Championships - Ladies' British Open Amateur Stroke-Play Championship 2008
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2008 Champion - Roseanne Niven (Crieff)
22.08.2008
Niven wins at Malone after sudden death play off
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In a dream finish for Scottish supporters of the game, Roseanne Niven (Crieff) beat Kylie Walker (Buchanan Castle) at the first hole of a sudden-death play-off for the Ladies' British open amateur championship at Malone Golf Club, near Belfast.Roseanne posted the clubhouse target of level par 288 with a superb final round of four-under-par 68 - the lowest of the championship - and only her compatriot Kylie was able to equal it with a 69, the second best score of the final round.
It was the seventh win by a Scot in the stroke-play tournament which started in 1969.Roseanne, winning a British title for the first time, follows in the footsteps of Belle Robertson (1971-72-85), Jane Connachan (1982), Clare Queen (2004) and Heather MacRae (2005).Niven, a 19-year-old from the Perthshire village of Tibbermore and beaten semi-finalist in the British women's open amateur championship at North Berwick in June, shot five under par for the second 36 holes of the tournament to climb up the leaderboard from joint 19th at the start of the fiinal day.She had a one-under-par 71 in the third round and then signed off with a 68, the lowest score so far in the championship.
In her third round, the University of California-Berkeley student had five birdies and a double bogey 6 at the 14th.In her final circuit, Roseanne, who finished runner-up to Breanne Loucks in her last trip to Ireland for the Irish women's open amateur stroke-play, had two halves of 34.She birdied the long second by sinking a 10ft putt and the short fourth with a 15ft birdie putt. A pitch-and-putt 4 at the long seventh gave her a third birdie of the round, to be followed by birdie No 4 at the eighth as she turned in three-under-34, her best of the three days.A shot dropped at the 14th, where she three-putted, was her second (she bogeyed the fifth) and last bogey of a very good round.
As Crieff Golf Club member Roseanne, a former Scottish girls' match-play champion, had done in the morning round, she birdied both the 16th and 17th, holing a putt of around 6ft at the 16th and pitching and putting at the penultimate hole.Kylie Walker, who will be 22 on August 30, had a hole in one in her morning third round, acing the 15th (132yd) with an eight iron for her first competitive hole in one. She also lost a ball at the seventh, costing her a double bogey 7, in that morning 73 in which she had contrasting halves of 42 and 31,In the fourth round Kylie had seven birdies.
A 10ft putt dropped at the first and she got a two-putt 4 at the long second. But she lost a bit of momentum with bogeys at the fourth and eighth before a birdie from 3ft at the ninth put her off and running again.The Scot holed a 10-footer to birdie the 10th and then holed a 25ft putt for a birdie at the 12th.A bogey at the 13th was followed by a chip-in for a sixth birdie at the 14th. A shot dropped at the 16th would prove costly in the final analysis, even though she wedged to 4ft to set up her final birdie at the 17th.Needing to squeeze an eighth birdie out of the 18th to win the title outright, Walker had to settle for a par and play-off with Roseanne Niven.
Former Curtis Cup player Tara Delaney (Carlow), twice winner of the Irish open stroke-play title shared third place with long-time leader Sahra Hassan (Vale of Glamorgan.Tara finished with two par-matching rounds of 72 for two-over 290. She birdied the second, 16th and 17th in her final round. Sahra, joint halfway leader, had gone a shot clear with a 74 for one-over 217, but a closing round of 73 could not hold her closely-grouped challengers at bay and she finished on 290.
Waterlooville's Kerry smith won the Angela Uzielli Trophy which is awarded to the leading player over the age of 25. This was the first year that the trophy has been presented at the Strokplay, having previously been awarded to the winner of the Ladies' British Open Mid - Amateur Stroke Play Championship.
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Scottish international Roseanne Niven has posted the clubhouse target of level par 288 in the Ladies British open amateur championship at Malone Golf Club near Belfast.The 19-year-old from the Perthshire village of Tiverton, beaten semi-finalist in the British women's open amateur championship at North Berwick in June, shot five under par for the second 36 holes of the tournament.She had a one-under-par 71 in the third round and then signed off with a 68, the lowest score so far in the championship.
In her third round, the University of California-Berkeley student had five birdies and a double bogey 6 at the 14th.In her final circuit, Roseanne, who finished runner-up to Breanne Loucks in her last trip to Ireland for the Irish women's open amateur stroke-play, had two halves of 34.She birdied the long second by sinking a 10ft putt and the short fourth with a 15ft birdie putt. A pitch-and-putt 4 at the long seventh gave her a third birdie of the round, to be followed by birdie No 4 at the eighth as she turned in three-under-34, her best of the three days.A shot dropped at the 14th, where she three-putted, was her second (she bogeyed the fifth) and last bogey of a very good round.
As Crieff Golf Club member Roseanne, a former Scottish girls' match-play champion, had done in the morning round, she birdied both the 16th and 17th, holing a putt of around 6ft at the 16th and pitching and putting at the penultimate hole.Danielle McVeigh (Royal County Down), winner of the 2007 world universities' women's title in Thailand, put herself into contention with two scores of 70 in the second and third rounds, but a couple of double bogeys knocked her back to a closing round of 73 for four-over-par 292.
A Texas A&M University student for the past two years, Danielle, who will be 21 on September 14, began her final round in sensational style by holing her second for an eagle 2 at the first hole. The tall Kilkeel player, Irish girls champion in 2005, gave the shots back with bogeys at the fifth and eighth but she birdied the ninth to be out in one-under 36.McVeigh had a 6 at the 10th, her first double bogey of the
Welsh international teenager Sahra Hassan has taken the outright lead at the end of the third round of the Ladies British open amateur championship at Malone Golf Club.But a spread of only three shots covers the leading six players so it looks like be an exciting and fluctuating final 18 holes.Sahra, the 19-year-old joint leader with 18-year-old Caroline Karsten (Netherlands), moved one shot clear of the field with a 74 for one-over-par 217.
Hassan had a double bogey 6 at the 10th and also dropped shots at the sixth, 13th and 18th but she compensated with birdies at the third, 16th and 17th in halves of 37.Three players are breathing down her neck, one shot behind on 218 - Irish hope Tara Delaney (Carlow), Valerie Sternebeck from Germany and Caroline Karsten.Tara, a former Curtis Cup player and past Irish open stroke-play champion, matched the par of 72 with halves of 35 and 37.She birdied the fifth and eighth to turn in two-under-par 35 before a roller-coaster inward half of three birdies (11th, 14th and 17th) and five bogeys.Valerie had halves of 37 and 36.
She recovered well from a double bogey 6 at the fifth. She had birdies at the first, eighth, ninth and 12th.Caroline Karsen had an eagle 3 at the long 17th and birdies at the first and eighth in an outward half of one-under-par 36. But she dropped back with an inward half which had no birdies but a double-bogey 6 at the 11th.Danielle McVeigh (Royal County Down), holder of the world students' female title, and Kylie Walker, the St Rule Trophy holder from Buchanan Castle are sharing fifth place on 219, only two shots off the pace.Danielle had the best score of the third round - a two-under-par 70, which repeated her second-day return after an opening round of 79.
Kylie, who had a 73, achieved the second hole in one of the championship.She aced the 132yd 15th with an eight iron to follow the example of Caroline Karsten on the second day.
It was the Scot's second career hole in one but the first one was achieved at a par-3 course.Walker struggled to the turn in five-over-par 42 after running up a double bogey7 at the seventh where she lost a ball ... "probably stuck up a tree somewhere."She also dropped shots at the third, sixth and ninth.But Kylie came romping home in 31 with the help of that hole in one.She birdied the 10th and 12th and got that eagle 1 at the 15th.
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