LADIES BRITISH OPEN AMATEUR SEMI-FINALS
AND FINAL DELAYED UNTIL SUNDAY

The Ladies British open amateur championship will now finish on Sunday with the semi-finals in the morning and the 18-hole final in the afternoon.
This follows the loss of 6 ½ hr play this morning when torrential overnight rain made the Alwoodley course, Leeds waterlogged and unplayable until 3pm.
At that point the eight third-round ties started.
But the weather had another blow for the Ladies Golf Union organisers still to come.
The automatic warning device of an electrical storm came into action and forced championship manager Fraser Munro to sound the klaxons and call all players and officials off the course at 7.03 pm.
There were five ties out on the course when play was halted – the quarter-final tie between top seed Carlota Ciganda (Spain) and Michele Thomson from the McDonald club, Ellon in Aberdeenshire plus the unfinished third-round ties:
Krystle Caithness (St Regulus) v Rachel Connor (Manchester).
Karin Kinnerud (Swden) v Anna Nordqvist (Sweden)
Rachel Bell (Ganton) v Sahra Hassan (Vale of Glamorgan).
Liz Bennett (Brokenhurst Manor) v Kira Meixner (Canada).
“The players have been asked to arrive back at the golf club at 8am on Saturday morning. Those still to finish their third-round ties will be bussed out to the points on the course where they were when play was halted this evening,” said Fraser Munro.
“After they have finished these ties, we will then have a break followed by only one more session of Saturday play, featuring the four quarter-final ties.
“Then, on Sunday, we will have the semi-finals in the morning and and the final on Sunday afternoon.”
All of this, of course, is weather permitting. The rain was lashing down again tonight after 8pm on a course that surely cannot take much more rainfall. It has been raining almost non-stop since early on Wednesday afternoon.