Charlotte Wild wins Royal

Birkdale Scratch Cup

Charlotte Wild, from Mere Golf Club, Cheshire, will come to Ayrshire for next week's Women's Home Internationals at Irvine Golf Club with some recent winning form to boost her confidence. She won last Friday's Royal Birkdale Ladies Scratch Cup.
Not that Charlotte needs a confidence-booster. She has had a great season.
Charlotte, pictured by Cal Carson Golf Agency in action at Royal Aberdeen, 19-year-old winner of the Critchley Salver 36-hole tournament at Sunningdale and the English women's stroke-play title this year, had rounds of 81 and 78 - which suggests it was a bad day weather-wise, for a winning total of nine-over-par 159 over Royal Birkdale's classic links which will stage the Ricoh Women's British Open next year.
Charlotte finished third in the event last year and rates Royal Birkdale as her favourite course in the UK.
She won by a single stroke from West Lancashire player Corisande Lee, who had the best second round of 75, and Pleasington, Blackburn player Nikki Foster who had an afternoon 76, both for 160.
Junior Solheim Cup player and local member Kelly Tidy finished fourth on 162 with scores of 77 and 85
Surprise leader in the event was Catherine Rawthore from Sale ith a first-round 73 but she faded to a 90 in the second round to finish fifth on 163.
FINAL TOTALS
Par 150 (2x75)
CSS 78 78 (reductions only)
159 Charlotte Wild (Mere) 81 78.
160 Corisande Lee (West Lancs) 85 75, Nikki Foster (Pleasington) 84 76.
162 Kelly Tidy (Royal Birkdale) 77 85.
163 Catherine Rawthore (Sale) 73 80.
164 Helen Butterfield 85 79.
166 Natalie Lowe (Macclesfield) 85 81.
168 Jenna Birch 86 82, Beth Davies 84 84.
169 Nicola Rawlinson 89 80, Katie Mundy (Dunwood Manor) 88 81, Sarah Attwood (Gog Magog) 87 82, Bronwyn Davies 84 85.
170 Catherine Roberts 83 87, Kym Larratt 83 87, Charley Hull (Kettering) 82 88.
171 Charlie Douglass (Brocket Hall) 92 79, Laura Collin (John O'Gaunt) 88 83.
172 Stephanie Farrar 85 87.
173 Claire Fry 91 82, Mrs Ann Lowe 86 87, Rebecca Wood 86 87, Chloe Williams 84 89.
174 Kimberley Bradbury 85 89, Elaine Clark (Manchester) 84 90.
176 Jessica Headley 95 81.
177 Mrs Sharon Hewer 94 83, Sarah Walton 90 87.
180 Julia Brook (Croham Hurst) 101 79, Alison Gee 94 86.
182 Hannah Davies 93 89, Bethan Jones 92 90, Rebecca Gee (Wellinborough) 90 92.
184 Emma Goddard 98 86, Nicola Smith 93 91.
186 Sarah Cousins 87 99.
189 Fiona Thompson 102 87, Gillian Kinnear 99 90, Chris Appleby 95 94.
192 Lucinda Mileham 99 93.
193 Colleen Winstanley 102 91.
194 Pip Settle 100 94, Victoria Davies 94 100.
195 Tilly Holder 101 94.
197 Sarah Funnell 107 90.
202 Laura Thomas 102 100.
207 Joanne Fish 110 97.
NRs - Giorgina Brown 81 NR, Sophie Bearsall NR 84, Gemma Parkes NR 94.