TARA DELANEY UPDATE

SECOND ROUND DISASTERS COST
TARA TOP-10 PLACE IN TENNESSEE

Irish international team player Tara Delaney from Carlow improved from 24th to a final placing of joint 11th in the Mercedes-Benz Women’s Championship college golf tournament at Cherokee Country Club, Knoxville in Tennessee (Sunday, USA time).
Tara, a golf scholarship student at Kent State University, Ohio, had rounds of 71, 81 and 72 over the par-71 course for a total of 224. She had birdies at the 11th and 16th but bogeys at the second, 10th and 12th in her closing halves of 36.
She would clearly have gained a top-10 finish but for that disastrous second-round 81 which included a double bogey at the first and a quadruple-bogey at the fourth.
Tara’s Kent State team-mates, Becky Wood from England, and her own sister, Karen, finished joint 24th and tied 73rd respectively. Becky scored 75, 77 and 75 for 227 while Karen had rounds of 95, 82 and 85 for 252. Over the 54 holes, Karen had nine double bogeys – five of them in her final round - and two triple bogeys.
Anna Nordqvist, winner of the British girls’ open championship this past summer and a member of the Swedish Junior Team competing in the Mercedes-Benz championship, tied for sixth place with scores of 76, 72 and 72 for 220.
Amanda McCurdy (Arkansas) won the individual title with scores of 70, 74 and 69 for level par 213. She had two shots to spare over Marci Turner (Tennessee) who scored 76, 71 and 68 for 215.
Whitney Wade (Georgia) was third with 71, 73 and 72 for 216.
Georgia (882) won the team title from Purdue (885) and Arkansas (889) with the Swedish Junior Team fourth on 892.
Kent State (914) came eighth of 14.