Julie Yang ponders a putt in the Paul Lawrie Scottish schoolgirls championship at Murrayshall last month. Image by Cal Carson Golf Agency.

Julie Yang leads by five strokes in Danish women's championship

By COLIN FARQUHARSON
Scotland-based Julie Yang looks like adding the Danish women's amateur international championship to the Welsh women's stroke-play and Paul Lawrie Scottish schoolgirls titles she has won over the past couple of months - she was also pipped for the German women's amateur international championship.
Loretto School, Musselburgh pupil Julie, who is playing out of the Kings Acre Golf Centre, near Edinburgh, has had rounds of 78, 75 and 72 for a nine-over-par tally of 225.
She leads by five shots with the final round to play at the Silkeborg Golf Club on Sunday.
The high scoring of the first round was due to the same gale-force winds that caused a suspension of play in the Open championship at St Andrews. But there was no hold-up of play in Denmark! Julie had a back-to-back triple bogey 8 and double bogey 5 in the worst of the weather for Friday's first round.
Julie played two rounds today (Saturday) and birdied the fifth, 11th, 12th and 14th in matching the par of 72 on her second circuit. She had bogeys at the third, ninth, 15th and 18th.
She leads by five from Denmark's Nicole Broch Larsen (83-74-73) and by seven from the third-placed Dane, Sara Monberg (78-79-75) on 232.