Top-20 finish by Vikki Laing in

China, Clare Queen jt 33rd

Vikki Laing finished joint 15th and Clare Queen joint 33rd in the Suzhou Taihu Ladies Open at Suzhou Taihu International Golf Club, China.

Vikki, pictured, had rounds of 78, 69 and 72 for a three-over-par total of 219 which earned her 2,845 Euros.

She finished nine shots behind the South Korean Bo Mi Suh who scored her first win in five years as a tour pro with scores of 69, 69 and 72 for six-under-par 210 to scopp the jackpot prize of 30,000 Euros.

She won by a single shot from France's Gwladys Nocera who had rounds of 70, 71 and 70 for 211 and the 20,300 Euros second prize.

Nocera was penalised two strokes retrospectively when one of her Chinese partners reported that the French player had been two minutes late on the first tee for her first round 68, which was later amended to a 70. Why the matter was not highlighted by the official starter is not clear.

Clare Queen scored 74, 73 and 76 for 223 to earn 1,650 Euros.

Lynn Kenny missed the cut by only one stroke with a pair of 76s for 152.

FINAL TOTALS

Par 216 (3x72)

210 Bo Mi Suh (SKo) 69 69 72 (30,000 Euros).

211 Gwladys Nocera (Fra) 70 71 70 (20,300 Euros).

213 Pornanorg Phatlum (Thai 68 74 71 (14,000 Euros).

214 Marianne Skarpnord (Nor) 72 72 70 (10,800 Euros).

215 Lora Fairclough (Eng) 70 72 72, Rebecca Coakley (Ire) 74 68 73, Iben Tinning (Den) 72 70 73, Frances Bondad (Australia) 70 70 75 (6,620 Euros each).
216 Virginine Lagoutte-Clement (Fra) 72 73 71
217 Li Ying Ye 72 71 74
218 Jade Schaeffer (Fra) 73 72 73, Minea Blomqvist (Fin) 69 76 73, Nontaya Srisawang (Tha) 71 75 72, Titiya Plucksataporn (Tha) 74 69 75
219 Smriti Mehra (Ind) 73 69 77, Vikki Laing (Sco) 78 69 72, Christine Hallstrom (Swe) 73 72 74, Julieta Granada (Par) 70 72 77
220 Georgina Simpson (Eng) 76 71 73, Sophie Giquel (Fra) 74 71 75, Becky Brewerton (Wal) 71 73 76, Bronwyn Mullins-Lane (Aus) 77 71 72, Jessica Ji (Kor) 74 71 75, Carmen Alonso (Spa) 72 68 80
221 Mei h Huang 72 76 73, Hazel Kavanagh (Irl) 74 71 76, Sahra Hassan (Wal) 74 71 76
222 Jia yun Li 73 73 76, Tzu-chi Lin (Tai) 72 76 74, Lee-Anne Pace (Rsa) 75 73 74, Claire Louise Aitken (Eng) 72 76 74, Yun Y Bai 74 68 80
223 Karen Lunn (Aus) 72 71 80, Ling ling Tan 77 70 76, Jenni Kuosa (Fin) 71 74 78, Porani Chutichai (Tha) 75 74 74, Anna Rawson (Aus) 71 75 77, Julie Tvede (Den) 74 72 77, Hong mei Yang 76 74 73, Clare Queen (Sco) 74 73 76
224 Ying Luo 73 73 78, Nicole Montgomery (Aus) 72 77 75, Ursula Wikstrom (Fin) 73 71 80
225 Martina Gillen (Irl) 72 74 79, Laurette Maritz (Rsa) 73 75 77, Morgana Robbertze (Rsa) 72 74 79, Samantha Head (Eng) 72 75 78, Liu M Zhong 75 74 76, Ling Hu 76 70 79, 226 Jae S Won (Pkr) 75 76 75, Florentyna Parker (Eng) 75 74 77
227 Rungthiwa Pangian (Tha) 73 71 83, Riikka Hakkarainen (Fin) 73 72 82, Ko-chen Yeh (Tai) 76 75 76, Yue Xia Lu 75 75 77, Karen-margrethe Juul (Den) 75 72 80
228 Ping Huang 78 73 77, Shuang Gao 74 73 81, Tiranun Yoopan (Tha) 76 73 79
229 Yu H Liu 75 73 81, Wan Z Chen 77 72 80, Hong L Wu 75 76 78, Xiao X Zhou 76 73 80, Xaio R Wei 74 75 80
230 Eva Steinberger (Aut) 76 75 79
231 Qin Zhou 76 75 80, Bing Lim (Mal) 76 75 80
233 Yan Jing 76 75 82
234 Xiao Z Ren 74 77 83

MISSED THE CUT (151 or better qualified)

152 Lynn Kenny (Sco) 76 76, Tara Delaney (Ire) 79 73, Kirsty S Taylor (Eng) 77 75.