Kenney, Turner, Douglass boost Orange

Blossom Tour field for the "Sally"

The second event and, in many ways, the most important on the Orange Blossom Tour in Florida, tees off on Wednesday. It's the South Atlantic Ladies Amateur championship, better known as the "Sally," with four rounds of stroke-play over the Oceanside Country Club course at Ormond Beach, Florida.
The arrival from the UK of Scots Louise Kenney (Pitreavie), pictured by Cal Carson Golf Agency, and Jane Turner (Craigielaw) plus English women's amateur champion Charlie Douglass, the left-hander from Brocket Hall, will strengthen the British and Irish challenge to 11-strong.
There are six in the Stirling University squad of Harriet Beasley (Woburn), Rachael Cassidy (The Island, Dublin), Jordana Graham (Southerness), Kelsey MacDonald (Nairn Dunbar), Rebecca Wilson (Monifieth) and Eilidh Mackay).
Rachel was the highest finishing European player in the first event, the Harder Hall Women's Invitational, won by Puerto Rico-born Kyle Roig, who now lives in Florida.
Curtis Cup prelim squad member Stephanie Meadow, based at the Hank Hainey International Junior Golf Academy on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, will be there again.
So too will Majorca-based Ranfurly Castle GC member Lauren Mackin who was the third-best British/Irish player behind Rachel Cassidy and English girl champion Holly Clyburn at the "Harder Hall."
Last year, Alexis Thompson, the rising US star from Florida, still only 14, won the "Sally" by 13 shots with a 72-hole total of 283.
Kira Meixner (Canada) was second and Kelsey MacDonald third on 297.
Alexis was beaten in a play-off last Saturday for the "Harder Hall" after bogeying the 72nd hole.