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DOWN UNDER BUT LYNN KENNY IS OUT
FROM THE LADIES EUROPEAN TOUR WEBSITE
Last week’s MFS Women’s Australian Open champion Karrie Webb put herself in the perfect position to claim her seventh ANZ Ladies Masters with a gritty five-under-par 67 at Royal Pines Resort in Queensland today.
The seven time major champion rolled in a 16 foot birdie putt at the last hole to share the lead with fellow Australian Tamie Durdin and South Korean Hyun Ju Shin on eight-under-par 136. Webb, 33, from Ayr in Australia, struggled with her driver throughout her round but she said: “I’m obviously very pleased to shoot five under today and be tied for the lead going into the final day.“I do feel good around this course and to be able to manufacture eight under and not feel like I’ve hit it extremely well bodes well if I can get things going tomorrow.”
Webb carded five birdies in her third round, with three on the front and two on the back nine. Yet with 12 players within two shots of the lead heading into Sunday’s final round, she said she was changing her plan of attack. “You are going to have to shoot a low score,” she said.
“That’s the three rounds worth as opposed to the four. For that many people to shoot really low two days in a row is a lot to ask but you can probably see ten of those 20 shoot low tomorrow if the weather allows for it. You can’t go out there and play defensive. It’s definitely a course you have to attack.”
Tamie DurdinDurdin, who bases herself on the Japanese LPGA Tour, set the pace early in Saturday’s second round with her five-under-par 67. The 30-year-old from Adelaide, who lives in Brisbane, shares the same coach as Webb in Ian Triggs. Known as a great ball striker, Durdin has been a professional for eight years but won her sole professional tournament on the US Futures Tour in 2000, at the Lucent Technologies Hewlett-Packard FUTURES Classic. Webb spoke for many when she said: “I think Tamie is probably the biggest under achiever, Australian player wise. I think she has got more talent in her little toe than 90 percent of the players in the field this week.
“I would see her feeling pretty confident tomorrow. I think this course would probably suit her game. She hits the ball a mile so all the par fives would probably be reachable for her. She is probably someone to watch.”
Durdin’s round was only blemished by a double bogey at the par four, sixth-hole where she hit her tee shot into the trees and had to take a drop. She then hit her third shot into a bunker and lipped out for bogey.
She then fired off four birdies in five holes to make the turn in three under and added two further birdies over the last three holes. Durdin conceded that she had hoped for better results since turning professional.
“I probably should have won the Bridgestone Open with seven under the first round because seven under actually won it,” she said. “I had another really good chance to win over there and just didn’t get it done. I think with how I’m feeling now, another year on, I feel a lot more confidence that the first win will come this year.
“It is very frustrating because in terms of ball striking, I’m in the top five in the world. That’s what Ian tells me anyway. I think I’ve got all the tools there I think it’s really just a matter of trusting myself and putting it on the line.”
Shin, 28, who is not related to the better known Ji-Yai, won two tournaments in Japan last year. She scored 68 for the second day in succession and said through an interpreter: “I can play just as well as Ji-Yai so please keep on watching the tournament!”
Shin in playing at Royal Pines for the first time and said that her strength lay in her short game.
Clare Queen made it through to Sunday´s last round with ease after rounds of 72 and 70 to be in joint 39th position.
But Lynn Kenny, saddled with a first'round 77, failed to beat the cut at level par 144 despite an excellent Saturday round of 69 for 146.
SECOND ROUND TOTALS
Par 144 (2 x 72)
136 Tamie Durdin (Aus) 69 67, Hyun Ju Shin (Kor) 68 68, Karrie Webb (Aus) 69 67
137 Ya-Ni Tseng (Tpe) 68 69, Lisa Hall (Eng) 68 69
138 Virada Nirapathpongporn (Tha) 69 69, Louise Stahle (Swe) 71 67, Tania Elosegui (Spa) 68 70, Anna Tybring (Swe) 70 68, Carri Wood (USA) 69 69, Diana D'Alessio (USA) 69 69, Marianne Skarpnord (Nor) 69 69
139 Kiran Matharu (Eng) 69 70, Karin Sjodin (Swe) 72 67, Sophie Sandolo (Ita) 70 69, Laura Davies (Eng) 70 69, Ji-Yai Shin (Kor) 70 69, Ai Miyazato (Jpn) 70 69, Gwladys Nocera (Fra) 70 69, Michelle Ellis (Aus) 72 67
140 Hee-Kyung Seo (Kor) 71 69, Sophie Giquel (Fra) 69 71, Felicity Johnson (Eng) 70 70, Nikki Garrett (Aus) 67 73, Amy Yang (Kor) 69 71, Nikki Campbell (Aus) 70 70, Johanna Head (Eng) 68 72, Diana Luna (Ita) 71 69, Leah Hart (Aus) 68 72
141 Linda Wessberg (Swe) 72 69, Stephanie Na (Aus) 68 73, Karen-Margrethe Juul (Den) 73 68, Rachel Bailey (Aus) 72 69, Mi-Jung Hur (Kor) 72 69, Sakura Yokomine (Jpn) 70 71, Shani Waugh (Aus) 68 73, Ran Hong (Kor) 69 72, Ludivine Kreutz (Fra) 71 70
142 Jade Schaeffer (Fra) 74 68, Clare Queen (Sco) 72 70, Carlie Butler (Aus) 73 69, Min-Gee Song (Kor) 74 68, Stacy Lee Bregman (Rsa) 71 71, Rachel Hetherington (Aus) 69 73, Joanne Mills (Aus) 70 72, Kristie Smith (Aus) 68 74, Melissa Reid (Eng) 72 70, Katherine Hull (Aus) 72 70, Sarah Kemp (Aus) 74 68, Jill McGill (USA) 73 69
143 Stefanie Michl (Aut) 72 71, Frances Bondad (Aus) 73 70, So-Hee Kim (Kor) 71 72, Martina Eberl (Ger) 75 68, Rebecca Stevenson (Aus) 72 71, Emma Cabrera-Bello (Spa) 73 70, Rebecca Coakley (Irl) 71 72, Kirsty S Taylor (Eng) 69 74, Yuki Sakurai (Jpn) 73 70, Marta Prieto (Spa) 70 73, Haeji Kang (Kor) 69 74, Ji-Yae Yeo (Kor) 75 68
144 Anja Monke (Ger) 73 71, Ji-Na Lim (Kor) 75 69, Minea Blomqvist (Fin) 71 73, Sarah Nicholson (Nzl) 69 75, Bree Arthur (Aus) 73 71, Karen Lunn (Aus) 74 70, Nina Reis (Swe) 74 70
MISSED THE CUT
145 Rosemary MacDonald (Aus) 74 71, Nathalie David-Mila (Fra) 75 70, Danielle Masters (Eng) 72 73, Amanda Moltke-Leth (Den) 72 73, Johanna Westerberg (Swe) 72 73, Tamara Hyett (Aus) 72 73, Miho Mori (Jpn) 74 71, Lynn Brooky (Nzl) 73 72, Ha-Neul Kim (Kor) 73 72, Lydia Hall (Wal) 74 71
146 Tamara Beckett (Aus) 76 70, Danielle Montgomery (Eng) 75 71, Bobea Park (Kor) 74 72, Bettina Hauert (Ger) 74 72, Vicky Thomas (Aus) 68 78, Dana Lacey (Aus) 70 76, Bree Turnbull (Aus) 72 74, Lynn Kenny (Sco) 77 69, Beatriz Recari (Spa) 71 75
147 Bronwyn Mullins-Lane (Aus) 75 72, Titiya Plucksataporn (Tha) 76 71, Carmen Railton (Aus) 71 76, Sarah Oh (Aus) 71 76, Samantha Head (Eng) 75 72, Stephanie Arricau (Fra) 72 75, Susie Mathews (Aus) 73 74
148 Loraine Lambert (Aus) 78 70, Jenny Sevil (Aus) 73 75, Rachel Duncan (Aus) 75 73, Cherie Byrnes (Aus) 73 75, Vittoria Valvassori (Ita) 77 71, Ursula Wikstrom (Fin) 75 73, Mayumi Shimomura (Jpn) 71 77, Paula Marti (Spa) 75 73, Laurette Maritz (Rsa) 76 72
149 Helen Oh (Aus) 74 75, Kristie Newton (Aus) 74 75, Marousa Polias (Aus) 77 72, Rebecca Flood (Aus) 73 76, Anne Norman Hansen (Den) 75 74, Marjet van der Graaff (Ned) 76 73
150 Katy Jarochowicz (Aus) 76 74, Cecilia Nha (Aus) 77 73, Lill Kristin Saether (Nor) 72 78, Sarah-Jane Kenyon (Aus) 72 78, Nancy Harvey (Can) 77 73, Belinda Kerr (Aus) 74 76
151 Cassandra Kirkland (Fra) 75 76, Elizabeth McKinnon (Nzl) 77 74, Mianne Bagger (Den) 78 73, Eva Steinberger (Aut) 80 71, Riko Higashio (Jpn) 77 74, Whitney Hillier (Aus) 76 75, Cecilia Ekelundh (Swe) 74 77, Sunny Park (Aus) 77 74, Sophie Walker (Eng) 76 75
152 Ashleigh Simon (Rsa) 78 74, Corinne Furnell (Aus) 74 78, Virginie Lagoutte-Clement (Fra) 75 77, Elisabeth Esterl (Ger) 75 77
153 Melodie Bourdy (Fra) 78 75, Anna Rossi (Ita) 79 74, Heidi McCulkin (Aus) 82 71
154 Kate Combes (Aus) 80 74, Jane Suckling (Aus) 79 75, Ellie Na (Kor) 77 77, Rui Yokomine (Jpn) 80 74
155 Karen Pearce (Aus) 80 75, Courtney Massey (Aus) 81 74, Karen Quinn (Aus) 81 74, Vikki Tutt (Aus) 75 80, Torie O'Connor (Aus) 82 73
156 Angela Harris (Aus) 78 78, Jan Stephenson (Aus) 79 77
157 Suzie Fisher (Aus) 81 76
159 Geraldine Brown (Aus) 84 75
Retired: Georgina Simpson (Eng) 77, Lisa Jean (Aus) 78
DOWN UNDER BUT LYNN KENNY IS OUT
FROM THE LADIES EUROPEAN TOUR WEBSITE
Last week’s MFS Women’s Australian Open champion Karrie Webb put herself in the perfect position to claim her seventh ANZ Ladies Masters with a gritty five-under-par 67 at Royal Pines Resort in Queensland today.
The seven time major champion rolled in a 16 foot birdie putt at the last hole to share the lead with fellow Australian Tamie Durdin and South Korean Hyun Ju Shin on eight-under-par 136. Webb, 33, from Ayr in Australia, struggled with her driver throughout her round but she said: “I’m obviously very pleased to shoot five under today and be tied for the lead going into the final day.“I do feel good around this course and to be able to manufacture eight under and not feel like I’ve hit it extremely well bodes well if I can get things going tomorrow.”
Webb carded five birdies in her third round, with three on the front and two on the back nine. Yet with 12 players within two shots of the lead heading into Sunday’s final round, she said she was changing her plan of attack. “You are going to have to shoot a low score,” she said.
“That’s the three rounds worth as opposed to the four. For that many people to shoot really low two days in a row is a lot to ask but you can probably see ten of those 20 shoot low tomorrow if the weather allows for it. You can’t go out there and play defensive. It’s definitely a course you have to attack.”
Tamie DurdinDurdin, who bases herself on the Japanese LPGA Tour, set the pace early in Saturday’s second round with her five-under-par 67. The 30-year-old from Adelaide, who lives in Brisbane, shares the same coach as Webb in Ian Triggs. Known as a great ball striker, Durdin has been a professional for eight years but won her sole professional tournament on the US Futures Tour in 2000, at the Lucent Technologies Hewlett-Packard FUTURES Classic. Webb spoke for many when she said: “I think Tamie is probably the biggest under achiever, Australian player wise. I think she has got more talent in her little toe than 90 percent of the players in the field this week.
“I would see her feeling pretty confident tomorrow. I think this course would probably suit her game. She hits the ball a mile so all the par fives would probably be reachable for her. She is probably someone to watch.”
Durdin’s round was only blemished by a double bogey at the par four, sixth-hole where she hit her tee shot into the trees and had to take a drop. She then hit her third shot into a bunker and lipped out for bogey.
She then fired off four birdies in five holes to make the turn in three under and added two further birdies over the last three holes. Durdin conceded that she had hoped for better results since turning professional.
“I probably should have won the Bridgestone Open with seven under the first round because seven under actually won it,” she said. “I had another really good chance to win over there and just didn’t get it done. I think with how I’m feeling now, another year on, I feel a lot more confidence that the first win will come this year.
“It is very frustrating because in terms of ball striking, I’m in the top five in the world. That’s what Ian tells me anyway. I think I’ve got all the tools there I think it’s really just a matter of trusting myself and putting it on the line.”
Shin, 28, who is not related to the better known Ji-Yai, won two tournaments in Japan last year. She scored 68 for the second day in succession and said through an interpreter: “I can play just as well as Ji-Yai so please keep on watching the tournament!”
Shin in playing at Royal Pines for the first time and said that her strength lay in her short game.
Clare Queen made it through to Sunday´s last round with ease after rounds of 72 and 70 to be in joint 39th position.
But Lynn Kenny, saddled with a first'round 77, failed to beat the cut at level par 144 despite an excellent Saturday round of 69 for 146.
SECOND ROUND TOTALS
Par 144 (2 x 72)
136 Tamie Durdin (Aus) 69 67, Hyun Ju Shin (Kor) 68 68, Karrie Webb (Aus) 69 67
137 Ya-Ni Tseng (Tpe) 68 69, Lisa Hall (Eng) 68 69
138 Virada Nirapathpongporn (Tha) 69 69, Louise Stahle (Swe) 71 67, Tania Elosegui (Spa) 68 70, Anna Tybring (Swe) 70 68, Carri Wood (USA) 69 69, Diana D'Alessio (USA) 69 69, Marianne Skarpnord (Nor) 69 69
139 Kiran Matharu (Eng) 69 70, Karin Sjodin (Swe) 72 67, Sophie Sandolo (Ita) 70 69, Laura Davies (Eng) 70 69, Ji-Yai Shin (Kor) 70 69, Ai Miyazato (Jpn) 70 69, Gwladys Nocera (Fra) 70 69, Michelle Ellis (Aus) 72 67
140 Hee-Kyung Seo (Kor) 71 69, Sophie Giquel (Fra) 69 71, Felicity Johnson (Eng) 70 70, Nikki Garrett (Aus) 67 73, Amy Yang (Kor) 69 71, Nikki Campbell (Aus) 70 70, Johanna Head (Eng) 68 72, Diana Luna (Ita) 71 69, Leah Hart (Aus) 68 72
141 Linda Wessberg (Swe) 72 69, Stephanie Na (Aus) 68 73, Karen-Margrethe Juul (Den) 73 68, Rachel Bailey (Aus) 72 69, Mi-Jung Hur (Kor) 72 69, Sakura Yokomine (Jpn) 70 71, Shani Waugh (Aus) 68 73, Ran Hong (Kor) 69 72, Ludivine Kreutz (Fra) 71 70
142 Jade Schaeffer (Fra) 74 68, Clare Queen (Sco) 72 70, Carlie Butler (Aus) 73 69, Min-Gee Song (Kor) 74 68, Stacy Lee Bregman (Rsa) 71 71, Rachel Hetherington (Aus) 69 73, Joanne Mills (Aus) 70 72, Kristie Smith (Aus) 68 74, Melissa Reid (Eng) 72 70, Katherine Hull (Aus) 72 70, Sarah Kemp (Aus) 74 68, Jill McGill (USA) 73 69
143 Stefanie Michl (Aut) 72 71, Frances Bondad (Aus) 73 70, So-Hee Kim (Kor) 71 72, Martina Eberl (Ger) 75 68, Rebecca Stevenson (Aus) 72 71, Emma Cabrera-Bello (Spa) 73 70, Rebecca Coakley (Irl) 71 72, Kirsty S Taylor (Eng) 69 74, Yuki Sakurai (Jpn) 73 70, Marta Prieto (Spa) 70 73, Haeji Kang (Kor) 69 74, Ji-Yae Yeo (Kor) 75 68
144 Anja Monke (Ger) 73 71, Ji-Na Lim (Kor) 75 69, Minea Blomqvist (Fin) 71 73, Sarah Nicholson (Nzl) 69 75, Bree Arthur (Aus) 73 71, Karen Lunn (Aus) 74 70, Nina Reis (Swe) 74 70
MISSED THE CUT
145 Rosemary MacDonald (Aus) 74 71, Nathalie David-Mila (Fra) 75 70, Danielle Masters (Eng) 72 73, Amanda Moltke-Leth (Den) 72 73, Johanna Westerberg (Swe) 72 73, Tamara Hyett (Aus) 72 73, Miho Mori (Jpn) 74 71, Lynn Brooky (Nzl) 73 72, Ha-Neul Kim (Kor) 73 72, Lydia Hall (Wal) 74 71
146 Tamara Beckett (Aus) 76 70, Danielle Montgomery (Eng) 75 71, Bobea Park (Kor) 74 72, Bettina Hauert (Ger) 74 72, Vicky Thomas (Aus) 68 78, Dana Lacey (Aus) 70 76, Bree Turnbull (Aus) 72 74, Lynn Kenny (Sco) 77 69, Beatriz Recari (Spa) 71 75
147 Bronwyn Mullins-Lane (Aus) 75 72, Titiya Plucksataporn (Tha) 76 71, Carmen Railton (Aus) 71 76, Sarah Oh (Aus) 71 76, Samantha Head (Eng) 75 72, Stephanie Arricau (Fra) 72 75, Susie Mathews (Aus) 73 74
148 Loraine Lambert (Aus) 78 70, Jenny Sevil (Aus) 73 75, Rachel Duncan (Aus) 75 73, Cherie Byrnes (Aus) 73 75, Vittoria Valvassori (Ita) 77 71, Ursula Wikstrom (Fin) 75 73, Mayumi Shimomura (Jpn) 71 77, Paula Marti (Spa) 75 73, Laurette Maritz (Rsa) 76 72
149 Helen Oh (Aus) 74 75, Kristie Newton (Aus) 74 75, Marousa Polias (Aus) 77 72, Rebecca Flood (Aus) 73 76, Anne Norman Hansen (Den) 75 74, Marjet van der Graaff (Ned) 76 73
150 Katy Jarochowicz (Aus) 76 74, Cecilia Nha (Aus) 77 73, Lill Kristin Saether (Nor) 72 78, Sarah-Jane Kenyon (Aus) 72 78, Nancy Harvey (Can) 77 73, Belinda Kerr (Aus) 74 76
151 Cassandra Kirkland (Fra) 75 76, Elizabeth McKinnon (Nzl) 77 74, Mianne Bagger (Den) 78 73, Eva Steinberger (Aut) 80 71, Riko Higashio (Jpn) 77 74, Whitney Hillier (Aus) 76 75, Cecilia Ekelundh (Swe) 74 77, Sunny Park (Aus) 77 74, Sophie Walker (Eng) 76 75
152 Ashleigh Simon (Rsa) 78 74, Corinne Furnell (Aus) 74 78, Virginie Lagoutte-Clement (Fra) 75 77, Elisabeth Esterl (Ger) 75 77
153 Melodie Bourdy (Fra) 78 75, Anna Rossi (Ita) 79 74, Heidi McCulkin (Aus) 82 71
154 Kate Combes (Aus) 80 74, Jane Suckling (Aus) 79 75, Ellie Na (Kor) 77 77, Rui Yokomine (Jpn) 80 74
155 Karen Pearce (Aus) 80 75, Courtney Massey (Aus) 81 74, Karen Quinn (Aus) 81 74, Vikki Tutt (Aus) 75 80, Torie O'Connor (Aus) 82 73
156 Angela Harris (Aus) 78 78, Jan Stephenson (Aus) 79 77
157 Suzie Fisher (Aus) 81 76
159 Geraldine Brown (Aus) 84 75
Retired: Georgina Simpson (Eng) 77, Lisa Jean (Aus) 78
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