The 80th Portuguese women's open amateur championship, ended at Amendoeira Golf Resort on the Algarve today and Pamela Pretswell (Bothwell Castle) , who was playing in her first competition since last September's Home Internationals, was bang in contention with a sub-par opening round of 71 and then gradually slipped down the field. She had been unable to produce consistent good golf because she was simply too rusty. Subsequent rounds of 74, 77 and 74 gave her a total of eight-over-par 296.
She admitted before she left for Portugal that a combination of studies for exams at Glasgow University and the severity of the Scottish winter which closed most courses for a long spell, had raised her enthusiasm for a game of golf but left her desperately short of match-practice.
Anna Arrese from Spain was the winner on a total of 283
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