R and A Junior Open

Emily leads girls by two shots with a late, late 70 at Lundin

Emily Taylor, 15 year old Royal Lytham player, the last competitor in a field of 122 to finish at 8.22pm, after a round of 5hr 22min, took a two-stroke lead with a one-under-par 70 in the girls' category on the opening day of the RandA Junior Open over Lundin Golf Club's links course in Fife.
Emily's 70 started with a bogey 5 at the first and another bogey 5 at the fourth but she settled down after that. Using mainly a rescue wood off the tee to make sure she hit the fairways and with the bounce on the hard fairways she did not lose much distance in doing that.
She felt that "good driving" had been the key to her round.
She birdied the par-4 eighth and par-4 ninth to turn in level par 36.
Four solid pars to start the inward journey and then a birdie 2 at the short 14th and a birdie 3 at the par 5 16th.
Although there is no separate category for girls' alone, it is worth commenting that Emily's score was two shots better than the next best by a female competitor- a pair of 72s from 15-year-old Cecilia Cho, the New Zealander who won the Australian WOMEN'S open amateur stroke-play championship earlier this year and who has a handicap of plus five, and Korean Hyo-Joo Kim, a 14-year-old one-handicapper.
Emily Taylor  looked set to join 14-year-old Danish player Daniel Nielsen - who had never played a round on a links course previously (no practice round, he flew in to Edinburgh from the European boys team championship in Turkey at 6pm on Sunday night) ... on the 69 mark but then took a 5 at the difficult par-4 closing hole which has a long narrow green hard up against an out of bounds on the left.
Ewan Scott from St Andrews is right in the picture with a round of 70 which included a double bogey 6 at the fourth after he selected the wrong club for his approach and one thing led to another. A birdie 2 at the short fifth cheered him up and though he bogeyed the sixth he then had a very good four-under-par run in which he birdied the long ninth, long 13th, 15th and 16th before he three-putted the 18th from 60ft - leaving his approach well short of the flag. No doubt about it, that second shot to the 18th green is just about the most difficult to judge on the whole course.
"I holed a few putts but I was disappointed to take three putts at the last," said Scott.
Scotland's other representative, Angus girls and women's champion Ailsa Summers had an 84 which included triple bogey 7s at the seventh and 15th in halves of 43 and 41. Now if Ailsa can just par these two holes in the second round, that will be a six-shot improvement over two holes!
END OF PLAY SCOREBOARD
Par 71
BOYS
69 Daniel Nielsen (Denmark).
70 Otto Mand (Wales), Haydn Porteous (South Africa), Ewan Scott (Scotland)..
71 Tuck Soon Chan (Malaysia), Kenta Konishi (Japan), Alex leeson (Ireland).
72 Jose Mendez (Costa Rica), Julian Lerda (Argentina).
73 Nick Ward (England), Guillermo Pereira (Chile), Gonzalo Leon (Ecuador), Atiwait Janewattanond (Thailand), Ashbeer Saini (India), Marc Ong (Singapore), Petr Gal (Czech Republic)..
74 Anthony Murdaca (Australia).
75 Mateusz Gradecki (Poland), David Lee (United States), William Clarke (Brazil), Stephan Sorg (Switerland).
77 Ali Abdulla Al-Bishi (Qatar), Chuan Lin Jian (China), Benjamin Follett-Smith (Zimbabwe).
78 Enej Sarkanj (Slovenia), Kristof Eiring (Hungary), Samuel Jabba (Colombia), Kevin Kwon (Canada).
79 Egeti Liiv (Estonia), Richard Broadhurst (Italy).
80 Daniel Holland (Malta), Tyler Hodge (New Zealand), Paul Yannik (Germany), Magtthew Moucharafieh (Lebanon), Allan Kronfeld (Russian Federation), Marcos Cabarcos (Panama).
81 Kevin Jae Kim Gomez (Honduras), Eithel McGowen (Peru).
82 James Pennington (Swaziland),.
83 Issa Abou El Ela (Egypt), Roland Cuculiza (Nicaragua), Shai Bendavid (Israel), Jack Van De Heyning (Belgium), Anthony Tam (Hong Kong).
84 Mohit Mediratta (Kenya), Mubariz Ahmad (Pakistan), Jose Luis Montano Sanchez (Colombia), Gustavo Morantes (Venezuela), Carlos Navarro Lisboa (Paraguay).
85 Redge Camacha (Guam), Enrique Walsh (El Salvador), Dwayne Pearman (Bermuda), Nicholas Teuten (Uruguay)..
86 Brian Taikiri (Papua New Guinea), Svens Ermansons (Latvia), Harrison Collins (Bahamas)..
87 Yassine Ben Halima (Tunisia).
88 Jeremy Abel (Luxembourg), Fahad Bin Tarique (Bangladesh), Taha Ergun (Turkey)..
89 Stephanus Bonafatius (Namibia), Kornelijus Baliukonis (Lithuania), David Pevala (Slovakia), Alejandro Villasana (Mexico).
90 Benhamin Kacheuka (Malawi).
92 Kush Ajay Vashes (Zambia).
93 Nabeel Desai (Botswana), Sal Eccles (Cayman Islands).
94 Sachin De Silva (Sri Lanka).
96 Lyubomir Kostov (Bulgaria).
99 Constantinos Christodoulides (Cyprus).

GIRLS
70 Emily Taylor (England).
72 Cecilia Cho (New Zealand), Hyo-Joo Kim (Republic of Korea).
73 Pinrath Loomboonruang (Thailand).
75 Hikari Fujita (Japan).
77 Nayalia Heckova (Slovakia), Karen Chung (United States), Katja Pogacar (Slovenia)Nanna Madsen (Denmark).
78 Coralia Arias (Ecuador).
79 Valentine Loge (Belgium), Dominika Gradecka (Poland), Gurbani Singh (India), Margherita Magri (Italy), Alix Kong (Canada).
80 Aretha Herng Pan (Malaysia), Ana Raga (Venezuela).
81 Lina Marcela Aguillon (Colombia), Kittyh Tam (Hong Kong), Emily McLennan (Australia), Katerina Vlasinova (Czech Republic), Sena Ersoy (Turkey).
82 Monja Maetzler (Switzerland).
83 Vivienna Chin (Malaysia), Silvia Margarita Garces (Colombia), Izel Peters (South Africa), Phoebe Tan (Singapore), Vima Paloma Ferreira (Paraguay), Maria Veronica Noriega (Peru), Ana Dizeth Ruiz (Mexico).
84 Hadas Livman (Israel), Ailsa Summers (Scotland).
86 Margine Arguello (Nicaragua).
89 Zsofia Szurovszky (Hungary), Naomi Angela Wafula (Kenya), Cagalina Fernandez (Uruguay)...
90 Jessica Jones (Wales).
91 Ieva Cace (Latvia).
92 Monea Metahni (Tunisia).
95 Emily Ribbins (Caymand Islands), Goodness Diamini (Swaziland)..
96 Adriana Oubeda (Honduras), Ouname Mhotsha (Botswana).
97 Tazbin Nikita Sarker (Bangladesh).
98 Deborah Ephraim (Ghana), Mile Rusteikaite (Lithuania),.
99 Glafkie Christodoulides (Cyprus).
105 Shamiso Makwara (Zimbabwe).