Wednesday, October 18, 2006

Women's world amateur team championship

SCOTLAND SHARE 27TH PLACE AT END
OF FIRST ROUND IN SOUTH AFRICA

By Pete Kowalski (International Golf Federation Press Officer)
With additional words by Colin Farquharson (colin@scottishgolfview.com)

Scotland – represented by Heather MacRae (Dunblane), Krystle Caithness (St Regulus) and Jenna Wilson (Strathaven) – are joint 27th in a field of 42 nations at the end of the first day of the women’s world amateur team championship for the Espirito Santo Trophy at Stellenbosch, South Africa.
The Scots, captained by former Curtis Cup player Alison Davidson from Stirling, totalled 153 under the best-two-from-three-scores to count daily format.
Heather had a four-over-par 76 to be in joint 54th place individually. Krystle and Jenna both had 77s to be sharing 66th place.
Scotland’s first-round total was 153, which put them 16 shots behind the leading Japan team for whom 16-year-old Rikako Morita had the best individual score of seven-under-par 65.
Japan lead by two strokes from defending champions Sweden, South Africa and Chinese Taipei, all on the 139 mark.
Rikako Morita broke the record for lowest individual first-round score in Espirito Santo Trophy history. The second-year high school student from Kyoto had an eagle, six birdies and a bogey in her round.
This is the first time since the early days of the women's world amateur team championship that all four home countries have entered their own teams. Traditionally, the Ladies Golf Union selected a Great Britain & Ireland team to compete in the championship
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TEAM SCOREBOARD
FIRST ROUND
137 Japan
139 Sweden, South Africa, Chinese Taipei.
141 Germany.
142 Canada.
143 Australia.
144 United States.
145 Korea, Spain, England.
146 New Zealand, France.
147 Colombia.
148 Italy.
149 Netherlands, Finland, Czech Republic.
150 Russian Federation, Wales, Chile, Venezuela.
151 Mexico, Austria, Belgium.
152 Ireland.
153 Scotland, Argentina.
154 Iceland, Brazil.
155 Norway, Phillipines.
157 Puerto Rico.
160 Bermuda.
162 Guatemala.
163 Switzerland.
164 Trinidad & Tobago, Egypt.
168 Slovakia.
175 Croatia.
176 Zambia.
191 Gabon.
LEADING INDIVIDUALS
Par 70
65 Rikako Morita (Jap).
66 Pei-Lin Yu (Chinese Taipei).
68 Anna Nordqvist (Sweden).
69 Emma Bennett (Australia), Sandra Gall (Germany), Ashleigh Simon (South Africa).
70 Laura Matthews (Canada), Kelly Shean (South Africa).
Other scores:
71 Belen Mozo (Spa) (jt 9th).
72 Sophie Walker (Eng) (jt 13th).
73 Sahra Hassan (Wal), Kerry Smith (Eng) (jt 20th).
75 Martina Gillen (Ire), Melissa Reid (Eng) (46th).
76 Heather MacRae (Sco) (jt 54th).
77 Krystle Caithness (Sco), Breanne Loucks (Wal), Tricia Mangan (Ire), Jenna Wilson (Sco) (jt 66th).
78 Tara Davies (Wal) (jt 79th).
81 Claire Coughlan (Ire) (jt 94th).
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