OLIVIA MEHAFFEY WINS IRISH U18 GIRLS OPEN STROKE-PLAY TITLE

    Olivia Mehaffey receives the trophy from Mary McKenna

     L-R Bernadette Scully Laing (Lady Captain Roganstown), Olivia Mehaffey, Mary   McKenna (President, ILGU)  and  Michael Murphy (Captain Roganstown)

 

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 Olivia Mehaffey (Royal County Down Ladies) shot a level par final round 71 to win the Irish Under-18 girls' open stroke-play Championship over three rounds at Roganstown Golf and Country Club.
Olivia, pictured, was four under par through nine holes of her final round with birdies on the 3rd, 6th, 7th and 9th holes holes but suffered a triple bogey 8 on the 10th.  Olivia regained her momentum and was level par for the remaining holes, finishing with a birdie 4 on the home green.
Mehaffey, a candidate for a place in the GB and I team for the Under-16s Junior Vagliano Trophy match at Chantilly, Paris in June, won with a total of seven-over-par 220 over the par-71 course.
She won by two strokes from four players - England's Dulcie Sverdloff and Sophie Madden (also runner-up in the Scottish Under-16 girls' championship earlier this month), 36-hole leader Marthe Wold (Norway) and Sweden's Marina Hedlund.

 
Madden and Sverdloff (pictured with Irish legend Mary McKenna) won the team award for England with 296 from “Ireland A” who finished on 298.  
Dulcie, on a card countback, also won the silver pendant as individual runner up.
 Last year's Scottish U18 girls champion Lauren Whyte (St Regulus) finished top Scot on 232 in joint ninth place overall. She was a shot ahead of Monifieth's Heather Munro who was placed joint 11th.
Connie Jaffrey (Troon Ladies) gave Scotland a third top-20 finisher in 16th place on 235.
FINAL TOTALS
Par 213 (3x71) CSS 73 73 73
220 Olivia Mehaffey (RCD Ladies) 72 77 71
222 Dulcie Sverdloff (ENG) 75 73 74, Marthe Wold (NOR) 75 71, Sophie Madden (ENG) 74 74 7, Marina Hedlund (SWE) 72 76 74
227 Mary Doyle (The Heath) 77 74 76
228 Ariana Coyle Diez (Elm Park) 75 78 75
229 Gemma McCarthy (Clonmel) 77 73 79
232 Lauren Whyte (SCO) (St Regulus) 77 77 78, Niamh McSherry (Lurgan ) 76 76 80
233 Heather Munro (SCO) (Monifieth) 81 75 77, Niamh Ward (Lurgan) 77 82 74, Charlotte De Corte (BEL) 75 81 77
234 Anna Solveig Snorradottir (ISL) 81 76 77
234 Barbara Neto-Bradley (POR) 73 78 83
235 Connie Jaffrey (SCO) (Troon Ladies) 79 75 81
236 Julie McCarthy (Forrest Little) 80 76 80, Carolin Kauffmann (GER) 79 77 80, Kirsty Beckwith (ENG) 78 83 75, Chiara Mertens (GER) 77 82 77
237 Chloe Weir (Shandon Park) 78 74 85
240 Meadhbh Doyle (Portarlington) 81 77 82, Lesley Atkins (SCO) (Gullane Ladies) 77 82 81, Desiree Andersson (SWE) 76 84 80
241 Sara Magret Hinriksdottir (ISL) 80 81 80
242 Annabel Wilson (Lurgan) 82 78 82,  Molly Dowling (Lucan) 81 81 80, Lucy Eaton (ENG) 77 86 79
243 Caitriona Griffin (Killarney) 82 80 81, Victoria Craig (Clandeboye) 81 78 84, Fiona Liddell (SCO) (Germany) 79 83 81, Esther Henseleit (GER) 79 82 82, Stephanie Henning (SWE) 78 79 86
244 Hannah Henderson (Ballyclare) 86 77 81, Rachel Taylor (Laytown and Bettystown) 84 74 86
245 Shannon Burke (Ballinrobe) 85 75 85, Nicola Callander (SCO) (Mill Green) 83 85 77, Greta Isabella Voelker (GER) 76 84 85
246 Ainee O'Conor (ENG) 88 80 78, Sophie Harrison (Sutton) 86 81 79, Sarah Nilsson (SWE) 86 76 84, Zoe Collins (ENG) 83 78 85, Gunnhildur Kristjansdottir (ISL) 79 87 80, Blaithin O'Brien (Roscommon) 79 85 82
248 Anna Diana Svanka (LAT) 81 81 86
249 Emma Adolfsson (SWE) 82 85 82
251 Kate Whyte (Lucan) 84 86 81
255 Ghozlene Saki (TUN) 86 84 85
255 Saeros Eva Oskarsdottir (ISL) 86 83 86
256 Laura Ryan (Bray) 89 79 88
256 Laura Doherty (Howth) 84 84 88
258 Clare Calvert (RCD Ladies) 85 85 88
Missed Cut
173 Alice Hutchinson (St. Anne's) 88 85 Mairead Martin (Killarney) 88 85 Clodagh Jones (Roscrea) 88 85
175 Katie Aherne (Waterford Castle) 87 88
176 Feriel Chahed (TUN) 89 87
177 Sophia Poschl (AUT) 86 91
179 Rachel Thompson (Cork) 93 86
181 Caroline Hewitt (Arklow) 87 94
182 Amy O'Donnell (Portrush) 93 89 Shauna Barry (Corrstown) 92 90 Hafdis Johannsdottir (ISL) 90 92 Aoife Ni Thuama (Monkstown) 89 93
183 Grace McGrath (East Cork) 92 91
184 Julie Ann Malone (Rosslare) 96 88
186 April Timothy (Roscommon) 93 93
187 Eleanor Metcalfe (Laytown & Bettystown) 92 95
189 Niamh Jordan (Seapoint) 98 91 Alise Burkane (LAT) 92 97
191 Ruth Keating (Castlewarden) 96 95 Emily Eaton (ENG) 93 98
196 Clodagh Walsh (Castlewarden) 93 103
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Sandra Barnett

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