelsey was "skelped" 7 and 6 by Kilmacolm's 19-year-old Scottish girls champion Eilidh Briggs who lost to Louise Kenney in last year's championship final at Machrihanish. Eilidh's older sister Megan, 22, four holes up on 17-year-old Muckhart player, Eilidh Watson, after seven holes and still three up on the 14th tee, let a place in the semi-finals for the second year in a row slip through her wet fingers.
Watson, the only P and K player to make the match-play stages, won the 14th, 17th, 18th (where Briggs three-putted, finally missing on the very wet green from about 2 and a half feet) and 19th for the biggest win of her fledgling career.
In this afternoon's semi-finals it will be No 1 seed Jane Turner (Craigielaw) versus Eilidh Watson, and Eilidh Briggs versus Laura Murray (Alford), the No 2 seed who beat the home hope, Sammy Vass (Tain) by 5 and 4.
Jane Turner was a 5 and 4 winner against Susan Wood (Drumpellier) with roughly level par figures. Wood had a slight edge over the opening holes - which Turner has still to play well - but wins at the fourth, fifth and sixth gave Turner a two-hole lead and she was never in trouble after that.
The Craigielaw player won the 11th and 12th with birdies to go five up. A half in birdie 4s at the 14th ended the match which was a repeat of one of last year's quarter-finals. Jane won last year as well.
Eilidh Briggs never looked back after winning the first three holes against Kelsey MacDonald. It just wasn't Kelsey's day. She was roughly eight over par when the match finished on the 12th green.  Both players are Stirling students but that was the only similarity this morning. Eilidh was an approximate one over par for the holes played. She had only one birdie, which put her six up at the 11th.
Laura Murray, like Eilidh Briggs, won the first three holes and took the fifth as well to surge four holes up on Sammy Vass. Sammy won only one hole, the sixth, and was four down at the turn.
The long-hitting Murray fiished the match with a birdie 4 - her only one of the moorning - at the 14th. Laura was roughly one over par for the holes played.

LATEST POSITIONS IN SCOTTISH WOMEN'S QUARTER-FINALS

Jane Turner two up after 9 holes v Susan Wood.
Megan Briggs three up after 8 holes v Eilidh Watson.
Eilidh Briggs three up after 7 holes v Kelsey MacDonald
Laura Murray three up after 7 holes v Sammy Vass
LATER
Turner five up after 14 holes v Wood
Megan Briggs two up after 11 holes v Watson
Eilidh Briggs six up after 11 holes v MacDonald
Murray four up after 9 holes v Vass
LATEST
Jane Turner (Craigielaw) bt Susan Wood (Drumpellier) 5 and 4.
Megan Briggs three up after 13 holes v Watson.
Eilidh Briggs (Kilmacolm) bt Kelsey MacDonald (Nairn Dunbar) 7 and 6
Murray four up after 12 holes v Vass

LATER STILL
Megan Briggs and Eilidh Watson (Muckhart) bt Megan Briggs (Kilmacolm) at 19th.
Laura Murray (Alford) bt Sammy Vass (Tain) 5 and 4.

CLARK ROSEBOWL SEMI-FINALS NEWS
Hannah Scott (Broomieknowe) bt Lauren Whyte (St Regulus) 3 and 2.
 Heather Munro (Monifieth) bt Carol Whyte (Windyhill) at 19th.

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THE RAIN AT TAIN ... AND IT'S NOT VERY WARM EITHER

THE RAIN IN TAIN ...  First tee scene for the quarter-finals of the 98th Scottish women's amateur championship at the Ross-shire links this morning. The temperature was only 5 degrees at 8.30am (Cal Carson Agency image).

KELLY GOES TO CURTIS CUP AS NEW ENGLISH CHAMPION

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Lancashire’s Kelly Tidy won a sudden death play-off to be crowned English women’s amateur champion at her home club, Royal Birkdale.
Lancashire’s Kelly Tidy won a sudden death play-off to be crowned English women’s amateur champion at her home club, Royal Birkdale.
She defeated Dorset’s Georgia Hall with a birdie on the first play-off hole after the two golfers had tied at the end of regulation play on four-over par. “It’s very special to win here, it means more than anything,” said Kelly, whose supporters included a crowd of home club spectators.
She gave them some anxious moments before she clinched the title but, as she said afterwards: “I never give up. I always believe it’s not over until it’s over, until the last putt drops.” That attitude carried her through as the final round unfolded with compelling drama and the lead swung to and fro.
“It was almost like matchplay,” said Kelly. “I’ve been in matchplay finals and I know it can get scrappy and that you just have to hang in there to the end. That’s what happened.”
Kelly set the stage when she took the championship lead after this morning’s third round when she produced a near-flawless score of four-under par 71. It took her to two-under for the event and leapfrogged her over her playing partner, Georgia Hall (Remedy Oak), who had held the lead from the start and who had scored par this morning.
It meant there were three shots separating the pair as they teed off in what was to become a two-horse race. Their closest challengers were another six shots behind them and none could break into the battle being played out in the final pairing. Holly Clyburn (Woodhall Spa) came nearest, finishing three shots back, in third place.
Kelly maintained a healthy advantage over the opening holes and was four ahead after the fourth. But she was steadily pegged back and after a two-shot swing on the 10th, which Georgia birdied, the players were on level terms.
Georgia kept up the momentum, taking advantage of a temporary lapse in Kelly’s putting skills, and held a two shot advantage after 14 holes. But the battle was far from over: Georgia’s three-putt on 15 narrowed the gap to one and when Kelly birdied 16 they were again on level terms.
Georgia struck back with a birdie on the 17th to hold a one-shot lead as they played the last. Kelly, in turn, birdied the 18th - thanks to a superb putt of over 30 yards which finished within inches of the hole - to set up a play-off.
The deciding hole was the par five 15th where Kelly set up yet another birdie with a fine pitch to the pin – and the title was hers. Georgia, who parred the hole, said afterwards: “I’m disappointed, but Kelly produced two birdies to win and I can’t argue with that.”
Kelly’s next big date is the Curtis Cup match at Nairn in June: “I really hope we can win there. I love team golf and I’m very patriotic about playing for my country, it means a lot,” she said. The team also includes Holly Clyburn, who was third in the championship, while Georgia is a reserve.
The best scores of the final round were three-under 72, returned by England girl international Emily Taylor (Royal Lytham & St Annes) and British champion Lauren Taylor (Woburn). Hannah Barwood (Knowle), Charlotte Wild (Mere) and Melissa McMahon (Lyme Regis) all shot one-under 74.
LEADING FINAL TOTALS
Par 300 (4x75)
304 Kelly Tidy (Royal Birkdale) 78 74 71 81, Georgia Hall (Remedy Oak) 77 74 75 78. Tidy won sudden death play-off at first extra hole.
307 Holly Clyburn (Woodhall Spa) 80 76 76 75
309 Kerry Smith (Waterlooville) 81 75 76 77
310 Emily Taylor (Royal Lytham and St Annes) 80 76 82 72
313 Lauren Taylor (Woburn) 84 79 78 72, Hannah Barwood (Knowle) 79 81 79 74
314 Gabriella Cowley (West Essex), 81 82 76 75, Charlotte Wild (Mere) 81 81 78 74, Ellie Robinson (Wilton) 79 79 79 77
315 Alexandra Peters (Notts Ladies) 79 81 78 77
316 Jessica Bradley (Tiverton) 80 77 79 80

JESS SCHIELE HAS CHANCE OF WINNING NCAA WOMEN'S TITLE

Jess Schiele (Oklahoma City) from Grimsby is lying joint second, one shot off the pace with one round to go in the NCAA Women's Championship at Link Hills Golf and Country Club, Greeneville, Tennessee.
Jess has had rounds of 77-68-75 for a 54-hole tally of 220
That puts her level with Anna Arrese Cortadellas (Oklahoma Christian) (74-73-73), behind the tournament leader Megan Woodland (Victoria) who has shot 75-70-76 for level par 219 over the 6044yd course.

ABOYNE STUDENT LOSES GROUND AT SAND CREEK STATION

Paul Simpson (Midland, Texas) from Aboyne, Aberdeenshire has lost more ground with a third-round 80 in the NJCAA Men's Division 1 Championship at Sand Creek Station golf couse, Newton in Kansas.
Over a par 72 course of just under 7,000yd, Paul has a 54-hole tally of 227 after earlier scores of 72 and 75. The freshman is sharing 29th place in the field of 105 players.
He is still the leading Brit in the competition. O
Carnoustie's Chris Bell (Odessa) comes next on 228 with scores of 77-75-76 for a a share of 35th place.
Simpson's Midland team-mates Richard Farmer (T41) and Luke Richardson (T58) are on 229 (75-75-79) and 232 (78-74-80) respectively.
Indian Hills (882) lead the team event ahead of Western Texas (890) with Meridian (892) third. Midland have dropped back to T6 on 903 with Odessa on 895.

CHRIS ROBB IN TOP TEN AT BOWLING GREEN

Chris Robb from Banchory, a student at Chattanooga-Tennessee is lying joint seventh with a par-marching 72 in the first round of the NCAA South Central Regional Championship at The Clube at Old Stowe, Bowling Green in Kentucky.
Tom Robson from Portsmouth - a student at Jacksonville State - is sharing 28th place on 75.
Sharing the lead on 68 over this 7288yd course are Pedro Figueiredo from Portugal and a student AMahead of world-ranked Patrick Cantlay (UCLA).
UCLA (284) lead the team event by 10 shots from Chattanooga-Tennessee and Colorado State.

SCOTT LAMBERT TOP BRIT IN NCAA CHAMPIONSHIP

Scott Lambert (UNC-Pembroke) shot 76-74-77 for 227 and a T71 placing in the NCAA Division 2 Championship at Simpsonville, Kentucky.
Mitch Farrar (Nova Southeastern) was T75 on 228 with scores of 71-80-77 and Ross Earnshaw (Post) finished 102nd on 241 with scores of 86-80-75 in a field of 108 plaers.
Englishman Ben Taylor (Nova Southeastern) came third on 208 (70-69-69) behind Josh Creel (Central Oklahoma) (65-70-71) and Jim Knous (Nova SE) (70-69-69)
Creel won the individual title by beating Knous at the first hole of a sudden death play-off.
Chico State (851) won the team title ahead of Nova SE (855) with Central Oklahoma third on 856.
UNC-Pembroke finished 10th with 879.