BRITISH WOMEN'S AMATEUR STROKE-PLAY
END OF PLAY WEDNESDAY SCOREBOARD
BRITISH WOMEN'S OPEN AMATEUR STROKE-PLAY CHAMPIONSHIP
The Nairn Golf Club
First round scores (Par 72)
71 N Gergely (Aut), S Walker (Eng).
72 H Macrae (Sco).
73 S Gal (Ger), L Kenney (Sco), E Ogilvy (Sco).
74 F In-Albon (Swi), L H Diggle (Eng), B Toumpsin (Bel), M Gillen (Ire), A Laing (Sco), L Holmes (Eng), K Matharu (Eng).
75 C Gruber (Sco), T Delaney (Ire), C Lee (Eng), C Queen (Sco), A Rossi (Ita), C Tucker (Ire), N Edwards (Eng), K Werdinig (Aut), E Brown (Eng).
76 R Bell (Eng), F Seeholzer (Swi), K MacDonald (Sco), S Hassan (Wal), L Eastwood (Eng), F Lockhart (Sco), V Stefansen (Den), L Lausberg (SAf).
77 L Bennett (Eng), R Niven (Sco), J Wilson (Sco), E Duggleby (Eng), V Valvassori (Ita), L Collin (Eng), S Birks (Wal), A Edwards (US), J Carthew (Sco).
78 S Bregman (SAf), C Booth (Sco), J Gregg (Eng), M Pow (Sco), N Aazam (Swi), K Harper (Sco), S Dony (Bel), M Verchenova (Rus), M Jorgensen (Den). T Luccioli (Bel), R Lomas (Eng).
79 E Lyons (Eng), S Michl (Aut), L Willems (Bel), S Attwood (Eng), K Caithness (Sco), K Walker (Sco), L Barton (Eng).
80 T Boyes (Eng), L Hall (Wal), L Walker (Sco), K Smith (Eng), G Paolillo (Ita), L Tarn (Eng), J Gibson (Eng), P Pretswell (Sco), F Sanderson (Eng), S James (Eng), M Thomson (Sco).
81 C Coughlan (Ire), A Roscio (Ita), E Wanet (Bel), S Kreuger (US), S Brodie (Eng), L Taylor (Eng), J Turner (Sco), C Ellis (Eng).
82 E Fairnie (Sco), S Meadow (Ire), C Hargan (Sco).
83 G Webster (Sco), S-J Eaves (Eng), N Lowe (Eng), H Aitchison (Eng), E Sheffield (Eng).
84 D Dewar (Sco).
85 C-M Carlton (Sco), E McBride (Eng), A Ingram (Sco).
86 F Smith (Eng), J McGuffog (Eng).
88 H Harvey (Sco), C McAndrew (Sco), R Newren (US), A Marshall (Eng).
89 A Childers (US), A Edwards (US), G Chalmers (Sco), G Garbaccio (Ita), M Vanmoi (Bel), I Harvey (Sco).
90 L Johnstone (Eng)
95 C Oliver (Sco).
Retired: S Evans (Wal), P Brown (US).
No Return K-A Haskell (Eng).
AMERICAN COLLEGE TRIO LEAD
SCOTS CHALLENGE AT NAIRN
American college students Heather Macrae, Louise Kenney and Emily Ogilvy were the top Scots in challenging positions at the end of the first round of the British women's open amateur stroke-play golf championship over the testing Nairn links today.
Heather, 21, from Dunblane, shrugged off a potentially nerve-shattering 8 at the par-5 seventh to match the par of 72 with halves of 38 and 34 to be one shot behind joint leaders Nicole Gergely from Austria and Vagliano Trophy team player Sophie Walker from Derbyshire.
Louise, 22, from Pitreavie, is joint third on 73 (38-35) but would have shared the lead had she avoided a double-bogey 6 at the 16th.
Emily Ogilvy, 19, from Muckhart, Perthshire, is also on 73 with Miss Kenney and Sandra Gal, the only German player in the field. Emily, at 19-year-old student at the University of Arkansas-Little Rock, clawed her way back into contention from four shots in a bunker at the first hole,
Heather, like Sophie Walker a member of the winning GB&I team in the Vagliano Trophy match at Chantilly last month, flies back to San Diego State University on Tuesday. Her goal is to play in next year's Curtis Cup match in the States.
"I've played well since the Vagliano Trophy match but the putts wouldn't drop until today. I holed a few at last," said Heather who birdied the second, third, ninth, 10th and 11th but had bogeys at the fifth and sixth before landing first in a bush, then in the heather and finally in a bunker on her way to an 8 at the seventh.
Having got that out of her system, Miss Macrae looked a class player as she covered the last 11 holes in three under par
Louise, who has been Iowa State University's record-setting top female player for the past four years, flies back to the States on Saturday to complete her degree course. She has used up all her eligibility to play on the college circuit.
"I had a little bit of everything in that round of 73, " smiled Louise.
She had birdies at the second, 10th and 15th and a grandstand birdie-birdie finish after that double-bogey 6.
"I skied my tee shot at the 16th. Then I put a five-iron shot into the burn for a penalty drop," said Louise who had bogeys at the third, sixth, eight and 12th ... two of them three-putt greens.
"These are the fastest greens I've putted on all season. I love them but you have to be careful or you're second putt is from 15ft on the other side of the hole!"
Perthshire county player Emily Ogilvy birdied the third, 10th, 11th and 16th , holing putts of 20ft, 15ft, 10ft and 15ft again, in halves of 39 and 34.
"I three-putted the eighth and the 15th for bogeys but these greens are really good," said Emil
who reached the quarter-finals of the Scottish women's championship at Cruden Bay in May.
All in all, it was a good day for the Scots with three times native champion Anne Laing (Vale of Leven) on 74 (39-35), Clare Queen (Drumpellier) starting her title defence with a 75 (38-37), the same mark as Royal Dornoch's Cara Gruber (39-36).
On 76 are 14-year-old Nairn Dunbar youngster Kelsey MacDonald and Scottish women's champion Fiona Lockhart (St Regulus).
Carly Booth, only 13 years old and making her debut in a British women's championship, finished on 78 - which was quite a creditable score, considering she three-putted almost every green in the opening six or seven holes and reached the turn in 40. She came home in 36, which matched the par.
Stephanie Evans, the left-handed Welsh international from Vale of Llangollen, had to retire after only two holes with a back problem. In last year's championship Stephanie lost a three-way title play-off with Clare Queen and Shelley McKevitt.
BRITISH WOMEN'S OPEN AMATEUR STROKE-PLAY CHAMPIONSHIP
The Nairn Golf Club
First round scores (Par 72)
71 N Gergely (Aut), S Walker (Eng).
72 H Macrae (Sco).
73 S Gal (Ger), L Kenney (Sco), E Ogilvy (Sco).
74 F In-Albon (Swi), L H Diggle (Eng), B Toumpsin (Bel), M Gillen (Ire), A Laing (Sco), L Holmes (Eng), K Matharu (Eng).
75 C Gruber (Sco), T Delaney (Ire), C Lee (Eng), C Queen (Sco), A Rossi (Ita), C Tucker (Ire), N Edwards (Eng), K Werdinig (Aut), E Brown (Eng).
76 R Bell (Eng), F Seeholzer (Swi), K MacDonald (Sco), S Hassan (Wal), L Eastwood (Eng), F Lockhart (Sco), V Stefansen (Den), L Lausberg (SAf).
77 L Bennett (Eng), R Niven (Sco), J Wilson (Sco), E Duggleby (Eng), V Valvassori (Ita), L Collin (Eng), S Birks (Wal), A Edwards (US), J Carthew (Sco).
78 S Bregman (SAf), C Booth (Sco), J Gregg (Eng), M Pow (Sco), N Aazam (Swi), K Harper (Sco), S Dony (Bel), M Verchenova (Rus), M Jorgensen (Den). T Luccioli (Bel), R Lomas (Eng).
79 E Lyons (Eng), S Michl (Aut), L Willems (Bel), S Attwood (Eng), K Caithness (Sco), K Walker (Sco), L Barton (Eng).
80 T Boyes (Eng), L Hall (Wal), L Walker (Sco), K Smith (Eng), G Paolillo (Ita), L Tarn (Eng), J Gibson (Eng), P Pretswell (Sco), F Sanderson (Eng), S James (Eng), M Thomson (Sco).
81 C Coughlan (Ire), A Roscio (Ita), E Wanet (Bel), S Kreuger (US), S Brodie (Eng), L Taylor (Eng), J Turner (Sco), C Ellis (Eng).
82 E Fairnie (Sco), S Meadow (Ire), C Hargan (Sco).
83 G Webster (Sco), S-J Eaves (Eng), N Lowe (Eng), H Aitchison (Eng), E Sheffield (Eng).
84 D Dewar (Sco).
85 C-M Carlton (Sco), E McBride (Eng), A Ingram (Sco).
86 F Smith (Eng), J McGuffog (Eng).
88 H Harvey (Sco), C McAndrew (Sco), R Newren (US), A Marshall (Eng).
89 A Childers (US), A Edwards (US), G Chalmers (Sco), G Garbaccio (Ita), M Vanmoi (Bel), I Harvey (Sco).
90 L Johnstone (Eng)
95 C Oliver (Sco).
Retired: S Evans (Wal), P Brown (US).
No Return K-A Haskell (Eng).
AMERICAN COLLEGE TRIO LEAD
SCOTS CHALLENGE AT NAIRN
American college students Heather Macrae, Louise Kenney and Emily Ogilvy were the top Scots in challenging positions at the end of the first round of the British women's open amateur stroke-play golf championship over the testing Nairn links today.
Heather, 21, from Dunblane, shrugged off a potentially nerve-shattering 8 at the par-5 seventh to match the par of 72 with halves of 38 and 34 to be one shot behind joint leaders Nicole Gergely from Austria and Vagliano Trophy team player Sophie Walker from Derbyshire.
Louise, 22, from Pitreavie, is joint third on 73 (38-35) but would have shared the lead had she avoided a double-bogey 6 at the 16th.
Emily Ogilvy, 19, from Muckhart, Perthshire, is also on 73 with Miss Kenney and Sandra Gal, the only German player in the field. Emily, at 19-year-old student at the University of Arkansas-Little Rock, clawed her way back into contention from four shots in a bunker at the first hole,
Heather, like Sophie Walker a member of the winning GB&I team in the Vagliano Trophy match at Chantilly last month, flies back to San Diego State University on Tuesday. Her goal is to play in next year's Curtis Cup match in the States.
"I've played well since the Vagliano Trophy match but the putts wouldn't drop until today. I holed a few at last," said Heather who birdied the second, third, ninth, 10th and 11th but had bogeys at the fifth and sixth before landing first in a bush, then in the heather and finally in a bunker on her way to an 8 at the seventh.
Having got that out of her system, Miss Macrae looked a class player as she covered the last 11 holes in three under par
Louise, who has been Iowa State University's record-setting top female player for the past four years, flies back to the States on Saturday to complete her degree course. She has used up all her eligibility to play on the college circuit.
"I had a little bit of everything in that round of 73, " smiled Louise.
She had birdies at the second, 10th and 15th and a grandstand birdie-birdie finish after that double-bogey 6.
"I skied my tee shot at the 16th. Then I put a five-iron shot into the burn for a penalty drop," said Louise who had bogeys at the third, sixth, eight and 12th ... two of them three-putt greens.
"These are the fastest greens I've putted on all season. I love them but you have to be careful or you're second putt is from 15ft on the other side of the hole!"
Perthshire county player Emily Ogilvy birdied the third, 10th, 11th and 16th , holing putts of 20ft, 15ft, 10ft and 15ft again, in halves of 39 and 34.
"I three-putted the eighth and the 15th for bogeys but these greens are really good," said Emil
who reached the quarter-finals of the Scottish women's championship at Cruden Bay in May.
All in all, it was a good day for the Scots with three times native champion Anne Laing (Vale of Leven) on 74 (39-35), Clare Queen (Drumpellier) starting her title defence with a 75 (38-37), the same mark as Royal Dornoch's Cara Gruber (39-36).
On 76 are 14-year-old Nairn Dunbar youngster Kelsey MacDonald and Scottish women's champion Fiona Lockhart (St Regulus).
Carly Booth, only 13 years old and making her debut in a British women's championship, finished on 78 - which was quite a creditable score, considering she three-putted almost every green in the opening six or seven holes and reached the turn in 40. She came home in 36, which matched the par.
Stephanie Evans, the left-handed Welsh international from Vale of Llangollen, had to retire after only two holes with a back problem. In last year's championship Stephanie lost a three-way title play-off with Clare Queen and Shelley McKevitt.
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