PAULA GRANT IN TOP 10 AFTER FIRST ROUND IN SOUTH AMERICA

      PAULA GRANT .. joint seventh after Round 1

         Image by Cal Carson Golf Agency 

Paula Grant from Ireland, with a round of 77, was the highest placed English, Welsh  or Irish player in joint seventh position at the end of the first round of the South American women's amateur championship at El Rincon Golf Club, Bogota in Colombia.
On a day of testing conditions, Canada's Brooke Henderson led the field of 52 players by one shot with a 73.
British stroke-play champion Sarah-Jane Boyd (Truro) was in joint 13th place with a 79.
Alex Peters (Notts Ladies) had an 83 which put her in joint 25th place.
Sam Birks (Wales) had an 87 for a share of 44th position.
Jessica Carty, the young Irish prospect had an 91 for 48th place.

FIRST-ROUND SCOREBOARD
73 Brooke Henderson (Canada)
74 Ana Maria Uribe (Colombia), Delfina Acosta (Argentina)
75 Krista Bakker (Finland), Daniela Darquea (Ecuador)

SELECTED SCORES
77 Paula Grant (Ireland) (T7)
79 Sara-Jane Boyd (England) (T13)
83 Alex Peters (England) (T25)
87 Sam Birks (Wales) (T41)
91 Jessica Carty (Ireland) (48th).
Field of 52 players.