GEORGIA HALL THROUGH TO BRITISH GIRLS SEMI-FINALS

Georgia Hall, No 6 in the Women's World Amateur Golf Rankings, has lived up to her rating by reaching Friday morning's  semi-finals (8.30 and 8.40 am) of the British girls open amateur championship at Tenby Golf Club, South Wales. Georgia lost in the semi-finals at Gullane last year but she was ranked up in the 700s at that time. Still only 16, the Dorset girl has become a class player in a remarkable short time.. She knocked out the No 1 seed and 2009 title winner, Perrine Delacour from Paris by 2 and 1 after winning four of the first five holes in their third-round match yesteday (Thu) morning. Then Hall outclassed Germany's Karolin Lampert in beating her by 5 and 3 in the quarter-finals. Hall plays another German in the semi-finals - 17-year-old Quirine Eijkenboom. The other semi-final features German-born 16-year-old Olivia Cowan, whose parents are English and the father is a golf pro over there, against 17-year-old Clara Baena (Spain). Banff-born Spencer Henderson, national coach of the Turkish Federation, went "home" happy after one of his girls, Yasemin Sari, reached the quarter-finals before losing to Olivia Cowan. "Yasemin was the first Turkish girl to reach the match-play stages of this championship at Gullane last year when she lost in the first round. Now she made it through to the last eight. That's the kind of progress that pleases me. I'm on the right track." BRITISH GIRLS OPEN AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP Tenby GC, South Wales ROUND 3 G Hall (Remedy Oak) bt P Delacour (Fra) 2 and 1.S K Lampert (Ger) bt S P Zeeb (Ger) 2 holes. C Barquin (Spa) bt A Greenham (West Essex) 4 snf 3. Q Eijkenboom (Ger) bt A Sanjuan (Spa) 1 hole. O Cowan (Ger) bt M P Samartin (Spa) at 22nd Y Sari (Tur) bt S Fuller (Roehampton) 4 and 2. C Baena (Spa) bt B Popel (Long Ashton) l hole. Ha Rang Lee (Spa) bt A Dimmock (Wentworth) 1 hole. QUARTER-FINALS Hall bt Lampert 5 and 3. Eijkenboom bt Barquin 3 and 2. Cowan bt Sari 4 and 3. Baena bt Lee 6 and 5.