Battling Jane Turner from Craigielaw in second place

Lisa Maguire leads by four strokes

with a round left in Irish strokeplay

Fourteen-year-old Irish women’s amateur champion Lisa Maguire (Slieve Russell) leads the field by four strokes following a sensational opening 66 and an equally impressive afternoon 73 at the 3 Irish Women’s Open Strokeplay at Douglas Golf Club today.
In blustery but dry conditions, Maguire opened her championship with two bogeys but five birdies over her next seven holes saw her turn three under par and a further five birdies over the front nine at Douglas saw her sign for a sensational morning round of seven under par and a four shot lead at lunchtime.
Maguire, pictured above, who was selected to play for GB&I in the Vagliano Trophy despite not qualifying for the match-play stages of last week's Ladies British Open amateur championship at Harlech, Wales proved the selectors were quite right to have every confidence in her coming back to form.
She went on to coast around the 6149 yard course in level par in the afternoon to lead the field by four strokes with just 18 holes remaining.
Next best was Scotland’s Jane Turner from Craigielaw. The Robert Gordon University student battled the blustery conditions to return an impressive three under par 70 in the morning and a level par round in the afternoon sees her comfortably hold second place.
Four shots further behind sees Lisa’s twin sister Leona, after steady rounds of 73 and 74, who shares third place with England’s Hannah Burke and Australian’s Stacey Keating and Julia Boland.
In the team event, Ireland lead Scotland by 2 shots followed by Australia in third place, 5 shots further back.
SECOND-ROUND TOTALS
(CSS 75 75)
139 Lisa Maguire (Slieve Russell) 66 73.
143 Jane Turner (SCO) 70 73.
147 Hannah Burke (ENG) 74 73, Julia Boland (AUS) 74 73 ,Leona Maguire (Slieve Russell) 73 74, Stacey Keating (AUS) 72 75.
148 Kym Larratt (ENG) 76 72, Kelly Tidy (ENG) 75 73, Laure Castelain (FRA) 73 75.
149 Sarah Cunningham (Ennis) 78 71, Pamela Pretswell (SCO) 76 73, Tara Davies (WAL) 74 75.
150 Louise Mernagh (Woodenbridge) 77 73, Manon Gidali (FRA) 75 75, Laura McCarthy (Muskerry) 74 76, Laura Murray (SCO) 74 76.
151 Rebecca Flood (AUS) 77 74.
152 Carly Booth (SCO) 81 71, Ciara Butler (Newlands) 75 77.
153 Rhian Wyn Thomas (WAL) 79 74, Mary Dowling (New Ross) 78 75, Rachel Jennings (ENG) 76 77, Annika Korkeila (FIN) 76 77, Tara Watters (ENG) 75 78.
154 Sinead O'Sullivan (Galway) 80 74, Charlotte Wild (ENG) 78 76, Emma O'Driscoll (Ballybunion) 74 80, Charlene Reid (Royal Portush) 74 80, Caroline Bon (NZL) 73 81.
155 Gemma Bradbury (WAL) 78 77.
156 Karen O'Neill (Douglas) 78 78, Sarah Faller (Galway) 76 80.
157 Sarah Crowe (Tipperary) 79 78, Karen Delaney (Carlow) 79 78,Tilly Holder (ENG) 78 79, Charlie Douglass (ENG) 77 80, Aedin Murphy (Carlow) 74 83.
158 Amy Boulden (WAL) 81 77, Victoria Bradshaw (Bangor) 77 81.
159 Shauna O'Brien (Clonmel) 77 82.
MISSED THE CUT
160 Gillian O'Leary (Cork) 85 75, Sue Phillips (Woodbrook) 77 83.
161 Minna Vuorenpaa (FIN) 84 77, Rachel Cassidy (The Island) 80 81, Lillian Harrington (East Cork) 79 82.
162 Lucy Simpson (Massereene) 82 80.
162 Niamh Kitching (Claremorris) 81 81, Aoife Lowry (Tipperary) 78 84.
163 Fiona Howard (ENG) 86 77, Anne McCormack (Roscommon) 82 81, Jerry Lawrence (ENG) 79 84.
164 Rebecca Watson (SCO) 85 79, Ailish Thompson (Douglas) 83 81, Catherine Tucker (Limerick) 80 84.
166 Emma Gilmore (Mountbellew) 84 82.
168 Rhona Brennan (Bandon) 86 82, Sarah Murray (Co. Louth) 85 83, Maria Dunne (Skerries) 82 86.
170 Nicole Garcia (RSA) 83 87.
171 Suzy Sheehan (The Island) 87 84, Jean Farrell (Youghal) 86 85, Lynda Maher ( Charleville) 86 85.
174 Daisy-May Kenny (ENG) 82 92.
177 Claire Keating (Charleville) 89 88.
178 Val Shannon (Douglas) 87 91.
179 Vivian Gallin (GER) 88 91.
181 Mary Lowney (Dunmore) 92 89
TEAM EVENT
(nc = non-counting round)
286 IRELAND: Niamh Kitching 81 (nc) 81 (nc), Leona Maguire 73 74, Lisa Maguire 66 73.
288 SCOTLAND:Carly Booth 81 (nc) 71, Laura Murray 74 76 (nc), Jane Turner 70 73.
293 AUSTRALIA: Julia Boland 74 73, Rebecca Flood 77 (nc) 74, Stacey Keating 72 75 (nc).
298 FRANCE: Laure Castelain 73 75, Manon Gidali 75 75.
300 ENGLAND: Kym Larratt 76 72, Rachel Jennings 76 77 (nc), Charlotte Wild 78 (nc) 76.
302 WALES: Amy Boulden 81 (nc) 77 (nc), Tara Davies 74 75, Rhian Wyn Thomas 79 74.
314 FINLAND: Annika Korkeila 76 77, Mina Vuorenpaa 84 77.