TOUGH FOR BRITISH GIRLS
IN JUNIOR ORANGE BOWL
British girl competitors in the Junior Orange Bowl championship over the Biltmore course at Coral Gables, Florida found the going tough in the first round over the 6,299yd, par-72 course.
Daily Telegraph national girls champion Sally Watson fared the best with a four-over-par round of 76 - five shots behind American leader Lindy Duncan.
The 15-year-old South Queensferry girl, a student at the David Leadbetter Golf Academy at Bradenton, Florida, bogeyed the second and sixth, birdied the short eighth but dropped shots again at the 11th,16th and 17th in halves of 36 and 40.
Professional's daughter Florentyna Parker, whose brother Ben won the boys' title 12 months ago, finished with a 77. She made a bright start with a birdie at the long first but then ran up a triple bogey 6 at the short second.
Miss Parker birdied the fourth before dropping shots at the seventh and 10th. She grabbed her third birdie of the round at the 13th but bogeyed the 14th and then had a double-bogey 6 at the 17th. Her halves were 37 and 40 from the girls' tees (Par 72, 6,299yd).
STEPHANIE HAS A 78
Irish girl champion Stephanie Meadow from Antrim, a student at the International Golf Academy at Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, finished with a 78 after having two double bogeys and two birdies on her card.
Stephanie had a double bogey 5 at the short second and dropped further shots at the seventh and ninth before double-goeying the par-4 10th.
Then came her bright spots, a birdie 4 at the long 13th and a birdie 2 at the short 14th. Stephanie bogeyed two of the last four holes, the 15th and 18th for halves of 39.
Roseanne Niven, the Scottish Under-18 girls' champion from Crieff and Rachel Connor from Oldham were sharing 31st place on 83.
Roseanne started with a double-bogey 7. She did birdie the fourth but then had seven successive bogeys from the fifth to the 11th.
Out in 41, Roseanne had a double-bogey 5 at the short fifth before birdieing the 13th and bogeying the 14th. She had one more bogey, at the 17th in coming home in 42.
RACHEL ROUND IN 83
Scots-born Manchester club professional's daughter Rachel Connor, runner-up behind Carly Booth in the Scottish Under-16 girls' open stroke-play championship at Strathtyrum in the spring, dropped shots at the first, third, fifth, sixth and seventh in reaching the turn in 40. Things didn't get any better - no birdies but bogeys at the 12th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th and 18th for an inward 43.
The boys' championship leader was Peter Ulhlein from Bradenton, Florida with a six-under-par 65.
England's Sam Hutsby (35-39) and Darren Renwick (37-37) and Rhys Enoch from Wales (39-35) were lying joint 13th on three-over-par 74 for the 6,766yd course.
Another English representative, Luke Goddard, was sharing 39th place on 78.

BOYS' SCOREBOARD
Par 71
Competitors from US unless stated.
65 Peter Ulhlein.
67 Morgan Hoffman.
70 Louis Amara, David Chung, Andrea Pavan (Ita).
Other scores:
74 Sam Hutsby (Eng), Rhys Enoch (Wal), Darren Renwick (Eng) (jt 13th).
76 Sean Einhaus (Ger) (jt 28th).
78 Luke Goddard (Eng) (jt 39th).

GIRLS SCOREBOARD
Par 72
71 Lindy Duncan.
72 Laura Gonzalez-Escallon (Bel), Jessica Korda (Czech).
74 Alejandra Bodemann, Isabella Lendl, Alejandra Llaneza (Mex), Lisa McCloskey, Jennifer Song.
75 Theresa Koelbaek (Den), Maude-Aimee LeBlanc (Can).
76 Vicky Hurst, Charlotte Lorentzen (Den), Sally Watson (Sco), Maria Jose Uribe (Col).
Other scores:
77 Florentyna Parker (Eng) (jt 15th).
78 Stephanie Meadow (NIr) (jt 19th).
83 Rachel Connor (Eng), R Niven (Sco) (jt 31st).