BRITISH WOMEN'S OPEN AMATEUR CHSHIP AT ROYAL ST GEORGE'S GC
EILIDH and GEMMA LEADING SCOTS
WITH PAR 74s IN FIRST Q ROUND
By COLIN FARQUHARSON
Colin@scottishgolfview.com
Curtis Cup players Eilidh Briggs (Kilmacolm) and Gemma Dryburgh (Beaconsfield) were the best of the Scots with par-matching 74s to be joint 15th at the end of the first-qualifying round at the British women's open amateur championship at Royal St George's Golf Club, Kent.
Over the 6,425yd course, a links that has staged many an Open championship, the Lochwinnoch-based Stirling University P.E. student Briggs had halves of 36-38, birdieing the seventh, 15th and 18th. She had a spell in the doldrums in the middle of the round when she bogeyed the 10th, 11th and 12th.
Aberdeen-born Beaconsfield GC member Gemma Dryburgh birdied the last to salvage a 74 from a card that included a double bogey 6 at the 12th in halves of 36-38. She birdfied the first, seventh, 13th and 18th.
Last year's Scottish champion Alyson McKechin (Elderslie) is joint 45th on 76 (36-40). She had birdies at the fourth and 10th but a run of bogeys in the second half - 11th, 12th, 14th and 18th.
New Scottish champion Gabrielle MacDonald (Craigielaw) had a 76 (37-39) with a double bogey 6 at the 10th.
Connie Jaffrey (Troon Ladies), beaten finalist at Prestwick, also had a 76 which included a triple bogey 8 at the long 15th. But she did birdie the 11th and 18th for 38 home.
All those on the 76 mark at T45 overnight.
Last off the tee at around 3.15pm, Germany-based Scot Rachael Taylor, a student at North Carolina State University, had a 77.
The Airdrie-born player was two under par after 10, having birdied the seventh and 10th but she followed an outward 36 with an inward 41, running up a double bogey 7 at the long 15th.
Carnoustie Ladies' Ailsa Summers had a triple bogey 8 at the long 15th and bogeyed the 16th and 17th in an inward half of 41 for a 78, which included birdies at the sixth, 14th and 18th.
Ailsa and the rest with 78s are tied 75th - which is outside the qualifying zone.
Former Scottish girls champion Lauren Whyte (St Regulus) had a 78 which included five bogeys in a row from the 10th to the 14th.
Clara Young (North Berwick) had a 79 (39-40) with a double bogey 5 at the short third and a double bogey7 at the long sixth.
Jess Meek (Carnoustie Ladies) had a disappointing 81 (38-43. Last year's Scottish Under-21 girls champion and University of Missouri student had a double bogey 7 at the long 13th.
Leading the field with a five-under-par 69 is Dewi Weber from the Netherlands. In bogey-free halves of 33-and 36, Dewi (pronounced Devvee) birdied the long first, second, long fourth, ninth and long 18th.
Last year's beaten finalist from Spain, Luna Sobron was one of a number on 70. They included GB and I Junior Vagliano Trophy player Sophie Lamb (Clitheroe) who had halves of 36-34, birdieing the seond, seventh, 14th, 17th and 18th.
Young Sophie covered the last 10 holes in three under par.
Two-time Curtis Cup player Bronte Law (Bamhall) had a 72, the same score at Meghan MacLaren (Wellingborough) who narrowly failed to gain a place in the GB and I team for St Louis, Missouri.
Defending champion and Curtis Cup player Georgia Hall (Parkstone) had a 78 with a double bogey 7 at the long 13th in an inward 42.
Georgia, reported to be on the verge of turning professional, will need to step up a gear in the second qualifying round. At the moment she is
well outside the leading 64 players who will go forward to the match-play stages after the second qualifying round on Wednesday.
FIRST-ROUND LEADERBOARD
Par 74 (37-37) Yardage 6,425
69 Dewi Weber (Net)
70 Natalia Escuriola (Spa), Luna Sobron (Spa), Sophie Lamb (Clitheroe), Noemi Jimenez (Spa), Antonia Scherer (Ger)
71 Laetitia Beck (Israel)
72 Leslie Cloots (Bel), Meghan MacLaren (Wellingborough), Bronte Law (Bramhall), Alex Milan (US), Leonie Harm (Ger)
SELECTED SCORES
73 Anne-Catherine Tanguay (Canada), Inci Mehmet (Wentworth), Chloe Ryan (Castletroy, Ireland).
74 Eilidh Briggs (Kilmacolm), Rosie Davies (Indiana Univ), Becky Harries (Haverfordwest), Samantha Giles (St Mellion), Bethan Popel (Long Ashton), Su-Hyun Oh (Australia), Louise Ridderstrom (Sweden), Janie Jackson (USA) (T15).
75 Hadas Libman (Israel), Caroline Nistrup (Sweden), Cloe Frankish (Charthills), Lauralie Migneaux (France), Marissa Hinchman (USA), Aditi Ashok (India), Gemma Clews (Delamere Forest), Elodie Bridenne (France), Alex Peters (Notts Ladies), Emma Broze (Freance), Chloe Williams (Wrexham), Nuria Iturrios (Spain), Lucy Goddard (Hanbury Manor).
76 Alyson McKechin (Elderslie), Connie Jaffrey (Troon Ladies), Gabrielle MacDonald (Craigielaw), Gabriella Cowley (Hanbury Manor), Annabel Dimmock (Wentworth), Olivia Mehaffey (Royal Co Down Ladies) (T45).
78 Ailsa Summers (Carnoustie Ladies), Lauren Whyte (St Regulus), Georgia Hall (Parkstone) (T75).
79 Clara Young (North Berwick), Fiona Liddell (Germany) (T87)
81 Jess Meek (Carnoustie Ladies) (T103)
82 Elizabeth Mallett (Wishaw, Sutton Coldfield).
Charlotte Austwick (Fulford).
83 Meghan Stasi (USA)
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