England v Germany in final of

English women's mid-amateur

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Gloucestershire’s Sian James will meet Germany’s Michele Holzwarth in the final of the English women’s open mid-amateur championship at Bristol and Clifton Golf Club on Sunday.
Sian, 21, pictured right by Cal Carson Golf Agency, who is playing on her home course, won a tight semi-final, beating her county colleague and foursomes partner, Charlotte Ellis, by one hole.
“It was a very good game, a real battle” said Sian, who is a leading university golfer and will be playing her first English championship final. “I knew that if I could get into the match-play I would stand a chance on my home course – and it’s great to be playing in a final at my own club.”
There was never more than one hole in the match between the two Gloucestershire players and it was Charlotte who held the early advantage. But every time the 2006 champion took a one-hole lead, Sian pulled her back to all square.
Crucially, Sian won the 14th with a birdie 3 to square the match and then took the lead for the first time with a par 4 on the 15th. Charlotte immediately struck back, holing a long putt on the 16th to again make the scoreline all square.
But Sian won the short 17th with a par to go one-up and clinched her place in the final when the 18th was halved in par.
Earlier in the day, Sian went to the 19th to beat Buckinghamshire’s Rachel Drummond in the quarter-finals. Charlotte Ellis, meanwhile, made short work of her morning match with sparkling play and a 6 and 5 win over Lincolnshire’s Jess Wilcox.
Michele Holzwarth’s two-up victory in her semi-final against Hampshire’s Raffi Dyer meant a rapid change of plan. She had to rearrange her flight home and accepted an invitation to stay overnight with the family of the club member who shouldered her bag for the semi-final.
Michele, 22, is a plus-two handicapper from Berlin. She’s just completed her third year at Fearleigh Dickinson University in New Jersey and is a winner on the US college circuit. She saw this event on the European Golf Association calendar and said: “It fitted my schedule perfectly and I love the format of stroke-play and match-play. We don’t do that in Germany.”
Her semi-final match against Hampshire’s Raffi Dyer was excellent, with the players collecting five birdies and an eagle between them.
Raffi, who recently won the Critchley Salver at Sunningdale, won the third and fourth with birdies, and was up for most of the match. But Michele made her move towards the end of the round. She hit a spectacular drive over trees on to the green at the 288yd 15th to get back to all square, halved the 16th, and then won both the 17th and 18th with pars.
This will also be Michele’s first appearance in a national final and she said: “I am just going to come here and play 18 holes and see what happens.”
Her day had the perfect ending when she came off the golf course to discover that Germany had beaten Argentina in the World Cup!
Earlier in the day she beat Tara Watters, the runner-up in the English amateur championship, while Raffi beat Somerset’s Hannah Grant by one hole.
TODAY'S RESULTS
QUARTER-FINALS
Michele Holzwarth (BGC Gatow, Germany) bt Tara Watters (Muswell Hill) 1 hole. 
Raffi Dyer (Hayling) bt Hannah Grant (Enmore Park) 1 hole.
Sian James (Bristol and Clifton) bt Rachel Drummond (Beaconsfield) 1 hole.
Charlotte Ellis (Minchinhampton) bt Jess Wilcox (Blankney) 6 and 5.
SEMI-FINALS
Michele Holzwarth bt Raffi Dyer 2 holes.
Sian James bt Charlotte Ellis 1 hole.

Lyndsey Hewison
Press and PR Officer
EWGA

Two Scots in the top 12: Vikki Laing (left) on the first tee and (right) Lynn Kenny holes a putt on her way to a repeat 68. 

Trish Johnson leads by three strokes in Tenerife Open

NEWS RELEASE FROM LADIES EUROPEAN TOUR

England’s Trish Johnson stormed three shots clear of Frenchwoman Virginie Lagoutte-Clement after the third round of the Tenerife Ladies Open today. Johnson carded one bogey and seven birdies, with five on the back nine, in tough conditions for a phenomenal score of six under par 66 at Buenavista Golf.

The 18-time winner of the Ladies European Tour, pictured right, is at 12-under-par 204 for the tournament, while Lagoutte-Clement shot 70 to finish the day at 207.

Overnight leader Melissa Reid shot 72 to remain at eight under par, with Frenchwoman Anne-Lise Caudal a shot back after a round of 70.

Johnson, who finished joint second at last week’s Portugal Ladies Open, continued her impressive form in windy conditions.

“It was a difficult day. It was probably blowier today than the first two days, which is saying something,” said the 44-year-old Johnson, who learned her game on Royal North Devon’s exposed links at Westward Ho. “Obviously I swung very well, putted very well; did everything pretty well. I made a couple of mistakes early on and hit the wrong club possibly on the third, into the bunker and made bogey but I hit a good shot. I went to the bathroom and sat down and said, ‘You know, this is silly. You’ve hit good shots and you’re playing well so don’t get too up tight.’ I said to myself ‘You’re putting well and playing well’ and sure enough, I started to relax a bit.”

The eight-time Solheim Cup player claimed her last Ladies European Tour victory at the 2007 BMW Ladies Italian Open and she said: “Obviously I’d love to win, the same as everybody else this week. I just think that’s a process and for the last few years I’ve thought about winning way too much and actually, that’s something I can’t do anything about.
“If I play as well as that tomorrow then I’ve got every chance. Winning is a by-product of playing great golf and it’s so much fun when you’re hitting great shots: there’s nothing better.”
Lagoutte-Clement, 31, matched four bogeys with four birdies adding an eagle at the par-five 13th hole. Her score could have been better, had she capitalised on her numerous birdie chances. She nearly holed in one at the fourth, only to miss the birdie putt from inches, before missing another birdie chance from three feet at the next.
Reid started well with a birdie at the first hole but double-bogeyed the sixth and dropped another shot at the seventh. She recovered with birdies at the eighth and the ninth and was level on the back nine.
England’s Kiran Matharu, who lost her full Ladies European Tour card this season, shot an impressive round of 66 and finished in a tie for fifth place at six under par with four others: Italian Veronica Zorzi (68), Germany’s Anja Monke (71), Christel Boeljon of the Netherlands (71) and Scotland’s Vikki Laing (73).

THIRD-ROUND LEADERS
Par 216 (3x72)
1. Trish Johnson (ENG) 67 71 66 = 204
2. Virginie Lagoutte-C. (FRA) 67 70 70 = 207
3. Melissa Reid (ENG) 66 70 72 = 208
4. Anne-Lise Caudal (FRA) 68 71 70 = 209
T5 Kiran Matharu (ENG) 73 71 66 = 210
T5 Veronica Zorzi (ITA) 69 68 68 = 210
T5 Christel Boeljon (NL) 67 72 71 = 210
T5 Anja Monke (GER) 70 69 71 = 210
T5 Vikky Laing (SCO) 69 68 73 = 210
10. Jade Schaeffer (FRA) 73 68 70 = 211
T12 Lynn Kenny (SCO) 77 68 68 = 213
T12 BROOKY, Lynette 73 75 70 68 = 213 
T12 PACE, Lee-Anne 72 72 69 = 213
T15 CROCE, Stefania  74 74 66 = 214
T15 WESSBERG, Linda  73 69 72 = 214
T15 MARITZ, Laurette 68 74 72 = 214
T15 JORGENSEN, Malene  70 71 73 = 214
T15 CUNINGHAM, Tandi  72 73 69 = 214
T15 AITCHISON, Holly  74 69 71 = 214
T15 REIS, Nina 71 71 = 214
T15 PARKER, Florentyna  71 74 69 = 214
T23 JOHNSON, Felicity 71 71 = 215
T23 KIRKLAND, Cassandra 70 71 74 = 215
T23 TVEDE, Julie 71 75 69 = 215
T23 CABANILLAS, Laura  75 70 70 = 215
27 HUDSON, Rebecca  72 72 72 = 216
T28 WELCH, Kim 72 76 69 = 217
T28 AFONSO, Caroline 72 74 71 = 217
T28 WIKSTROM, Ursula  66 80 71 = 217
T28 BONDAD, Frances  71 72 74 = 217
T28 NA, Stephanie  77 67 73 = 217
T28 KUOSA, Jenni Lilian  74 69 74 = 217
T28 GIQUEL, Sophie  72 71 74 = 217
T28 JUUL, Karen-Margrethe 75 70 72 = 217
T28 HAUERT, Bettina 73 72 72 = 217
T28 ROMINGER, Caroline 71 73 73  = 217
T38 PIOVANO, Federica 69 77 72 = 218
T38 LEE, Jeehae 69 73 76 = 218
T38 GARRETT, Nikki 73 74 71 = 218
T38 SANDOLO, Sophie 73 74 71 = 218
T42 BODEN, Maria 74 72 73 = 219
T42 MAISONGROSSE, Julie  72 74 73 = 219
T44 FLOOD, Rebecca 72 72 76 = 220
T44 MEHRA, Smriti 71 72 77 = 220
T44 BAGGER, Mianne 77 70 73 = 220
T44 MASTERS, Danielle 73 74 73 = 220
T44 COMBES, Kate 69 77 74 = 220
T44 ALONSO Carmen 73 75 72 = 220
T44 RIGON ,Margherita 74 73 73 = 220
T51 LEE, Corisande 71 74 76 = 221
T51 MACIAS, Mariana 74 71 76 = 221
T51 VERCHENOVA, Mar  73 72 76 = 221
T51 HALL ,Lydia 71 72 78 = 221
T51 BEAUTELL, Maria  74 73 74 = 221
T51 LUNDGREEN, Cecilie 70 76 75 = 221
T51 LEIJON, Josefin 68 74 79 = 221
58 PRITCHARD, Jo  73 71 78 = 222
59 ZUEL, Henrietta  78 70 75 = 223
60 BREGMAN, Stacy Lee  71 75 78 = 224
61 PLUCKSATAPORN, Titya  71 74 80 = 225
62 LIND, Emelie 70 76 82 = 228
63 FISHER, Kirsty J 75 73 81 = 229

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Janice Moodie Trophy girls' tournament at Windyhill

Left to Right:
Heather Munro (Monifieth) - Winner 10-14 Category
Rachel Hanlon (St Regulus) - Janice Moodie Trophy Winner
Lauren Whyte (St Regulus) - Runner-up 10-14 Category
Absent from the photo:
Eilidh Briggs (Kilmacolm) - Scratch Winner
Gabrielle MacDonald (Craigielaw) - Winner 15-17 Category
Alexis Hutton (Falkirk Tryst) - Runner Up 15-17 Category

FULL RESULTS
CSS 73
Miss Rachel Hanlon (St Regulus) 72 - 3 = 69 Lowest Gross
Miss Eilidh Briggs (Kilmacol) 72 - 0 = 72 Lowest Gross
Miss Gabrielle MacDonald (Craigielaw) 75 - 3 = 72
Miss Heather Munro (Monifieth) 83 - 10 = 73
Miss Alexis Hutton (Falkirk Tryst) 83 - 9 = 74
Miss Linsey Stevenson (Elie and Earlsferry) 79 - 5 = 74
Miss Jemma Chalmers (Monifieth) 81 - 6 = 75
Miss Jessica Meek (Carnoustie Ladies) 80 - 5 = 75
Miss Rachel Walker (Dumfries and Co) 81 - 5 = 76
Miss Lauren Whyte (St Regulus) 82 - 5 = 77
Miss Alison Goodwin (Glenbervie) 82 - 5 = 77
Miss Hannah McCook (Abernethy) 79 - 1 = 78
Miss Catriona MacDonald (Ballochmyle) 95 - 17 = 78
Miss Mhairi McKay (West Kilbride) 88 - 7 = 81
Miss Connie Jaffrey (Troon Ladies) 88 - 6 = 82
Miss Rachel McClelland (Balmore) 107 - 20 = 87
Miss Kirstin Scott (Milngavie) 97 - 9 = 88
Miss Danielle Ker (Kelso) 102 - 13 = 89
Miss Katie Reid (Monifieth) N/R - 6 = N/R
Miss Ailsa Summers (Carnoustie Ladies) N/R - 3 = N/R

Rachel Hanlon with Sara Bishop, ladies captain of Windyhill Golf Club.

LPGA Tour Scoreboard
JAMIE FARR OWENS CORNING CLASSIC
Highland Meadows GC, Sylvania, Ohio
SECOND ROUND TOTALS
Par 142 (2x71)
1 Na Yeon Choi -4 F -11 64 67 131
T2 Christina Kim -4 F -9 66 67 133
T2 Alena Sharp -3 F -9 65 68 133
T2 Inbee Park -5 F -9 67 66 133
T5 Beatriz Recari -4 F -6 69 67 136
T5 Stacy Prammanasudh -4 F -6 69 67 136
T5 Stacy Lewis -2 F -6 67 69 136
T5 Song-Hee Kim -5 F -6 70 66 136
T5 In-Kyung Kim -5 F -6 70 66 136
T5 Kristy McPherson -3 F -6 68 68 136
 T11 Jean Reynolds -3 F -5 69 68 137
T11 Chella Choi -5 F -5 71 66 137
T11 Meaghan Francella -3 F -5 69 68 137
T11 Hee-Won Han -5 F -5 71 66 137
T11 M.J. Hur -2 F -5 68 69 137
T11 Jiyai Shin -1 F -5 67 70 137
T11 Pernilla Lindberg -3 F -5 69 68 137
T11 Karin Sjodin -5 F -5 71 66 137
T19 Lisa Meldrum -3 F -4 70 68 138
T19 Soo-Yun Kang -1 F -4 68 70 138
T19 Sherri Steinhauer -2 F -4 69 69 138
T19 Meena Lee -4 F -4 71 67 138
T19 Hee Young Park -3 F -4 70 68 138
T19 Maria Hjorth -2 F -4 69 69 138
T19 Katherine Hull E F -4 67 71 138
T19 Angela Stanford -2 F -4 69 69 138
T19 Amy Yang -1 F -4 68 70 138
T19 Azahara Munoz -3 F -4 70 68 138
T19 Karine Icher +1 F -4 66 72 138
T19 Marisa Baena +1 F -4 66 72 138
T19 Kris Tamulis -1 F -4 68 70 138
T32 Allison Hanna -2 F -3 70 69 139
T32 Libby Smith -4 F -3 72 67 139
T32 Mindy Kim -2 F -3 70 69 139
T32 Misun Cho -1 F -3 69 70 139
T32 Marianne Skarpnord -4 F -3 72 67 139
T32 Eunjung Yi -3 F -3 71 68 139
T32 Kyeong Bae -6 F -3 74 65 139
T32 Amy Hung E F -3 68 71 139
T32 Momoko Ueda +1 F -3 67 72 139
T32 Na On Min E F -3 68 71 139
T32 Natalie Gulbis E F -3 68 71 139
T43 Stephanie Louden +1 F -2 68 72 140
T43 Adrienne White -1 F -2 70 70 140
T43 Maria Hernandez -1 F -2 70 70 140
T43 Giulia Sergas E F -2 69 71 140
T43 Jee Young Lee E F -2 69 71 140
T43 Vicky Hurst -2 F -2 71 69 140
T43 Jimin Kang -3 F -2 72 68 140
T43 Candie Kung -1 F -2 70 70 140
T43 Eun-Hee Ji E F -2 69 71 140
T43 Mina Harigae -1 F -2 70 70 140
T43 Diana D'Alessio -3 F -2 72 68 140
T43 Jackie Gallagher-Smith +2 F -2 67 73 140
T43 Ilmi Chung E F -2 69 71 140
T43 Russy Gulyanamitta +1 F -2 68 72 140
T57 Tanya Dergal -1 F -1 71 70 141
T57 Haeji Kang -2 F -1 72 69 141
T57 Amanda Blumenherst -1 F -1 71 70 141
T57 Sun Young Yoo E F -1 70 71 141
T57 Heather Bowie Young +1 F -1 69 72 141
T57 Karen Stupples E F -1 70 71 141
T57 Jeong Jang E F -1 70 71 141
T57 Sarah Kemp -4 F -1 74 67 141
T57 Ashli Bunch -1 F -1 71 70 141
T57 Allison Fouch -1 F -1 71 70 141
T67 Paige Mackenzie -1 F E 72 70 142
T67 Cindy Lacrosse +1 F E 70 72 142
T67 Tamie Durdin -1 F E 72 70 142
T67 Taylor Leon -4 F E 75 67 142
T67 Jill McGill -5 F E 76 66 142
T67 Katie Futcher -2 F E 73 69 142
T67 Louise Friberg -2 F E 73 69 142
T67 Lorie Kane -1 F E 72 70 142
T67 Janice Moodie -1 F E 72 70 142
T67 Brittany Lincicome +3 F E 68 74 142
T67 Gwladys Nocera +1 F E 70 72 142
T67 Morgan Pressel -3 F E 74 68 142
T67 Mikaela Parmlid -6 F E 77 65 142
T67 Lisa Strom +1 F E 70 72 142
T67 Iben Tinning -3 F E 74 68 142
T67 Reilley Rankin E F E 71 71 142
T67 Alison Walshe +1 F E 70 72 142
MISSED THE CUT
T84 Irene Cho E F +1 72 71 143
T84 Louise Stahle +1 F +1 71 72 143
T84 Jane Park E F +1 72 71 143
T84 Beth Bader -1 F +1 73 70 143
T84 Leta Lindley E F +1 72 71 143
T84 Seon Hwa Lee E F +1 72 71 143
T84 Sarah Jane Smith -2 F +1 74 69 143
T84 Sandra Gal -2 F +1 74 69 143
T84 Mi Hyun Kim -1 F +1 73 70 143
T84 Grace Park -3 F +1 75 68 143
T84 Becky Morgan +1 F +1 71 72 143
T95 Julieta Granada E F +2 73 71 144
T95 Mhairi McKay E F +2 73 71 144
T95 Yoo Kyeong Kim +1 F +2 72 72 144
T95 Laura Davies +1 F +2 72 72 144
T95 Mika Miyazato -1 F +2 74 70 144
T95 Paula Creamer +2 F +2 71 73 144
T95 Meg Mallon +2 F +2 71 73 144
T95 Mariajo Uribe +4 F +2 69 75 144
T95 Michelle Ellis +1 F +2 72 72 144
T95 Jennifer Rosales +1 F +2 72 72 144
T95 Moira Dunn +2 F +2 71 73 144
T95 Liz Janangelo +1 F +2 72 72 144
T95 Meredith Duncan E F +2 73 71 144
T95 Gloria Park -1 F +2 74 70 144
T109 Paola Moreno +2 F +3 72 73 145
T109 Anna Rawson +1 F +3 73 72 145
T109 Minea Blomqvist +1 F +3 73 72 145
T112 *Jessica Korda E F +4 75 71 146
T112 Joo Mi Kim +4 F +4 71 75 146
T112 Wendy Ward +2 F +4 73 73 146
T112 Mallory Blackwelder +1 F +4 74 72 146
T112 Katie Kempter +1 F +4 74 72 146
T112 Tania Elosegui E F +4 75 71 146
T112 Jean Bartholomew +6 F +4 69 77 146
T119 Sarah Lee +1 F +5 75 72 147
T119 Young-A Yang E F +5 76 71 147
T119 Jimin Jeong +2 F +5 74 73 147
T119 Nicole Jeray +4 F +5 72 75 147
T119 Leah Wigger +2 F +5 74 73 147
T119 Whitney Wade +3 F +5 73 74 147
T119 Kate Golden +2 F +5 74 73 147
T119 Lisa Ferrero +2 F +5 74 73 147
T127 Christi Cano +2 F +6 75 73 148
T127 Carri Wood +3 F +6 74 74 148
T127 Samantha Richdale +9 F +6 68 80 148
130 Danielle Downey +2 F +7 76 73 149
T131 Kris Tschetter +5 F +8 74 76 150
T131 Lee Ann Walker-Cooper +1 F +8 78 72 150
T131 Audra Burks +5 F +8 74 76 150
134 Kim Williams +4 F +9 76 75 151
T135 Cathryn Bristow +5 F +10 76 76 152
T135 Jamie Hullett +8 F +10 73 79 152
T135 Amy Read +4 F +10 77 75 152
T138 Dorothy Delasin +3 F +11 79 74 153
T138 Faith Egli +3 F +11 79 74 153
T140 Dina Ammaccapane +6 F +12 77 77 154
T140 Becky Iverson +5 F +12 78 76 154
T140 Ilhee Lee +7 F +12 76 78 154
T143 *Alyssa Shimel +2 F +14 83 73 156
T143 Nicole Hage +5 F +14 80 76 156
145 Kelli Kuehne +15 F +20 76 86 162