STEPHANIE MEADOW v GEORGIA HALL IN BRITISH SEMI-FINAL AT CARNOUSTIE SATURDAY MORNING
GEORGIA HALL (below)
Britain is assured of a competitor in tomorrow afternoon's 18 hole final of the British women's amateur championship at Carnoustie where we've had rain every day and more is forecast for the final day.
The morning semi-finals will be:
Stephane Meadow (Royal Portrush). Age 20. World ranked No 20 versus Georgia Hall (Remedy Oak, Dorset). Age 16. World ranked No 19.
Stephanie Meadow (below right)
Perrine Delacour (France). Age 18. World ranked No 25 v Rocio Sanchez Lobato (Spain). Age 19. World ranked No 193.
Meadow v Hall would have made a great final for the Angus golf fans but hopefully they will still turn out in good numbers for the 18-hole climax to the week.
The semi-finals start at 8.30 and 8.40, the final at 1pm.
Should Georgia Hall go on to win the coveted title - which earns the winner an automatic place in the field for the Ricoh Women's British Open championship at Hoylake in September, she would replace last year's winner, Lauren Taylor (Woburn) as the youngest ever winner of the prestigious tournament which was first played in 1893.
Taylor was 16 when she won it at Royal Portrush last June. Hall's birthday was at the end of April which means she is younger than Taylor was 12 months ago ... if all that makes sense!
RECAP ON EARLIER TODAY
Kelly Tidy's great run in the British women's open amateur championship ended before mid-day on another rainy day at Carnoustie.
The Royal Birkdale player, title winner at Ganton in 2010 and a semi-finalist at Royal Portrush last year, went down by 4 and 2 to French 18-year-old Perrine Delacour in the round of the last 16.
All square at the turn, Tidy never won a hole on the inward half.
Delacour, the British girls champion at West Lancs in 2009, went ahead with a par at the 10th and doubled her advantage with a birdie at the 12th. Another birdie put Delacour three up at the 14th and a par 4 at the 16th was good enough to give the Paris teenager a 4 and 2 entry into the quarter-finals which was as far as she got 12 months ago.
Waiting for her there was 20-year-old Israeli Laetitia Beck who won by 5 and 4 against Augusta James, the Canadian who toppled No 1 seed Sally Watson (Elie and Earlsferry) in the second round.
Sixteeen year old rising Dorset star Georgia Hall scored another back-from-the dead win - at the 19th after being several holes down - to beat France's Isabelle Boineau and reach the last eight.
On Thursday night, Hall ousted the No 2 seed, France's Celine Boutier, in similar circumstances.
THIRD ROUND RESULTS
Laetitia Beck (Israel) bt Augusta James (Canada) 5 and 4
Perrine Delacour (France) bt Kelly Tidy (Royal Birkdale) 4 and 2.
Rocio Sanchez Lobato (Spain) bt Camilla Hedberg (Spain) 1 hole.
Noel Jimenez (Spain) bt Daniela Holmqvist (Sweden) 1 hole.
Stephanie Meadow (Royal Portrush) bt Amy Boulden (Conwy) 2 and 1.
Ariane Provot (France) bt Laure Castelain (France) 2 and 1.
Amanda Strang (Sweden) bt Nina Muehl (Austria) 3 and 1.
Georgia Hall (Remedy Oak) bt Isaberlle Boineau (France) at 19th.
QUARTER-FINAL POSITIONS
Delacour two up on Beck after 13 holes.
Lobato and Jimenez all square after 12.
Meadow one up on Provot after nine.
Hall three up on Strang after eight.
RESULTS
Delacour bt Beck 4 and 2.
Lobato bt Jimenez 1 hole
Meadow bt Provot 2 and 1.
Hall bt Strang 6 and 4.
SATURDAY MORNING SEMI-FIN ALS
8.30 Perrine Delacour (France) bt Rocio Sanchez Lobato (Spain)
8.40 Stephanie Meadow (Royal Portrush) v Georgia Hall (Remedy Oak).
Britain is assured of a competitor in tomorrow afternoon's 18 hole final of the British women's amateur championship at Carnoustie where we've had rain every day and more is forecast for the final day.
The morning semi-finals will be:
Stephane Meadow (Royal Portrush). Age 20. World ranked No 20 versus Georgia Hall (Remedy Oak, Dorset). Age 16. World ranked No 19.
Stephanie Meadow (below right)
Perrine Delacour (France). Age 18. World ranked No 25 v Rocio Sanchez Lobato (Spain). Age 19. World ranked No 193.
Meadow v Hall would have made a great final for the Angus golf fans but hopefully they will still turn out in good numbers for the 18-hole climax to the week.
The semi-finals start at 8.30 and 8.40, the final at 1pm.
Should Georgia Hall go on to win the coveted title - which earns the winner an automatic place in the field for the Ricoh Women's British Open championship at Hoylake in September, she would replace last year's winner, Lauren Taylor (Woburn) as the youngest ever winner of the prestigious tournament which was first played in 1893.
Taylor was 16 when she won it at Royal Portrush last June. Hall's birthday was at the end of April which means she is younger than Taylor was 12 months ago ... if all that makes sense!
RECAP ON EARLIER TODAY
Kelly Tidy's great run in the British women's open amateur championship ended before mid-day on another rainy day at Carnoustie.
The Royal Birkdale player, title winner at Ganton in 2010 and a semi-finalist at Royal Portrush last year, went down by 4 and 2 to French 18-year-old Perrine Delacour in the round of the last 16.
All square at the turn, Tidy never won a hole on the inward half.
Delacour, the British girls champion at West Lancs in 2009, went ahead with a par at the 10th and doubled her advantage with a birdie at the 12th. Another birdie put Delacour three up at the 14th and a par 4 at the 16th was good enough to give the Paris teenager a 4 and 2 entry into the quarter-finals which was as far as she got 12 months ago.
Waiting for her there was 20-year-old Israeli Laetitia Beck who won by 5 and 4 against Augusta James, the Canadian who toppled No 1 seed Sally Watson (Elie and Earlsferry) in the second round.
Sixteeen year old rising Dorset star Georgia Hall scored another back-from-the dead win - at the 19th after being several holes down - to beat France's Isabelle Boineau and reach the last eight.
On Thursday night, Hall ousted the No 2 seed, France's Celine Boutier, in similar circumstances.
THIRD ROUND RESULTS
Laetitia Beck (Israel) bt Augusta James (Canada) 5 and 4
Perrine Delacour (France) bt Kelly Tidy (Royal Birkdale) 4 and 2.
Rocio Sanchez Lobato (Spain) bt Camilla Hedberg (Spain) 1 hole.
Noel Jimenez (Spain) bt Daniela Holmqvist (Sweden) 1 hole.
Stephanie Meadow (Royal Portrush) bt Amy Boulden (Conwy) 2 and 1.
Ariane Provot (France) bt Laure Castelain (France) 2 and 1.
Amanda Strang (Sweden) bt Nina Muehl (Austria) 3 and 1.
Georgia Hall (Remedy Oak) bt Isaberlle Boineau (France) at 19th.
QUARTER-FINAL POSITIONS
Delacour two up on Beck after 13 holes.
Lobato and Jimenez all square after 12.
Meadow one up on Provot after nine.
Hall three up on Strang after eight.
RESULTS
Delacour bt Beck 4 and 2.
Lobato bt Jimenez 1 hole
Meadow bt Provot 2 and 1.
Hall bt Strang 6 and 4.
SATURDAY MORNING SEMI-FIN ALS
8.30 Perrine Delacour (France) bt Rocio Sanchez Lobato (Spain)
8.40 Stephanie Meadow (Royal Portrush) v Georgia Hall (Remedy Oak).
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