CARNOUSTIE'S KATY McNICOLL THIRD PLACE SPANISH FINISH

Katy McNicoll snapped a run of two missed cuts to finish joint third in the Ladies European Developmental Tour's Ocho Golf Ladies Open  at Panton, Galicia in Spain today.

The Carnoustie player improved with every round - 72, 69 and 67 - for a two-under-par total of 208 over the par-70 course to finish five shots behind the winner from Barcelona, Mireia Prat who scored 68-65-69 for 202, one shot in front of Australian Bree Arthur (68-67-68).

McNicoll, in her final circuit, birdied the par-4 third and then three par-5 holes: the seventh, 11th and 16th. She dropped one stroke, at the fourth in halves of 34-33.
She won 3,383 Euros for her grand effort.

Pamela Feggans from Patna, Ayrshire, the only other Scot to make the 36-hole cut, finished joint 32nd with deteriorating scores of 71-72-75 for 218. She had only one birdie, at the ninth, and a double bogey 6 at the 13th in halves of 37-38.

Now McNicoll and Feggans are looking forward to playing in the Paul Lawrie Scottish Ladies Open Tour one-round events at Trump International on Monday and Deeside Golf Club on Tuesday.

OCHO GOLF LADIES OPEN

Panton, Galicia, Spain

LEADING FINAL TOTALS

Par 210 (3x70)

202 Mireia Prat (Spa) 68 65 69.

203 Bree Arthur (Aust) 68 67 68

208 Katy McNicoll (Sco) 72 69 67, Maria Salinas (Peru) 67 72 69, Nicola Broch Larsen (Den) (am) 67 72 69.

SELECTED TOTALS

211 Danielle McVeigh (NIre) 69 70 72 (T9).

214 Charlie Douglass (Eng) 73 70 71 (T19).

215 Tracey Boyes (Eng) 71 69 75 (T33).

216 Natalie Lowe (Eng) 71 72 73 (T27).

218 Pamela Feggans (Sco) 71 72 75 (T32).