Championships - Girls' British Open Amateur Championship 2009
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Alexandra Peters
13.08.2009
Home hopes high at West Lancs as four English progress to Quarter Finals
Four English players – Alexandra Peters (Notts Ladies), Hayley Davis (Ferndown), Jess Wilcox (Blankney) and Elizabeth Mallett (Sutton Coldfield) – won their third-round matches to reach the quarter-finals.Alexandra Peters, conqueror of the top seed, Noemi Jimenez from Spain, maintained her momentum to earn a place in the last eight with a 3 and 1 win over Antonia Scherer (Germany) in a battle of talented 15-year-olds.
Alexandra didn’t lose a hole until she missed the green left at the eighth to be pulled back to two down.
Peters had won the first with a par, the second with a birdie 4 and the short sixth with a par 3.
It was around this point in the match that the Notts Ladies player lost her concentration as supporters of her opponent arrived in force.
Peters had gone three up at the ninth where her opponent lost a ball but within four holes the match was all square.
Antonia put her approach shot stiff for a birdie 3 at the 10th and also got a birdie at the lont 11th be only one down. And the German got back on level terms for the first time at the 13th where Peters missed the green left.
Alexandra pulled her thoughts together in time to regain control of the match. Scherer went right off the tee at the 14th which Peters won with a 4 to regain the lead which doubled to two holes with a pitch-and-putt birdie 4 at the long 16th.
And Alexandra finished on a high by chipping into the cup from 30ft to win the match by 3 and 1 with a birdie 2 at the short 17th.
That put her through to a meeting in the last eight with another German player, 18-year-old Vicki Troeltsch who beat Italy’s Eugenia Ferrero by 4 and 3 after moving into a three-hole lead through six and nine holes.
Raphaela Dyer’s good run ended with a 4 and 3 defeat by Perrine Delacour from France. Raphaela, who had qualified in 12th position, was one down after three holes and never recovered from that. The Hayling Island player’s French opponent had gone three up after six holes and maintained that advantage through the turn before going four up after 12 holes.
Hayley Davis (Ferndown) became the second English player to reach the quarter-finals. She had to go to the 19th to get the better of Italy’s Federica Constantini who was two holes to the good though six, nine and 12 holes.
Hayley at last halved her deficit by the 16th tee and then won that hole to square the match. The 17th and 18th were halved before Davis won witb a par at the 19th after her opponent was bunkered.
Davis played Delacour for a place in the semi-finals.
Jess Wilcox also won at the 19th, against Spain’s Elia Folch after a nip-and-tuck game where there was never more than a hole in it either way. Jess led by one hole through three and six holes but it was all square at the turn before Jess regained a one-hole advantage after 12 holes. It was level pegging again by the 15th and a series of halved holes sent the pair down the 19th where Wilcox won the match.
The third tie to go into extra holes was the all-English affair between Elizabeth Mallett and Holly Clyburn (Woodhall Spa), the English girls’ champion. Holly had a one-hole edge on and off through the outward nine but 15-year-old Elizabeth squared it and took up a one-hole lead of her own by the 12th.
There was an unfortunate incident at the 13th hole where Holly Clyburn’s drive struck a ball-spotter on the head and led to the volunteer being taken to hospital. The ball ricocheted from the ball-spotter’s head into a water hazard and Holly lost the hole.
Clyburn did get it back to one down by the 15th and then squared it at the next.
The 17th and 18th holes were halved with Mallett almost holing a chip from just off the grfeen at the 18th. Clyburn, who had also missed the green, was now under great pressure to get down in two for a half from a level below the putting surface, but she did with a chip and a 3ft putt.
The 19th was also halved before Mallett won at the 20th where Clyburn drove into the rough.
That result assured England of having a player in Friday morning’s semi-finals as Elizabeth Mallett and Jess Wilcox would meet in the quarter-final.
Rosanna Crepiat (France), the only European Junior Solheim Cup team member in the last eight, had an impressive 7 and 6 win over compatriot Alexandra Bonetti who was five down after only six holes.
Crepiat’s next opponent was Latvia’s Mara Puisite who beat Wales’ Amy Bouden from the Llandudno Maesdu club. Mara was three up after six and four up at the turn before winning the match by 3 and 2.
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