GREAT FINISH (seven birdies in 15 holes)

GETS JENNA A TOP-30 CARD FOR

NEXT SEASON'S LADIES' EURO TOUR

Congratulations to Scottish amateur champion Jenna Wilson - who has probably joined the professional ranks forthwith after winning joint 23rd ranking at the Ladies European Tour Final Qualifying School at Le Fonti Golf Club, near Bologna in Italy today.
That means the 23-year-old from Strathaven, pictured right, will be able to play in any LET event she wants to play in on the 2008 Tour.
Jenna showed she's made of the right stuff with a magnificent final round of four-under-par 68 for a 72-hole total of two-under-par 286.
At the start of the day, having survived the third-round cut with nothing to spare, she faced an uphill task to improve her position into the top 30 in the final standings.
But she responded with her best golf of the week which augurs well for her future professional career.
Over the first three rounds, Jenna had one eagle and five birdies. Over the first 15 holes of her final round, she had seventh birdies and was actually seven under par for the day with three to play, having birdied the second, third, fourth, seventh (out in 32), 13th, 14th and 15th.
She bogeyed the last three holes but, by that time, she had done enough to secure her place on next year's Ladies European Tour.
Worth noting that Jenna was one of 10 amateurs to gain the top 30 cards.
THOSE WHO WON THE TOP 30 CARDS (Category 8)
Par 288 (4 x 72)
1-275 Dana Lacey (Australia) 69 67 72 67 (E1,200).
2-276 Lydia Hall (amateur) (Wales) 68 70 67 71.
3-277 Frances Bondad (Australia) 72 69 67 69 (E750).
4-278 Stefanie Michl (Austria) 73 70 69 66, Martina Gillen (Ireland) 68 71 71 68 (E550 each), Caroline Afonso (France) (am) 68 71 70 69, Emma Cabrera-Bello (Spain) (am) 70 670 67 71.
8-279 Nora Angehrn (Switzerland) 65 74 72 68 (E450).
9-280 Melodie Bourdy (France) 68 68 68 75.
10-281 Vittoria Valvassori (Italy) (am) 69 73 72 67, Anna Knutsson (Sweden) 68 70 71 72 (E350).
12-282 Julie Greciet (France) (am) 68 71 72 71.
13-283 Nicole Gergely (Austria) 70 72 70 71 (£300).
14-284 Emma Zackrisson (Sweden) 71 71 71 71 (E250), Rachael Bell (Ganton) (am) 70 68 70 75.
16-285 Katharina Schallenberg (Germany) (am) 71 72 70, Marjet van der Graaf (Netherlands) (am) 66 74 74 71, Lill Kristin Saether (Norway) 72 71 72 70, Itziar Elguezabal (Spain) 73 72 69 71, Jehanne Jail (France) 72 72 70 71, Stacy Lee Bregman (South AFrica) 72 69 72 72, Anne Norman Hansen (Denmark) 75 68 69 73 (E40 each).
23-286 Jenna Wilson (Strathaven) (am) 69 75 74 69, Julie Tvede (Denmark) 74 74 70 68, Lee-Anne Pace (South Africa) 74 70 71 71, Jo Clingan (England) 69 73 73 71, Rui Yokomine (Japan) 69 75 70 72.
28-287 Nina Reis (Sweden) 68 73 73 73.
29-288 (after play-off) Natalie Claire Booth (England) 73 72 7 71, Camille Fallay (France) (am) 71 73 69 75.
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THOSE RANKED 31 TO 52 FOR 2008 LET SEASON (Category 10b)
31-288 (after play-off) Bronwyn Mullins-Lane (Australia) (am) 73 70 73 72, Beth Allen (US) 72 70 73 73, Isabella Maconi (Italy) 69 76 68 75.
34 -289 Elin Ohlsson (Sweden) 72 74 72 71, Anne-Lise Caudal (France) 73 71 73 72, Sarah Nicholson (New Zealand) 73 73 71 72, Kate Combes (Australia) 75 68 73 73, Christine Hallstrom (Sweden) 71 73 71 74, Kaisa Ruuttila (Finland) 71 75 69 74, Xonia Wunsch (Spain) 73 74 67 75, Natascha Fink (Austria) 72 73 68 76.
42-291 Sara Beautell (Spain) 72 72 74 73, Karin Borjeskog (Sweden) 70 72 76 73, Denise Becker (Germany) (am) 68 77 72 74, Mette Buus (Denmark) 73 74 70 74, Lena Tornevall (Sweden) 75 70 71 75, Emma Lyons (England) (am) 71 67 78 75, Frederique Seeholzer (Switzerland) 71 73 72 75, Martia Ohlsson (Sweden) 68 73 68 82.
50-292 Liza Walters (England) 73 72 73 74, Zuzana Kamasova (Slovakia) 71 74 72 75.
52-296 Barbara Paruscio (Italy) 76 71 71 78.

THE IRISH ANGLE ... FROM THE IRISH LGU

Ireland’s Martina Gillen earned her Ladies European Tour Card for the 2008 season with an impressive four under par 68 in her final round at the LET Final Qualifying School at Le Fonti Golf Club, Italy.
Gillen finished joint fourth, five shots off leader Dana Lacy (Australia), and will join Rebecca Coakley on next year’s Ladies European Tour as Ireland’s sole representatives.
Gillen got off to a flying start, birdieing her opening two holes and went on to fire another four birdies over the next eight holes. Joint leader through 13, she dropped two shots over the closing holes but her earlier hard work was well rewarded as she signed for her second 68 of the week and augur’s well for an encouraging season in 2008.
Ireland’s other representatives Claire Coughlan and Hazel Kavanagh missed out on qualification for today’s final round by one and five strokes respectively, earlier in the week.
The top 30 competitors secured Category 8 membership of the 2008 Ladies European Tour with the following 22 players attaining Category 10b membership with some playing restrictions.