Scottish Under-21 girls' open amateur stroke-play championship

Cloe from Kent clear by five at Drumpellier
 
Chart Hills junior member Cloe Frankish made the trip up from Kent to Drumpellier Golf Club near Glasgow well worthwhile when she opened up a five-stroke lead at the end of the first round of the Scottish Under-21 girls' open stroke play championship today.

Only 16, Cloe, pictured left by courtesy of Leaderboard Photography(c),  was following up her second place finish in the Sir Henry Cooper Junior Masters and tied ninth in the English women’s amateur championship. She just missed out on a place in the GB and I team for the recent Junior Vagliano Trophy match in Belfast.
All that class showed in a round which had birdies at the first, second, 15th, 16th and 18th in halves of 36 and 33 for a four-under-par 69. She did have one slip, a bogey at the 14th.
Sharing second place, five shots behind on the 74 mark, are Louise Duncan (West Kilbride), Tara Mactaggart (Minro), Ailsa Summers (Carnoustie Ladies) and Germany's Greta Voelker (Ger).

St Andrews student Summers, a former winner of the St Rule Trophy, birdied three of the first four holes and added two more at the tenth and 17th. But she also had four bogeys and a double-bogey at the 13th. 

LEADING FIRST ROUND SCORES
Par 73
69 C Frankish (Chart Hills)
74 L Duncan (West Kilbride), T Mactaggart (Minto), A Summers (Carnoustie Ladies), G Voelker (Ger).
75 G Batty (Powfoot), L Downs (Romanby).
77 S O'Dwyer (Wynyard), K Brown (Strathaven), H Munro (Monifieth).
78 A Muirhead (Emirates Dubai), E Watson (Muckhart).
79 E O'Connor (Bothwell Castle), P Kemp (Boyce Hill), J Free (Gullane), J Saxton (Muckhart).
80 A Brown (Nairn Dunbar), E Morrison (Craigmillar Park), K Beveridge (Aboyne)
81 A Walker (Glenbervie), C Robertson (Carnoustie Ladies), N Callander (Mill Green), N Robertson (Stirling), D Smith (Chart Hills), L McClymont (Milngavie), Rachel Walker (Dumfries and Co), Valerie Serrien (Ger), M Richmond (Strathaven).

SELECTED SCOTS SCORES
82 K Scott (Strathaven) 30th.
83 L Atkins (Gullane), F Rattray (Douglas Park), K Malcolm (Dumfries and Co), H Scott (Broomieknowe) (T31)
84 E Crawford (Kingsfield) (36th)
85 J Mackintosh (Hazlehead), C Taylor (Forres) (T37)
86 J Allan (Glenbervie) (39th)
87 A Qayum (Ranfurly Castle)
88 R Foster (Turnberry) (T41)
89 H Neilson (West Linton) (44th).

Clara and Connie just outside top 20 after 

European championship first round in Austria

Scottish champion Clara Young (North Berwick), pictured below,  and Connie Jaffrey (Troon Ladies) are just outside the top 20 at the end of the first day of the European women's individual amateur golf championship at Murhof Golf Club, Austria.

They both shot one-under-par 71s to be five shots behind the leader, Junior Vagliano Trophy team player Agathe Laisne, a 16-year-old from the Racing Club de France.

Laisne had an eagle 2 at the par-4 fifth and an eagle 3 at par-5 seventh.

She leads by one from Ana Belac (Slovenia) and Aditi Ashok (Bangalore), the Indian girl who won the St Rule Trophy at St Andrews this year.

Jess Meek (Carnoustie Ladies) is joint 30th after a par-matching 72.

Germany-based Scot Rachael Taylor had a 75 for a share of 68th place while Hannah McCook (Grantown on Spey) and former Scottish champion Gabrielle MacDonald (Craigielaw) had disappointing rounds of 78 and 79 respectively

LEADING FIRST-ROUND SCORES

Par 72

66 A Laisne (Fra)

67 A Ashok (Ind), A Belac (Slo)

SELECTED SCORES

71 C Young (Sco), C Jaffrey (Sco) (T21)

72 J Meek (Sco) (T30)

75 R Taylor (Sco) (T68)

78 H McCook (Sco) (T109)

79 G MacDonald (Sco) (T113)

Scotland team for European senior women's 

championship in Lithuania, September 1-5

Scotland squad to compete in the European senior women's team championship at the National Golf Resort, Lithuania from September 1 to 5 is:
Alison Bartlett (Royal Dornoch)
Fiona De Vries (St Rule)
Gillian Kyle (East Renfrewshire)
Lesley Lloyd (Hayston)
Lorna McKinlay (Dunnikier Park)
Sheena Wood (Aberdeen Ladies)

There will be a field of 17 teams, including England and Ireland but not Wales.

Megan goes low to head US girls qualifiers

NEWS RELEASE FROM USGA

TULSA, Oklahoma. – Megan Khang, who is competing in her record-tying seventh U.S. Girls’ Junior, added her name to the USGA record books again, carding a two-day, 8-under 132 in stroke-play qualifying to earn medalist honours at the 2015 championship at Tulsa Country Club.

Khang’s 132 ties for the third-lowest 36-hole score in U.S. Girls’ Championship history. Taylore Karle shot a 130 in 2005 at BanBury Golf Club in Eagle, Idaho, and Khang’s fellow 2015 Girls’ competitor Angel Yin carded a 131 at the 2014 championship at Forest Highlands Golf Club in Flagstaff, Ariz.

Khang, 17, of Rockland, Massachusetts., who also earned low-amateur honours at the U.S. Women’s Open earlier this month, followed Monday’s 67 with a bogey-free, 5-under 65 on Tuesday, her personal-best 18-hole score.

“It was definitely a great feeling because [my mom] is always bugging me about having a bogey-free round, and I’ve done it in practice, but never in a championship,” said a smiling Khang after carding three consecutive birdies on holes 15 through 17. 

“I wanted one more birdie on 18, but I was happy to take par and walk away because I knew that would be a bogey-free round.”

Pairings for Wednesday’s first round of match play on the 6,076-yard, par-70 Tulsa Country Club course

Upper Bracket
Megan Khang, Rockland, Massachusetts. (132) vs. Shannon Brooks, Vienna, Virginia. (147)
Allisen Corpuz, Honolulu, Hawaii (144) vs. Naomi Ko, Canada (144)
Lauren Hartlage, Elizabethtown, Kentucky. (141) vs. Rose Huang, China (145)
Kendall Griffin, Sebring, Florida. (141) vs. Alyaa Abdulghany, Newport Beach, California. (145)
Malia Nam, Kailua, Hawaii (138) vs. Kristen Gillman, Austin, Texas (146)
Hailee Cooper, Montgomery, Texas (142) vs. Chakansim (Fai) Khamborn, Thailand (145)
Aubree Jones, Covington, Tennessee. (138) vs. Maria Vesga, Howey in the Hills, Florida. (146)
Yu Chiang Hou, Chinese Taipei (142) vs. Eun Jeong Seong, South Korea (145)
Muni He, China (136) vs. Simar Singh, Los Altos, California. (147)
Annika Cedo, Philippines (144) vs. Lois Kaye Go, Philippines (144)
Jessica Mangrobang, Chula Vista, California. (139) vs. Jennifer Koga, Honolulu, Hawaii (146)
Gina Kim, Chapel Hill, North Carolina (141) vs. Kelsey Zeng, Orlando, Florida. (145) 

Yu Sang Hou, Chinese Taipei (137) vs. Haylin Harris, Tucson, Arizona. (147)
Jayna Choi, Collierville, Tennessee. (143) vs. Yealimi Noh, Concord, California. (144)
Lucy Li, Redwood City, California. (139) vs. Pajaree Anannarukarn, Thailand (146)
Karah Sanford, Escondido, California. (142) vs. Kelly Su, Scottsdale, Arizona. (145)

Lower Bracket
Sophie Liu, Canada (136) vs. Kathleen Scavo, Benicia, California. (147)
Ellie Slama, Salem, Oregon. (144) vs. Kaitlin Milligan, Norman, Oklahoma. (144)
Han Hsuan Yu, Chinese Taipei (141) vs. Adeena Shears, Elizabeth, West Virginia (145)
 Katherine Muzi, Walnut, California. (141) vs. Evelyn Arguelles, Mexico (145)
Mika Liu, Beverly Hills, California. (138) vs. Mimi (Xiaoyi) Chen,  China (147)
Kelly Sim, South Korea (143) vs. Sarah Spicer, Bahama, North Carolina (144)
Mariel Galdiano, Pearl City, Hawaii (139) vs. Aneka Seumanutafa, Frederick, Maryland (146)
Courtney Dow, Frisco, Texas (142) vs. Lilia Khatu Vu, Fountain Valley, California. (145)
Jaravee Boonchant, Thailand (136) vs. Beth Lillie, Fullerton, California. (147)
Emily Cox, Lancaster, South Carolina (144) vs. Yujeong Son, South Korea (144)
Angel Yin, Arcadia, California. (140) vs. Pauline Del Rosario, Philippines (146)
Hannah O'Sullivan, Chandler, Arizona. (141) vs. Maria Balcazar, Mexico (145)
Andrea Lee, Hermosa Beach, California. (137) vs. Brooke Seay, Rancho Santa Fe, California. (147)
Sabrina Iqbal, San Jose, California. (143) vs. Sierra Brooks, Sorrento, Florida. (144) 

Maria Fassi, Mexico (139) vs. Gabriela Coello, Venezuela (146)
Marni Murez, Manhattan Beach, California. (142) vs. Monica Dibildox, Mexico (145)