Kylie Walker and Pamela Pretswell, top 10 finishers in last week’s British women’s open amateur stroke-play golf championship, carried on at Falsterbo, Sweden in the European Women’s Individual Amateur Championship where they left off at Royal Aberdeen.
Kylie (Buchanan Castle), shot a one-under-par 70 to be sharing second place, one behind pacemaker Karlijn Zaanen (Netherlands).
Pamela (Bothwell Castle) returned a 73 to be joint eighth at the end of the opening day.
Majorca-based Lauren Mackin (Ranfurly Castle) did not do so well as her compatriots. She had a 77 for a share of 33rd place.
The long-hitting Walker deviated from par only five times, which was a sign that she was hitting the fairways again as she did at Balgownie. She birdied the seventh, the long 12th and the long 18th, dropping shots only at the first and 36th in halves of 34 and 36.
Also on the 70 mark was Danielle McVeigh, the six-footer from Royal County Down in Northern Ireland, winner of the British stroke play title last Friday.
Pretswell started with eight pars and then dropped a shot at the ninth to be out in one-over-par 35.
A bogey at the 14th put the Glasgow University student two over par but she got a shot back with a birdie at the 17th before she bogeyed the 18th for her 73.
Lauren Mackin wasn’t doing too badly when she got her second birdie of the day at the 12th –the first was at the third – to get her score back to two-over-par. Then she bogeyed four of the last five holes for 40 home and a 77.
LEADING FIRST ROUND SCORES
Par 71 (34-37)
69 Karlijn Zaanen (Net) 35-34.
70 Danielle McVeigh (Ire) 32-38, Caroline Hedwall (Swe) 35-35, Louise Larsson (Swe) 35-35, Kylie Walker (Sco) 34-36.
71 Daisy Nielsen (Den) 36-35.
72 Lucie Andrew (Fra) 33-39.
73 Josephine Janson (Swe) 34-39, Emelie Lundstrom (Swe) 34-39, Maaike Naafs (Net) 35-38, Pamela Pretswell (Sco) 35-38, Rhian Wyn Thomas (Wal) 35-38.
Selected scores:
74 Rachel Jennings (Eng) 36-38 (jt 13th).
76 Holly Clyburn (Eng) 38-38 (jt 25th).
77 Lauren Mackin (Sco) 37-40, Amy Boulden (Wal) 36-41.(jt 33rd)
78 Sarah Cunningham (Ire) 39-39 (jt 49th).
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Thanks go to Colin Farquharson for the report
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