PAMELA PRETSWELL SHOWS HER CLASS IN AMSTERDAM

                 Pamela Pretswell .... overcame potentially demoralising start to
                                final round. Image by Cal Carson Golf Agency

By COLIN FARQUHARSON

Colin@scottishgolfview.com
Three members of the GB and I team who won back the Curtis Cup from the Americans at Nairn less than 12 months ago - England's Holly Clyburn and Charley Hull, and Scotland's Pamela Pretswell - finished in the top nine of the Ladies European Tour's Deloitte Women's Open championship at The International Golf Club, Amsterdam today (Sunday).

Clyburn, from Cleethorpes, won by three shots with scores of 71, 69 and 71 for an eight-under-par total of 211 over the par-73 lay-out. Holly's maiden win on the LET earned her 37,500 Euros.

Teenager Hull from Woburn shto 72-73-69 to fill second place on 214. Charley earned 25,375 Euros.

Hamilton's Pretswell finished joint seventh on two-under-par 217 with steady scores of 71-73-73. Her payslip amounted to 6,450 Euros.

The Scot overcame a potentially demoralising start with a bogey 6 at the long first followed by a double bogey 7 at the par-5 third. But Pamela showed her class by covering the last 15 holes in three under par figures: birdies at the fifth, sixth and 12th backed up by 12 solid pars.

Musselburgh's Vikki Laing, the only other Scot to survive the cut, finished an encouraging joint 14th on 220 with scores of 73, 74 and 73. Vikki deviated from par only twice - a bogey at the 11th quickly followed by a birdie at the 12th.
Laing earned 3,468 Euros but, probably more important, she is beginning to build up her self-confidence again with a higher level of finishes.

Carly Booth (Comrie) missed the cut by two shots with a pair of 77s while Kylie Walker totalled 159 with rounds of 78 and 81.

DELOITTE WOMEN'S OPEN

The International GC, Amsterdam

LEADING FINAL TOTALS

Par 219 (3x73)

211 Holly Clyburn (Eng) 71 69 71

214 Charley Hull (Eng) 72 73 69.

215 Carin Koch (Swe) 73 71 71

216 Carlota Ciganda (Spa) 71 71 74, Bree Arthur (Aus) 70 75 71, Camilla Lennarth (Swe) 66 73 77

217 Pamela Pretswell (Sco) 71 73 73, Florentyna Parker (Eng) 74 72 71, Mel Reid (Eng) 70 72 75.

SELECTED TOTALS
218 Hannah Burke (Eng) 71 74 73 (T10).

220 Vikki Laing (Sco) 73 74 73, Emily taylor (Eng) 71 74 75 (T14)

224 Rebecca Hudson (Eng) 77 74 73, Georgia Hall (Eng) (am) 74 73 77 (T35)

226 Lydia Hall (Wal) 75 75 76 (T47)

227 Sophie Walker (Eng) 75 75 77, Lauren Taylor (Eng) (am) 77 72 78 (T33).

229 Trish Johnson (Eng) 78 74 77 (61st).

MISSED THE CUT (152 and better qualified)

154 Carly Booth (Sco) 77 77

159 Kylie Walker (Sco) 78 81.

HAPPY HOLLY ... Picture by courtesy of Tristan Jones (LET staff)

NEWS RELEASE FROM LADIES EUROPEAN TOUR

By BETHAN CULTER, LET Media Manager 

England’s Holly Clyburn recorded her first victory on the Ladies European Tour at the Deloitte Ladies Open in Holland, with a superb three-shot win over compatriot Charley Hull.

The 22-year-old rookie professional from Cleethorpes in Lincolnshire, playing in just her fourth LET event of the season, carded rounds of 71, 69 and 71 for a three-round total of 211, eight-under-par, at The International in Amsterdam.

The Curtis Cup team winner at Nairn last June used her links education to master the unseasonably cold and windy conditions, earning a 37,500 Euros winner’s cheque. 

Although temperatures dipped to 5C for the first two rounds, which was colder than Christmas Day in the region, they warmed to 10C for the final round with winds gusting at 20 miles per hour.

“I’m flabbergasted,” said Clyburn, who won an LET Access Series event in Spain shortly after turning professional last October.

“I played great golf all week pretty much. I just relaxed, didn’t get nervous all day and kept in my own little bubble. I didn’t watch what the other girls were doing. I looked at the scoreboard when I could but there was only one way I was going and that was to get this.”

Clyburn started the final round a stroke behind the leader and bogeyed the second hole but then made birdie putts from 15 and 10 feet at the fifth and sixth holes respectively to take control of the tournament at seven-under. She then pulled further ahead by holing a 15 foot downhill putt on the 12^th green.

She said: “It proves that I can win, makes me believe in myself and makes me think that I can go on to win bigger things.”

Hull underlined the quality of her play with her fourth second place finish in as many starts on the Ladies European Tour this season. The impressive result lifted the 17-year-old from Northamptonshire into first position on the ISPS Handa Order of Merit, while Clyburn moved up to eighth following her win.

Hull belted up the leader board with seven birdies in her first 11 holes and although she bogeyed the 15^th and 18^th, she made an incredible save after chipping from out of the rough onto the tricky par-three 17^th green.

“I was playing really well today and was seven under through 11 holes,” Hull said. “I played really well in that wind and I’m hitting my new driver miles, an extra 30 yards with my new TaylorMade R1 driver so I’m absolutely loving it.”

Sweden’s Carin Koch moved up into third place with a two-under-par 71 to end four-under-par.

The 2012 champion Carlota Ciganda of Spain was only two shots off the lead with a hole to play but triple bogeyed the par-5 18^th and dropped into a share of fourth at three-under with Australian Bree Arthur and overnight leader Camilla Lennarth of Sweden.

Christel Boeljon was the top Dutch player and finished in a tie for 12^th position.

The Tour now moves to Munich for the UniCredit Ladies German Open presented by Audi, starting on Thursday at Golfpark Gut Häusern. 

ALL THE FINAL TOTALS

Par 219 (3x73)

211 Holly Clyburn (ENG)  71 69 71

214 Charley Hull (ENG)  72 73 69

215 Carin Koch (SWE)  73 71 71

216 Bree Arthur (AUS)  70 75 71, Carlota Ciganda (ESP)  71 71 74, Camilla Lennarth (SWE)  66 73 77

217 Florentyna Parker (ENG)  74 72 71, Melissa Reid (ENG)  70 72 75, Pamela Pretswell (SCO)  71 73 73

218 Hannah Burke (ENG)  71 74 73, Stacey Keating (AUS)  72 74 72

219 Christel Boeljon (NED)  70 72 77, Hannah Jun (USA)  72 74 73

220 Nikki Campbell (AUS)  71 76 73, Tania Elosegui (ESP)  74 69 77, Line Vedel (DEN)  70 75 75, Vikki Laing (SCO)  73 74 73, Miriam Nagl (GER)  70 74 76, Emily Taylor (ENG)  71 74 75, Veronica Zorzi (ITA)  73 77 70, Mikaela Parmlid (SWE)  76 73 71

221 Nina Holleder (GER)  72 74 75, Cheyenne Woods (USA)  74 74 73

222 Karen Lunn (AUS)  75 75 72, Dawn Shockley (USA)  74 72 76, Linda Wessberg (SWE)  76 73 73, Nontaya Srisawang (THA)  75 73 74, Kristie Smith (AUS)  73 75 74

223 Benedikte Grotvedt (NOR)  69 77 77, Dewi Claire Schreefel (NED)  72 75 76, Marta Silva Zamora (ESP)  75 75 73, Gwladys Nocera (FRA)  69 77 77, Whitney Hillier (AUS)  75 75 73, Sophie Giquel-Bettan (FRA)  75 74 74

224 Rebecca Hudson (ENG)  77 74 73, Sophie Sandolo (ITA)  74 73 77, Zuzana Kamasova (SVK)  76 76 72, Rebecca Artis (AUS)  76 71 77, Lee-Anne Pace (RSA)  74 75 75, Tandi Cuningham (RSA)  71 76 77, Anne Van Dam (NLD)  77 72 75, Valentine Derrey (FRA)  75 76 73, Malene Jorgensen (DEN)  80 71 73, Georgia Hall (ENG) (am) 74 73 77

225 Eva Bjarvall (SWE)  77 73 75, Titiya Plucksataporn (THA)  70 75 80

226 Elisabeth Esterl (GER)  77 75 74, Alexandra Vilatte (FRA)  75 74 77, Lydia Hall (WAL)  75 75 76, Joanna Klatten (FRA)  76 76 74, Ashleigh Simon (RSA)  74 72 80, Maria Hernandez (ESP)  77 75 74

227 Nikki Garrett (AUS)  72 77 78, Noora Tamminen (FIN)  75 75 77, Elina Nummenpaa (FIN)  76 75 76, Lauren Taylor (ENG) (am)  77 72 78, Sophie Walker (ENG)  75 75 77

228 Louise Larsson (SWE)  74 78 76, Stacy Lee Bregman (RSA)  73 78 77, Diana Luna (ITA)  73 76 79

229 Trish Johnson (ENG)  78 74 77

230 Beth Allen (USA)  76 75 79

231 Kaisa Ruuttila (FIN)  78 74 79, Marianne Skarpnord (NOR)  73 76 82, Margherita Rigon (ITA)  79 73 79

232 Laurette Maritz (RSA)  75 75 82

233 Sarah King (AUS)  77 75 81