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Sunday, May 27, 2007

CARLY STRUGGLES OVER FINAL NINE HOLES
TO FINISH SIXTH IN SKANDIA GIRLS' OPEN

Comrie kid Carly Booth, 15 next month, finished best of the Scots who made it to the final day of the Skandia Junior Opens in Sweden on Sunday – but she would have been very disappointed with her joint sixth finish in the girls’ 54-hole event at Bastad Golf Club.
Carly started the final round in joint third position after two creditable rounds of 74.
The +2 handicap youngster then slumped to a closing nine-over-par 80, including an inward half of 42 in which she had threee double bogeys, for a total of 228.
The consolation for Miss Booth is that the event was a qualifier for the European Junior Solheim Cup team to play the United States over the same course from September 10 to 12 and even sixth place will earn her some points.
Sweden’s Caroline Hedwall outclassed the field to win the girls’ title by NINE strokes with scores of 74, 67 and 71 for one-under-par 212.
Nathalie Manson from near Stockholm was runner-up with 70, 76 and 75 for 221.
Guila Moninaro, the Italian girl, who was a member of the European Junior Ryder Cup team at Celtic Manor alongwith Carly Booth last autumn, finished on the same 15-over-par mark as the Scot. Guila scored 70, 81 and 77.
In the boys’ 54-hole competition at Falkenberg Golf Club, near Gothenburg, Paul Shields from Kirkhill Golf Club, Cambuslang finished joint 12th on four-over-par 220. He had rounds of 70, 76 and 74. Paul; had three birdies in his final round but also five bogeys.
Andrew Campbell (Dumbarton), the only other Scots boy to survive the 36-hole cut, had rounds of 82, 75 and 81 for joint 65th position on 238. Andrew had a triple bogey 78 at the third and a double bogey 67 at the 13th in his closing round.
Boys’ champion was Norway’s Anders Kristiansen with scores of 72, 70 and 69 for an impressive five-under-par total of 211. He won by a shot from Sweden’s Daniel Jennevret with 73, 70 and 69.
The top English boy was Andrew Johnston (North Middlesex) in joint fifth place on level par 216 with scores of 70, 72 and 74, despite a double bogey 7 at the first and a bogey 5 at the second. Andrew birdied the 17th and 18th in his final round.

SKANDIA JUNIOR OPENS
Boys: Falkenberg GC, Par 216 (3 x 72)
Leading final totals
211 Anders Kristiansen (Norway) 72 70 69.
212 Daniel Jennevret (Sweden) 73 70 69.
214 Daniel Lokke (Denmark) 73 73 68.
Other totals:
216 Andrew Johnston (North Middleseec 70 72 74 (jt 5th).
218 Henry Smart (Walton Heath) 80 72 66 (jt 9th).
220 Paul Shields (Kirkhill) 70 76 74 (jt 12th).
223 Billy Britton (Pedham Place) 73 75 75 (jt 20th).
238 Andrew Campbell (Dumbarton) 82 75 81 (jt 65th).
Missed cut
160 Paul Ferrier (Baberton) 79 81.
162 William Bremner (Edzell) 83 79.

Girls: Bastad GC, Par 213 (3 x 71)
Leading final totals
212 Caroline Hedwall (Sweden) 74 67 71.
221 Nathalie Manson (Sweden) 70 76 75.
225 Charlotte Lorentzen (Sweden) 70 72 77.
Other totals:
228 Carly Booth (Comrie) 74 74 80, G Molinaro (Italy) 70 81 77.

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