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Monday, August 25, 2008

Kylie, Gemma and Lauren off to
Austria for Euro championship

Three Scots - Kylie Walker (Buchanan Castle), Gemma Webster (HiltonAdd Image Park) and Majorca-based Lauren Mackin - are among the 120 entries for the European women's individual amateur golf championship over 72 holes at Schloss Schonburn Golf Club, Austria from Wednesday to Saturday this week.
All three played in the British women's open amateur stroke-play championship at Malone Golf Club, near Belfast last week when Kylie lost to Roseanne Niven (Crieff) in a play-off for the title.
Germany (25) have the most entries followed by host nation Austria (20) and France (19).
Spain's six include former British women's open amateur champion Carlota Ciganda who lost in a title play-off to Caroline Hedwall (Sweden) last year after winning the championship in 2004 when she was only 14 years of age.
Neither of the Hedwall twins, Caroline and Jacqueline, is among the Swedish entries, presumably because both are enrolling for the first time at different American universities this month.
There are no Irish entries but eight from England and four from Wales.

ENTRIES INCLUDE:

SCOTLAND
Lauren Mackin (Majorca).
Kylie Walker (Buchanan Castle).
Gemma Webster (Hilton Park).
ENGLAND
Liz Bennett (Brokenhurst Manor)
Naomi Edwards (Ganton)
Florentyna Parker (Royal Birkdale)
Rachel Jennings (Izaak Walton).
Holly Aitchison (The Bedfordshire).
Rachel Connor (Manchester).
Charlie Douglass (Brocket Hall).
Sian James (Bristol & Clifton).
WALES
Sahra Hassan (Vale of Glamorgan).
Hannah Jenkins (Cradoc).
Breanne Loucks (Wrexham).
Rhian Wyn Thomas (Vale of Glamorgan).

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