Saturday 29 May 2010

Pamela Pretswell shows Curtis Cup class to lead with a 70

Glasgow University student Pamela Prestswell from Hamilton, one of only two Scots in the Great Britain & Ireland team for the Curtis Cup match against the United States from June 11 to 13 at Essex County Club, Massachusetts, showed her class by leading the star-studded St Rule Trophy international field over the New Course, St Andrews today.
Pamela, a Bothwell Castle Golf Club member, who has played little competitive golf since last Septemer’s home internationals at Irvine, shot a five-under-par 70 to lead by one stroke from repeating Welsh champion Tara Davies (Holyhead) and last year’s Australian champion, Justine Lee.
FIRST-ROUND SCORESS ----- St Andrews New Course.
Par 75, CSS 75
70 Pamela Pretswell (Bothwell Castle).
71 Tara Davies (Holyhead), Justine Lee (Australia).
73 Jacqueline Sneddon (Alyth), Laura Murray (Alford), Martine Pow (Selkirk).
74 Smma Sheffield (Newark), Julie Yang (Loretto School), Sally Shayler (Bedfordshire), Roseanne Niven (Crieff), Stacey Keating (Australia), Charlotte Wild (Mere).
75 Jessica Speechley (Australia), Kelsey MacDonald (Nairn Dunbar), Amy Boulden (Maesdu).
76 Ami Storey (Ponteland), Hannah Roos (Sweden), Natalie Lowe (Prestbury).
77 Ashley Ona (Australia), Charlotte Dalton (Ladbrook Park), Louise Kenney (Pitreavie), Jess Wilcox (Blankney), Gillian O'Leary (Cork), Emily Ogilvy (Auchterarder), Kelly Tidy (Royal Birkdale), Rachael Watton (Mortonhall).
78 Bronte Law (Bramhall), Lisa Ball (Matfen Hall), Emma Goddard (Vale Royal Millennium), Charley Hull (Woburn), Charlotte Ellis (Minchinhampton).
79 Susan Jackson (Ladybank), Maria Dunne (Skerries), Claire Hargan (Mortonhall), Elaine Moffat (St Regulus), Karen Delaney (Carlow), Susan Wood (Drumpellier).
80 Samantha Birks (Wolstanton), Emma Fairnie (Dunbar), Olivia Winning (Rotherham), Ann Ramsay (Kirriemuir), Claire MacDonald (Gullane Ladies), Rozalyn Adams (addington Court Ladies), Megan Briggs (Kilmacolm), Rebecca Wilson (Grange), Anne Laing (Vale of Leven), Gemma Bradbury (Cottrell Park).
81 Jane Turner (Craigielaw), Nikki Foster (Pleasington), Sara Bishop (Windyhill).
82 Clare-Marie Carlton (Fereneze), Gillian Monteith (Portpatrick Dunskey), Joelle Van Baarle (Belgium).
83 Tilly Magill (Woburn).
84 Alyson McvKechin (Elderslie), Megan Garland (The Oaks).
85 Cara Gruber (Royal Dornoch).
86 Shonagh Raitt (Forfar).
87 Jocelyn Mackie (Ladybank).
88 Rachael McQueen (Troon Ladies).