FLYING FLORIDA START BY 15-YEAR-OLD CHARLEY HULL

By COLIN FARQUHARSON
Colin@scottishgolfview.com
Last year Woburn wonder girl Charley Hull finished her first campaign on the Orange Blossom Tour by winning the Jones/Doherty match-play championship.
This year, now 15 years old, the England international, pictured by Cal Carson Golf Agency, who is shaping as a certainty for Curtis Cup selection come the June 8-10 match at Nairn, looks as if she has started in Florida where she left off 12 months ago.
The only player in the huge field to break the par of 72, Charley's round of 70, after a lengthy delay in play because of heavy overnight frost, gave her a two-shot lead from Ariya Jutanugarn (Thailand) and Florida's Kyle Roig, winner of this tournament in 2010.
Hull is ranked No 10 in the women's world amateur rankings - two places below Jutanugarn.
England have two players in the top four with Woodhall Spa's Holly Clyburn, a Curtis Cup player in 2010 and, like Hull, pretty certain of making the eight to play the Americans again this year, lying joint fourth on 73.
Holly, 21 next month, finished fourth in the Women's Dixie Amateur which finished elsewhere in Florida on Monday.
Stirling University student Kelsey MacDonald, 21, who would love to make her Curtis Cup debut in her home town of Nairn, made a respectable start at Sebring with a 75 which puts her in joint seventh place overnight alongside the younger Jutanugarn sister, Moriya.
France's Perrine Delacour, runner-up in the girls' Junior Orange Bowl championship a couple of weeks ago and British girls champion at West Lancs in 2009, is joint 11th on 76 alongside master golf coach David Leadbetter's daughter Hally and Megan Stasi, the American who lost to Kelsey MacDonald in extra holes at the semi-final stage of the British women's open amateur championship at Ganton in June 2010. Stasi is a winner, more than once, of the US women's mid-amateur title.
Harder Hall Invitational defending champion Ashleigh Albrecht from California is sharing 25th place on 78 with Holly Clyburn's kid sister India.
France's Celine Boutier, beaten in the British girls final at Gullane last August and Italian women's open amateur champion before that, will have been disappointed she could do no better than start with a 79 which leaves her one place outside the top 30, alongwith compatriot Alexandra Bonetti, 80 for a share of 37th. Bonetti won the British girls championship at Royal Belfast GC in 2010 and lost to Lauren Taylor in the British women's open amateur championship final at Royal Portrush GC last June.
European women's universities champion Harriet Beasley, a Stirling student and Woburn clubmate of Charley Hull (and Lauren Taylor), had an 81 to be sharing 41st place.
Stirling team-mate Eilidh Briggs, 2011 Scottish girls' match-play champion and Scottish women's championship beaten finalist, also last year, had an 82 for joint 45th position.
Other Stirling student scores were and 84 by Rebecca Wilson (Grange, Monifieth), an 89 by Jordana Graham (Southerness) and an 97 by Mhairi McKay (West Kilbride).