Championships - Girls' British Open Amateur Championship 2009
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14.03.2009
England v France in this afternoon's British Girls' Final at West Lancs
Two 15-year-olds, Elizabeth Mallett from Sutton Coldfield and France’s Perrine Delacour from Ailette Golf Club, north of Reims, will meet in this afternoon’s 18-hole final of the British Girls’ Open Amateur Championship at West Lancashire Golf Club.In this morning’s semi-finals, Perrine beat the other surviving English 15-year-old, Alexandra Peters (Notts Ladies) by one3 hole while Elizabeth scored a tremendous win over 18-year-old French ace, Rosanne Crepiat, who plays for Europe in next week’s Junior Solheim Cup match, is No 8 in the European women’s amateur rankings and won the Portuguese women’s international title in January.
Elizabeth, a solid striker of a ball, was two down early on, losing the first to a birdie and the third to a par but as she said last night: “I’ve been behind in a lot of my matches but I don’t let it get me down. I just play one hole at a time and it’s the kind of golf course where you can use your head and win holes back.”
Elizabeth won back the fourth with a par but fell back to two down when Rosanne got her second birdie of the round, a 2 at the short sixth.
But the French player conceded the seventh and was pulled back to all square when Mallett holed an 8ft birdie putt at the eighth.
So it was “battle on” and Crepiat edged ahead again in a terrific contest with a par at the 10th before the long 11th was halved in birdie 4s.
Mallett won the short 12th with a 3 to g3t back on terms but had to concede the next to leave her French opponent one up with five to play.
That lead was wiped out at the 15th with Mallett’s solid 4. Further nail-biting halves – nail-biting for the spectators but not for the players who looked to have no nerves – followed at the 16th and 17th.
Rosanna was slightly off line with her approach to the 18th and had the misfortune to have a terrible lie in the left greenside bunker, hard up against the face of the bunker, while Elizabeth, the longer hitter, got home in two with a solid second shot.
Crepiat’s lie in the bunker was so bad that she took three shots to get her ball out of the sand and after having one putt, she turned to concede a one-hole victory to Elizabeth.
Perrine Delacour was roughly level par in winning by one hole against Alexandra Peters.
The French player went one up at the third and it was the seventh before Alexandra got back on terms with a birdie 3. Peters went one down at the ninth but should have squared the contest at the 10th. but she took three putts to allow Delacour to escape with a half in bogey 5s.
From there in it was a series of gripping halves until Peters three-putted a second time to go two down at the 16th.
Delacour conceded the 17th to be only one up on the 18th tee. Peters failed to hit the green with her second, landing short right in a tufty lie while her opponent was safely home in two. Peters put her recovery from the rough on the green but Delacour rolled her putt for a 4 stone dead and promptly conceded Peters’ putt because a halved hole was all she needed.
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