Championships - Girls' International Matches / Bangor GC (N. Ireland) 2010
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06.08.2010
Rampant England wins Stroyan Cup for the third year in a row .
England showed no mercy in beating Wales 9-0 to keep the Stroyan Cup with a third successive title win in the Girls’ Home International Matches at Bangor Golf Club, Northern Ireland. They won all three of their matches in impressive style with a young squad.Scotland claimed the Swansea Spoon as runners-up for the second year in a row. They beat Ireland 5 1/2-3 1/2 to finish with two wins to their credit.
English Women’s Champion Hayley Davis beat Amy Boulden by 2 and 1 in the lead-off singles tie to advance their lunchtime lead to 4-0. All square after 10, Davis won the 12th and 13 but lost the 15th to be one up with three to play. The 16th was halved in birdie 4s before Boulden conceded the hole and the match at the 17th.
Alexandra Peters made it 5-0 for England with a 7 and 5 victory over Kelly Miller. From one up after five holes, Alexandra won the sixth, seventh, eighth, 11th, 12th and 14th for an impressive win. Kelly won only one hole – the fifth – and she had to birdie it to do so.
England’s march to the title continued with a last-green win by Elizabeth Mallett over Katie Bradbury. This was one of the tightest ties in the England-Wales match and they were still all square after Bradbury won the 16th. Mallett responded by winning the short 17th and a half in 4s at the last gave her a one-hole win.
Lauren Taylor had a 4 and 3 win over Rachel Lewis after being five up at the turn. The Welsh girl scored her first success, with a birdie, at the fifth but Taylor resumed a five-hole lead by winning the 11th. Lewis won the 14th but had run out of holes. A half at the 15th ended the contest.
Emily Taylor made it 8-0 for England with a 3 and 2 win over Chloe Williams after being one down for most of the outward journey. Taylor won the 10th to square the match, the 11th to go one up and the 13th for a two-hole lead. The short 14th was halved in birdie 2s before Emily won the 16th to clinch her success.
Young Bronte Law rang down the curtain on England’s 9-0 victory by holing a 10ft downhill birdie putt on the 18th to beat Sara Rees-Evans by one hole. Law had been one or two holes up for most of the journey but lost the 16th and 17th to be pulled back to all square for the first time since the 10th.
England’s top points earner over the three days was Lauren Taylor with four wins and a halved match out of five appearances. Heidi Baek, Hayley Davis, Elizabeth Mallett, Alexandra Peters and Emily Taylor all scored 4pts, underlining the strength in depth of the talented England line-up.
Scotland’s Rachael Watton won the top singles in the match against Ireland, beating Emma O’Driscoll by 3 and 2. Rachael had the better of the outward half but lost a two-hole lead and was all square after 10. The Scot then won the 11th, 12th, 13th and 14th to surge four up. O’Driscoll stopped the slide by winning the 15th but a half at the next ended the match
Scottish Girls Champion, Lesley Atkins recovered her form with a 4 and 3 win over Jessica Carty. Lesley was three up at the turn with a sub-par outward half. She went four up at the 11th but lost the 14th before finishing off the match by winning the 15th.
The last few matches had the worst of the day’s weather, lashing rain at times.
Hannah McCook ended her match more quickly than most. She did not lose a hole in registering a 7 and 5 win over Laura McCarthy. Hannah won the third, fourth, fifth and seventh to be four up at the turn. She added the 10th, 11th and 13th to her success story to end the match with a concession by the Irish player at the 13th.
Ireland got their first singles point when Laura Grant beat Alyson McKechin on the last green. There was never more than a hole in it either way but the Scot seemed to have the edge when she won the 16th to go one up. But Grant won the short 17th with a par 3 to square the match and then took the last as well on a concession for a come-from-behind victory.
Ireland got another win, this time by two holes from Sarah Helly over Gabrielle MacDonald. Helly won the fourth, fifth and sixth to be three up and was still three up after 11. MacDonald hit back with wins at the 13th and 14th but then lost the 15th to slip two down again with three to play. After a half at the 16th, the Scot kept her hopes alive of salvaging a square game by winning the short 17th but she eventually conceded the 18th to go down by two holes to Helly. That left Scotland leading 4 ½-3 ½ with only the Ailsa Summers v Anna Courtney tie to finish. Ailsa was twice three up, the second time after 10 holes. But Anna mounted a great fightback to win the 12th, the 15th and the 16th to be all square with two to play. Summers rallied to edge ahead again with a 3 at the short 17th and she clinched a two-hole victory with a par 4 at the 18th.
Day 3 - Foursomes
England, the only team with a 100 per cent record after two days and took a big step towards completing a hat-trick of title wins in the Girls’ Home International Matches when they made a 3-0 clean sweep of the morning foursomes on the final day at Bangor Golf Club, Northern Ireland.
Scotland and Ireland were level at 1 1/2pt each at lunchtime in the other match.
Alexandra Peters and Elizabeth Mallett put the first points of Day 3 on the board for England with a 5 and 3 win over Amy Boulden and India Friswell.
The English pair won the second, fourth and sixth to take a three-hole grip on the match. Amy – celebrating her 17th birthday – and India stopped the slide temporarily by winning the eighth but Alexandra and Elizabeth quickly resumed their commanding position by winning the ninth, 10th and 11th for a five-hole lead, going on to win 5 and 3.
England went 2-0 ahead with a two-hole win in the top foursomes by Hayley Davis and Georgia Hall over Chloe Williams and Sara Rees-Evans. Hayley and Georgia won the long 10th to square the match and, after four successive halves, the England pair went one up with a par 4 at the 15th. Back bounced the Welsh pair to square the match at the long 16th but Davis and Hall finished the stronger, winning the short 17th with a chip-in 2 and the last when Williams and Rees-Evans took three putts up the sloping green.
England completed a clean sweep of the morning foursomes with a 2 and 1 win by Heidi Baek and Emily Taylor over Katie Bradbury and Rachel Lewis. The English pair won the first two holes but the Welsh countered by winning three in a row from the third. Then Heidi and Emily took the seventh and eighth to go one up. The give and take continued with Wales winning the ninth but losing the 11th to go back to one down.
Baek and Taylor went two up at the 15th but lost the 16th before finishing the match with a birdie 2 at the short 17th.
Ireland took the first foursomes tie comfortably with Emma O’Driscoll and Laura Grant winning by 5 and 4 against Eilidh Briggs and Rachael Watton. The Irish pair were two up after seven holes and doubled that lead with further successes at the 10th, which they birdied, and the 11th. O’Driscoll and Grant won the 14th to end the match.
Scotland levelled matters at 1-1 when Hannah McCook and Gabrielle MacDonald beat Laura McCarthy and Amy Farrell – whose 18th birthday it is – on the 18th green.
The Irish won the first and third but were pulled back to square at the ninth. The Scots went two up with successes at the 12th and 13th but lost the 14th . A birdie 4 at the long 16th by McCarthy and Farrell squared the match for a third time since the ninth but
McCook and MacDonald won the 17th with a par 3 and halved the last for a one-hole victory.
Scotland’s Alyson McKechin and Rachael Taylor were three up after seven against Paula Grant and Jessica Carty but were pulled back to a one-hole lead at the 10th. The Scots went two up against by winning the 11th but they could not shake off their opponents who won the 14th to cut their deficit to one hole. McKechin and Taylor won the 15th to be two up once again but the Irish finished strongly to gain a square match.
Grant and Carty won the 17th with a par and the 18th with a birdie 3
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