KirkwoodGolf: MARIA HOYOS (COLOMBIA) NOW JUNIOR ORANGE BOWL GIRLS' LEADER

Monday, December 29, 2014

MARIA HOYOS (COLOMBIA) NOW JUNIOR ORANGE BOWL GIRLS' LEADER

FIONA LIDDELL LETS IT SLIP AWAY 

WITH AN INWARD 41 IN FLORIDA

Fiona Liddell, the Germany-based Scottish Under-18 girls champion, moved up the Junior Orange Bowl girls' championship leaderboard with 10 straight pars - out in 35 - to start her third round over the Biltmore course, Coral Gables near Miami, Florida.

But Fiona, pictured right, then  tumbled back down to joint 17th place at the end of 54 holes with a catastrophic inward half of five-over-par 41 which saw her bogey the 11th and short 13th, double bogey the 13th and bogey the 18th.
The daugher of Scots-born Stephen Liddell, club pro at Schloss Vornholz, signed for a five-over-par 76 and, with a round to go, is on 16-over-par 213. She is 21 shots behind the new clear leader by four, Colombia';s Maria Hoyos who had a repeat of her first-round, three-under-par 68 for five-under 208.
Scottish Under-21 girls open title-holder India Clyburn (Woodhall Spa) from Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire repeated her second-round 74 for 226 and is in 13th place in the field of 34 girls.
India was not quite so steady as was in Round 2 but the end result was the same. Holly Clyburn's younger sister had a birdie at the fifth - her first since the opening day - but bogeyed the short second, the seventh, 11th and 13th in halves of 36-38

Colombia's top-ranked girl golfer Maria Hoyos, pictured left, now leads by four from South Korean Juwon Jeong (69-72-71 for 212) with three players sharing third place on 214 - Linnea Strom (Sweden) (67-73-74), Leonie Harm (Germany) (71-72-71) and Luiza Altman (Brazil) (74-68-72).
A four-shot lead with only 18 holes to go makes Hoyos the hot favourite to take the girls' title - but, you never know!


GIRLS' LEADERBOARD
Par 213 (3x71)
208 Maria Hoyos (Colombia) 68 72 68
212 Juwon Jeong (South Korea) 69 72 71
214 Leonie Harm (Germany) 71 72 71, Luiza Altmann (Brazil) 74 68 72, Linnea Strom (Sweden) 67 73 74
215 Aubane Valenzuela (Switzerland) 70 73 72
216 Renate Grimstad (Norway) 70 73 72.

SELECTED SCORES
226 India Clyburn (England) 78 74 74 (13th)
229 Fiona Liddell (Scotland) 75 788 76 (T17).

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