Pretswell only Scot to make the cut in China 


LADIES EUROPEAN TOUR NEWS RELEASE

From Bethan Cutler, LET Media Manager

China’s Jing Yan, 19-year-old winner of the British girls championship and the British women's stroke-play in 2013,  fired a second round of seven under par 65 to join French Solheim Cup player Gwladys Nocera in the lead on nine under par at the Xiamen International Ladies Open in China.

A flurry of eight birdies against one bogey put teenager Yan, pictured right, from Shanghai in prime position to challenge for a maiden pro title at the halfway stage of the tournament.

Nocera’s solid second round of 68 containing four birdies means she is also well placed in her quest for a 15^th title on the Ladies European Tour.

The pair are two strokes ahead of Thailand’s Kusuma Meechai with English pair Liz Young and Hannah Burke, Australian Stacey Keating and Pei-Yun Chien of Chinese Taipei a stroke behind on six under par.

Further down the leader board, Solheim Cup player Caroline Hedwall recovered from an opening 75 with a strong 69 which put her back to level par and tied for 40^th place. The defending champion Ssu-Chia Cheng from nearby Chinese Taipei carded rounds of 72 and 73 to lie in joint 52^nd, just inside the cut line on one over par.

Yan, who in 2013 won the Girls’ British Open Amateur Championship at Fairhaven Golf Club and the Ladies’ British Open Amateur Stroke Play Championship at Prestwick, is a familiar face on the Ladies European Tour as she has played in several tournaments as an amateur. 

This is her rookie year as a professional and she holds conditional status on the LPGA, but she describes it as a ‘B year’ with only two top 20 finishes, including a season best tie for 11^th at the Kingsmill, so far.

Prior to last year’s inaugural Xiamen International Ladies Open, Orient Golf and Country Club hosted the China Ladies Open seven times consecutively from 2006 to 2012 and Yan said: “I started to play this golf course at age of 12.. I am glad to come back here and put myself in a familiar kind of atmosphere.”

Nocera, who won in China two years ago at the Suzhou Taihu Ladies Open, continued to play well. She commented: “I hit the ball better today than yesterday. I didn’t get the speed at the end. I think the greens are growing with the heat and I couldn’t get the right speed. 

"I had one ball hanging on the hole and I can’t believe it wasn’t in the hole. It was a good finish on 18 with a birdie which puts me back in a share of the lead for the weekend. If I keep on improving my game I will have a lot of chances so I’ll 69stay focused on what I have to do as I want that winning feeling again.”

Only Hamilton's Pamela Pretswell, pictured left, (69-73) of the six Scots in the field made the halfway cut at one-over-par 145.

Pamela is lying T19 on 142 (69-73), seven shots behind the joint leaders but Carly Booth (74-75), Kylie Walker (75-74), Sally Watson (76-74), Kelsey Macdonald (75-75) and Vikki Laing (79-72) failed to make it.

SECOND ROUND SCOREBOARD
Par 144 (2x72) Cut at 145.

1		12	Jing Yan		F	-9	70	65			135
[+]	1		1	Gwladys Nocera		F	-9	67	68			135
[+]	3		2	Kusuma Meechai		F*	-7	68	69			137
[+]	4		12	Stacey Keating		F*	-6	70	68			138
[+]	4		23	Pei-Yun Chien		F	-6	71	67			138
[+]	4		5	Hannah Burke		F	-6	69	69			138
[+]	4		12	Liz Young		F*	-6	70	68			138
[+]	8		23	Hye In Yeom		F*	-5	71	68			139
[+]	8		23	Ai-Chen Kuo		F	-5	71	68			139
[+]	8		36	Wei Wei Zhang		F	-5	72	67			139
[+]	11		12	Hsuan-Ping Chang		F*	-4	70	70			140
[+]	11		2	Yeon Mi Choi		F*	-4	68	72			140
[+]	11		23	Beth Allen		F	-4	71	69			140
[+]	14		12	Punpaka Phuntumabamrung		F*	-3	70	71			141
[+]	14		23	Li Ying Ye		F*	-3	71	70			141
[+]	14		36	Tzu-Chi Lin		F	-3	72	69			141
[+]	14		12	Man Jin (a)		F*	-3	70	71			141
[+]	14		36	Saraporn Chamchoi		F	-3	72	69			141
[+]	19		53	Minea Blomqvist		F	-2	73	69			142
[+]	19		5	Yan Liu (a)		F	-2	69	73			142
[+]	19		12	Bo Bea Kim		F*	-2	70	72			142
[+]	19		23	Nicole Garcia		F*	-2	71	71			142
[+]	19		53	Nontaya Srisawang		F	-2	73	69			142
[+]	19		36	Becky Brewerton		F*	-2	72	70			142
[+]	19		53	Ursula Wikstrom		F	-2	73	69			142
[+]	19		12	Nicole Broch Larsen		F	-2	70	72			142
[+]	19		5	Pamela Pretswell		F	-2	69	73			142
[+]	28		36	Pei-Lin Yu		F	-1	72	71			143
[+]	28		23	Nanna Koerstz Madsen		F	-1	71	72			143
[+]	28		5	Daisy Nielsen		F*	-1	69	74			143
[+]	28		5	Xiang Sui (a)		F*	-1	69	74			143
[+]	28		12	Alexandra Vilatte		F*	-1	70	73			143
[+]	28		23	Szu-Han Chen		F	-1	71	72			143
[+]	28		12	Thidapa Suwannapura		F*	-1	70	73			143
[+]	28		23	Yan-Hong Pan		F	-1	71	72			143
[+]	28		2	Tanaporn Kongkiatkrai		F*	-1	68	75			143
[+]	28		5	Yuting Shi		F	-1	69	74			143
[+]	28		23	Panpan Yan		F	-1	71	72			143
[+]	28		53	Fabienne In-Albon		F*	-1	73	70			143
[+]	40		36	Eleanor Givens		F*	E	72	72			144
[+]	40		53	Connie Chen		F	E	73	71			144
[+]	40		84	Sarah Kemp		F	E	75	69			144
[+]	40		36	Caroline Martens		F*	E	72	72			144
[+]	40		74	Lina Boqvist		F	E	74	70			144
[+]	40		106	Cuixia Chen		F	E	77	67			144
[+]	40		53	Rebecca Hudson		F*	E	73	71			144
[+]	40		53	Yu-Ling Hsieh		F	E	73	71			144
[+]	40		84	Caroline Hedwall		F	E	75	69			144
[+]	40		36	So-Young Jang		F	E	72	72			144
[+]	40		23	Jiayi Zhou		F*	E	71	73			144
[+]	40		97	Georgina Simpson		F*	E	76	68			144
[+]	52		84	Ashleigh Simon		F	+1	75	70			145
[+]	52		36	Sha Wu		F*	+1	72	73			145
[+]	52		74	Isabella Ramsay		F*	+1	74	71			145
[+]	52		36	Liqing Chen		F	+1	72	73			145
[+]	52		53	Paula Hurtado		F*	+1	73	72			145
[+]	52		23	Louise Stahle		F	+1	71	74			145
[+]	52		53	Isabelle Boineau		F	+1	73	72			145
[+]	52		106	Whitney Hillier		F	+1	77	68			145
[+]	52		12	Patricia Sanz Barrio		F	+1	70	75			145
[+]	52		53	Dan Li		F*	+1	73	72			145
[+]	52		84	Ploychompoo Wirairungrueng		F*	+1	75	70			145
[+]	52		36	Ssu-Chia Cheng		F	+1	72	73			145
[+]	52		36	Titiya Plucksataporn		F*	+1	72	73			145
[+]	52		84	Emily Kristine Pedersen		F	+1	75	70			145
[+]	52		53	Nina Holleder		F	+1	73	72			145
MISSED THE CUT
-	67			Malene Jorgensen		Cut	2	78	68			146
-	67			Trish Johnson		Cut	2	75	71			146
-	67			Chloe Leurquin		Cut	2	74	72			146
-	67			Ji Hae Jang		Cut	2	74	72			146
-	67			Ziqi Ye		Cut	2	74	72			146
-	67			Marta Sanz Barrio		Cut	2	73	73			146
-	67			Holly Aitchison		Cut	2	73	73			146
-	67			Laura Jansone		Cut	2	73	73			146
-	67			Amelia Lewis		Cut	2	73	73			146
-	67			Piyathida Ployumsri		Cut	2	72	74			146
-	67			Rebecca Artis		Cut	2	72	74			146
-	78			Jienalin Zhang		Cut	3	77	70			147
-	78			Hsin Ning Yeh		Cut	3	74	73			147
-	78			Wannasiri Sirisampant		Cut	3	73	74			147
-	78			Anne Van Dam		Cut	3	72	75			147
-	78			Christine Wolf		Cut	3	71	76			147
-	78			Janya Morrakotphan		Cut	3	69	78			147
-	84			Tiranan Yoopan		Cut	4	79	69			148
-	84			Yue Xia Lu		Cut	4	77	71			148
-	84			Victoria Lovelady		Cut	4	75	73			148
-	84			Ann-Kathrin Lindner		Cut	4	75	73			148
-	84			Pannarat Thanapolboonyaras		Cut	4	74	74			148
-	84			Valentine Derrey		Cut	4	74	74			148
-	84			Ling Ling Tan		Cut	4	73	75			148
-	84			Florentyna Parker		Cut	4	72	76			148
-	84			Hyeon Seo Kang		Cut	4	72	76			148
-	93			Supakchaya Pattaranakrueang		Cut	5	77	72			149
-	93			Sophie Sandolo		Cut	5	76	73			149
-	93			Kylie Walker		Cut	5	75	74			149
-	93			Noora Tamminen		Cut	5	75	74			149
-	93			Cathryn Bristow		Cut	5	75	74			149
-	93			Lei Ye (a)		Cut	5	74	75			149
-	93			Carly Booth		Cut	5	74	75			149
-	93			Juanjuan Tao		Cut	5	73	76			149
-	101			Sally Watson		Cut	6	76	74			150
-	101			Rungthiwa Pangjan		Cut	6	76	74			150
-	101			Kelsey Macdonald		Cut	6	75	75			150
-	104			Vikki Laing		Cut	7	79	72			151
-	104			Sophie Walker		Cut	7	77	74			151
-	104			Pennapa Pulsawath		Cut	7	76	75			151
-	104			Aunchisa Utama		Cut	7	76	75			151
-	108			Hsien Wen Huang		Cut	8	80	72			152
-	108			Meng-Chu Chen		Cut	8	79	73			152
-	108			Emma Westin		Cut	8	78	74			152
-	108			I-Wen Chen		Cut	8	77	75			152
-	108			Xin Xia		Cut	8	76	76			152
-	108			Jaruporn Palakawong Na Ayutthaya		Cut	8	75	77			152
-	108			Leigh Whittaker		Cut	8	73	79			152
-	115			Yu Yang Zhang		Cut	9	77	76			153
-	115			Xiaohong Chen		Cut	9	77	76			153
-	115			Stephanie Na		Cut	9	73	80			153
-	115			Yu Yu Zhang		Cut	9	73	80			153
-	119			Narisara Kerdrit		Cut	11	79	76			155
-	119			Yezhou Lin		Cut	11	78	77			155
-	119			Wenqi Zhu (a)		Cut	11	76	79			155
-	122			Rui Wang		Cut	12	76	80			156
-	123			Xing'E Wang		Cut	13	79	78			157
-	124			Saruttaya Ngam-Usawan		Cut	14	79	79			158
-	125			Chang Yu Qiao		Cut	18	81	81			162
-	126			Ni Tang		Cut	21	81	84			165

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