SCOTS SENIOR WOMEN QUALIFY SIXTH


Scotland qualified in sixth place for the European senior women's amateur team golf championship at Berlin Sporting Club today.
They will play No 3 seeds Germany, the defending champions, in the quarter-finals of the match-play stages.
England (760) earned top seed status ahead of France (776) and Germany (778).
The Scots required 10 more shots than they did in the first qualifying round. None of them broke 80. Closest to it was Mary Smith (Tain) who had the non-scoring round on Tuesday. This time she led the Scots with an 80.
Fiona De Vries had an 81, Anne Ryan and Moira Thomson both 82 and Lorna Bennett an 84. Heather Anderson had the non-counting 86.
CHAMPIONSHIP FLIGHT QUALIFIERS
760 ENGLAND 383 377.
776 FRANCE 391 385.
778 GERMANY 394 384.
792 SWEDEN 396 396.
806 SWITZERLAND 404 402.
808 SCOTLAND 399 409, IRELAND 415 393.
814 SPAIN 411 403.
MATCH-PLAY DRAW
England v Spain
Sweden v Switzerland
Germany v Scotland
France v Ireland.

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England staged a phenomenal performance to open up a 16-shot lead at the end of the qualifying stage of the European senior team championship at the Sporting Club, Berlin.

England sailed into the championship matchplay flight as top seeds, 16 shots ahead of France, 18 ahead of Germany and 32 ahead of fourth-placed Sweden.

In an excellent team performance, every one of the six England players scored in the 70s in the second qualifying round. They enjoyed the luxury of being able to discount a 79 – a score which many teams would have been pleased to count.

On a day when the course again played wet and very long – with preferred lies in use – four members of the team returned three-over 75, one shot 77 and the sixth scored 79.

Team captain Sue Westall said: “We have had a phenomenal day and everyone has been very clinical and very professional – they just went out there and did their job. Now the matchplay begins and everyone is raring to go.”

Tomorrow’s quarter finals are: England v Spain, France v Ireland, Germany v Scotland, Sweden v Switzerland.
England scores
75 Roz Adams (Addington Court Ladies), Chris Quinn (Hockley), Caroline Marron (Bromborough), Sue Dye (Delamere Forest).
77 Felicity Christine (Banstead Downs)
79 (discounted) Jo Ashmore (Barnham Broom)
Janet Melville (Sherwood Forest) was rested.


Lyndsey Hewison
Press and PR Officer
EWGA