Welsh Curtis Cup star Breanne Loucks (Wrexham), leads the field by five strokes going into Sunday's third and final round of the Irish women’s open amateur stroke-play championship at Elm Park Golf Club, Dublin.
In blustery but dry conditions, Loucks fired an impressive 69 and then a 72 for a 36-hole tally of 141 over the testing par-73 lay-out where all but one of the tees was played off the men’s blue medal markers.
The top 40 who survived today’s cut, at 13 over par, commence their final round at 8am on Sunday with the leaders teeing off at 10.20am.
These include West of Scotland's Megan Briggs,Pamela Prestwell and Clare- Marie Carlton
QUALIFIERS
Par 146 (2 x 73)
141 Breanne Loucks (Wal) 69 72.
146 Nejla Gercek (Tur) 74 72, Lisa Maguire (Slieve Russell) 72 74, Audrey Goumard (Fra) 70 76.
147 Aedin Murphy (Carlow) 74 73, Roseanne Niven (Sco) 73 74, Leona Maguire (Slieve Russell) 72 75, Tara Delaney (Carlow) 72 75.
149 Danielle McVeigh (Royal Co Down Ladies) 78 71, Charlotte Wild (Eng) 76 73.
150 Charlotte Ellis (Eng) 75 75, Louise Kenney (Sco) 73 77.
151 Leigh Whittaker (Ger) 77 74, Deirdre Smith (Co Louth) 76 75, Tara Watters (Eng) 76 75.
152 Jane Turner (Sco) 80 72, Alexandra Bonetti (Fra) 79 73, Rhian Wyn Thomas (Wal) 78 74, Emilie Alonso (Fra) 76 76.
153 Jo Nicolson (Wal) 78 75, Nina Holleder (Ger) 77 76, Gemma Hegarty (Greencastle) 75 78.
154 Shirley Harvey (Ballyclare) 80 74, Gillian O'Leary (Cork) 78 76, Rosanna Crepiat (Fra) 76 78, Niamh Kitching (Claremorris) 73 81.
155 Pamela Pretswell (Sco) 77 78.
156 Tara Davies (Wal) 77 79, Anne McCormack (Roscommon) 76 80.
157 Elcin Ulu (Tur) 82 75, Ragna Bjork Olafsdottir (Ice) 77 80, Rebecca Watson (Sco) 77 80.
158 Dawn Marie Conaty (Ashbourne) 81 77, Karen Delaney (Carlow) 80 78, Megan Briggs (Sco) 79 79, Sarah Faller (Galway) 78 80, Tinna Johannsdottir (Ice) 77 81.
159 Claire MacDonald (Sco) 83 76, Claire-Marie Carlton (Sco) 76 83, Louise Mernagh (Woodenbridge) 75 84.
SCOTS THAT MISSED THE CUT
161 Lauren Mackin (Spa) 83 78, -- Ranfurly Castle
162 Rachel Cassidy (Stirling Univ).
164 Jocelyn Carthew (Sco) 81 83.
169 Eilidh Briggs (Sco) 82 87.
SUNDAY'S TEE TIMES (TODAY)
8.00 C MacDonald, Audrey Goumard.
8.10 R Crepiat, R Wyn Thomas.
8.20 C-M Carlton, A Bonetti, E Alonso.
8.30 L Mernagh, S Faller, T Johannsdottir.
8.40 D M Conaty, K Delaney, M Briggs.
8.50 R B Olafsdottir, R Watson, E Ulu.
9.00 P Pretswell, T Davies, A McCormack.
9.20 N Kitching, G O'Leary, S Harvey.
9.30 J Nicolson, N Holleder, G Hegarty.
9.40 D Smith, T Watters, J Turner.
9.50 C Ellis, L Kenney, L Whittaker.
10.00 Leona Maguire, D McVeigh, C Wild.
10.10 A Murphy, R Niven, T Delaney.
10.20 B Loucks, N Gercek, Lisa Maguire.