CARLY BOOTH NINE SHOTS

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GIRLS' FIELD IN DUBAI

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Carly Booth takes what looks like an unassailable lead into today's final round of the Daily Telegraph Junior Championships at Dubai Creek but the race for the boys' title could hardly be closer with the three leaders separated by a single stroke.
Booth hits the ball a long way for a girl of 15 and had too much power for her eight rivals around a course of many testing carries. The plus-3 handicapper extended her first-round advantage of two strokes to a commanding nine shots over today's playing partners Alexandra Peters and Micah Carroll. Scottish prodigy Booth believes she can relax today after storming clear of the field but also feels she should be even further ahead after an indifferent spell around the turn took her from even par to four over before she recovered well.
"I had a good start," she said, referring to her chip in for an eagle two at the third and her birdie at the short eighth, "so it was frustrating to let those shots slip away. But at least I played better than on the first day."

HOW THE GIRLS STAND

146 C Booth (Comrie) 74 72.
155 M Carroll (Launceston, Cornwall) 79 76, A Peters (Notts Ladies) 78 77.
156 N Foster (Accrington) 79 77.
157 N Dunn (Harrogate) 77 80.
159 E Taylor (Gainsborough) 76 83.
160 C Douglass (Brocket Hall) 78 82.
173 L Blease (Coombe Hill) 88 85.
174 R McQueen (Troon Bentinck) 88 86.

There is no such mis-match in the final boys' group, as joint-leaders Andrew Cooley and Oscar Sharpe – both level par for the tournament – lock horns with Stiggy Hodgson, who stands at one over.
It seemed like Surrey teenager Cooley would also take a big lead into the final day as he went from his overnight score of one under par to four under with four birdies against one dropped shot in the first 13 holes.
With none of his 11 rivals in red figures at that stage he looked a hot favourite for the title but a disastrous triple-bogey 7 at Dubai's treacherous final hole brought him back alongside leader-in-the-clubhouse Sharpe.

HOW THE BOYS STAND WITH ONE ROUND TO GO

142 O Sharpe (Minchinhampton) 73 69, A Cooley (Chatham) 70 72.
143 F Hodgson (Sunningdale) 74 69.

147 A Wills (Sandiway) 70 77.

148 J Carney (Solihull) 73 75.

152 N Mannion (Teeside) 77 75, L Benford (Barton on Sea) 74 78.

155 T Robson (Portsmouth) 77 78, A Hedges (Sundridge Park) 76 79.

159 M Pitcher (Dursley) 81 78.

160 R Tredgett (Chelmguard) 79 81.

168 R Burden (West Essex) 80 88.