IN-FORM SALLY WATSON THROUGH TO LAST EIGHT IN OREGON

Sally Watson has found the form that made her a two-time Curtis Cup international. The 19-year-old Edinburgh-born player, a student at Stanford Univesity, California, qualified fifth of 64 for the match-play stages with rounds of 75 and 73 for 148 and, having won three ties, is now through to the quarter-finals of the prestigious Women's US Amateur Public Links championship at Bandon Dunes' Old Macdonald course in Oregon.
Omitted from the Great Britain and Ireland squad for the Vagliano Trophy match against the Continent of Europe at Royal Porthcawl last week and the Astor Trophy tournament at Fairhaven, Lancashire the week before that, Watson, pictured by Cal Carson Golf Agency, will have given the Ladies Golf Union selectors food for thought with an impressive 6 and 5 march into the last eight at the expense of Angel Yin from Arcadia, California.
Sally, whose family home is now at Elie in south Fife - she is a member of Elie and Earlsferry Ladies GC - will now play 17-year-old Marissa Dodd from Allen, Texas for a place in the semi-finals.
Watson will celebrate her 20th birthday on July 10.
Tiffany Lua, a UCLA student from Rowland Heights, California, will play Brittany Altomare of Shrewsbury, Massachusetts.
Dodd beat Prima Thammaraks of Ames, Iowa, by two holes; Lua edged Lauren Cate of St. Augustine, Florida by one hole, and Altomare, who plays for Virginia, beat Kelsey Vines of San Antonio by two holes.
Leading qualifier Cheyenne Woods, a niece of Tiger Woods, is also through to the quarter-finals.
The 20-year-old Phoenix player who won the Atlantic Coast Conference individual championship last month as a junior (third year) student at Wake Forest University, beat 14-year-old Bethany Wu of Diamond Bar, California by two holes in the second round, and then routed 19-year-old Alex Stewart of Peoria, Arizona 8 and 7 in the third.
Woods will face 16-year-old Annie Park of Levittown, New York in the quarter-finals on Friday morning (local time).
Park advanced with a one-hole victory over 15-year-old Julie Yang of Mesa, Arizona. Julie spent most of the 2009-2010 school term at Loretto, Musselburgh and made her mark by winning several tournaments, including the Welsh women's open amateur stroke-play championship and the Scottish schoolgirls title at Murrayshall.
In the other upper-bracket quarter-final, Vietnam's Brianna Do will play UCLA teammate Stephanie Kono of Honolulu. Do beat defending champion Emily Tubert of Burbank, California by one hole and Kono topped Catherine Dolan of Ballwin, Mo., 2 and 1.
If Woods and Watson were to win their quarter-final and semi-final matches they would meet in Saturday's final.
The tournament is limited to players who don't hold privileges at any course that doesn't extend playing privileges to the general public.

THIRD ROUND RESULTS
Upper Half
Cheyenne Woods (Phoenix, Arizona) bt Alex Stewart (Peoria, Arizona) 8 and 7. 
Annie Park (Levittown, New York) bt Julie Yang (Mesa, Arizona) 1 hole.
Brianna Do (Vietnam) bt Emily Tubert (Burbank, California) 1 hole.
Stephanie Kono (Honolulu, Hawaii) bt Catherine Dolan (Ballwin, Missouri) 2 and 1.
Lower Half
Marissa Dodd (Allen, Texas) bt Prima Thammaraks, Ames, Iowa 2 holes. 
Sally Watson (Scotland) bt Angel Yin, Arcadia, California 6 and 5. 
Tiffany Lua (Rowland Heights, California) bt Lauren Cate (St Augustine, Florida) 1 hole. 
Brittany Altomare (Shrewsbury, Massachusetts) bt Kelsey Vines (San Antonio, Texas) 2 holes.