CHRIS QUINN LEADS BY SIX IN ENGLISH SENIOR STROKE-PLAY
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International Chris Quinn leads by six shots with one round to play, after she scored two-under par 71 in the English senior strokeplay championship at Saltford Golf Club, Somerset.
Her closest challenger is another senior international, Caroline Marron of Cheshire, while Lulu Housman of Middlesex is another three shots further back. British senior champion Bev New of Lansdown, Somerset, shares fourth place while her club colleague Val McFarlane is tied ninth.
Chris commented: “It’s all to go for tomorrow. I shall try to play around par and see what everyone else does.”
Chris, who last won this title in 2009, had four birdies and two bogeys in her second-round score and is one-over par after 36 holes. “It was a super round and I am thrilled to bits,” she said. “It was nice to have 18 holes of good golf, rather than nine!”
She was referring to the first round when, by her own admission, Chris made an awful start – but bounced back to play the inward half in two-under par.
In the second round, she started, as she finished the first, with a birdie – and that was despite a skied tee shot on the first, a par five. “I hit it about 90 yards, took another three wood, then a seven wood to about 10ft and holed it. So on we went!”
After that the mistakes were very few. Chris dropped a shot on the difficult fourth which, in her mind, plays as a par five and had her second bogey with a three-putt on the big, sloping green on the 10th.
Those bogeys however were outweighed by the birdies: back-to-back versions on the 7th and 8th, followed by another on the tough, par four 13th where the tiered green demands a very accurate approach.
Caroline Marron, who won the English senior amateur championship last year, improved on her first-round score by three shots when she returned 75. Lulu Housman moved up the leaderboard with a second round 76, equalled by Katherine Russell of Sussex, who shares fourth place.
The field has been cut to the top half, and ties who will contest the final round. The cut fell at 171 and 36 players qualified.
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Lyndsey Hewison
Press and PR Officer
EWGA
International Chris Quinn leads by six shots with one round to play, after she scored two-under par 71 in the English senior strokeplay championship at Saltford Golf Club, Somerset.
Her closest challenger is another senior international, Caroline Marron of Cheshire, while Lulu Housman of Middlesex is another three shots further back. British senior champion Bev New of Lansdown, Somerset, shares fourth place while her club colleague Val McFarlane is tied ninth.
Chris commented: “It’s all to go for tomorrow. I shall try to play around par and see what everyone else does.”
Chris, who last won this title in 2009, had four birdies and two bogeys in her second-round score and is one-over par after 36 holes. “It was a super round and I am thrilled to bits,” she said. “It was nice to have 18 holes of good golf, rather than nine!”
She was referring to the first round when, by her own admission, Chris made an awful start – but bounced back to play the inward half in two-under par.
In the second round, she started, as she finished the first, with a birdie – and that was despite a skied tee shot on the first, a par five. “I hit it about 90 yards, took another three wood, then a seven wood to about 10ft and holed it. So on we went!”
After that the mistakes were very few. Chris dropped a shot on the difficult fourth which, in her mind, plays as a par five and had her second bogey with a three-putt on the big, sloping green on the 10th.
Those bogeys however were outweighed by the birdies: back-to-back versions on the 7th and 8th, followed by another on the tough, par four 13th where the tiered green demands a very accurate approach.
Caroline Marron, who won the English senior amateur championship last year, improved on her first-round score by three shots when she returned 75. Lulu Housman moved up the leaderboard with a second round 76, equalled by Katherine Russell of Sussex, who shares fourth place.
The field has been cut to the top half, and ties who will contest the final round. The cut fell at 171 and 36 players qualified.
Please click here for full scores
Lyndsey Hewison
Press and PR Officer
EWGA
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