Championships - Girls' British Open Amateur Championship 2010
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Number 1 Seed - Julie Yang
11.08.2010
Yang through to last 16 in Belfast
Top seed Julie Yang is through to the last 16 of the Girls’ British open amateur championship at Royal Belfast Golf Club. British women’s open amateur champion Kelly Tidy’s dream of becoming only the third player in LGU history to complete the British girls-women’s title double is over.These two statements are linked because it was the 15-year-old South Korean, who has lived at Musselburgh near Edinburgh since last September, who beat the Lancashire lass from Bolton by one hole in today’s second round.
Kelly missed last year’s girls’ championship after losing in the finals of 2007 and 2008. If any match deserved the description of the “final before the final,” this was it. It turned out to be a classic match-play encounter with Yang going four up at one stage and then Kelly coming with a grandstand finish that only just failed to make up the leeway.
“I’m disappointed that the big double is not going to happen for
me. But, at the same time, I’m pleased that I was able to get Julie ‘rocking.’ I was four down with four to play and then won the 15th, the 16th (with a birdie) and the 17th to be only one down on the 18th tee,” said Tidy who will be playing in her second Junior Ryder Cup match at Gleneagles in the autumn. She is also a Junior Solheim Cup player.
“Julie was feeling the pressure. She sliced her last drive into the rough and was only able to hack it 30 yards up the fairway. So she took four shots to get on at this par-5 hole. I took three and couldn’t hole the putt for a birdie 4 but still had a chance to take the match up the 19th if Julie missed her par putt from about 8ft.
“But Julie is a class player and she holed it for the half she needed to win the match. It was a great game. If I had won it, I’m pretty sure I would have gone on to win the championship – as I think Julie will.”
The previous day, Yang had said that she would play match-play the same way as she plays stroke play – try her best on every shot and ignore what her opponent was doing.
But Julie admitted after the Tidy match that was easier said than done.
“I learned a lot about match-play from this game against Kelly. It is not easy just to play the course. I didn’t stay focused as I said I would. I got too interested in what Kelly was doing. She’s a great match-player. Anybody who wins the British women’s title has to be. I bogeyed two of the last three holes and she birdied the 17th . I would say that I was about level par for the match, having birdied the eighth and 12th.”
The only two British or Irish players in the round of the last 16 are the 15-year-old Maguire twins, Leona and Lisa, from the Slieve Russell club – and they could meet in tomorrow afternoon’s quarter-finals if they win their third-round morning matches. There’s not much that separates the identical twins, Curtis Cup record-makers – the youngest ever to represent GB and I when this year’s match was played at Essex County Club in June – and there standard of scoring was also just about the same in their second-round victories.
Leona had four birdies and was about two under par in winning by two holes against another 15-year-old, Woburn’s Lauren Taylor.
Lisa had three birdies and was roughly two under par in winning by 3 and 2 against Sweden’s Emelie Lundstrom.
Leona was one down after two holes but then three out of four holes from the third to the sixth, including birdies at the third and fifth to turn a one-hole deficit into a two-hole lead.
Lauren hung on with a win at the eighth but lost the 10th to a birdie to fall two down again. Leona won the 12th to go three up but Taylor birdied the 13th to cut her deficit to two holes. When Maguire three-putted to lose the 15th, she was only one hole to the good but the 16th and 17th were halved before Leona clinched a two-hole victory by birdieing the last.
Lisa birdied the second and fourth while Emelie Lundstorm birdied the third in a quality start to their tie. The Swedish player conceded the fifth to fall two down but immediately hit back to win the sixth. Lisa went two up with a par at the eighth but lost the 10th to a birdie.
Maguire won the 12th and 13th with pars to go two up, lost the 14th to a par but then re-established a three-hole lead with a par at the 15th. A half in birdies at the long 16th ended the contest. The Maguires are not the only sisters in the last 16.
Germany’s Victoria (17) and Antonia (16) Scherer are both through with Antonia being Leona Maguire’s third-round opponent. Victoria plays Spain’s Andrea Vilarasau for a place in the quarter-finals.
English women’s champion Hayley Davis (Ferndown), beaten in the quarter-finals of the British girls championship last year by the eventual champion, Perrine Delacour, lost by 3 and 2 to Spain’s Camilla Hedberg who is Lisa Maguire’s opponent tomorrow morning.
Delacour lost in the second round by 2 and 1 to former Scottish Under-16 girls open champion Laura Sedda from Italy.
Elizabeth Mallett (Sutton Coldfield), beaten by Delacour in last year’s final, lost in the morning first round to Hayley Davis.
The last English player to go out was Heidi Baek (Felixstowe Ferry) who missed a putt to win on the 18th green against Ha Rang Lee (Spain) and went on to lose at the 20th.
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2010 QUALIFYING PRIZEWINNERS
TEAM AWARD – FRANCE 291
Celine Boutier
Perrine Delacour
Alexandra Bonetti
LOWEST 18-HOLE SCORE IN ROUND 1
Alexandra Bonetti 68 (-2)
LOWEST 18-HOLE SCORE IN ROUND 2
Ivon Reijers-Navas 69 (-1)
LEADING QUALIFIER / LADY HEATHCOAT MEDAL
Julie Yang 141 (+1)
LOWEST UNDER-16 / TODD BOWL
Julie Yang 141 (+1).
LOWEST UNDER-14
Charlotte Puts 161
QUARTER-FINALISTS ….. to be decided.
SEMI-FINALS …………… to be decided.
RUNNER-UP ………………. to be decided.
WINNER …………………… to be decided
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