EAGLE FINISH GIVES LYNN FIGHTING
CHANCE OF KEEPING L E T CARD
... but Jenna and Heather miss the cut
Lynn Kenny needs one more good round on the last day of the Ladies European Tour Final Qualifying School at La Cala Golf Resort near Marbella to be one of the 28 recipients of full playing rights in the 2007 season.
But, for Scotland international amateurs Jenna Wilson from Strathaven and Dunblane’s Heather MacRae, their hopes of becoming tour professionals are over for another season.
Lynn, sponsored by the Clydesdale Bank, is in joint 26th place after three rounds of 80, 78 and 71 for three-over-par 219.
She finished her third-round on a high with an eagle 3 at the 18th which makes her final-day task that bit easier. Earlier Lynn had birdied the fourth and sixth but bogeyed the first, ninth and 16th in halves of 36 and 35.
From a starting field of 95, the leading 50 players with 54-hole totals of seven-over-par 223 or better advanced to the day of reckoning.
Heather MacRae was two strokes over the limit with 76, 74 and 75 for 225. A double bogey 7 at the fourth hole on the first day was to prove the killer blow in the final analysis. In today’s third round she had her only birdie at the second before bogeying the third, 10th, 13th and 17th in halves of 36 and 39.
JENNA OFF FORM
Jenna Wilson, who had done so well in the LET Stage 1 eliminator in Italy, couldn’t find that form on the Costa del Sol. She finished on 14-over-par 230 with scores of 78, 75 and 77. She started her third round brightly enough with birdies at the second and fourth but it was downhill, or should that be uphill all the way after that with bogeys at the fifth, sixth, seventh, 10th, 11th, 14th and 18th in halves of 37 and 40.
Samantha Head, a 34-year-old twin from Ascot but Florida-based, took up the pole position with with a brilliant third-round of seven-under-par 65 – one eagle and six birdies - which put her on the six-under-par mark of 210. Her earlier rounds had been 71 and 74.
English amateur champion Kiran Matharu, who turned pro after this past summer’s Curtis Cup, has hit form at just the right time to be sharing second place with GB&I team-mate, Ireland’s Claire Coughlan, who is still an amateur, and experienced Austrian Stefanie Michl. Kiran has put together three steady rounds of 72, 70 and 70 for 212. Claire, from Cork, birdied the second, fourth, fifth and 12th and had just one bogey, at the 17th, where she missed the green with her approach, for a 69, after scores of 71 and 72.
There will be two Irish players in action on the last day. Martina Gillen made the cut bang on the limit mark of 223 after carding a brave 72 , following rounds of 74 and 77.
Even today, it was not plain sailing for the Beaverstown player. She had a double bogey at the fourth but fought back with birdies at the fifth, eighth, 14th and 16th. But, in joint 48th place, Martina needs to produce a fourth-round score that will catapult her 23 places up the leaderboard if she is to collect a full player’s card for 2007.
A third Irish player, Hazel Kavanagh, who is one half of Ireland’s team for the Women’s World Cup in South Africa in January, failed to make the cut. A third-round 73 continued the progress she had show each day – earlier rounds 77 and 75 – but a total of 225 left her two shots outside the limit.
QUALIFIERS FOR FINAL ROUND
Par 216 (72 x 3)
210 Samantha Head (Eng) 71 74 65.
212 Stefanie Michl (Aut) 72 72 68, Claire Coughlan (Ire) (am) 71 72 69, Kiran Matharu (Eng) 72 70 70.
213 Stacy Lee Bregman (SAf) (am) 70 75 68, Felicity Johnson (Eng) 71 73 69, Hanna-Leena Salonen (FIN) 70 69 74.
214 Louise Stahle (Swe) 76 73 65, Maria Verchenova (Rus) (am) 71 75 68, Anna Temple (US) 72 72 70.
215 Fany Schaeffer (Fra) 75 71 69, Jenni Kuosa (Fin) 73 70 72, Jade Schaeffer (Fra) 72 70 73.
216 Sophie Walker (Eng) (am) 71 71 74.
217 Suzanne Dickens (Eng) 74 72 71, Dana Lacey (Aus) 68 75 74, Maria Beautell (Spa) 69 73 75, Lill Kristin Saether (Nor) 73 67 77.
218 Titiya Plucksataporn (Tha) 75 76 67, Libby Smith (US) 72 76 70, Anna Rossi (Ita) (am) 75 73 70, Melodie Bourdy (Fra) (am)70 76 72, Jo Clingan (Eng) 73 72 73, Heidi McCulkin (Aus) 71 73 74, Julie Tvede (Den) 71 72 75.
219 Lee-Anne Pace (SAf) 71 79 69, Emma Zackrisson (Swe) 76 73 70, Lynn Kenny (Sco) 70 78 71, Natalie Claire Booth (Eng) 78 69 72, Frederique Seeholzer (Swi) 75 72 72, Barbara Paruscio (Ita) 74 72 73, Anne Lise Caudal (Fra) (am) 73 71 75.
220 Rikke Rasmussen (Den) 74 75 71, Valerie Michaud (Fra) 73 75 72, Cassandra Kirkland (Fra) (am) 78 69 73, Janice Olivencia (PR) 72 74 74 Melanie Holmes-Smith (Aus) 74 72 74.
221 Patricia Beliard (Fra) 72 80 69, Bree Turnbull (Aus) 76 76 69, Laura Terebey (US) 72 75 74, Eva Bjarvall (Swe) 73 73 75, Sophie Hunter (Eng) 71 73 77.
222 Zuzana Masinova (Cze) (am) 74 76 72, Nicole Gergely (Aut) 70 79 73, Marianne Skarpnord (Nor) 73 75 74, Kaisa Ruuttila (Fin) (am) 76 76 70, Rui Yokomine (Jap) 70 74 78.
223 Shelley McKevitt (Eng) 80 71 72, Martina Gillen (Ire) (am) 74 77 72, Joanne Oliver (Eng) 76 75 72, Morgana Robbertze (SAf) 75 76 72, Julie Berton (Fra) (am) 76 73 74.
MISSED CUT
224 Helen Beatty (Aus) 70 78 76, Sarah Nicholson (NZ) (am) 75 78 71.
225 Heather MacRae (Sco) (am) 76 74 75, Anna-Karin Salmen (Fin) (am) 75 74 76, Elena Giraud (Fra) (am) 73 76 76, Hazel Kavanagh (Ire) 77 75 73, Barbara Genuini (Fra) (am) 78 75 72.
226 Itziar Elguezabal (ESP) 78 73 75 Hanna-Sofia Svenningsson (Swe) 74 77 75, Kristie Newton (Aus) 79 73 74, Rachel Bell (Eng) (am) 78 78 70.
227 Kirsty J Fisher (Eng) 79 72 76 Caroline Afonso (Fra) (am) 74 81 72, Tamara Hyett (Aus) 75 80 72.
228 Laura Wright (Eng) 74 78 76, Antonella Cvitan (Swe) 75 79 74 Zuzana Kamasova (Slo) 77 78 73.
229 Karin Borjeskog (Swe) 78 74 77, Viva Schlasberg (Swe) (am) 75 78 76, Jillian Wyne (Can) 79 76 74, Nuria Clau (Spa) 81 74 74.
230 Jenna Wilson (Sco) (am) 78 75 77, Wendy Berger (Aus) 77 78 75, Johanna Lundberg (Swe) 78 77 75, Kelly Hutcherson (Eng) 79 78 73.
231 Camille Fallay (Fra) (am) 76 76 79, Caryn Louw (SAf) 78 75 78, Sofia Johansson (Swe) 77 79 75.
232 Katy Jarochowicz (Aus) 75 79 78, Shayne Wild (Zim) 77 79 76, Emma Lyons (Eng) (am) 77 80 75, Jenny Nilsson (Swe) 79 81 72.
233 Edita Nechanicka (CR) (am) 80 73 80, Marie Allen (Eng) 81 75 77.
234 Katharina Werdinig (Aut) 79 80 75 Josefine Skold (Swe) 79 83 72.
235 Angela Harris (Aus) 77 81 77.236 Caroline Grady (Eng) 77 84 75.
238 Elizabeth Bennett (Eng) (am) 81 77 80.
239 Florence Luscher (Swi) 80 80 79.
260 Anna Daffan (Ita) (am) 90 83 87.
Retired: Stephanie Evans (Wal) (am) 78 80 ret.
Disqualified: Pia Koivuranta (FIN) disq.
CHANCE OF KEEPING L E T CARD
... but Jenna and Heather miss the cut
Lynn Kenny needs one more good round on the last day of the Ladies European Tour Final Qualifying School at La Cala Golf Resort near Marbella to be one of the 28 recipients of full playing rights in the 2007 season.
But, for Scotland international amateurs Jenna Wilson from Strathaven and Dunblane’s Heather MacRae, their hopes of becoming tour professionals are over for another season.
Lynn, sponsored by the Clydesdale Bank, is in joint 26th place after three rounds of 80, 78 and 71 for three-over-par 219.
She finished her third-round on a high with an eagle 3 at the 18th which makes her final-day task that bit easier. Earlier Lynn had birdied the fourth and sixth but bogeyed the first, ninth and 16th in halves of 36 and 35.
From a starting field of 95, the leading 50 players with 54-hole totals of seven-over-par 223 or better advanced to the day of reckoning.
Heather MacRae was two strokes over the limit with 76, 74 and 75 for 225. A double bogey 7 at the fourth hole on the first day was to prove the killer blow in the final analysis. In today’s third round she had her only birdie at the second before bogeying the third, 10th, 13th and 17th in halves of 36 and 39.
JENNA OFF FORM
Jenna Wilson, who had done so well in the LET Stage 1 eliminator in Italy, couldn’t find that form on the Costa del Sol. She finished on 14-over-par 230 with scores of 78, 75 and 77. She started her third round brightly enough with birdies at the second and fourth but it was downhill, or should that be uphill all the way after that with bogeys at the fifth, sixth, seventh, 10th, 11th, 14th and 18th in halves of 37 and 40.
Samantha Head, a 34-year-old twin from Ascot but Florida-based, took up the pole position with with a brilliant third-round of seven-under-par 65 – one eagle and six birdies - which put her on the six-under-par mark of 210. Her earlier rounds had been 71 and 74.
English amateur champion Kiran Matharu, who turned pro after this past summer’s Curtis Cup, has hit form at just the right time to be sharing second place with GB&I team-mate, Ireland’s Claire Coughlan, who is still an amateur, and experienced Austrian Stefanie Michl. Kiran has put together three steady rounds of 72, 70 and 70 for 212. Claire, from Cork, birdied the second, fourth, fifth and 12th and had just one bogey, at the 17th, where she missed the green with her approach, for a 69, after scores of 71 and 72.
There will be two Irish players in action on the last day. Martina Gillen made the cut bang on the limit mark of 223 after carding a brave 72 , following rounds of 74 and 77.
Even today, it was not plain sailing for the Beaverstown player. She had a double bogey at the fourth but fought back with birdies at the fifth, eighth, 14th and 16th. But, in joint 48th place, Martina needs to produce a fourth-round score that will catapult her 23 places up the leaderboard if she is to collect a full player’s card for 2007.
A third Irish player, Hazel Kavanagh, who is one half of Ireland’s team for the Women’s World Cup in South Africa in January, failed to make the cut. A third-round 73 continued the progress she had show each day – earlier rounds 77 and 75 – but a total of 225 left her two shots outside the limit.
QUALIFIERS FOR FINAL ROUND
Par 216 (72 x 3)
210 Samantha Head (Eng) 71 74 65.
212 Stefanie Michl (Aut) 72 72 68, Claire Coughlan (Ire) (am) 71 72 69, Kiran Matharu (Eng) 72 70 70.
213 Stacy Lee Bregman (SAf) (am) 70 75 68, Felicity Johnson (Eng) 71 73 69, Hanna-Leena Salonen (FIN) 70 69 74.
214 Louise Stahle (Swe) 76 73 65, Maria Verchenova (Rus) (am) 71 75 68, Anna Temple (US) 72 72 70.
215 Fany Schaeffer (Fra) 75 71 69, Jenni Kuosa (Fin) 73 70 72, Jade Schaeffer (Fra) 72 70 73.
216 Sophie Walker (Eng) (am) 71 71 74.
217 Suzanne Dickens (Eng) 74 72 71, Dana Lacey (Aus) 68 75 74, Maria Beautell (Spa) 69 73 75, Lill Kristin Saether (Nor) 73 67 77.
218 Titiya Plucksataporn (Tha) 75 76 67, Libby Smith (US) 72 76 70, Anna Rossi (Ita) (am) 75 73 70, Melodie Bourdy (Fra) (am)70 76 72, Jo Clingan (Eng) 73 72 73, Heidi McCulkin (Aus) 71 73 74, Julie Tvede (Den) 71 72 75.
219 Lee-Anne Pace (SAf) 71 79 69, Emma Zackrisson (Swe) 76 73 70, Lynn Kenny (Sco) 70 78 71, Natalie Claire Booth (Eng) 78 69 72, Frederique Seeholzer (Swi) 75 72 72, Barbara Paruscio (Ita) 74 72 73, Anne Lise Caudal (Fra) (am) 73 71 75.
220 Rikke Rasmussen (Den) 74 75 71, Valerie Michaud (Fra) 73 75 72, Cassandra Kirkland (Fra) (am) 78 69 73, Janice Olivencia (PR) 72 74 74 Melanie Holmes-Smith (Aus) 74 72 74.
221 Patricia Beliard (Fra) 72 80 69, Bree Turnbull (Aus) 76 76 69, Laura Terebey (US) 72 75 74, Eva Bjarvall (Swe) 73 73 75, Sophie Hunter (Eng) 71 73 77.
222 Zuzana Masinova (Cze) (am) 74 76 72, Nicole Gergely (Aut) 70 79 73, Marianne Skarpnord (Nor) 73 75 74, Kaisa Ruuttila (Fin) (am) 76 76 70, Rui Yokomine (Jap) 70 74 78.
223 Shelley McKevitt (Eng) 80 71 72, Martina Gillen (Ire) (am) 74 77 72, Joanne Oliver (Eng) 76 75 72, Morgana Robbertze (SAf) 75 76 72, Julie Berton (Fra) (am) 76 73 74.
MISSED CUT
224 Helen Beatty (Aus) 70 78 76, Sarah Nicholson (NZ) (am) 75 78 71.
225 Heather MacRae (Sco) (am) 76 74 75, Anna-Karin Salmen (Fin) (am) 75 74 76, Elena Giraud (Fra) (am) 73 76 76, Hazel Kavanagh (Ire) 77 75 73, Barbara Genuini (Fra) (am) 78 75 72.
226 Itziar Elguezabal (ESP) 78 73 75 Hanna-Sofia Svenningsson (Swe) 74 77 75, Kristie Newton (Aus) 79 73 74, Rachel Bell (Eng) (am) 78 78 70.
227 Kirsty J Fisher (Eng) 79 72 76 Caroline Afonso (Fra) (am) 74 81 72, Tamara Hyett (Aus) 75 80 72.
228 Laura Wright (Eng) 74 78 76, Antonella Cvitan (Swe) 75 79 74 Zuzana Kamasova (Slo) 77 78 73.
229 Karin Borjeskog (Swe) 78 74 77, Viva Schlasberg (Swe) (am) 75 78 76, Jillian Wyne (Can) 79 76 74, Nuria Clau (Spa) 81 74 74.
230 Jenna Wilson (Sco) (am) 78 75 77, Wendy Berger (Aus) 77 78 75, Johanna Lundberg (Swe) 78 77 75, Kelly Hutcherson (Eng) 79 78 73.
231 Camille Fallay (Fra) (am) 76 76 79, Caryn Louw (SAf) 78 75 78, Sofia Johansson (Swe) 77 79 75.
232 Katy Jarochowicz (Aus) 75 79 78, Shayne Wild (Zim) 77 79 76, Emma Lyons (Eng) (am) 77 80 75, Jenny Nilsson (Swe) 79 81 72.
233 Edita Nechanicka (CR) (am) 80 73 80, Marie Allen (Eng) 81 75 77.
234 Katharina Werdinig (Aut) 79 80 75 Josefine Skold (Swe) 79 83 72.
235 Angela Harris (Aus) 77 81 77.236 Caroline Grady (Eng) 77 84 75.
238 Elizabeth Bennett (Eng) (am) 81 77 80.
239 Florence Luscher (Swi) 80 80 79.
260 Anna Daffan (Ita) (am) 90 83 87.
Retired: Stephanie Evans (Wal) (am) 78 80 ret.
Disqualified: Pia Koivuranta (FIN) disq.
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