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Wednesday, March 14, 2007

SALLY FLIES HOME FOR LGU MATCHES
AFTER FINISHING 12th IN TEXAS

David Leadbetter Academy student Sally Watson from South Queensferry is flying back to Britain from Florida - via Texas - in time to play for the Ladies Golf Union Elite Squad in selection trial matches against Cheshire and Lancashire men's county teams this weekend.
Sally finished joint 12th in a field of 69, including the very best Under-18 girl golfers in the United States in the Kathy Whitworth Invitational 36-hole tournament at Mira Vista Golf Club, Fort Worth in Texas earlier this week.
Miss Watson, who won't by 16 until July, had rounds of 75 and 73 for a six-over-par tally of 148 over the 6,152yd, par-71 course.
The winner of the prestigious Kathy Whitworth event - one of the top girls' tournaments in the United States - was a 14-year-old from Buena Park, California, Kristen Park. She had rounds of 71 and 70 for one-under-141.
Kristen won by one shot from Kimberly Kim, the 15-year-old holder of the US women's amateur championship from Hawaii, Florida-based Isabelle Lendl, one of the former world tennis champion's daughters, and Kristna Wong (Florida).

LEADING SCORES
Par 142 (2 x 71)
141 Kristen Park (California) 71 70.
142 Isabelle Lendl (Florida) 72 70, Kristina Wong (Florida) 72 70, Kimberly Kim (Hawaii) 70 72.
145 Cheyenne Woods (Arizona) 71 74, Elisa Aoki (Florida) 75 70, Megan Grehan (New York) 73 72, Courtney Ellenbogen (Virginia) 72 73.
146 Jane Rah (California) 74 72, Tiffany Lua (California) 71 75.
147 Angela Villela (California) 73 74.
148 Sally Watson (Scotland) 75 73, Glory Yang (California) 76 72, Andrea Watts (Florida) 75 73, Cydney Clanton (North Carolina) 71 77.