Championships - Girls' British Open Amateur Championship 2009
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12.08.2009
Alexandra Peters wins at 19th and then knocks out top seed Noemi
There’s not much to Alexandra Peters, the small, slightly built Notts Ladies junior member, but she made the BIG news on the first day of the match-play stages when six English players in all won their way through to Thursday morning’s last 16 at the British Girls’ Open Amateur Championship at West Lancashire.Conqueror of the 15-year-old Spanish top seed, Noemi Jimenez and into the last 16 before a fair number of the FIRST round ties had finished, Alexandra had been staring defeat in the face earlier in the day when she was one down on the 18th tee against Brogan Townend from the Pleasington club, Blackburn.
“I was really under pressure,” said Alexandra, “but I managed to win the 18th and also the first extra hole. I actually had two putts to win at the 19th.”
The Jimenez v Peters tie teed off at noon and both players played good golf at the gallop for Alexandra to win by 5 and 4.
“I was roughly two or three under par at the finish,” said Alexandra.”Noemi played well too because we had about six or seven birdies between us.”
Jimenez had got off to a flyer in her morning tie to be three up after only four holes against Bertine Strauss (South Africa) and the Spanish player was again quickly into her stride although she lost the first to a par.
Jimenez birdied the second to square matters and won the third to go one up.
But Peters got home in two good blows at the par-5 476yd fifth for a two-putt winning birdie. The Notts player went one up at the next with a par 3 when Jimenez missede the green at this short hhaole.
But it was even again after the seventh where Peters missed the green and lost the hole to a par.
From being a va seery tight contest, the pendulum of power suddenly swung Alexandra’s way. She won the eighth with a par to go one up again, halved the ninth and then holed birdie putts of 12ft and 8ft to win both the 10th and the 11th for a three-hole lead.
The short 12th was halved in birdie 2s and that was virtually the Spaniard’s last bid to wrest the inititiative away from her rampant opponent.
Peters was able to win both the 13th and 14th with pars for the match.
Alexandra, winner of the girls’ titles at the first two Fairhaven Junior Opens, also in Lancashire and a member of the winning England team at last week’s girls’ home internationals at the same venue, knows what it’s like to lose in the Under-18s championship to someone “shooting out the lights.”
“I played in this championship at Monifieth last year and lost in the third round to the Swedish player, Louise Larsson. I was three rrnder par but she must have been four or five under,” said Alexandra who fancies becoming a tour pro some day … but there are lot of amateur titles waiting out there still to be won before playing golf for a living becomes a serious thought.
Peters’ opponent with a quarter-final place at stake is Germany’s Antonia Scherer who beat Jinjira Rasmussen by 2 and 1 after being one up at the turn. Scherer qualified in 17th position to Peters’ No 32.
Alexandra is guaranteed an “appearance” at the prizegiving which will follow Friday afternoon’s 18-hole final. She, Holly Clyburn and Hayley Davis will be asked to step forward to collect the International Team Trophy on behalf of Team England with their combined efforts over the Monday-Tuesday qualifying rounds.
There was plenty for English supporters to celebrate with five more compatriots joining, at a more sedate pace, Alexandra in the round of the last 16 – Raphaela Dyer (Hayling Island), Hayley Davis (Ferndown), Jess Wilcox (Blankney), Holly Clyburn (Woodhall Spa), recent winner of the English Under-18 title, and Elizabeth Mallett (Sutton Coldfield). .
Rapbaela Dywer took an early grip of her second-round tie against Rebecca Huber (Germany), lea4ding by four holes on the ninth tee, and prevailed by 5 and 3.
Hayley Davis (Ferndown), an England girls’ team-mate of Peters, won by 3 and 1 against France’s Justine Dreher. There was nothing to choose between the players in this match through the first nine holes but Hayley managed to establish a two hole lead between the turn and the 15th tee and she added another success for good measure.
Jess Wilcox won a tight match by one hole against the Irish girls champion, Emma O’Driscoll from the Ballybunion club. Emma had a one-hole lead through the fourth and the ninth but Jess turned the tide after the turn to lead by one hole on the 15th tee and she hung on to that advantage.
Wilcox now plays Spain’s Elia Folch who was a one-hole winner over Hannah Turland (Tidworth) who had played well in the qualifying to earn the No 3 seed status. Hannah was three up at the turn but her lead had been cut to only one hole with four to play and Elia squared it and edged ahead for victory within the distance.
Another member of the winning England girls’ team, Holly Clyburn began the stroke-play qualifying slightly off the boil but she has got better each day since then. In the morning, Holly won 4 and 2 against Austria’s Marina Stuetz and she followed that up with a 4 and 3 victory over Co nnie Chen (South Africa). Holly was three up after nine holes.
Elizabeth Mallett had a very good 3 and 2 win over the capable French player, Emilie Alonso, in the first round and continued in fine fettle with a 2 and 1 win over Jessica Schiele (Kenwick Park).
Elizabeth started like a train against Jessica, winning three of the first four holes and increasing her lead to four holes by the turn. Jessica came back at her after the turn and halved her deficit to be two down with four to play but her opponent held her at bay over the closing holes.
Rosanna Crepiatt (France) is the only survivor in the last 16 of the six members of next week’s European Junior Solheim Cup match team who played in the qualifying rounds.
Johanna Tillstrom (Sweden) was beaten 3 and 2 by France’s Perrine Delacour in the second round but Rosanna was three up at the turn on Luna Sobron (Spain) – conqueror of Curtis Cup teenager Carly Booth (Comrie) in the first round – and went on to win by 3 and 2.
Carly’s defeat, coupled with the earlier 3 and 2 defeat by Eilidh Briggs (Kilmacolm) at the hands of Clemence Abrahamian (France) meant no Scots reached the last 16 and it’s a similar story for Ireland although Emma O’Driscoll failed by the narrowest of margins.
The Welsh standard-bearer in the third round is Amy Boulden from the Llandudno Maesdu club in North Wales. She had one of the best wins of the day. As 34th qualifier, Amy knocked out the No 2 seed, Manon Gidali from Paris, by X and X in the last match to finish.
Amy was one down through the early holes but settled to be two up after nine and was still two holes to the good after 14.
Amy will now play the only Latvian in the field, Mara Puisite, whose second-round win by X and X was at the expense of Bronte Law (Bramhall). Bronte, the winner of the prize for the best performance by an Under-14 years player in the qualifying rounds, had won by 6 and 5 in the morning against Austria’s Marlies Krenn.
The countries who provide the last 16 players in the championship are:
England 6, France 3, Germany 2, Italy 2, Wales 1, Latvia 1, Spain 1.
Morning Round Update
Top seed Noemi Jimenez made a flying start in her opening tie of the match-play stages of the British girls’ open amateur championship at the West Lancashire Club links.
The 15-year-old Spaniard from Malaga was three up after only four holes against Bertine Strauss, but the No 64 qualifier held her deficit at three holes for the remainder of the outward half.
Then Bertine won a couple of holes to be only one down after 14 before Noemi stopped the slide to win by 2 and 1.
Her opponent in the second round will be England girl international Alexandra Peters (Notts Ladies) who squeezed through at the ninth against Brogan Townend from the Pleasington club, Blackburn.
Brogan was one up after four holes but Alexandra had turna that around to a two-hole lead for herself at the turn. But Brogan came again on the inward half, being only one down on the 15th tee before squaring it and taking the tie into extra holes.
Peters, only 15, kept her nerve to win at the4 first extra hole.
Johanna Tillstrom from Sweden, one of the five European Junior Solheim Cup team to qualify for the match-play, had a tiger by the tail in Victoria Scherer (Germany).
Their match was squeaky tight – all square after four and nine holes but one up to Victoria after 14. Johannan got on level terms in time to go down the 19th, wich was halved. Tillstrom, the No 5 seed, won at the 20th and now plays the 37th qualifier, Perrine Delacour from France. Perrine won the first four holes against Louise Ridderestrom (Sweden) but needed that big lead to see her through in the end.
Louise had cut her deficit to three after nine holes and only two after 14. But Delacour held on to win by 2 and 1.
The first of the top 10 seeds to fall was Scotland’s Eilidh Briggs (Kilmacolm), beaten 3 and 2 by France’s 56th qualifier, Clemence Abrahamian. After an even start – all square after fouor – Clemence was three up at the turn. Eilidh cut her deficit to two after 14 holes but ran out of holes in her comeback.
England girl cap Hayley Davis (Ferndown), 16, had one of the biggest wins of the morning round – which actually did not finish until the afternoon . The No 20 qualifier, hayley won by 6 and 5 over Roberta Roeller (Germany), the No 45 qualifier. One up after four holes, Davis won four holes out of five from the fifth to be five up at the turn.
Spain’s Andrea Vilarasu had a hole in one – her first ever – at the third hole of her match against Raphaela Dyer (Hayling Island).
That ace was what gave Andrea a one-hole lead through four, nine and 14 holes but b
Another shot holed from quite a distance – around 150 yards - at the last hole gave Italy’s Federica Constantini a shock one-hole win over the No 5 seed and England girl international who was the fourth best qualifier, compared to her opponent’s No 61 position among the 64 qualifierfs.
Heidi was two up after four and nine holes but Federica had squared the match by thre 15th tee and they had been all square coming down the 18th before the Italian holed out with her second shot for an eagle 2, a knock-out blow to Baek.
Junior Solheim Cup team members Tonje Daffinrud (Norway), Anna Aresse (Spain) and Sophia Popov (Germany) were all defeated in the first roumd.
But there was a big win for another Junior Solheim Cup team player, France’s Rosanna Crepiatt who triumphed by 6 and 4 over Christina Kaisler (Germany).
Irish girls champion Emma O’Driscoll (Ballyburn) trailed by one hole for most of the journey against Belgium’s Manon de Roey but Emma eventually squared the match by the 14th and went on to win by 2 and 2.
English girls champion Holly Clyburn (Woodhall Spa) was all square with Marina Stuetx (Austria) at the turn but was two up on the 14th tee and continued her run of success to win by 4 and 2.
Hannah Turland, the No 3 seed from Tidworth, beat Katharina Soehniein (Germany) by 2 and 1 after trailing by one hole at the turn.
Scotland’s last survivor, Curtis Cup player Carly Booth bowed out with a 2 and 1 defeat by Luna Sobron from Spain, the No 55 . Carly, the No 10 seedm was one down through four holes and two down af the turn
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