Ladies European Tour
AUSSIE LACEY WINS FROM AMATEUR HALL AS
FINAL QUALIFYING SCHOOL ENDS IN ITALY
By BETHAN CUTLER
From Ladies European Tour Website
Australia’s Dana Lacey won the Ladies European Tour’s Final Qualifying School for the 2008 season after a dramatic final day at Le Fonti Golf Club in Italy.
The 25-year-old from Perth, Western Australia was one of 30 players to earn full playing privileges for the 2008 season, with the other 22 players in the field earning a conditional card. Lacey, who led the tournament after the second day’s play, fired rounds of 69, 67, 72 and 67 for a 72-hole total of 275,13-under-par.
Welsh amateur Lydia Hall, 19, finished a shot further back and was the runner-up after a final round of 71. She will now turn professional after earning her full card for 2008.
Another Australian, Frances Bondad, 19, from Sydney, took third place on 11-under-par and four players tied for fourth on 10-under-par.
Lacey held a conditional Ladies European Tour card in 2007 but spent most of the season competing on the Duramed Futures Tour in America. She fared better at her second qualifying attempt and will play the full 2008 season in Europe.
“I’m extremely happy. This is my first professional win ever. I am over the moon,” said Lacey, who had fellow LET professional Melanie Holmes Smith of Australia on caddie duties for the final round.
“I played fantastic today. I hit 18 greens and holed some putts that I needed to. It was just a really cruisy, easy day. I started out a bit rough. I bogeyed the first and birdied the next and bogeyed the next but I got my nerves on track.”
Lacey posted six further birdies from the sixth hole. A two-hole play-off between five players determined who took the last two full cards. England’s Natalie Booth and Camille Fallay of France were successful over Italy’s Isabella Maconi, America’s Beth Allen and Australia’s Bronwyn Mullins-Lane.
Maconi and Allen were eliminated at the first extra hole, the par-three 17th, while Mullins-Lane lost out at the par-four 18th.
+SCROLL DOWN TO READ HOW JENNA WILSON FINISHED WITH A BIRDIE BLITZ TO BOOK A PLACE ON THE 2008 LADIES EUROPEAN TOUR.
FINAL QUALIFYING SCHOOL ENDS IN ITALY
By BETHAN CUTLER
From Ladies European Tour Website
Australia’s Dana Lacey won the Ladies European Tour’s Final Qualifying School for the 2008 season after a dramatic final day at Le Fonti Golf Club in Italy.
The 25-year-old from Perth, Western Australia was one of 30 players to earn full playing privileges for the 2008 season, with the other 22 players in the field earning a conditional card. Lacey, who led the tournament after the second day’s play, fired rounds of 69, 67, 72 and 67 for a 72-hole total of 275,13-under-par.
Welsh amateur Lydia Hall, 19, finished a shot further back and was the runner-up after a final round of 71. She will now turn professional after earning her full card for 2008.
Another Australian, Frances Bondad, 19, from Sydney, took third place on 11-under-par and four players tied for fourth on 10-under-par.
Lacey held a conditional Ladies European Tour card in 2007 but spent most of the season competing on the Duramed Futures Tour in America. She fared better at her second qualifying attempt and will play the full 2008 season in Europe.
“I’m extremely happy. This is my first professional win ever. I am over the moon,” said Lacey, who had fellow LET professional Melanie Holmes Smith of Australia on caddie duties for the final round.
“I played fantastic today. I hit 18 greens and holed some putts that I needed to. It was just a really cruisy, easy day. I started out a bit rough. I bogeyed the first and birdied the next and bogeyed the next but I got my nerves on track.”
Lacey posted six further birdies from the sixth hole. A two-hole play-off between five players determined who took the last two full cards. England’s Natalie Booth and Camille Fallay of France were successful over Italy’s Isabella Maconi, America’s Beth Allen and Australia’s Bronwyn Mullins-Lane.
Maconi and Allen were eliminated at the first extra hole, the par-three 17th, while Mullins-Lane lost out at the par-four 18th.
+SCROLL DOWN TO READ HOW JENNA WILSON FINISHED WITH A BIRDIE BLITZ TO BOOK A PLACE ON THE 2008 LADIES EUROPEAN TOUR.
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