Only British player still standing after two rounds of match-play
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SCOTTISH GIRLS' CHAMPION FIONA
THROUGH TO LAST 16 AT W KILBRIDE
BY COLIN FARQUHARSON
Scottish Under-18 girls champion Fiona Liddell is the only British player through to the last 16 of the Girls' British open amateur championship after a warm sunny day for the start of the match-play stages.
Fiona's father Stephen has been a club professional in Germany for the last 20 to 25 years. Her mother is German and Fiona, pictured in action today, was born, educated and has come to the fore as a golfer in the land of her birth.
She was roughly eight or nine under par in scoring victories by 2 and 1 over French Junior Vagliano Trophy player Agathe Laisne and 3 and 2 over Surrey-born Martha Lewis (St George's Hill), whose parents come from Kilmacolm and Bishoptopn.
Fiona, who will enrol at Baylor University, Texas next August, now plays Dimana Viudes Emilova (Spain) tomorrow morning for a place in the quarter-finals.
Top seed Frida Kinhult, a 15-year-old from Sweden attempting to emulate her older brother Marcus who won the Lytham Trophy this year, marches on but No 2 seed, Scot Hazel MacGarvie (Troon Ladies) bowed out in the early evening, beaten by one hole by Chloe Salort (France).
"I was three down after 13, having had a sticky patch in the middle of the round," said 15-year-old Hazel who will remember his nine-under-par opening qualifying round of 64 for the rest of her lie.
"Then I won the 14th and 15th to be one down with three to play. We halved them all. My figures overall were quite good."
Ireland's great hope, Olivia Mehaffey, the GB and I Vagliano Trophy player from Royal County Ladies, won on the 18th green in the morning when her opponent three-putted but there was no escape for in the afternoon
She lost by 4 and 2 to a French player, Eva Gilly.
Ana Pelaez, the No 7 seed from Spain, scored two good wins. This championship is the last in which Ping Junior Solheim Cup qualifying points are at stake and Ana leads the table following an impressive win in an Annika Sorenstam tournament last week.
SCOTTISH GIRLS' CHAMPION FIONA
THROUGH TO LAST 16 AT W KILBRIDE
BY COLIN FARQUHARSON
Scottish Under-18 girls champion Fiona Liddell is the only British player through to the last 16 of the Girls' British open amateur championship after a warm sunny day for the start of the match-play stages.
Fiona's father Stephen has been a club professional in Germany for the last 20 to 25 years. Her mother is German and Fiona, pictured in action today, was born, educated and has come to the fore as a golfer in the land of her birth.
She was roughly eight or nine under par in scoring victories by 2 and 1 over French Junior Vagliano Trophy player Agathe Laisne and 3 and 2 over Surrey-born Martha Lewis (St George's Hill), whose parents come from Kilmacolm and Bishoptopn.
Fiona, who will enrol at Baylor University, Texas next August, now plays Dimana Viudes Emilova (Spain) tomorrow morning for a place in the quarter-finals.
Top seed Frida Kinhult, a 15-year-old from Sweden attempting to emulate her older brother Marcus who won the Lytham Trophy this year, marches on but No 2 seed, Scot Hazel MacGarvie (Troon Ladies) bowed out in the early evening, beaten by one hole by Chloe Salort (France).
"I was three down after 13, having had a sticky patch in the middle of the round," said 15-year-old Hazel who will remember his nine-under-par opening qualifying round of 64 for the rest of her lie.
"Then I won the 14th and 15th to be one down with three to play. We halved them all. My figures overall were quite good."
Ireland's great hope, Olivia Mehaffey, the GB and I Vagliano Trophy player from Royal County Ladies, won on the 18th green in the morning when her opponent three-putted but there was no escape for in the afternoon
She lost by 4 and 2 to a French player, Eva Gilly.
Ana Pelaez, the No 7 seed from Spain, scored two good wins. This championship is the last in which Ping Junior Solheim Cup qualifying points are at stake and Ana leads the table following an impressive win in an Annika Sorenstam tournament last week.
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