The winning Kennesaw State University team after the Terrier Intercollegidate. Dulcie Sverdloff    from Southend is on the left of the line-up, the tallest girl in the group. Thanks to Colin Callander for her identification!

 Dulcie from Southend finishes second and helps Kennesaw State win team title

FROM THE KENNESAW STATE WEBSITE 
Spartanburg, South Carolina: A strong  final round helped earn the Kennesaw State University women's golf team a win at the Wofford Intercollegiate at the par-72, 6,012-yard Country Club of Spartanburg
The Owls registered a final round four-over 292 (+4) to give them a 16 shot  win over second placed  Winthrop in a field of 11 teams
Kennesaw State players finished first, second and third
After an opening round 74 yesterday, junior Laura Estefenn from Columbia fired a 71 (-1) to finish with a two day total of 145 (+1) to claim the individual championship and earn her first collegiate win.
Junior Dulcie Sverdloff from Southend finished second overall after a final round 72 (E) and a two day total of 146 (+2). Freshman Charlotte Charrayre grabbed third place after posting a second concecutive 74 to give a her a total of 148 (+4

  Kennesaw State will wrap up fall tournament play at the Palmetto Intercollegiate hosted by the College of Charleston at the Par-72 5,972 yard Turtle Point Course in Kiawah Island, South Carolina.


Quotable
"I am very proud of the team for this win. To have the 1st, 2nd and 3rd place finish individually is testament to how well they played. We made some great birdies and solid pars all day. I know this team is capable of winning every event we play in and I'm excited to get back on be road for our next event."
- Kennesaw State Head Coach Rhyll Brinsmead

"I am very pleased with the way I played in this tournament and am very excited about my first collegiate win. I was not hitting it very well yesterday in the beginning of my round but I was very consistent with my putting and I was very stable mentally throughout both rounds. Today, I hit 16 greens and putted very well on the last nine holes making two birdies in a row to get under par, which was a great way to end the tournament. I am also very happy with the progress my team has made and am very excited about our team win."                                                                          
- Laura Estefenn, winning for the first time on the US college circuit

Kennesaw State Individual Results
1.     Laura Estefenn               74-71-145 (+1)
2.     Dulcie Sverdloff              74-72-146 (+2)
3     Charlotte Charrayre         74-74-148 (+4)
8.     Clara Aveling                    76-75-151 (+7)
9.    Medy Thavong                 77-75-152 (+5)


To keep up with the latest Kennesaw State women's golf news follow the team on Twitter @KSUOwlNation and @KSUOwlsWmnsGolf or by liking Kennesaw State University on Facebook.
 

Brits well down field in Fighting Camel Classic

The three Brits in the field of 84 at the recent Fighting Camel Fall Classic at Keith Hills, Buies Creek. North Carolina women's college tournament all finished well behind the winner by three, Margaret Janiget (Mercer University) who shot 72,73 and 70 for a one-under par total of 215 over a par-72 course of 6,050yd.with
Olivia Jay, pictured right, from York, a third-year student at Radford University, finished T52 on 243 with rounds of 84, 77 and 82.
Rachel Walker from Dumfries, beaten finalist in this year's Scottish women's amateur championship at Monifieth and a  third-year student at Old Dominion University, Virginia, finished T56 with scores of 83, 87 and 74 for 244.
Paige Kemp from Essex, a second-year student at Stetson, shot 89, 79 and 84 for 252.
Campbell University (902) won the team title by 17 strokes from runners-up Old Dominion with Stetson ninth on 945 and Radford joint last of 15 teams with a total of 980.

Megan Taylor helps Wingate win team title

Megan Taylor, from Buckden, Cambridgeshire, a third-year student at Wingate University, North Carolina, finished tied seventh in a field of 50 players and helped her college win the team title at the South Atlantic
Conference Preview women's college tournament at Monroe Country Club, Monroe in North Carolina.
Megan, pictured right, had rounds of 77 and 81 for 158.
The individual tournament was won by her Wingate team-mate Caitlin Starrs with scores of 74 and 77. 
She finished two shots ahead of Savannah Thompson (UNC Pembroke).
Wingate (624) won the team title from UNC Pembroke (632) in a field of nine teams.

Connie Jaffrey finishes T35 in Texas college event

 Elizabeth Prior ties for second place in Betsy 

Rawls Longhorn Invitational

Elizabeth Prior from Surrey, a freshman student at the University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV), tied for second place in the Betsy Rawls Longhorn Invitational at the University of Texas golf course (par 72, 6298yd).

Elizabeth, pictured right, had three steady rounds of 70, 71 and 71 for a four-under-par total of 212, the same aggregate as Taylor Kim (Kent State) (68-73-71)
They finished one shot behind the winner, Gabby Barker (Texas Tech) who came from behind to head the field of 75 players with a four-under 68 after earlier scores of 70 and 72.

Connie Jaffrey, pictured left, from Kilwinning, Ayrshire, a student at Kansas State University, tied for 35th place on nine-over 225 with scores of 77, 76 and 72.
Kent State (859) won the team title ahead of Texas Tech (867) and UNLV (873). 
Kansas State (901) finished 11th of the 14 teams.

LET Rookie Emily Kristine Pedersen wins 

maiden pro title in India

 

GURGAON (India): Denmark’s Emily Kristine Pedersen, winner of the British women's open amateur title last year, led from start to finish to claim her first professional title at the Hero Women’s Indian Open today.

The Ladies European Tour rookie shot a closing 73 on the challenging ‘Black Knight’ Course at DLF Golf and Country Club in Gurgaon to finish on 216, level par, one ahead of fellow Dane Malene Jorgensen, Becky Morgan from Wales and Cheyenne Woods of the United States. England’s Liz Young ended in fifth spot, with Italian Giulia Sergas in sixth. 

“It’s amazing and I’m so happy. The course has been a big challenge for us. My game has been very good, very steady. I didn’t make any huge mistakes. I kept focused all day,” said Pedersen.
The 19-year-old Dane was denied her first win when she lost out in a playoff to Celine Herbin at the Lacoste Ladies Open de France last month.

“I made a bogey on 17, three putted and I was kind of getting a flash back and I’m so happy it didn’t happen again and I could win.  I was thinking about the play-off after 17 but my caddie Mikey Curry kept me going and focused on my own shots.”

Pedersen started the last round one ahead of the field but three putted for a bogey on the first hole before Woods took the outright lead after three birdies in her first six holes. 

Pedersen hit her approach shot to three metres on the par-5 eighth hole and two putted for a birdie to get back into a share of the lead on one under. Woods then birdied 11 before Pedersen matched her, hitting a 9-iron in to the green and making a four metre putt.  

Both players bogeyed 14, but Pedersen pulled one back at the 15^th to reach two under. Woods then struck a fantastic iron shot up to six feet from the flag on the treacherous 17^th green and her birdie putt barely missed the edge.

After Pedersen bogeyed 17, Woods was in the joint lead until she double bogeyed the par-5 18^th. 
She explained: “I hit it in the bunker, my drive went too far through the fairway. Because of where the ball was I had to fade it in order to keep it in the fairway and once I faded it, it went a little too far, hit the cart path and went into the bush. The only option I had was to take an unplayable and go back. I went back, put it back in play and hit it on the green and two putt.” 

It was then between Pedersen and Morgan, who both matched each other with bogeys on the final hole. Faced with a downhill putt of 10 feet for par, Pedersen was so nervous that her hands were shaking. 

“That’s when I stepped back, because I couldn’t feel my hands and I was too afraid to hit it,” she said. 

Morgan, who left a four foot birdie putt on the edge of the hole on 17, said: “I had a really good chance on the last two holes so I’m a little bit disappointed. I’m fairly happy with the way I played, I just left some putts out there that didn’t get to the hole. I hit it pretty straight so I feel like there are a few courses on the European Tour that suit me like Pilsen and here. It’s okay finishing second but I wish I’d have won.”

It was another podium finish for Jorgensen, who was third when fellow Dane Nicole Broch Larsen won the Helsingborg Open last month. “It’s second this time instead of third, so one step closer. I struggled with my swing at the beginning of the week so I’m actually quite happy to finish second. It was so close out there,” she said.

With her win, Pedersen moved up to seventh on the LET Order of Merit and first on the Rookie of the Year standings, ahead of compatriot Nanna Koerstz Madsen of Denmark.

 

FINAL TOTALS
par 216 (3x72)
1st Emily Kristine Pedersen (DEN) 70 73 73 216
T2 Cheyenne Woods (USA) 77 69 71, Malene Jorgensen (DEN) 73 72 72, Becky Morgan (WAL) 73 71 73 217 
5th Liz Young (ENG) 73 73 72 218
6th Giulia Sergas (ITA) 71 76 73 220.
7th Tanaporn Kongkiatkrai (THA) 77 71 73 221
T8 Kanphanitnan Muangkhumsakul (THA) 75 73 74, Ursula Wikstrom (FIN) 73 73 76 222.
T10 Punpaka Phuntumabamrung (THA)  78 70 75, Sarah Kemp (AUS) 76 76 71 223.
12th Gwladys Nocera (FRA) 75 78 71 224 
T13 Aditi Ashok (am) (IND) 75 73 77, Klara Spilkova (CZE)  74 75 76, Nontaya Srisawang (THA) 73 73 79, Sophia Popov (GER)  72 76 77 225 
T17 Valentine Derrey (FRA) 80 73 73, Georgia Hall (ENG) 79 72 75, Eleanor Givens (ENG) 78 75 73 226 
T20 Ann-Kathrin Lindner (GER) 80 74 73, Vani Kapoor (IND) 79 73 75, Camilla Lennarth (SWE) 77 73 77, Noora Tamminen (FIN) 76 78 73, Alexandra Vilatte (FRA)  76 76 75, Florentyna Parker (ENG)  76 75 76 , Christine Wolf (AUT)  75 77 75 , Hyeon Seo Kang (SKOR)  74 78 75, Minea Blomqvist (FIN) 72 74 81, Saraporn Chamchoi (THA) 71 76 80 227
T30 Patcharajutar Kongkraphan (THA) 82 67 79 , Leigh Whittaker (GER) 79 75 74 , Trish Johnson (ENG) 79 74 75, Monique Smit (RSA) 78 75 75, Melissa Reid (ENG) 76 77 75, Kelsey Macdonald (SCO) 76 75 77, Dewi Claire Schreefel (NED) 76 73 79, Cathryn Bristow (NZ) 75 77 76, Pamela Pretswell (SCO) 74 78 76, Nanna Koerstz Madsen (DEN) 73 75 80 228
T40 Thi Nhung Tang (VNM)  78 76 75, Tonje Daffinrud (NOR)77 72 80, Katie Burnett (USA) 73 78 78 229
43rd Stefania Croce (ITA)  81 71 78 230 
T44 Rebecca Hudson (ENG) 79 77 75, Diana Luna (ITA) 79 76 76, Wanchana Poruangrong (THA) 78 73 80, Laura Murray (SCO) 76 76 79, Chloe Leurquin (BEL) 75 81 75 231
49th Bree Arthur (AUS) 16 77 79 76 232 
T50 Margherita Rigon (ITA) 75 81 77,Sophie Sandolo (ITA) 75 79 79 233
T52 Miriam Nagl (BRA)  78 77 79, Marta Sanz Barrio (ESP) 77 77 80 234
T54 Pennapa Pulsawath (THA) 79 77 79, Caroline Afonso (FRA)  77 78 80, Ye Seul Lee (SKOR) 74 81 80, Holly Aitchison (ENG) 74 78 83 235
T58 Maha Haddioui (MAR) 81 74 81, Vikki Laing (SCO)  78 74 84 236
T60 Saaniya Sharma (IND) 79 75 83, Nattagate Nimitpongkul (THA) 77 77 83 237
62nd Smriti Mehra (IND) 77 79 83 239

Claire Hunter and husband win New Zealand 

mixed foursomes

Claire Hunter, a past winner of the  North of Scotland and Aberdeenshire women's championships,  Claire Hunter has scored her biggest golfing success since she moved to New Zealand nine years ago. 
Claire and husband Grant Dooley -  they were married in Aberdeen in 2013 - won the New Zealand mixed foursomes match-play championship at Wanaka Golf Club, South Island this weekend.
A Hazlehead and Deeside GC member, Claire beat Audrey  Murray (Tain) 4 and 3 in the 1997 final of the North of Scotland women's amateur championship at Murcar Links.
Murcar Links was also the venue when she won the Aberdeenshire title in 1994.

FROM JIM HARDIE
Aberdeen businessman 
who often spends the UK
winter in New Zealand
What a small world we live in !
Read about Claire Hunter and partner winning the New Zealand mixed foursomes at Wanaka Golf Club, where Peter Smith was ex pro, and where I am a Country member, then just received the report, that Claire and partner beat twp of my best friends in the final, geoff@ maree saunders, who live beside Sir Bob Charles at Clearwater resort in Christchurch !
It was the Saunders who came with Sir Bob and myself on the Machrahanish visit three years back !
It is indeed a small world !

Jim Hardie

Catriona Matthew earns $36,345 for T10 finish

Lydia Ko Makes History With Victory No.10 

at Fubon LPGA Taiwan Championship

Lydia Ko made golfing history once again today.
The 18-year-old from New Zealand captured her 10^th win on the LPGA Tour  at the Fubon LPGA Taiwan Championship, becoming the youngest in the history of the Tour to reach the milestone. Ko passes Nancy Lopez who previously held the record at 22-years of age.
Ko carded the low round of the day on Sunday with a 7-under par, 65 to win by 9-strokes, both the largest margin of victory this season on Tour and her largest margin of victory in her 10 wins on Tour.

Her victory continues what has already been an historic season for Ko. She started off the season in style, becoming the youngest player in the history of the game, male or female, to reach the No.1 ranking in the world. She also passed Morgan Pressel as the youngest to win a major championship with her victory at the Evian Championship in September.
The victory marks the fifth of the season for Ko, who is expected to eclipse World No.1 Inbee Park for the top spot in the Rolex Women’s World Golf Rankings. Ko ascended to the No.1 spot at the first event of the year, the Coates Golf Championship, but lost it to Inbee Park this summer.
Entering the final round in Taiwan, Ko held the 54-hole lead for the eighth time in her career, four-strokes ahead of Eun-Hee Ji. With four birdies in her first six holes she quickly extended her lead to six-strokes ahead of Ji. Ko played nearly flawless golf on Sunday minus a bogey at the par 3, 7^th hole, but essentially sealed her victory by holing out for eagle at the par 5, 12^th to extend her lead to seven strokes ahead of Ji. So Yeon Ryu and Ji finished T-2 at 11-under par with Charley Hull in fourth at 10-under par for which she earned $102,405.
Paula Creamer posted the second lowest round of the day on Sunday with a 5-under par, 67 for her best round since the Walmart NW Arkansas Championship in June. Creamer finished T-6 for her third top-10 finish of the season.
Catriona Matthew, despite a final round of 75, finished tied 10th and earned $36,345

FINAL TOTALS 
par 288 (4x72)

1	Lydia Ko	69	67	67	65			268	$300,000
T2	So Yeon Ryu	70	69	70	68	.		277	$157,123
T2	Eun-Hee Ji	66	69	72	70			277	$157,123
4	Charley Hull	68	69	71	70			278	$102,205
5	Suzann Pettersen	74	66	71	68			279	$82,264
T6	Paula Creamer	71	73	70	67			281	$61,822
T6	Xiyu Lin	67	70	74	70			281	$61,822
8	Amy Yang	69	73	72	69			283	$49,359
9	Brittany Lang	77	71	66	70			284	$44,373
T10	Lizette Salas	69	71	77	68			285	$36,345
T10	Minjee Lee	72	73	70	70			285	$36,345
T10	Anna Nordqvist	70	70	71	74			285	$36,345
T10	Catriona Matthew	72	70	68	75			285	$36,345
T14	Mika Miyazato	69	74	73	70			286	$25,801
T14	Hyo-Joo Kim	74	70	72	70			286	$25,801
T14	Michelle Wie	73	73	70	70			286	$25,801
T14	Jessica Korda	73	73	69	71			286	$25,801
T14	Mirim Lee	71	72	71	72			286	$25,801
T14	Karine Icher	69	73	71	73			286	$25,801
T14	Jenny Shin	69	72	72	73			286	$25,801
T14	Shanshan Feng	70	76	67	73			286	$25,801
22	Hee Young Park	71	72	70	74			287	$21,338
T23	Azahara Munoz	74	72	73	69			288	$18,713
T23	Sei-Young Kim	78	69	71	70			288	$18,713
T23	Haru Nomura	69	73	74	72			288	$18,713
T23	Christina Kim	73	71	72	72			288	$18,713
T23	I.K. Kim	74	69	73	72			288	$18,713
T23	Lee-Anne Pace	75	70	70	73			288	$18,713
T29	Morgan Pressel	68	75	74	72			289	$15,057
T29	Sakura Yokomine	70	74	73	72			289	$15,057
T29	Wei-Ling Hsu	74	73	69	73			289	$15,057
T29	Ariya Jutanugarn	72	71	72	74			289	$15,057
T29	Carlota Ciganda	70	74	70	75			289	$15,057
T34	Candie Kung	75	74	70	71			290	$12,763
T34	Pernilla Lindberg	71	75	72	72			290	$12,763
T34	Stacy Lewis	77	72	72	69			290	$12,763
T37	Brittany Lincicome	69	74	75	73			291	$10,016
T37	Austin Ernst	71	72	77	71			291	$10,016
T37	Caroline Masson	74	72	72	73			291	$10,016
T37	Mi Hyang Lee	74	75	72	70			291	$10,016
T37	Chella Choi	72	74	75	70			291	$10,016
T37	Pei-Ying Tsai	73	71	72	75			291	$10,016
T37	Yani Tseng	72	73	76	70			291	$10,016
T37	Yu-Ling Hsieh	73	74	69	75			291	$10,016
T37	Sun Young Yoo	68	71	74	78			291	$10,016
T46	Sandra Gal	68	79	72	73			292	$7,727
T46	Ya-Chun Chang	73	69	78	72			292	-
T46	Ilhee Lee	75	71	75	71	.		292	$7,727
T46	Min Lee	76	72	69	75			292	$7,727
T46	Jaye Marie Green	73	74	76	69			292	$7,727
T51	Moriya Jutanugarn	76	71	70	76			293	$6,781
T51	Jennifer Song	70	79	72	72			293	$6,781
T51	Danielle Kang	74	79	70	70			293	$6,781
T54	Mariajo Uribe	74	73	74	73			294	$6,282
T54	Pornanong Phatlum	75	71	69	79			294	$6,282
T56	Mo Martin	73	71	75	76			295	$5,683
T56	Julieta Granada	78	71	73	73			295	$5,683
T56	Ai Miyazato	72	77	75	71			295	$5,683
T56	Phoebe Yao	73	77	75	70			295	$5,683
T60	Na Yeon Choi	74	70	75	77			296	$5,019
T60	Marina Alex	71	74	78	73			296	$5,019
T60	Q Baek	75	77	75	69			296	$5,019
T63	Kim Kaufman	75	71	75	76			297	$4,687
T63	Kelly Shon	75	74	74	74			297	$4,687
T63	Ya-Huei Lu	75	74	76	72			297	$4,687
T66	Alena Sharp	76	73	73	77			299	$4,437
T66	Tzu-Chi Lin	75	78	72	74			299	$4,437
68	Huei-Ju Shih	75	78	77	73			303	$4,288
T69	Beatriz Recari	75	80	75	74			304	$4,138
T69	Sydnee Michaels	75	80	76	73			304	$4,138
71	Meng Chu Chen	72	77	77	79			305	$3,989
72	Mika Liu	78	77	76	75			306	-
T73	Ai-Chen Kuo	75	77	75	82			309	$3,914
T73	Hsin-Ning Yeh	75	78	76	80			309	$3,914
75	Alison Walshe	79	79	78	74			310	$3,838
76	Szu-Han Chen	80	75	78	80			313	$3,789
77	Hsuan Ping Chang	82	75	80	78			315	$3,743
78	I Wen Chen	81	77	79	81			318	$3,696
T79	Ling Yen Pan	78	81	81	80			320	$3,626
T79	Pei-Lin Yu	79	78	84	79			320	$3,626
81	Shu-Huai Huang	86	87	87	82			342	$3,556
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