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30.09.2009
Scotland and Ireland lead after morning Foursomes
Scotland, chasing their first ever win over England in the Senior Ladies’ Home Internationals, took a 2-1 lead after the morning foursomes on Day 2 in Wales.Ireland, beaten by Scotland on Day 1 also lead title-holders Wales 2-1 after the foursomes.
Christine Quinn, partnering Lucy Newton, holed a 10ft putt on the final green to achieve a one-hole win for England over Scotland’s Heather Anderson and Fiona Hunter in the lead-off foursomes tie.
There was never more than a hole in it with the pairs firing birdies at each other early on the inward half. The Scots went one up with a birdie at the 10th but the English squared with a birdie at the 11th.
Quinn and Newton birdied the 13th to regain a one-hole lead but Anderson and Quinn won the 14th and 15th to turn that into a one-hole lead for Scotland.
Quinn and Newton staged a grandstand finish. They squared a great match by winning the 17th and then came Quinn’s putt to win the final hole and the match.
Scotland levelled it at 1-1 when Fiona de Vries and Noreen Fenton won by 3 and 2 against Paula Parker and Rozalyn Adams. The Scots pulled away from their opponents by winning the sixth and the 11th for a two-hole lead and clinched victory by winning the 16th.
Mary Smith and Moira Thomson then put Scotland in for lunch with a 2-1 lead by beating Janet Melville and Jo Ashmore by one hole.
The English pair came back after losing the first to win the fourth, fifth and eighth for a two-hole lead but Smith and Thomson hit back with wins at the ninth, 10th and 12th to lead by one. That lead was doubled when the Scots won the 16th.
Melville and Ashmore won the 17th but a half at the last was enough for the Scots to win.
Ireland put the first point on the board against Wales with a 5 and 4 victory by Helen Jones and Pat Doran over Janet Doleman and Jane Rees. A birdie at the second put the Welsh pair one up but that was the high point of the match for them.
Jones and Doran won the third, fifth, sixth and seventh to surge three holes clear. Further successes for Ireland at the 10th, with a birdie, and the 12th, put them five up and halves at the 13th and 14th ended the contest.
Wales levelled it at 1-1 when Vicki Thomas and Jean O’Connor won the top foursomes by two holes from Sheena McElroy and Phil O’Gorman. The Welsh pair had the better of the outward half after losing the first hole. Thomas and O’Connor won the third, sixth, eighth and ninth to be three up at the turn.
McElroy and O’Gorman fought back with birdies at the 11th and 12th to cut their deficit to one and then squared the match by winning the 15th. But Thomas and O’Connor found their touch again in time to win the 16th and 18th to seal the match.
Ireland took a 2-1 lead when Rhona Brennan and Violet McBride beat Ann Lewis and Denise Richards by 3 and 1. The Irish pair seized the initiative by winning the third, fourth and fifth. Wales stopped the rot by winning the sixth but Brennan and McBride regained a three-hole lead at the seventh.
Lewis and Richards won back the 10th but lost the 11th before winning the 13th to be two down with five to play. Brennan and McBride won the 15th to go three up; lost the 16th and then clinched victory by winning the 17th.
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