Indian teenager surges clear in British women's open amateur championship
Aditi Ashok (17) on verge of her biggest
win so far ... 4 ahead with a round to go
win so far ... 4 ahead with a round to go
By COLIN FARQUHARSON
It looks like Walter Hagen's favourite saying - "Who's gonna be second?"- applies after 17-year-old
Aditi Ashok from Bangalore, India forged four strokes clear of the
field with a four-under-par 70 in today's third round of the Ladies'
British open amateur championship at Moortown Golf Club, Leeds.
Winner of the St Rule Trophy at St Andrews earlier this season, Aditi is heading for the biggest win of her career which would certainly advance her up the Women's World Amateur Rankings from her present position of No 57.
With only 18 holes to play this afternoon over the tough, Yorkshire moorland course - ladies' par 74 - Ashok is on eight-under-par 214 with her nearest rival, another 17-year-old, Sophie Lamb from Clitheroe, Lancashire.
Sophie had a third-round 72 for 218 this morning.
Sharing third place on 219 are GB and I team player Olivia Mehaffey (Royal Co Down Ladies) and 20-year-old Swede Linn Andersson from the Barseback club. Both players returned three-under-par 71s for 219 this morning.
Meghan MacLaren (Wellingborough), bidding to beat the hoodoo on defending champions retaining the title, is fifth on 221 after a 73 and Bethan Popel (Long Ashton) is a shot behind after a 76 for 221.
Ashok was introduced to golf when she was only five and she has travelled the world since then - on school holidays! - playing tournament golf successfully. She was runner-up in this year's European women's amateur championship in Austria.
She had a bogey-free round today. Three of her four birdies came at par-5 holes - the second, ninth and 16th. The other at the par-4 10th in halves of 36-34. Her earlier rounds were 71 and 73.
Sophie Lamb has scored 73-73-72 so far and her third-round scorecard included a double bogey at the 10th. She had birdied the first, second, ninth and 10th with not a shot dropped on the outward nine.
The 10th hole "disaster" did not put her off her stride because she added to her haul of birdies with gains at the 16th and 17th before bogeying the last.
The 18th has certainly been a bogey hole for Sophie - she has managed to par it only once so far, on the first day. Yesterday she had a double bogey 6 at the 18th.
Olivia Mehaffey has scored 73-75-71. Her third round highlight was an eagle 3 at the long 16th in halves of 35 and 36. She birdies at the second, eighth and ninth in a bogey-free outward half, bogeyed the tricky 10th and then birdied the long 12th.
If she had been able to par instead of bogey both the 13th and 14th, Olivia could have become the first player to break 70 in this tournament.
Linn Anderson also had an eagle at the par-5 16th and also four birdies, offset by three bogeys.
Meghan MacLaren bogeyed the 13th AND 14th for the second day in a row in adding a 73 to her earlier rounds of 71 and 76. Interesting to see how the Florida International student, winner of six US college events, copes with the 13th in her final round. She has bogeyed it three times out of three so far.
On the credit side, Meghan, whose mother Mary is a senior Ireland international, had birdies at the fourth, eighth,ninth and 13th in halves of 36 and 37.
Arkansas State University student Abi Laker from Frilford Heath was was well in the picture with opening rounds of 72 and 73 but she fell back with a third-round 78 for 223, now nine behind leader Ashok.
Abi, after birdieing the first and second, had a double bogey 6 at the third and a bogey at the sixth but she did birdie the eighth to get out in 38. That was as good as it got for Laker.
Winner of the St Rule Trophy at St Andrews earlier this season, Aditi is heading for the biggest win of her career which would certainly advance her up the Women's World Amateur Rankings from her present position of No 57.
With only 18 holes to play this afternoon over the tough, Yorkshire moorland course - ladies' par 74 - Ashok is on eight-under-par 214 with her nearest rival, another 17-year-old, Sophie Lamb from Clitheroe, Lancashire.
Sophie had a third-round 72 for 218 this morning.
Sharing third place on 219 are GB and I team player Olivia Mehaffey (Royal Co Down Ladies) and 20-year-old Swede Linn Andersson from the Barseback club. Both players returned three-under-par 71s for 219 this morning.
Meghan MacLaren (Wellingborough), bidding to beat the hoodoo on defending champions retaining the title, is fifth on 221 after a 73 and Bethan Popel (Long Ashton) is a shot behind after a 76 for 221.
Ashok was introduced to golf when she was only five and she has travelled the world since then - on school holidays! - playing tournament golf successfully. She was runner-up in this year's European women's amateur championship in Austria.
She had a bogey-free round today. Three of her four birdies came at par-5 holes - the second, ninth and 16th. The other at the par-4 10th in halves of 36-34. Her earlier rounds were 71 and 73.
Sophie Lamb has scored 73-73-72 so far and her third-round scorecard included a double bogey at the 10th. She had birdied the first, second, ninth and 10th with not a shot dropped on the outward nine.
The 10th hole "disaster" did not put her off her stride because she added to her haul of birdies with gains at the 16th and 17th before bogeying the last.
The 18th has certainly been a bogey hole for Sophie - she has managed to par it only once so far, on the first day. Yesterday she had a double bogey 6 at the 18th.
Olivia Mehaffey has scored 73-75-71. Her third round highlight was an eagle 3 at the long 16th in halves of 35 and 36. She birdies at the second, eighth and ninth in a bogey-free outward half, bogeyed the tricky 10th and then birdied the long 12th.
If she had been able to par instead of bogey both the 13th and 14th, Olivia could have become the first player to break 70 in this tournament.
Linn Anderson also had an eagle at the par-5 16th and also four birdies, offset by three bogeys.
Meghan MacLaren bogeyed the 13th AND 14th for the second day in a row in adding a 73 to her earlier rounds of 71 and 76. Interesting to see how the Florida International student, winner of six US college events, copes with the 13th in her final round. She has bogeyed it three times out of three so far.
On the credit side, Meghan, whose mother Mary is a senior Ireland international, had birdies at the fourth, eighth,ninth and 13th in halves of 36 and 37.
Arkansas State University student Abi Laker from Frilford Heath was was well in the picture with opening rounds of 72 and 73 but she fell back with a third-round 78 for 223, now nine behind leader Ashok.
Abi, after birdieing the first and second, had a double bogey 6 at the third and a bogey at the sixth but she did birdie the eighth to get out in 38. That was as good as it got for Laker.
She had five pars and four bogeys after the turn for an inward half of 40. She dropped shots at the 11th, 14th, 17th and 18th.
HOW THEY STOOD AFTER ROUND 3
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Par 222 (3x74)
HOW THEY STOOD AFTER ROUND 3
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Par 222 (3x74)
| 1 | -8 | Aditi Ashok* | India | 71 | 73 | 70 | |
| 2 | -4 | Sophie Lamb* | Clitheroe | 73 | 73 | 72 | |
| 3= | -3 | Linn Andersson~ | Sweden | 74 | 74 | 71 | |
| Olivia Mehaffey* | Royal County Down Ladies' | 73 | 75 | 71 | |||
| 5 | -2 | Meghan MacLaren~ | Wellingborough | 71 | 76 | 73 | |
| 6 | -1 | Bethan Popel~ | Long Ashton | 73 | 72 | 76 | |
| 7 | Par | Princess Superal~ | Phillipines | 73 | 76 | 73 | |
| 8= | +1 | Jessica Ross~ | Donaghadee | 75 | 78 | 74 | (-4) |
| Eloise Healey* | The West Lancashire | 75 | 74 | 74 | |||
| Abi Laker~ | Frilford Heath | 72 | 73 | 78 | |||
| 11= | +2 | Hollie Muse* | West Lancs | 77 | 75 | 73 | (-1) |
| Isobel Wardle* | Prestbury | 77 | 74 | 75 | (-2) | ||
| Megan Garland~ | Selby | 76 | 72 | 76 | |||
| Samantha Fuller* | Roehampton | 77 | 71 | 76 | |||
| 15= | +3 | Inci Mehmet~ | Royal Mid Surrey | 78 | 74 | 76 | (-3) |
| Mairead Martin* | Killarney | 75 | 75 | 77 | (-2) | ||
| Sophie Keech~ | Parkstone | 71 | 78 | 75 | (+1) | ||
| 18 | +4 | Alison Knowles~ | Hickleton | 75 | 75 | 75 | (+1) |
| 19= | +5 | Rochelle Morris~ | Woodsome Hall | 78 | 74 | 78 | (-3) |
| Vanessa Knecht* | Switzerland | 70 | 79 | 78 | |||
| 21= | +6 | Yu Eun Eunice Kim* | Australia | 78 | 75 | 75 | (Par) |
| Bronwyn Davies~ | Wolstanton | 74 | 76 | 75 | (+3) | ||
| 23= | +7 | Charlotte Leathem~ | Styal | 74 | 77 | 79 | (-1) |
| Lianna Bailey~ | Kirby Muxloe | 75 | 74 | 81 | (-1) | ||
| 25 | +8 | Ailsa Summers~ | Carnoustie Ladies' | 81 | 74 | 74 | 75 |
| 26 | +9 | Georgina Mundy~ | Corhampton | 75 | 76 | 78 | (+2) |
| 27= | +10 | Lucrezia Colombotto Rosso~ | Italy | 82 | 72 | 76 | 76 |
| Camilla Vik~ | Norway | 76 | 77 | 79 | (Par) | ||
| Mariell Bruun~ | Norway | 75 | 77 | 78 | (+2) | ||
| 30= | +11 | Ellie Goodall~ | Selby | 75 | 77 | 80 | (+1) |
| Alessia Nobilio* | Italy | 76 | 76 | 78 | (+3) | ||
| Chloe Goadby* | St Regulus Ladies' | 75 | 75 | 76 | (+7) | ||
| 33= | +14 | Brooke Kochevar~ | USA | 76 | 79 | 80 | 75 |
| Olivia Hamilton* | Cleckheaton | 77 | 77 | 74 | 82 | ||
| Ella Ofstedahl* | Woburn | 78 | 74 | 85 | (-1) | ||
| 36 | +16 | Emilie Alba Paltrinieri* | Italy | 77 | 77 | 80 | 78 |
| 37= | +17 | Georgia Lewis~ | Llanishen | 79 | 75 | 79 | 80 |
| Jennifer Saxton~ | Muckhart | 76 | 78 | 80 | (+5) | ||
| 39 | +27 | Mollie Lawrence* | Rochester | 77 | 78 | 83 | 85 |
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