AUSSIE ARTIS LEADS BY THREE AT RACV LADIES MASTERS

LADIES EUROPEAN TOUR NEWS RELEASE
From Bethan Cutler, LET Media Manager
Australian Rebecca Artis fired an impressive round of seven-under-par 66 to charge to the top of the leaderboard at the RACV Ladies Masters in Queensland today.
Artis, pictured below, from New South Wales, now calls the Gold Coast home and carded eight birdies and one bogey in her seven-under-par round to lead the Masters at nine-under-par.

A winner on the LET at the Helsingborg Open in 2013, Artis will take a three-shot advantage into the third round at the RACV Royal Pines Resort.  
Leading the chase is England’s Charley Hull who posted her second consecutive round of three-under-par 70 and South Korean Annie Choi, who carded a two-under-par round of 71 to be right in the mix.
Artis came into the media centre with a huge smile and said: “Yeah a good round of golf - take that.”
“I started the round with a bogey and they always say you start a good round with a bogey. So it was seven under, I’ll take that.”
Artis is comfortable being at the top: “I put myself in contention a few times over the last couple of years and had the win in Sweden a couple of years ago and I feel like my game’s really going forward.”
A change to her putting has made a big difference to her confidence. “I’ve changed my putting to left hand low. I changed after the second round of LPGA Q School which is not ideal but I just felt like I really had to make a change with my putting.  My coach was over there and Geoff my husband who caddies for me he was there, and we just made a group decision that it was time to make a change with my putting; it’s worked wonders really.”
“You know, I can start the ball on line now, you know the line I choose, and it’s just been a matter of getting used to the feel of it and getting the pace because it feels a little bit different. But I feel like as if you know I’ve got that now and I feel comfortable over it now. I felt a bit nervous, especially last week when it was the first tournament I played with it but I feel like I’m really comfortable over the putter now and can start the putts on line so which is a nice feeling.”
Outright fourth is England’s Holly Clyburn (71), while France’s Gwladys Nocera (71) and LET rookie and winner of the 2014 Xiamen Open Ssu-Chia Cheng from Chinese Taipei (69) share fifth place at three-under-par.  Australian Breanna Elliott (69), first round co-leader Su Oh (75), Norway’s Tonje Daffinrud (70) and amateurs Rebecca Kay (70) and Hannah Green (73) are all at two-under-par.
Defending Champion Cheyenne Woods had a day she would rather forget on the course, signing for a 78.  Her day started out so well when she had a blast going on her first helicopter ride over the magnificent Gold Coast. “It was awesome,” Woods said, however her day went downhill.
“It was horrible, from the helicopter ride my day went downhill, it happens.  I didn’t have any birdies today, I didn’t really play well at all.  I was scrambling a lot, I don’t know what the cut will be, but I hope to be playing the week-end.”
Woods made it right on the cut number of five-over-par 151 and 67 players will contest the weekend. 
SCOTSWATCH: Sally Watson (147) is the leading Scot in the 36-hole totals. She had a second-round, three-under-par 70. Vikki Laing and Pamela Pretswell are both on 149 after both had 74s.
Carly Booth is on 150 after a 73 and Innerleithen-born, Queensland-based amateur Karis Davidson also made the cut with a shot to spare, following a second-round 72.
Scots who did not beat the cut were Kylie Walker ,who had a 75 for 152 - one stroke too many to survive, Michele Thomson 79 for 154 and Heather MacRae 80 for 159.


SECOND-ROUND SCORES
Par 146 (2x73)
137 - Rebecca Artis (AUS)  71 66
140 - Charley Hull (ENG)  70 70, Eun Woo Choi (SKOR)  69 71
141 - Holly Clyburn (ENG)  70 71
143 - Gwladys Nocera (FRA)  72 71, Ssu-Chia Cheng (TPE)  74 69
144 - Breanna Elliott (AUS)  75 69, Rebecca Kay (AUS)  74 70, Su-Hyun Oh (AUS)  69 75, Hannah Green (AUS)  71 73, Tonje Daffinrud (NOR)  74 70
145 - Amy Boulden (WAL)  72 73, Jiwon Jeon (AUS)  72 73, Michelle Koh (MYS)  74 71, Florentyna Parker (ENG)  71 74, Lorie Kane (CAN)  71 74, Melissa Reid (ENG)  72 73, Su-Bin Jang (SKOR)  74 71, Katherine Kirk (AUS)  70 75
146 - Sydney Cox (USA)  73 73, Christine Wolf (AUT)  75 71, Pei-Yun Chien (TPE)  73 73, Marion Ricordeau (FRA)  76 70, Valentine Derrey (FRA)  74 72, Lee-Anne Pace (RSA)  73 73, Felicity Johnson (ENG)  73 73, Alison Whitaker (AUS)  72 74, Camilla Lennarth (SWE)  71 75
147 - Marianne Skarpnord (NOR)  73 74, Esther So-jin Baik (KOR)  72 75, Marta Sanz (ESP)  74 73, Whitney Hillier (AUS)  72 75, Emma De Groot (AUS)  72 75, Nicole Broch Larsen (DEN)  75 72, Caroline Martens (NOR)  70 77, Laura Jansone (LVA)  73 74, Sally Watson (SCO)  77 70
148 - Kristie Smith (AUS)  73 75, Laura Davies (ENG)  74 74, Yu-Sang Hou (TPE)  74 74, Da Eun Kim (SKOR)  73 75, Hannah Collier (USA)  75 73, Isabelle Boineau (FR)  74 74, Eleanor Givens (ENG)  72 76, Connie Chen (RSA)  75 73
149 - Anne Van Dam (NLD)  76 73, Pennapa Plusawath (THA)  71 78, Vikki Laing (SCO)  75 74, Beth Allen (USA)  76 73, Pamela Pretswell (SCO)  75 74, Nina Holleder (GER)  75 74, Yu-Ju Chen (TWN)  77 72, Adriana Brent (AUS)  74 75
150 - Tamie Durdin (AUS)  75 75, Karis Davidson (AUS) (am)  78 72, Titiya Plucksataporn (THA)  77 73, Tiranan Yoopan (THA)  73 77, Carly Booth (SCO)  77 73, Anne-Lise Caudal (FRA)  73 77, Grace Lennon (AUS)  75 75
151 - Sophie Gustafson (SWE)  76 75, Rebecca Codd (IRL)  74 77, Jessica Speechley (AUS)  75 76, Liv Cheng (NZL)  77 74, Stacey Keating (AUS)  77 74, Cheyenne Woods (USA)  73 78, Yu Yang Zhang (CHN)  77 74

MISSED THE CUT
152 - Rachel Hetherington (AUS)  77 75, Linda Henriksson (FIN)  77 75, Chloe Leurquin (BEL)  74 78, Sophie Walker (ENG)  77 75, Kylie Walker (SCO)  77 75, Fabienne In-albon (SWI)  76 76, Gennai Goodwin (AUS)  78 74, Georgina Simpson (ENG)  76 76, Ellen Davies-GMichele raham (AUS)  77 75
153 - Lauren Hibbert (AUS)  75 78, Hsin Ning Yeh (TPE)  76 77, Kate Scarpetta (USA)  75 78, Isabella Ramsay (SWE)  77 76, Mireia Prat (ESP)  73 80, Alexandra Vilatte (FRA)  80 73
154 - Noora Tamminen (FIN)  76 78, Nanna Madsen (DNK)  78 76, Hayley Bettencourt (AUS)  76 78, Steffi Kirchmayr (GER)  79 75, Ai-Chen Kuo (TPE)  76 78, Victoria Lovelady (BRA)  76 78, Nadine Smith (AUS)  77 77, Sarah-Jane Boyd (ENG)  77 77, Kristen Farmer (AUS)  78 76, Bree Arthur (AUS)  75 79, Michele Thomson (SCO)  75 79, Alex Stewart (USA)  78 76
155 - Mathilda Cappeliez (FRA)  77 78, Nikki Garrett (AUS)  78 77, Danielle Montgomery (ENG)  76 79, Elmay Viking (COK)  78 77, Jing Yan (CHN)  77 78, Julia Boland (AUS)  79 76
156 - Samantha Troyanovich (USA)  80 76, Annabel Dimmock (ENG)  78 78, Stephanie Na (AUS)  84 72, Tamara Johns (AUS)  79 77, Ashleigh Blacksell (AUS)  79 77, Jemma Partridge (AUS)  79 77
157 - Lina Boqvist (SWE)  78 79, Ashley Sholer (CAN)  80 77, Katy Jarochowicz (AUS)  78 79, Katelyn Must (AUS)  81 76, Patricia Sanz Barrio (ESP)  79 78, Cathryn Bristow (NZL)  77 80, Jordana Keaton (AUS)  78 79, Lauren Blease (ENG)  79 78
158 - Daisy Nielsen (DEN)  78 80, Leigh Whittaker (GER)  80 78, Ann-Kathrin Lindner (GER)  79 79, Hannah Burke (ENG)  74 84, Jennifer Ray (AUS)  79 79
159 - Jenna Hunter (NZL)  75 84, Jessica Dengate (AUS)  82 77, Cherie Alison (AUS)  81 78, Alexandra Orchard (AUS)  78 81, Heather MacRae (SCO)  79 80, Elissa-Jayne Orr (AUS)  84 75
160 - Nancy Harvey (CAN)  80 80, Rebecca Green (AUS)  85 75
161 - Amolkan Phalajivin (THA)  79 82, Stacey Tate (NZL)  78 83
162 - Joanne Mills (AUS)  81 81
163 - Carmen Railton (AUS)  84 79
166 - Michelle Bristow (AUS)  81 85
167 - Ashley Ona (AUS)  82 85
176 - Sienna Lambert (AUS)  85 91