SALLY WATSON STARTS

WITH A 75 IN KATHY
WHITWORTH TOURNEY

British girls championship runner-up Sally Watson from South Queensferry had a three-over-par 75 in the first round of the prestigious Kathy Whitworth Invitational girls’ tournament at Mira Vista Golf Club, Fort Worth in Texas.
Scotland women’s international team player Miss Watson, a 15-year-old student at the IMG David Leadbetter Golf Academy at Bradenton, Florida, was lying 16th , five shots behind the leader, Hawaiian youngster Kimberly Kim who, at the age of 14, was the youngest ever winner of the United States women’s championship last year.
Sally, pictured left, flies back to Britain immediately the Texas tournament is over so that she can take part in the Ladies Golf Union Elite squad matches against the Cheshire and Lancashire men’s county squads this weekend.

Match-play form in these weekend matches will play a big part in the later selection of the Great Britain & Ireland team for the Vagliano Trophy match against the Continent of Europe at Fairmont St Andrews (formerly St Andrews Bay) on July 27 and 28.
Kathy Whitworth scored 88 career wins, six of them majors, during her years as an LPGA player.