Campbell Thomson, Cara Gruber, director of golf Billy Sim, Hannah Turland and Hayley Davis after the Hacienda del Alamo Festival Costa Calida Foursomes today

Hayley and Hannah win Costa Calida Foursomes

title at Hacienda del Alamo Festival

By COLIN FARQUHARSON
Two England girl golf stars of the future, Hayley Davis from Ferndown and Hannah Turland of Tidworth, underlined their international promise with an excellent round of three-over-par 75 to win the Hacienda del Alamo Women´s Winter Festival Costa Calida Foursomes title on an unusually damp and cloudy day at the five-star resort in the Murcia region of Spain today.
Only 14 years old, and playing the alternate shot game together for the first time, they matched the outward par of 36 over the long and testing Dave Thomas-designed course with a birdie at the long fourth and a bogey at the sixth and the rest pars.
Davis, who plays off one, and two-handicapper Turland did get a second birdie at the par-4 12th but the cold began to get to them and they bogeyed four of the last six holes. But it was a splendid effort which saw them collect 200 Euros each in vouchers.
They finished three shots ahead of the pair who travelled the farthest to get to Spain - Cara Gruber from Royal Dornoch and her boyfriend Campbell Thomson from Strathpeffer Spa, both venues being north of Inverness. One-handicapper Cara and Campbell, who plays off 16, did not make many serious mistakes, which is the secret of foursomes golf. A scratch score of 78 gave them a net score - half their combined handicaps - of 69.5 which also earned them vouchers to the value of 200 Euros each.
The Clyburn sisters from Woodhall Spa, 18-year-old England girl international Holly and her 12-year-old sibling India, topped the scratch scores in the Female & Female category - Hayley Davis and Hannah Turland were debarred from winning two prizes - with an round of 81. They each won a presentation box from Glenmuir, one of the major sponsors of the Festival.
Top scratch score in the Male & Female category was an 85 produced by the Royal Cromer partnership of 13 year old Amber Ratcliffe and her 16 year old brother Ryan. Amber also won a Glenmuir presentation box while Ryan gained a voucher worth 100 Euros.
2nd Hacienda del Alamo Women’s Winter Festival

COSTA CALIDA FOURSOMES PRIZEWINNERS AND SCORES

BEST OVERALL SCRATCH
75 Hayley Davis (Ferndown) & Hannah Turland (Tidworth) (2 x 200 Euros vouchers).
78 Cara Gruber (Royal Dornoch) & Campbell Thompson (Strathpeffer Spa).
81 Holly Clyburn & India Clyburn (Woodhall Spa).
83 Charlotte Dalton (Ladbrook Park) & Ellis Keenan (Sunningdale).
84 Meghan MacLaren & Rebecca Gee (Wellingborough), Mary MacLaren (Wellingbourgh) & Marcella Tuttle (Newmarket).
87 Colette Walker (Southport & Ainsdale) & Lucie Walker (Ormskirk), Sharon Hewer & Peter Maw (Royal Birkdale), Amber Ratcliffe & Ryan Ratcliffe (Royal Cromer).
97 Michelle McCarthy & Gemma McCarthy (Clonmel).
98 Laura Tuttle & John Tuttle (Newmarket), Amelia Taylor & Trevor Taylor (St Annes Old Links).
102 Sarah Smith & Claire Tuttle (Newmarket).
111 Viv Ofstedahl & Sam Ofstedahl (Mill Green).

BEST OVERALL HANDICAP
69.5 Cara Gruber (Royal Dornoch) and Campbell Thomson (Strathpeffer Spa) (8.5) (2 x 200 Euros vouchers).
72.5 Colette Walker (Southport & Ainsdale) & Lucie Walker (Ormskirk) (14.5).
73.5 Hayley Davis (Ferndown) & Hannah Turland (Tidworth) (1.5).
75 Holly Clyburn & India Clyburn (Woodhall Spa) (6).
79 Amber Ratcliffe & Ryan Ratcliffe (Royal Cromer) (6).
80 Mary MacLarfen (Wellingborough) & Marcella Tuttle (Newmarfket) (4), Meghan MacLaren & Rebecca Gee (Wellingborough) (4), Sharon Hewer & Peter Maw (Royal Birkdale) (5).
82 Charlotte Dalton (Ladbrook Park) & Ellis Keenan (Sunningdale) (1), Laura Tuttle & John Tuttle (Newmarket) (16).
82.5 Amelia Taylor & Trevor Taylor (St Annes Old Links) (15.5).
83 Michelle McCarthy & Gemma McCarthy (Clonmel) (14).
93 Sarah Smith & Claire Tuttle (Newmarket) (9), Viv Ofstedahl & Sam Ofstedahl (18)..

CATEGORIES

FEMALE & FEMALE PAIRING

SCRATCH
81 Holly Clyburn & India Clyburn (Woodhall Spa) (2 x Glenmuir presentation boxes & 2 x 25 Euros vouchers).

HANDICAP
72.5 Colette Walker (Southport & Ainsdale) & Lucie Walker (Ormskikr) (14.5) (2 x Glenmuir windshirts & 2 x 60 Euros vouchers).
80 Mary MacLaren (Wellingborough) & Marcella Tuttle (Newmarket) (8) (2 x Glenmuir holdalls & 2 x 40 Euros vouchers).

MALE & FEMALE PAIRING

SCRATCH
85 Amber Ratcliffe & Ryan Ratcliffe (Royal Cromer) (Glenmuir presentation box + 25 Euros voucher to Amber; 1 x 100 Euros voucher to Ryan).

HANDICAP
79 Sharon Hewer & Peter Maw (Royal Birkdale) (6) (2 x 100 Euros vouchers).
82 Laura Tuttle & John Tuttle (Newmarket) (16) (2 x Glenmuir holdalls + 2 x 40 Euros vouchers).