HARDER HALL INVITATIONAL

VICKI DROPS DOWN SCOREBOARD BUT BEATS CUT

Welsh senior women’s amateur champion Vicki Thomas from Carmarthen dropped down to a share of 33rd place with a second-round 81 in the 51st Harder Hall Invitational tournament at Harder Hall Golf Club, Sebring in Florida.
Vicki, who had an four-over-par 76 on the opening day, was on the 157 mark at the halfway stage.
She was one stroke inside the cut mark which saw the leading 41 players with totals of 158 or better going on to the final two rounds of the championship, won last year by Morgan Pressel.
Sarah Carty, a 19-year-old from The Island Golf Club, Dublin had rounds of 89 and 81 for 170 which put her in a tie for 85th place.
Stacy Lewis, an Arkansas University student from The Woodlands, Texas, shot a second straight 69 to increase her overnight lead to five shots with a tally of six-under-par 138.
Michelle Jarman (University of North Carolina-Wilmington) had an even par 72 to move into second place on 143.
UNC-W team-mate Lauren Hunt and Alison Walshe, the collegiate without a home school, are tied for third place on 144.
Walshe, who should be playing for Tulane is now attending Southern Methodist University, having been displaced by the floods which devastated New Orleans.
Tournament director and three-time winner of the title in the 1990s, Carole Semple Thompson scored 83 and 76 for 159.