Women's World Amateur Team Championship Day 2

JENNA WILSON (69), HEATHER MACRAE
(72) GET SCOTS MOVING UP TABLE


FROM COLIN FARQUHARSON

Scotland improved nine places to joint 18th in the field of 42 on the back of a super 69 by Jenna Wilson from Strathaven in the second round of the women’s world amateur team golf championship for the Espirito Santo Trophy in South Africa today.
Playing over the 6,080yd, par-72 Zalze Golf Club course, Jenna, pictured right, was able to improve by eight shots on the 77 she had in the first round over the marginally longer Stellenbosch club course.
Curtis Cup reserve Heather MacRae from Dunblane New was Scotland’s other second-round counter with a par 72, also at Zalze, four shots better than she managed at Stellenbosch.
Scottish Under-21 title-holder Krystle Caithness (St Regulus), also a Curtis Cup reserve, had Scotland’s non-counting score – a 78 - under the best two from three daily format.
Krystle, just 17 years old, was heading for a great score when she was two under par after 11 holes, having birdied the first, fourth and seventh and dropped only one shot, at the fifth.
Then the Fifer from Cellardyke shed eight shots over a nightmare last seven holes. Krystle bogeyed the 12th and 14th before running up a disastrous triple bogey 7 at the 15th.
Another bogey went on her card at the 17th before the final blow of a double-bogey 6 at the 18th, giving her sadly-contrasting halves of two-under-par 34 and eight-over-par 44.
Jenna Wilson conquered the De Zalze inward nine that floored team-mate Krystle. Jenna was out in one-under 35 with birdies at the first, third and fifth and bogeys at the fourth and seventh.
Then Jenna eliminated all the mistakes from her game with seven pars and birdies at the 17th and 18th for two-under 34 home and a 69.
Miss Wilson improved from joint 66th to joint 29th at the end of the second day.
Heather MacRae also turned in one-under-par 35 at De Zalze with birdies at the third and eighth and a bogey at the 17th. She almost held on to a sub-par score with a birdie at the 13th but bogeys at the 12th and 16th for an inward 37 and a par-matching 72 which put her in a share of 38th spot, an improvement of 16 places.
Host nation South Africa have taken up the running with a total of 277 – three shots clear of Germany with the toppled overnight leaders Japan in third place on 281.
England are in joint fifth place on 284; Scotland joint 18th on 294; Wales 21st on 298 and Ireland sharing 24th place on 301.
England’s Kerry Smith (Waterlooville) (73-69) and Sophie Walker (Kenwick Park) (72-70)– both of whom were overlooked for the Curtis Cup match in late July – are the leading British or Irish players in the individual standings in joint seventh place on 142 – five shots behind 16-year-old Japanese high school girl Rikako Morita (65-72).

HOW THEY STAND

SECOND-R0UND TEAM TOTALS

277 South Africa.
280 Germany.
281 Japan.
282 France.
284 England, Sweden (jt 5th).
286 Korea, Chinese Taipei, Australia.
288 Colombia.
289 Netherlands.
290 Canada, New Zealand, United States.
291 Spain.
292 Italy.
293 Austria.
294 Russian Federation, Scotland (jt 18th).
297 Venezuela.
298 Wales (21st).
299 Mexico, Czech Republic.
301 Chile, Ireland (jt 24th).
302 Belgium, Argentina.
303 Finland, Phillipines.
304 Brazil.
305 Norway.
308 Iceland.
310 Bermuda.
319 Egypt.
320 Switzerland, Puerto Rico, Guatemala.
328 Trinidad & Tobago.
331 Slovakia.
343 Zambia.
349 Croatia.
378 Gabon.
LEADING INDIVIDUALS
Par 72
137 R Morita (Jap) 65 72.
138 A Simon (SAf) 69 69.
139 K Shean (SAf) 70 69, Pei-lin Yu (Chinese Taipei) 77 73.
140 A Nordqvist (Swe) 68 72.
141 K Schallenberg (Ger) 73 68.
142 A Blumenhirst (US) 71 71, M Boudry (Fra) 74 68, So Yeon Ryu (Kor) 72 70, K Smith (Eng) 73 69, S Walker (Eng) 72 70.
Other scores:
146 J Wilson (Sco) 77 69 (jt 29th).
148 H MacRae (Sco) 76 72 (jt 38th).
149 M Reid (Eng) 75 74 (jt 45th).
150 M Gillen (Ire) 75 75 (jt 49th).
151 T Davies (Wal) 78 73, S Hassan (Wal) 73 78 (jt 60th).
152 B Loucks (Wal) 77 75 (jt 65th).
155 K Caithness (Sco) 77 78, C Coughlan (Ire) 81 74 (jt 78th).
156 T Mangan (Ire) 77 79 (jt 87th).