SOLID START BY DEFENDING CHAMPION
FLORENTYNA PARKER IN FRANCE

Well-nigh impossible to find a list of first round scores (see footnote to this message) on the French Golf Federation website fr0m the French Junior Lady championship at Paris St Cloud but, thanks to a Press Release from the industrious English Women's Golf Association, we can tell you that Curtis Cup team selection and defending champion Florentyna Parker, Germany-based but entered from Royal Birkdale, is in joint second place after a two-under-par 69 in the first qualifying round before the match-play starts for the 32 qualifiers.
Berliner Lara Katzy (Germany) leads with a four-under--par 67.
Florentyna, 18, had three birdies and only one bogey on her card, at the short sixth.
LEADERBOARD
Par 71
67 L Katzy (Ger).
69 F Parker (Eng), C Hedwall (Swe), L Gonzales (Bel).
70 A Urchegui (Spa).
71 A Fernandez (Spa), C Masson (Ger), J Dreher (Fra), M Goyos (Spa), S Hausladen (Ger).
72 C Ciganda (Spa), A Maggetti (Swi), J Jansson (Swe), G Molinaro (Ita).
Other scores:
73 Sian James (Bristol & Clifton), Leona Maguire (Ireland) (jt 15th).
74 Rachel Jennings (Izaak Walton).
76 Hannah Barwood (Knowle), Charlie Douglass (Brocket Hall), Lisa Maguire (Ireland).
80 Rachel Connor (Manchester).
83 Kelly Tidy (Manchester).

The English Women's Golf Association, in the person of Claire Lilley, has very kindly provided the website links that will enable you to keep up todate with the subsequent scores and match-play results on the French Federation website:

http://www.ffgolf.org/index.aspx?news=12160 This link is the main page and has nations cup info - scroll about two-thirds of the way down the page for the ladies

eventhttp://fleole.ffgolf.org/resultats/results2.htm?pg=0055&pn=075&dc=20/03/2008&res=B This is the scoring link.