NEWS FROM THE BRITISH WOMEN'S OPEN AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP

SEMI-FINALS
Weather: Course very wet after heavy overnight rain. Bright and continuing very windy.

LUNA SOBRON (Spain) bt KAROLIN LAMPERT (Germany) by one hole.

Lampert jumped into a two hole lead by winning the long third with a birdid 4 and the fourth with a par 4.
Sobron hit back with her first success of the morong. She was conceded the fifth but then lost the sixth to a birdie 4 which put Lampert back into a two-hole lead.
Sobron won the eighth with a par 4 to be one down again.
All square at the turn.
Sobron regained a two-hole lead with a par 4 at the 10th but Sobron won the short 11th to reduce her deficit to one hole again.
The 12th was halved in 4s. 
Sobron was most unlucky to go back to two down at the 13th where her accurate pitch shot hit the flagstick and ricochetted off the green into a dodgy lie from where she took three to get down.
Lampert won the hole with a par 5 to go two up for the fourth time in the contest. 
Sobron was not finished yet, though. She won the 14th with a par 4 to be one down with four to play.
Sobron kept up her late run, squaring the tie with a birdie 3 at the 15th and then winning the 16th with a par after her opponent three-putted. It was the first time the Spaniard had led in the match.
Halves at the 17th and 18th put her through to the final.

GEORGIA HALL (Remedy Oak) bt NOEMI JIMENEZ (Spain) by 3 and 1.

Georgia won the third with a par 4 and the fourth with a birdie 3 to be two up up on the fifth tee.
Jimenez scored her first success of the morning with a birdie 4 at the long sixth and produced another birdie, a 3 at the eighth to square the match. 
Jimenez holed a 30yd putt from off the green to win the ninth with her third birdie in four holes to go one up for the first time.
But Hall won the 10th with a par 4 to square the match.
The short 11th was halved in par 3s.  
 Hall regained a one-hole lead with a birdie 3 at the 12th where she played a fine second shot to within four feet of the flag and holed the putt.
Hall was now firing on all cylinders. Her third shot at the long 13th pulled up with a foot of the hole and she was conceded another birdie - two in  row. Hall two up with five to play. The 15th was halved in birdie 3s and the match ended in a 3 and 1 win for Georgia - beaten in the semi-finals 12 months ago - when Jimenez three-putted on the 17th green and then conceded the hole and the match.
Hall was roughly four or five under par in quality match of nine birdies between the players - five to Georgia and four to Noemi.