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Emma’s 66 leads at English girls’ championship
![]() Meanwhile, England Golf U16 squad player, Morgan Thomas of Staffordshire, leads the U14 championship on one-over par 75 at Royal Cromer.
They
led an impressive display of scoring on a tough day when gusting winds
were estimated to make up to four clubs’ difference on a shot. Surrey’s
Lizzie Prior was three-under at Sheringham, while Cornwall’s Emily Toy
was two-under.
Allen,
18, (Image © Leaderboard Photography) had a bogey-free round with three
birdies on the way out and an eagle and two birdies on the homeward
half. It’s her lowest score in competition and she said: “I’m so happy,
over the moon, it’s a great start.
“I
was pretty steady and I think I only missed one green,” she added.
Allen (Meon Valley) won the Sir Henry Cooper Junior Masters last month
and was 14th in the recent English women’s amateur at Hunstanton. She
will represent England in next week’s Girls’ Home Internationals before
leaving for the USA to study at the University of Missouri.
Prior,
another girl international, was joint-runner up in the women’s amateur
and has clearly kept her form going. She had six birdies in her round,
including a run of three from the eighth and a pair on the last two
holes.
“It
was so windy but I kept the ball quite straight off the tee, that was
probably the best part of my game,” said the 17-year-old from Burhill.
Emily
Toy, 17, (Carlyon Bay) was another player with a bogey free round,
combining 16 pars with birdies on the long 10th and the par four 16th.
At
Royal Cromer, Cloe Frankish (Chart Hills) was in the first group out
and, after a 15-minute weather delay, set an unbeatable target for the
day with her score of one-under 73.
She
had an up and down start to the round and didn’t score her first par
until the eighth. At that stage she was one-over, having had three
birdies and four bogeys, and she went on to play the rest of the course
in two-under, with birdies on 10 and 12.
“I
wasn’t playing very well to start with but having that par on the
eighth made a difference. I hit a really good second shot but it spun
back off the green and I had to hole an eight-foot putt for par.”
Frankish,
who won last week’s Scottish U21 championship, added: “I felt I left
quite a lot out there but I’m pleased with that score in the wind.”
She
leads by two shots from Yorkshire’s Olivia Hamilton (Cleckheaton &
District) and by three from a group of six players which includes 2014
English U15 champion Emily Price (Cleobury Mortimer).
The
U14 championship is led by Morgan Thomas (Beau Desert) who shot
one-over 75 and is a stroke ahead of another England Golf U6 squad
player, Lily Humphreys of Channels, Essex. Third place is currently held
by Magdalena Cervinkova of the Czech Republic on three-over.
Thomas, 14, had five birdies in her round, reaching the turn in one-over and coming home in level par.
After
tomorrow’s second round the fields will be cut in all three
championships. The English girls’ and the English U6 girls’ will each be
cut to the leading 36 players and ties, who contest the final 36 holes
on the last day. The U14 field will be cut to the leading 18 players and
ties who play the final 18 holes on Thursday
Click here for the English girls' championship scores.
Click here for U16 and U14 scores.
Lyndsey Hewison Press Officer England Golf pr@englandgolf.org |
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