SEVEN-BIRDIE START FOR LYNN
KENNY (70) BUT HEATHER AND
JENNA STRUGGLE
Lynn Kenny, pictured right, got off to a super start in the Ladies European Tour Final Qualifying School but fellow-Scots Heather MacRae and Jenna Wilson have a big repair job to do over the two rounds at La Cala Golf Resort near Marbella on Spain's Costa del Sol.
Lynn had one of her best rounds after a miserable season on the LET.
She had seven birdies in all in recording a two-under-par 70 to be in joint third place behind first-round leader Dana Lacey (Australia) (68) and Maria Beautell (Spain) (69).
Miss Kenny, who is sponsored by the Clydesdale Bank, must have thought "Here we go again" when she started bogey-bogey. But a hat-trick of birdies from the third put her back on track and she bounced back from another bogey at the sixth to birdie the seventh and eighth for an outward half of two-under-par 34.
A 2 at the short 11th set her up for the inward half and she held it together well until bogeying the 15th and 16th but she did collect her seventh birdie of the day at the 18th in an inward 36.
Heather MacRae, playing as an amateur still, is in joint 55th place after a 76.
Heather had birdies at the second, fifth, 12th and 18th in halves of 38.
A double-bogey seventh at the long fourth was a body blow to last year's British women's open amateur stroke-play championship winner at Nairn.
Heather also bogeyed the seventh, ninth, 10th, 11th, 13th and 17th in a scratchy kind of round.
Jenna Wilson deservedbetter than a 78 which put her in joint 71st place.
The Strathaven lass had 15 pars - but the other three holes cost her six shots to par. At the short ninth, she had a double bogey 5 to be out in 38.
Jenna dropped another shot at the short 11th but the final blow came at the long 18th where she ran up a triple bogey 8 for an inward 40.
There will be a cut after three rounds to the leading 50 players and ties. At the conclusion of the fourth and final round, the top 25 will gain full playing rights on the 2007 Ladies European Tour.

SCOREBOARD
Par 72
68 Dana Lacey (Aus).
69 Maria Beautell (Spa).
70 (am) Stacy Lee Bregman (SAf), Melodie Bourdy (Fra), Helen Beatty (Aus), Nicole Gergely (Aut), Hanna-Leena Salonen (Fin), Lynn Kenny (Sco).
71 Felicity Johnson (Eng), (am) Claire Coughlan (Ire), Sophie Hunter (Eng), Heidi McCulkin (Aus), Samantha Head (Eng), (am) Maria Verchenova (Rus), Julie Tvede (Den), Lee-Anne Pace (SAf), (am) Sophie Walker (Eng).
Other scores included:
72 Kiran Matharu (Eng) (jt 19th).
74 (am) Martina Gillen (Ire) (jt 35th).
76 (am) Heather MacRae (Sco), Louise Stahle (Swe) (jt 55th).
77 Hazel Kavanagh (Ire) (jt 63rd).
78 (am) Jenna Wilson (Sco), (am) Stephanie Evans (Wal), (am) Rachel Bell (Eng) (jt 71st).
79 Kirsty Fisher (Eng) (jt 81st).