CURTIS CUP GOLF OVERNIGHTER

OVERNIGHT GOLF COPY FOR

PRESS ASSOCIATION 04.30

 

Credit DAVID BEGG SPORTS

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Great Britain & Ireland need to win Sunday's final session of singles by at least a 6-2 margin if they are to prise the Curtis Cup out of the grasp of United States for the first time since Killarney was the venue in 1996.

This is the 35^th staging of the biennial women's amateur golf international and the first to be stretched from the traditional two to three days and also the first to be played over the Old Course, St Andrews.

The Americans started the second day with a 4-2 lead and extended that advantage to 7 ½ to 4 ½ by sharing the foursomes 1 ½-1 ½ and then taking the Saturday afternoon four-s ball ties 2-1.

Sally Watson, 16, has been the most successful of the seven Curtis Cup debutantes in the GB&I team.

She has won three out of four games.

The outstanding player in a very talented American team is Stacy Lewis with four wins out of four.

In the final set of singles, Sally Watson from Edinburgh, a resident student at the David Leadbetter Golf Academy in Bradenton, Florida, will play the Irish-born Alison Walshe who has won all three of her ties.

The final singles programme is (GB&I players first):

10.9 Breanne Loucks (Wrexham) v Kimberley Kim.

10.10 Jodi Ewart (Catterick) v Amanda Blumenherst.

10.20 L

 

iz Bennett (Brokenhurst Manor) v Stacy Lewis.

10.30 Carly Booth (Comrie) v Tiffany Joh.

10.40 Michele Thomson (McDonald Ellon) v Jennie Lee.

10.50 Florentyna Parker (Royal Birkdale) v Meghan Bolger.

11.00 Krystle Caithness (St Regulus) v Mina Harigae.

11.10 Sally Watson (Elie & Earlsferry Ladies) v Alison Walshe.

 

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