ABERDEEN LADIES SCOTTISH OPEN

South Korean Lee leads by one at Archerfield

FROM THE LADIES EUROPEAN TOUR WEBSITE
Jeehae Lee takes a one-stroke lead into the final day of the Aberdeen Ladies Scottish Open, having carded a two-under par 70 in Thursday’s second round.
The South Korean 27-year-old, who is based in Orlando, Florida, finished the day on a two-under par total of 142 with a round to play at Archerfield Links, near North Berwick.
Lee carded three birdies and two bogeys going out for one-under outward total of 35. She equalled that score with three birdies and two bogeys coming home.

The Ladies European Tour rookie explained how she had an eye for the pine tree-lined golf course, but also for numbers, having graduated from Yale University with a degree in economics.
During her time at Yale, Lee stopped playing golf for three years as she ‘lacked passion’ for the game. However she re-joined the golf team in her senior year.
“I found that my golf game was still intact and I could still compete and thought I could actually be kind of good at this,” Lee said. “It was more I thought I could excel at it than the passion. But then as I started playing, I really started loving it.”
After discovering the passion, she turned down a lucrative job at investment banking firm Lehman Brothers in Hong Kong to pursue her dream of being a professional golfer.
After playing on the Duramed Futures Tour and the LPGA Tour in America, Lee, pictured by Andy Forman, qualified for the Ladies European Tour in December.
Now she has a chance to claim her first career title on a course a stone’s throw from Muirfield, where her countryman Jin Jeong became the first Asian player to win the British men's amateur championship in June.
“I’m finally learning how to play a links-style golf course,” said Lee, who first experienced links golf when trying to qualify at Hillside for the recent Ricoh Women’s British Open.
“I kept it pretty steady on the front nine. There were a couple of the par-fives that I could reach. On the back nine I started hitting it a little bit off line off the tee but managed my way around.”
At the other end of the experience spectrum, England’s Trish Johnson managed to finish the second round in second, despite being frustrated with her second round of 74.
The 19-time tournament champion, who opened with a 69, said: “I played pretty rubbish yesterday and got away with it and today I just played rubbish. I hit the ball shockingly. I didn’t hole anything. I think that was probably the difference. I holed quite a few putts yesterday and today I hit a lot of good putts that lipped out or slid by.
“I was one under with four to play. I hit a dreadful tee shot off six, an awful second shot into seven and an even worse shot into eight. I’ll go to the range and hope that I can start finding the middle of the clubface, because it’s becoming quite frustrating.”
There are five players in a group two shots back on one-over par: Rebecca Coakley (70), Sophie Walker (70), Stefania Croce (74), Nikki Garrett (74) and Christel Boeljon (75).
Virginie Lagoutte-Clement and Stacy Lee Bregman are at two-over, while Cassandra Kirkland from France fired a hole in one at the eighth and finished the first 36 holes in a five-way share of 10th place.
Vikki Laing from Musselburgh is the leading home player and will start the final round six shots off the pace after a second round of 74.
In the pro-am format, Italy’s Anna Rossi and Archerfield member Mark Finnie combined for a total of 18-under par and lead by one stroke.
The leading 15 amateurs who made the cut will play alongside their professional partners in Friday’s final round, which starts at 8.30am and will be played in three-balls.
Lee will tee off in the last match at 10.30am alongside Johnson, partnering Match of the Day pundit Alan Hansen. Play is scheduled to conclude at approximately 3.30pm.
SECOND-ROUND TOTALS
Par 144 (2x72)
142 Jeehae Lee (South Korea) 72 70. 
143 Trish Johnson (England) 69 74. 
145 Nikki Garrett (Australia) 71 74, Rebecca Coakley (Team Ireland) 75 70, Sophie Walker (England) 75 70, Stefania Croce (Italy) 71 74, Christel Boeljon (Golf Team Holland) 70 75.
146 Virginie Lagoutte-Clement (France) 72 74, Stacy Lee Bregman (South Africa) 70 76.
147 Georgina Simpson (England) 75 72, Cassandra Kirkland (France) 77 70, Caroline Masson (Germany) 74 73, Becky Brewerton (Wales) 74 73, Hannah Jun (US) 76 71. 
148 Lisa Hall (England) 74 74 ,Vikki Laing (Kings Acre Academy) 74 74, Lee-Anne Pace (South Africa) 76 72. 
149 Mhairi McKay (Aberdeen Asset Management) 73 76, Maria Boden (Sweden) 74 75, Krystle Caithness (Scotland) 73 76, Caroline Afonso (France) 73 76, Felicity Johnson (Harborne GC) 75 74. 
150 Carly Booth (Nike) 77 73, Veronica Zorzi (Italy) 76 74, Hanna-Leena Salonen (Finland) 76 74 »»
Anna Rossi (Italy) 71 79, Anne-Lise Caudal (France) 75 75, Kylie Walker (The Carrick on Loch Lomond) 73 77.
151 Rebecca Hudson (England) 75 76, Lydia Hall (Wales) 76 75, Jessica Ji (South Korea) 76 75,
Elizabeth Bennett (Brokenhurst Manor GC) 75 76, Ana Larraneta (Spain) 76 75.
152 Frances Bondad (Australia) 75 77, Lynn Kenny (Archerfield Links) 73 79, Ashleigh Simon (South Africa) 77 75.
153 Emma Cabrera-Bello (Spain) 79 74, Josefin Leijon (Sweden) 78 75. 
154 Bettina Hauert (Germany) 78 76, Martina Gillen (Team Ireland) 77 77, Pamela Feggans (Scotland) 74 80, Morgana Robbertze (South Africa) 82 72, Stefanie Michl (Austria) 74 80. 
155 Margherita Rigon (Italy) 82 73, Dana Lacey-Johnson (Australia) 75 80, Laurette Maritz (South Africa) 78 77, Kate Combes (Australia) 76 79.
156 Karen Lunn (Australia) 74 82, Kathryn Imrie (Scotland) 75 81, Heather MacRae (Downfield) 77 79, Clare Queen (The Carrick on Loch Lomond) 81 75. 
157 Beth Allen (US) 76 81. 
158 Claire Aitken (Mid Kent GC) 77 81, Tandi Cuningham (South Africa) 80 78. 
159 Hannah Ralph (Cowdray Park GC) 85 74.
160 Titiya Plucksataporn (Thailand) 82 78. »
162 Jenni Kuosa (Finland) 83 79, Camille Fallay (France)  87 75. 
163 Ludivine Kreutz (France) 80 83.
166 Breanne Loucks (Wales) 78 88.
+Official scoring from the Ladies European Tour website