LGU AND STIRLING SQUADS MOVE

ON TO MATCH-PLAY TOURNAMENT

AT CORAL RIDGE COUNTRY CLUB

Liz Bennett, Michele Thomson and the rest of the Ladies Golf Union Elite Squad, as well as the Stirling University players have moved on to Coral Ridge Country Club at Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
That's where the third event on the 2008 Orange Blossom Tour for women amateurs tees off on Monday.
It's the 76th Ione D. Jones/Doherty Women's Amateur Championship. The tournament is named after Ione, wife of the golf course architect, Robert Trent Jones.
Florida-based Marika Lendl, one of the golfing daughters of former world tennis ace Ivan Lendl (both pictured), is back to defend her title in the amateur division and Connie Shorb of York, Pennsylvania, returns to defend in the senior division.
Stroke-play qualifying to determine match-play pairings will be staged Monday with first-round matches Tuesday.
A field of 48 will be cut to 32 for match play in the amateur and senior amateur divisions. The finals are Saturday with the seniors off at 9:20 a.m. and the amateur division off at 9:30 a.m.
Coral Springs' "wonder girl" Alexis Thompson, 13-year-old winner of the Doral Publix Junior and Dixie Amateur over the last few weeks, will make her first start in the Jones/Doherty. Diane Lang, a two-time U.S. Senior Women's Amateur champ, is also in the field.
Catriona (Lambert) Matthew won this title in 1992 while still a student at Stirling University.