PAMELA FEGGANS, HEATHER MacRAE MISS ROUND 4 CUT
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By BETHAN CUTLER
Ladies European Tour Media Manager
MURCIA, Spain -- Sweden’s rising star Caroline Hedwall moved a step closer to leading the new class of 2011 at the Ladies European Tour’s Final Qualifying School today.
Hedwall retained her overnight lead with a fourth round of one-under par 70 on the North Course at La Manga Club in south-east Spain. She will take a three- stroke cushion into Sunday’s final round at seven-under-par 281.
American Jaclyn Sweeney carded a fourth round of four-under 69 on the South Course to remain in second at four-under 284. Sweeney is three ahead of Spain’s Adriana Zwanck, who returned a three-under 70 on the South Course to move to one-under-par overall.
Hedwall, 21, from Loddekopinge, who plays at Barsebäck Golf Club, birdied the third, fourth and seventh holes, but dropped shots at the 11th and 13th.
She said: “I played really well the front nine and nothing really worked on the back nine. I got it to three under at the turn but was two over on the back. I three-putted once and I missed one green, that’s all.
“My first birdie was from about a metre and then I holed two more from within five metres. I could have putted a little better on the back nine. On 11 I had a long second shot, a five-iron which I hit in the bunker but I managed to get it within two metres, then missed the putt.
"I missed a few more coming in. I don’t know why; it just happened. It was frustrating on the back nine, because I missed a couple of putts.”
Hedwall said she hoped to follow in the footsteps of her former Swedish amateur team-mate Anna Nordqvist, who won the Qualifying School for the 2009 season.
Sweeney, 21, from Anderson near Boston, fired six birdies and two bogeys and is also targeting the top spot. She said: “I putted better today and I really like the South Course. There was no wind so you could really be aggressive and go at pins and just pick your target. It was a good day today.
“Tomorrow I’ll just try to pick up some birdies I left out there today. Hopefully I’ll go really low tomorrow; that’s my goal, to see how much I can push myself.”
French amateur Lucie André teed off her fourth round with a hole-in-one on the North Course at La Manga Club. André played an eight-iron to ace the 130yd second hole. It was her second hole-in-one and she saw it bump just past the hole and spin back in. She carded a two-under round of 69 and finished the day in fourth place at level-par 288.
Australian Stacey Keating and Spain’s Belen Mozo are in a tie for fifth at one-over, with Thailand’s Nontaya Srisawang alone in seventh.
A total of 55 players made the 72-hole cut of 303 at 15-over par. The five-round qualifying event was cut to the low 50 players and ties for Sunday's final round.
At the completion of 90 holes the top 30 players will earn their full card for next season’s tour in category 8a. Those in positions 31 to 50 and ties will earn an exemption status in category 11a with limited tournament starts.
SCOTSWATCH: Pamela Feggans, pictured right, from Patna, Ayrshire and Downfield Golf Club assistant pro Heather MacRae missed the fourth-round cut at 303 or better. Pamela's first and third rounds (77-81) let her down. She had 73s in Rounds 2 and 4 and finished on 304.
Former British women's open amateur stroke-play champion Heather MacRae from Dunblane will be very disappointed. In Tartan Tour stroke-play events she has looked Ladies European Tour material but she never got the bit between her teeth at La Manga. Rounds of 77, 78, 78 and 77 were well below her potential and her 310 total missed the mark by seven shots.
Incidentally, another British women's open amateur stroke-play champion, Curtis Cup player Danielle McVeigh (Royal Co Down) astonishingly finished last on 319 with scores of 81, 77, 82 and 79. Her form has tapered off - she played poorly at the LPGA Q School as well - just when she wanted to be on song.
Scotland has two players still in there pitching for one of the 30 cards for next year's Ladies European Tour. Claire Queen is on 297 - one shot inside the projected cut-off mark. She started well at La Manga with opening rouns of 74 and 70 for 144 but her third and fourth rounds of 77 and 76 have totalled nine shots worse - 153.
The Carrick at Loch Lomond player, a former British girls champion, just needs to keep her nerve in Sunday's crunch round and she can be back where she belongs for a seventh season on the LET.
Carly Booth from Comrie is one shot outside the leading 32 and ties at the moment with a 72-hole tally of 299 but she had a fourth-round of 71 which will give her some confidence for the showdown run. She had earlier scored 75, 75 and 78.
FOURTH ROUND TOTALS
Par 288 (2x73, 2x71)
281 Caroline Hedwall (SWE) 70 69 72 70
284 Jaclyn Sweeney (US) 73 69 73 69
287 Adriana Zwanck (SPA) 71 71 75 70
288 Lucie Andre (FRA) (am) 73 71 75 69
289 Stacey Keating (AUS) 72 71 75 71, Belen Mozo (SPA) 70 73 76 70
290 Nontaya Srisawang (THA) 71 75 72 72
291 Kaisa Ruuttila (FIN) 76 73 71 71, Louise Larsson (SWE) 71 77 70 73
293 Joanna Klatten (FRA) (am) 72 73 78 70, Klara Spilkova (CZE) (am) 76 76 72 69, Sara Brown (USA) 74 74 73 72, Garrett Phillips (USA) 74 73 75 71
294 Melodie Bourdy (FRA) 78 76 72 68
295 Martina Gillen (IRE) 76 74 76 69, Rachel Bell (ENG) 75 72 76 72, Corisande Lee (ENG) 78 72 74 71, Mikaela Parmlid (SWE) 71 74 75 75
296 Benedicte Toumpsin (BEL) (am) 79 70 74 73, Christine Hallstrom (SWE) 75 73 72 76, Line Vedel Hansen (DEN) (am) 76 72 74 74, Tara Davies (WAL) (am) 77 71 73 75
297 Danielle Bowers (ENG) 74 75 80 68, Charlie Douglass (ENG) 72 75 79 71, Laura Cabanillas (ESP) 78 75 71 73, Caroline Westrup (SWE) 72 73 78 74, Clare Queen (SCO) 74 70 77 76
298 - Liebelei Elena Lawrence (GR) 69 76 81 72, Connie Chen (SA) 75 72 77 74, Kyra van Leeuwen (NL) 73 75 76 74, Rachel Jennings (ENG) 77 72 76 73, Rachel Bailey (AUS) 74 73 75 76
PROJECTED CUT-OFF FOR TOP 30 AFTER FIVE ROUNDS
299 - Carly Booth (SCO) 75 75 78 71, Sara Ardstrom (SWE) 74 78 78 69, Kate Combes (AUS) 77 76 74 72, Julie Tvede (DEN) 75 79 76 69, Lara Tadiotto (BEL) 75 78 73 73, Kiran Matharu (ENG) 71 75 73 80
300 Elena Giraud (FRA) 78 78 73 71, Valentine Derrey (FRA) 74 77 77 72, Bree Arthur (AUS) 76 73 76 75, Marieke Nivard (NED) (am) 74 75 77 74
301 Juliana Murcia Ortiz (COL) 73 74 79 75
302 Nicole Forshner (CAN) 78 76 74 74, Marion Ricordeau (FRA) 74 74 79 75, Celine Palomar (FRA) 75 79 76 72, Caroline Bon (NZ) (am) 79 74 74 75, Sahra Hassan (WAL) 77 77 76 72, Melanie Maetzler (SWI) (am) 76 74 81 71
303 Eva Bjarvall (SWE) 75 77 78 73, Johanna Lundberg (SWE) 78 75 75 75, Barbara Genuini (FRA) 79 75 76 73, Helena Blomberg (SWE) 74 77 77 75, Chrisje de Vries (Am) (NL) 81 74 77 71, Danielle Masters (ENG) 73 78 81 71
MISSED THE CUT
304 - Kym Larratt (ENG) 78 75 76 75, Pamela Feggans (SCO) 77 73 81 73, Elin Emanuelsson (SWE) 74 79 78 73, Carmen Alonso (SPA) 74 78 81 71
305 Louise Friberg (SWE) 73 74 81 77, Kim Williams (SAf) (am) 71 76 80 78, Ashley Smith (CAN) 71 77 78 79, Maria Beautell (SPA) 77 74 81 73
306 Monia Bernardo (PGL) 71 81 77 77, Cathrine Madsen (DEN) 72 76 83 75, Maria Verchenova (RUS) 74 80 78 74, Claire Aitken (ENG) 75 80 78 73
307 Erika Kuwahara (JPN) 75 75 79 78, Kanna Takanashi (JPN) 79 77 74 77, Camille Fallay (FRA) 79 75 77 76, Eva Steinberger (AUT) 80 76 75 76, Vittoria Valvassori (ITA) 80 77 79 71
308 Zuzana Kamasova (SVK) 75 80 76 77, Nathalie David-Mila (FRA) 75 80 78 75, Caroline Martens (NOR) 80 76 79 73, Whitney Myers (US) 80 77 77 74, Monica V. Christiansen (DEN) 75 84 78 71
310 Elin Andersson (SWE) 80 73 78 79, Heather MacRae (SCO) 77 78 78 77, Rhian Wyn Thomas (WAL) 78 76 79 77, Viva Schlasberg (SWE) 75 77 83 75
311 Antonella Cvitan (SWE) 80 75 76 80, Dawn Shockley (US) 77 74 81 79, Audrey Riguelle (FRA) 84 75 78 74, Nicole Perrot (CHL) 77 79 78 77, Iliska Verwey (SAf) (am) 77 82 80 72
312 Isabella Ramsay (SWE) 71 82 84 75
315 Lene Krog (NOR) 83 77 82 73
316 Sunny Park (AUS) 83 75 83 75
318 Hannah Grant (ENG) (am) 78 73 84 83, Wendy Hawkes (NZ) 85 82 77 74
319 Danielle McVeigh (IRE) (am) 81 77 82 79
By BETHAN CUTLER
Ladies European Tour Media Manager
MURCIA, Spain -- Sweden’s rising star Caroline Hedwall moved a step closer to leading the new class of 2011 at the Ladies European Tour’s Final Qualifying School today.
Hedwall retained her overnight lead with a fourth round of one-under par 70 on the North Course at La Manga Club in south-east Spain. She will take a three- stroke cushion into Sunday’s final round at seven-under-par 281.
American Jaclyn Sweeney carded a fourth round of four-under 69 on the South Course to remain in second at four-under 284. Sweeney is three ahead of Spain’s Adriana Zwanck, who returned a three-under 70 on the South Course to move to one-under-par overall.
Hedwall, 21, from Loddekopinge, who plays at Barsebäck Golf Club, birdied the third, fourth and seventh holes, but dropped shots at the 11th and 13th.
She said: “I played really well the front nine and nothing really worked on the back nine. I got it to three under at the turn but was two over on the back. I three-putted once and I missed one green, that’s all.
“My first birdie was from about a metre and then I holed two more from within five metres. I could have putted a little better on the back nine. On 11 I had a long second shot, a five-iron which I hit in the bunker but I managed to get it within two metres, then missed the putt.
"I missed a few more coming in. I don’t know why; it just happened. It was frustrating on the back nine, because I missed a couple of putts.”
Hedwall said she hoped to follow in the footsteps of her former Swedish amateur team-mate Anna Nordqvist, who won the Qualifying School for the 2009 season.
Sweeney, 21, from Anderson near Boston, fired six birdies and two bogeys and is also targeting the top spot. She said: “I putted better today and I really like the South Course. There was no wind so you could really be aggressive and go at pins and just pick your target. It was a good day today.
“Tomorrow I’ll just try to pick up some birdies I left out there today. Hopefully I’ll go really low tomorrow; that’s my goal, to see how much I can push myself.”
French amateur Lucie André teed off her fourth round with a hole-in-one on the North Course at La Manga Club. André played an eight-iron to ace the 130yd second hole. It was her second hole-in-one and she saw it bump just past the hole and spin back in. She carded a two-under round of 69 and finished the day in fourth place at level-par 288.
Australian Stacey Keating and Spain’s Belen Mozo are in a tie for fifth at one-over, with Thailand’s Nontaya Srisawang alone in seventh.
A total of 55 players made the 72-hole cut of 303 at 15-over par. The five-round qualifying event was cut to the low 50 players and ties for Sunday's final round.
At the completion of 90 holes the top 30 players will earn their full card for next season’s tour in category 8a. Those in positions 31 to 50 and ties will earn an exemption status in category 11a with limited tournament starts.
Former British women's open amateur stroke-play champion Heather MacRae from Dunblane will be very disappointed. In Tartan Tour stroke-play events she has looked Ladies European Tour material but she never got the bit between her teeth at La Manga. Rounds of 77, 78, 78 and 77 were well below her potential and her 310 total missed the mark by seven shots.
Incidentally, another British women's open amateur stroke-play champion, Curtis Cup player Danielle McVeigh (Royal Co Down) astonishingly finished last on 319 with scores of 81, 77, 82 and 79. Her form has tapered off - she played poorly at the LPGA Q School as well - just when she wanted to be on song.
Scotland has two players still in there pitching for one of the 30 cards for next year's Ladies European Tour. Claire Queen is on 297 - one shot inside the projected cut-off mark. She started well at La Manga with opening rouns of 74 and 70 for 144 but her third and fourth rounds of 77 and 76 have totalled nine shots worse - 153.
The Carrick at Loch Lomond player, a former British girls champion, just needs to keep her nerve in Sunday's crunch round and she can be back where she belongs for a seventh season on the LET.
Carly Booth from Comrie is one shot outside the leading 32 and ties at the moment with a 72-hole tally of 299 but she had a fourth-round of 71 which will give her some confidence for the showdown run. She had earlier scored 75, 75 and 78.
FOURTH ROUND TOTALS
Par 288 (2x73, 2x71)
281 Caroline Hedwall (SWE) 70 69 72 70
284 Jaclyn Sweeney (US) 73 69 73 69
287 Adriana Zwanck (SPA) 71 71 75 70
288 Lucie Andre (FRA) (am) 73 71 75 69
289 Stacey Keating (AUS) 72 71 75 71, Belen Mozo (SPA) 70 73 76 70
290 Nontaya Srisawang (THA) 71 75 72 72
291 Kaisa Ruuttila (FIN) 76 73 71 71, Louise Larsson (SWE) 71 77 70 73
293 Joanna Klatten (FRA) (am) 72 73 78 70, Klara Spilkova (CZE) (am) 76 76 72 69, Sara Brown (USA) 74 74 73 72, Garrett Phillips (USA) 74 73 75 71
294 Melodie Bourdy (FRA) 78 76 72 68
295 Martina Gillen (IRE) 76 74 76 69, Rachel Bell (ENG) 75 72 76 72, Corisande Lee (ENG) 78 72 74 71, Mikaela Parmlid (SWE) 71 74 75 75
296 Benedicte Toumpsin (BEL) (am) 79 70 74 73, Christine Hallstrom (SWE) 75 73 72 76, Line Vedel Hansen (DEN) (am) 76 72 74 74, Tara Davies (WAL) (am) 77 71 73 75
297 Danielle Bowers (ENG) 74 75 80 68, Charlie Douglass (ENG) 72 75 79 71, Laura Cabanillas (ESP) 78 75 71 73, Caroline Westrup (SWE) 72 73 78 74, Clare Queen (SCO) 74 70 77 76
298 - Liebelei Elena Lawrence (GR) 69 76 81 72, Connie Chen (SA) 75 72 77 74, Kyra van Leeuwen (NL) 73 75 76 74, Rachel Jennings (ENG) 77 72 76 73, Rachel Bailey (AUS) 74 73 75 76
PROJECTED CUT-OFF FOR TOP 30 AFTER FIVE ROUNDS
299 - Carly Booth (SCO) 75 75 78 71, Sara Ardstrom (SWE) 74 78 78 69, Kate Combes (AUS) 77 76 74 72, Julie Tvede (DEN) 75 79 76 69, Lara Tadiotto (BEL) 75 78 73 73, Kiran Matharu (ENG) 71 75 73 80
300 Elena Giraud (FRA) 78 78 73 71, Valentine Derrey (FRA) 74 77 77 72, Bree Arthur (AUS) 76 73 76 75, Marieke Nivard (NED) (am) 74 75 77 74
301 Juliana Murcia Ortiz (COL) 73 74 79 75
302 Nicole Forshner (CAN) 78 76 74 74, Marion Ricordeau (FRA) 74 74 79 75, Celine Palomar (FRA) 75 79 76 72, Caroline Bon (NZ) (am) 79 74 74 75, Sahra Hassan (WAL) 77 77 76 72, Melanie Maetzler (SWI) (am) 76 74 81 71
303 Eva Bjarvall (SWE) 75 77 78 73, Johanna Lundberg (SWE) 78 75 75 75, Barbara Genuini (FRA) 79 75 76 73, Helena Blomberg (SWE) 74 77 77 75, Chrisje de Vries (Am) (NL) 81 74 77 71, Danielle Masters (ENG) 73 78 81 71
MISSED THE CUT
304 - Kym Larratt (ENG) 78 75 76 75, Pamela Feggans (SCO) 77 73 81 73, Elin Emanuelsson (SWE) 74 79 78 73, Carmen Alonso (SPA) 74 78 81 71
305 Louise Friberg (SWE) 73 74 81 77, Kim Williams (SAf) (am) 71 76 80 78, Ashley Smith (CAN) 71 77 78 79, Maria Beautell (SPA) 77 74 81 73
306 Monia Bernardo (PGL) 71 81 77 77, Cathrine Madsen (DEN) 72 76 83 75, Maria Verchenova (RUS) 74 80 78 74, Claire Aitken (ENG) 75 80 78 73
307 Erika Kuwahara (JPN) 75 75 79 78, Kanna Takanashi (JPN) 79 77 74 77, Camille Fallay (FRA) 79 75 77 76, Eva Steinberger (AUT) 80 76 75 76, Vittoria Valvassori (ITA) 80 77 79 71
308 Zuzana Kamasova (SVK) 75 80 76 77, Nathalie David-Mila (FRA) 75 80 78 75, Caroline Martens (NOR) 80 76 79 73, Whitney Myers (US) 80 77 77 74, Monica V. Christiansen (DEN) 75 84 78 71
310 Elin Andersson (SWE) 80 73 78 79, Heather MacRae (SCO) 77 78 78 77, Rhian Wyn Thomas (WAL) 78 76 79 77, Viva Schlasberg (SWE) 75 77 83 75
311 Antonella Cvitan (SWE) 80 75 76 80, Dawn Shockley (US) 77 74 81 79, Audrey Riguelle (FRA) 84 75 78 74, Nicole Perrot (CHL) 77 79 78 77, Iliska Verwey (SAf) (am) 77 82 80 72
312 Isabella Ramsay (SWE) 71 82 84 75
315 Lene Krog (NOR) 83 77 82 73
316 Sunny Park (AUS) 83 75 83 75
318 Hannah Grant (ENG) (am) 78 73 84 83, Wendy Hawkes (NZ) 85 82 77 74
319 Danielle McVeigh (IRE) (am) 81 77 82 79
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