PRE-QUALIFIER IN ITALY PREVCIEW
SIX SCOTS AND LIZ TACKLE FIRST HURDLE
ON BID TO WIN L E T PLAYERS' CARDS
Six Scots and a New Zealander who lives near Inverness are in a field of 100 who will be putting their Ladies European Tour hopes on the line in Stage 1 of the Qualifying School over the Metaponto Golf Club course near Bari in southern Italy on Thursday and Friday.
Professionals of varying vintages, Tracey Craik (La Manga Club), Lesley Mackay (Total Golf), Lynn Kenny (Prime Staff) and San Francisco-based Susie Laing from Troon tee it up alongside amateurs Anne Laing (Vale of Leven), who has been three times Scottish champion, and two members of the Scottish title-winning Northern Counties team, Cara Gruber (Royal Dornoch) and Liz McKinnon (Nairn), the former New Zealander junior champion who has won the Northern Counties individual title twice in the past three years.
The competition will be fierce in a field which contains three of Anne Laing’s Curtis Cup team-mates from Formby last June- Shelley McKevitt (Reading), Anna Highgate (Southerndown) and Fame More (Chesterfield), former Irish champion Martina Gillen, former Welsh champion Kate Phillips, Elisa Serramia, the young Spaniard who won the British women’s open amateur title last year, Denise Simon (Germany), a prolific winner of international open amateur tournaments on the Continent, and Jo Nicolson (Wrexham), winner of the British mid-amateur championship this year.
And this is only pre-qualifying event! The Final Ladies European Tour Qualifying School runs from Sunday to Wednesday over 72 holes at the Riva dei Tessali course. There will be a field of 90 for that – the qualifiers from the Pre-Qualifier plus the LET members who did not win enough money on the circuit this year to retain their playing cards.
ON BID TO WIN L E T PLAYERS' CARDS
Six Scots and a New Zealander who lives near Inverness are in a field of 100 who will be putting their Ladies European Tour hopes on the line in Stage 1 of the Qualifying School over the Metaponto Golf Club course near Bari in southern Italy on Thursday and Friday.
Professionals of varying vintages, Tracey Craik (La Manga Club), Lesley Mackay (Total Golf), Lynn Kenny (Prime Staff) and San Francisco-based Susie Laing from Troon tee it up alongside amateurs Anne Laing (Vale of Leven), who has been three times Scottish champion, and two members of the Scottish title-winning Northern Counties team, Cara Gruber (Royal Dornoch) and Liz McKinnon (Nairn), the former New Zealander junior champion who has won the Northern Counties individual title twice in the past three years.
The competition will be fierce in a field which contains three of Anne Laing’s Curtis Cup team-mates from Formby last June- Shelley McKevitt (Reading), Anna Highgate (Southerndown) and Fame More (Chesterfield), former Irish champion Martina Gillen, former Welsh champion Kate Phillips, Elisa Serramia, the young Spaniard who won the British women’s open amateur title last year, Denise Simon (Germany), a prolific winner of international open amateur tournaments on the Continent, and Jo Nicolson (Wrexham), winner of the British mid-amateur championship this year.
And this is only pre-qualifying event! The Final Ladies European Tour Qualifying School runs from Sunday to Wednesday over 72 holes at the Riva dei Tessali course. There will be a field of 90 for that – the qualifiers from the Pre-Qualifier plus the LET members who did not win enough money on the circuit this year to retain their playing cards.
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