FROST IN FLORIDA HITS THE HARDER HALL INVITATIONAL AGAIN

NEWS FROM SEBRING, FLORIDA

There was a 70min delay in the start of the second day's play due to frost.
It is likely that the championshi field of around 100 will not all be able to complete their second rounds today (Thursday).
"We might have to finish the second round in the morning and then have a shotgun start for the entire field's third round at 11am tomorrow (Friday)," said a spokesman.
"There are 62 players still on the course at this time."







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KENT CHAMPION JESSICA GREGORY BOUND FOR MARYLAND UNI

FROM THE KENT LADIES GOLF ASSOCIATION WEBSITE
with additional words by Colin Farquharson (colin@scottishgolfview.com)
Jessica Gregory of Rochester and Cobham and Sittingbourne Golf Clubs has received a golf scholarship from the University of Maryland, Baltimore and will start her new student life in August.
Jess, pictured right by courtesy of Leaderboard photography, is the reigning Kent women's county champion. She won the title last April at Ashford Golf Club where she beat Jerry Lawrence in the final.
Jessica is the joint youngest winner of the Kent title with Danielle Masters who was also 17 when she became champion and, by an amazing coincidence,
has the same March 2 birthday as Jessica.
Jessica, Jerry and another semi-finalist, Jerri Sewell, won the Kent county team title for Rochester and Cobham Park GC.
Jessica also won the Kent schools championship last year and was made Kent Junior Captain for 2011-12.
The scholarship is not only awarded to Jess for her golf prowess but also the excellent grades achieved in her GCSE and AS exams.
Jess is one of two recruits from England - Heidi Baek, an England girl caps and a pupil at Wellington College, Crowthorne, Berkshire, is the other - who will enrol at Maryland University in time for the start of the 2012-2013 American college golf season.
Jess will be 18 in early March and is a pupil at Highsted Grammar School for Girls.
The University of Maryland women's team - nickname The Terrapins or the "Terps" - had a successful first half of the 2011-2012 college golf season. They won back-to-back team titles, at the Starmount Classic and the Lady Pirate Invitational, for the first time since March 2006. The Terps also finished second at Kiawah Island.
The head coach is Jason Rodenhaver and Tiffany Pratts is his assistant.
The University of Maryland has its own golf course, set in 150 acres of rolling hills and mature hardwood trees, to quote its website. There is also a spacious clubhouse with a golf shop, a driving range with 45 bys and a short-game practice area.

The August exodus of English girls to become freshmen at American universities is one of the largest for some time.

Other than Jessica Gregory and Heidi Baek, those bound for the States include:

Lauren Taylor, last year's winner of the British women's open amateur title, who is bound for Baylor University, Texas.
Ashley Cramond - also Baylor University

Dolores Brown - McNeese State University

Elizabeth Mallett - North Carolina University

Brogan Townend - Texas-San Antonio

Charlotte Thomas - Washington
Meghan MacLaren - Florida International 

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).

HARDER HALL WOMEN'S AMATEUR INVITATIONAL, FLORIDA

FIRST-ROUND SCOREBOARD
Harder Hall Golf and Country Club, Sebring
Par 72. Yardage: Championship 6151

Hull, Charley ENGLAND 70
Jutanugarn, Ariya THAILAND 72
Roig, Kyle PEMBROKE PINES , FL 72
Clyburn, Holly ENGLAND 73
Rosen, Portland SUGAR LAND , TX 74
Swanson, Meredith ROANOKE , VA 74
Boineau, Isabelle TUCSON , AZ 75
Jutanugarn, Moriya THAILAND 75
MacDonald, Kelsey SCOTLAND 75
McPherson, Lindsey FLUSHING , MI 75
Baker, Brooke RALEIGH , NC 76
Scarpetta, Kate MOOSIC, PA 76
Delacour, Perrine FRANCE 76
Dulman, Annie PALM BEACH GARDENS 76
Leadbetter, Hally BRADENTON , FL 76
Merkle, Kristina HONOLULU , HI 76
Savich, Milena CARMEL, IN 76
Stasi, Meghan OAKLAND PARK , FL 76
Stewart, Alex CARSON CITY , NV 76
Johnson, Betsie NICHOLASVILLE , KY 76
Feng, Simin ORLANDO , FL 77
Gotcher, Samantha CLARKSVILLE , TN 77
Mitchell, Katie FERNANDINA BEACH , 77
Plasencia, Regina MEXICO 77
Rengifo, Ana Maria COLUMBIA 77
Albrecht, Ashleigh MURRIETA, CA 78
Clyburn, India ENGLAND 78
Hancock, Anna LAKELAND , FL 78
Lucas, Nora CHICAGO , IL 78
Postillion, Samantha SCOTTSDALE , AZ 78
Smith, Rachel MANSFIELD , TX 78
Agnello, Nicole LONGWOOD, FL 79
Audette, Melanie LAKELAND , FL 79
Boutier, Celine FRANCE 79
Bowers, Jan LINCOLN, IL 79
St. Louis, Tovie WEST PALM BEACH , F 79
Steinhagen, Amanda OAK HILL , VA 79
Bonetti, Alexandra FRANCE 80
Brower, Taffy BOYNTON BEACH, FL 80
Hiestand, Mary Jane NAPLES, FL 80
Price, Kaitlyn JACKSONVILLE BEACH 80
Beasley, Harriet ENGLAND 81
Feng, Cindy ORLANDO, FL 81
Lendl, Daniela VERO BEACH, FL 81
Stewart, Sami NORMAN, OK 81
Briggs, Eilidh SCOTLAND 82
Gimpel, Emily J. LAFAYETTE HILL, PA 82
Leach, Martha HEBRON, KY 82
Maymon, Maria MEXICO 82
Moffat, Paige AVON PARK, FL 82
Nunez, Paloma GRANBURY, TX 82
Gallagher, Kate SAVANNAH, MO 83
Griffin, Kendall SEBRING, FL 83
Herrera, Juliana PLANTATION, FL 83
Kurey, Emily ALPHARETTA, GA 83
Lendl, Isabelle VERO BEACH, FL 83
Savich, Ariana CARMEL, IN 83
Smith, Crystal VENICE, FL 83
Stone, Latanna VALRICO, FL 83
Thompson, Carol S. SEWICKLEY, PA 83
Haines, Elizabeth GLADWYNE, PA 84
Maymon, Giovana MEXICO 84
Stolarik, DeAnne ZION, IL 84
Thompson, Morgan TUALATIN, OR 84
West, Amy VALRICO, FL 84
Wilson, Rebecca SCOTLAND 84
DiMarco, Gabriella WEST CHESTER, PA 85
Jackson, Sandra NEW YORK, NY 85
Thompson, Amy WAKARUSA, IN 85
Yadloczky, Carlie CASSELBERRY, FL 85
Fisher, Savana SEBRING, FL 86
Yelovich, Dianne PINEHURST, NC 86
McMillan, Lin PALM COAST, FL 87
Pagana, Barbara PORT ST. LUCIE, FL 87
Fitzpatrick, Erin WAUCHULA, FL 88
Herrera, Velentina PLANTATION, FL 88
Marino, Maria CORAL SPRINGS, FL 88
Rajek, Jackie SUWANEE, GA 88
Graham, Jordana SCOTLAND 89
Stewart, Jude SEBRING, FL 89
Leef, Maggie ELM GROVE , WI 89
Haizlip, Danielle STATESVILLE, NC 90
Blackmon, Evelyn Byr NASHVILLE, TN 91
Wilson, Janice Rober ORMOND BEACH, FL 91
Mitchell, Becky CONROE, TX 93
Schwab, Diana BEAVERCREEK, OH 93
Mowry, Jean HOT SPRINGS VILLAG 94
DeVore, Dr. Katherin HIGH POINT, NC 95
McKay, Mhairi SCOTLAND 97
Aydlett, Clate ELIZABETH CITY , NC 98
Carson, Laura LAKE BLUFF, IL DNF
Lott, Heather BATON ROUGE, LA DNF
Lee, Suzie COMMACK , NY WD