INDIA CLYBURN IN THIRD PLACE WITH A ROUND TO GO AT HARDER HALL

             India Clyburn, three shots behind leaders in Florida

                         Picture by Cal Carson Golf Agency

NEWS RELEASE FROM HARDER HALL
(with additional words by Colin Farquharson)

Four-time USGA Women’s Mid-Amateur champion Meghan Stasi, who played in the 2008 Curtis Cup match at St Andrews when her surname was Bolger, continued her steady play by carding a 74 for a 219 total to share the 54-hole lead with University of Tennessee freshman Hannah Pietila who shot 76 in the third round of the Harder Hall Invitational at Sebring, the first event in the Orange Blossom Tour for women amateurs in Florida.
England's India Clyburn from Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire, younger sister of LET player Holly Clyburn and a Woodhall Spa GC member, continued her great effort with a 73 to start Saturday's final round in third place, three shots behind Stasi and Pietila.
The Harder Hall Country Club course is playing long at 6,150 yards for the championship with a testing par of 72 in the condtions.
Scotland's Lauren Whyte, a member of the St Regulus Club at St Andrews, is in joint sixth place on 225 after a 76, a repeat of her second round.
Coach David Leadbetter's daughter Hally is tied for ninth place on 227 after her best round yet, a 74.
Wales' Chloe Williams from Wrexham, in contrast, had her worst round of the three so far, a 79 for 228 and 11th place on her own.
Scotland's Eilidh Briggs, a Stirling student and Kilmacolm GC member, and England's GB and I Junior Vagliano Trophy player Samantha Fuller (Roehampton) are joint 12th on 229. Eilidh and Sammy both had third-round 77s.
England's Annabel Dimmock from Wentworth and Olympic Games hockey team bronze medallist Chloe Rogers from Braintree, Essex are two more Brits inside the top 20 after 54 holes.
Annabel shot a 77 for joint 14th place on 230 while Chloe had the same third-round score for 231 and a share of 17th place.
Ireland's Chloe Ryan from Limerick and Scot Iona Stephen (Ranfurly Castle) are T25 on 233. Chloe shot a third-round 76, one fewer than Iona. 
Stirling student Hannah McCook from Nethy Bridge and Grantown-on-Spey Golf Club and England's Georgia Oboh from Manchester are on the 241 mark. Hannah had an 81 and Georgia an 80 in Round 3.
Three more Stirling students in the international field, Tara Mactaggart from Minto, England's Georgia Gilling and Jordana Graham from Southerness, are on 250, 251 and 258 respectively.
Tara had an 83, Georgia an 81 and Jordana an 85.

In the Forever Forty-nine division, 2012 champion Martha Leach of Hebron, Kentucky increased her lead to four strokes with a third-round 78.
Defending champion Mary Jane Hiestand, Diane Lang and Gigi Higgins are tied at 238.

In the Ben Roman division, Nancy Jackson of Boynton Beach, Florida shot 84 for a three day total of 247, to win the division by one shot over Clate Aydlett of Elizabeth City, North Carolina who carded an 82 for a 248 total.   
THIRD-ROUND SCOREBOARD
Par 216 (3x72)
219 Meghan Stasi (USA) 73 72 74, Hannah Pietila (USA) 76 67 76
222 India Clyburn (England) 72 77 73
223 Kristina Merde (USA) 73 74 76, Emmy Martin (USA) 74 76 73
225 Lauren Whyte (Scotland) 73 76 76, Lauren Coughlin (USA) 80 75 70
226 Isabelle Lendl (USA) 79 78 69
227 Hally Leadbetter (England) 75 78 74, August Kim (USA) 80 77 70
228 Chloe Williams (Wales) 75 74 79
229 Eilidh Briggs (Scotland) 74 78 77, Samantha Fuller (England) 73 79 77

SELECTED SCORES
230 Annabel Dimmock (England) 80 73 77 (T14)
231 Chloe Rogers (England) 76 78 77 (T17).
233 Chloe Ryan (Ireland) 76 81 76, Iona Stephen (Scotland) 77 79 77 (T25).
241 Hannah McCook (Scotland) 81 79 81, Georgia Oboh (England) 79 82 80
242 Carol Semple Thompson (USA) 81 81 80
250 Tara Mactaggart (Scotland) 82 85 83
251 Georgia Gilling (England) 81 89 81
259 Jordana Graham (Scotland) 89 84 85

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