KYLIE WALKER ONLY TWO SHOTS OFF THE PACE IN SWEDEN

    Tournament leader Dewi-Claire Schreefel in action today.

NEWS RELEASE FROM LADIES EUROPEAN TOUR
By BETHAN CUTLER, LET Media Manager
Dewi-Claire Schreefel from the Netherlands fired a second round of two-under-par 70 at Vasatorps Golfklubb in Sweden today to lead midway through the Helsingborg Open.
At seven-under-par, the 28-year-old from Alkmaar was two strokes ahead of Scotland’s Kylie Walker (68) and Australians Whitney Hillier (72) and Rebecca Artis (70), the defending champion.
After a warm and breezy afternoon, a large chasing pack were on four-under-par: Danes Nicole Broch Larsen (67), Line Vedel (70), Swedes Louise Friberg (71) and Caroline Hedwall (70), Austrian Christine Wolf (70), Frenchwomen Valentine Derrey (71) and Lucie Andre (69) and Marianne Skarpnord of Norway (71).
Schreefel started her second round on the back nine and picked up a pair of birdies on holes 15 and 18 but made a double bogey on the par-four fifth hole, before recovering with two more birdies on the sixth and seventh holes. 
She said: “I played solid again today and just had a little hiccup on five where I had a double, but I’m playing good. I’m hitting the ball solid and seeing my lines, so I’m happy."
Walker, with two play-off wins on tour this summer in Holland and Germany, had a bogey-free round with birdies on holes three, seven, 11 and 18.
 She said: “My game is good and I’m really enjoying it and the course is great this week so I’m having a great time. The conditions were maybe slightly tougher today and I hit the ball a lot better. Yesterday was a little scrappy so I’m a lot happier with my game today and I had a good group with Camilla as well, so it was really fun. Last week was a good experience and coming into this week, it was crazy wind here last year so I’m feeling well prepared for whatever comes my way.”
Derrey, a first-time winner on the LET in Turkey in May, made a slow start with a pair of bogeys and a double in her first six holes, but she blitzed the course with six birdies in the next ten only to drop a stroke on the last hole.
Said the Scot: “I started pretty bad. I was four over after six and then made a chip on seven, birdie on eight, nine I made a good putt. Ten, I made another good putt so I was back in it and just tried to play hole after hole.”
After a stunning first round of 69, Dame Laura Davies carded a second round of 76 to end the day at one over par.  
Of the other high profile players in the field, last week’s Aberdeen Asset Management Ladies Scottish Open winner Trish Johnson and England’s Solheim Cup star Charley Hull ended on six and eight over par respectively and missed the halfway cut, but they will be back in action at next week’s Evian Championship, where the winner of the Helsingborg Open will receive the last place in the field.

QUALIFIERS
Par 144 (2x72)
137 - Dewi Claire Schreefel (NED)  67 70
139 - Whitney Hillier (AUS)  67 72, Rebecca Artis (AUS)  69 70, Kylie Walker (SCO)  71 68
140 Caroline Hedwall (SWE)  70 70, Nicole Broch Larsen (DEN)  73 67, Lucie Andre (FRA)  71 69, Marianne Skarpnord (NOR)  69 71, Line Vedel (DEN)  70 70, Louise Friberg (SWE)  69 71, Christine Wolf (AUT)  70 70, Valentine Derrey (FRA)  69 71
141 Sophia Popov (GER)  71 70, Camilla Lennarth (SWE)  68 73, Noora Tamminen (FIN)  72 69
142  Heather MacRae (SCO)  70 72, Laura Jansone (LVA)  71 71, Ursula Wikstrom (FIN)  71 71, Becky Brewerton (WAL)  71 71, Nikki Campbell (AUS)  69 73, Louise Larsson (SWE)  71 71, Johanna Bjork (SWE)  71 71
143 Georgia Hall (ENG)  75 68, Carin Koch (SWE)  73 70, Malene Jorgensen (DEN)  69 74, Nikki Garrett (AUS)  69 74, Titiya Plucksataporn (THA)  71 72, Victoria Lovelady (BRA)  73 70, Alexandra Vilatte (FRA)  72 71
144  Patricia Sanz Barrio (ESP)  73 71, Pamela Pretswell (SCO)  69 75, Sophie Giquel-bettan (FRA)  75 69, Sally Watson (SCO)  72 72, Isabelle Boineau (FRA)  74 70
145 Lucy Williams (ENG)  72 73, Lydia Hall (WAL)  73 72, Stacy Lee Bregman (RSA)  73 72, Felicity Johnson (ENG)  71 74, Holly Clyburn (ENG)  75 70, Pernilla Lindberg (SWE)  70 75, Amy Boulden (WAL)  69 76, Gwladys Nocera (FRA)  74 71, Laura Davies (ENG)  69 76, Beth Allen (USA)  73 72, Cassandra Kirkland (FRA)  73 72, Hannah Jun Medlock (USA)  71 74, Minea Blomqvist (FIN)  68 77, Liz Young (ENG)  74 71, Leigh Whittaker (GER)  73 72
146 Katie Burnett (USA)  71 75, Nicole Garcia (RSA)  73 73, Celine Herbin (FRA)  72 74, Fabienne In-Albon (SUI)  74 72, Marion Ricordeau (FRA)  73 73, Chloe Leurquin (BEL)  74 72, Nina Muehl (AUT)  72 74, Jade Schaeffer (FRA)  74 72, Sahra Hassan (WAL)  71 75, Maria Mcbride (SWE)  72 74
147 -Nina Holleder (GER)  74 73, Karin Sjodin (SWE)  72 75, Lauren Taylor (ENG)  73 74, Maria Salinas (PER)  74 73, Elina Nummenpaa (FIN)  72 75, Michaela Finn (SWE)  73 74, Julie Tvede (DEN)  78 69, Anne-Lise Caudal (FRA)  73 74
MISSED THE CUT
148 - Isabell Gabsa (GER)  75 73, Sophie Gustafson (SWE)  71 77, Connie Chen (RSA)  73 75, Nobuhle Dlamini (SWZ)  73 75
149 Bree Arthur (AUS)  77 72, Mireia Prat (ESP)  73 76, Sophie Walker (ENG)  77 72, Emma Svensson (SWE)  75 74, Charlotte Ellis (ENG)  74 75, Vikki Laing (SCO)  77 72, Ariane Provot (FRA)  74 75, Carly Booth (SCO)  76 73
150 Ann-Kathrin Lindner (GER)  75 75, Krista Bakker (FIN)  76 74, Jia Yun Li (CHN)  77 73, Maha Haddioui (MAR)  75 75, Linda Henriksson (FIN)  76 74, Julia Davidsson (SWE)  75 75, Virginia Espejo (ESP)  77 73, Trish Johnson (ENG)  77 73
151 Hannah Burke (ENG)  76 75, Alison Whitaker (AUS)  78 73, Ainil Bakar (MYS)  77 74, Marion Veysseyre (FRA)  74 77, Steffi Kirchmayr (GER)  75 76
152  Michele Thomson (SCO)  75 77, Margherita Rigon (ITA)  76 76, Kelsey Macdonald (SCO)  73 79, Karolin Lampert (GER)  77 75, Sophie Sandolo (ITA)  76 76, Charley Hull (ENG)  76 76, Daniela Holmqvist (SWE)  78 74
153 Rebecca Hudson (ENG)  76 77, Caroline Afonso (FRA)  80 73, Kim Williams (RSA)  73 80, Holly Aitchison (ENG)  75 78, Charlotte Thompson (ENG)  76 77, Cathryn Bristow (NZL)  74 79
155 Antonella Cvitan (SWE)  79 76, Isabella Ramsay (SWE)  80 75, Stefania Croce (ITA)  77 78
156 Amanda Strang (SWE)  80 76, Adriana Brent (AUS)  79 77, Rebecca Codd (IRL)  79 77, Hannah Ralph (ENG)  79 77, Georgina Simpson (ENG)  79 77, Anais Maggetti (SUI)  78 78
157 Tania Elosegui (ESP)  76 81, Henni Zuel (ENG)  76 81
158 Natalie Wille (SWE)  78 80
159 Rebecca Sorensen (SWE)  82 77
160 Anjelika Hammar (SWE)  79 81
163 Sandra Carlborg (SWE)  82 81

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