Wednesday 18 January 2012

CLARE QUEEN AND CARLY BOOTH ARE THE ONLY SCOTS IN THE THE HUNT IN LA MANGA

By COLIN FARQUHARSON

Colin@scottishgolfview.com
Only Clare Queen and young Carly Booth of the five Scots in the field beat the fourth-round cut in the Ladies European Tour Final Qualifying School at La Manga, Spain today. 
Lynn Kenny lost her card and the other Scots failures to get through to the crucial fifth round on Thursday were Glasgow's Gemma Webster and Pamela Pretswell (Bothwell Castle) who fortunately retained her amateur status and is a near certainty to be named in the GB and I team for the Curtis Cup match at Nairn June 8-10. 
Yorkshire's US-based Jodi Ewart leads the field by four shots with an 11-under-par tally of 277.
The top 30 at the end of 90 holes will gain playing rights on the 2012 LET circuit and Queen looks as if she can start planning her playing schedule now. With the final round to come, The Carrick at Loch Lomond player is lying joint 10th after rounds of 70, 70, 74 and 75 for one-over-par 289 over the North and South courses. 
Comrie's Booth has hung on in there but now needs to find an extra gear for a last-day push to move up from joint 43rd into the top 30. Carly is joint 43rd meantime on 296 after rounds of 76, 72, 74 and 74. 
Kenny, playing out of Archerfield Links, dropped over the limit mark with a final round of 78 for a total of 303 to be placed joint 76th in the four-round totals. It is the first time she has lost her player's card since she gained LET membership some years ago. Her earlier rounds were 77, 72 and 76. 
Webster (78-72-79-73) and Pretswell (767-76-77-73) finished the 72 holes in joint 70th place on 302. 
Another top amateur to miss the cut was Kelly Tidy (Royal Birkdale) with 74-79-75-78 for 306. Like Pretswell, Tidy is almost certain to be named shortly by the LGU selectors in a preliminary Curtis Cup squad. 

FOURTH-ROUND TOTALS
La Manga North and South Courses, Spain 
Leading qualifiers for fifth round
Par 288 (2x71, 2x73) 
277 Jodi Ewart (Eng) 70 67 67 73 281 Anais Maggetti (Den) (am) 73 72 69 67. 284 Stephanie Kirchmayr (Ger) 70 73 72 69, Carlota Ciganda (Spa) 72 67 76 69. 
Selected qualifiers 
289 Clare Queen (Sco) 70 70 74 75 (T10). 
296 Carly Booth (Sco) 76 72 74 74 (T43) 
Selected non-qualifiers
302 Gemma Webster (Sco) 78 72 79 73, Pamela Pretswell (Sco) (am) 76 76 77 73 (T70). 
303 Lynn Kenny (Sco) 77 72 76 78 (T76) 
306 Kelly Tidy (Eng) 74 79 75 78 (T88).

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