LAUREN TAYLOR WINS DUTCH GIRLS TITLE FOR THIRD YEAR IN ROW

An unusual picture of Michael Kraaij (Netherlands) and Lauren Taylor (England), winners of the respective boys' and girls' titles at the Dutch Under-23 championships.

By COLIN FARQUHARSON

Colin@scottishgolfview.com
Former British women's open amateur champion - at the age of 16 - Lauren Taylor (Woburn) on Saturday won the Dutch Junior Open girls' title at Golf Club Toxandria for the third year in a row.
As the age limit for the tournament is 23 years, Lauren could extend her sequence by a few more years yet!
She had four sub-par rounds of 71, 69, 71 and 69 for an eight-under-par total of 280 over the par-72 circuit in the Netherlands.
Said Lauren later: "I think everything about my game was in good shape. It was a tight course and you had to hit the fairways. I hit a lot of greens too and putted really well. Holed some key putts in the final round when the pressure was on. It's always nice to have a bogey-free round too!"
Next up for Lauren, a student at Baylor University, Waco, Texas, is the final qualifying round at Kingsbarns Golf Club, Fife on Monday, July 29 for the Ricoh Women's British Open starting over the Old Course, St Andrews on the Thursday that week.
She played in the last RWBO in Scotland - at Carnoustie the year before last.

DUTCH JUNIOR OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP
Golf Club Toxandria
LEADING GIRLS' TOTALS
Par 288 (4x72)
280 Lauren Taylor (Woburn) 71 69 71 69
282 Marit Harryvan (Netherlands) 73 75 66 68, Anne Van Dam (Netherlands) 67 70 75 70.
 LEADING BOYS' TOTALS
277 Michael Kraaij (Netherlands) 68 67 67 75, Harry Casey (England)  Kraaij won sudden-death play-off with birdie at first extra hole.
281 Joe Dean (England) 67 70 71 73
283 Jack Cardy (England) 69 70 72 71, Danthai Boonma (Thailand) 79 73 74 68.
SELECTED TOTALS
293 Lawrence Allan (Scotland) 73 72 75 71, Alasdair McDougall (Scotland) 71 73 75 74 (T24).

MISSED THE THIRD-ROUND CUT
226 and better qualified
232 Ben Kinsley (Scotland) 80 75 77 
235 Cameron Kirkwood (Scotland) 77 78 80.