The Ladies European Team Championships is underway at at Molas Golf Resort in Italy.
The first of two rounds of stroke play qualifying are in the books as teams look to finish in the top-eight positions and qualify for the Flight A match play come Wednesday evening.
The five lowest of each team's six scores on days one and two will count towards the teams' stroke play totals European Ladies' Team Championship
Pia Babnik carded the lowest round of all 420 players competing across Europe today. The Slovenian player, who helped the Continent of Europe to victory in the Junior Vagliano Trophy less than a fortnight ago, made eight birdies in the first round to card a seven-under-par 65.
Hosts, Italy, are currently the team to catch, returning five scores under-par on day one, of which Anna Zanusso's six-under-par 66 was the lowest. The Italians sit on -17 with a five-shot advantage over Scotland, who also signed five scores under-par to reach -12.
Scots Scores:
69: Hazel MacGarvie Shannon McWillian, Chloe Goadby (T 13)
70: Hannah Darling (T12)
71: Penny Brown (T34)
78 Eilidh Briggs (Not counted) T106
Defending champions, Sweden, are in third position on -9. Frida Kinhult, the number-one ranked amateur player in the world, made double-bogey on the second hole, but recovered with five birdies to card a three-under-par 69.
Germany (-7), Spain (-7), England (-5), Denmark (-4) and the Czech Republic (-3) make up the rest of the top-eight. Ireland (par), Russia (par), and Switzerland (+1) are close behind and will be hoping to improve their position on day two and qualify for the Flight A match play.
For the full leaderboard, please visit the event page HERE