JANE NOT SO PLAIN AS SHE WINS BY FIVE IN MOROCCO

Jane Turner leads all the way to win Tour Pre-Q "A" by five shots in Morocco
by Colin Farquharson

West Linton's Jane Turner, 26, led from start to finish to win the Ladies European Tour Q School Pre-Qualifier A 72-hole tournament at Mohammedia Golf Club, Morocco today.
Jane had rounds of 65, 73, 72 and 74 for a four-under-par aggregate of 284. She finished five shots clear of a field of 64 players.
Runner-up was former Curtis Cup amateur Chloe Williams from Wrexham. She fought back after an opening round of 81 with scores of 70, 70 and 69 for a total of 289.
French players Julie Aime (73 for 290) and amateur Camille Chevalier (77 for 291) filled the third and fourth places in the final list.
The qualifying mark for the next stage - subject to confirmation - was 23-over-par 307 and better.
Scot Gabrielle Macdonald, an amateur who has won her national title, missed out by three shots with rounds of 78, 80, 74 and 81 for 313. She finished 35th.
The other Scot in the field, Rachael McQueen failed by a wider margin with rounds of 85, 81, 73 and 81 for a share of 53rd place on 320.
There are three more Pre-Qualifying eliminators beffore the LET Final Q School at Marrakech's Amelkis and Samanah courses from December 17 to 21.

FINAL TOTALS IN PRE-QUALIFIER A
par 288 (4x72)
284 J Turner (Sco) 65 73 71 74
289 C Williams (Wal) 81 70 70 69
290 J Aime (Fra) 74 71 72 73
291 C Chevalier (Fra) (am) 73 75 66 77

SELECTED TOTALS
292 L Goddard (Eng) 74 71 72 75, B Popel (Eng) (am) 71 74 72 75 (T5)
294 I Mehmet (Eng) (am) 73 71 78 72 (T9)
297 C Frankish (Eng) (am) 74 71 72 75 (T13).
302 E Mallett (Eng) (am) 74 79 75 74 (T20)
307 A Ratcliffe (Eng) 72 78 79 78 (T24)
310 T Boyes (Eng) 74 77 77 81 (T28)

DID NOT QUALIFY
313 G MacDonald (Sco) 78 80 74 81 (35th)
314 R Woodcock (Eng) 80 74 76 84, C Austwick (Eng) 80 80 79 75 (T56)
318 S Powell (Eng) 77 80 81 80 (T47)
320 R McQueen (Sco) 85 81 73 81 (T53)
322 M Nicol (Eng) 80 82 82 78 (56th)
326 K Bates (Eng) (am) 83 86 80 77 (58th)
328 S Keech (Eng) 81 89 78 80 (T60)
334 V Craig (NIre) 84 88 83 79 (63rd).