CLARE QUEEN JT 22nd AT END OF
FIRST ROUND IN BMW LADIES
ITALIAN OPEN
Karen-Margrethe Juul, the Danish player who won the Helen Holm Scottish stroke-play title at Troon in 1998, had ever lowest ever score as a professional - an eight-under-par 64 - to lead the BMW Ladies Italian Open at the Sheraton Golf Parco de Medici course by two shots from South African rookie Stacy Bregman.
Almost unbelievably, Karen did not have a practice round. Like many players, she found the Italian airline strikes made getting to the tournament an achievement in itself. Some, like Lora Fairclough from Lancashire abandoned the struggle to get to the venue in time.
Miss Juul flew to Nice and then drove eight hours in a hired car, arriving at her hotel at 10.30pm on Tuesday night ... and she had an early starting time!
"Maybe I should prepare this way more often for tournaments," she joked. "To be honest, I had played the course before, so I knew what to expect."
Clare Queen shot a two-under-par 70 to be lying joint 22nd at the end of the day. Clare had a very steady round. Only one bogey - at the first - and then everything pars and birdies after that. She birdied the fifth, 16th and 17th. Also on the 70 mark is England's Kristy S Taylor.
Kathryn Imrie from Monifieth did not have a good day. She finished with a 77 for a share of 104th place. Kathryn had a double bogey 7 at the third and bogeys at the fourth, fifth and 15th. She had no birdies.
SCOREBOARD
Par 72

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May 23 - BWM Ladies Itailian Open
First round scores in the Ladies European Tour, BMW Ladies Italian Open, Sheraton Golf Parco de' Medici, Italy
(par 72)
64 Karen Margrethe Juul (Den)
66 Stacy Lee Bregman (SAf)
67 Louise Friberg (Swe), Rikke Rasmussen (Den), Rebecca Coakley (Ire)
68 Natalie Claire Booth (Eng), Johanna Westerberg (Swe), Federica Piovano (Ita), Virginie Lagoutte Clement (Fra), Nikki Garrett (Aus), Trish Johnson (Eng), Lotta Wahlin (Swe), Sarah Kemp (Aus), Beatriz Recari (Spa)
69 Lara Tadiotto (Bel), Amy Yang (Kor), Iben Tinning (Den), Becky Brewerton (Wal), Catrin Nilsmark (Swe), Anna Rossi (Ita), Maria Beautell (Spa)
70 Tania Elosegui (Spa), Bettina Hauert (Ger), Margherita Rigon (Ita), Kirsty S Taylor (Eng), Cassandra Kirkland (Fra), Tullia Calzavara (Ita), Clare Queen (Sco), Sophie Sandolo (Ita), Carmen Alonso (Spa)
71 Mette Buus (Den), Jade Schaeffer (Fra), Eva Steinberger (Aut), Marina Arruti (Spa), Danielle Masters (Eng), Diana Luna (Ita), Katharina Schallenberg (Am) (Ger), Samantha Head (Eng), Ludivine Kreutz (Fra), Sofia Renell (Swe), Sara Beautell (Spa)
72 Maria Boden (Swe), Virginie Auffret (Fra), Stefania Croce (Ita), Riikka Hakkarainen (Fin), Barbara Paruscio (Ita), Cherie Byrnes (Aus), Lisa Holm Sorensen (Den), Eleanor Pilgrim (Wal), Rebecca Hudson (Eng), Ellen Smets (Bel)
73 Maria Verchenova (Rus), Anna Tybring (Swe), Isabella Maconi (Ita), Rebecca Stevenson (Aus), Joanne Mills (Aus), Anna Temple (US), Sophie Giquel (Fra), Anna Rawson (Aus), Martina Eberl (Ger), Denise Simon (Ger), Bree Turnbull (Aus)
74 Marianna Causin (Am) (Ita), LeeAnne Pace (SAf), Nicole Gergely (Aut), Felicity Johnson (Eng), Kiran Matharu (Eng), Elisabeth Esterl (Ger), Jenni Kuosa (Fin), Georgina Simpson (Eng), Ursula Wikstrom (Fin), Mianne Bagger (Den), Liza Walters (Eng)
75 Claire Coughlan (Ire), Elisa Serramia (Spa), Laura Cabanillas (Spa), Laurette Maritz (Rsa), Lisa Hall (Eng), Nina Karlsson (Swe), Natascha Fink (Aut), Amanda MoltkeLeth (Den), Louise Stahle (Swe), Marta Prieto (Spa), Karen Lunn (Aus), Stephanie Arricau (Fra), Helena Alterby (Swe), Frederique Seeholzer (Swi), Leah Hart (Aus), Nienke Nijenhuis (Ned), Alessandra Averna (am) (Ita)
76 Itziar Elguezabal (Spa), Nathalie David Mila (Fra), Ana Larraneta (Spa), Marlene Hedblom (Swe), Asa Gottmo (Swe), Stefanie Michl (Aut), Lisa Jean (Aus), Anja Monke (Ger), Lynn Brooky (Nzl), Vittoria Valvassori (Am) (Ita), Jehanne Jail (Fra), HannaLeena Salonen (Fin), Sophie Walker (Eng)
77 Annamaria Milie (Ita), Katharina Werdinig (Aut), Kirsty Taylor (Eng), Veronica Zorzi (Ita), Paula Marti (Spa), Nora Angehrn (Swi), Kathryn Imrie (Sco), Jo Clingan (Eng)
78 Fany Schaeffer (Fra), Ana B Sanchez (Spa), Carlie Butler (Aus), Kris Lindstrom (US), Shani Waugh (Aus), Anna Roscio (Ita) (am).
79 Sarah Heath (Eng), Gwladys Nocera (Fra), Anna Knutsson (Swe)
80 Christine Hallstrom (Swe), Fame More (Eng), Lill Kristin Saether (Nor)
82 Anne Lise Caudal (Fra)
Ret: Cecilia Ekelundh (Swe), Elin Ohlsson (Swe)