Linzi Allan finishes joint sixth in Oklahoma

Ayrshire's Linzi Allan, a student at Newman University, Wichita, was back in action this week and did very well indeed to tie for sixth place in a field of 44 players for the Heartland Conference Tournament at Rose Creek Golf Club, Edmond in Oklahoma.
Over a par-72 course of 6,150yd, Linzi had rounds of 76 and 75 for 151 - five shots behind the winner, Emily Kvinta (St Edwards University) who scored 72 and 74.
Linzi's team-mate Alyssa Balding from Northumberland shared 18th place on 160 with scores of 81 and 79.
Newman (624) finished third behind St Edwards University (592) and Incarnate Word University (620) in a field of nine teams.
+Linzi's dad tells Kirkwoodgolf that Linzi will not be back in Scotland in time to play in the Scottish women's championship at Craigielaw next month.

EUROPEAN NATIONS CUP STARTS THURSDAY

Catriona Matthew makes it to Alicante in

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time after all to team up with Krystle

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FROM THE LADIES EUROPEAN TOUR WEBSITE

All 18 teams of two will be present to represent their countries when the third Comunitat Valenciana European Nations Cup begins at 8.45am on Thursday at La Sella Resort in Dénia, Alicante, Spain.
With the Icelandic volcano having caused chaos with air travel in Europe over the past week, it was feared that some teams wouldn’t be able to make it to the tournament, however many players spent three days travelling across the continent in a desperate attempt to make it to the tee by Thursday.
Austrian Stefanie Michl was scheduled to arrive at 10.25pm tonight (Wednesday), less than 12 hours before her 9.09am tee time. She has flown from the United States to Frankfurt and from there to Madrid.
North Berwick’s Catriona Matthew, pictured above, the Ricoh Women’s Open champion, arrived on site at around 2pm today with her caddie-husband Graeme, in plenty of time to join her playing partner Krystle Caithness on the tee at 10.09am on Thursday.
Speaking from Alicante, Matthew said: “We actually flew from Newcastle to Alicante, which was pretty amazing. Now we’re looking forward to getting some sun.
“Suddenly they opened up the whole of Britain at about five or six last night. We held out because I wasn’t going to do that drive. Our car is only a little runaround when we’re at home in Scotland so we didn’t think it could take that journey. It is 30 driving hours from Scotland to get here. We nearly went with Karrie Webb’s caddie Mikey but it took him 60 hours altogether going on the Eurostar. We looked at that but they were fully booked.”
The Ladies European Tour fixture, which was successfully launched in 2008, has attracted a world class field of 18 teams comprising 16 countries from Europe, whilst Australia and the United States received the two sponsor invitations.
Fortunately for Australian Karrie Webb, travelling from the United States with the American duo of Meg Mallon and Beth Daniel, an early arrival last Saturday saw them avoid the flight chaos. Making the most of the extra days in Spain, they enjoyed a football match between Real Madrid and Valencia at the Bernabeu Stadium.
A picture of the tournament mascot ‘Birdy’, on which the players painted their national flags.
Australian Karen Lunn’s journey, proved to be the longest and most enduring. She commenced her trip with a Coolangatta to Sydney flight last Thursday.

She reported: “I arrived in Abu Dhabi en route to London and was stuck there for two nights. Realising it was unlikely I would get to London and then Spain in time (for the tournament) I decided to buy a new ticket to Alicante via Doha and Madrid.

"Ninety hours door to door, five flights and five days later I finally made it. It was an expensive exercise but I wouldn’t have missed this event for anything. Karrie and I had a good practice day on Tuesday and are both playing well so should be a good week.”
Of the Britons, Melissa Reid and Karen Stupples drove from England, Breanne Loucks drove from Wales and Krystle Caithness drove with her caddie from Scotland.
Reid explained her journey: “I drove from Loughborough, which was 1400 miles away and took 22 hours. It was punishment and got a bit tedious for the last six hours. We drove straight through. We left Loughborough at 2am on Monday and arrived around midnight so it was less than 24 hours. We took the ferry from Dover.

"We were pretty tired yesterday (Tuesday). My neck and back stiffened up. I have problems with my back anyway but a bit of practising and gym and it sorted itself out. A little bit of practise and I’m back to my normal self.
“I’m playing the course for the first time in the pro am and it looks nice. I think when they cut the greens and they run a bit faster they will be running a bit better. It’s in pretty good condition and the fairways are nice.”
Only one team, Germany, has seen a change. Bettina Hauert will be joined by the recent Lalla Meryem Cup winner Anja Monke, who has replaced Sandra Gal.
“I am extremely happy that Anja drove up here from Hannover today,” said Hauert, who had driven for 17 hours from Cologne, starting on Sunday. “I think Sandra made a great decision to give Anja the chance to play. It’s not easy to step back and let someone else take your spot; that’s really fair play and shows great character. Sandra wanted to play really badly but she just couldn’t find another flight from the United States to Europe. Both Sandra and Anja are great players so either way I think Germany has a strong team.”
Monke added: “I will never complain about waiting for a plane again after that drive.”
Finland’s Jenni Kuosa drove the furthest: 3,800 kilometres from Helsinki and arrived on Tuesday evening to partner Ursula Wikstrom, who drove from Switzerland, along with Gwladys Nocera and Jade Schaeffer, from France.
Russian Maria Verchenova took a train from Moscow to Vienna en route to the event to join playing partner, Anastasia Kostina, who took a convoluted route from Miami in Florida, to Valencia in Spain. The Irish team of Hazel Kavanagh and Rebecca Coakley took a three day trip from Dublin via the Holyhead ferry.
The Dutch team of Christel Boeljon and Marjet van der Graaff will defend the title they won in 2009 when they defeated Australia (Nikki Garrett & Joanne Mills), France (Gwladys Nocera & Anne-Lise Caudal) and Italy (Veronica Zorzi & Giulia Sergas) into second place.
The event format will see four rounds played as follows:
Thursday: Four-ball, better-ball – each player plays her own ball and the best score of the two is recorded for each hole.
Friday: “Valencian Cup” format where players tee off then switch and play their partner’s ball for the next shot (on par 4s) and for the next 2 shots (on par 5s) before selecting the best ball and completing the hole in alternate shot (foursome) format. On par 3s the best tee shot is selected before completing the hole with alternate shots.
Saturday : Four-ball, better-ball.
Sunday: Valencian Cup format
The winning team will share €84,000.

Fiona Anderson in action with her characteristic style. Image by courtesy of Leaderboardphotography.

Fiona leads qualifiers for English senior championship

NEWS RELEASE ISSUED BY ENGLISH WOMEN'S GOLF ASSOCIATION

(with a few additional words by Colin Farquharson)
Five times Scottish women's amateur championship finalist Fiona Anderson, originally from Blairgowrie, leads the qualifiers for the match-play stages of the English senior championship at Littlestone, Kent.

Fiona, who spent her working life as a banker, has lived in Lancashire for the past 16 years and plays at Formby Ladies.

She beat Christine Middleton (Cruden Bay) in the 1987 Scottish final at Nairn but lost in four other finals to players of the calibre of Belle Robertson (1980), Gillian Stewart (1983), Shirley Lawson (1988) and Catriona Lambert, Matthew to be (1991).

Miss Anderson took the top spot at Littlestone with a second-round score of one-over 74 and a 36-hole total of 152. In the first round she will play England senior international Janet (Collingham) Melville who won a play-off for the 16th and final place in the championship matchplay flight.

"I’m delighted,” said Fiona. “It was much easier today. The wind was not as strong but it was quite cold and so the ball was not travelling so far. But it was gorgeous and the course is in excellent condition and the greens are superb.”

Fiona, who was also a GB&I international (1987 Vagliano Trophy match) and captained Scotland internationals teams, played very steadily, with two bogeys on the way out and one birdie on the way home. Otherwise it was pars all the way.

She had just one three-putt, for bogey on the third, and was happy to settle, mostly, for two putting. However, she did find the hole with one putt when necessary, for example when she got up and down for par from a “deadly” place on the sixth, and for birdie on the 12th.

“I haven’t had the pleasure of playing here before but I do realise it’s a course that takes a lot of knowing and that there are some places that are no-go areas!”

Defending champion Chris Quinn, from Hampshire, is the second seed after she moved up the leaderboard with a two-over 75. Chris - who won both English senior titles last year - opened her challenge with a first-round 81 which she described as “defensive”. But normal service was resumed with her 75:

“Today was a lot better. At this stage you have to be careful not to be too defensive, you have to play decent golf on this course.”

She got off to an excellent start with birdies on the first two holes and produced two matching halves, each of one-over par. It might have been better: she was on the front of the long 16th in two, but three-putted for par.

But as Chris pointed out: “That was my only three-putt of the day, instead of four yesterday.”

The leading 16 players qualified for the championship match-play flight and the next 16 went into Flight Two. Pat Wrightson (Huddersfield), who lost the play-off for the last championship place, became the top qualifier in Flight Two.

Three Littlestone members are involved in the match-play stages. Julie Ballard qualified for the championship flight while Geraldine Bray and Rosemary Smallman are in Flight Two. The matches will begin at 8.30am tomorrow, starting with the championship flight, and spectators are welcome.

QUALIFIERS

Par 146 (2x73)

152 Fiona Anderson (Formby Ladies) 78 74.

156 Chris Quinn (Hockley) 81 75.

158 Annie Gowing (Frilford Heath) 82 76, Barbara Laird (Sandiway) 80 78.

160 Carole Caldwell (Sunningdale) 79 81, Rozalyn Adams (Addington Court Ladies).

163 Caroline Marron (Bromborough) 84 79, Felicity Christine (Banstead Downs) 80 83.

164 Pat West (Spalding) 79 85.

165 Judy Butler (Malton & Norton) 85 80, Julie Ballard (Littlestone) 83 82, Carole Weir (Beaconsfield) 83 82, Judy McCairns (Oxford Ladies') 82 83, Jo Ashmore (Barnham Broom) 81 84, Sandra Paul (Huddersfield) 80 85.

166 Janet Melville (Sherwood Forest) 83 83, Pat Wrightson (Huddersfield) 83 83.

167 Irene Brien (Wentworth) 87 80, Linda Noblett (Darwen) 85 82, Cathy Armstrong (Ellesborough) 83 84, Ruth Lindley (Hartlepool) 83 84.

168 Rosemary Smallman (Littlestone) 86 82, Vivien Saunders (Cambridge Meridian) 84 84, Hilary Smyth (Pannal) 83 85; Carol Wild (Notts Ladies') 83 85, Liz Moverley (Copt Heath) 82 86.

168 Alison Gee (Clandon Regis) 81 87.

169 Debbie Richards (Burhill) 86 83, Paula Parker (St Neots) 85 84, +Sue Timberlake (Edgbaston) 80 89.

170 Geraldine Bray (Littlestone) 87 83, Sue Heathcote (Minchinhampton) 85 85.

171 Anne Bridges (Mentmore) 88 83.

+Sue Timberlake withdrew from the match-play stages.

Championship flight

Fiona Anderson v Janet Melville

Pat West v Felicity Christine

Carole Caldwell v Carole Weir

Judy McCairns v Barbara Laird

Annie Gowing v Jo Ashmore

Julie Ballard v Roz Adams

Caroline Marron v Judy Butler

Sandra Paul v Chris Quinn

Flight Two

Pat Wrightson v Anne Bridges

Carol Wild v Hilary Smyth

Ruth Lindley v Debbie Richards

Paula Parker v Cathy Armstrong

Linda Noblett v Geraldine Bray

Alison Gee v Rosemary Smallman

Vivien Saunders v Liz Moverley

Sue Heathcote v Irene Brien

Full details and hole-by-hole scoring: http://www.englishwomensgolf.org/

Lyndsey Hewison

Press & PR Officer

English students Siviter and Campbell of Belmont

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Abbey College win Carolinas titles

FROM THE BELMONT ABBEY COLLEGE WEBSITE, NORTH CAROLINA
The Belmont Abbey men's and women's golf teams were crowned the 2010 Conference Carolinas champions and Abbey freshman Melissa Siviter (from the West Midlands) and senior Joe Campbell (from Cheltenham) claimed medallist honours after three days of competition at Tanglewood Park in Clemmons, North Carolina.
In the women's tournament, the Abbey, which is ranked fifth in the nation, led wire-to-wire as four of the five Crusader players finished in the top four. Belmont Abbey led by 26 shots after the first day, 41 on the second and won by a margin of 55 shots over Pfeiffer and Queens, which finished in a tie for second with scores of 987.
Melissa Siviter, pictured, a Staffordshire county team player and the Conference Carolinas Freshman of the Year, won by three shots from team-mate Liz Cortez and six over third-placed Carley Warrington from Bradwell.
Siviter bookended rounds of 76 between a second round 78. Cortez entered the final round leading Siviter by one stroke, but her final round of 80 left her in second place.
The men's tournament turned into a two-team race, as the Abbey entered the final round leading Barton by seven strokes. The Bulldogs rallied to take a two-shot lead with the final group still on the course, but Campbell's even par 70 proved to be the difference as the Abbey won by a razor-thin margin of three shots.
Senior year student Campbell won the individual title by nine strokes as he carded rounds of 73-68-70. Barton posted a final round 297 to the Abbey's 301, but the second round edge was just enough as the Crusaders held on with a final score of 885 to Barton's 888.
All-Tournament Teams
MEN
Jay Goldenberg, Coker
Daniel Claytor, Barton
Clark Rose, Mount Olive
Stephen Harrison, Barton
Peter Tarver Jones, Belmont Abbey
Adam Hedges, Belmont Abbey
Pureum Lee, Queens
Thomas Muto, Jr., Barton
Daniel Castleberry, Barton
WOMEN
Jackie McMenimon, Pfeiffer
Alison Cowles, Pfeiffer
Camilla Mallberg, Queens
Michele Low, Belmont Abbey
Tegan Skripstas, Mount Olive
Meagan Wallace, Belmont Abbey
Valentina Urquiola, Mount Olive
Carley Warrington, Belmont Abbey
Liz Cortez, Belmont Abbey

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Ayrshire student confirms No 3 WAGR behind Byrne, Kellett

Michael Stewart scores second win on US college circuit

By COLIN FARQUHARSON
Troon's Michael Stewart, winner of the Scottish boys' match-play championship in 2008, has scored his second win on the United States men's college golf circuit.
The 20-year-old second-year student, pictured right, at East Tennessee State University, Jefferson City, birdied the last hole, getting down in two shots from 111yd, to win the Coca Cola Wofford Invitational at CC of Spartanburg in South Carolina.
Stewart's scores were 72, 66 and 71 for a seven-under-par total of 209. The 66 was, by three strokes, his best of the 2009-2010 college season.
Runners-up on 210 were Irish team-mate Seamus Power from Waterford with 68-71-71 for 210 and Jacobo Pastor (Charleston Southern) who hit the same mark with rounds of 72, 70 and 68.
“I told our assistant coach (Keith Nolan) on the 18th hole that I wanted to know what I had to do to win outright,” Stewart said. “He showed me three fingers, indicating I needed a birdie 3. I had 111 yards to go after my drive and I hit a 54-degree wedge to four feet, and made the putt. It’s a big confidence booster to be playing well like this."
Other East Tennessee State students in the top 25 were Paul O'Kane from Castledawson, Northern Ireland in joint sixth place with scores of 73, 69 and 71 for 213; Garth McGee from Banor in a share of 18th place on 218 (72-71-75) and Rhys Enoch from Cornwall on 220 (jt 24th) with rounds of 75, 73 and 72.
East Tennesssee State (847) won the team title ahead of USC Upstate (862) and Wofford College (863) in a field of 13 teams.
Stewart's indiviual win over a good-class field of 70 players confirmed his position as the No 3 Scot in the latest update of the R&A World Amateur Golf Rankings.
Banchory's James Byrne, a student at Arizona State Univesity, is the top Scot in 31st position overall, down one place from last week.
Ross Kellett (Colville Park) has gone up one place to No 49 while Stewart's victory earned him a rise of 21 places to No 167.
The leading Scots in the R&A WAGR this week are:
31 James Byrne (-1).
49 Ross Kellett (+1).
167 Michael Stewart (+21).
261 Glenn Campbell (-3).
308 Mark Hillson (-8).
319 James White (-12).
383 David Law (+2).
412 Stuart Ballingall (+119).
440 Philip McLean (-11).
510 Fraser McKenna (-15).
516 Steven McEwan (-16).
545 Bobby Rushford (-25).
567 Kris Nicol (-17).
592 Greg Paterson (-13).
611 Peter Latimer (-17).
619 Daniel Sommerville (-43).
637 Scott Crichton (+3).
662 James Ross (-12)./
684 Gordon Yates (-14).
721 Gordon Stevenson (-37).
760 Paul Ferrier (-3).
766 Paul Shields (+28).
786 Craig Watson (-22).
816 Scott Borrowman (-15).
870 Sam Binning (+1).
905 Andrew Gusnon (-38).
932 Fraser Fotheringham (-36).
942 Paul Betty (-37).
962 Michael Daily (-27).
975 Alexander Culverwell (+4).
1018 Steven Rennis (-22).
1047 Adam Dunton (-24).
1077 Neil Henderson (-82).
1078 Ross Crowe (+232).
1171 Chris Harkins (-32).
1176 Matthew Clark (-32).
1212 Lewis Kirton (-118).
1223 Stephen Speirs (-193).
1257 Colin Thomson (+37).
1296 Nicky Barr (-19).
1297 Ross Bell (-19).
1354 Allyn Dick (-27).
1405 Chris Robb (-26).
1495 Grant Forrest (+429).
1561 James Hendrick (-37).
1576 David Addison (-35).

THE TOP FIVE IN THE R&A WAGR THIS WEEK ARE:
1 Matteo Manassero (Italy) (no change).
2 Nick Taylor (Canada) (no change).
3 Victor Dubuisson (France) (no change).
4 Peter Uihlein (US) (+1).
5 Tommy Fleetwood (England) (+1).

Aberdeenshire women's county championship draw

PORTLETHEN GOLF CLUB – Friday, April 30.
15.00 D Pocock (ML), F Seedhouse (AL)
15.08 L McLardy (DHR), L Urquhart (B)
15.16 F Hay (D), S Wood (AL)
15.24 J Harrison (CB), C Wilson (ML)
15.32 K Stalker (CB), K Vannet (P)
15.40 R Polson (P), M Duncan (A)
15.48 L Duncan (A), S Leslie (W)
16.00 L McGillivray (B), S Mathieson (RM)
16.08 H Thomson (N), F Fullerton (MH)
16.16 L Terry (CB), E Mauchline (N)
16.24 L Whyte (H), marker
16.40 E Brown (A), L Tough (N)
16.48 J Lees (W), M Johnstone (ML)
17.00 D Gordon (W), L Carnie (Nb)

Abbreviations – AL Aberdeen Ladies; A Aboyne; B Banchory; CB Cruden Bay; D Deeside; DHR Duff House Royal; H Hazlehead; ML Murcar Links; MH Meldrum House; Nb Newburgh-on-Ythan; N Newmachar; P Peterculter; RM Royal Musselburgh; W Westhill

Portlethen Golf Club have kindly offered all competitors a complimentary practice round beforehand and they can also take a guest with them at the special rate of £12. Please phone the club on 01224 782571 to book a time in advance.
There will be 16 qualifiers who progress to match play. The first round of the match play will be held on Saturday, May 1, starting at 10am. The quarter finals will take place on the same day at 2.30pm. The semi finals will start at 10am on Sunday, May 2 with the final scheduled to start at 2.30pm.
Should any competitor have to withdraw, please will she contact Karen Stalker on 01346 513308 as soon as possible.