Harder Hall Women's Invitational at Sebring, Florida

Sammy Fuller finishes T18 in Championship, 

Inci Mehmet wins First Flight by five

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With temperatures in the 80s after the sun broke out, Ohio State University student Jessica Porvasnik birdied the final four holes to shoot a 3-under 69 and finish a comfortable winner of the 61^st Harder Hall Invitational Harder Hall Golf and Country Club, Sebring, Florida.

Jessica's earlier rounds were 73, 68 and 74. Her four-under-par aggregate of 284 was the only sub-par total of the tournament and she won by four shots ftrom fellow Americans Lori Beth Adams and Kelly Grassel.

Young Samantha (Sammy) Fuller from the Roehampton Club, London finished tied 18th in the championship flight with a total of 12-over-par 300. She had scores of 78, 75, 73 and 74.

Curtis Cup team contender Inci Mehmet (Royal Mid Surrey) won the First Flight title by five strokes, also with a final total of 300. It was her opening round of 81 that cost her a place in the Championship Flight but her subsequent scores of 75, 72 and 72 showed her class. 

Inci had four birdies in her final round halves of 37 and 35 - at the second, short 16th, par-5 17th and par-4 18th.

American Latanna Stone was runner-up in the First Flight with scores of 87, 74 73 and 71 for 305.

Scot Lauren Whyte, a member of the St Regulus Club, St Andrews and a student at Baylor University, Texas, finished fourth in the First Flight with a total of 309, made up of scores of 75, 82, 74 and 74.

Sammy Fuller's 13-year-old sister Annabel filled sixth place in the First Flight withi scores of 80, 80, 76 and 77 for 313.

In the Forever Forty-Nine Division, Diane Lang took victory with a final round of 76 and a 72 hole total of 317, one stroke better than Janice Roberts Wilson.

HARDER HALL WOMEN'S INVITATIONAL

Harder Hall Golf and Country Club, Sebring, Florida.

LEADING FINAL TOTALS

CHAMPIONSHIP FLIGHT

Par 288 (4x72) Players from USA unless stated

284 Jessica Porvasnik 73 68 74 69

288 Lori Beth Adams 75 71 70 72, Kelly Grassel 76 69 72 71

289 Alex Wright 70 75 72 72

SELECTED TOTALS

295 Meghan Stasi 77 73 72 73 (T12)

300 Sammy Fuller (Eng) 78 75 73 74 (T17)

FIRST FLIGHT

300 Inci Mehmet (Eng) 81 75 72 72 (winner)

305 Latanna Stone 87 74 73 71 (2nd)

SELECTED TOTALS

309 Lauren Whyte (Sco) 75 82 78 74 (4th in First Flight)

313 Annabel Fuller (Eng) 80 80 76 77 (6th in First Flight)

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