2nd Hacienda del Alamo Womens Winter Festival

HAYLEY DAVIS IS

REIGNING IN SPAIN

By COLIN FARQUHARSON
The Hayley Davis bandwagon rolled on again on the fifth day of the Hacienda del Alamo Women’s Winter Golf Festival at the five-star Murcia golf resort in Spain today.
The 16-year-old Ferndown player, pictured right by Cal Carson Golf Agency, who won the Murcia Under-16 girls’ open title last Friday and the Costa Calida Foursomes in tandem with another14-year-old, Hannah Turland (Tidworth) on Sunday, equalled the ladies’ course record of two-under-par 70 in the first round of the Festival’s final 36-hole event.
Because preferred lies were in operation to protect the dormant Bermuda grass, Hayley’s effort will not rank alongside the record-setting 70 by former Curtis Cup player Elaine Farquharson-Black, achieved in 2007 over the long and testing Dave Thomas-designed course.
But that does not detract from another splendid day’s golf by young Davis who in golfing terms is “playing out of her skin” under the Spanish sun on the Costa Calida.
Over a course of some 5,534 metres – more than 6,000yd – one-handicapper Hayley birdied the two long holes on the outward journey, the fourth and ninth, dropping only one shot, at the seventh, to turn in one-under 35.
Eight pars and a birdie at the par-4 16th saw her home also in one-under 35.
In the Murcia Under-16s’ open championship, she has opened up a five-stroke lead over Welsh international Amy Boulden (Llandudmo Maesdu) who had an unwanted hat-trick of bogey 5s from the first to the third before birdieing the long fourth in halves of 38 and 37.
Thirteen-year-old Royal Cromer prospect, Amber Ratcliffe, is lying joint third at halfway in the Under-16s’ championship with Hannah Turland (Tidworth) on the 79 mark.
Charlie Douglass, the Brocket Hall scratch player, winner of the Murcia Ladies Open over two rounds on Firday, again leads the women’s section with a tidy round of one-over-par 73.
Charlie birdied the fourth, fifth, ninth, and 16th in halves of 35 and 38 but she spoiled her card with a double bogey 7 at the long 14th and single shots dropped at the seventh, eighth and 11th.
Her nearest rivals are Charlotte Dalton (Ladbrook Park) on 75 and teenager Holly Clyburn (Woodhall Spa) on 76.
SCOREBOARD
MURCIA LADIES OPEN
FIRST ROUND
Par 72.
73 Charlie Douglass (Brocket Hall).
75 Charlotte Dalton (Ladbrook Park).
76 Holly Clyburn (Woodhall Spa).
79 Ellis Keenan (Sunningdale).
81 Mary MacLaren (Wellingborough), Laura Harvey (Richmond).
82 Rebecca Gee (Wellingborough(.
84 Dana Greenslade (Wentworth).
85 Sharon Hewer (Royal Birkdale).
90 Marcella Tuttle (Newmarket), Di Hudson (Royal Guernsey).
92 Angela Vesterlund (Sweden).
95 Lizzie Stephens (Newmarket).
102 Sonia Graham (Royal Guernsey).
112 Kam Cheema (Red Libbets).
Withdrew: Sarah Smith (Newmarket).

MURCIA UNDER-16 GIRLS’ OPEN
FIRST OPEN
Par 72
70 Hayley Davis (Ferndown).
75 Amy Boulden (Llandudno Maesdu).
79 Amber Ratcliffe (Royal Cromer), Hannah Turland (Tidworth).
86 Amelia Taylor (StAnnes Old Links).
87 Meghan MacLaren (Wellingborough).
89 Alice Hewison (Berkhamsted).
90 Lucie Walker (Ormskirk).
91 Ella Ofstedahl (Mill Green), India Clyburn (Woodhall Spa).
97 Kirsten MacCallum (McDonald Ellon),
98 Laura Tuttle (Newmarket).
103 Charlotte Humphries (Burnham & Berrow).
106 Claire Tuttle (Newmarket).