HARDER HALL INVITATIONAL
VICKI TIES FOR SENIOR MEDALLIST HONOURS
WELSH senior women’s amateur golf champion Vicki Thomas from Carmarthen tied with Taffy Brower (Boynton Beach, Florida) for senior medallist honours after three rounds of the 51st Harder Hall Invitational women’s tournament at Harder Hall Golf Club, Sebring in Florida.
Vicki had a third-round 81 in cold, windy conditions for a 54-hole tally of 237. The former Curtis Cup player’s earlier rounds were a pair of 78s.
Sarah Carty, a 19-year-old six-handicapper, from the Island Golf Club, Dublin has had rounds of 89, 81 and 88 for 258. Sarah has a taken a year out to improve her golf handicap and, on the advice of her coach, has entered all four events that make up the Orange Blossom Tour in Florida every January.
The championship is decided over 72 holes and University of Arkansas student Stacy Lewis, from The Woodlands, Texas, is heading for a clear-cut win. She shot a third-round 75, three over par for the 6,151yd course, for a tally of three-under-par 213 with one round to go.
That boosted Stacy’s overnight lead to seven shots from another US college circuit player, Garrett Phillips (Augusta State University) from St Simons Island, Georgia. As the leaders struggled in the conditions, Garrett vaulted from 16th place at the start of the day to second with a brilliant round of four-under 68 for 219.
Carol Thompson, the tournament director and winner of the prestigious “Harder Hall” title three times in a row in the 1990s, has scored 83, 76 and 81 for 240. A record-setting Curtis Cup player for the United States, Carol joked: “I guess I am better on the computer than out on the golf course these days.”
SCOREBOARD
THIRD-ROUND LEADERS
213 Stacy Lewis (Texas) 69 69 75.
219 Garrett Phillips (Georgia) 77 74 68.
223 Michelle Jarman (North Carolina) 71 72 80, Alison Walshe (Massachusetts) 76 68 79.
Other scores:
237 Vicki Thomas (Wales) 78 78 81.
240 Carol Thompson (Pennsylvania) 83 76 81.
258 Sarah Carty (Ireland) 89 81 88.
WELSH senior women’s amateur golf champion Vicki Thomas from Carmarthen tied with Taffy Brower (Boynton Beach, Florida) for senior medallist honours after three rounds of the 51st Harder Hall Invitational women’s tournament at Harder Hall Golf Club, Sebring in Florida.
Vicki had a third-round 81 in cold, windy conditions for a 54-hole tally of 237. The former Curtis Cup player’s earlier rounds were a pair of 78s.
Sarah Carty, a 19-year-old six-handicapper, from the Island Golf Club, Dublin has had rounds of 89, 81 and 88 for 258. Sarah has a taken a year out to improve her golf handicap and, on the advice of her coach, has entered all four events that make up the Orange Blossom Tour in Florida every January.
The championship is decided over 72 holes and University of Arkansas student Stacy Lewis, from The Woodlands, Texas, is heading for a clear-cut win. She shot a third-round 75, three over par for the 6,151yd course, for a tally of three-under-par 213 with one round to go.
That boosted Stacy’s overnight lead to seven shots from another US college circuit player, Garrett Phillips (Augusta State University) from St Simons Island, Georgia. As the leaders struggled in the conditions, Garrett vaulted from 16th place at the start of the day to second with a brilliant round of four-under 68 for 219.
Carol Thompson, the tournament director and winner of the prestigious “Harder Hall” title three times in a row in the 1990s, has scored 83, 76 and 81 for 240. A record-setting Curtis Cup player for the United States, Carol joked: “I guess I am better on the computer than out on the golf course these days.”
SCOREBOARD
THIRD-ROUND LEADERS
213 Stacy Lewis (Texas) 69 69 75.
219 Garrett Phillips (Georgia) 77 74 68.
223 Michelle Jarman (North Carolina) 71 72 80, Alison Walshe (Massachusetts) 76 68 79.
Other scores:
237 Vicki Thomas (Wales) 78 78 81.
240 Carol Thompson (Pennsylvania) 83 76 81.
258 Sarah Carty (Ireland) 89 81 88.
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