Ashludie Burn bursts its banks at Monifieth Links
LENDL'S DAUGHTER THROUGH IN EARLY
MORNING PLAY-OFF ... BUT IT'S A
16-HOLE COURSE FOR FIRST ROUND
Daniela Lendl from Connecticutt, 16 year old youngest of former world tennis champion Ivan Lendl's five daughters, qualified for the match-play stages of the British girls' open amater golf championship at 6.25am (this morning) at the partially-flooded Monifieth Links, near Dundee.
Darkness had forced the Ladies Golf Union officials to abandon an eight-player sudden-death play-off for the last three places among the 64 qualifiers at 9.25pm last night.
The eight players had tied on 155 at the end of the two stroke-play qualifying rounds on Monday and Tuesday. The play-off began at 8pm last night at the first hole, continued down the second and then up the 18th by time it was teeming rain and visibility was virtually nil.
The four players who had to return for a 6.15am resumption to decide the final two places in the match-play draw were Daniela Lendl, Sarah Tyson (Redlibbets), Jenny Haggblom (Finland) and Denise Kalek from Germany.
Lendl and Tyson won through with par 4s at the first.
Tyson plays Scottish Under-21 champion Kelsey MacDonald (Nairn Dunbar), the No 3 qualifier, at 9.38am in the first round.
Lendl plays the No 2 seed Ana Fernandez de Mesa from Spain at 11.38.
One further twist in this never-dull British girls championship - the first-round matches will be played over SIXTEEN holes.
Heavy overnight rain, following the downpour last weekend, caused the Ashludie Burn which traverses the Monifieth Links to burst its banks. All the bridges over the burn are under water, making the sixth and seventh holes unplayable. There is also lakes of casual water on the fairways at other holes.
"We will take stock of the situation before the second-round ties start at noon," said Shona Malcolm, the LGU chief executive. "But, at the moment, there are only 16 holes playable."
CORRECTIONS TO EARLIER REPORTS-
+Scottish Under-14 girls champion Lesley Atkins from Minto is still only 13 years of age. Sorry Lesley - and her mum - for describing her as 14 years old! If they supply Colin@Scottishgolfview.com with her date of birth, we will make sure we get her age right as we chart her progress in golf.
+Henrietta Brockway, who has changed her surname to Zuel since she won the British girls' championship last year, was still young enough to defend it at Monifieth this week ... but she had turned professional in the interim!
MORNING PLAY-OFF ... BUT IT'S A
16-HOLE COURSE FOR FIRST ROUND
Daniela Lendl from Connecticutt, 16 year old youngest of former world tennis champion Ivan Lendl's five daughters, qualified for the match-play stages of the British girls' open amater golf championship at 6.25am (this morning) at the partially-flooded Monifieth Links, near Dundee.
Darkness had forced the Ladies Golf Union officials to abandon an eight-player sudden-death play-off for the last three places among the 64 qualifiers at 9.25pm last night.
The eight players had tied on 155 at the end of the two stroke-play qualifying rounds on Monday and Tuesday. The play-off began at 8pm last night at the first hole, continued down the second and then up the 18th by time it was teeming rain and visibility was virtually nil.
The four players who had to return for a 6.15am resumption to decide the final two places in the match-play draw were Daniela Lendl, Sarah Tyson (Redlibbets), Jenny Haggblom (Finland) and Denise Kalek from Germany.
Lendl and Tyson won through with par 4s at the first.
Tyson plays Scottish Under-21 champion Kelsey MacDonald (Nairn Dunbar), the No 3 qualifier, at 9.38am in the first round.
Lendl plays the No 2 seed Ana Fernandez de Mesa from Spain at 11.38.
One further twist in this never-dull British girls championship - the first-round matches will be played over SIXTEEN holes.
Heavy overnight rain, following the downpour last weekend, caused the Ashludie Burn which traverses the Monifieth Links to burst its banks. All the bridges over the burn are under water, making the sixth and seventh holes unplayable. There is also lakes of casual water on the fairways at other holes.
"We will take stock of the situation before the second-round ties start at noon," said Shona Malcolm, the LGU chief executive. "But, at the moment, there are only 16 holes playable."
CORRECTIONS TO EARLIER REPORTS-
+Scottish Under-14 girls champion Lesley Atkins from Minto is still only 13 years of age. Sorry Lesley - and her mum - for describing her as 14 years old! If they supply Colin@Scottishgolfview.com with her date of birth, we will make sure we get her age right as we chart her progress in golf.
+Henrietta Brockway, who has changed her surname to Zuel since she won the British girls' championship last year, was still young enough to defend it at Monifieth this week ... but she had turned professional in the interim!
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