3rd Hacienda del Alamo Women's & Girls' Festival

Hannah Turland's bad luck: Wrist

injury AND glandular fever

By COLIN FARQUHARSON

Hannah Turland, the Wiltshire teenager who should have won the British women's open amateur stroke-play championship as a 15-year-old at Royal Aberdeen GC last season, has had dreadful luck this winter.

The combination of a wrist injury and, potentially more serious, glandular fever.

She has withdrawn from two of the three 3rd Hacienda del Alamo Women's & Girls' Festival events she had entered.

"I will still play with Hayley Davis in the better-ball pairs event on the Saturday, February 13, but I have scratched from the Murcia Ladies Open (36 holes) and the Hacienda del Alamo Ladies Open (54 holes)," Hannah told tournament controller Lee Harrington.
Hannah and Hayley won the scratch section of the better-ball pairs at last year's HDA Festival.

Hannah, pictured above by Cal Carson Golf Agency, pitching on to the 18th green in the final round of last year's "British," will stay on at the five-star Hacienda del Alamo Golf Resort after the better-ball pairs to give herself a bit of a holiday but she won't be hitting balls, only supporting Hayley and her other friends at the Festival.

Hannah, a member at Tidworth and the Wiltshire county champion, was on the verge of a great win at Royal Aberdeen last season when she was the halfway leader in the "British" by three strokes and four shots ahead of the field after three rounds.

Then, during the final round, she lost a ball at the short 11th and ran up a triple bogey 6. Then she had a triple bogey 8 at the long 12th, followed by bogeys at the 13th and 14th.

Northern Ireland's Danielle McVeigh covered the same holes (11th to 14th) in 16 shots to Hannah's 24 and jumped into the lead which she held to the end to win her first British title.

Fingers crossed that Hannah makes a full recovery from her bout of glandular fever.

LATE ENTRIES ARE BEING ACCEPTED

FOR THE FESTIVAL (Feb 13 to 20)

To download an entry form, which gives you all the competition details, go to the to of the left-hand column on the Home Page of this website. Click on the relevant words, and up it will come.

Murcia is the preferred airport for Hacienda del Alamo Golf Resort (about 25min away). John Green is handling villa rentals for competitors.

ENTRIES SO FAR

Mary MacLaren: Murcia Ladies Open & Hacienda del Alamo Ladies Open.

Meghan MacLaren: Murcia U-16 Girls Open & HDA U-16 Girls Open.

Hannah Turland: Pairs with Hayley Davis..

Alice Hewson: Pairs with Dominic Hewson, Murcia U-16 Girls Open & HDA U-16 Girls Open.

Dominic Hewson: Pairs with Alice Hewson.

Charlie Douglass: Pairs with Holly Clyburn, Murcia Ladies Open & HDA Ladies Open.

Hayley Davis: Pairs with Hannah Turland, Murcia Ladies Open & HDA Ladies Open.

Georgia Gilling: HDA U-18 Girls Open.

Daisy Dyer: Pairs with Simon Brierley, Murcia Ladies Open & HDA Ladies Open.

Simon Brierley: Pairs with Daisy Dyer.

Nicola Callander: Pairs with Ella Ofstedahl & Murcia U-16 Girls Open.

Ella Ofstedahl: Pairs with Nicola Callander & Murcia U-16 Girls Open.

Holly Clyburn: Pairs with Charlie Douglass & Murcia Ladies Open.

Lucie Walker: Murcia U-18 Girls Open & HDA U-18 Girls Open.

Hannah Barwood: Pairs with Amy Boulden, Murcia Ladies Open & HDA Ladies Open.

Emma Harris: Murcia U-16 Girls Open & HDA U-16 Girls Open.

Emily Taylor: Murcia U-16 Girls Open & HDA U-18 Girls Open.

Amy Boulden: Pairs with Hannah Barwood, Murcia Ladies Open & HDA U-18 Girls Open.

Dulcie Sverdloff: Pairs with Aaron Sverdloff, Murcia U-16 Girls Open & HDA U-16 Girls Open.

Aaron Sverdloff: Pairs with Dulcie Sverdloff.

Kelsey MacDonald: Murcia Ladies Open & HDA Ladies Open.

Linda Marr: Murcia Ladies Open (Seniors) & HDA Ladies Open (Seniors).

Linda Wilson: Murcia Ladies Open (Seniors) & HDA Ladies Open (Seniors).

Gillian Gardiner: Murcia Ladies Open (Seniors) & HDA Ladies Open (Seniors).

Audrey Lee: Murcia Ladies Open (Seniors) & HDA Ladies Open (Seniors).

Becky Gee: Murcia Ladies Open & HDA Ladies Open.

Hollie Vizard: HDA U-16 Girls Open.

Charlotte Humphries: Murcia U-16 Girls Open & HDA U-16 Girls Open.

Katherine Carragher: Murcia U-16 Girls Open & HDA U-16 Girls Open.

Danielle Anderson: HDA Ladies Open.

Amelia Taylor: Pairs with Jenna Birch, Murcia U-16 Girls Open & HDA U-16 Girls Open.

Jenna Birch: Pairs with Amelia Taylor, Murcia Ladies Open & HDA Ladies Open.

Gabriella Cowley: HDA U-16 Girls Open.

Amber Ratcliffe: Murcia U-16 Girls Open & HDA Ladies Open.

Kam Cheema: Pairs with Paul Coopey & HDA Ladies Open (Seniors).

Paul Coopey: Pairs with Kam Cheema.

Dana Greenslade: Murcia Ladies Open & HDA Ladies Open.

Marilynn Pearce: Pairs with Geoff Pearce & Murcia Ladies Open (Seniors), HDA Ladies Open (Seniors).

Geoff Pearce: Pairs with Marilynn Pearce.

Ana Wright: Pairs with Derek Wright & Murcia Ladies Open, HDA Ladies Open.

Derek Wright: Pairs with Ana Wright.

Lydia Johnston: Murcia U-18 Girls' Open & HDA U-18 Girls' Open.

Charlotte Ellis: HDA Ladies Open.

Jess Wilcox: Pairs with Robert Wilcox & Murcia Ladies Open.

Robert Wilcox: Pairs with Jess Wilcox.

Holly Robinson: Murcia U-18 Girls' Open & HDA U-18 Girls' Open.

Sheila Brunton: Pairs with Claire Penman & Murcia Ladies Open (Seniors), HDA Ladies Open (Seniors).

Claire Penman: Pairs with Sheila Brunton & Murcia Ladies Open, HDA Ladies Open.

Hollie Vizard: HDA U-16 Girls' Open.Dawn Hincks: Murcia Ladies Open.

Penny Burrows: Pairs with Ian Burrows & Murcia Ladies Open (Seniors), HDA Ladies Open (Seniors).

Ian Burrows: Pairs with Penny Burrows.

Rebecca MacLaren: Murcia U-16 Girls Open.

Sophie Phillips: Pairs with Sean Stiff & Murcia U-16 Girls' Open.

Sean Stiff: Pairs with Sophie Phillips.

Shula McCarthy: Murcia Ladies Open & HDA Ladies Open.

Gemma McCarthy: Murcia U-16 Girls' Open & HDA U-18 Girls' Open.

Eadaoin Cronin: Murcia U-16 Girls' Open & HDA U-18 Girls' Open.