CURLER EVE BEATS ENGLISH WOMEN'S
CHAMPION HANNAH IN FIRST ROUND
International curler Eve Muirhead from Pitlochry achieved the first form book upset result of the match-play stages of the British girls open amateur championship at Monifieth Links today.
Eighteen-year-old Eve, who will be curling for Great Britain in the next Winter Olympics but has never been capped for Scotland as a golfer, beat the current English women's amateur champion, Hannah Barwood from the Knowle club, Bristol.
All first-round ties have been reduced to a 16-hole course as the sixth and seventh are unplayable because the Ashludie Burn has burst its banks and the low-level bridges that enable players to cross them are under water.
Eve, who has brought her handicap down from 4 to 2 since she filed her entry for the championship, beat Hannah, who has a +1.4 rating, by 2 and 1.
"I putted well and I played well," said Eve whose Perth & Kinross county captain Dawn Butchart caddied for her.
Eve holed an 8ft putt for a winning birdie at the first hole and was never in arrears after that. She went two up with a par at the second where Hannah was bunkered.
Barwood levelled the contest by winning the third and fourth but Muirhead regained a one-hole lead with a birdie putt of some 15ft at the ninth.
The Scot lost the short 11th to a birdie 2 but birdied the 12th and 13th to go two up again.
Barwood won back the 14th where her opponent was bunkered but Muirhead pitched deaded for a winning birdie 3 at the 16th.
Eve now plays Chloe Leurquin (Belgium) who finished two holes up on Katie MJundy (Dunwood Manor).
Top seed Laura Gonzalez-Escallon from the Royal Waterloo club, Belgium won by 4 and 3 against play-off participant Katharine Boehm (Germany) and now plays Spain's Noemi Jimenez who beat the left-handed French girl, Charlotte Guilleux by one hole.
Alexandra Peters, the 14-year-old Nottinghamshire Ladies champion and winner of 4 1/2pt for England in last week's girls home internationals at Panmure, won by 6 and 5 against Welsh girls' cap Natasha Gobey from Rhondda.
CHAMPION HANNAH IN FIRST ROUND
International curler Eve Muirhead from Pitlochry achieved the first form book upset result of the match-play stages of the British girls open amateur championship at Monifieth Links today.
Eighteen-year-old Eve, who will be curling for Great Britain in the next Winter Olympics but has never been capped for Scotland as a golfer, beat the current English women's amateur champion, Hannah Barwood from the Knowle club, Bristol.
All first-round ties have been reduced to a 16-hole course as the sixth and seventh are unplayable because the Ashludie Burn has burst its banks and the low-level bridges that enable players to cross them are under water.
Eve, who has brought her handicap down from 4 to 2 since she filed her entry for the championship, beat Hannah, who has a +1.4 rating, by 2 and 1.
"I putted well and I played well," said Eve whose Perth & Kinross county captain Dawn Butchart caddied for her.
Eve holed an 8ft putt for a winning birdie at the first hole and was never in arrears after that. She went two up with a par at the second where Hannah was bunkered.
Barwood levelled the contest by winning the third and fourth but Muirhead regained a one-hole lead with a birdie putt of some 15ft at the ninth.
The Scot lost the short 11th to a birdie 2 but birdied the 12th and 13th to go two up again.
Barwood won back the 14th where her opponent was bunkered but Muirhead pitched deaded for a winning birdie 3 at the 16th.
Eve now plays Chloe Leurquin (Belgium) who finished two holes up on Katie MJundy (Dunwood Manor).
Top seed Laura Gonzalez-Escallon from the Royal Waterloo club, Belgium won by 4 and 3 against play-off participant Katharine Boehm (Germany) and now plays Spain's Noemi Jimenez who beat the left-handed French girl, Charlotte Guilleux by one hole.
Alexandra Peters, the 14-year-old Nottinghamshire Ladies champion and winner of 4 1/2pt for England in last week's girls home internationals at Panmure, won by 6 and 5 against Welsh girls' cap Natasha Gobey from Rhondda.
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