Good luck to Rachael, Lesley in the British Girls
In the Home Internationals Rachael played 6, winning 4 and losing 2 and Lesley played 4 and ended up with a 50% record.
England, champions again at the Girls Home Internationals (image by Cal Carson Golf Agency).
RAMPANT ENGLAND WIN STROYAN
CUP FOR THIRD YEAR IN A ROW
England showed no mercy in beating Wales 9-0 to keep the Stroyan Cup with a third successive title win in the Girls Home International Matches at Bangor Golf Club, Northern Ireland. They won all three of their matches in impressive style with a young squad.
Scotland claimed the Swansea Spoon as runners-up for the second year in a row. They beat Ireland 5 1/2-3 1/2 to finish with two wins to their credit – one more than they managed last year at Fairhaven.
Mortonhall & Gullane Ladies ’s Rachael Watton won the top singles against Ireland, beating Emma O’Driscoll by 3 and 2. Rachael had the better of the outward half but lost a two-hole lead and was all square after 10. The Scot then won the 11th, 12th, 13th and 14th to surge four up. O’Driscoll stopped the slide by winning the 15th but a half at the next ended the match
Scottish girls champion Lesley Atkins (Gullane Ladies) recovered her form with a 4 and 3 win over Jessica Carty. Lesley was three up at the turn with a sub-par outward half. She went four up at the 11th but lost the 14th before finishing off the match by winning the 15th.
The last few matches had the worst of the day’s weather, lashing rain at times.
Hannah McCook (Abernethy) ended her match more quickly than most. She did not lose a hole in registering a 7 and 5 win over Laura McCarthy. Hannah won the third, fourth, fifth and seventh to be four up at the turn. She added the 10th, 11th and 13th to her success story to end the match with a concession by the Irish player at the 13th.
Ireland got their first singles point when Laura Grant beat Alyson McKechin (Elderslie) on the last green. There was never more than a hole in it either way but the Scot seemed to have the edge when she won the 16th to go one up. But Grant won the short 17th with a par 3 to square the match and then took the last as well on a concession for a come-from-behind victory.
Ireland got another win, this time by two holes from Sarah Helly over Gabrielle MacDonald (Craigielaw). Helly won the fourth, fifth and sixth to be three up and was still three up after 11. MacDonald hit back with wins at the 13th and 14th but then lost the 15th to slip two down again with three to play. After a half at the 16th, the Scot kept her hopes alive of salvaging a square game by winning the short 17th but she eventually conceded the 18th to go down by two holes to Helly.
That left Scotland leading 4 ½-3 ½ with only the Ailsa Summers v Anna Courtney tie to finish. Ailsa from Carnoustie was twice three up, the second time after 10 holes. But Anna mounted a great fightback to win the 12th, the 15th and the 16th to be all square with two to play.
Summers rallied to edge ahead again with a 3 at the short 17th and she clinched a two-hole victory with a par 4 at the 18th.
Rachael Watton and Hannah McCook were jointly the best points earners in the Scotland line-up. They earned 4pt apiece out of a possible 6.
The "MVP" of the tournament was England's Lauren Taylor (Woburn) with 4 1/2pt out of five.
DAY 3 RESULTS
ENGLAND 9, WALES 0
Foursomes (3-0)
Hayley Davis and Georgia Hsll bt Chloe Williams and Sara Rees-Evans 2 holes.
Alexandra Peters and Elizabet Mallett bt Amy Boulden and India Friswell 5 and 3.
Heidi Baek and Emily Taylor bt Katie Bradbury and Rachel Lewis 2 and 1.
Singles (6-0)
Davis bt Boulden 2 and 1.
Mallett bt Bradbury 1 hole.
Emily Taylor bt Williams 3 and 2.
Bronte Law bt Rees-Evans 1 hole.
Peters bt Kelly Miller 7 and 5.
Lauren Taylor bt Lewis 4 and 3.
IRELAND 3 1/2, SCOTLAND 5 1/2
Foursomes (1 ½-1 ½)
Emma O’Driscoll and Laura Grant bt Eilidh Briggs and Rachael Watton 5 and 4.
Laura McCarthy and Amy Farrell lost to Hannah McCook and Gabrielle MacDonald 1 hole.
Paula Grant and Jessica Carty halved with Alyson McKechin and Rachael Taylor.
Singles (4-2)
O’Driscoll lost to Watton 4 and 2.
Carty lost to Lesley Atkins 4 and 3.
Laura Grant bt McKechin 1 hole..
Sarah Helly bt MacDonald.2 holes
Anna Courtney lost to Ailsa Summers 2 holes.
McCarthy lost to McCook 7 and 5.
HOW THEY FINISHED
1 England 3pt.
2 Scotland 2pt.
3 Wales 1 pt.
4 Ireland 0pt.
Kelly Tidy looks to complete a rare double in next
week's Girls’ British Open Amateur Championship
NEWS RELEASE ISSUED BY THE LADIES GOLF UNION
Kelly Tidy from Bolton has the opportunity to become only the third player in history to win both the Ladies’ and Girls’ British Open Amateur titles in the same year. The only other British player to achieve the feat was Mickey Walker from Leeds in 1972, while Spain’s Belen Mozo also achieved the prestigious double in 2006 when both tournaments were played in Northern Ireland.
Kelly Tidy won the Ladies’ British Open Amateur title at Ganton in June but is still young enough to compete in the Girls’ Championship when it is played at Royal Belfast Golf Club from 9th – 13th August. Kelly, a Junior Solheim Cup and Junior Ryder Cup player, has twice lost in the final of the British Girls’ Championship, once to Henrietta Brockway (England) at Southerndown in 2007 when she was 15 and also to Laura Gonzalez-Escallon (Belgium) in the 2008 final when the Championship was played at Monfieth. She did not play in last year’s Championship as it clashed with the Junior Solheim Cup Match which she was competing in.
The Championship has once again attracted a top quality field and has had to be reduced by ballot to 144 players. Two strokeplay qualifying rounds will take place on Monday 9th and Tuesday 10th August to decide the top 64 qualifiers for the matchplay stages.
Perrine Delacoure (France) who won the title at West Lancashire Golf Club last year and Elizabeth Mallett (Sutton Coldfield Ladies’) last year’s runner-up and recent winner of the English Girls’ Championship are both in this year’s field and will be bidding to reach the final again.
Other notables include Lisa and Leona Maguire (Slieve Russell) who at 15 became the youngest ever Great Britain and Ireland Curtis Cup team players when they competed in the 2010 Curtis Cup and Hayley Davis (Ferndown) the winner of the 2010 English Women’s Championship.
Julie Yang, the 15-year-old South Korean girl who has been based in Scotland since last September when she moved from Arizona to Musselburgh to become a pupil at Loretto School is also one to watch. Her titles this year include the Welsh Women’s Open Amateur Stroke-Play, the Paul Lawrie Foundation Scottish schoolgirls and the Danish Amateur Championship. She has since then also came through the qualifying process and played in the 2010 Ricoh Women’s British Open at Royal Birkdale and, only yesterday, Julie beat a strong field to win the English women's open amateur stroke-play championship.
The overseas challenge includes entries from Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, India, Italy, Netherlands, Slovakia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United States.
Three of the girls named in the European Junior Ryder Cup team for the match against the United States on September 28-29 at Gleneagles are among the entries – Isabella Dellert (2010 European Girls’ Young Masters’ Champion), Manon Molle (France) and Kelly Tidy (Royal Birkdale).
The winner receives the Challenge Cup and the beaten finalist is awarded the Leven Trophy. The Lady Heathcoat-Amory Memorial Medal goes to the leading qualifier while vouchers will be awarded for the lowest scores in the qualifying rounds. The Todd Bowl is awarded to the lowest U16 player in the qualifying rounds while the lowest U14 player will receive a voucher. An international team event is also played in conjunction with the two stroke-play qualifying rounds.
+You can follow the British girls championship through the live scoring service available on www.lgu.org from Monday onwards.
Julie Yang wins English women's stroke-play - now
for British girls' event
at Royal Belfast
FROM THE ENGLISH WOMEN'S GOLF ASSOCIATION WEBSITE
Musselburgh-based South Korean Julie Yang (pictured with the trophy) won the English women’s open strokeplay championship by two shots at Whittington Heath, Staffordshire, after a final round duel with Gloucestershire’s Charlotte Ellis.
The 15-year-old, who finished the 72-hole event on four-under par, also won the U18 and U23 titles and said: “I am very pleased. In the mid-summer you are constantly playing and winning one tournament helps you with the next one. It’s like a chain, if you have a good tournament you feel there’s a chance the next one will also be a feel-good time.”
She added: “It’s been a long journey. I was 14th after the first round and I knew I had a lot of catching up to do.” Julie started with a three-over 75 but then added three sub-par rounds of 71, 69, 69.
The final day of the championship offered spectators everything from drama to low scoring – and two holes in one.
Charlotte Ellis (Minchinhampton) scored one of those aces, with a six iron on the 152-yard fourth hole in her morning round. It helped her to a five-under par 67 and after 54 holes she was on top of the leaderboard on two-under par.
Meanwhile, Julie Yang shot a third round 69 and was one shot behind, in a tie with 14-year-old Charley Hull (Woburn), who went on to finish third.
Charlotte and Julie were paired together and they moved away from the field as they traded shots in the final round. The advantage see-sawed between them but after the par-three 15th, where Charlotte three-putted to lose the lead, they were tied together on three-under par.
They both parred 16 and 17 but the deadlock broke on the par five 18th. Julie hit the green in two and birdied the hole for a 69, while Charlotte’s second found a greenside bunker and she ended up with a bogey.
To spectators, the golf had all the appearance of matchplay – but Julie was determined to avoid that. “I was completely focussed and really into the game, I wasn’t thinking about winning or losing. This wasn’t matchplay, it was a strokeplay event, you have to play your own game and if you do there will be a reward.”
Julie has already won the Welsh open strokeplay championship and now heads to next week’s British girls and then the British strokeplay. She was also runner-up in the German amateur championship and played in the Ricoh Women’s British Open
She has also won the Paul Lawrie Scottish schoolgirls title plus the Danish women's open amateur championship.
This was the second year in a row that Charlotte – an England international – has had to settle for the runners-up place in this championship.
Her 67 was the low round of the championship but altogether 16 players took advantage of good scoring conditions on the last day to post below-par results.
Yorkshire’s Nikki Dunn (Harrogate) provided another of the day’s highlights when she also had a hole-in-one on the 164-yard seventh hole, where she used a five iron. It was Nikki’s fourth hole in one and she’s had them all in competition.
The U23 County Team Trophy was won by Cheshire, represented by Rachael Goodall (Heswall) and Natalie Lowe (Prestbury). They beat runners-up Yorkshire by four shots.
LEADING FINAL TOTALS
Par 288 (4x72)
284 Julie Yang (Korea) 75 71 69 69
286 Charlotte Ellis (Minchinhampton) 72 75 67 72
288 Charley Hull (Woburn) 72 72 71 73
291 Kelsey Macdonald (Nairn Dunbar) 71 74 75 71; Hannah Barwood (Knowle) 75 73 71 72
293 Charlie Douglass (Brocket Hall) 75 75 73 70; Ami Storey (Ponteland) 74 75 72 72; Charlotte Thomas (Singapore Island) 76 76 69 72
294 Sophie Godley (Lindrick) 73 75 76 70.
Other Scottish scores:
303 Megan Briggs (Kilmacolm) 76 72 80 75 (jt 26th).
318 Laura Murray (Alford) 78 76 77 87 (38th).
CLICK HERE TO READ ALL THE SCORES
Scotland’s challenge for the Girls Home Internationals title nosedived on Day 2 at Bangor Golf Club, Northern Ireland today.
After a promising morning, when they shared the foursomes with title-holders England, the Scots had no answer to the skill of their opponents in the singles.
England won five out of six for a 6 ½-2 ½ victory to make them overwhelming favourites to win the Stroyan Cup for a third year in a row.
They complete their programme with a match against Wales who beat Ireland 7-2.
Scotland’s only singles winner was Craigielaw’s Gabrielle MacDonald, a debutante at Under-18 international level. Even she had to survive a tremendous fightback by her opponent, Emily Taylor before winning by two holes.
Gabrielle was five holes up after 12 but then the gritty English girl won the 13th, 14th, 15th and 16th to be only one down on the 17th tee. The penultimate hole was halved and, give young Gabrielle her due, she kept her nerve under pressure to win the 18th with a solid par 4 after Taylor was in a greenside bunker.
Mortonhall’s Rachael Watton did well to take the English women’s champion Hayley Davis to the last green for a one-hole defeat.
Germany-based Rachael Taylor lost by 4 and 3 to Heidi Baek and Hannah McCook from Nethy Bridge went down by 6 and 4 to Georgia Hall.
Ailsa Summers From Carnoustie lost by 2 and 1 to Bronte Law while Renfrewshire women’s champion Eilidh Briggs (Kilmacolm) was beaten 8 and 6 by Lauren Taylor.
There is a crumb of comfort for Scotland’s supporters – England won the match 8-1 at Fairhaven 12 months ago.
Today's results
SCOTLAND 2 1/2, ENGLAND 6 1/2
Foursomes (1 ½-1 ½)
Eilidh Briggs and Rachael Watton bt Alexandra Peters and Elizabeth Mallett 3 and 1.
Hannah McCook and Gabrielle MacDonald halved with Lauren Taylor and Georgia Hall.
Lesley Atkins and Alyson McKechin lost to Heidi Baek and Emily Taylor 2 and 1
Singles (1-5)
Watton lost to Davis 1 hole.
Rachael Taylor lost to Baek Watton lost to Davis 1 hole.
Rachael Taylor lost to Baek 4 and 3.
McCook lost to Hall 6 and 4.
Ailsa Summers lost to Bronte Law 2 and 1.
MacDonald bt Emily Taylor 2 holes.
Briggs lost to Lauren Taylor 8 and 6.
WALES 7, IRELAND 2
Foursomes (2 ½-1/2)
Chloe Williams and Sara Rees-Evans halved with Emma O’Driscoll and Anna Courtney.
Amy Boulden and India Friswell bt Laura McCarthy and Sarah Helly 1 holes.
Rachel Lewis and Katie Bradbury bt Jessica Carty and Paula Grant 1 hole.
Singles (4 ½-1 ½)
Boulden bt O’Driscoll 4 and 3.
Bradbury halved with Carty.
Williams bt Amy Farrell 4 and 3.
Rees-Evans bt Laura Grant 6 and 4.
Friswell lost to Courtney 4 and 3.
Lewis bt McCarthy 1 hole.
HOW THEY STAND
England 2pt, Scotland 1pt, Wales 1pt, Ireland 0pt.
FINAL MATCHES
England v Wales, Scotland v Ireland.
SCOTLAND lead WALES 2 1/2-1/2
FOURSOMES
Eilidh Briggs and Rachael Watton bt Kelly Miler and Chloe Williams 1 hole.
Hannah McCook and Gabrielle MacDonald halved with Amy Boulden and India Friswell.
Lesley Atkins and Rachael Taylor bt Katie Bradbury and Rachel Lewis 2 and 1.
ENGLAND lead IRELAND 3-0
FOURSOMES
Hayley Davis and Lauren Taylor bt Emma O'Driscoll and Anna Courtney 4 and 2.
Elizabeth Mallett and Alexandra Peters bt Laura McCarthy and Amy Farrell 5 and 4.
Heidi Baek and Emily Taylor bt Paula Grant and Jessica Carty 2 holes.
For a description of play in the matches, and live scoring from the afternoon singles, switch over the Ladies Golf Union website: http://www.lgu.org/
The Girls' Home Internationals which start on Wednesday at Bangor Golf Club, Northern Ireland are being played in "Rory McIlroy Country." The young superstar has more than one house in the neighbouring Holywood area between Bangor and Belfast.
Scotland runners-up again in Girls' Home Internationals
RAMPANT ENGLAND WIN STROYAN
CUP FOR THIRD YEAR IN A ROW
England showed no mercy in beating Wales 9-0 to keep the Stroyan Cup with a third successive title win in the Girls Home International Matches at Bangor Golf Club, Northern Ireland. They won all three of their matches in impressive style with a young squad.
Scotland claimed the Swansea Spoon as runners-up for the second year in a row. They beat Ireland 5 1/2-3 1/2 to finish with two wins to their credit – one more than they managed last year at Fairhaven.
Mortonhall & Gullane Ladies ’s Rachael Watton won the top singles against Ireland, beating Emma O’Driscoll by 3 and 2. Rachael had the better of the outward half but lost a two-hole lead and was all square after 10. The Scot then won the 11th, 12th, 13th and 14th to surge four up. O’Driscoll stopped the slide by winning the 15th but a half at the next ended the match
Scottish girls champion Lesley Atkins (Gullane Ladies) recovered her form with a 4 and 3 win over Jessica Carty. Lesley was three up at the turn with a sub-par outward half. She went four up at the 11th but lost the 14th before finishing off the match by winning the 15th.
The last few matches had the worst of the day’s weather, lashing rain at times.
Hannah McCook (Abernethy) ended her match more quickly than most. She did not lose a hole in registering a 7 and 5 win over Laura McCarthy. Hannah won the third, fourth, fifth and seventh to be four up at the turn. She added the 10th, 11th and 13th to her success story to end the match with a concession by the Irish player at the 13th.
Ireland got their first singles point when Laura Grant beat Alyson McKechin (Elderslie) on the last green. There was never more than a hole in it either way but the Scot seemed to have the edge when she won the 16th to go one up. But Grant won the short 17th with a par 3 to square the match and then took the last as well on a concession for a come-from-behind victory.
Ireland got another win, this time by two holes from Sarah Helly over Gabrielle MacDonald (Craigielaw). Helly won the fourth, fifth and sixth to be three up and was still three up after 11. MacDonald hit back with wins at the 13th and 14th but then lost the 15th to slip two down again with three to play. After a half at the 16th, the Scot kept her hopes alive of salvaging a square game by winning the short 17th but she eventually conceded the 18th to go down by two holes to Helly.
That left Scotland leading 4 ½-3 ½ with only the Ailsa Summers v Anna Courtney tie to finish. Ailsa from Carnoustie was twice three up, the second time after 10 holes. But Anna mounted a great fightback to win the 12th, the 15th and the 16th to be all square with two to play.
Summers rallied to edge ahead again with a 3 at the short 17th and she clinched a two-hole victory with a par 4 at the 18th.
Rachael Watton and Hannah McCook were jointly the best points earners in the Scotland line-up. They earned 4pt apiece out of a possible 6.
The "MVP" of the tournament was England's Lauren Taylor (Woburn) with 4 1/2pt out of five.
Scotland, runners-up- for the second year in a row (image by Cal Carson Golf Agency)
DAY 3 RESULTS
ENGLAND 9, WALES 0
Foursomes (3-0)
Hayley Davis and Georgia Hsll bt Chloe Williams and Sara Rees-Evans 2 holes.
Alexandra Peters and Elizabet Mallett bt Amy Boulden and India Friswell 5 and 3.
Heidi Baek and Emily Taylor bt Katie Bradbury and Rachel Lewis 2 and 1.
Singles (6-0)
Davis bt Boulden 2 and 1.
Mallett bt Bradbury 1 hole.
Emily Taylor bt Williams 3 and 2.
Bronte Law bt Rees-Evans 1 hole.
Peters bt Kelly Miller 7 and 5.
Lauren Taylor bt Lewis 4 and 3.
IRELAND 3 1/2, SCOTLAND 5 1/2
Foursomes (1 ½-1 ½)
Emma O’Driscoll and Laura Grant bt Eilidh Briggs and Rachael Watton 5 and 4.
Laura McCarthy and Amy Farrell lost to Hannah McCook and Gabrielle MacDonald 1 hole.
Paula Grant and Jessica Carty halved with Alyson McKechin and Rachael Taylor.
Singles (4-2)
O’Driscoll lost to Watton 4 and 2.
Carty lost to Lesley Atkins 4 and 3.
Laura Grant bt McKechin 1 hole..
Sarah Helly bt MacDonald.2 holes
Anna Courtney lost to Ailsa Summers 2 holes.
McCarthy lost to McCook 7 and 5.
HOW THEY FINISHED
1 England 3pt.
2 Scotland 2pt.
3 Wales 1 pt.
4 Ireland 0pt.
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Kelly Tidy with the British women's open amateur championship trophy she won at Ganton in June (image by Cal Carson Golf Agency).
Kelly Tidy looks to complete a rare double in next
week's Girls’ British Open Amateur Championship
NEWS RELEASE ISSUED BY THE LADIES GOLF UNION
Kelly Tidy from Bolton has the opportunity to become only the third player in history to win both the Ladies’ and Girls’ British Open Amateur titles in the same year. The only other British player to achieve the feat was Mickey Walker from Leeds in 1972, while Spain’s Belen Mozo also achieved the prestigious double in 2006 when both tournaments were played in Northern Ireland.
Kelly Tidy won the Ladies’ British Open Amateur title at Ganton in June but is still young enough to compete in the Girls’ Championship when it is played at Royal Belfast Golf Club from 9th – 13th August. Kelly, a Junior Solheim Cup and Junior Ryder Cup player, has twice lost in the final of the British Girls’ Championship, once to Henrietta Brockway (England) at Southerndown in 2007 when she was 15 and also to Laura Gonzalez-Escallon (Belgium) in the 2008 final when the Championship was played at Monfieth. She did not play in last year’s Championship as it clashed with the Junior Solheim Cup Match which she was competing in.
The Championship has once again attracted a top quality field and has had to be reduced by ballot to 144 players. Two strokeplay qualifying rounds will take place on Monday 9th and Tuesday 10th August to decide the top 64 qualifiers for the matchplay stages.
Perrine Delacoure (France) who won the title at West Lancashire Golf Club last year and Elizabeth Mallett (Sutton Coldfield Ladies’) last year’s runner-up and recent winner of the English Girls’ Championship are both in this year’s field and will be bidding to reach the final again.
Other notables include Lisa and Leona Maguire (Slieve Russell) who at 15 became the youngest ever Great Britain and Ireland Curtis Cup team players when they competed in the 2010 Curtis Cup and Hayley Davis (Ferndown) the winner of the 2010 English Women’s Championship.
Julie Yang, the 15-year-old South Korean girl who has been based in Scotland since last September when she moved from Arizona to Musselburgh to become a pupil at Loretto School is also one to watch. Her titles this year include the Welsh Women’s Open Amateur Stroke-Play, the Paul Lawrie Foundation Scottish schoolgirls and the Danish Amateur Championship. She has since then also came through the qualifying process and played in the 2010 Ricoh Women’s British Open at Royal Birkdale and, only yesterday, Julie beat a strong field to win the English women's open amateur stroke-play championship.
The overseas challenge includes entries from Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, India, Italy, Netherlands, Slovakia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United States.
Three of the girls named in the European Junior Ryder Cup team for the match against the United States on September 28-29 at Gleneagles are among the entries – Isabella Dellert (2010 European Girls’ Young Masters’ Champion), Manon Molle (France) and Kelly Tidy (Royal Birkdale).
The winner receives the Challenge Cup and the beaten finalist is awarded the Leven Trophy. The Lady Heathcoat-Amory Memorial Medal goes to the leading qualifier while vouchers will be awarded for the lowest scores in the qualifying rounds. The Todd Bowl is awarded to the lowest U16 player in the qualifying rounds while the lowest U14 player will receive a voucher. An international team event is also played in conjunction with the two stroke-play qualifying rounds.
+You can follow the British girls championship through the live scoring service available on www.lgu.org from Monday onwards.
for British girls' event
at Royal Belfast
FROM THE ENGLISH WOMEN'S GOLF ASSOCIATION WEBSITE
Musselburgh-based South Korean Julie Yang (pictured with the trophy) won the English women’s open strokeplay championship by two shots at Whittington Heath, Staffordshire, after a final round duel with Gloucestershire’s Charlotte Ellis.
The 15-year-old, who finished the 72-hole event on four-under par, also won the U18 and U23 titles and said: “I am very pleased. In the mid-summer you are constantly playing and winning one tournament helps you with the next one. It’s like a chain, if you have a good tournament you feel there’s a chance the next one will also be a feel-good time.”
She added: “It’s been a long journey. I was 14th after the first round and I knew I had a lot of catching up to do.” Julie started with a three-over 75 but then added three sub-par rounds of 71, 69, 69.
The final day of the championship offered spectators everything from drama to low scoring – and two holes in one.
Charlotte Ellis (Minchinhampton) scored one of those aces, with a six iron on the 152-yard fourth hole in her morning round. It helped her to a five-under par 67 and after 54 holes she was on top of the leaderboard on two-under par.
Meanwhile, Julie Yang shot a third round 69 and was one shot behind, in a tie with 14-year-old Charley Hull (Woburn), who went on to finish third.
Charlotte and Julie were paired together and they moved away from the field as they traded shots in the final round. The advantage see-sawed between them but after the par-three 15th, where Charlotte three-putted to lose the lead, they were tied together on three-under par.
They both parred 16 and 17 but the deadlock broke on the par five 18th. Julie hit the green in two and birdied the hole for a 69, while Charlotte’s second found a greenside bunker and she ended up with a bogey.
To spectators, the golf had all the appearance of matchplay – but Julie was determined to avoid that. “I was completely focussed and really into the game, I wasn’t thinking about winning or losing. This wasn’t matchplay, it was a strokeplay event, you have to play your own game and if you do there will be a reward.”
Julie has already won the Welsh open strokeplay championship and now heads to next week’s British girls and then the British strokeplay. She was also runner-up in the German amateur championship and played in the Ricoh Women’s British Open
She has also won the Paul Lawrie Scottish schoolgirls title plus the Danish women's open amateur championship.
This was the second year in a row that Charlotte – an England international – has had to settle for the runners-up place in this championship.
Her 67 was the low round of the championship but altogether 16 players took advantage of good scoring conditions on the last day to post below-par results.
Yorkshire’s Nikki Dunn (Harrogate) provided another of the day’s highlights when she also had a hole-in-one on the 164-yard seventh hole, where she used a five iron. It was Nikki’s fourth hole in one and she’s had them all in competition.
The U23 County Team Trophy was won by Cheshire, represented by Rachael Goodall (Heswall) and Natalie Lowe (Prestbury). They beat runners-up Yorkshire by four shots.
LEADING FINAL TOTALS
Par 288 (4x72)
284 Julie Yang (Korea) 75 71 69 69
286 Charlotte Ellis (Minchinhampton) 72 75 67 72
288 Charley Hull (Woburn) 72 72 71 73
291 Kelsey Macdonald (Nairn Dunbar) 71 74 75 71; Hannah Barwood (Knowle) 75 73 71 72
293 Charlie Douglass (Brocket Hall) 75 75 73 70; Ami Storey (Ponteland) 74 75 72 72; Charlotte Thomas (Singapore Island) 76 76 69 72
294 Sophie Godley (Lindrick) 73 75 76 70.
Other Scottish scores:
303 Megan Briggs (Kilmacolm) 76 72 80 75 (jt 26th).
318 Laura Murray (Alford) 78 76 77 87 (38th).
CLICK HERE TO READ ALL THE SCORES
Scotland’s challenge for the Girls Home Internationals title nosedived on Day 2 at Bangor Golf Club, Northern Ireland today.
After a promising morning, when they shared the foursomes with title-holders England, the Scots had no answer to the skill of their opponents in the singles.
England won five out of six for a 6 ½-2 ½ victory to make them overwhelming favourites to win the Stroyan Cup for a third year in a row.
They complete their programme with a match against Wales who beat Ireland 7-2.
Scotland’s only singles winner was Craigielaw’s Gabrielle MacDonald, a debutante at Under-18 international level. Even she had to survive a tremendous fightback by her opponent, Emily Taylor before winning by two holes.
Gabrielle was five holes up after 12 but then the gritty English girl won the 13th, 14th, 15th and 16th to be only one down on the 17th tee. The penultimate hole was halved and, give young Gabrielle her due, she kept her nerve under pressure to win the 18th with a solid par 4 after Taylor was in a greenside bunker.
Mortonhall’s Rachael Watton did well to take the English women’s champion Hayley Davis to the last green for a one-hole defeat.
Germany-based Rachael Taylor lost by 4 and 3 to Heidi Baek and Hannah McCook from Nethy Bridge went down by 6 and 4 to Georgia Hall.
Ailsa Summers From Carnoustie lost by 2 and 1 to Bronte Law while Renfrewshire women’s champion Eilidh Briggs (Kilmacolm) was beaten 8 and 6 by Lauren Taylor.
There is a crumb of comfort for Scotland’s supporters – England won the match 8-1 at Fairhaven 12 months ago.
Today's results
SCOTLAND 2 1/2, ENGLAND 6 1/2
Foursomes (1 ½-1 ½)
Eilidh Briggs and Rachael Watton bt Alexandra Peters and Elizabeth Mallett 3 and 1.
Hannah McCook and Gabrielle MacDonald halved with Lauren Taylor and Georgia Hall.
Lesley Atkins and Alyson McKechin lost to Heidi Baek and Emily Taylor 2 and 1
Singles (1-5)
Watton lost to Davis 1 hole.
Rachael Taylor lost to Baek Watton lost to Davis 1 hole.
Rachael Taylor lost to Baek 4 and 3.
McCook lost to Hall 6 and 4.
Ailsa Summers lost to Bronte Law 2 and 1.
MacDonald bt Emily Taylor 2 holes.
Briggs lost to Lauren Taylor 8 and 6.
WALES 7, IRELAND 2
Foursomes (2 ½-1/2)
Chloe Williams and Sara Rees-Evans halved with Emma O’Driscoll and Anna Courtney.
Amy Boulden and India Friswell bt Laura McCarthy and Sarah Helly 1 holes.
Rachel Lewis and Katie Bradbury bt Jessica Carty and Paula Grant 1 hole.
Singles (4 ½-1 ½)
Boulden bt O’Driscoll 4 and 3.
Bradbury halved with Carty.
Williams bt Amy Farrell 4 and 3.
Rees-Evans bt Laura Grant 6 and 4.
Friswell lost to Courtney 4 and 3.
Lewis bt McCarthy 1 hole.
HOW THEY STAND
England 2pt, Scotland 1pt, Wales 1pt, Ireland 0pt.
FINAL MATCHES
England v Wales, Scotland v Ireland.
SCOTS GIRLS BEAT WALES TO SET UP
DAY 2 CLASH WITH ENGLAND
Scotland and England both won their first-day matches in the Girls Home Internationals at Bangor Golf Club, Northern Ireland today.
And they meet tomorrow in what is the virtual decider for the Stroyan Cup, held by the English over the past two years.
The Scots played well to beat Wales 6-3, a team with which they could only draw with last year. England, it has to be said, were mighty impressive in beating Ireland 7 ½-1 1/2
Karen Marshall’s squad won the foursomes 2 ½- ½ and that makes an awful difference with only six afternoon singles to come.
DAY 1 RESULTS
SCOTLAND 6, WALES 3
FOURSOMES (2 ½-1/2)
Eilidh Briggs and Rachael Watton bt Kelly Miller and Chloe Williams 1 hole.
Hannah McCook and Gabrielle MacDonald halved with Amy Boulden and India Friswell.
Lesley Atkins and Rachael Taylor bt Katie Bradbury and Rachel Lewis 2 and 1.
SINGLES (3 ½-2 1/2)
Watton bt Boulden 1 hole.
Atkins lost to Bradbury 3 and 2.
Alyson Mckechin lost to Williams 5 and 4.
McCook bt Miller 7 and 5.
Ailsa Summers halved with Friswell
Briggs bt Lewis 4 and 3
ENGLAND 7 ½, IRELAND 1 1/2
FOURSOMES (3-0)
Hayley Davis and Lauren Taylor bt Emma O'Driscoll and Anna Courtney 4 and 2.
Elizabeth Mallett and Alexandra Peters bt Laura McCarthy and Amy Farrell 5 and 4.
Heidi Baek and Emily Taylor bt Paula Grant and Jessica Carty 2 holes.
SINGLES (4 ½-1 ½)
Davis lost to O’Driscoll 4 and 2.
Mallett bt Laura Grant 6 and 5.
Georgia Hall halved with Courtney.
Bronte Law bt Sarah Helly 3 and 1.
Lauren Taylor bt McCarthy 2 hols.
Peters bt Paula Grant 2 and 1.
THURSDAY MORNING PAIRINGS
SCOTLAND v ENGLAND
8.30 Eilidh Briggs and Rachael Watton v Alexandra Peters and Elizabeth Mallett.
8.40 Hannah McCook and Gabrielle MacDonald v Lauren Taylor and Georgia Hall.
8.50 Lesley Atkins and Alyson McKechin v Heidi Baek and Emily Taylor.
WALES v IRELAND
9.0 Chloe Williams and Sara Rees-Evans v Emma O'Driscoll and Anna Courtney.
9.10 Amy Boulden an d India Friswell v Laura McCarthy and Sarah Helly.
9.20 Rachel Lewis and Katie Bradbury v Jessica Carty and Paula Grant.
+ Log on to the Ladies Golf Union website - www.lgu.org - for a description of all the matches
DAY 2 CLASH WITH ENGLAND
Scotland and England both won their first-day matches in the Girls Home Internationals at Bangor Golf Club, Northern Ireland today.
And they meet tomorrow in what is the virtual decider for the Stroyan Cup, held by the English over the past two years.
The Scots played well to beat Wales 6-3, a team with which they could only draw with last year. England, it has to be said, were mighty impressive in beating Ireland 7 ½-1 1/2
Karen Marshall’s squad won the foursomes 2 ½- ½ and that makes an awful difference with only six afternoon singles to come.
DAY 1 RESULTS
SCOTLAND 6, WALES 3
FOURSOMES (2 ½-1/2)
Eilidh Briggs and Rachael Watton bt Kelly Miller and Chloe Williams 1 hole.
Hannah McCook and Gabrielle MacDonald halved with Amy Boulden and India Friswell.
Lesley Atkins and Rachael Taylor bt Katie Bradbury and Rachel Lewis 2 and 1.
SINGLES (3 ½-2 1/2)
Watton bt Boulden 1 hole.
Atkins lost to Bradbury 3 and 2.
Alyson Mckechin lost to Williams 5 and 4.
McCook bt Miller 7 and 5.
Ailsa Summers halved with Friswell
Briggs bt Lewis 4 and 3
ENGLAND 7 ½, IRELAND 1 1/2
FOURSOMES (3-0)
Hayley Davis and Lauren Taylor bt Emma O'Driscoll and Anna Courtney 4 and 2.
Elizabeth Mallett and Alexandra Peters bt Laura McCarthy and Amy Farrell 5 and 4.
Heidi Baek and Emily Taylor bt Paula Grant and Jessica Carty 2 holes.
SINGLES (4 ½-1 ½)
Davis lost to O’Driscoll 4 and 2.
Mallett bt Laura Grant 6 and 5.
Georgia Hall halved with Courtney.
Bronte Law bt Sarah Helly 3 and 1.
Lauren Taylor bt McCarthy 2 hols.
Peters bt Paula Grant 2 and 1.
THURSDAY MORNING PAIRINGS
SCOTLAND v ENGLAND
8.30 Eilidh Briggs and Rachael Watton v Alexandra Peters and Elizabeth Mallett.
8.40 Hannah McCook and Gabrielle MacDonald v Lauren Taylor and Georgia Hall.
8.50 Lesley Atkins and Alyson McKechin v Heidi Baek and Emily Taylor.
WALES v IRELAND
9.0 Chloe Williams and Sara Rees-Evans v Emma O'Driscoll and Anna Courtney.
9.10 Amy Boulden an d India Friswell v Laura McCarthy and Sarah Helly.
9.20 Rachel Lewis and Katie Bradbury v Jessica Carty and Paula Grant.
+ Log on to the Ladies Golf Union website - www.lgu.org - for a description of all the matches
GIRLS' HOME INTERNATIONAL MATCHES
Hannah McCook (Scotland) drives off in the foursomes at Bangor. England's Hayley Davis is pictured below. Click on the images to enlarge them. Images by Cal Carson Golf Agency.
Good start by Scotland and England at Bangor
Scotland led Wales 2 1/2-1/2 and defending champions England had a 3-0 lead over Ireland after the morning foursomes on the opening day of the Girls Home International Matches at Bangor Golf Club in Northern Ireland.
Details:SCOTLAND lead WALES 2 1/2-1/2
FOURSOMES
Eilidh Briggs and Rachael Watton bt Kelly Miler and Chloe Williams 1 hole.
Hannah McCook and Gabrielle MacDonald halved with Amy Boulden and India Friswell.
Lesley Atkins and Rachael Taylor bt Katie Bradbury and Rachel Lewis 2 and 1.
ENGLAND lead IRELAND 3-0
FOURSOMES
Hayley Davis and Lauren Taylor bt Emma O'Driscoll and Anna Courtney 4 and 2.
Elizabeth Mallett and Alexandra Peters bt Laura McCarthy and Amy Farrell 5 and 4.
Heidi Baek and Emily Taylor bt Paula Grant and Jessica Carty 2 holes.
For a description of play in the matches, and live scoring from the afternoon singles, switch over the Ladies Golf Union website: http://www.lgu.org/
Labels: Girls
Magical moments with Rory McIlroy for Scotland girls - and officials
His coach Michael Bannon is also Bangor's club pro so when Rory called in earlier this week to get a last minute swing check before setting off the Firestone Golf Club, Akron, Ohio and this week's big event in the States, he was beseiged by the girls from the Scotland, England, Ireland and Wales camps.
... and the officials were not far behind them either!
Rory was simply super with the youngsters, signing umpteen autographs and posing with all four teams. Certainly magic moments to remember for all the girls.
Picture above (by courtesy of Gillian Roy of the Ladies Golf Union) are the Scotland team who open their Girls Home Internationals campaign by playing Wales on Wednesday.
Back row (left to right):
Rachael Taylor (Hartl Golf Resort, Germany), Lesley Atkins (Gullane Ladies), Alyson McKechin (Elderslie), the man himself, Rory McIlroy, Rachael Watton (Mortonhall & Gullane Ladies ), Judith Anderson (Hawick), team manager, Ailsa Summers (Carnoustie Ladies) and SLGA national coach Kevin Craggs.
Front row (left to right:
Eilidh Briggs (Kilmacolm), Gabrielle MacDonald (Craigielaw), Hannah McCook (Abernethy), Karen Marshall (Baberton & Gullane Ladies ), team captain.
... and the officials were not far behind them either!
Rory was simply super with the youngsters, signing umpteen autographs and posing with all four teams. Certainly magic moments to remember for all the girls.
Picture above (by courtesy of Gillian Roy of the Ladies Golf Union) are the Scotland team who open their Girls Home Internationals campaign by playing Wales on Wednesday.
Back row (left to right):
Rachael Taylor (Hartl Golf Resort, Germany), Lesley Atkins (Gullane Ladies), Alyson McKechin (Elderslie), the man himself, Rory McIlroy, Rachael Watton (Mortonhall & Gullane Ladies ), Judith Anderson (Hawick), team manager, Ailsa Summers (Carnoustie Ladies) and SLGA national coach Kevin Craggs.
Front row (left to right:
Eilidh Briggs (Kilmacolm), Gabrielle MacDonald (Craigielaw), Hannah McCook (Abernethy), Karen Marshall (Baberton & Gullane Ladies ), team captain.
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