Press Release
English Ladies’ Golf Association

ENGLISH GIRLS CLOSE CHAMPIONSHIP
Porters Park Golf Club
29 July – 1 August

A total of 64 girls have finished the qualifying two 18-hole rounds for this year’s English Girls Close Champion title. The weather started mild, with rain following mid afternoon resulting in a late finish but this didn’t prevented excellent results from many of the girls.

Round 1 saw Sian Reddick (Sene Valley, Kent) make a good start with 68, 5 under par, Sain had 6 birdies, 1 bogey and pars. She put this fantastic result down to sound putting and a good start to the game. Hannah Grant (Enmore Park, Somerset), Kerry-Anne Haskell (Broadstone, Dorset) and Kelly Anne Travers all tied in second position with 70 at the end of the first round.

Round 2 Sian completed another excellent 71 score where at mid play she leads the field with a total qualifying score of 140. Kelly Anne Haskell also kept her round 1 form, scoring 71, 3 under par a total qualifying round of 141. Kiran Matharu scored 4 under par in her second round, 76 / 69 total 145.

Hannah Burke (Mid Herts, Hertfordshire) entered the field as a late reserve and finished –joint 6th overall and will qualify for knockout match play. The cut is at 154 and 2 flights knock out match play will commence Wednesday 30 July, flight 2 will be three players lighter due to injury.



COMPETITOR CLUB Round 1 Round 2 Total
Sian Reddick Sene Valley 68 72 140
Kerry-Anne Haskell Broadstone 70 71 141
Anna Scott Consett & District 72 71 143
Joanne Hodge Knowle 71 73 144
Florentyna Parker Royal Birkdale 73 71 144
Hannah Burke Mid- Herts 72 73 145
Kiran Matharu Sand Moor 76 69 145
Alexandra Marshall Toft Hotel 72 73 145
Layla Ahmed Waterlooville 73 73 146
Katrina Holford Ingestre Park 70 76 146
Jodi Ewart Catterick 74 74 148
Felicity Johnson Harborne 75 73 148
Melissa Reid Chevin 76 73 149
Claire Aitken Mid-Kent 74 75 149
Julia Norman Exeter 72 77 149
Jessica Pearcey Ferndown 74 75 149
Annabel Silk Corhampton 75 74 149
Roseann Youngman Oundle 77 73 150
Chloe Rogers Braintree 75 75 150
Catherine Roberts Hart Common 77 74 151
Natalie Haywood Rotherham 76 75 151
Hannah Grant Enmore Park 70 81 151
Kelly Anne Travers Alresford 70 81 151
Kate Turner Studley Wood 73 78 151
Rachel Jennings Izaak Walton 78 74 152
Charlotte Dean Royston 74 78 152
Kirsty Law Evesham 76 76 152
Emma Sheffield Newark 77 76 153
Rachel Graves Colchester 79 74 153
Hannah Coles Maxstoke Park 79 74 153
Melanie Temple Seascale 77 76 153
Portia Abbott Kingsdown 78 76 154
Rebecca Dowell Enmore Park 75 79 154
Lucinda Davies Peterborough Milton 79 75 154
Emma Parr Northamptonshire County 77 78 155
Nicola Ford Shaw Hill 81 74 155
Hannah Ralph Goodwood 77 78 155
Henrietta Brockway Yeovil 83 73 156
Danielle Gibb Rochester & Cobham 77 79 156
Laura Cutler Warley Park 74 82 156
Becky Davies Retford 78 78 156
Mary Ruddy Manchester 82 75 157
Corisande Lee Pleasington 78 79 157
Fiona Telfer-Brunton Perranporth 81 76 157
Janet Phipps Gog Magog 76 82 158
Sarah Crowther Willow Valley 81 77 158
Fern Grimshaw Weymouth 77 81 158
Harriet Carr Bedfordshire 80 78 158
Donna O’ Connell Burnham & Berrow 82 77 159
Amy Olding Shirley Park 77 82 159
Clara Leathers Ellesborough 79 80 159
Emma Tipping Sandiway 76 84 160
Tracey Willmont Worldham Park 80 80 160
Jemma Ridley Croham Hurst 78 84 162
Joanne Thompson Royal Liverpool Ladies 86 78 164 Retired injured
Stacie Morton Hobson 84 81 165
Laura Harvey Richmond 86 79 165
Sian Porter Wellow 85 81 166 Retired injured
Vicki Power Brampton Park 82 84 166 Retired injured
Sarah Purdy Stoke Rochford 79 87 166
Victoria Willdigg Astbury 84 84 168
Frances Rohan Durham City 84 85 169
Gemma Thornell Oswestry 82 89 171
Sarah Woods Great Lever & Farnworth 92 83 175





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ST ANDREWS LINKS TRUST OPEN
JUNIOR WOMEN'S TOURNAMENTS

Tuesday's results in the St Andrews Links Trust's junior women's scratch match-play tournament for the Golf Monthly Trophy over the Eden Course were:
FIRST ROUND
Rachel Bell beat A Robson-Crosby 7 and 6.
Naomi Edwards beat Gillian Barraclough 9 and 8.
Claire McNeil beat Eleana Collins 3 and 2.
Christine Sparks beat Catherine Baines 4 and 3.
Becky Copland beat Holly Aitchison 2 holes.
Sophie Walker beat Rachel Connor 5 and 4.
Faye Anderson beat Lauren Rogerson 7 and 5.
Megan Barbour beat Pamela Pretswell 2 and 1.
Wednesday's Quarter-finals over the Old Course:
1.20 Bell v Edwards.
1.30 McNeil v Sparks.
1.40 Copland v Walker.
1.50 Sanderson v Barbour.
Thursday's Semi-finals over Old Course.
6.50am & 7am.
Thursday's Final over Old Course
1.30pm.
GIRLS OPEN QUAICH
Wednesday's Quarter-finals over the Old Course.
12.40 Amy Alexander (22) v Victoria McCulloch (19).
12.50 Fiona Blair (13) v Hilary Myles (18).
1.0 Rebecca Hyde (20) v Louise Birrell (12).
1.10 Alison Tait (13) v Tanya Sookmanus (18).
Thursday's Semi-finals over Old Course
7.30am & 7.40am.
Thursday's Final over Old Course
1.50pm

TEE TIMES FOR LAST ROUND OF BP
SCOTTISH UNDER-21 GIRLS CHAMPIONSHIP
AT KILMACOLM ON WEDNESDAY

8.30 N Thomson, Mackin, K Murray.
8.38 Graham, Macalister, Herd.
8.46 S Devenish, Clark, Caudwell.
8.54 Melville, Macgregor, Macpherson.
9.02 Ingram, Kettlewell, Waddell.
9.10 Paterson, Harvey, Fortune.
9.18 McNicoll, Bell, F Williamson.
9.26 Neilson, Davidson, Turner.
9.34 K Walker, Mullen, Fairnie.

9.50 MacDonald, Horsburgh, L Williamson.
9.58 S Thomson, Edwards, K Thomson.
10.06 McLoughlin, Niven, Rolland.
10.14 Briggs, S Wilson, Hindshaw.
10.22 Ramsay, Ruane, L Murray.
10.30 L Devenish, Harper, Gilbert.
10.38 L Wells, K Wells, L Walker.
10.46 Dewar, O'Sullivan, Caithness.

11.0 Fleming, Ogilvy, Webster.
11.08 Brotherton, Feggans, Hendry.
11.16 Kenney, J Wilson, MacRae.

JENNA AND HEATHER SHARE KILMACOLM
LEAD AFTER 36 HOLES


WITH two holes to play, Jenna Wilson was three strokes clear of the field in the second round of the BP Scottish Under-21 girls' open stroke-play golf championship at a very wet Kilmacolm Golf Club on Tuesday.
A lost-ball double bogey 5 at the 17th and a bogey 5 at the last where she overclubbed her approach wiped out the 19-year-old Strathaven player's advantage and she will start today's (Wed) final round sharing the pole position with playing partner Heather MacRae (Dunblane) on level par 144.
Coincidentally, they are both going to San Diego State University on golf scholarships next month.
"I was going very well until that finish," said Jenna. "I had birdied the first, seventh, 13th, 14th and 16th and was still two under par on the 17th tee."
Jenna's rounds for the day were 71 and 73 while Heather had 73 and 71 for 144.
Heather is one of a clutch of new young caps in the Scotland team for the women's home internationals at Cruden Bay in September. Jenna is not - which may act as a spur over the final 18 holes to prove some sort of point to the selection committee.
"I had heaps of putts in the morning but I was a lot steadier in the second round. If I can get my putter working, there's no reason why I can't win the title," said Heather (19), the 2001 BP Scottish girls match-play champion and a winner on the American college circuit earlier this year when she was at McLennan College, Texas.
It is by no means a two-horse race at Kilmacolm because Louise Kenney (Pitreavie), another past Scottish girls' match-play champion who is home for the summer holidays from Iowa State University, is only one shot off the pace after scores of 74 and 71 for 145. Louise is one of the new caps in the Scotland women's team.
Lesley Hendry (Routenburn), who has failed to gain selection for the Scotland girls' team, is lying in fourth place on 146.
Defending champion Kelly Brotherton (Tulliallan) has a six-shot deficit make up after rounds of 78 and 72 for 150.
+Alison Mitchell, a 17-year-old Ranfurly Castle player, was taken by SLGA officials to Inverclyde Royal Infirmary after she slipped down a bank at the fifth hole and fell heavily on her left ankle. X-Rays revealed no broken bones but damaged tissues will keep her off any golf course until they heal.

BP SCOTTISH UNDER-21 GIRLS' OPEN STROKE-PLAY CHAMPIONSHIP
Kilmacolm GC
SECOND ROUND TOTALS (CSS 72 72)
144 Heather MacRae (Dunblane New) 73 71, Jenna Wilson (Strathaven) 71 73.
145 Louise Kenney (Pitreavie) 74 71.
146 Lesley Hendry (Routenburn) 75 71.
148 Pamela Feggans (Doon Valley) 76 72.
150 Kelly Brotherton (Tulliallan) 78 72.
151 Emily Ogilvy (Muckhart) 76 75, Gemma Webster (Hilton Park) 80 71.
152 Krystle Caithness (St Regulus) 73 79, Louise Fleming (The Roxburghe) 75 77.
153 Kate O'Sullivan (Cochrane Castle) 77 76.
154 Dawn Dewar (Monifieth) 74 80, Laura Walker (Nairn Dunbar) 74 80.
155 Kirsty Wells (Dumfries & Co) 83 72, Laura Wells (Dumfries & Co) 82 73.
156 Fiona Gilbert (Carnoustie Ladies) 77 79.
157 Kerri Harper (Inverness) 77 80, Lyndsey Devenish (Aberdeen Ladies) 75 82.
158 Laura Murray (Alford) 80 78.
159 Ann Ramsay (Kirriemuir) 78 81, Louisa Ruane (Cardross) 78 81.
160 Fiona Hindshaw (Gullane) 80 80.
162 Sjavon Wilson (Murcar) 83 79, Lesley Rolland (Dunfermline) 79 83, Megan Briggs (Ranfurly Castle) 82 80.
164 Roseanne Niven (Crieff) 82 82.
165 Katie Thomson (Kintore) 74 91, Claire McLoughlin (Kilspindie) 81 84.
166 Amanda Edwards (Liberton) 81 85.
169 Lesley Williamson (Barassie) 85 84, Sara Thomson (Murcar) 86 83.
170 Kelsey MacDonald (Nairn Dunbar) 84 86, Sarah Horsburgh (Dunbar) 87 83.
171 Kylie Walker (Buchanan Castle) 84 87, Jane Turner (Glencorse) 80 91, Emma Fairnie (Minto) 88 83, G Mullen (Paisley) 86 85.
173 Gillian Davidson (Saline) 90 83, Debbie Neilson (Hilton Park) 84 89.
174 Fiona Williamson (Barassie) 88 86, Dawn Bell (Whitecraigs) 84 90.
176 Jill McNicoll (Longniddry) 87 89.
179 Catherine Paterson (Gullane) 89 90, Kirstin Fortune (Haddington) 91 88.
180 Victoria Waddell (Kirkintilloch) 87 93, Hannah Harvey (St Leonards) 90 89.
181 Sally Kettlewell (Dunblane New) 93 88.
183 Nicola Melville (Bridge of Allan) 84 99, Ashton Ingram (Fort William) 97 86, Morag MacPherson (Barassie) 92 91, Louise MacGregor (Falkirk Carmuirs) 91 92.
184 Vicki Caudwell (Manchester) 89 95.
185 Rachel Clark (Dumfries & Co) 94 91.
186 Sarah Devenish (Kingsknowe) 96 90.
191 Sarah Herd (Dunblane New) 93 98.
197 Kirsty Macalister (Carradale) 95 102.
202 Linzi Graham (Ralston) 98 104.
204 Karen Murray (Alford) 99 105.
205 Lauren Macklin (Ranfurly Castle) 105 100.
216 Natalie Thomson (Murcar) 104 112.
Retired: Alison Mitchell (Ranfurly Castle), Amanda Forrest (Broomieknowe), Vicki Smith (Bentinck Ladies).

INTRO

JENNA SETS THE UNDER-21 PACE AT KILMACOLM

Jenna Wilson from Strathaven set the first-round pace in the BP Scottish Under-21 girls' open stroke-play golf championship at Kilmacolm today.
Miss Wilson, bound for San Diego State University next month, shot a one-under-par 71 to open up a two-shot advantage in the 54-hole tournament.
Jenna birdied the first, seventth, 14th and 15th in halves of 34 (one under par) and 37 (level). She had bogeys at the third, 12th and 18th.
Disputing second place on 73 were 14-year-old Krystle Caithness (St Regulus) and Heather MacRae (Dunblane New).
Miss Caithness (St Regulus) had three birdies in halves of 37 (two over) and 36 (one under), picking up 2s at short second and 12th and a 4 at the long seventh.
Her bogeys came at the first, fourth, eighth, ninth and 16th.
Heather MacRae (Dunblane New), also heading for San Diego State University and set to gain her first full cap for Scotland in September's women's home internationals at Cruden Bay, was not on song in an outward 38 (three over par) with bogeys at the second, sixth, seventh and eighth and only one birdie, at the fifth.
But Miss MacRae, who drove up to Kilmacolm on Monday night after just failing to survive the Weetabix Women's British Open final qualifying at Fairhaven, got her act together on the inward half. She birdied the 11th, 13th and 14th and only a bogey at the 16th robbed her of second place on her own at lunchtime.

SCOREBOARD
FIRST ROUND

71 Jenna Wilson (Strathaven).
73 Krystle Caithness (St Regulus), Heather MacRae (Dunblane New).
74 Dawn Dewar (Monifeith), Louise Kenney (Pitreavie), Katie Thomson (Kintore).
75 Lesley Hendry (Routenburn), Lyndsey Devenish (Aberdeen Ladies).
76 Emily Ogilvy (Muckhart), Pamela Feggans (Doon Valley).
77 Kerri Harper (Inverness), Kate O'Sullivan (Cochrane Castle).
78 Kelly Brotherton (Tulliallan).
79 Lesley Rolland (Dunfermline).
80 Gemma Webster (Hilton Park), Laura Murray (Alford), Jane Turner (Glencorse).
81 Amanda Edwards (Liberton), Claire McLoughlin (Kilspindie).
82 Roseanne Niven (Crieff), Laura Wells (Dumfries & Co).
83 Sjavon Wilson (Murcar).
84 Kelsey MacDonald (Nairn Dunbar), Debbie Neilson (Hilton Park).
85 Lesley Williamson (Barassie).
86 Sara Thomson (Murcar).
87 Victoria Waddell (Kirkintilloch).
89 Catherine Paterson (Gullane).
90 Gillian Davidson (Saline).
91 Kirstin Fortune (Haddington).
Retired: Alison Mitchell (Ranfurly Castle)