Heather blooming in US college tourney in Florida

Heather Munro (Monifieth), pictured, a freshman at Elon University, North Carolina shot a level par 72 to be lying second, one shot off the pace, after the first round of the FGCU Eagle Invitational women's college 54-hole tournament at Fort Myers, Florida.
Heather's effort helped Elon to take a 15-shot lead lead over 14 other squads in the team competition.

Team-mate Sunna Vidisdottir is leading with a one-under 71.
Arkansas State University's two English students, Abi Laker, a third-year student from Oxfordshire, and Megan Garland, a final-year student from Goole, Yorkshire, are sharing 35th place on 80.
They are playing over a par-72 course of 6,135yd at Stoneybrook Country Club.
Team leaders: 292 Ellon. 307 Xavier. 308 Florida Gulf Coast, Daytona State Coll. 14 teams competing.

Three Leven GS players in top 4 of MGR Fife Ladies

www.mygolfranking0.net, Fife Ladies, 2015/06
1 Jane Whiteford (Leven GS) 1103 pts
2 Lorna Bennett (Leven GS) 1093
3 Jackie Wallace (Glenrothes) 1020
4 Dianne Watson (Leven GS) 967
5 Lynne Thom (Burntisland GH) 949 
www.mygolfranking.net, Fife Clubs, Week 2015/06
1 Dunfermline 963 pts
2 Dunnikier Park 935
3 Leven GS Ladies 930
4 Ladybank 875
5 Glenrothes 855



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Spotlight on GB and I selection format for Vagliano Tropy

Six of the Great Britain and Ireland team of nine to play the Continent of rope in the two-day Vagliano Trophy match at Malone Golf Club, Belfast on June 26 and 27 will gain automatic selection
through the Women's World Amateur Rankings AND the Ladies Golf Union Order of Merit at a cut-off point yet to be decided.

The top FOUR eligible players in the World Rankings will earn places in the GB and I team plus the top TWO in the LGU Order of Merit if they have not already qualified through the World Rankings.
The remaining three places in the team will be decided by the LGU Selection Panel.
The GB and I team of six for the Junior Vagliano Trophy match against the Continent at the same venue on the same dates will be wholly selected by the LGU Selection Panel.
The Continent of Europe have won the last four Vagliano Trophy matches in a row - 2007 (Fairmont St Andrews), 2009 Hamburg, 2011 Royal Porthcawl and 2013 (Chantilly). With the except of the Hamburg match, the Continentals have beaten GB and I by considerable margins: 15-9, 15.5-8.5 and 16.5-7.5.
The Junior Vagliano Trophy match for girls aged 16 years and under was inaugurated at Royal Porthcawl in 2011 and continued at Chantilly in 2013. The Continent have won both six-a-side matches comfortably - 13-5 and 14.4
Elaine Farquharson-Black (Deeside) will captain GB and I in the Vagliano Trophy match while Claire Coughlan (Cork) is the GB and I Junior Vagliano team captain.

CURRENT GB and I PLAYERS' 
POSITIONS IN WORLD RANKINGS
Bronte Law            1206
Hayley Davis          1161
Alice Hewson         1077
Connie Jaffrey        1048
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Meghan MacLaren 1027
India Clyburn            982
Charlotte Thomas     970
Inci Mehmet              924
Paula Grant                912
Chloe Williams          911
Gemma Dryburgh      906
Samantha Giles          896
Jessica Bradley          892
Eilidh Briggs              861
Olivia Mehaffey         856
Jess Meek                   841
Becky Harries             834
Gemma Clews            826
Elizabeth Mallett        826
Bethan Popel              820

HOW THEY STAND IN 
LGU ORDER OF MERIT

1 Connie Jaffrey, 2 Hayley Davis, 3 Meghan MacLaren, 4 Eilidh Briggs, 5 Paula Grant, 6 Bronte Law, 7 Inci Mehmet, 8 Becky Harries, 9 Chloe Ryan, 10 Lauren Whyte
11 Olivia Mehaffey, 12 Gemma Clews, 13 Chloe Williams, 14 Samantha Giles, 15 Bethan Popel, 16 Gabrielle MacDonald, 17 Alice Hewson, 18 Mary Doyle, 19 Amy Farrell, 20 Dulcie Sverdloff.

GB and I Vagliano Trophy team at Chantilly, France in June 2013. Back row (left to right): Gabriella Cowley, Becky Harries, Amber Ratcliffe, Hayley Davis, Georgia Hall. Front row (l to r); Stephanie Meadow, Alexandra Peters, Tegwen Matthews (capt.), Amy Boulden, Bronte Law.

 Elaine Farquharson-Black, front centre, with the GB and I Junior Vagliano Trophy team of Olivia Mehaffey, Sophie Lamb, Sammy Fuller, Sophie Madden, Fiona Liddell and Alice Hewson at Chantilly in June 2013.

 CLYBURN, HULL IN THREE-WAY TIE FOR AUSSIE 

LEAD AFTER A WINDY DAY IN QUEENSLAND
NEWS RELEASE FROM LET
 England pair Holly Clyburn, pictured below, and Charley Hull plus South Korean Eun Woo ‘Annie’ Choi share the third-round lead after windswept day at the RACV Ladies Masters in Queensland.

It was a day where the RACV Royal Pines course won, with the best score of the day a one-under-par 72 which was had by a handful of players.   The leaderboard is jam packed with 17 players within four shots of the lead.

Clyburn posted a one-over-par 74, while Choi and Hull had two-over-par rounds of 75.  The leaders will take a slender one shot lead into Sunday over Australian Su Oh (72), Norway’s Tonje Daffinrud (72) and second round leader Rebecca Artis.  

The Australian took a three-stroke lead into Saturday but struggled in the conditions and carded a six-over-par 78. However, Artis is by no means out of it.

Local 16-year-old amateur Rebecca Kay finished her round in style with an eagle and got the biggest cheer from the crowd on the 18^th.   Kay (73) shares seventh place with Malaysian Michelle Koh (72) and Chinese Taipei Ssu-Chia Cheng (74) at two-under-par.   

Three players are at one-under-par and just three off the leaders, one of these players is  Rolex World No. 29, Lee-Anne Pace.  Pace is the top ranked player in the field and finished birdie, eagle and is will looking to capture her 10^th LET title.  Last October she came from five shots down to win the Cell C South African Women’s Open.   

The 2009 champion, Katherine Kirk is one of five players at even par.  England’s Melissa Reid and Gwladys Nocera are also at even-par and are all very experienced players who could also make a charge on Sunday.

Defending champion Cheyenne Woods fired an even par round, but that was enough to move up around 30 places.  Woods is at five-over-par and tied for 37^th. 

SCOTSWATCH: Sally Watson is still leading the "Tartan Army." She is on two-over-par 221 after a third-round 74 which was not a bad score at all in the wind, conditions she would be well used to in her native Scotland.

Pamela Prestwell also had a creditable 74. She is on 223.

Innerleithen-born teenager Karis Davidson, who has lived with her parents in Queensland since the family emigrated to Australia eight years ago, is on 226 after a 76.

Vikki Laing is one behind Karis on 227 after a 78.

Carly Booth had a 78 and is on the 228 mark.

THIRD ROUND SCOREBOARD

Par 219 (3x73) 

215 - Eun Woo Choi (SKor)  69 71 75, Holly Clyburn (ENG)  70 71 74, Charley Hull (ENG)  70 70 75

216- Tonje Daffinrud (NOR)  74 70 72, Su-Hyun Oh (AUS)  69 75 72, Rebecca Artis (AUS)  71 66 79

217 - Ssu-Chia Cheng (TPE)  74 69 74, Rebecca Kay (AUS)  74 70 73, Michelle Koh (MYS)  74 71 72

218 - Lee-Anne Pace (RSA)  73 73 72, Camilla Lennarth (SWE)  71 75 72, Amy Boulden (WAL)  72 73 73

219 - Gwladys Nocera (FRA)  72 71 76, Jiwon Jeon (AUS)  72 73 74, Melissa Reid (ENG)  72 73 74, Florentyna Parker (ENG)  71 74 74, Katherine Kirk (AUS)  70 75 74

220 - Felicity Johnson (ENG)  73 73 74, Whitney Hillier (AUS)  72 75 73, Kristie Smith (AUS)  73 75 72, Lorie Kane (CAN)  71 74 75, Emma De Groot (AUS)  72 75 73

221 - Sally Watson (SCO)  77 70 74, Marianne Skarpnord (NOR)  73 74 74

222 - Nicole Broch Larsen (DEN)  75 72 75, Laura Jansone (LVA)  73 74 75, Titiya Plucksataporn (THA)  77 73 72, Isabelle Boineau (FRA)  74 74 74, Marta Sanz (ESP)  74 73 75

223 - Connie Chen (RSA)  75 73 75, Tamie Durdin (AUS)  75 75 73, Pamela Pretswell (SCO)  75 74 74, Yu-Sang Hou (TPE)  74 74 75, Breanna Elliott (AUS)  75 69 79, Marion Ricordeau (FRA)  76 70 77, Su-Bin Jang (SKOR)  74 71 78

224 - Jessica Speechley (AUS)  75 76 73, Anne-Lise Caudal (FRA)  73 77 74, Pei-Yun Chien (TPE)  73 73 78, Christine Wolf (AUT)  75 71 78, Yu-Ju Chen (TWN)  77 72 75, Pennapa Plusawath (THA)  71 78 75, Cheyenne Woods (USA)  73 78 73, Hannah Green (AUS)  71 73 80, Alison Whitaker (AUS)  72 74 78, Laura Davies (ENG)  74 74 76, Beth Allen (USA)  76 73 75

225 - Stacey Keating (AUS)  77 74 74, Yu Yang Zhang (CHN)  77 74 74, Eleanor Givens (ENG)  72 76 77

226 - Valentine Derrey (FRA)  74 72 80, Liv Cheng (NZL)  77 74 75, Karis Davidson (AUS) (am) 78 72 76, Hannah Collier (USA)  75 73 78

227 - Vikki Laing (SCO)  75 74 78, Tiranan Yoopan (THA)  73 77 77, Caroline Martens (NOR)  70 77 80

228 - Adriana Brent (AUS)  74 75 79, Anne Van Dam (NLD)  76 73 79, Da Eun Kim (KOR)  73 75 80, Rebecca Codd (IRL)  74 77 77, Carly Booth (SCO)  77 73 78

229 - Grace Lennon (AUS)  75 75 79, Esther So-jin Baik (KOR)  72 75 82

230 - Nina Holleder (GER)  75 74 81, Sophie Gustafson (SWE)  76 75 79

231 - Sydney Cox (USA)  73 73 85

 

Sandy Lonergan

Media Coordinator | Australian Ladies Professional Golf 

| Email: sandyl@alpg.com.au 

RHONDA GLENN, A CHAMPION GOLF WRITER FOR 

USGA, DIES AT 68

By Ron Driscoll, USGA

The email would invariably come through in the wee hours, accompanied by a new version of a story that Rhonda Glenn had crafted.
“I just made a few small tweaks,” Glenn would write. “I think this version is a little better.”
Glenn, who has died this past week in Florida after a long illness at the age of 68, worked tirelessly at her writing – every detail, every nuance, every word. She wove award-winning stories about players from the past, such as nearly forgotten, two-time U.S. Open champion John McDermott to the present, such as USGA champions Michelle Wie and Yani Tseng, through nearly two decades as a manager of communications for the United States Golf Association.

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Her role at the USGA was predated by several ground-breaking initiatives: her Illustrated History of Women’s Golf is the definitive book on the topic and won the USGA International Book Award in 1992; she was the first female anchor of ESPN’s SportsCenter, working alongside Chris Berman in 1981, shortly after the network’s launch. Glenn was a golf commentator with ABC for 16 years, and competed in 12 USGA championships, including five U.S. Women’s Amateurs and two U.S. Women’s Opens.
“In addition to her many accomplishments, what we will miss most about Rhonda is her generosity of spirit, her passion for the game and the people who play it, as well as her kindness and humility,” said Mike Davis, executive director of the USGA. 
“In many respects, she truly represented all that was best about our game.”
Glenn brought the same tenacity she exhibited in her storytelling to her work on several USGA initiatives, including her gathering of oral histories with dozens of important figures on behalf of the USGA-PGA African-American Golf History Archive. She also played a key role in the process that led to the establishment in 2012 of the Mickey Wright Room in the USGA Museum.
A close friend of Wright’s, Glenn was instrumental in the Museum’s effort to dedicate its first room to a female golfer. As a girl, Glenn had practised at a par-3 course in Palm Beach, Fla., where she often watched as four-time U.S. Women’s Open champion Wright worked on her game. Glenn went on to become a two-time high school girls’ state champion and was inducted into the Palm Beach County Sports Hall of Fame in 1997.
Glenn and her close friend Barbara Romack, who defeated Wright for the 1954 U.S. Women’s Amateur Championship, encouraged Wright to share important facets of her legendary career with the public.
“I owe Rhonda a great deal,” Wright told The New York Times in 2013. “That room in the museum is not just a tribute to me; it’s a tribute to all the women before me. If it weren’t for her, there would be no recorded history of women’s golf.”
Glenn also wrote Breaking the Mold, the story of Judy Bell, who served as the first female president of the USGA in 1996-97, and worked as an editor for Woman Golfer magazine and a reporter for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. She had been a women’s golf analyst for ABC Sports for three years when she started with ESPN, becoming the first full-time female sportscaster for a national television network.
“The difference then was that wherever I went, I was the only woman,” Glenn told ESPN in 2013. “I just felt, ‘Well, I can do this, and I’m going to apply.’”
Glenn worked alongside ESPN mainstays Chris Berman and Bob Ley on SportsCenter.
“Chris was always so kind to me,” Glenn recalled. “And of course, ‘Boomer’ [Berman] has a very big voice. I wasn’t intimidated by anybody until I got on the air with Chris. He didn’t really need a microphone. So at first he just blew me out of the seat when he’d talk, and I felt a little intimidated, but then I got used to it.”
In 2014, Glenn was honored by the Golf Writers Association of America with the William D. Richardson Award for outstanding contributions to the game.
“Winning [this award] is a great honour, and also a surprise,” said Glenn last April. “While the award is for outstanding contributions to golf, I’m very aware that, more importantly, the game has made such outstanding contributions to my life.”
Recipients of the Richardson Award include several of the game’s great champions, including Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer, Louise Suggs and Nancy Lopez, as well as former USGA executive directors David Fay and Frank Hannigan and past USGA presidents Bell and Sandy Tatum.
“They say I’ve really been with the USGA for 49 years,” Glenn told ESPN in 2013. “I’ve loved the USGA since I played in the Girls’ Junior in 1963. Because of my father and mother I had a great respect for the history of the game so it was just natural. It’s like they say, find something you like to do and make a career out of it, and I’ve been very fortunate to be able to do that.”
Funeral services will be private. Information about making donations in Glenn’s memory will be made available at a later date.
+Ron Driscoll is the manager of editorial services for the USGA. Email him