Jennifer on Song to win US Public Links title

FROM THE GOLFWEEK WEBSITE
A month after being named Golfweek’s US College Player of the Year, Jennifer Song added a major amateur title to her resume. The rising USC sophomore won the U.S. Women’s Amateur Public Links today in a convincing 7-and-6 victory over Kimberly Kim in the 36-hole final.
It was the largest margin of victory in the 33-year history of the event.
Song, who was five up after 18 holes at Red Tail Golf Club in Devens, Mass., increased her lead to seven holes after 27.
In total, she was nine-under par for the holes played and made just one bogey in the championship match.
“I think it was my best round of golf,” said Song, who hit 25 of 30 greens and didn’t miss a fairway. “Whenever I was on the green, I just told myself, ‘If you can see it, it’s going to go in.’ ”
Born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Song, 18, grew up in South Korea and was a member of the 2007 and 2008 Korean National Team. She was named Golfweek’s 2008-09 Player of the Year after finishing No. 1 in the Golfweek/Sagarin College Rankings.
Kim has had plenty of experience in USGA events. In 2006, she became the youngest winner in US Women’s Amateur history when she triumphed as a 14-year-old. Earlier that year, she was runner-up at the Women’s Publinx.
Now 17, Kim won the AJGA’s Rolex Girls Junior Championship June 19. She will attend Denver University in the fall.
Results of the closing match-play rounds at the par-72, 6,627-yard Red Tail Golf Club in Devens, Massachusetts
FINAL (36 holes)
Jennifer Song bt Kimberly Kim 7 and 6
SEMI-FINALS
Jennifer Song bt Jisoo Park 2 holes.
Kimberly Kim bt Joanna Coe 4 and 3.
QUARTER-FINALS
Jisoo Park bt Cydney Clanton 1 hole.
Jennifer Song bt Casie Cathrea 4 and 3
Kimberly Kim bt Sun Gyoung Park 6 and 5
Joanna Coe bt Sydnee Michaels 1 hole.

Krystle Caithness in the Irish Ladies Open picture

It looks like a Luna

landscape for Diana

as she leads into

Portmarnock last day

FROM THE LADIES' EUROPEAN TOUR WEBSITE
Italian Diana Luna came a step closer to earning her second Ladies European Tour victory today, taking a one-shot lead into Sunday's final round of the AIB Ladies Irish Open, supported by Failte Ireland.
Luna carded four birdies and one bogey for a three-under-par 69 at Portmarnock Hotel and Links, near Dublin.
Her seven-under total took her one clear of Sweden’s Sophie Gustafson and Melissa Reid from England. First round co-leader Julie Greciet from France remained on five-under, one shot back, along with Florentyna Parker, a German-born English rookie, sharing fourth.
Luna, the 2004 Tenerife Ladies Open champion, said: “I stayed very calm and patient today, all the way round. I mean, this is a course that needs to accept every single shot-because, of course, links courses get some bounces.”
With a chance to win for the first time in five years, she was keen to improve on her second place finish the ABN AMRO Ladies Open in the Netherlands three weeks ago, when she lost out by a stroke to Tania Elosegui from Spain.
“I’m playing very good and I just want to keep going and enjoy myself. It’s wonderful weather and we’re so lucky to be here on this wonderful course,” she said.
Reid, who is third on the LET’s Henderson Money List after three top three finishes in four starts this season, hopes to secure her maiden professional victory.
She has finished second four times already since turning professional at the beginning of last year and said: “I don’t want to finish second again so we’ll need to shoot low tomorrow.”
Gustafson, a three-time Irish Open winner, having won the event in 1998 at Ballyliffin, in 2000 at Faithlegg and at Killarney Golf and Fishing Club, otherwise known as Mahoney’s Point, in 2003, has a strong track record on Irish soil. She also won the 2000 World Cup at Adare Manor along with Carin Koch. In Northern Ireland, she won the BT Irish Open in 2003.
The 22-time tournament winner carded a sensational 67 today, her seven birdies only countered by a double bogey at the ninth hole.
She said she enjoys Ireland. “The people and the atmosphere are so great. We always play great courses; links is my favourite,” she said.
Parker continued her form from the Portugal Ladies Open a fortnight ago, when she posted a career best finish of equal fifth, but was disappointed to have four-putted for a double bogey at the eighth.
Scottish rookie Krystle Caithness (pictured above), Welsh Solheim Cup star Becky Brewerton and last year’s number one Gwladys Nocera from France shared sixth on four-under, with Spain’s Paula Marti and last year’s runner-up Marianne Skarpnord of Norway a shot further back in a tie for ninth place.
Five Irish players made the cut, with amateur Danielle McVeigh leading the way in joint 19th on level par. The Royal County Down player watched as her Vagliano Trophy GB&I team-mate Jodi Ewart from Yorkshire holed-in-one with a six-iron at the 158yd third hole, before sinking her own ace. It was the third hole-in-one at the same hole in two days.
However GB&I team-mates 14-year-old twins Leona and Lisa Maguire, hugely popular in Ireland, missed the cut. They both shot the same score in the second round: six-over 78.
But their day will come on the professional circuit. Nothing is surer than that.

Ladies European Tour Scoreboard
AIB LADIES IRISH OPEN
Portmarnock Hotel & Golf Links, Portmarnock, Dublin, Ireland
SECOND-ROUND TOTALS
Par 144 (2x72)
137 Diana Luna (Ita) 68 69
138 Melissa Reid 68 70, Sophie Gustafson (Swe) 71 67
139 Julie Greciet (Fra) 67 72, Florentyna Parker 70 69
140 Becky Brewerton 68 72, Krystle Caithness 71 69, Gwladys Nocera (Fra) 68 72
141 Marianne Skarpnord (Nor) 71 70, Paula Marti (Spa) 70 71
142 Emma Zackrisson (Swe) 70 72, Lee-Anne Pace (USA) 71 71
143 Lydia Hall 69 74, Beatriz Recari (Spa) 72 71, Christel Boeljon (Ned) 71 72, Jodi Ewart (am) 74 69, Martina Eberl (Ger) 68 75, Carmen Alonso (Spa) 72 71
144 Frances Bondad (Aus) 74 70, Jade Schaeffer (Fra) 74 70, Joanne Mills (Aus) 74 70, Sophie Giquel (Fra) 70 74, Danielle McVeigh (am) 74 70, Anna Tybring (Swe) 72 72
145 Vikki Laing 68 77, Dana Lacey (Aus) 72 73, Tania Elosegui (Spa) 75 70, Lisa Hall 73 72, Maria Hjorth (Swe) 67 78, Martina Gillen 69 76, Marta Prieto (Spa) 74 71, Lynnette Teresa Brooky (Nzl) 73 72, Denise-Charlotte Becker (Ger) 75 70, Johanna Westerberg (Swe) 72 73
146 Kiran Matharu 70 76, Sophie Walker 74 72, Lotta Maria Wahlin (Swe) 73 73, Nina Reis (Swe) 70 76, Tara Delaney 70 76, Laura Cabanillas (Spa) 71 75
147 Lisa Jean (Aus) 70 77, Lynn Kenny 75 72, Nikki Garrett (Aus) 74 73, Nicole Gergely (Aut) 71 76, Rebecca Hudson 73 74, Federica Piovano (Ita) 75 72
148 Lisa Holm Sorensen (Den) 73 75, Caroline Afonso (Fra) 76 72, Felicity Johnson 75 73, Anna-Lise Caudal (Fra) 72 76, Samantha Head 70 78, Yuki Sakurai (Jpn) 76 72, Ursula Wikstrom (Fin) 75 73
149 Hazel Kavanagh 75 74, Riikka Hakkarainen (Fin) 75 74, Rebecca Coakley 75 74, Rhian Wyn Thomas (am) 74 75, Iben Tinning (Den) 73 76, Rachel Jennings (am) 70 79, Stacy Lee Bregman (Rsa) 75 74, Breanne Alicia Loucks 74 75, Amanda Moltke-Leth (Den) 74 75, Margherita Rigon (Ita) 74 75.
MISSED THE CUT
150 Linda Wessberg (Swe) 73 77, Laura Terebey (USA) 76 74, Joanne Morley 75 75, Morgana Robbertze (Rsa) 77 73, Georgina Simpson 72 78, Henrietta Zuel 76 74, Veronica Zorzi (Ita) 74 76, Camille Fallay (Fra) 73 77
151 Laurette Maritz (Rsa) 73 78, Elisabeth Esterl (Ger) 76 75, Lara Tadiotto (Bel) 78 73, Karen-Margrethe Juul (Den) 77 74, Kirsty Taylor 77 74, Julie Tvede (Den) 80 71, Lill Saether (Nor) 74 77, Katharina Schallenberg (Ger) 77 74, Titiya Plucksataporn (Tha) 76 75, Trish Johnson 71 80
152 Marian Riordan 75 77, Christine Hallstrom (Swe) 77 75, Stefania Croce (Ita) 77 75, Claire Aitken 74 78, Leona Maguire (am) 74 78, Hannah Barwood (am) 78 74, Eva Steinberger (Aut) 75 77, Isabella Maconi (Ita) 78 74
153 Zuzana Masinova (Cze) 81 72, Jo Pritchard 74 79, Ellen Smets (Bel) 75 78, Beth Allen (USA) 77 76, Holly Aitchison 75 78, Marjet Van Der Graaff (Ned) 77 76
154 Karen Lunn (Aus) 80 74, Maria Verchenova (Rus) 71 83, Maria Boden (Swe) 75 79, Claire Coughlan-Ryan 77 77, Laura Davies 75 79, Pamela Pretswell (am) 77 77, Lisa Maguire (am) 76 78
155 Lora Fairclough 77 78, Mianne Bagger (Den) 76 79, Stefanie Michl (Aut) 78 77, Cassandra Kirkland (Fra) 77 78
156 Virginine Lagoutte-Clement (Fra) 75 81, Bettina Hauert (Ger) 77 79, Emma Cabrera Bello (Spa) 75 81, Clare Queen 76 80, Barbara Genuini (Fra) 77 79
157 Sally Watson (am) 81 76, Pamela Feggans 80 77, Ana-Belen Sanchez (Spa) 82 75, Bronwyn Mullins-Lane (Aus) 82 75
158 Anna-Karin Salmen (Fin) 76 82, Emma Lyons 78 80, Johanna Lundberg (Swe) 78 80, Elena Giraud (Fra) 79 79
159 Jenni Kuosa (Fin) 79 80, Kathryn Imrie 79 80, Kylie Walker (am) 74 85, Jessica Ji (Kor) 79 80
160 Stephanie Meadow (am) 77 83, Cecillia Ekelundh (Swe) 80 80, Melodie Bourdy (Fra) 77 83
161 Anna Knutsson (Swe) 80 81
162 Malene Jorgensen (Den) 79 83

Midlothian could be even money

chance to win East Div title

FROM THE EDINBURGH EVENING NEWS WEBSITE

By MARTIN DEMPSTER
Midlothian will be hoping a recent pattern continues in the three-day East Division women's inter-county team championship, which get underway at Falkirk Carmuirs on Monday.
They've won the event in the odd years since 2005, with Fife having taken the title in the even years. On both occasions, Midlothian also went on to claim the Scottish crown.

Six members of the side from four years ago will be in action again next week, namely Kirsten Blackwood (Craigmillar Park), pictured by Cal Carson Golf Agency, Claire Hargan (Mortonhall), Claire MacDonald (Gullane Ladies), Karen Marshall (Baberton), Wendy Nicholson (Broomieknowe) and Jane Turner (Craigielaw).

Hargan, MacDonald, Marshall, Nicholson and Turner were also in the team two years ago and with them this time around are Louise Fraser (Kingsknowe) and Rachael Watton (Mortonhall).

County champion Hargan and Turner will be the mainstays of the team, the latter having boosted her hopes of a call-up for this season's home internationals at Irvine in September with a third-place finish in last weekend's Irish open stroke-play championship.

Midlothian tee off against East Lothian, with Fife facing Stirling & Clackmannan in the other tie.

++The full article above contains 181 words and appears in Edinburgh Evening News newspaper.

US DURAMED FUTURES TOUR REPORT

Rookie Mina Harigae breaks Lost Marsh

record with seven-under-par 65

NEWS RELEASE ISSUED BY THE DURAMED FUTURES TOUR
Rookie Mina Harigae of Monterey, California, fired a seven-under-par 65 during the first round of the $100,000 Horseshoe Casino Classic at Lost Marsh Golf Course, setting a new women’s course record at the Indiana venue
Harigae, who started on the back nine, carded a bogey-free round with five birdies coming in early in her day.
"The five birdies on my first nine really gave me confidence for the rest of the day," recalled Harigae, who also carded two birdies on the front nine, which was her second nine holes today. "I had a long putt [30 feet] for birdie on 14, which I hit off the green. It was really a gift."
Harigae is already a two-time winner on the Duramed Futures Tour this year, winning back-to-back the Ladies Titan Tire Challenge in Marion, Iowa, and the Michelob Uultra Duramed Futures Players Championship in Decatur, Illinois.
After finishing last week's Duramed Championship in Mason, Ohio, tied for 20th, Harigae took some time to rest before heading to Indiana.
"I feel rejuvenated and really had the energy to practise this week," said Harigae. "Having won two in a row, it has taught me to just relax and play my game. I have a new attitude in that I now take this as more of a job. I just want to go low and play the best that I can."
Sharing a three-way tie for second at three strokes back on 68 are Christina Jones of Jensen Beach, Florida, Sara Brown of Tucson, Arizona, and Seo-Jae Lee from Seoul, South Korea. All three carded six birdies and two bogeys during their rounds.
Fellow rookie Jones said she woke up feeling as if this would be her day. "I just felt good," said Jones, who recorded 16 top-10 finishes, including three wins, while at the University of South Florida. "I can't explain it because I've felt that way before and I haven't shot 68. Things were just going my way."
Jones scored her first birdie of the day on the third hole.
"I hit a 3-wood to 12 feet, and I just thought, 'sweet'," recalls Jones. "I was glad to be starting off so good, because I had been struggling at past tournaments."
Brown credits two men today for her low round -- her dad and Lost Marsh head pro Don Plohg.
"I asked my dad to caddie for me today about one minute before my round started, because I knew I could talk to him and he did help me a lot today," said Brown, who recorded four wins in collegiate competition while at Michigan State University.
"I was paired with Don during the pro-am earlier this week. I have to give him credit because he really helped me with my putting."
Brown needed only 23 putts for the day, and hit 10 greens and 11 fairways in regulation.
Lee, who also had her dad on her bag, was relieved to record five birdies on the back nine.
"I had a really bad start today, and I was 1-over at the turn," said Lee, who is a former member of the LPGA tour. "I liked the back nine better, as I had a better short game."
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Weather: Mostly sunny with temperatures in the mid-80s and winds between 10-15 mph.

Janice Moodie misses cut in LPGA Tour event

Jiyai Shin jumps into three-shot

lead at weather-hit Wegmans

Women's British Open champion Jiyai Shin from South Korea, seeking her fifth win in 11 months, shot a four-under-par second-round 68 to lead by one shot from Morgan Pressel at the end of a weather-delayed Wegmans LPGA at Rochester, New York State.
“I really am happy with my putter — it’s really good,” the 21-year-old Shin said after moving to 11-under 133, a record low at the demanding Locust Hill course in suburban Rochester.
“I would like to keep this feeling through tomorrow and the final round.”
Play was interrupted by thunderstorms for nearly five hours, then called off at 8:37 p.m. Friday night local time as darkness fell.
In all, 71 players completed their second rounds early Saturday morning, including Tiger Woods’ niece, Cheyenne, who failed to make th cut.
First-round leader Sandra Gal of Germany, blaming tiredness for a string of wayward tee shots on the back nine, shot a 1-over 73 to drop to 7 under.
Last year, Shin became the first non-LPGA member to win three events. She reeled in the Women’s British Open last August, then followed with late-season wins in the Mizuno Classic and ADT Championship.
In March, she captured the HSBC Women’s Champions in Singapore for her first victory as a tour member.
Her dead-eye accuracy off the tee box and the fairways got her within 3 feet for early birdies on Nos. 3 and 4. Her only bogey came when she caught a greenside bunker at No. 10. As Gal faltered, the South Korea star took the lead with an 8-foot birdie putt on No. 14 and widened the gap atop the leaderboard when she birdied from 6 feet at the par-5 17th.
How's this for dedication to improvement? On Tuesday afternoon this past week, Shin spent nearly five hours practicing her putting at Locust Hill, a traditional, tree-lined course with compact, undulating greens.
“So it was easy play with my putter,” she said with a shy smile.
Gal, 24, who grew up near Cologne, was a two-time all-American in her three seasons at the University of Florida and the top-ranked European amateur in 2007. In her second year on tour, her best finish was a tie for fifth at last month’s LPGA Corning Classic.
“I’m in the hunt for the weekend, so I can’t complain,” she said. “I just accept it as it is and move forward.”
From the 12th hole onward, “I started hitting a few drives crooked, maybe it was tiredness,” she said. After knocking in a 15-foot birdie putt on No. 11, she got caught in heavy rough for bogeys on Nos. 12 and 14 and double-bogeyed No. 16, when she fluffed a chip, landed in a bunker and then missed a 7-foot putt.
Morgan Pressel was one of the early-morning brigade but it seemed to inspire her. She shot a 66 for 134 to be only one shot off the pace. And Stacy Lewis, who only last year was playing for the United States in the Curtis Cup at St Andrews, also completed a good early-morning round, a 67, to be lying third on 135.
Woods, making her first start on the professional tour by way of a sponsor exemption, was at one over par through 10 holes. But the 18-year-old couldn't hold it together over the closing holes and had a 74 for 149 - four shots too many to survive the cut.
Defending champion Eun-Hee Ji was toiling at six over par after 13 holes and eventually missed the cut by five shots with a 36-hole tally of 150.
Scot Janice Moodie missed the cut by two shots with scores 74 and 73 for 147.
The $2 million tournament drew 18 of the season’s top 20 money winners, including No. 1 Cristie Kerr, who was at 1 under through 12 holes. Absent is Lorena Ochoa, the world’s top-ranked player, and Suzann Pettersen, the runner-up here last June.
SECOND-ROUND TOTALS
Par 144 (2x72) 6365yd
133 Ji-Yai Shin (Kor) 65 68
134 Morgan Pressel 68 66
135 Stacy Lewis 68 67
136 Kristy McPherson 67 69
137 Mindy Kim 69 68, Michelle Wie 69 68, Sandra Gal (Ger) 64 73
138 Jennifer Rosales (Phi) 69 69, Sun Young Yoo (Kor) 71 67
139 Lindsey Wright (Aus) 71 68, Meaghan Francella 71 68, Sarah Kemp (Aus) 69 70, Brittany Lang 73 66
140 Se Ri Pak (Kor) 69 71, Cristie Kerr 75 65, Alena Sharp (Can) 70 70
141 Mika Miyazato (Jpn) 69 72, Karen Stupples (Eng) 69 72, Reilley Rankin 69 72, Anna Grzebien 70 71, Michele Redman 67 74, Ai Miyazato (Jpn) 72 69, Ji-Young Oh (Kor) 69 72, Na Yeon Choi (Kor) 69 72, Carri Wood 71 70, Mi Jung Hur (Kor) 68 73, Amanda Blumenherst 70 71
142 Joo Mi Kim (Kor) 72 70, Giulia Sergas (Ita) 73 69, Stacy Prammanasudh 71 71, In Kyung Kim (Kor) 71 71, Amy Yang 69 73, Wendy Ward 70 72, In-Bee Park (Kor) 74 68, Helen Alfredsson (Swe) 69 73, Jee Young Lee (Kor) 73 69, Ya-Ni Tseng (Tai) 73 69, Hye Jung Choi (Kor) 70 72
143 Irene Cho 71 72, Karrie Webb (Aus) 72 71, Jin Joo Hong (Kor) 70 73, Haeji Kang (Kor) 68 75, Brandi Jackson 68 75, Jimin Kang (Kor) 73 70, Natalie Gulbis 71 72, Kyeong Bae (Kor) 74 69
144 Minea Blomqvist (Fin) 70 74, Chella Choi (Kor) 75 69, Beth Bader 71 73, Young Kim (Kor) 74 70, Lorie Kane (Can) 73 71, Diana D'Alessio 68 76, Kris Tamulis 74 70, Aree Song (Kor) 71 73, Becky Morgan (Wal) 71 73, Allison Fouch 72 72
145 Brittany Lincicome 70 75, Julieta Granada (Par) 76 69, Pat Hurst 70 75, Katie Futcher 72 73, Karine Icher (Fra) 75 70, Marisa Baena 73 72, Vicky Hurst 74 71, Silvia Cavalleri (Ita) 74 71, Soo-Yun Kang (Kor) 73 72, Jimin Jeong 72 73, Hwa seon Lee (Kor) 75 70, Shi Hyun Ahn (Kor) 74 71, Sarah Lee 72 73, Jane Park 73 72, Johanna Mundy (Eng) 74 71, Anna Nordqvist (Swe) 72 73, Lisa Strom 73 72, Karin Sjodin (Swe) 72 73
MISSED THE CUT
146 Anja Monke (Ger) 73 73, Jill McGill 75 71, Il Mi Chung (Kor) 72 74, Paige Mackenzie 75 71, Heather Bowie young 71 75, Meena Lee (Kor) 72 74, Brandie Burton 73 73, Louise Stahle (Swe) 72 74, Song-Hee Kim (Kor) 77 69, Jeehae Lee (Kor) 71 75, Stephanie Louden 72 74, Laurie Brower 73 73, Ashleigh Simon (Rsa) 73 73, Mi-Hyun Kim (Kor) 74 72, Allison Hanna-Williams 71 75
147 Taylor Leon 71 76, Young-A Yang (Kor) 75 72, Christina Kim 75 72, Candie Kung (Tai) 72 75, Russy Gulyanamitta (Tha) 72 75, Anna Rawson (Aus) 73 74, Leta Lindley 73 74, Michelle Ellis 73 74, Carolina Llano 75 72, Momoko Ueda (Jpn) 73 74, Meg Mallon 72 75, Audra Burks 72 75, Hee Young Park (Kor) 71 76, Shanshan Feng (Chn) 72 75, Janice Moodie (Sco) 74 73
148 Michelle McGann 74 74, Mikaela Parmlid (Swe) 75 73, Hee-Won Han (Kor) 75 73, Amy Hung (Tha) 73 75, Laura Diaz 70 78, Erica Blasberg 76 72, Jeong Jang (Kor) 75 73, Katherine Hull (Aus) 71 77
149 Cheyenne Woods 75 74, Becky Iverson 75 74, Leah Wigger 76 73, Teresa Lu (Tai) 75 74, Louise Friberg (Swe) 76 73, Rachel Hetherington (Aus) 73 76, Jin young Pak (Kor) 72 77, Eva Dahllof (Swe) 74 75, Birdie Kim (Kor) 76 73, Kris Tschetter 70 79, Nicole Castrale 71 78
150 Jeanne Cho-Hunicke 75 75, Maggie Will 77 73, Eunjung Yi (Kor) 76 74, Na Ri Kim (Kor) 75 75
151 Eun Hee Ji (Kor) 80 71, Young Jo (Kor) 78 73, Moira Dunn 77 74
152 Jackie Gallagher-Smith 78 74, Jamie Hullett 77 75
154 Sung Ah Yim (Kor) 81 73, Kim Hall 78 76, Meredith Duncan 77 77, Marcy Hart 77 77
155 Cindy Rarick 77 78, Vicki Goetze-Ackerman 79 76
156 Sarah-jane Smith (Aus) 80 76
158 Mollie Fankhauser 81 77, Dorothy Delasin 76 82
WD: Paula Creamer 73, Charlotte Mayorkas 80
DQ: 142 Becky Lucidi 66 76

AIB LADIES IRISH OPEN at Portmarnock Links

Leona Maguire impresses playing

partner Laura Davies - and has a

better score!

FROM THE IRISHTIMES.COM WEBSITE
JOHN O'SULLIVAN at Portmarnock Links
Leona Maguire willed a downhill, sliding eight-foot par putt on the home green into the hole, the ball grabbing the right edge before eventually disappearing.
The 14-year-old, pictured right by Cal Carson Golf Agency, celebrated with a tiny fist pump, arguably her only animated gesture in the four-and-three-quarter hours it took to complete her first round in the AIB Ladies Irish Open at Portmarnock Links.
Signing for a two-over-par 74 represents a bald statistic that fails to capture the colour of the morning’s fare. From the moment the teenage Irish amateur strode to the first tee box to officially greet women’s golfing icon Laura Davies and the third member of the group, France’s Jade Schaeffer, she demonstrated remarkable self-possession for one so young.
There must have been a temptation to deviate from a deliberate pre-shot routine that demanded two practice swings on the tee and occasionally three from the fairway, especially when her playing companions struck the ball with no preamble, but it never wavered.
Cocooned by a singular focus, she appeared impervious to her surroundings, much to her credit.
She represented a poster girl for the virtues of hitting fairways and greens in regulation, the only aberration on the front nine an under-hit wedge to the par five fourth, that led to a bogey. A birdie on the sixth, where she played a glorious, 45-yard pitch-and-run to four feet saw her return to level par, a status she retained to the turn.
A bogey and a birdie in the first three holes of her back nine kept a gallery that seemed to increase by the minute enthralled. She demonstrated her mettle on the 13th by holing superbly from 12 feet for a double bogey seven, and although she dropped another shot to par on the 15th, an eight-foot birdie putt on the 161-yard 17th underlined her prowess with the putter.
Her 74 – twin sister Lisa shot 76 playing in the afternoon – equalled that of Schaeffer and was one better than Davies who, short game aside, struggled for accuracy.
Leona Maguire admitted: “I am pretty happy. It’s a great experience playing against a world-class golfer like Laura. Hopefully, I have learned a few things from today. I just really enjoyed myself.”
Any first-tee nerves?
“Well I played the pro event up in Templepatrick two years ago and kind of knew what it was going to be like. Yeah, I was a bit nervous. I got my tee-shot away fine so I was pretty happy.
“I kept the ball on the fairway a lot and she (Davies) was in the rough a lot, but her short game saved her and she got up and down a lot of the time: hopefully I can get my short game like that and maybe some day be good like her.”
Davies reciprocated the admiration.
“You can’t not be (impressed). She’s fabulous, hits it fairly straight and pretty long too. She will get longer and longer, and (hits) good irons. Her putting looks really solid and I can’t say much more really.”
Leona lies in 50th place with the top-60 players and ties after today’s second round playing a final 18 holes tomorrow.
Frenchwoman Julie Greciet and Sweden’s Maria Hjorth lead the field after posting five-under-par 67s by one shot from a sextet of pursuers and are two clear of another cluster of players that includes Ireland’s Martina Gillen.
A mammoth, 45-foot putt on the 17th green was the highlight of a round that included five birdies and just two dropped shots. She smiled when asked if she could go on to win the tournament.
“I don’t know,” Gillen said. “I’m just looking for another good, solid round and then take my chances on Sunday. I would not be thinking of winning at this stage, just getting three solid rounds in. I’m looking for consistency.
“You can be two or three under here and it can be gone in the blink of an eye. You have to be patient.”
Carlow’s Tara Delaney also climbed to three under at one point but had to settle for a fine two-under-the-card 70.
Leona Maguire is joined on two over by fellow amateur and Vagliano team member Danielle McVeigh, one shot clear of Rebecca Coakley, Hazel Kavanagh and Marian Riordan. Lisa Maguire shot 76, while Clare Coughlan Ryan and US-based amateur Stephanie Meadow were one shot further adrift on a benign day at the Portmarnock Links.
This article appears in the print edition of the Irish Times

US Duramed Futures Tour Scoreboard
$100,000 Horseshoe Casino Classic
Lost Marsh golf course, Hammond, Indiana
FIRST ROUND LEADERS
Par 72 (36-36) 6212yd
1 Mina Harigae (Monterey, Calif.) 34-31 - 65
2 Christina Jones (Jensen Beach, Fla.) 32-36 - 68
2 Sara Brown (Tucson, Ariz.) 35-33 - 68
2 Seo-Jae Lee (Seoul, South Korea) 37-31 - 68
5 Tzu-Chi Lin (Taichung, Taiwan) 36-33 - 69
5 Tanya Dergal (Durango, Mexico) 36-33 - 69
5 Jennifer Ackerson (Dallas, Texas) 35-34 - 69
5 Jean Reynolds (Newnan, Ga.) 32-37 - 69
9 Liz Janangelo (West Hartford, Conn.) 32-38 - 70
9 Maria Laura Elvira (Buenos Aires, Argentina) 38-32 - 70
9 Garrett Phillips (St. Simons Island, Ga.) 37-33 - 70
9 Chris Brady (Charlotte, N.C.) 35-35 - 70
9 Samantha Richdale (Kelowna, British Columbia) 36-34 - 70
9 Misun Cho (Cheongju, South Korea) 34-36 - 70
9 Stacey Bieber (Winnipeg, Manitoba) 34-36 - 70
16 Moah Chang (Los Angeles, Calif.) 34-37 - 71
16 Sarah Olsen (Grosse Ile, Mich.) 35-36 - 71
16 Christine Song (Fullerton, Calif.) 36-35 - 71
16 Whitney Myers (York, Pa.) 37-34 - 71
16 Lori Atsedes (Ithaca, N.Y.) 36-35 - 71
16 Pornanong Phatlum (Chaiyaphum, Thailand) 35-36 - 71
22 Taylore Karle (a) (Scottsdale, Ariz.) 35-37 - 72
22 Tiffany Tavee (Tempe, Ariz.) 39-33 - 72
22 Praewnapa Phol-Uayporn (Bangkok, Thailand) 36-36 - 72
22 Carling Coffing (Middletown, Ohio) 38-34 - 72
22 Sae Hee Son (Seoul, South Korea) 35-37 - 72
22 Lisa Ferrero (Lodi, Calif.) 36-36 - 72
22 Su A Kim (Seoul, South Korea) 35-37 - 72
22 Onnarin Sattayabanphot (Bangkok, Thailand) 36-36 - 72
22 Ashley Prange (Noblesville, Ind.) 37-35 - 72
22 Stephanie Otteson (Wilson, N.C.) 36-36 - 72
22 Jessica Shepley (Oakville, Ontario) 34-38 - 72
22 Nontaya Srisawang (Chiang Mai, Thailand) 37-35 - 72
22 Stephanie Kim (a) (Orlando, Fla.) 37-35 - 72
22 Jennie Lee (Henderson, Nev.) 37-35 - 72
22 Mo Martin (Altadena, Calif.) 38-34 - 72
22 Missie Berteotti (Pittsburgh, Pa.) 36-36 - 72
22 Jenny Gleason (Clearwater, Fla.) 36-36 - 72
22 Charlotte Campbell (Heathrow, Fla.) 35-37 - 72
40 Janell Howland (Boise, Idaho) 35-38 - 73
40 Devan Andersen (Guadalajara, Mexico) 38-35 - 73
40 Renee Skidmore (Everett, Wash.) 38-35 - 73
40 Tiffany Prats (Williston, Fla.) 37-36 - 73
40 Sunny Park (Sydney, Australia) 34-39 - 73
40 Tiffany Joh (San Diego, Calif.) 37-36 - 73
40 Benedikte Grotvedt (Nesbru, Norway) 37-36 - 73
40 Alison Walshe (Westford, Mass.) 37-36 - 73
40 Pernilla Lindberg (Bollnas, Sweden) 36-37 - 73
49 Elisa Serramia (Barcelona, Spain) 35-39 - 74
49 Kimberly Goedecke (Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.) 37-37 - 74
49 Laura Bavaird (Grosse Ile, Mich.) 38-36 - 74
49 Michelle Jarman (Wilmington, N.C.) 35-39 - 74
49 Mary J. Kim (Seoul, South Korea) 36-38 - 74
49 Nicole Jeray (Berwyn, Ill.) 38-36 - 74
49 Perry Swenson (Charlotte, N.C.) 36-38 - 74
49 Jill Frantz (Iowa City, Iowa) 37-37 - 74
49 Caroline Larsson (Stockholm, Sweden) 39-35 - 74
49 Jae Oh (Je Ju, South Korea) 38-36 - 74
49 Kim Augusta (Rumford, R.I.) 36-38 - 74
49 Song Yi Choi (Seoul, South Korea) 38-36 - 74
49 Carmen Bandea (Atlanta, Ga.) 37-37 - 74
49 Sam White (Potomac, Md.) 35-39 - 74
49 Amanda Mathis (Opelousas, La.) 36-38 - 74
49 Hannah Jun (San Diego, Calif.) 39-35 - 74
49 Libby Smith (Essex Junction, Vt.) 39-35 - 74
49 Kristie Smith (Perth, Australia) 39-35 - 74
67 Lehua Wise (Kauai, Hawaii) 38-37 - 75
67 Jasi Acharya (Columbus, Mont.) 38-37 - 75
67 Alejandra Shaw (Vina Del Mar, Chile) 39-36 - 75
67 Katie Miller (Jeannette, Pa.) 33-42 - 75
67 Carol Robertson (Virginia Beach, Va.) 39-36 - 75
67 Mallory Hetzel (Summerville, S.C.) 37-38 - 75
67 Sammi Sloan (a) (Lansing, Ill.) 39-36 - 75
67 Susan Nam (Edmonton, Alberta) 37-38 - 75
67 Camila Mori (Santiago, Chile) 37-38 - 75
67 Moon Su (Incheon, South Korea) 38-37 - 75
67 Meghan Little (Sturgis, S.D.) 37-38 - 75
67 Heather Angell (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 41-34 - 75
67 Danah Ford (Indianapolis, Ind.) 40-35 - 75
67 Sunny Oh (Manhattan Beach, Calif.) 34-41 - 75
67 Sofie Andersson (Angelholm, Sweden) 40-35 - 75
67 Jane Chin (Mission Viejo, Calif.) 36-39 - 75
67 Min Seo Kwak (Seoul, South Korea) 39-36 - 75
67 Christine Cho (Kent, Wash.) 37-38 - 75
67 Hwanhee Lee (Las Vegas, Nev.) 37-38 - 75
86 Aimee Cho (Orlando, Fla.) 37-39 - 76
86 Kylene Pulley (Kokomo, Ind.) 38-38 - 76
86 Dana Bates (Thousand Palms, Calif.) 41-35 - 76
86 Christine Boucher (Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec) 37-39 - 76
86 Elizabeth Stuart (Tampa, Fla.) 37-39 - 76
86 Violeta Retamoza (Aguascalientes, Mexico) 34-42 - 76
86 Blair Lamb (Flat Rock, N.C.) 37-39 - 76
86 Mary Kate Morgan (Longview, Wash.) 39-37 - 76
86 Angela Buzminski (Oshawa, Ontario) 36-40 - 76
86 Sophia Sheridan (Guadalajara, Mexico) 40-36 - 76
86 Whitney Wade (Glasgow, Ky.) 37-39 - 76
86 Victoria Kiser (a) (Orlando, Fla.) 39-37 - 76
86 Christi Cano (San Antonio, Texas) 40-36 - 76
86 Gina Umeck (Redlands, Calif.) 38-38 - 76
86 Jenny Suh (Fairfax, Va.) 41-35 - 76
86 Courtney Mahon (Lee's Summit, Mo.) 37-39 - 76
86 Yoora Kim (Seoul, South Korea) 39-37 - 76
86 Heather Burgner (Lakeland, Fla.) 32-44 - 76
86 Sin Ah Ham (Seoul, South Korea) 38-38 - 76
86 Dewi Claire Schreefel (Diepenveen, Netherland 39-37 - 76
86 Kim Welch (Sacramento, Calif.) 41-35 - 76
107 Stephanie Oukeo (Paris, France) 39-38 - 77
107 Ulrika Ljungman-Smith (Daytona Beach, Fla.) 40-37 - 77
107 Jessica Carafiello (Coral Springs, Fla.) 40-37 - 77
107 Lili Alvarez (Durango, Mexico) 38-39 - 77
107 Amanda Costner (Claremore, Okla.) 38-39 - 77
107 Cindy LaCrosse (Tampa, Fla.) 43-34 - 77
107 Lee Ann Walker-Cooper (Southport, N.C.) 35-42 - 77
107 Rebecka Heinmert (Hassleholm, Sweden) 39-38 - 77
107 Briana Vega (Andover, Mass.) 40-37 - 77
107 Kelly Froelich (Raizeux, France) 38-39 - 77
107 Molly Birmingham (Cornelius, N.C.) 37-40 - 77
107 Kelly Lagedrost (Brooksville, Fla.) 41-36 - 77
119 Juli Erekson (Chicopee, Mass.) 41-37 - 78
119 Lindsey Bergeon (Sarasota, Fla.) 38-40 - 78
119 Selanee Henderson (Apple Valley, Calif.) 40-38 - 78
122 Sookhee Baek (Altamonte Springs, Fla.) 40-39 - 79
122 Noon Huachai (Bangkok, Thailand) 40-39 - 79
122 Stephanie Connelly (Pasadena, Md.) 39-40 - 79
122 Ashley Knoll (The Woodlands, Texas) 41-38 - 79
122 Lauren Doughtie (Suffolk, Va.) 41-38 - 79
122 Esther Choe (Scottsdale, Ariz.) 39-40 - 79
128 Marcela Leon (Monterrey, Mexico) 39-41 - 80
128 Mayule Tomimbang (Kissimmee, Fla.) 39-41 - 80
128 Lisa Meldrum (Montreal, Quebec) 39-41 - 80
128 Gerina Mendoza (Roswell, N.M.) 43-37 - 80
128 Jenna Pearson (Wheaton, Ill.) 42-38 - 80
133 Katie Fraley (Brandenburg, Ky.) 40-41 - 81
133 Lilly Kobayashi (Santa Monica, Calif.) 40-41 - 81
135 Marlowe Boukis (Lutherville, Md.) 42-40 - 82
135 Ashley Grier (Hagerstown, Md.) 42-40 - 82
135 Yeon Joo Lee (Seoul, South Korea) 42-40 - 82
135 Stephanie George (Myerstown, Pa.) 39-43 - 82
139 Emma Calderone (Toronto, Ontario) 38-45 - 83
139 Kathryn O'Rourke (Holmes, N.Y.) 43-40 - 83
139 Lucy Nunn (Lawton, Okla.) 42-41 - 83
142 Jessica Yadloczky (a) (Casselberry, Fla.) 37-47 - 84
142 Susannah Aboff (Huntington, N.Y.) 42-42 - 84
W/D Malinda Johnson (Eau Claire, Wis.) WDI

Heather MacRae misses the cut at Gleneagles

Former British women's open amateur stroke-play champion Heather MacRae failed to beat the halfway cut in the Gleneagles Scottish PGA championship.
She had rounds of 75 and 81 for 156 - six shots too many to qualify but she still can feel proud of her effort.
Switch over to www.scottishgolfview.com for all the scores and the report.

Musselburgh player has hole in one on way to a 68

Vikki Laing leads Scots' challenge

in AIB Ladies' Irish Open

Vikki Laing, pictured right, from Musselburgh was challenging for the first-round lead with a good opening score of four-under-par 68 in the AIB Ladies Irish Open at Portmarnock links near Dublin today.

Vikki produced a shot of perfection - a hole in one at the short third.
Sweden’s Maria Hjorth is the joint leader with France’s Julie Greciet on five under par 67.
The 22-year-old Greciet, from Biarritz, set the clubhouse target at five-under 67 and was joined by Hjorth, who had her first daughter five months ago.

SCOREBOARD

Par 72

67 J Greciet (Fra), M Hjorth (Swe)

68 G Nocera (Fra), M Reid (Eng), V Laing (Sco), B Brewerton (Wal), M Eberl (Ger), D Luna (Ita).

69 L Hall (Wal), M Gillen (Ire).

70 S Head (Eng), L Jean (Aus), K Matharu (Eng), R Jennings (Eng) (am), N Reis (Swe), P Marti (Spa), E Zackrisson (Swe), S Giquel (Fra), T Delaney (Ire), F Parker (Eng).

Selected scores:

71 K Caithness (Sco), T Johnson (Eng).

72 G Simpson (Eng).

73 R Hudson (Eng), Lisa Hall (Eng).

74 K Walker (Sco) (am), Leona Maguire (Ire) (am), J Ewart (Eng) (am), D McVeigh (Ire) (am), J Pritchard (Wal), B Loucks (Wal), C L Aitken (Eng), S Walker (Eng), R W Thomas (Wal) (am) (jt 46th).

75 L Davies (Eng), H Aitchison (Eng), M Riordan (Ire), J Morley (Eng), H Kavanagh (Ire), F Johnson (Eng), R Coakley (Ire), L Kenny (Sco (jt 64th).

76 C Queen (Sco), H Zuel (Eng), Lisa Maguire (Ire) (am) (jt 83rd).

77 P Pretswell (Sco) (am), S Meadow (Ire) (am), L Fairclough (Eng), K Taylor (Eng), C Coughlan-Ryan (Ire) (jt 93rd).

78 H Barlow (Eng) (am), E Lyons (Eng) (jt 109th).

79 K Imrie (Sco), K S Taylor (Eng) (jt 115th).

80 P Feggans (Sco) (jt 121st).

81 S Watson (Sco) (am) (jt 126th).

STRONG FIELD FOR NORTH OF

SCOTLAND WOMEN’S

CHAMPIONSHIP

AT NEWMACHAR

Alford’s Laura Murray, Emily Ogilvy (Auchterarder) and Katy McNicoll (Carnoustie Ladies), all of whom play off +1, are the highest-rated players, on paper, in a numerically strong field of 82 for the North of Scotland women’s amateur golf championship over the Newmachar Golf Club’s Hawkshill course from July 6 to 8.
The three-day event opens with a qualifying stroke-play round and progresses into scratch and handicap match-play.
Laura Walker (Muckhart), pictured above by Cal Carson Golf Agency, and Jane Yellowlees (Murrayshall) are the only previous tournament winners in the field. Playing out of Nairn Dunbar, Laura beat Emily Ogilvy in the 2007 final at Lossiemouth while Jane beat Perth & Kinross team-mate Claire Meir (Muckhart) in the 2000 final at Glenisla.
Order of play in the qualifying round on July 6 is (players tee off mainly in threes at 8min intervals between groups):
9.0 L Murray (Alford), E Ogilvy (Auchterarder); K McNicoll (Carnoustie Ladies), A Ramsay (Kirriemuir), D Pocock (Murcar Links); K Sutherland (Royal Montrose), L Walker (Muckhart), R Wilson (Monifieth); M Johnstone (Northern), J Brown (Monifieth), H Anderson (Alyth).
9.32 G Murray (Cruden Bay), L Urquhart (Banchory), M Summers (Carnoustie Ladies); A Summers (Carnoustie Ladies), A Hunter (Monifieth); J Yellowleees (Murrayshall), G Dowling (Inverness), F Neish (Moray).
10.0 F Millar (Carnoustie Ladies), H McCook (Abernethy), D Butchart (Strathmore); F Blair (Carnoustie Ladies), J Grubb (Montrose Mercantile), S Murray (Murcar Links); L Terry (Cruden Bay), B Rivollier (Hazlehead), M Millership (Deeside); E Whyte (Aberdeen Ladies), L MacCallum (Newburgh on Ythan), L McGillivray (Banchory).
10.32 J Griffiths (Strathmore), K Stalker (Cruden Bay), C Prouse (Hazlehead); L Duncan (Aboyne), A Gowie (Inverness), E Mauchline (Newmachar); L Whyte (Hazlehead), K Esslemont (Cruden Bay), M Aird (Strathmore).
11.0 K MacCallum (Newburgh on Ythan), F Fullerton (Meldrum House),V Neish (Inverness); J Chalmers (Monifieth), R Roy (Ballater), K Teow (Deeside); E Aird (Strathmore), A Hope (Newmachar), J Wheeler (Aberdeen Ladies); C Whicher (Aberdeen Ladies), J Meek (Carnoustie Ladies), K Vannet (Pewterculter).
11.32 L Joss (Newmachar), L Webster (Aberdeen Ladies), S Belton (Kirriemuir); M Horn (Newmachar), S Bain (Abeerdeen Ladies), M Duncan (Aboyne); L Kelly (Newmachar), M Miller (Cruden Bay), S MacDonnell (Inverness).
12.0 Jacqueline Sneddon (Alyth), G Christie (Banchory), M Robinson (Murcar Links); Jennifer Sneddon (Alyth), R McLean (Cruden Bay), H Robb (Strathmore); M Roger (McDonald Ellon), S Richardson (Inchmarlo), S Bradley (Kirriemuir); M Grant (Banchory), F Martin (Kirriemuir), K McNab (Aberdeen Ladies);.
12.32 S Fenner (Strathmore), D Massie (Newmachar), W McNay (Banchory); R Keith (Newmachar), E Milne (Inchmarlo), J Groom (Strathmore); E Keown (Banchory), J Pritchard (Newmachar), R McGeoghegan (Strathmore).

Leader Sandra Gall plays chess during

rain delay in LPGA Tour event

What do LPGA players do during a rain delay? Comb their hair? Powder their noses? None of that if your name is Sandra Gal.
The Germany hunge loose over a game of chess and resumed later to shoot an -under 64 to lead Jiyai Shin by one stroke before darkness suspended first-round play at the Wegmans LPGA at Rochester, New York State on Thursday.
An afternoon storm packing hail, lightning and torrential rain interrupted the tournament for three hours at the tree-lined Locust Hill Country Club course in suburban Rochester. Poor light then ended play with 30 players unable to finish their round.
Becky Lucidi was in third place at six under through 15 holes. Kristy McPherson and Michele Redman were tied for fourth place with 5-under 67s.
Tiger Woods' 18-year-old niece, Cheyenne, carded a 75 in her pro tour debut, which came courtesy of a sponsor exemption.
The 24-year-old Gal, in her second year on tour, finished with a 15-foot birdie putt for a career-best round. Her best finish was a tie for fifth at last month's Corning Classic.
"This year I think I'm improving every month and, yeah, it's just a way up there," Gal said. "Sometimes it doesn't go quick and you got to take one step at a time."
Starting on the back nine, Gal ran up five consecutive birdies before play was suspended. She said she joked with her caddie, then played chess with her father, Jan.
"We're not done yet," she said. "I had a few checks there from him but I got out of it."
When play restarted, she two-putted for another birdie on No. 17 and sank an 8-foot birdie putt on No. 1.
"At first I thought, it's a pity we're stopping. But then I said, come on, it's just a new start, a fresh round, and see how low we can go."
"I just got something to eat and talked to a few people," said Shin, who picked up four birdies on her back nine. "I just felt really confident because my putter was very good today."
Shin picked up her first LPGA victory at the HSBC Women's Champions event in Singapore in early March and was runner-up behind Karrie Webb in the J Golf LPGA International three weeks later.
Tied for sixth at 68 were Diana D'Alessio, Morgan Pressel, Brandi Jackson, Haeji Kang and Stacy Lewis, who three-putted from 7 feet on No. 18.
Michelle Wiewas among a dozen players at 3-under.
Defending champion Ji Eun-hee bogeyed nine of the first 14 holes and carded an 8-over 80.
Lewis reached 6-under with birdies on Nos. 16 and 17, then missed a tap-in for bogey on the last hole.
"To throw one away like that, it makes me pretty mad," she said.
Woods finished with a bogey but was still confident about making amends on Friday.
"I gotta prove myself out here," she said with a smile strikingly similar to her famous uncle's. "So tomorrow I'll have to come back out and do a little better. My goal is to make the cut."
The $2 million tournament drew 18 of the season's top 20 money winners, including No. 1 Cristie Kerr, who shot 75. Absent is Lorena Ochoa, the world's top-ranked player, and Suzann Pettersen, who was runner-up here last June.

FIRST-ROUND LEADERBOARD
(Several players still to complete round)
Par 72. 6365yd
1. Sandra Gal 64 (-8)
2. Jiyai Shin 65 (-7)
3. Becky Lucidi -6 after 15 holes
4. Kristy McPherson 67
4. Michele Redman 67
6. Brandi Jackson 68
6. Diana D'Alessio 68
6. Haeji Kang 68
6. Stacy Lewis 68
6. Morgan Pressel 68
11. Reilley Rankin 69
11. Karen Stupples 69
11. Mindy Kim 69
11. Se Ri Pak 69
11. Michelle Wie 69
11. Ji Young Oh 69
11. Helen Alfredsson 69
11. Mika Miyazato 69
11. Na Yeon Choi 69
11. Amy Yang 69
11. Jennifer Rosales -3 after 17
22. Anna Grzebien 70
22. Amanda Blumenherst 70
22. Hye Jung Choi 70
22. Wendy Ward 70
22. Brittany Lincicome 70
22. Pat Hurst 70
22. Laura Diaz 70
22. Minea Blomqvist 70
22. Jeehae Lee -2 after 17
22. Beth Bader -2 after 17
22. Kris Tschetter -2 after 15
22. M.J. Hur -3 after 13
22. Sarah Kemp -2 after 13
22. Alena Sharp -2 after 14
Selected scores:
36. Becky Morgan 71
55. Anna Nordqvist 72
69. Paula Creamer
69. Janice Moodie -1 after 14
95. Johanna (Head) Mundy 74

MacRae sets the Heather on fire to be lying joint

35th in a field 158 male professionals

Heather MacRae, playing over one of the toughest courses in Scotland and the only female in a field of 159, did very well indeed in the first round of the Gleneagles Scottish PGA championship today.
She had a three-over-par 75 to be lying joint 35th. The top 50 and ties after 36 holes will contest the weekend's two rounds.
Switch over to our other website, www.scottishgolfview.com, to read all about it and check ALL the first-day scores.

MACKIE BOWL – CLOSING DATE FOR ENTRIES 6TH JULY

Entries for the Mackie Bowl (a SLGA Order of Merit event) should be submitted by 6th July. This 36 hole competition takes place on Sunday 26th July over Gullane No. 1 and is open to Category 1 and Category 2 golfers. Entry forms are available for download from the SLGA website and further information is available from Anne Brownie at apbrownie@blueyonder.co.uk .

Sheena McElroy defends Irish seniors' close

championship at Ardee next week

NEWS RELEASE ISSUED BY IRISH LADIES GOLF UNION
Defending champion Sheena McElroy (nee O’Brien Kenney) from will seek her second consecutive title when competitors tee it up at the ILGU’s Senior Women’s Close Championship at Ardee Golf Club from Tuesday, June 30 to Friday, July 3.
Past internationals Mary McKenna (Donabate), Phil O’Gorman (Laytown/Bettystown), Helen Jones (Strabane), Mary Gorry (Baltinglass), Rhona Brennan (Bandon) and Rita McGoldrick (Enniscrone) will join Mary Madden (Balinasloe), Marilyn Henderson (West Rhine), Valerie Hassett (Ennis) and Niamh Giblin (Dun Laoghaire) as a handful of players most likely to pose the greatest threat to McElroy’s title defence.
Competitors will play 18 holes over the parkland lay-out, using a mixture of ladies and men's tees, on Tuesday and Wednesday with the top 16 qualifying for match-play on Thursday and Friday.
An additional incentive for the field this year will be the valuable Order of Merit points on offer for selection to the Senior Women’s European Team Championships to be held at Dun Laoghaire in early September. Roma English (Larne) will captain the side while Mary Gorry (Baltinglass) has been appointed manager.
Draw for next Tuesday and Wednesday's qualifying rounds at Ardee Golf Club:
10:00 & 11:30 Patricia O'Reilly (Headfort), Madeline Brennan (Carlow), Carmel Cahill (Hermitage).
10:10 & 11:40 Mary McCabe (Headfort), Helen O'Donoghue (Clonmel), Kath Stewart-Moore (Royal Portrush).
10:20 & 11:50 Finola Duncan (Bangor), Fionnuala McGrady (Dunmurry),Trudy Brosnan (Kanturk).
10:30 & 12:00 Niamh Giblin (Dun Laoghaire), Valerie Hassett (Ennis), Mary McKenna (Donabate).
10:40 & 12:10 Judy Clarke (Royal Portrush), Helen Thornton (Ardee), Gemma Jennings (Navan).
10:50 & 12:20 Helen Jones (Strabane), Sheena McElroy (Grange), Phil O'Gorman (Laytown/Bettystown).
11:00 & 12:30 Gill Rouiller (Mannan Castle), Mary Geaney (Killarney), Valerie James (Bangor). 11:10 & 12:40 Mary Gorry (Baltinglass), Mary Madden (Ballinasloe), Kathleen Hynes (Ardee).
11:30 & 10:00 Catherine Reilly (The Heath), Pauline Walsh (Headfort), Marilyn Henderson (Castlerock).
11:40 & 10:10 Iris Smyth (Bangor), Julie Barkman (Nenagh), Sheila Roche (Ardee).
11:50 & 10:20 Patsy McCarthy (Grange), Mary Kidney (Headfort), Geraldine Woods (Ardee). 12:00 & 10:30 Rita McGoldrick (Enniscrone), Mairead MacNamara (Woodbrook), Catherine Bird (Nenagh).
12:10 & 10:40 Denise O'Sullivan (Hermitage), Jane Gardner (Malone), Kay McCartan (Greenore).
12:20 & 10:50 Noreen Granard (Portarlington), Roma English (Larne), Val Shannon (Douglas). 12:30 & 11:00 Mary McGoey (Greenore), Violet McBride (Belvoir Park), Rhona Brennan (Bandon).
12:40 & 11:10 Sally Casey (Seapoint), Pamela Morgan (Lahinch), Olivia Conroy (Co Longford).

From Graeme Thomson,

father of LET player Michele Thomson

I see an article in the P&J online suggesting Michele is playing in Ireland this weekend. I, along with Michele, wish it were true. Because of the high number of amateur invites, 11 I believe, Michele dropped to 3rd reserve.

Seems the sponsors are calling the shots over there rather than the LET.

Disappointing because Michele moved up 12 places in the rankings after her fine start which means she should play all the tournaments from here on in.

The tournament in Ireland is very popular and anyone who is anyone has entered, obviously because the prize money is good.

Michele's next start is Norway next week and then on to Spain.

Isn't it ironic, Westerberg wins the last LET event and Nordqvist wins an LPGA major, yet the LET have confirmed that they have lost this year,s Swedish event because of a lack of sponsors. Shows we are still very much in a recession.

Graham Thomson

EDITOR'S NOTE: Thanks for the inside-track information, Graham.

Draw for Scottish Under-18 girls' championship

qualifying rounds at Lanark Golf Club

Order of play in the qualifying rounds on Tuesday, July 14 for the match-play stages of the Scottish Under-18 girls (close) amateur championship at Lanark Golf Club is:

8.00 & 13.00 Jennifer Hide (Royal Norwich), Lesley Atkins (Minto).
8.08 & 13.08 Annabel Niven (Crieff), Eilidh Briggs (Kilmacolm), Gabrielle MacDonald (Craigielaw).
8.16 & 13.16 Jordana Graham (Southerness), Gillian Simpson (Murrayfield), Samantha Leslie (Westhill).
8.24 & 13.24 Hannah McCook (Abernethy), Alysn McKechin (Elderslie), Rachael Taylor (Bad Griesbach).
8.32 & 13.32 Jill Meldrum (Dullatur), Sammy Vass (Tain), Rachael Watton (Mortonhall).
8.40 & 13.40 Louise McGillivray (Banchory), Ailsa Summers (Carnoustie Ladies), Cara Easton (Dalmahoy).
8.48 & 13.48 Gemma Dryburgh (Beaconsfield), Ailsa Bain (Peebles), Rachel Hanlon (St Regulus).
8.56 & 13.56 Katylyn Kennedy (Inverrary), Sophie Alexander (Deeside), Katie McIntosh (Broomieknowe).
9.12 & 14.12 Keren Ward (Glen), Kristin Scott (Milngavie), Emily Aird (Strathmore).
9.20 & 14.20 Natasha Qayum (Ranfurly Castle), Julie Vass (Tain), Linsey Stevenson (Elie & Earlsferry).
9.28 & 14.28 Fiona Fulleton (Meldrum House), Claire Prouse (Hazlehead), Lauren Duncan (Aboyne).
9.36 & 14.36 Katie Reid (Monifieth), Lesley Cosh (Cowglen), Kirsten MacCallum (Newburgh-on
9.44 & 14.44 Jemma Chalmers (Monifieth), Clara Young (North Berwick), Tara MacTaggart (Minto).
9.52 & 14.52 Megan Clyne (Deeside), Ashley Ann Alston (Royal Montrose), Mhairi McKay (West Kilbride).
10.00 & 15.00 Nicola Taylor (Dunnikier Park), Louise Smith (Monifieth), Megan Aird (Strathmore).
10.08 & 15.08 Samantha Munro (Aberdour), Alison Goodwin (Glenbervcie), Kimberley Beveridge (Aboyne).
10.24 & 15.24 Heather Munro (Monifieth), Rachel Polson (Peterculter), Katie McCracken (Powfoot).
10.32 & 15.32 Hannah Scott (Broomieknowe), Amy Taylor (Kirriemuir), Helen Goodwin (Glenbervie).
10.40 & 15.40 Erin Millar (Pitlochry), Jessie Meek (Carnoustie Ladies), Gail Wilson (Monifieth).
10.48 & 15.48 Eilidh Watson (Muckhart), Kristina Vannet (Peterculter), Shannen McGuire.
10.56 & 15.56 Seren Anderson (Deeside), Emma Hale (Troon Bentinck), Alexis Hutton (Falkirk Tryst).
11.04 & 16.04 Rachel Irvine (Largs, Eleanor Tunn (Reay), Katie McGarva (Troon Ladies).
11.12 & 16.12 Lauren Dambrosio (Carluke), Connie Jaffrey (West Kilbride), Kirsty Simpson (Murrayfield).
11.20 & 16.20 Megan Duff (Hilton Park), Abigail Gliksten (Strathaven), Catherine Small (Craigielaw).
11.28 & 16.48 Shannon McWilliam (Aboyne), Alexandra Qayum (Ranfurly Castle), Catherine Goodwin (Glenbervie).

Seniors' tee times at Kinross next Tuesday

Order of play in the first round of the Scottish senior women's (close) amateur championship over the Montgomery course at Kinross on Tuesday, June 30 is:
8.30
Suzanne Cadden (Cardross), Heather Anderson (Alyth).
8.40
Jill Harrison (Cruden Bay), Helen Faulds (Douglas Park).
8.50
Margaret Tough (Falkirk), Pamela Williamson (Baberton), Sheila Cuthbertson (Peebles).
9.00
Ann Smart (Banchory), Karen Ballantyne (Craigmillar Park), Lesley Johnson (Gullane Ladies).
9.10
Frances Neish (Forres), May Hughes (Lanark), Sue Penman (Gullane Ladies).
9.20
Janice Paterson (Drumpellier), Patricia Hutton (Lanark), Rose Anderson (Huntly).
9.30
Gillian Wallace (Glenisla), Mary Smith (Tain), Anna Telfer (Milngavie).
9.40
Kathleen Sutherland (Royal Montrose), Fiona Hunter (Baberton), Fiona de Vries (St Rule).
9.50
Noreen Fenton (Dunbar), Moira Thomson (Gullane Ladies), Lorna Bennett (Ladybank).
10.00
Jennifer Mack (Haggs Castle). Shelagh Quinn (Stirling), Alex Glennie (Kilmarnock Barassie).
10.10
Tricia Chillas (Stirling), Pat Wilson (Murcar Links), Lynne Terry (Cruden Bay).
10.20
Linda McDougall (Greenock), Norma Smith (Downfield), Mary Hope (Blairgowrie).
10.30
Maureen Neilson (Greenock), Rita Dee (Kingsknowe), Emma Wilson (Elie & Earlsferry Ladies).
10.40
Mairi Pollock (Craigmillar Park), Sandy Bushby (Strathmore), Isobel Harvey (St Rule).
10.50
Morag Wardrop (Niddry Castle), Carol Fell (Ranfurly Castle), Maureen McRobb (Kingsknowe).
11.00
Winifred MacCallum (Falkirk), Marion Stewart (Kilmacolm), Ann Moffat (St Regulus).
11.10
Sheila Hartley (Braehead), Morag Clapperton (Banchory), Moira Begbie (Ladybank).
11.20
Rena Duncan (Kinross), Fiona Roger (Ranfurly Castle), Anabel Kane (Kilmacolm).
11.30
Catherine Bryce (Ballater), Lyn Murray (Kinross), Fiona Crawford (Shiskine).
11.40
Fran Gibson (Ballater), Hazel Kelly (Ladies Panmure Barry), Rose Graham (Stirling).
11.50
Pat Nile (Banchory), Joy Robertson (Lundin Ladies), Helen MacGregor (Hilton Park).

New Midland Vet Elaine wins Donaldson Quaich

SVLGA (Midland) SUMMER MEETING at Leven Links

CSS77 (r/o) 63 players.

Donaldson Quaich (best nett) E. Allison (Stirling) 78-6=72

1st Scratch L. Bennett (Ladybank) 76
2nd Scratch F. de Vries (St. Rule) 78

Div.1 E. Allison (Stirling) 78-6 =72
J. Ritchie (Auchterarder) 86-10=76 bih
A. Chisholm (Dunfermline) 85-8=77

Div.2 D. Davidson (Stirling) 92-16=76
R. Graham (Stirling) 93-14=79
K. Jarvie (Auchterarder) 96-15=81

Div.3 P. Kelly (Dunblane New) 98-24=74
M. McLeod (Dunblane New ) 98-22=76

Championship Qualifiers: L. Bennett, F. de Vries, M. Tough,
J. Ritchie, G. Wallace, M. Hope, N. Fleming, E. Wilson.

Qtr. Finals:
L. Bennett bt E. Wilson 5/4; G. Wallace bt. J. Ritchie 5/4;
M. Tough bt. M. Hope 3/1; F. de Vries bt. N. Fleming at 19th

[Thanks to alison Houston for this report]

Everyone's a winner at the Paul Lawrie

Foundation event at Inverurie!

By MURRAY CARNIE
ORGANISER OF PAUL LAWRIE FOUNDATION EVENTS

INVERURIE FLAG
SUNDAY, JUNE 21
Another outstanding day at Inverurie with Ben Green narrowly pipping Michael Lawrie at the 10th green to take the U12 boys' gold medal.
Jasmine MacIntosh continued her good form to take the gold medal in the U10 girls' section for the second week running.
Next week we move onto Newburgh where there are still a few places available.
Flag medal winners:
Boys U12
1st - Ben Green
2nd - Michael Lawrie
3rd - Steaphan Connell
Boys U10
1st - Tom Flaherty
2nd - Cameron Carnegie
3rd - Adam Smith
Girls U12
1st - Rachael Cobb
Girls U10
1st - Jasmine Macintosh
2nd - Kirsten Watson
3rd - Emma Logie

INVERURIE STABLEFORD
SUNDAY, JUNE 21
With the golf course in great shape and the sun shining the scene was set for an exciting day's golf. Nine-year-old Tyler Ogston, a regular flag winner, opted for the Stableford event last Sunday.
The 25 handicapper from Nigg Bay played some excellent golf to win the event with 44 points. He was four points clear of Calum Morrison (Inverurie) and five ahead of Scott Ramage (Inverurie), Jason Banks (Oldmeldrum) and Ben Henderson (Deeside).

BOYS
Par 66. SSS 67. CSS 66.
GIRLS
Par 70. SSS 71. CSS 74 (reduction only)

1 Tyler Ogston (Nigg Bay) (25) 44pt
2 Calum Morrison (Inverurie) (21) 40pt.
3 Scott Ramage (Inverurie) (23) 39t (better inward half).
4 Jason Banks (23) 39pt.
5 Ben Henderson (13) 39pt.

Other points scores:
D Smith 38, J Flaherty 37, S Kiloh 36, F McPherson 36, G Carrell 35, T Sievwright 35, C Prudence 35, A Fisher 34, Z Marr 34, M Carrell 32, K Pryde 32, K Taylor 31, E Roberston 30, G Kinnear 29, S Singer 29, K Spence 29, L Watson 24, R Grieve 22.

Fraser Munro of the Ladies Golf Union, Europe's Solheim Cup skipper Alison Nicholas and GB&I Vagliano Trophy team captain Mary McKenna with the nine players selected to play against the Continent of Europe (image by courtesy of the LET website).

Alison Nicholas presents GB&I Vagliano Trophy team

with their international caps at Portmarnock

FROM THE LADIES EUROPEAN TOUR WEBSITE

By BETHAN CUTLER
The 2009 European Solheim Cup Captain, Alison Nicholas, presented the seven new Great Britain & Ireland players, in the team of nine selected for the Vagliano Trophy, with their international caps in a special ceremony at Portmarnock Links, ahead of the AIB Ladies Irish Open.
All nine members of the team, who are due to play against the Continent of Europe at Hamburg Golf Club, Germany, on Friday 24th and Saturday 25th July, attended the presentation.
They were then treated to a team talk by Nicholas, who was invited by the GB&I captain, Mary McKenna, with manager Tegwen Matthews and an LGU representative, Fraser Munro, by her side.
On Thursday, the team will play a practice round at Killeen Castle, venue for the 2011 Solheim Cup, following a round at Portmarnock Links on Wednesday. They will tee up in the AIB Ladies Irish Open, supported by Fáilte Ireland, on Friday.
McKenna said: " We enjoyed a nice, easy, relaxed practise round at Portmarnock and it’s a fabulous golf course. It’s a fantastic opportunity for the girls to play in this event and we appreciate the invitations. It’s a great experience for them to test themselves against the best. "

The GB&I Vagliano team is:
JODI EWART (Catterick), Age 21
RACHEL JENNINGS (Izaak Walton), Age 20
LEONA MAGUIRE (Slieve Russell), Age 14
LISA MAGUIRE (Slieve Russell), Age 14
DANIELLE McVEIGH (Royal Co Down Ladies), Age 21
PAMELA PRETSWELL (Bothwell Castle), Age 20
RHIAN WYN THOMAS (Vale of Glamorgan), Age 22
KYLIE WALKER (Buchanan Castle), Age 22
SALLY WATSON (Elie & Earlsferry), Age 17
Making history as the youngest ever to be selecte

d to play for the combined Great Britain & Ireland team are the 14-year-old twins from County Cavan in Ireland, Lisa and Leona Maguire.
Leona will play with England’s Laura Davies and France’s Jade Schaeffer in the first two rounds of the tournament, while Lisa will play with Swede Maria Hjorth and Frenchwoman Anne-Lise Caudal.

Scottish champion Megan Briggs wins all six Strathaven ties

We are the champions! Renfrewshire team with the West Division championship trophy. Image by courtesy of Carol Fell.

Renfrewshire rule the

West Division again

Renfrewshire beat Dunbartonshire & Argyll 6 1/2-2 1/2 in the decisive match between the two teams with 100 per cent records going into the final day of the West Division women's inter-county team golf championship at Strathaven Golf Club today.
That meant Renfrewshire topped the table for the second year in a row and will go to Baberton Golf Club, Edinburgh in September (19-21) as West's representatives in the four-cornered contest for the Scottish women's county championship.
Ayrshire came back from losing the foursomes 2-1 to beat Lanarkshire 5-4 in the battle between the teams who had lost both their first two matches.
Renfrewshire had the player of the tournament in Scottish champion Megan Briggs (Kilmacolm), pictured above, winner of all six foursomes and singles ties she played. In the final set of singles, Megan beat former Curtis Cup player and past champion Anne Laing (Vale of Leven) by 2 and 1. It was Anne's first singles defeat of the tournament.
Renfrewshire had the strength in depth their rivals lacked. Clare-Marie Carlton (Fereneze) was close behind Megan Briggs in the points table, earning 5 1/2 out of a possible six.
Jill Meldrum (Dullatur) top scored for runners-up Dunbartonshire with 4 1/2pt.
Final placings - 1 Renfrewshire 6pt, 2 Dunbartonshire & Argyll 4pt, 3 Ayrshire 2pt, 4 Lanarkshire 0pt.

Wednesday match details:

DUNBARTONSHIRE & ARGYLL 2 1/2, RENFREWSHIRE 6 1/2
Foursomes (1-2)

Anne Laing & Jill Meldrum lost to Eilidh Briggs & Megan Briggs 5 and 4

Nichola Ferguson & Lorraine Campbell bt Donna Jackson & Liz Stewart 1 hole

Suzanne Cadden & Laura McGeachy lost to Clare-Marie Carlton & Gillian Kyle 3 and 2
Singles (1 1/2-4 1/2)

Laing lost to Megan Brggs 2 and 1

Ferguson lost to Carlton 6 and 4

Meldrum halved with Eilidh Briggs

Cadden lost to Jackson 6 and 5

McGeachy lost to Kyle 3 and 2

Helen Faulds bt Carol Whyte 7 and 5

LANARKSHIRE 4, AYRSHIRE 5
Foursomes (2-1)

Fiona Norris & Susan Wood bt Lesley Hendry & Rachael McQueen 1 hole

May Hughes & Lesley Lloyd bt Jenny Linklater & Alex Glennie 1 hole

Elaine Cuthill & Joanna Scott lost to Audrey Thompson & Liz Keohone 3 and 2
Singles (2-4)

Norris bt Hendry 1 hole

Wood lost to Catherine Malcolm 3 and 1

Cuthill lost to Thompson 1 hole

Scott lost to McQueen 1 hole

Ruth Rankin lost to Linklater 4 and 2

Angela Devine lost to Lesley Williamson 1 hole

Euro Junior Cup at three Fife courses,

Charleton, Crail, Ladybank July 29-31

Perhaps the most notable international event the International Junior Golf Tour competes in each year is the Euro Junior Golf Cup, formerly known as the World Junior Golf Cup.
Players will travel to Fife and compete on three challenging links and parkland style courses, ultimately providing the opportunity to make some history of their own at the home of golf. Developed in 1998, juniors from three countries - the IJGT's Team USA, Canadian Junior Golf Association's Team Canada, and the Fife Golf Union's Team Scotland - play in a Triangular Cup match-play format for the John Clark Trophy
The competition courses are:
Charleton Golf Club. Set in stunning parkland with spectacular panoramic views over the Firth of Forth, is acclaimed to be the most attractive golf course in Fife. Proving to be a challenge to ones short game Charleton is most known for its difficult greens.
Crail Golf Club (Craighead Links). One of the world's oldest golf clubs, Crail Golfing Society was founded in February 1786 and initially comprised membership of 11 local golfers. Craighead Links has panoramic seascape and stunning country views. Crail poses a testing but fair challenge, however be warned - there are hungry bunkers aplenty. No two consecutive holes face the same direction and with constantly changing conditions, there is enough of a variety of shots to test any golfer’s ability.
Ladybank Golf Club. A course of championship status (Par 71) set among heather, pine trees and silver birch. The course definition may have changed dramatically in the intervening one hundred years but its character remains intact. If you stray off line expect to be punished for your sins. Ladybank is also well acclaimed due to their involvement with many prestigious events.
The event will run from July 29 to 31.

Angus Cappi makes it

five in a row for

Kirriemuir coach

Karyn Dallas

Angus Cappi’s win in the Golf Data Lab Scottish youths championship at the weekend meant that for five straight years a player coached by Kirriemuir Golf Club professional Karyn Dallas, pictured above, had won either a Scottish or British championship.
In the early days as a female coach Karyn was often frustrated at the lack of male players coming for coaching but over the past two years things have changed and the victory by Carnoustie Golf Club member Cappi hid the fact that another Dallas-coached player, William Bremner from Edzell, finished two shots behind in third position.
The girls on Dallas’s programme are showing what can be achieved with two earning tour cards and in the recent fifth place for Pamela Feggans in the Ladies Portuguese Open.
Dallas now has four boys and four girls on her elite programme and is expecting three to head for tour school this year.
Dallas, one of the few coaches ever to graduate from the PGA with an “A” for swing knowledge, was frustrated by criticism early in her career for being too simplistic and not placing enough emphasis on swing development.
Karyn always refuted this, pointing out that some of the best players in the world have unusual swings and that a coach had to be able to adapt to the players and not the other way around if the players were to maximise their potential.
Who can disagree? Her achievements speak for themselves but Karyn is keen to point out that there is much still to be done.
For more information on Karyn Dallas’s work you can visit her website http://www.tg54.com/

Galloway win South Division title
Galloway won the South Division women's inter-county team championship and will be heading for Baberton Golf Club, Edinburgh as one of the four qualifiers for the Scottish women's county championship finals.
Galloway finished on 10.5 points, Dumfriesshire 8.5 points and Borders 8 points at Wigtownshire Golf Club.
Results of matches:
Galloway bt Dumfries-shire 5.5 to 3.5.
Dumfries-shire bt Borders 5 -4.
Galloway bt Borders 5 - 4.

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Lorena Ochoa looking to recover form

with new caddie

It's been a few weeks since Lorena Ochoa, the world's No 1 female golfer, won a tournament so what does she do about it?
Change her caddie, of course! Isn't he the guy who gives her the clubs and she's the one who actually uses them?
The 26-time LPGA Tour winner is switching to veteran Greg Johnston starting next week at the Jamie Farr Classic in Ohio.
Ochoa won two majors and reached No. 1 in the world with Englishman David Brooker as her bag man, but she said yesterday that they are parting because of a new phase in her career.
She did not elaborate on what would be happening in the "new phase."
"It's not easy to let him go knowing he is such a great caddie and person," Ochoa said.
Johnston spent a dozen years working for Juli Inkster, and together they won 20 times, inclduing four majors. He left Inkster to work for Michelle Wie when she was 15 and had at least a share of the lead on the back nine of three majors. He also has worked for Britanny Lincicome, Suzanne Pettersen and Angel Park.

BETH BALDY WRITES ON THE GOLFWEEK WEBSITE:
Lorena Ochoa has fired David Brooker, her caddie of nearly three years.
Brooker fractured his ankle during an organised soccer match at the Corona Championship in April and tried to make a comeback two weeks ago at the McDonald’s LPGA Championship. He carried the bag for one round before enlisting the help of long-time caddie Greg Johnston to finish the week.
Ochoa now has hired Johnston full-time.
“It came as a shock to me because I haven’t really been working lately,” said Brooker, who hoped to make his return in July at the Evian Masters. “Things seemed fine before my injury. Obviously that didn’t help the situation.”
Ochoa won twice with Brooker on the bag this season, first in Thailand and then in Mexico, although her instructor, Rafael Alarcon, worked the final round of the Corona after Brooker’s injury.
Brooker, 35, of England, began working with Ochoa in August 2006, and they won their first week together at the Wendy’s Championship for Children. Ochoa won 21 of 58 events with Brooker on the bag.
“I know Lorena is going through a lot of changes right now,” Brooker said. “But I didn’t think one would be me.”

Stephanie Kono leads US Public Links qualifiers

Stephanie Kono made six birdies Tuesday in a four-under-par 68 to earn medalist (leading qualifier) honours at the US Women’s Amateur Public Links championship.
The 19-year-old Kono, who completed her freshman year at UCLA in the spring, ended the stroke-play qualifying at Red Tail Golf Club in Devens, Massachusetts at six-under 138.
Annie Park, 14, is second at 139.
Also moving into match play are USC stand-outs Lizette Salas (T-8) and Golfweek’s Women’s Player of the Year Jennifer Song (T-12), 2006 U.S. Women’s Amateur champion Kimberly Kim (T-25), and Auburn All-Americans Cydney Clanton (T-8) and Candace Schepperle (T-29).
Song was last year’s runner-up. Salas was last year’s joint leading qualifier for the match-play stages.
LEADING QUALIFIERS.
Par 144 (2x72) 6,627yd
1. Stephanie Kono 70-68--138
2. Annie Park 70-69--139
3. Whitney Neuhauser 71-69--140
4. Brittany Altomare 71-70--141
4. Alice Kim 69-72--141
4. Joanna Coe 70-71--141
4. Caroline Kim 72-69--141
8. Lizette Salas 68-74--142
8. Cydney Clanton 69-73--142
8. Sara-Maude Juneau 69-73--142
8. Leanne Bowditch 71-71--142
Sixty-four qualifiers down to and including 152

Beaten finalists Cults Academy (left to right): V Powell, R Polson, E Robertson, J Pryde, C Sutherland, R Yule.

Champions Aberdeen Grammar School (left to right): Back - A Burr, A Anderson, N Macandrew (holding trophy), W Rennie, C Johnstone, L Kinnear. Front - deputy head teacher Helen Innes, invited into the picure by the players in recognition of her hard work behind the scenes (images by courtesy of Derek Johnstone).

Grammar School beat Cults Academy

to win Aberdeen Schools League

By DEREK JOHNSTONE
Aberdeen Grammar School claimed the Aberdeen Schools’ League Trophy after a narrow 2-1 win over Cults Academy at a mist-shrouded Hazlehead No 1 course last night.
It was the experienced Grammar School team’s third win in five years, having previously won the trophy in 2005 and 2007. Nick Macandrew, in captaining his team to victory, became the first player in the history of the competition to gain three winners’ medals.
Nick, partnered by William Rennie, set the foundation to the victory with a two-hole victory over Evan Robertson and Calum Sutherland. In a tight affair the Grammar pair found themselves one down after six holes, but birdies at 9 and 11 put them in the ascendancy.
The Cults pairing drew level at the 15th, where both Grammar players lost a ball in the trees, but immediately fell behind at the next to Nick’s tap-in birdie. The 17th was halved in birdies before a conceded par at the last gave the Grammar duo a two-hole win.
An overall Grammar victory was assured when their third pairing of Cameron Johnstone and Ashley Anderson proved too strong for Ross Yule and Vicki Powell. The Cults pairing got off to a flyer by winning the first with a par. However their joy was short-lived as the Grammar pairing fought back to be two up after eight holes. Birdies at 9 and 10 extended their lead, and, with pars at the remaining holes, they closed out the match on the 15th.
The final tie proved to be a tense affair before the Cults pairing of Rachel Polson and Jamie Pryde scraped through by one hole against Lewis Kinnear and Andrew Burr. Never behind in the tie and two up after six holes, Rachel and Jamie could not shake off their dogged opponents. The Grammar pairing levelled the tie with pars at 14 and 15 before Jamie holed from 10 feet for birdie on the next. Pars at the last 2 holes secured a hard-fought victory.
Match details:
CULTS ACADEMY 1, ABERDEEN GRAMMAR SCHOOL 2
Cults names first
E Robertson & C Sutherland lost to N Macandrew & W Rennie 2 holes
J Pryde & R Polson beat L Kinnear & A Burr 1 hole.
R Yule & V Powell lost to C Johnstone & A Anderson 4 & 3

Renfrewshire v D & A for West Div title

Renfrewshire will play Dunbartonshire & Argyll in a winner-takes-all climax to the three-day West Division women's inter-county team championship at Strathaven.
Both teams have 100 per cent records.
Renfrewshire followed up their 8-1 beating of Lanarkshire with a 7 1/2-1 1/2 win over Ayrshire today.
Dunbartonshire & Argyll, 5-4 winners over Ayrshire on Day 2, beat Lanarkshire 7-2 today.
The winners of the title will represent the West Division at the Scottish county finals at Baberton Golf Club, Edinburgh in September.

TODAY'S RESULTS
(thanks to Carol Fell for her help ... again!)

RENFREWSHIRE 7 1/2, AYRSHIRE 1 1/2
(Renfrewshire names first)
Foursomes (3-0)
Megan Briggs and Eilidh Briggs bt Lesley Hendry and Catherine Malcolm 7 & 6.
Donna Jackson and Liz Stewart bt Liz Keohone and Jenny Linklater 3 & 2.
Clare-Marie Carlton and Alyson McKechin bt Alex Glennie and Lesley Williamson 3 & 2.
Singles (4 1/2-1 1/2)
Megan Briggs bt Hendry 3 & 1.
Gillian Kyle lost to Keohone 3 & 2.
McKechin bt Malcolm 3 & 2.
Carlton halved with Audrey Thompson.
Eilidh Briggs bt Williamson 4 & 3.
Carol Whyte bt Rachael McQueen 3 & 2.

LANARKSHIRE 2, DUNBARTONSHIRE & ARGYLL 7
(Lanarkshire names first)
Foursomes (1/2-2 1/2)
Susan Wood and Elaine Cuthill lost to Anne Laing and Jill Meldrum 2 & 1.
Fiona Norris and Angela Devine lost to Nichola Ferguson and Lorraine Campbell 3 & 1.
Lesley Lloyd and Ruth Rankin halved with Suzanne Cadden and Laura McGeachy.
Singles (1 1/2-4 1/2)
Cuthill lost to Laing 5 & 4.
Norris lost to Ferguson 2 & 1.
Wood lost to Meldrum 6 & 5.
Lloyd beat Louisa Ruane 4 & 3.
Devine lost to McGeachy 6 & 4.
Joanna Scott halved with Helen Faulds.

HOW THEY STAND
Dunbartonshire & Argyll 2 wins
Renfrewshire 2 wins
Lanarkshire 0 wins.
Ayrshire 0 wins

FINAL MATCHES
Dunbartonshire & Argyll v Renfrewshire.
Ayrshire v Lanarkshire

England name team for Euro girls' championship

NEWS RELEASE ISSUED BY ENGLISH WOMEN'S GOLF ASSOCIATION
England will be represented by Heidi Baek, Hayley Davis, Alex Peters and Kelly Tidy in the European girls’ team championship at Kokkola, Finland, from July 7-11.
Alex Peters, 15, (Notts Ladies) and Kelly Tidy (Royal Birkdale), 17, were both in the team which won the silver medal at last year’s championship at Murcar Links.
Heidi Baek (Felixstowe Ferry), 15, played for England in the 2008 girls’ home internationals at Panmure, Carnoustie while Hayley Davis (Ferndown), 16, was a team reserve and this season became the Scottish Under-16 open stroke-play champion.
The non-travelling reserve is Hannah Turland (Tidworth Garrison), 15, and the team will be captained by Faye Sanderson (Heworth, Durham).
Lyndsey Hewison
Press & PR Officer

Heather MacRae proud of place

among men at Scottish PGA

FROM THE SCOTSMAN.SPORT.COM WEBSITE
By Mike Aitken
Unlike high profile examples in America of women competing in men's events by invitation – Michelle Wie, Annika Sorenstam and so forth – perhaps the most significant aspect of Heather MacRae's participation in the Scottish PGA championship at Gleneagles this week is that she qualified for the Tartan Tour's flagship event on merit.
MacRae, 25, an assistant professional at Gullane, earned her spot at the PGA Centenary thanks to a two over par round of 75, the same mark as Gordon Sherry, in qualifying at Downfield in Dundee.
It was good enough to finish 11th and secure one of the Perthshire venue berths.The first woman since 1933 to tee up in the Scottish PGA – Meg Farquhar was the last Scot to take on her male counterparts 76 years past at Lossiemouth's Moray Golf Club – MacRae has no interest in the publicity generated by the battle of the sexes and was unimpressed by the gimmickry surrounding Wie's dalliance with the men's game.
She says she's not trying to make a similar statement, would never dream of trying to qualify for the Open championship, but simply wants an opportunity to compete at a time when tournaments for female professionals in Scotland are scarcer than Scots in the world's top 100. "I don't see it as playing in a men's event," she said. "I see it as playing in a PGA event. I'm a PGA professional."
A former winner of the British women's ope amateur stroke-play title at Nairn in 2005, it would surely have benefited MacRae if she was competing with men on a fast links where distance is less of an issue than it is on a substantial parkland course such as Gleneagles.
Even with the benefit of playing from a forward tee, however, MacRae is bound to be seriously disadvantaged over the PGA Centenary. She drives the ball around 250 yards, but will need more club for her second shot than most of her rivals.
Whatever scores she returns, though, MacRae will add spice to a tournament with a history dating back to 1908.
As Gordon Dewar, secretary of the Scottish region of the PGA, remarked: "It's fantastic we will have Heather at our national championship. It's something different and adds a new dimension to the event."
•The full article contains 456 words and appears in The Scotsman newspaper.

Renfrewshire make flying start to defence

of West Division inter-county team title

Renfrewshire, the defending champions, made an impressive start to their 2009 campaign to retain the West Division women's inter-county team championship at Stathaven Golf Club today.
They beat Lanarkshire, without Vagliano Trophy player Pamela Pretswell, soundly by the resounding margin of 8-1. The writing was on the wall for Lanarkshire after they lost the morning foursomes 3-0.
Dunbartonshire & Argyll, without their GB&I team selection and county champion Kylie Walker managed to edge a 5-4 win over Ayrshire, which represented a good afternoon's work by Ayrshire. They had lost the morning foursomes 2-1 but battled hard to share the singles 3-3
Tomorrow, it's Renfrewshire v Ayrshire and Lanarkshire v Dunbartonshire & Argyll.
On Wednesday, it's Lanarkshire v Ayrshire, Dunbartonshire & Argyll v Renfrewshire.
The winners of the West Division title qualify for the four-cornered contest for the Scottish women's county team championship at Baberton Golf Club, Edinburgh in September.

TODAY'S DETAILS

RENFREWSHIRE 8, LANARKSHIRE 1
Renfrewshire names first
FOURSOMES (3-0)
Eilidh Briggs & Megan Briggs bt Sheena Wood & Elaine Cuthill 6 & 5.
Clare-Marie Carlton & Alyson McKechin bt Angela Devine & Fiona Norris 6 & 5.
Donna Jackson & Liz Stewart bt Lesley Lloyd & May Hughes 3 & 2.
SINGLES (5-1)
Megan Briggs bt Fiona Norris 3 & 2.
Carlton bt Wood 4 & 2.
Eilidh Briggs lost to Lesley Lloyd 4 & 3.
McKechin bt Cuthill 2 holes.
Gillian Kyle bt Ruth Rankin 2 & 1.
Carol Whyte bt Joanna Scott 6 & 5.

DUNBARTONSHIRE 5, AYRSHIRE 4
D&A names first
FOURSOMES (2-1)
Anne Laing & Jill Meldrum bt Lesley Hendry & Rachael McQueen 1 hole.
Nicola Ferguson & Louisa Ruane lost to Audrey Thompson & Liz Keohone 3 & 2.
Suzanne Cadden & Laura McGeachy bt Alex Glennie & Catherine Malcolm 2 holes.
SINGLES (3-3)
Laing bt Hendry 6 & 4
Ferguson bt McQueen 6 & 5.
Meldrum bt Lesley Williamson 3 & 2.
McGeachy lost Julie Linklater 5 & 4.
Lorraine Campbell lost to Thompson 4 & 3.
Cadden lost to Malcolm 4 & 3.

US FUTURES TOUR REPORT

Whitney Wade Wins First Tour Title At Duramed Championship

By LISA D MICKEY
Second-year professional Whitney Wade gave her father a pretty
memorable Father's Day gift. With Dad on the bag, the pint-size
Kentuckian rallied from six shots back to fire a five-under-par 66 to
win the $125,000 Duramed Championship with a nine-under-par total of
204.
She edged good pal Jean Reynolds (67) of Newnan, Georgia, who finished
second at 205 and third-place finisher Misun Cho (69) of Cheongju,
South Korea, who carded a total of 206 on the Grizzly Course at The
Golf Center at Kings Island, Mason, Ohio.
Both Reynolds and Cho already are tournament winners this season on the
Duramed FUTURES Tour, so they knew how to close out a win. But Wade,
playing three hours from home, had only won state women's open titles
in Kentucky (2007), Ohio (2008) and Colorado (2009).
The "nearly 5ft-3in" Kentucky firecracker was itching to prove to
herself that she could win here against the some of the world's best
young women professionals.
"I knew it was tight today, but I didn't exactly know where I stood,"
said Wade of Glasgow, Kentucky. "Jean was firing at pins and making
birdies and we were going back and forth with each other. Our group was
having a good time and getting things done."
Reynolds, Wade and amateur Victoria Kiser (70) of Orlando, Florida, who
finished seventh at 209, were playing in the second-to-last group
behind leader Pernilla Lindberg of Bollnas, Sweden.
Lindberg blistered this precision-demanding 6,203-yard, par-71 course
in the first round to match tPatty Sheehan's 1984 course record of
8-under-par 63. The Swede extended her lead on the second day to take a
three-shot advantage into the final round.
But Sunday was a different story for Lindberg, the former All-American
from Oklahoma State University who was playing in her third tournament
as a professional.
Rather than earning her first win as a pro in wire-to-wire fashion, she
stumbled early with bogeys on her first two holes, a par save from 10
feet on the third, and more deep breaths than she can remember to get
settled back into the kind of game she had played in the first two
rounds.
Lindberg countered her opening bogeys with birdies on the sixth and
ninth holes and even held on to her lead after she hooked her drive
into the trees on No. 10 and scrambled for bogey.
Her undoing probably came when she carded an uncharacteristic
double-bogey on the par-4 12th hole after she flew the green into a
water hazard, was forced to take her drop on a severe slope and chunked
her chip. At that point, she had sliipped into a four-way tie with Cho,
Reynolds and Wade.
"It was really one bad swing that cost way too much," said Lindberg,
who finished with a 4-over-par score of 75 to tie for fourth at 207
(-6) with Cindy Lacrosse (72) of Tampa, Florida
"Of course I'm disappointed because I went out there today trying to
win the tournament," Lindberg added. "But a lot of good things happened
this week. I need to remember that."
Wade was cruising along on the back nine and rolled in a 15-foot birdie
putt on the 14th hole to take the lead. At that point, Reynolds and
Lindberg were still in striking distance, one shot back.
"It was kind of like match play and we were definitely feeding off each
other," said Reynolds, who played one semester of college golf with
Wade at the University of Georgia.
Down the stretch, Cho birdied the 15th, but played the last three holes
at even par, while Lindberg failed to get up and down for par on the
17th and dropped another shot. That left the former Georgia Bulldog
teammates to duke it out on the 18th. If Reynolds were to birdie and
Wade made par, they would be forced into extra holes. If Reynolds were
to birdie and Wade made bogey, Reynolds would win. But if Wade were to
birdie, she would just about be untouchable.
"There was a lot going on by the time we got to 18," said Reynolds, who
won the Tour's season-opening event in Winter Haven, Fla. "I was
starting to see stars because I knew that I needed to make that putt."
Reynolds drained her 18-footer for birdie to tie it up. That left Wade
staring at a five-foot, uphill birdie chance for the win. Only Cho,
playing one group back in the last pairing, could catch Wade, but to do
that, she would have to hole out from the fairway on the 526-yard par-5
finishing hole.
"I had missed an eight-foot chance for birdie on the 16th hole that my
momma could have made, so I knew I had to make that birdie on the
18th," said Wade. "When it went in, all I could think was, 'Did this
really happen?'"
Indeed it had. Winning today probably sank in a little when fellow
players doused her with buckets of beer. Or when she held up a
hand-blown custom-designed art "trophy," or when somebody handed her an
oversize cardboard cheque for $17,500, or when someone else handed her
an Apple iTouch for carding the day's lowest round.
And maybe it registered when fellow Kentuckians from just across the
Ohio River drove to this Cincinnati suburb to root her on and stopped
by to congratulate her as she tugged at her soggy beer-soaked clothing.
Or maybe it finally sank in when her dad, Mark Wade, adjusted his
sunglasses and apologised that he "might get choked up" while trying to
talk about walking every step of the week with his daughter, carrying
her bag, and watching her win her first title on the LPGA's
developmental tour. He had carried her bag on Father's Day last year at
the U.S. Women's Open and proudly bit his lip when she made a tricky
putt for par to make the 36-hole cut.
Now, she had won on a professional tour, beating 143 other competitors,
so close to home. And she had taken a big step toward her goal of
earning 2010 LPGA status, leaping from 42nd to No. 7 on the Duramed
FUTURES Tour's season money list. It was a father's dream to see his
child take another giant step in a game he had taught her to love.
"For this to happen today, it's just icing on the cake," said her dad,
smiling.
Weather was mostly sunny and humid with temperatures in the high 80s
and light afternoon wind between 5-7 mph.

Laura Murray, Jane Turner and Carly Booth, Scotland's team title-winning trio in Ireland (image by courtesy of Pat Cashman on behalf of the Irish Ladies Golf Union). Click on image to enlarge.

Jane, Carly and Laura come from

behind to win Irish team title

Contrary to early reports from the course, Scotland won the international team event at the 3 Irish women's open amateur stroke-play championship at Douglas Golf Club, Cork today.
Jane Turner (Craigielaw), Carly Booth (Comrie) and Laura Murray (Alford) scored a famous come-from-behind victory over the final round.
They had been trailing Ireland by two shots with 18 holes to go but Leona Maguire and Lisa Maguire had counting scores of 81 and 75 respectively.
In contrast, Carly Booth had a 73 and Jane Turner a 75 for a third-round total of 148, compared with the Irish twins' Sunday total of 156.
Australia's Jane Bolland and Stacey Keating, both of whom scored 74, also finished with a third-round total of 148 which enabled them to leapfrog over Ireland into second place behind the Scots.
Well done, Carly, Jane and Laura!

TEAM EVENT FINAL TOTALS
(Best two from three scores to count daily; non-counting scores are shown in brackets).
436 SCOTLAND Carly Booth [81] 71 73, Laura Murray 74 [76] [78, Jane
Turner 70 73 75
441 AUSTRALIA Julia Boland 74 73 74 Rebecca Flood [77] 74 [76] Stacey
Keating 72 [75] 74
442 IRELAND Niamh Kitching [81] [81] - , Leona Maguire 73 74 81, Lisa
Maguire 66 73 75
447 ENGLAND Kym Larratt 76 72 73, Rachel Jennings 76 [77] [78], Charlotte
Wild [78] 76 74
448 FRANCE Laure Castelain 73 75 72, Manon Gidali 75 75 78
455 WALES Amy Boulden [81] [77] 76, Tara Davies 74 75 77, Rhian Wyn
Thomas 79 74 [77]
N/A FINLAND Annika Korkeila 76 77 81 Mina Vuorenpaa 84 77 -

US Duramed Futures Tour Final Totals

$125,00 DURAMED FUTURES CHAMPIONSHIP
The Golf Center, Kings Island, Mason, Ohio
Par 213 (3x71) 6203yd
1 Whitney Wade (Glasgow, Ky.) 69-69-66 - 204 $17,500
2 Jean Reynolds (Newnan, Ga.) 68-70-67 - 205 $12,500
3 Misun Cho (Cheongju, South Korea) 67-70-69 - 206 $8,906
T4 Cindy LaCrosse (Tampa, Fla.) 65-70-72 - 207 $5,675
T4 Pernilla Lindberg (Bollnas, Sweden) 63-69-75 - 207 $5,675
6 Angela Buzminski (Oshawa, Ontario) 67-73-68 - 208 $3,863
7 Victoria Kiser (a) (Orlando, Fla.) 67-72-70 - 209
8 Amanda Blumenherst (Scottsdale, Ariz.) 73-70-67 - 210 $3,300
T9 Sophia Sheridan (Guadalajara, Mexico) 71-71-69 - 211
$2,581T9 Alison Walshe (Westford, Mass.) 69-71-71 - 211
$2,581
T11Sam White (Potomac, Md.) 70-73-69 - 212 $1,727
T11 Danah Ford (Indianapolis, Ind.) 70-73-69 - 212 $1,727
T11 Briana Vega (Andover, Mass.) 71-72-69 - 212 $1,727
T11 Nontaya Srisawang (Chiang Mai, Thailand) 73-70-69 - 212 $1,727
T11 Lisa Ferrero (Lodi, Calif.) 73-69-70 - 212 $1,727
T11 Maria Hernandez (Pamplona, Spain) 70-70-72 - 212 $1,727
T17 Stephanie Kim (a) (Orlando, Fla.) 72-71-70 - 213
T17 Song Yi Choi (Seoul, South Korea) 71-72-70 - 213 $1,251
T17 Christi Cano (San Antonio, Texas) 69-73-71 - 213 $1,251
T20 Christine Song (Fullerton, Calif.) 68-76-70 - 214 $1,024
T20 Gerina Mendoza (Roswell, N.M.) 71-73-70 - 214 $1,024
T20 Camila Mori (Santiago, Chile) 73-71-70 - 214 $1,024
T20 Seo-Jae Lee (Seoul, South Korea) 72-71-71 - 214 $1,024
T20 Mina Harigae (Monterey, Calif.) 69-74-71 - 214 $1,024
T20 Molly Birmingham (Cornelius, N.C.) 72-71-71 - 214 $1,024
T20 Katie Allison (Little River, S.C.) 71-71-72 - 214 $1,024
T20 Samantha Richdale (Kelowna, British Columbia)65-74-75 - 214 $1,024
T28 Amanda Mathis (Opelousas, La.) 72-73-70 - 215 $898
T28 Jane Chin (Mission Viejo, Calif.) 69-76-70 - 215 $898
T28 Yoora Kim (Seoul, South Korea) 71-74-70 - 215 $898
T28 Caroline Larsson (Stockholm, Sweden) 69-76-70 - 215 $898
T28 Moon Su (Incheon, South Korea) 69-75-71 - 215 $898
T28 Dewi Claire Schreefel (Diepenveen, Netherlands) 72-71-72 - 215
$898
T28 Stephanie George (Myerstown, Pa.) 71-72-72 - 215 $898
T28 Jennifer Ackerson (Dallas, Texas) 73-75-67 - 215 $898
T36 Garrett Phillips (St. Simons Island, Ga.) 71-73-72 - 216 $843
T36 Devan Andersen (Guadalajara, Mexico) 71-73-72 - 216 $843
T36 Gina Umeck (Redlands, Calif.) 69-73-74 - 216
$843T26
T39 Liz Janangelo (West Hartford, Conn.) 74-72-71 - 217 $811
T39 Nicole Jeray (Berwyn, Ill.) 70-74-73 - 217 $811
T39 Kelly Lagedrost (Brooksville, Fla.) 72-74-71 - 217 $811
T39 Stephanie Connelly (Pasadena, Md.) 74-73-70 - 217 $811
T39 Tanya Dergal (Durango, Mexico) 67-73-77 - 217 $811
T44 Lucy Nunn (Lawton, Okla.) 71-74-73 - 218 $772
Su A Kim (Seoul, South Korea) 71-75-72 - 218 $772
Ryann O'Toole (San Clemente, Calif.) 68-78-72 - 218 $772
Angela Jerman (Columbus, Ga.) 74-73-71 - 218 $772
Ashley Prange (Noblesville, Ind.) 70-77-71 - 218 $772
Madeleine Holmblad (Stockholm, Sweden) 72-75-71 - 218 $772
Janell Howland (Boise, Idaho) 72-69-77 - 218 $772
Lori Atsedes (Ithaca, N.Y.) 69-79-70 - 218 $772

T52 Blair Lamb (Flat Rock, N.C.) 73-72-74 - 219 $730
Kylene Pulley (Kokomo, Ind.) 73-73-73 - 219 $730
Nicole Hage (Coral Springs, Fla.) 69-77-73 - 219 $730
Stephanie Otteson (Wilson, N.C.) 71-72-76 - 219 $730
Mo Martin (Altadena, Calif.) 70-77-72 - 219 $730
Hwanhee Lee (Las Vegas, Nev.) 73-75-71 - 219 $730

T58 Jessica Shepley (Oakville, Ontario) 72-71-77 - 220 $702
Michelle Jarman (Wilmington, N.C.) 72-74-74 - 220 $702
Sara Brown (Tucson, Ariz.) 71-72-77 - 220 $702
Lisa Meldrum (Montreal, Quebec) 73-75-72 - 220 $702
Hannah Jun (San Diego, Calif.) 71-77-72 - 220 $702

T63 Whitney Myers (York, Pa.) 71-75-75 - 221 $684
Sofie Andersson (Angelholm, Sweden) 71-77-73 - 221 $684

T65 Kim Welch (Sacramento, Calif.) 70-75-77 - 222 $666
Stephanie Oukeo (Paris, France) 74-72-76 - 222 $666
Perry Swenson (Charlotte, N.C.) 73-73-76 - 222 $666
Marcela Leon (Monterrey, Mexico) 74-73-75 - 222 $666
Susan Nam (Edmonton, Alberta) 76-71-75 - 222 $666
Ashley Knoll (The Woodlands, Texas) 71-76-75 - 222 $666
Maria Laura Elvira (Buenos Aires, Argentina) 74-74-74 - 222 $666
Dana Bates (Thousand Palms, Calif.) 68-80-74 - 222 $666

T73 Virada Nirapathpongporn (Bangkok, Thailand) 73-73-77 - 223 $639
Laura Kueny (a) (Whitehall, Mich.) 76-71-76 - 223
Mallory Hetzel (Summerville, S.C.) 74-74-75 - 223 $639
Sae Hee Son (Seoul, South Korea) 74-74-75 - 223 $639
Lee Ann Walker-Cooper (Southport, N.C.) 75-73-75 - 223 $639
Cindy Lee-Pridgen (Sabah, Malaysia) 74-74-75 - 223 $639

T79 Christine Boucher (Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec) 71-74-79 - 224 $618
Ashley Grier (Hagerstown, Md.) 74-73-77 - 224 $618

T81 Aimee Cho (Orlando, Fla.) 72-75-78 - 225 $604
Rachel Bailey (Faulconbridge, Australia) 72-76-77 - 225 $604

83 Jenna Pearson (Wheaton, Ill.) 74-74-78 - 226 $593

84 Noon Huachai (Bangkok, Thailand) 72-76-80 - 228 $585

RENFREWSHIRE FAVOURITES TO RETAIN

WEST TITLE AND TICKET TO BABERTON

Vagliano Trophy team selections Pamela Pretswell and Kylie Walker have
withdrawn from the Lanarkshire and Dunbartonshire & Argyll teams
repectively for the three-day West Division women's inter-county team
golf championship, teeing off at Strathaven Golf Club tomorrow.
Renfrewshire are the defending champions. They went on to finish
runners-up to Fife in last year's Scottish county finals at Inchmarlo.
With the Scottish champion, Megan Briggs, and her talented younger
sister Eilidh in their ranks, Renfrewshire will start favourites again
to win the West title and a place in this year's Scottish county finals
at Baberton Golf Club,Edinburgh from September 18 to 20.
Teams at Strathaven are:

AYRSHIRE - Catherine Malcolm, Lesley Hendry, Rachel McQueen, Lesley
Williamson, Audrey Thompson, Liz Keohone, Jennifer Linklater, Alex
Glennie.

DUNBARTONSHIRE & ARGULL - Suzanne Cadden (Cardross), Lorraine Campbell
(Cardross), Helen Faulds (Douglas Park), Nichola Ferguson (Clober),
Anne Laing (Vale of Leven), Laura McGeachy (Windyhill), Jill Meldrum
(Dullatur), Louisa Ruane (Cardross)
.LANARKSHIRE
Elaine Cuthill (Lanark)
Angela Devine (Hamilton)
May Hughes(Lanark)
Lesley Lloyd (Hayston)
Fiona Norris (Hamilton)
Ruth Rankin (Lanark)
Joanna Scott (Cathkin Braes)
Susan Wood (Drumpellier)
RENFREWSHIRE
Megan Briggs (Kilmacolm)
Eilidh Briggs (Kilmacolm)
Clare-Marie Carlton (Fereneze)
Donna Jackson (Cochrane Castle)
Gillian Kyle (East Renfrewshire)
Alyson McKechin (Elderslie)
Liz Stewart (Cochrane Castle)
Carol Whyte (Windyhill)

ends

Lisa Magure, the new 3 Irish women's open amateur stroke-play champion with Irish Ladies Golf Union officials and sponsors' representative (image by courtesy of the Irish Ladies Golf Union).

3 IRISH WOMEN'S OPEN AMATEUR STROKE-PLAY CHAMPIONSHIP
Douglas Golf Club, Cork.
FINAL TOTALS
Par 219 (3x73). CSS 75 75 74
214 Hannah Burke (Eng) 74 73 67 Lisa Maguire (Slieve Russell) 66 73 75
(Lisa Maguire won a sudden-death play-off at the seventh hole).
218 Jane Turner (Craigielaw) 70 73 75
219 Sarah Cunningham (Ennis) 78 71 70
220 Laure Castelain (Fra) 73 75 72
221 Kym Larratt (Eng) 76 72 73 Julia Boland (Aus) 74 73 74 Stacey
Keating (AUS) 72 75 74
222 Kelly Tidy (Eng) 75 73 74
224 Pamela Pretswell (Bothwell Castle) 76 73 75
225 Carly Booth (Comrie) 81 71 73 Ciara Butler (Newlands) 75 77 73
226 Tara Davies (Wal) 74 75 77
227 Rebecca Flood (Aus) 77 74 76
228 Charlotte Wild (Eng) 78 76 74 Manon Gidali (Fra) 75 75 78 Charlene
Reid (Royal Portush) 74 80 74, Laura Murray (Alford) 74 76 78 Leona
Maguire (Slieve Russell) 73 74 81
229 Sinead O'Sullivan (Galway) 80 74 75 Mary Dowling (New Ross) 78 75
76 Louise Mernagh (Woodenbridge) 77 73 79 Caroline Bon (NZ) 73 81 75
230 Rhian Wyn Thomas (Wal) 79 74 77 Laura McCarthy (Muskerry) 74 76 80
231 Charlie Douglass (Eng) 77 80 74 Sarah Faller (Galway) 76 80 75
Rachel Jennings (Eng) 76 77 78
232 Karen Delaney (Carlow) 79 78 75 Tara Watters (Eng) 75 78 79
233 Karen O'Neill (Douglas) 78 78 77 Victoria Bradshaw (Bangor) 77 81
75 Aedin Murphy (Carlow) 74 83 76 Emma O'Driscoll (Ballybunion) 74 80 79
234 Amy Boulden (Wal) 81 77 76 Tilly Holder (Eng) 78 79 77 Annika
Korkeila (Fin) 76 77 81
235 Gemma Bradbury (Wal) 78 77 80
236 Sarah Crowe (Tipperary) 79 78 79
244 Shauna O'Brien (Clonmel) 77 82 85
MISSED THE CUT
160 Gillian O'Leary (Cork) 85 75 Sue Phillips (Woodbrook) 77 83
161 Minna Vuorenpaa (Fin) 84 77 Rachel Cassidy (The Island) 80 81
Lillian Harrington (East Cork) 79 82
162 Lucy Simpson (Massereene) 82 80
162 Niamh Kitching (Claremorris) 81 81 Aoife Lowry (Tipperary) 78 84
163 Fiona Howard (Eng) 86 77 Anne McCormack (Roscommon) 82 81 Jerry
Lawrence (Eng) 79 84
164 Rebecca Watson (Holston Hills, US) 85 79 Ailish Thompson (Douglas)
83 81 Catherine Tucker (Limerick) 80 84
166 Emma Gilmore (Mountbellew) 84 82
168 Rhona Brennan (Bandon) 86 82 Sarah Murray (Co. Louth) 85 83 Maria
Dunne (Skerries) 82 86
170 Nicole Garcia (SAf) 83 87
171 Suzy Sheehan (The Island) 87 84 Jean Farrell (Youghal) 86 85 Lynda
Maher ( Charleville) 86 85
174 Daisy-May Kenny (Eng) 82 92
177 Claire Keating (Charleville) 89 88
178 Val Shannon (Douglas) 87 91
179 Vivian Gallin (Ger) 88 91
181 Mary Lowney (Dunmore) 92 89

3 Irish women's open amateur stroke-play championship

Lisa wins play-off against Hannah

at the seventh extra hole

Lisa Maguire (Slieve Russell) birdied the SEVENTH extra hole of a sudden-death play-off to win the 3 Irish women's open amateur stroke-play championship at Douglas Golf Club, Cork this afternoon.
Fourteen-year-old twin Lisa had led from the start and almost to the finish but was overhauled on the inward half of the final round by Hannah Burke (Mid-Herts), who plays on the US college circuit as a student at Baylor University, Texas.
They tied at five-under-par 214 ... and then began surely one of the longest ever sudden-death play-offs in a British or Irish ladies' event of this stature.
Scotland's Jane Turner (Craigielaw) finished third on one under par 219 with rounds of 70, 73 and 75 over the par-73 lay-out.
Vagliano Trophy team selection Pamela Pretswell (Bothwell Castle) came 10th on 224 with 76, 73 and 75.
Carly Booth (Comrie), after a slow start with a first-round 81, played very well to add scores of 71 and 73 for a total of 225, which earned her joint 11th place.
Laura Murray (Alford) finished joint 15th on 228 with scores of 74, 76 and 78.

US Duramed Futures Tour Scoreboard
$125,000 The Duramed Championship
The Golf Center, Kings Island, Mason, Ohio
SECOND-ROUND TOTALS
Par 142 (2x71) 6203yd
1 Pernilla Lindberg (Bollnas, Sweden) 63-69 - 132
2 Cindy LaCrosse (Tampa, Fla.) 65-70 - 135
3 Misun Cho (Cheongju, South Korea) 67-70 - 137
4 Whitney Wade (Glasgow, Ky.) 69-69 - 138
4 Jean Reynolds (Newnan, Ga.) 68-70 - 138
6 Victoria Kiser (am) (Orlando, Fla.) 67-72 - 139
8 Samantha Richdale (Kelowna, British Columbia) 65-74 - 139
8 Maria Hernandez (Pamplona, Spain) 70-70 - 140
8 Alison Walshe (Westford, Mass.) 69-71 - 140
8 Tanya Dergal (Durango, Mexico) 67-73 - 140
8 Angela Buzminski (Oshawa, Ontario) 67-73 - 140
12 Janell Howland (Boise, Idaho) 72-69 - 141
13 Lisa Ferrero (Lodi, Calif.) 73-69 - 142
13 Katie Allison (Little River, S.C.) 71-71 - 142
13 Sophia Sheridan (Guadalajara, Mexico) 71-71 - 142
12 Gina Umeck (Redlands, Calif.) 69-73 - 142
12 Christi Cano (San Antonio, Texas) 69-73 - 142
18 Nontaya Srisawang (Chiang Mai, Thailand) 73-70 - 143
18 Amanda Blumenherst (Scottsdale, Ariz.) 73-70 - 143
18 Briana Vega (Andover, Mass.) 71-72 - 143
18 Stephanie George (Myerstown, Pa.) 71-72 - 143
18 Song Yi Choi (Seoul, South Korea) 71-72 - 143
18 Danah Ford (Indianapolis, Ind.) 70-73 - 143
18 Sam White (Potomac, Md.) 70-73 - 143
18 Sara Brown (Tucson, Ariz.) 71-72 - 143
18 Stephanie Otteson (Wilson, N.C.) 71-72 - 143
18 Molly Birmingham (Cornelius, N.C.) 72-71 - 143
18 Mina Harigae (Monterey, Calif.) 69-74 - 143
18 Stephanie Kim (a) (Orlando, Fla.) 72-71 - 143
18 Seo-Jae Lee (Seoul, South Korea) 72-71 - 143
18 Dewi Claire Schreefel (Diepenveen, Netherlands) 72-71 - 143
18 Jessica Shepley (Oakville, Ontario) 72-71 - 143
33 Camila Mori (Santiago, Chile) 73-71 - 144
33 Devan Andersen (Guadalajara, Mexico) 71-73 - 144
33 Nicole Jeray (Berwyn, Ill.) 70-74 - 144
33 Gerina Mendoza (Roswell, N.M.) 71-73 - 144
33 Garrett Phillips (St. Simons Island, Ga.) 71-73 - 144
33 Moon Su (Incheon, South Korea) 69-75 - 144
33 Christine Song (Fullerton, Calif.) 68-76 - 144
40 Blair Lamb (Flat Rock, N.C.) 73-72 - 145
40 Yoora Kim (Seoul, South Korea) 71-74 - 145
40 Lucy Nunn (Lawton, Okla.) 71-74 - 145
40 Christine Boucher (Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec) 71-74 - 145
40 Kim Welch (Sacramento, Calif.) 70-75 - 145
40 Amanda Mathis (Opelousas, La.) 72-73 - 145
40 Jane Chin (Mission Viejo, Calif.) 69-76 - 145
40 Caroline Larsson (Stockholm, Sweden) 69-76 - 145
48 Stephanie Oukeo (Paris, France) 74-72 - 146
48 Liz Janangelo (West Hartford, Conn.) 74-72 - 146
48 Kylene Pulley (Kokomo, Ind.) 73-73 - 146
48 Whitney Myers (York, Pa.) 71-75 - 146
48 Su A Kim (Seoul, South Korea) 71-75 - 146
48 Nicole Hage (Coral Springs, Fla.) 69-77 - 146
48 Kelly Lagedrost (Brooksville, Fla.) 72-74 - 146
48 Ryann O'Toole (San Clemente, Calif.) 68-78 - 146
48 Michelle Jarman (Wilmington, N.C.) 72-74 - 146
48 Virada Nirapathpongporn (Bangkok, Thailand) 73-73 - 146
48 Perry Swenson (Charlotte, N.C.) 73-73 - 146
59 Marcela Leon (Monterrey, Mexico) 74-73 - 147
59 Stephanie Connelly (Pasadena, Md.) 74-73 - 147
59 Susan Nam (Edmonton, Alberta) 76-71 - 147
59 Angela Jerman (Columbus, Ga.) 74-73 - 147
59 Laura Kueny (a) (Whitehall, Mich.) 76-71 - 147
59 Ashley Grier (Hagerstown, Md.) 74-73 - 147
59 Ashley Knoll (The Woodlands, Texas) 71-76 - 147
59 Ashley Prange (Noblesville, Ind.) 70-77 - 147
59 Mo Martin (Altadena, Calif.) 70-77 - 147
59 Aimee Cho (Orlando, Fla.) 72-75 - 147
59 Madeleine Holmblad (Stockholm, Sweden) 72-75 - 147
70 Carmen Bandea (Atlanta, Ga.) 75-73 - 148
70 Mallory Hetzel (Summerville, S.C.) 74-74 - 148
70 Sae Hee Son (Seoul, South Korea) 74-74 - 148
70 Maria Laura Elvira (Buenos Aires, Argentina) 74-74 - 148
70 Lee Ann Walker-Cooper (Southport, N.C.) 75-73 - 148
70 Cindy Lee-Pridgen (Sabah, Malaysia) 74-74 - 148
70 Jenna Pearson (Wheaton, Ill.) 74-74 - 148
70 Hwanhee Lee (Las Vegas, Nev.) 73-75 - 148
70 Lisa Meldrum (Montreal, Quebec) 73-75 - 148
70 Sofie Andersson (Angelholm, Sweden) 71-77 - 148
70 Hannah Jun (San Diego, Calif.) 71-77 - 148
70 Noon Huachai (Bangkok, Thailand) 72-76 - 148
70 Lori Atsedes (Ithaca, N.Y.) 69-79 - 148
70 Rachel Bailey (Faulconbridge, Australia) 72-76 - 148
70 Dana Bates (Thousand Palms, Calif.) 68-80 - 148
70 Jennifer Ackerson (Dallas, Texas) 73-75 - 148
MISSED THE CUT
Meghan Little (Sturgis, S.D.) 75-74 - 149
Pornanong Phatlum (Chaiyaphum, Thailand) 74-75 - 149
Christine Cho (Kent, Wash.) 75-74 - 149
Jenny Suh (Fairfax, Va.) 75-74 - 149
Lehua Wise (Kauai, Hawaii) 75-74 - 149
Jessica Carafiello (Coral Springs, Fla.) 75-74 - 149
Tiffany Tavee (Tempe, Ariz.) 74-75 - 149
Sarah Lynn Sargent (Greer, S.C.) 70-79 - 149
Lauren Doughtie (Suffolk, Va.) 70-79 - 149
Sarah Olsen (Grosse Ile, Mich.) 70-79 - 149
Rebecka Heinmert (Hassleholm, Sweden) 72-77 - 149
Courtney Mahon (Lee's Summit, Mo.) 72-77 - 149
Taya Battistella (Bend, Ore.) 73-76 - 149
Alejandra Shaw (Vina Del Mar, Chile) 73-76 - 149
Jenny Gleason (Clearwater, Fla.) 75-75 - 150
Libby Smith (Essex Junction, Vt.) 75-75 - 150
Onnarin Sattayabanphot (Bangkok, Thailand) 75-75 - 150
Jennie Lee (Henderson, Nev.) 75-75 - 150
Eva Yoe (Hong Kong, China) 74-76 - 150
Kim Augusta (Rumford, R.I.) 74-76 - 150
Malinda Johnson (Eau Claire, Wis.) 77-73 - 150
Jasi Acharya (Columbus, Mont.) 77-73 - 150
Sunny Oh (Manhattan Beach, Calif.) 74-77 - 151
Elisa Serramia (Barcelona, Spain) 74-77 - 151
Kira Meixner (am) (Richmond, British Columbia) 76-75 - 151
Amanda Costner (Claremore, Okla.) 77-74 - 151
Lorraine Ballerano (Myrtle Beach, S.C.) 73-78 - 151
Esther Choe (Scottsdale, Ariz.) 71-80 - 151
Renee Skidmore (Everett, Wash.) 73-78 - 151
Kimberly Goedecke (Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.) 74-78 - 152
Selanee Henderson (Apple Valley, Calif.) 75-77 - 152
Praewnapa Phol-Uayporn (Bangkok, Thailand) 74-78 - 152
Mayule Tomimbang (Kissimmee, Fla.) 75-77 - 152
Violeta Retamoza (Aguascalientes, Mexico) 76-76 - 152
Sin Ah Ham (Seoul, South Korea) 77-75 - 152
Christina Jones (Jensen Beach, Fla.) 77-75 - 152
Tiffany Joh (San Diego, Calif.) 80-72 - 152
Benedikte Grotvedt (Nesbru, Norway) 71-81 - 152
Laura Crawford (Lancaster, S.C.) 75-78 - 153
Min Seo Kwak (Seoul, South Korea) 74-79 - 153
Kelly Froelich (Raizeux, France) 73-80 - 153
Tzu-Chi Lin (Taichung, Taiwan) 75-79 - 154
Chris Brady (Charlotte, N.C.) 74-80 - 154
Jae Oh (Je Ju, South Korea) 75-79 - 154
Stella Lee (Seoul, South Korea) 74-80 - 154
Yeon Joo Lee (Seoul, South Korea) 76-78 - 154
Lili Alvarez (Durango, Mexico) 76-78 - 154
Lindsey Bergeon (Sarasota, Fla.) 78-77 - 155
Jessica Yadloczky (a) (Casselberry, Fla.) 74-82 - 156
Carling Coffing (Middletown, Ohio) 78-78 - 156
Janice Olivencia (Caguas, Puerto Rico) 78-78 - 156
Melissa Eaton (Port Shepstone, South Africa) 79-77 - 156
Tiffany Prats (Williston, Fla.) 80-76 - 156
Mary Moan (New Haven, Conn.) 75-83 - 158
Cassandra Blaney (Champions Gate, Fla.) 74-85 - 159
Mary Kate Morgan (Longview, Wash.) 79-82 - 161
Maggie Simons (Raleigh, N.C.) 81-80 - 161
Susannah Aboff (Huntington, N.Y.) 83-84 - 167