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2009 SHIM Teams at Newport
01.10.2009
Scotland edge closer to victory in Newport
Scotland moved closer to capturing the Sue Johnson Trophy when they won two of the morning foursomes against Wales and halved the other on the final day of the 2009 Senior Ladies’ Home International Matches in Newport.That result means the Scots need just 2 points from the five afternoon singles to be assured of clinching the title.
Ireland, seeking their first victory of the week, led England 2-1 after the foursomes.
The top foursomes in the Scotland v Wales match was halved after a dramatic finish in which the Scots, Heather Anderson and Fiona Hunter, one down at the time to Vicki Thomas and Jean O’Connor, holed a bunker shot for a birdie 2– by Fiona Hunter - to square the match at the short 16th. The last two holes were halved.
Earlier in the match the Scots had gone two up by winning the second with a birdie ant the third with a par. Thomas and O’Connor hit back to win the fourth and the sixth with a birdie but Anderson and Hunter conjured up another birdie at the seventh to regain the lead only to be pulled back to all square by the Welsh at the eighth.
Thomas and O’Connor went one up for the first time at the 10th. Anderson and Hunter produced their third and final birdie of the round to square the match at the 11th but the Welsh pair went ahead again by winning the 12th. Then came that holed bunker shot by Hunter at the 16th.
Scotland won the second foursomes by a 3 and 2 margin for Mary Smith and Moira Thomson over Janet Doleman and Jane Rees. The Scots never trailed in this one after winning the first, second and fourth for a three-hole lead, although Doleman and Rees reduced their deficit to one by winning the fifth and sixth.
Smith and Thomson went two up again at the 11th but lost the 12th, before slipping up a gear to win the match with successes at the 15th and 16th.
Fiona De Vries and Noreen Fenton completed a good morning for Scotland by beating Ann Lewis and Denise Richards 4 and 2. The Scots were always in command after winning the first, second and fourth holes. Lewis and Richards gone one back by winning the 12th but slipped to four down by losing the seventh and ninth.
The Welsh pair did get back to only two down by winning the 11th and 12th but De Vries and Fenton put the match out of their reach by winning the 14th and 16th.
England’s Christine Quinn maintained her 100 per cent record when she partnered Susan Dye to a 2 and 1 victory over Ireland ’s Rhona Brennan and Violet McBride in the lead-off foursome. Quinn and Dye birdied the second and also won the third and fourth to go three up but the Irish pair hit back by birdieing the fifth, and also winning the sixth, then birdieing the seventh to be all square.
Quinn and Dye regained the lead at the eighth and went two up at the 13th before Brennan and McBride hit them with another birdie at the 14th and then squared the contest at the 15th.
In a rousing match, Quinn and Dye won the 16th to go one up and then clinched victory with a birdie at the 17th.
Helen Jones and Pat Doran levelled the tie at 1-1 with a 3 and 1 win for Ireland over Jo Ashmore and Janet Melville. The Irish pair were never in arrears after winning the first and second and halving the third in birdies. Jones and Doran went four up with successes at the sixth and seventh but lost the eighth before regaining a four-hole lead at the 12th.
Ashmore and Melville raised their hopes of pulling the fat out of the fire by winning the 14th and 15th to be two down with three to play. Jones and Doran closed the door on them by winning the 17th.
Ireland lead 2-1 at lunchtime, thanks to an 18th green win by Sheena McElroy and Phil O’Gorman over Rozalyn Adams and Paula Parker.
Only two of the first 10 holes were won – both by McElroy and Gorman who won the first and fifth. The rest were halved before Adams and Parker scored their first success at the 11th, only to fall two down again at the 12th.
The Irish pair went three up by winning the 14th but then Adams and Parker went on a three-hole roll, winning the 15th, 16th and 17th to square the match. McElroy and O’Gorman were not to be denied, however. They won the long 18th for victory.
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