Loretto Golf Academy wonder girl bids for

Welsh-Irish stroke-play double at Newlands

Julie Yang, the 14-year-old South Korean born pupil at Loretto Golf Academy, will be bidding to pull off a Welsh-Irish title double when she competes in the Irish women's open amateur stroke-play championship at Newlands Golf Club, Dublin on Saturday-Sunday, June 5-6.
Julie beat Nikki Foster (Pleasington) at the first hole of a play-off to win the Welsh open stroke-play title at Southerndown on Sunday, May 2.
Since then Julie has won the Independent Schools Golf Association individual title and, after leading all the way, was pipped over the final round by Lucie Andre (France), the top-ranked European female amateur of 2008, for the German women's open amateur championship at Dusseldorf last Sunday.
For an encore, Julie was the only amateur to survive the cut in this weekend's Ladies European Tour event, the German Ladies Open, at Munich and finished on one-over-par 289 after a double bogey 6 at her third last hole.
In last year’s Irish women's open amateur stroke-play championship, Lisa Maguire (Slieve Russell) beat England’s Hannah Burke at the seventh extra of a sudden-death play-off to claim the 2009 title.
This year, Lisa and her twin sister Leona, along with Danielle McVeigh (Royal Co Down Ladies) will be unable to compete in the premier event due to their selection for the Curtis Cup team to play the USA in Massachusetts, 14-15 June.
A strong field will see 71 competitors play 36 holes stroke play on Saturday with the top 40 playing a final 18 holes on Sunday.
Tee times for the first two rounds:
1st tee am & 10th tee pm.
07:30 & 13:00 Shauna O'Brien (Clonmel) Emma Murphy (Wexford) Nicola Coffey (Woodbrook)07:40 & 13:10 Jessica Carty (Hollywood) Amy Farrell (Moate) Aoife Lowry (Tipperary).
07:50 & 13:20 Sinead O'Sullivan (Galway) Monique Smit (RSA) Leigh Whittaker (GER).
08:00 & 13:30 Niamh Kitching (Limerick) Megan Briggs (SCO) Hermione Fitzgerald (ENG)08:10 & 13:40 Deirdre Smith (Co. Louth) Jane Turner (SCO) Tara Davies (WAL).
08:20 & 13:50 Sinead Benedetti (Roscommon) Caoimhe Quinn (Dungannon) Linda Toomey (Limerick).
08:30 & 14:00 Charlie Douglass (ENG) Gillian O'Leary (Cork) Louise Kenney (SCO).
08:40 & 14:10 Caroline Murphy (Grange) Agnes Doherty (Ballyliffin) Maura Diamond (Royal Portrush).
08:50 & 14:20 Amy Boulden (WAL) Mary Dowling (New Ross) Jessica Speechley (AUS).
09:00 & 14:30 Fiona Briggs (ENG) Sarah Helly (Enniscrone) Sandra Atkinson (Woodbrook)09:10 & 14:40 Julie Yang (SCO) Ellie Robinson (ENG) Louise Mernagh (Woodenbridge)
09:20 & 14:50 Nicola Roessler (GER) Maria Dunne (Skerries) Jenna Birch (ENG)
10th tee am & 1st tee pm
07:30 & 13:00 Barbara Cooney (Laytown & Bettystown) Jenny Hennessy (Ennis)07:40 13:10 Louise Coffey (Malone) Karen O'Neill (Douglas) Anna Carling (WAL).
07:50 & 13:20 Sue Phillips (Woodbrook) Katherine O'Connor (WAL) Emma Sheffield (ENG)08:00 & 13:30 Anne McCormack (Roscommon) Sarah Crowe (Tipperary) Tara Gribben (Warrenpoint).
08:10 & 13:40 Nikki Foster (ENG) Gemma Bradbury (WAL) Victoria Bradshaw (Bangor).
08:20 & 13:50 Niamh O'Connor (Woodbrook) Kate Gallagher (Claremorris) Mary Leahy Browne (Kilkenny).
08:30 & 14:00 Stacey Keating (AUS) Charlotte Wild (ENG) Sarah Cunningham (Ennis).
08:40 & 14:10 Lauren Mackin (ESP) Samantha Birks (ENG) Karen Delaney (Carlow).
08:50 & 14:20 Ashley Ona (AUS) Charlene Reid (Royal Portrush) Alisa Theunis (LUX).
09:00 & 14:30 Holly Robinson (Co. Sligo) Lily Owens (Malahide) Verity Scott (ENG).
09:10 & 14:40 Laura Murray (SCO) Hannah Burke (ENG) Laura McCarthy (Muskerry).
09:20 & 14:50 Justine Lee (AUS) Aedin Murphy (Carlow) Kelly Tidy (ENG).

Sunday: Round 3 for top 40 players (+ties).
08:30 thru 10:50 with leaders going out last