Championships - Girls' British Open Amateur Championship 2008
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12.08.2008
Match Play draw finalised this morning with one extra hole. Stipulated round for match play reduced to 16 holes due to overnight rain.
PHOTOS FROM MONIFIETH07:00am Update
Players who made it through via the play-off, are Katharina Boem, Daniela Lendl, & Sarah Tyson.
Overnight rain has flooded the 6th and 7th holes and play is impossible on these two holes. The stipulated round for the match play has been reduced to 16 holes and play will commence at 7.30am.
Steady rain began to fall from around 5pm as it began to look as if 11-over-par 155 would be the cut-off figure for qualifying, with or without a play-off. Carly Booth, who had the lowest handicap in the field - +3.1 – was not going to make the cut with her total of 157.
Laura Gonzalez-Escallon from Belgium joined Ana Fernandez de Mesa in the lead at one-under 143 with a second-round 73.
In joint third place on 144 were Kelsey MacDonald and the overnight leader from Israel, Laetitia Beck who had a 76, eight shots worse than her first-day effort. Carly Booth’s 157 total. Five American universities have talent scouts running the rule over prospect recruits for their college women’s golf teams, They are from Brigham Young University, New Mexico State, Oregon State, Kent State and the University of Texas.
Scotland Under-21 champion Kelsey MacDonald was the first to master a change of wind direction for the second qualifying round of the British girls' amateur championship over the Monifieth Links today.
"We had a west wind on Tuesday but it was coming from the east today and the par-4s were playing really long," said Kelsey who will be 18 in October, by which time she will have enrolled for the start of her first term at Stirling University.
"Fortunately, I'm hitting ball a lot further this year - don't ask me why - so it didn't make all that much difference to me."
Kelsey finished with a one-under-par 71 - a two-shot improvement on the first round - for a qualifying total of level par 144.
Confidence has been the key note of the Nairn Dunbar player's run of good form this summer which has seen her win the Scottish schoolgirls title, the Under-21 stroke-play championship and lose out to Carly Booth in the final of the Scottish Under-18 girls' championship.
A birdie 3 at the first - which she reduced to a rescue club off the tee, a nine-iron approach and a 12ft putt - set her up for an impressively solid round which included further birdies at the short 11th, 13th and 18th in halves of 37 (level par) and 34 (one under).
Kelsey also bogeyed the sixth with three putts from 30ft, the 12th, where she had a bad lie in a bunker, and the 14th where she took "the wrong club off the tee."
In last year's British girls champion, Kelsey was the No 2 qualifier and was beaten in the match-play by Kelly Tidy (Royal Birkdale) who went on to reach the final in which she lost to Henrietta Brockway.
One of Kelsey's playing partners today, Ana Fernandez de Mesa (Spain), was the leader in the clubhouse shortly after lunchtime. Ana had a 73 for 143, a shot ahead of Kelsey.
The Spanish player birdied the foufrth and eighth in an outward 37 but could not get a birdie on her inward card which was made up of eight par figures and a bogey at the 12th.
Comrie's 16-year-old Curtis Cup player Carly Booth finished her second round at 12.45 and faced a long, nail-biting wait to see if her total of 13-over-par 157 was going to be low enough to earn her a place among the leading 64 players who will advance to match-play stages on Wednesday.
Carly had a 78 today. Over the 36 holes, the Junior Ryder Cup player has had one triple bogey (at the first hole on Monday) and three double bogeys.
Carly had a nightmare start today with bogeys at the second and third and a double bogey 7 at the long fourth on her way to an outward half of 41, the same as in the first round.
Things did not get much better with a bogey at the 10th and a double bogey 6 at the 12th. She did get a birdie at the 13th - only her second of the championship - but had to be content with parring her way in from there, when she really needed to two or three birdies to give her a chance of beating the cut.
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