Hannah McCook (Grantown on Spey) shot a one-over-par 74 to be joint 11th at the end of the first day of the 72-hole English women's open amateur stroke-play golf championship at Coventry Golf Club.McCook birdied the second, fifth and 10th but a weak finish - bogeys at the 12th, 15th and 17th - cost her a place in the top 10 overnight behind Isabella Holpfer (Austria), leader by six shots with a seven-under-par 66.
Hazlehead's Jasmine Mackintosh had a 77 for a share of 36th place and Curtis Cup player Shannon McWilliam (Aboyne) a 79, alongside Lorna McClymont (Milngavie) in joint 54th place.
LEADERBOARD
par 73
66 I Holpfer (Aut).
72 E Rhodes (Burnham and Berrow), L Jamieson (Heswall) C McGinty (Knowle), C Gainer (Castle Royle).
73 S Lamb (Clitheroe), N Armgruester (Switz), C Heath (Huddersfield), G Price (Bude and N Cornwall), P Brown (Worthing).
SELECTED SCORES:
74 H McCook (Grantown on Spey) (T11)
77 J Mackintosh (Hazlehead) (T40)
78 Alison Muirhead (Jumeirah Golf Estates)
79 S McWilliam (Aboyne), L McClymont (Milngavie) (T54).
88 K Brown (Strathaven) (108th).
