Women's world amateur team championship Day 3

KRYSTLE GETS SCOTLAND'S ONLY
BIRDIES IN SOUTH AFRICA

FROM COLIN FARQUHARSON

Scotland go into the fourth and final round of the women’s world amateur team golf championship for the Espirito Santo Trophy in joint 19th place in a field of 42 nations at Stellenbosch, South Africa.
The Scots had a team score of six-over-par 150 on the third day with a 74 from Krystle Caithness (St Regulus) and a pair of 76s from Jenna Wilson (Strathaven) and Heather MacRae (Dunblane New) - only one of which counted, of course.
Krystle, pictured right, birdied two short holes, the seventh and 15th, on the Stellenbosch course but bogeyed the sixth, eighth, 10th and 13th.
Jenna and Heather could not muster a single birdie between them.
Jenna is the best-placed Scot in the individual rankings, sharing 41st place on six-over-par 222. Heather is joint 47th on 224 while Krystle is 74th equal of 229.
Stacy Bergman, who played well in the British women’s open amateur championship at Royal County Down in June, fired a three-under-par 69 to give South Africa a four-stroke lead after 54 holes.
Sweden leapfrogged Japan, France, England and Germany into second place with a seven-birdie 66 from Caroline Westrup while teammate Anna Nordqvist, the former British girls’ open champion, shot 72.
Rikako Morita, the 16-year-old Japanese schoolgirl, continues to set the pace. She had a 70 for nine-under-par 207 – three shots ahead of Pei-lin Yu from Chinese Taipei who had a 71.
England’s Kerry Smith is the highest-placed British and Irish player in joint ninth place on 214 after a 72.
This is the first time that Scotland, England, Ireland and Wales have been able to send their own teams of three to the women’s world amateur team championship since the early days of the Espirito Santo Trophy in the 1960s. The Ladies Golf Union, traditionally, selected three players to represent Great Britain & Ireland.

THIRD ROUND TEAM TOTALS
418 South Africa.
422 Sweden.
423 Germany.
424 France.
426 Japan.
428 United States.
429 England, Spain, New Zealand, Chinese Taipei.
431 Colombia, Netherlands.
434 Italy.
435 Korea, Austria.
436 Australia.
441 Canada, Russian Federation.
444 Scotland, Czech Republic.
445 Mexico, Chile.
447 Ireland.
Other totals:
448 Belgium.450 Finland.451 Wales.452 Brazil, Venezuela. 455 Philippines.456 Argentina.458 Bermuda 460 Norway 463 Iceland 472 Switzerland 476 Guatemala 478 Puerto Rico 485 Egypt 496 Trinidad & Tobago 496 Slovakia 518 Zambia 527 Croatia 576 Gabon.

LEADING THIRD-ROUND
INDIVIDUAL TOTALS
Par 72
207 R Morita (Jap) 65 72 70.
210 Pei-lin Yu (Chi Tai) 66 73 71.
211 M Bourdy (Fra) 74 69 68, K Shean (SAf) 70 689 72, A Simon (SAf) 69 69 73, C Westrup (Swe) 72 73 66.
212 A Nordqvist (Swe) 68 72 72.
213 K Schallenberg (Ger) 73 68 72.
214 A Blumenhirst (US) 71 71 72, C Masson (Ger) 72 71 71, A Munoz (Spa) 74 72 68, A Rossi (Ita) 71 73 70, K Smith (Eng) 72 69 72.
Other scores:
215 S Walker (Eng) 72 70 73 (jt 14th).
222 J Wilson (Sco) 77 69 76 (jt 41st).
224 M Gillen (Ire) 75 75 74, H MacRae (Sco) 76 72 76 (jt 47th).
225 M Reid (Eng) 75 74 76 (jt 56th).
227 C Coughlan (Ire) 81 74 72, B Loucks (Wal) 77 75 75 (jt 66th).
229 K Caithness (Sco) 77 78 74, T Davies (Wal) 78 73 78, S Hassan (Wal) 73 78 78 (jt 74th).
239 T Mangan (Ire) 77 769 83 (100th).