LAURA JUST FAILS BUT VIKKI GAINS LET Q SCHOOL PASS MARKS

Laura Murray signed off with her third one-under-par 71 in the five rounds of the Ladies European Tour Qualifying School Final Stage at Marrakech, Morocco but the Aberdeen-born 29-year-old Kippie Lodge Sports Club player's aggregate of three-under 357 failed to give Laura the top 25 finish that would have earned her a regular place in the 2018 LET events.

Murray, who grew up at Alford, finished joint 30th, one stroke too many to be involved in a six-player play-off for the last two places among the 25.
Laura will be rueing her second-round 77 which gave her too much ground to make up.

Edinburgh's Vikki Laing, at 36 a pro for 14 years and the oldest competitor at the Tour School, earned a comeback to the LET circuit with a joint ninth place finish on 352, a closing 69 sealing her return.

Said Vikki, who played for GB&I in the 2002 Curtis Cup match:
"I'm happy with the week's performance. I was hoping to get into the top five to give myself better status but I know I’ll have some starts next year. I am just happy to have hit a bit of form - albeit a little late in the year but I’ll take those thoughts into next year and hopefully get off to a quick start in the events I can get into."

Casey Donaldson from Wisconsin and a gratudate of Stanford University, California where she credits coach Kathryn Imrie from Monifieth with giving her a swing that would stand up tournament pressure, won a play-off at the first hole against Carmen Alonso (Spain) and French amateur Manon Molle who also finished with 14-under-par totals.

Donaldson's play-off victory earned her No 1 status and guaranteed her as many LET outings as she wants next year.

LADIES EUROPEAN TOUR QUALIFYING SCHOOL FINAL STAGE
Marrakech, Morocco
LEADING FINAL TOTALS
par 360
346 C Donaldson (USA) 67 66 71 72 70; C Alonso (Spain) 70 74 69 68 65; M Molle (Fra) (am) 68 71 70 69 68.
350 G Cowley (Eng) 74 67 70 72 67.

SCOTS' TOTALS
352 V Laing 73 69 71 70 69 (T9)
357 L Murray 71 77 71 67 71 (T30).

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