LAURA DAVIES RETIRES AFTER TEN HOLES WITH ACHILLES INJURY

 FROM COLIN FARQUHARSON
at HOYLAKE
Colin@scottishgolfview.com

The Ricoh Women's British Open is back on course for a Sunday finish. But, for 1986 champion Laura Davies the tournament is over.
Laura, 48, was bothered by an Achilles injury in the lead-up to the tournament and she called it a day after 10 holes today, at which point she was 10 over par for the tournament.
A fresh start was made to the second round at 6.50am this morning when conditions were still not easy - a lot less windy but obviously playable.
Carly Booth, twice a winner on the LET circuit this season and leader of the Order of Merit, needed to make a good start if she were to have any start of making the top 50 and ties who will go forward to Sunday's final two rounds.
Instead the Comrie youngster, starting at the 10th, went back the way with bogeys at 11, 12 and 14, and, despite a birdie before she turned, Carly looked to be well off the schedule necessary to achieve the projected five-over-par 149 target to make the cut.
Carly got another birdie to improve to seven over par for the tournament and suddenly making the cut seemed within her compass.
So much depends, of course, on the strength of the wind and the weather for the rest of the day. It might well be that the cut-off figure is much higher. We shall have to wait to see the early completed second rounds before we harden up our predictions.
South Korean So Yeon Ryu, US Women's Open winner last year, starting at the 10th this morning, raised the leader's bar to three-under-par by starting with three pars, then a 2 at the short 13th.
It's not the first time the tournament leader has been at 3 under par. Another South Korean, Hee-Won Han achieved that mark very early in the tournament on Thursday before dropping back.
Ryu fell back with a bogey at the long 16th - her seventh hole - and the leadership of the tournament was taken over by Japan's Mika Miyazato who, starting at the 10th, birdied the short 13th and first to get to three under par.
The Japanese player then bogeyed the third to fall back to to wunder par 
Ryu plummeted out of the upper bracket with an 8 at the 18th - her ninth - to be two over par for the tournament.
Irish-born Alison Walshe, who played for the United States in the 2008 Curtis Cup at the Old Course, St Andrews, showed the scoring potential with a birdie-birdie start from the 10th before 9am.
She had a five-over 77 in the first round.
Another birdie-birdie start came from Gerina Piller, She birdied the 10th and 11th - and she too had a 77 in Round 1.
What a difference a year makes! Twelve months ago American Brittany Lang finished runner-up at Carnoustie with a 12 under par aggregate behind Yani Tseng.
Brittany is heading for an early exit this weekend .... she was 10 over par for the tournament before she had completed nine holes this morning.
Also 10 over par for the tournament - through holes 10-18 in 41 blows - was England's Karen Stupples who campaigns on the LPGA Tour.
Playing with Stupples, is Curtis Cup star Holly Clyburn whose 35 to the turn, playing the course in the "proper" 1-18 order, was the best at 10am.
Holly, unfortunately,  bogeyed two early holes after the turn to drop back to two over par for the tournament, but still well within the qualifying zone for the Woodhall Spa amateur.
The third member of that threesome, American Angela Stanford, also turned in 35 and was level par for the tournament.
Spain's Tania Elosegui did not start her second round. She was disqualified for signing for a wrong (lower) figure by mistake in her card for an 82. Tania herself drew the organisers' attention to her mistake when she realised her faux pas on Friday.
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