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Saturday, September 01, 2007


JENNA JUST MAKES TOP 20 IN EURO
WOMEN'S AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP

Scottish champion Jenna Wilson from Strathaven had her worst round of the four days - a five-over-par 77 - to finish joint 19th on 299 in the European women's amateur individual golf championship at Golf National Club near Paris on Saturday.
After three 74s in a row, Jenna was looking to get closer to par and she reached the turn in level 36 only to have a nightmare inward half of 41. She ran up a triple bogey 7 at the 10th, birdied the 11th, bogeyed the 12th and double-bogeyed the 13th before dropping her final shot at the 17th.
Jenna was the only one of four Scots who started the championship to survive the 54-hole cut. Kylie Walker (Buchanan Castle), Gemma Webster (Hilton Park) and Claire-Marie Carlton (Stirling University) were eliminated.
Caroline Hedwall (Sweden), above, beat British women's open amateur champion Carlota Ciganda from Spain in a three-hole aggregate play-off after they had tied on five-under-par 283.
Hedwall covered the three holes in par, birdie, par for 10 shots. Ciganda's play-off figures were birdie-bogey-par for 11 shots.
Melissa Reid from Chevin, Derby was the leading British finisher in joint fifth place after her poorest round of the week, a 75, for 290.
Overnight leader Emma Cabrera from Spain suffered one of the most spectacular last-round collapses in a major European women’s amateur championship.
Out in one-over-par 37, Emma required 47 shots for the inward half (two triple bogey 7s and a double bogey 7) and her 84 saw her plummet to a share of seventh place on 292.

LEADING FINAL TOTALS
Par 288 (4 x 72)
283 C Hedwall (Swe) 74 70 68 71, C Ciganda (Spa) 70 70 75 65 (Hedwall beat Ciganda in a three-hole aggregate play-off: 10-11).
288 A Bonetti (Fra) 70 74 74 70.
289 C Boeljon (Fra) 73 72 69 75.]
290 S Gall (Ger) 74 72 72 72, M Reid (Eng) 72 73 70 75.
292 T Hoffmesiter (Ger) 76 70 73 73, E Cabrera (Spa) 71 71 66 84.
Other totals:
294 R Bell (Eng) 74 73 72 75 (jt 12th).
299 J Wilson (Sco) 74 74 74 77 (jt 19th).
301 K Smith (Eng) 78 78 72 73 (jt 23rd).
302 F Parker (Eng) 78 67 76 81 (jt 27th).
304 R Jennings (Eng) 83 72 73 76, S Hassan (Wal) 77 77 73 77 (jt 35th).
305 N Edwards (Engt) 75 75 77 78 (jt 42nd).
310 E Bennett (Eng) 77 77 75 81 (jt 59th).

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