YOUNG ARGENTINA STAR BECOMES GODMOTHER TO BRITISH HOSPITAL

Somebody must have forgotten to tell Argentina's 18-year-old rising star of ladies pro golf, Victoria Tanco, that there is a "cold war" between her country and Great Britain over the Falkland Islands.
She has become the Godmother of the Buenos Aires British Hospital Women's Centre.
After finishing 17^th in Brazil, at the HSBC LPGA Brazil Cup, part of the LPGA Tour, Victoria spent some days in Buenos Aires when the directors of the British Hospital made the official appointment which highlights the fact that her healthy life style constitutes an example for health prevention and care.
Victoria Tanco, who is managed by IMG, said:
“As a sportswoman I am very proud of being the godmother of a centre that looks after women´s health, both prevention and therapeutic aspects.”

CARLY BOOTH IN FOUR-WAY TIE FOR LEAD AT LADIES' GERMAN OPEN

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Carly Booth (pictured above in action today), Carin Koch, Caroline Westrup and Stefanie Michl each shot five under par 67 to share the first-round lead in the UniCredit Ladies German Open presented by Audi.

Booth, who won her first Ladies European Tour title at her home event in Scotland three weeks ago, made five birdies on the back nine at Golfpark Gut Häusern near Munich to grab a share of the lead after a two hour weather delay mid-afternoon.

“It was just trying to be patient. It was a slow front nine: was only level par through nine but then birdied 10 and 11 and nearly holed my shot on 13 and tapped in for birdie. I parred 14, 15 and 16 and then birdie, birdie to finish,” said Booth, 19. “It was just very solid, especially my last nine. The front nine I missed quite a few putts so I could have been a lot more under par but I left a lot of putts short. I’m happy with today’s round.”

Sweden’s Koch, who tied for third in Turkey a fortnight ago, mixed seven birdies with two bogeys.

“It’s really fun to play good golf and I really like this golf course so it’s nice to come here and play well. I played pretty steady today and made some good putts which you have to if you’re going to shoot a low score. I’m happy about my game,” said Koch, who has her husband Stefan on the bag. 

Michl had a bogey-free round containing five birdies and said: “I played pretty solid. I hit loads of greens and I hit some quite close. I had a lot of chances for birdie and I just had two up and downs that I made.”

Westrup’s 67 matched her third round score from the same tournament 12 months ago, when she earned a career best finish of equal seventh in the event.

She commented: “I’m pleased. I left a few birdie shots out there but I played solid off the tee and my irons were my strength today. I rolled in some putts when I need to and hit good shots, so gave myself a lot of opportunities.

“I really did not set out a specific score today. I did not play my best golf in Turkey so I did not have any expectations on a score. I felt that I did two good practice rounds and I feel my game has been good since I came back from Turkey. I went home and practised a lot. Just follow my game plan and one shot at a time.”

Swede Pernilla Lindberg and Czech teen Klara Spikova were a stroke back on four under.

“I was off to a rocky start and a little wild to start off with but on the back nine I managed to keep the ball on the fairway a little bit more and that helped. My putting was really good today,” Lindberg said.

“The greens are rolling really true so if you put yourself in a position, it’s going to be a birdie-fest out here. You need to roll it good and make some good putts.”

Spilkova said: “I’m so tired today. It was really long because the storm was here. I was a little bit disappointed because I hate storms, but I’m so happy and looking forward to tomorrow.”

There were 14 players a stroke back at three under: Carlota Ciganda, Ashleigh Simon, Sophie Gustafson, Charlotte Ellis, Georgina Simpson, Bree Arthur, Diana Luna, Liebelei Lawrence, Joanna Klatten, Florentyna Parker, Laura Davies, Celine Palomar, Hannah Burke and Hannah Jun.

Defending champion Luna, who won last year’s tournament without any blemishes in four rounds, ended her bogey-free streak with her first in 93 holes at the ‘unlucky 13^th’.

ALL THE FIRST-ROUND SCORES
Par 72

67 Stefanie Michl (AUT), Carin Koch (SWE), Caroline Westrup (SWE), Carly Booth (SCO)

68 Pernilla Lindberg (SWE), Klara Spilkova (CZE)

69 Carlota Ciganda (ESP), Ashleigh Simon (SAf), Sophie Gustafson (SWE), Charlotte Ellis (ENG), Georgina Simpson (ENG), Bree Arthur (AUS), Diana Luna (ITA), Liebelei Lawrence (LUX), Joanna Klatten (FRA), Florentyna Parker (ENG), Laura Davies (ENG), Celine Palomar (FRA), Hannah Burke (ENG), Hannah Jun (USA)

70 Sandra Gal (DEU), Marianne Skarpnord (NOR), Felicity Johnson (ENG), Heather Bowie Young (USA), Louise Stahle (SWE), Mikaela Parmlid (SWE), Caroline Masson (DEU), Becky Morgan (WAL), Stephanie Na (AUS), Karolin Lampert (DEU), Caroline Afonso (FRA), Line Vedel (DNK), Veronica Zorzi (ITA), Lindsey Wright (AUS), Karen Lunn (AUS)

71 Nontaya Srisawang (THA), Valentine Derrey (FRA), Rebecca Artis (AUS), Holly Aitchison (ENG), Rebecca Hudson (ENG), Kym Larratt (ENG), Laura Cabanillas (ESP), Stacy Lee Bregman (SAf), Lydia Hall (WAL), Trish Johnson (ENG), Elizabeth Bennett (ENG), Anais Maggetti (CHE), Frances Bondad (AUS), Iben Tinning (DNK), Rachel Bailey (AUS), Titiya Plucksataporn (THA), Dewi Claire Schreefel (NLD)

72 Julie Maisongrosse (FRA), Chrisje De Vries (NLD), Tara Davies (WAL), Giulia Sergas (ITA), Nikki Garrett (AUS), Ursula Wikstrom (FIN), Stacey Keating (AUS), Cassandra Kirkland (FRA), Martina Eberl-ellis (DEU), Danielle Montgomery (ENG), Jennie Lee (USA), Yu Yang Zhang (CHN), Diana D Alessio (USA), Lucie Andre (FRA), Sophie Giquel-bettan (FRA), Gwladys Nocera (FRA)

73 Lee-Anne Pace (SAf), Linda Wessberg (SWE), Lynnette Brooky (NZ), Beth Allen (US), Fabienne In-albon (CHE), Margherita Rigon (ITA), Kylie Walker (SCO), Esther Choe (US), Dawn Shockley (USA), Lisa Holm Sorensen (DNK), Laurette Maritz (SAf), Maria Beautell (ESP), Marjet Van Der Graaff (NLD)

74 Kiran Matharu (ENG), Vikki Laing (SCO), Rebecca Codd (IRL), Zuzana Kamasova (SVK), Alexandra Vilatte (FRA), Stefania Croce (ITA), Henrietta Zuel (ENG), Minea Blomqvist (FIN), Alison Whitaker (AUS), Anne-Lise Caudal (FRA), Louise Larsson (SWE), Clare Queen (SCO), Elisabeth Esterl (DEU)

75 Kendall Dye (US), Elena Giraud (FRA), Sahra Hassan (WAL), Marieke Nivard (NLD), Anja Monke (DEU), Elin Emanuelsson (SWE), Connie Chen (SAf), Nina Birken (DEU), Lotta Wahlin (SWE), Tandi Cuningham (SAf), Emma Cabrera-Bello (ESP), Jessica Yadloczky (US)

76 Julie Greciet (FRA), Helen Alfredsson (SWE), Ann-Kathrin Lindner (DEU), Miriam Nagl (DEU), Malene Jorgensen (DNK), Virginie Lagoutte-Clement (FRA), Sophie Walker (ENG), Nina Holleder (DEU)

77 Tania Elosegui (ESP), Smriti Mehra (IND), Becky Brewerton (WAL)

78 Nina Syvertsen Reis (SWE), Rachel Jennings (ENG), Caroline Rominger (CHE), Katharina Bohm (DEU)

79 Quirine-Louise Eijkenboom (DEU), Carmen Alonso (ESP), Sharmila Nicollet (IND), Steffi Kirchmayr (DEU)

80 Nicole Gergely (AUT)

THREAT OF LIGHTNING HALTS PLAY IN LADIES' GERMAN OPEN

Sweden’s Caroline Westrup posted the target with a round of five under 67 in the first round of the UniCredit Ladies' German Open this morning.
She held a two stroke lead in the clubhouse when play was suspended due to the threat of lightning at 1.25pm local time after a morning of glorious sunshine.
Celine Palomar, Bree Arthur, Joanna Klatten and Sophie Gustafson had all signed for rounds of three under 69 just before the horn sounded for dangerous conditions.

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PAMELA PRETSWELL FINISHES THIRD IN WINDY UKRAINE

Pamela Pretswell's hopes of back-to-back wins playing as an amateur on a developmental pro tour were blown away by a 30mph north-easterly wind at Kiev Golf Club in the Ukraine today. The 23-year-old Bothwell Castle GC member from Hamilton had a third and final round of five-over 77 - which was just about par in the conditions - for a final total of six-over 222 which earned her third place in the Golf Stream Women's Open, one of the Ladies European Tour's Access Series events. Pretswell had a double bogey 6 at the third and dropped another shot at the fourth but the real killer to her hopes was a string of five bogeys in six holes from the eighth to the 13th. But the only Scot in next month's GB and I line-up for the Curtis Cup match at Nairn came back off the ropes to birdie the short 17th and long 18th to grab third place which will help her consolidate second place in the LETAS Order of Merit - the top three at the at the end of the season will gain automatic promotion to the 2013 Ladies European Tour without having to go to Tour School. Winner by four strokes at Kiev was Russian Anastasia Kostina whose two-under-par last round of 70 for a four-stroke win with one-under 215 was a brilliant wind-taming example. She birdied four of the last six holes for an inward half of 32. Gemma Webster from Glasgow finished a creditable ninth on 231 with scores of 77-76-78. Pamela Feggans from Patna, Ayrshire tied for 10th place despite having three 7s on her final card in rounds of 75-74-84 for 233, She required 45 shots to cover the last nine holes. Carnoustie's Katy McNicoll did not cope with the North-east wind as well as might have been expected. She ran up an 11 at the par-5 13th and she also had two 7s in a closing effort of 86 (45-41) for a share of 22nd place on 236. The fifthScot who made the cut, Heather MacRae (Gleneagles) finished 27th on 237 with a final round of 78, her inward half of 41 including a 7 at the 13th. GOLF STREAM WOMEN'S OPEN Kiev Golf Club, Ukraine. LEADING FINAL TOTALS Par 216 (3x72) 215 Anastasia Kostina (Rus) 75 70 70. 219 Benedicte Toumpsin (Bel) 73 68 78. 222 Pamela Pretswell (Sco) 77 68 77 224 Viva Schlasberg (Swe) 71 75 78 226 Rachel Bell (Eng) 74 77 75. SELECTED TOTALS 231 Gemma Webster (Sco) 77 76 78 (9th). 233 Pamela Feggans (Sco) 75 74 84 (T10). 234 Sarah Jones (Wal) 79 78 77 (T13) 235 Danielle McVeigh (Ire) 80 78 77 (T15). 236 Katy McNicoll (Sco) 72 78 86 (T22). 237 Heather MacRae (Sco) 80 79 78 (27th).   ANASTASIA FIRST RUSSIAN TO WIN A   LADIES'EUROPEAN PRO TOURNAMENT    NEWS RELEASE BY THE LADIES EUROPEAN TOUR By BETHAN CUTLER, LET Media Manager Anastasia Kostina from Russia made history by winning the GolfStream Ladies Open at Kiev Golf Club today. It was the first ever women’s professional golf tournament to be staged in Ukraine. Kostina finished four strokes clear of overnight leader Bénédicte Toumpsin from Belgium by posting a magnificent final round of 70 in tough conditions including high winds of around 30km per hour. Scottish amateur Pamela Pretswell, who won the previous week in Sweden, ended the tournament in third position at six over par. First round leader Viva Schlasberg of Sweden finished fourth on eight over and was followed two strokes further back by England’s Rachel Bell. Kostina, pictured, started the final round four shots behind the overnight leader but was tied for the lead after Toumpsin dropped six shots in the first 12 holes. Kostina then took advantage of her opportunity with a fantastic finish, making four birdies in her last six holes, at the 13th, 15th, 17th and 18th. She said: “The key was to stay out of the rough today. It is very exciting for me because the last couple of years I have been struggling with my drives. “I was surprisingly calm all day. I was talking to myself: ‘When am I going to start getting nervous?’ Bénédicte doubled the tenth hole so I knew I got closer to her. And then I made a birdie and she made a bogey. And then the referee asked our score on 15 and then I realised I was up by two and then I made another birdie. I knew I was close; I just had to play my own game. I just tried to do the best I could with every shot. Surprisingly I wasn't nervous at all.” Kostina had three bogeys against one birdie on the outward nine, with her only birdie on par-three second, where she struck her three-wood to six feet. The momentum swung in her favour from the tough par-five 13th, after she hit her seven-iron to two metres picking up a shot. She then hit her wedge to three metres and rolled in the birdie putt at the par-four 15th. At the par-three 17th, she hit her wedge shot to three metres and made the putt, before finishing in style by sinking a four metre birdie putt at the par-five 18th. Kostina rated the championship golf course at Kiev Golf Club highly and she commented: “It's was of the toughest courses we played this season. It's in great shape and the greens were the best so far. They were not easy to read. It's a fair course, you just have to hit the shots; you can't hit it 50 yards left and still make a par. It punishes you for bad shots.” On account of her victory she will now receive an invitation to play in next week’s Deloitte Ladies Open in Holland as well as the Raiffeisenbank Prague Golf Masters on the Ladies European Tour and said that she was, “So, so excited!” Kostina will not only make history as the first woman professional to win in Ukraine but also as the first Russian winner on either the LET Access Series or main Ladies European Tour. Earlier in the week, she posted on Twitter: ‘So glad @LETAccess has a tournament in Kiev. Can’t wait till the day Russia is hosting a women's event!’ Her victory will undoubtedly inspire other Russian golfers to success and she added: “It's very exciting. I just talked to the Russian coach and she said it is very exciting for the young girls because we have been practicing together all winter and playing together and they know that they play with me; they know how I play. Sometimes they beat me. They know if I can do it then they can do it as well. I think it's good for Russian golf and for Ukrainian golf too, just to have an example.” The LET Access Series will now take a short break before the next event: the Ladies Norwegian Challenge which will take place at Losby Golf Club near Oslo from July 4-6.  ALL THE FINAL TOTALS Par 216 (3x72) 215 Anastasia Kostina (RUS) 75 70 70 219 Benedicte Toumpsin (BEL) 73 68 78 222 Pamela Pretswell (SCO) 77 68 77 224 Viva Schlasberg (SWE) 71 75 78 226 Rachel Bell (ENG) 74 77 75 228 Marion Ricordeau (FRA) 76 72 80 230 Mariana Macias Capuzzi (ESP) 76 74 80, Elina Nummenpaa (FIN) 73 75 82 231 Gemma Webster (SCO) 77 76 78 233 Chiari Brizzolari (ITA) 79 73 81, Eva Steinberger (AUT) 74 79 80, Pamela Feggans (SCO) 75 74 84 234 Ana Larraneta (ESP) 78 79 77, Sarah Jones (WAL) 79 78 77 235 Lien Willems (BEL) 75 84 76, Cecilie Lundgreen (NOR) 77 77 81, Mianne Bagger (DNK) 81 78 76, Julie Tvede (DNK) 81 78 76, Danielle McVeigh (IRL) 80 78 77, Sohvi Harkonen (FIN) 74 77 84, Isabella Ramsay (SWE) 78 79 78 236 Galina Rotmistrova (RUS) 74 84 78, Katy McNicoll (SCO) 72 78 86, Nalini Singh Siwach (IND) 79 79 78, Laurence Herman (BEL) 78 78 80, Marianne Andersson (SWE) 74 77 85 237 Heather MacRae (SCO) 80 79 78 238 Laura Sedda (ITA) 79 77 82 239 Melanie Maetzler (CHE) 76 81 82 240 Matia Maffiuletti (ITA) 81 75 84 243 Sandra Eggermont (NLD) 79 80 84

NORTHERN COUNTIES SQUAD FOR MONIFIETH

       ALISON BARTLETT (Royal Dornoch) on first tee at Tain last week            

                             Image by Cal Carson Golf Agency

Northern Counties squad for the North Division women's inter-county team championship at Monifeth Links from Saturday to Monday, June 16 to 18 is includes seven players from clubs north of Inverness.

The "odd one in" is new Northern Counties champion and Scotland girl international Hannah McCook (Grantown on Spey).

Seniors Alison Bartlett (Royal Dornoch), Ann Ryan (Tain) and Mary Smith (Tain) come into the team to the exlusion of Eilidh Mackay, Jenny Milne and Gillian Dowling compared with the line-up at last year's jamboree at Inchmarlo where Northern Counties finished fourth behind title winners Perth and Kinross, having lost all three of their matches.

Team for Monifieth is:

Alison Bartlett (Royal Dornoch GC)

Ann Ryan (Tain GC)

Cara Gruber (Royal Dornoch GC)

Claire Ross (Tain GC)

Eleanor Tunn (Reay GC)
Hannah McCook (Grantown on Spey GC)
Mary Smith (Tain GC)

Sammy Vass (Tain GC)

 Reserve

Jenny Milne (Elgin GC)

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HALLY LEADBETTER HAS ONE OF THE BEST SWING COACHES IN THE WORLD - HER FATHER!

FRANKLIN, Tennessee — Virtually every golfer comes into college already schooled by their own swing coach.
But there are swing coaches and there are swing coaches. Arkansas freshman Hally Leadbetter is taught by one of the very best – someone who just happens to also be dad.
Hally, pictured left, is the daughter of David Leadbetter, an Englishman who is one of the most famous teaching professionals in the game. His current list of protégés includes Ian Poulter, 2008 Masters champion Trevor Immelman, Michelle Wie and Suzann Pettersen.
Figuring out that her father is trusted by some of the top touring pros in the world took a while to sink in for Hally during her formative years.
It was an epiphany only a teenager could have.
“Before I came to college I worked with my dad a little bit, but it was always hard because we always would argue,” Hally recalled. “Then I would take a second and think, ‘Why am I arguing? I’m pretty sure he’s right.’ “

“I had another instructor. Now I send my swing to my dad. I think he’s a pretty reliable source.”

Golf runs deep in the Leadbetter family. Hally’s mother, Kelly, used to be an LPGA touring pro and is now an instructor at the famous David Leadbetter Golf Academy in Florida. And younger brother James recently committed to play golf for Arkansas’ men’s team.
Growing up, Hally avoided the sport. She had other career plans in mind.
“I did not like it (golf) when I was little,” she said. “I always had a set of clubs, but I thought, ‘This is so boring.’ My cousins rode horses and I thought, ‘That’s what I want to do. I’m going to ride horses.’
“When I was 12 I thought I might as well give it a try and it was like, ‘This is actually pretty fun.’ ”
Her first time playing 18 holes, Leadbetter figures she shot something in the range of 136.
“I thought, ‘Well, I have a lot of work to do if I want to go to college and turn pro one day,’ ” said Hally.
Hally honed her game while attending The Pendleton School in Bradenton, Fla., which is affiliated with her father’s golf academy.
The Razorbacks (Arkansas University sports teams' nickname) weren’t on Hally’s recruiting radar at first. She looked at schools along the East Coast and at Arizona State, where her mother played college golf.
“My coach at the time said, ‘Let’s go visit Arkansas.’ I was like, ‘Why?’ Living in Florida you never hear about Arkansas,” Leadbetter said. “You don’t know what a cool place it is. But when I went there I immediately fell in love with the coaches. Shauna [Estes-Taylor] and [assistant] Mike [Adams] are amazing. The school and the facilities are amazing.”
In the end, though, Leadbetter is just like every other member of the team. She pulls on her hog-shaped club head cover the same as the rest of her teammates, and spent the afternoon following her second round fiddling with her swing plane and launching shot after left-handed shot into the fading sun. She opened the championship with rounds of 79 and 80.
“We work together,” Estes-Taylor said. “Obviously, her dad is an amazing golf instructor. But we treat Hally as part of the family. It’s not about who her dad is but making her a great Razorback.”
Leadbetter isn’t the only child or relative of a famous sports figure tied to this year’s championship.
Florida junior Isabelle Lendl is the daughter of eight-time grand slam tennis champion Ivan Lendl. Her older sister, Florida senior Marika, didn’t make it to the championships. Their younger sister Daniela is a freshman at Alabama and also didn’t qualify for the championships.
Texas is playing here without injured junior Madison Pressel, younger sister of LPGA touring pro Morgan Pressel.

PANCAKE AND MEADOW IN CHAMPIONSHIP-LEADING ALABAMA LINE-UP

The University of Alabama women's team including two players bound for the Curtis Cup match at Nairn GC next month - Brooke Pancake of the United States and Stephanie Meadow (Great Britain and Ireland) - has gone 11 strokes clear of the field after two rounds of the NCAA Division 1 women's championship at the Vanderbilt Legends Club, Franklin in Tennessee. 

Crimson Tide senior Brooke Pancake shot a 2-under 70 on Wednesday to top the individual leaderboard.
Alabama, two strokes ahead after the first round, shot a 3-under 285 in the second to reach 5-under 571. Defending champion UCLA, North Carolina and Virginia were tied for second at 6 over.
Pancake has a six-under 138 tally.
Arizona State's Giulia Molinaro from Italy was 4 under after a 71, and South Carolina's Katie Burnett shot a 67 to join North Carolina State's Brittany Marchand and first-round leader Virginia's Portland Rosen at 3 under.
Host Vanderbilt jumped from a tie for 22nd to 10th at 14 over.

INDIVIDUAL LEADERBOARD
Par 144 (2x72) Yardage 6,377

+United States Curtis Cup team selections in black print

136 Brooke Pancake (Alabama) 68 70
140 Giulia Molinaro (Arizona State) 68 71
141 Katie Burnett (South Carolina) 74 67, Brittany Marchand (North Carolina State) 71 70, Portland Rosen (Virginia) 66 74.

SELECTED SCORES
142 Stephanie Meadow (Alabama) 69 73 (T6)
145 Lindy Duncan (Duke) 70 74 (T16)
147 Emily Tubert (Arkansas) 73 74 (T32)
148 Lisa McCloskey (Southern California) 76 72, Tiffany Lua (UCLA) 75 73 (T42)
152 Hayley Davis (Baylor) 74 78 (T75)
153 Erica Popson (Tennessee) 77 76, Austin Ernst (Louisiana State) (T82)
154 Sally Watson (Stanford) 78 76 (T89)
159 Hally Leadbetter 79 80 (T117)

TEAM LEADERBOARD
571 Alabama
582 UCLA, North Carolina, Virginia
583 Arizona State, South Carolina.
585 Southern California
587 Louisiana State
588 Purdue
590 Vanderbilt

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    ALASDAIR DALGLEISH, student at Oklahoma Christian University

ANGLO-SCOT DALGLEISH LEADING BRIT IN NAIA MEN'S CHAMPIONSHIP

Anglo-Scot Alasdair Dalgleish (Oklahoma Christian Unversity) is the leading British player in joint 24th place in a field of 157 players at the NAIA Men's Championship at Creekside GC, Salem in Oregon.
Alasdair, who had more relations in Scotland than he has south of the Border, shot 79-71 for six-over-par 150 over a 6,887yd course.
Dalgleish is 12 shots behind the leader by four strokes, Brandon Metlzer (Johnson and Wales, Florida) with scores of 73 and 65.
Tom Gamble (Webber International) from Walton-on-Thmas is T33 on 151 (79-72).
Yousaf Khan (Grand View) from London is T40 on 152 (79-73).
Jack Bingham (South Carolina-Beaufort) from Cheshire is T72 on 156 (81-75).
Connor O'Dell (Webber International) is T123 with scores of 80-83 for 163.
Dalgleish's effort has help Oklahoma Christian (580) lead the team event, which is being contested by 29 squads. Our Lady in the Lake (591) is lying second, a shot ahead of Johnson and Wales (Florida) with British Columbia (594) and Oklahoma City (595) fourth and fifth respectively. 

LOUISA BRUNT (13) HEADING FOR ENGLAND'S GRAND MEDAL FINAL

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 Ashton-Under-Lyne Golf Club’s Louisa Brunt, aged 13, returned a six-under par net score of 67 at York Golf Club to win the North Regional qualifiers for England Golf’s 2012 Grand Medal Final which is to be held later this year at Worcester Golf Club. 
The North Regional final was contested by over 110 women golfers from right across the North of England, representing golf clubs including; Royal Birkdale, Harrogate and the City of Newcastle Golf Clubs. 
Louisa’s round included a run of 11 holes consisting of 10 pars and a birdie. Louisa commented “This has been a fantastic day for me. Being able to represent my golf club gave me all the drive and determination I needed.
This has also been a great result for Lancashire Ladies Golf Association’s Junior Girls Section with three of its junior girls finishing in the top 20
Louisa had her first official handicap of 36 just over two years ago, winning this event will now hopefully see her handicap fall to single figures for the first time. 
She receives coaching at both county and national level as well as with Scott Connor, her local coach from Manchester Golf Club.
Louisa added “Doing so well in events like this make all the practice worthwhile, I receive tremendous support from everyone I know – this has been an incredible start to my season.”

Qualifying net scoresPar 73, CSS 74
67 Louisa Brunt (Ashton Under Lyne, hcp 10)
68 Michelle Fielding (Clitheroe) (17)
70 Sandra King (Davyhulme Park) (28), Alex Forrest (Longridge) 12),
71 Emma Vallantine (Werneth Low) (22), Helen Cray (Crewe) (21), Lauren Oleksik (Astbury) (5)
72 Veronica Whitehill (Crow Nest Park) (19), Annabel Lightfoot (Hainsworth Park) (18), Tiffany Fielden (Hale) (9)