FAIRHAVEN COURSE FLOODED, PLAY SUSPENDED AT 4.50PM

By COLIN FARQUHARSON

Colin@scottishgolfview.com
Gabriella Cowley, first off at 8am, got round in four hours at Fairhaven today - a breakneck pace compared with the six hours it was taking by the end of play last night at the R and A Junior Open.

LATEST NEWS: The course began to flood as the incessant rain began to fall even heavier than before. The players were called in off the course and play suspended at 4.50pm

And she did even better than yesterday's 74 - a two-under-par 72, despite having a triple bogey 7 (at a different hole) for the second day in a row.

The West Essex player birdied the par-3 second, the par-4 sixth and the par-4 eight on her way to a bogey-free outward half of 33 (three under)]

Gabriella (pictured today) got to four under with a 4 at the long 11th but then ran up a 7 at the par 4 13th where she was in the water on the right off the tee and took five to reach the green.

As she did in the first round, Gabriella kept her chin up after a triple bogey and finished with four pars and a pitch-and-putt birdie 4 at the long closing hole for one-over-par 39 home and a two-under par 72 to post the clubhouse target of two-under-par 148.

"I've come off the last green both days, thinking I could have scored at least a couple of shots better, especially after having a triple bogey both rounds but two under par for two rounds at Fairhaven is not bad, is it?" said the tall West Essex girl who won the Scottish Under-16s girls title at Strathmore in Scotland earlier in the year and already holds the English Under-15 girls title.
Although it was raining on and off, the scoring conditions, for some reason seemed to be easier even though the rough was still the same height as yesterday, maybe even an inch or two taller with more watering from the rain.
GB and I Junior Vagliano Trophy player Clara Young (North Berwick) ensured her place in the draw for tomorrow's last day by improving seven shots on her Monday effort. Clara shot a 76 for 159 with five birdies - at the third, ninth, 10th, 11th and 15th in halves of 38.
Clara has missed the Scottish Under-18 girls championship which started today to play in this major Under-16s effort.
Colin Edgar (Cochrane Castle), the other Scottish representative, also shaved a few shots off his first-round effort. He had an 83 today, four shots of an improvement, for 170.
The top 80 boys and girls and ties at the end of the second round will go forward to Wednesday's final round at Fairhaven.
LATEST NEWS: Overnight leader, 16 year old Japanese girl Asuka Kashiwabara showed her first-round 66 was no fluke by going round in 69 today for a 13-under-par tally of 135. She has a handicap of one ... this is her visit to Europe ... she uses a three-wood off the tee.... and she does not speak a word of English.

SECOND-ROUND SCOREBOARD
Par 148 (2x74)
135 Asuka Kashiwabara (Japan) 66 69
146 Gabriella Cowley (West Essex) 74 72.
150 Fumaiki Saito (Japan) 74 76, Prin Phokan (Thiland) 76 74
151 Otto Vanhatalo (Finland) 80 71, Laura Sojo (Colombia) 74 77
153 Sofia Garcia (Paraguay) 76 77
154 Pedro Almeida (Portugal) 80 74
155 Jan Friesz (Slovakia) 75 80, Alejandro Perazzo (Venezuela) 79 76
156 Tokunbo Pedro (Nigeria) 80 76, Sofia G Ruiz (Argentina) 78 78
157 Manu Gandas (India) 84 73, Mateo Leon (Ecuador) 80 77
158 Roberts Biss (Latvia) 78 80, Roberto Rojas (Costa Rica) 80 78, Daniel Caban (Puerto Rico) 82 76, Erik Palkovsky (Czech Rep) 76 82
159 Clara Young (Scotland) 83 76, Lucas Dinouard (Switzerland) 81 78, Cara Gorlei (South Africa) 83 76
160 Marten Palm (Estonia) 84 76, Juan Jose Guerra (Dominican Republic) 82 78
161 Hee Ying Loy (Malaysia) 83 78, Jessica Dreesbeimdieke (Namibia) 80 81, Tiana Gwenn Lau (Hong Kong) 78 83.
162 Chanya Prathetrat (Thailand) 79 83
163 Anita Uwadia (Nigeria) 87 76, Xu Guo Zhen (China) 83 80
164 Felipe Strobach (Peru) 80 84
165 Leroy Pearmain (Botswana) 81 84, Homero T Sobrinho (Brazil) 86 79
166 Leon P D'Souza (Hong Kong) 88 78, Faisal Mir (Pakistan) 88 78, Yente Van Doren (Belgium) 78 88, Guo Wan Yi (China) 88 88.
167 Pilar Echeverria (Guatemala) 86 81
168 Samuel Pereltsveyg (Russia) 81 87
169 Donald Leacock (Barbados) 83 86, Ranko Helc (Serbia) 83 86, Emre Uyar (Turkey) 84 85, Dinesh Jackree (Trinidad and Tobago) 82 87
170 Colin Edgar (Scotland) 87 83
171 Danielle Jones (Wales) 89 82
173 John Mburu (Kenya) 89 84
174 Ena Smajic (Bosnia) 89 85.
175 Ysabelle Lawrence (Trinidad and Tobago) 88 87, Quint Van Beek (Malta) 90 85, Ricardo Quinonez (Guatemala) 87 88.
177 Sachin De Silva (Sri Lanka) 96 81
178 Sherif Rizk (Egypt) 92 86, Manuel Torres (Venezuela) 87 91.
179 Walker Campbell (Bermuda) 87 92
184 Hana Dzubakova (Slovakia) 87 97.
185 Elliot O Obatoyinbo (Nigeria) 96 89
187 Julia Debowksi (Brazil) 94 93.
189 Pavlos Efstathiou (Cyprus) 100 89.
193 Armand Lengyel (Hungary) 98 95
Withdrew: A N Ambrosius (Denmark) 86 wd

JAPANESE GIRL WHO WAS OVERNIGHT LEADER WITH A 66

  Japan's Asuka Kashiwabara - a girl - who led the R and A Junior Open overnight with a magnificent, bogey-free round of eight-under-par 66. Today's image by Cal Carson Golf Agency at Fairhaven.

  Ireland's Marc Boucher who was lying second to Japan's Asuka Kashiwabara (a girl) overnight with a 73 to Asuka's eight-under 66. Today's image by Cal Carson Golf Agency.