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2009 Senior Ladies' Home International Teams at Newport
29.09.2009
England and Scotland lead after Day 1 Foursomes
Defending champions Wales lost the foursomes 2-1 to England on the opening day of the Senior Ladies' Home International Matches at Newport Golf Club, Wales this morning.In the other match, Scotland established a 2-1 lead over Ireland .
It went down to the last green of the last match to finish before England took that narrow lead over Wales into the five afternoon singles.
Wales had put the first point on the board with a 6 and 4 victory by Ann Lewis and Denise Richards over Rozalyn Adams and Lucy Newton.
England had levelled the overall score with a 2 and 1 win by Janet Melville and Jo Ashmore against Janet Doleman and Jane Rees.
And so it rested on the first foursomes in which Christine Quinn and Susan Dye scored a one-hole win for England over Senior British champion Vicki Thomas and Jean O’Connor.
Quinn and Dye had been one up at the turn and two up after 10, thanks to birdies at the fifth and 10th.
Thomas and O’Connor won back the 11th but the English pair went two up again by winning the 12th and three up with another success at the 13th.
Thomas O’Connor came with a late rally, winning the 16th and 17th to be one down on the 18th tee. Quinn and Dye held the Welsh pair at bay by halving the last to preserve a one-hole lead for victory.
Lewis and Richards birdied the sixth and the 10th on their way to a three-hole lead over Adams and Newton after 10 holes. They also won the ninth. Three successes on the trot, at the 12th, 13th and 14th, gave the Welsh pair their impressive 6 and 4 victory.
England’s Melville and Ashmore came back from two down after six holes to Doleman and Rees who had birdied the fifth to take the lead. Melville and Ashmore fought back to be all square on the 10th tee, having won the seventh and ninth.
The Welsh pair regained the lead by winning the 13th but Melville and Ashmore staged a grandstand finish to win the 15th, 16th and 17th for a 2 and 1 victory.
Things looked good for Ireland against Scotland when they scored a big win in the first foursomes tie and were ahead in the other two matches. But things eventually swung the way of the Scots to give them a lunchtime lead.
Sheena McElroy and Phil O’Gorman won by 8 and 6 over Heather Anderson and Fiona Hunter who never won a hole. The Irish pair won the second, fourth and sixth to be three up on the eighth tee. Then McElroy and O’Gorman killed off any prospect of a Scottish rally by winning five holes in a row from the eighth, including a birdie at the 10th.
Fiona de Vries and Noreen Fenton made it 1-1 overall by beating Rhona Brennan and Violet McBride 3 and 2.
All square after six holes, the Scots won the eighth and 10th for a two-hole lead which was halved by Brennan and McBride at the 11th. De Vries and Fenton regain a two-hole lead at the 12th and went three up at the 15th before a half at the next ended the contest.
Mary Smith and Moira Thomson got the point that put the Scots ahead 2-1 by beating Helen Jones and Pat Doran by one hole.
The Irish pair lost the first two holes but hit back with a purple patch of golf. They birdied the third, fourth and fifth and also won the sixth to be two up on the seventh tee.
Smith and Thomson kept calm, they won back the eighth, squared the match at the 10th with a birdie and went ahead with another success at the 11th.
In a ding-dong match, Jones and Doran squared matters by winning the 15th but Smith and Thomson won the 17th and preserved that one-hole lead for victory by halving the last.
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