Stacey Keating from Australia with the club and ball she used to ace the seventh hole on the Red Course in the Astor Salver.

Whitney from Australia

wins Astor Salver by 3

at The Berkshire

It was Australia Day in The Berkshire Golf Club's Astor Salver prestigious 36-hole open women's tournament at the Ascot course on Wednesday.
Whitney Hillier, pictured above, the 18-year-old Australian girls cham from Joondalup, Perth in Western Australia, won the trophy by three shots.

Compatriot Julia Boland from New South Wales finished joint sixth and another player from Down Under, Stacey Keating from Victoria, had a hole in with with a five iron at the 173yrd seventh hole on the Red Course. Stacey finished 10th overall.
Whitney had rounds of 70 over the Blue Course (par 72) and 66 over the Red Course (par 73) for an impressive nine-under-par total of 136. The CSS was 74 for both courses.
Whitney's impressive worldwide CV includes victory in the 2008 San Diego Junior Masters in California, a joint fourth in the Callway World Junior Championships in 2007 and success in the St Andrews Junior Ladies Open in 2006. Now she can add a victory in England.

All three Australians had played in the St Rule Trophy at St Andrews the previous weekend with Whitney Hillier faring the best with a joint eighth finish behind winner Kylie Walker. Next stop for the touring Aussies is North Wales and next week's Ladies' British open amateur championship over the Royal St David's Golf Club links.
In the Astor Salver, the runner-up on 139 with scores of 67 (Blue Course) and 72 (Red Course) was Laura Jones (Royal Liverpool Golf Club), who plays on the US college circuit as a golf scholarship student at Oklahoma City University.
Last year's English women's amateur champion Hannah Barwood (Knowle) tied with youngster Hannah Turland (Tidworth Garrison) - she will be 15 years old on June 8 - on the 140 mark. Both scored 72 over the Blue and 68 over the Red.
FINAL TOTALS
Par 145 (1x73, 1x72): Red Course 73; Blue Course 72.
CSS 74 74.
136 Whitney Hillier (Joondalup, Australia) 70 66.
139 Laura Jones (Royal Liverpool) 67 72.
140 Hannah Barwood (Knowle) 72 68, Hannah Turland (Tidworth Garrison) 72 68.
141 Ellis Keenan (Sunningdale) 73 68.
142 Hannah Jenkins (Cradoc) 72 70, Julia Boland (Tamworth, Australia) 67 75.
143 Hannah Burke (Mid Herts) 76 67.
144 Charley Hull (Kettering) 73 71.
145 Ellie Robinson (Brass Castle, Middlesbrough) 71 74, Kym Larratt (Kibworth) 70 75.
146 Stacey Keating (Victoria, Australia) 75 71, Sian Evans (Faversham) 71 75.
147 Tara Watters (Muswell Hill) 73 74, Rozalyn Adams (Addington Court) 72 75, Hannah Ralph (Cowdray Park) 71 76.
148 Sarah Attwood (Gog Magog) 77 71, Charlotte Dalton (Ladbrook Park) 75 73, Rebecca Flood (Pennant Hills, Australia) 72 76.
149 Charlotte Wild (Mere) 75 74, Alexandra Peters (Notts) 74 75.
150 Sian James (Bristol & Clifton) 77 73, Anne Wheble (Dartford) 75 75, Alison Franklin (Harpenden) 73 77, Holly Clyburn (Woodhall Spa) 73 77.
151 Charlie Douglass (Brockett Hall) 75 76, Nikki Foster (Pleasington) 73 78.
152 Katherine O'Connor (Tadmarton Heath) 78 74, Chloe Court (Bognor Regis) 78 74, Charlotte Ellis (Minchinhampton) 77 75, Emma Cutmore (Colne Valley) 76 76.
153 Natalie Lowe (Prestbury) 78 75, Laura Collin (John O'Gaunt) 76 77.
154 Tilly Holder (Woburn) 79 75, Laura Cutler (Warley Park) 79 75, TraceyBoyes (Meon Valley Hotel) 78 76, Lucy Gould (Bargoed) 75 79, Lisa Barton (Coventry) 72 82.
155 Nikki Dunn (Harrogate) 80 75, Charlotte Hope (Wrotham Heath) 79 76, Hermione Fitzgerald (Newmarket Links) 76 79, Nicola Whitmore (Woburn) 76 79.
156 Katie Mundy (Durwood Manor) 78 78, Danielle Gibb (Rochester & Cobham Park) 75 81.
157 Rachel Drummond (Beaconsfield) 78 79, Jane Binning (Frilford Heath) 77 80.
158 Katherine Russell (Royal Ashdown Forest) 80 78, Gemma Easton (Bargoed) 80 78, Hannah Coles (Maxstoke Park) 79 79, Hannah Grant (Enmore Park) 78 80.
159 Fiona Thompson (Ellesborough) 84 75, Alex Banham (Elton Furze) 79 80, Carley Warrington (Sickleholme) 78 81, Anna Carling (Vale of Glamorgan) 71 88.
161 Nicola Smith (Walton Heath) 82 79, Georgina Brown (Mere) 82 79, Stacey Rodger (West Hove) 77 84, Jerry Lawrence (Rochester & Cobham Park) 75 86.
162 Harriet Beasley (Woburn) 79 83.
163 Mel Buxton (Broadstone) 83 80, Kym Horlock (Broadstone) 82 81.
165 Amanda Johnston (London) 85 80, Dana Greenslade (Wentworth) 80 85, Julia Brook (Croham Hurst) 80 85, Caroline Bon (Northland, New Zealand) 78 87.
167 Annabel Silk (Corhampton) 87 80, Tana Churchill (Surrey Downs) 81 86.
168 Belinda Yeadon (Hampton Court Palace) 83 85.
169 Alison Gee (Clandon Regis) 85 84.
170 Clara Leathers (Ellesborough) 82 88.
171 Sharon Hewer (Royal Birkdale) 83 88.
172 Tara Dayer-Smith (Chesfield Downs) 88 84.
173 Jane Rees (Hendon) 87 86.
174 Delyth Roberts (Maldon) 91 83.
189 Joanne Herd (Boyce Hill) 91 98.