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English Girls' Close Amateur Championship
Gainsborough Golf Club
Thonock
DN21 1PZ
26 - 31 July 2004
Handicap limit: 18.4
Match Play
Melissa Reid (Chevin) wins
English Girls’ Championship at Gainsborough
Golf Club, Lincolnshire 31 July 2004 beating Kiran
Matharu (Sand Moor) 3&2. Melissa, 16 years old,
led the qualifiers into the match play stages of the
competition.
During the final match Melissa was
2up at the turn, having been 1 down after 6. Melissa
continued to lead during the back 9, the game alternating
between 1up and 2up till the 15th, Melissa won the
16th to take the 3&2 victory.
This was a close match, but Melissa
said “I felt confident this morning, as I have
been playing some of my best golf ever this week”.
Although she hadn’t played Kiran before she
knew what she was up against and said “Kiran
is an awesome golfer, the only way to win was with
birdies. This has been one my goals and I feel speechless
having actually achieved it”.
To take the Championship title Melissa
beat Sian James (Bristol & Clifton) 3&2, Emma
Sheffield (Newark) 2&1, Laura Cutler (Warley Park)
3&1 and finally Kiran 3&2. Melissa is looking
forward to the British Girls’ Open Amateur Championship
at Lanark Golf Club next week and she has been selected
for the England Home International Team 11 –
13 August, Strathaven Golf Club.
The event was well supported by
local members, local people and lady golfers from
a far. Rebecca Hudson was in the crowd, enjoying the
golf and she said “I’ve seen some great
golf and it was good to see the ELGA crew again”.
Flight2: Rebecca Dowell (Enmore
Park) beat Clara Leathers (Ellesborough) 2&1.
The Girls’ Home International
Team details are live on the ELGA website click
for details
Semi-finals
Two Under 18 England International Team members face
each other in the finals of the English Girls’
Championship at Gainsborough Golf Club, Lincolnshire
31 July 2004.
Melissa Reid (Chevin) the leading
qualifier beat Jodi Ewart (Catterick) 4&3 in the
first semi-final and Kiran Matharu (Sand Moor) beat
Rachel Jennings (Izaak Walton) 4&3 in the second
semi-final. Both girls played excellent golf in reaching
the final and an exciting finish to the week’s
championship is expected tomorrow.
In the quarter-finals Melissa beat
Laura Cutler (Warley Park) 2&1, Jodi Ewart beat
Natasha Podmore (High Legh Park) 2&1, Rachel beat
Claire Aitken (Mid-Kent) 4&3 and Kiran with 5
birdies in the back nine, beat Felicity Johnson (Harborne)
3&2 having been 3 down at one time during the
match.
This will be the first time
Kiran and Melissa oppose each other in a match play
event, as well as being fellow squad members they
are great friends. Melissa said “I am really
looking forward to the match, but I want to go all
the way”.
Quarter-Finals
Rachel Jennings / Kiran Matharu / Jodi Ewart
and Melissa Reid all go through to the Semi-Finals
Round 1 and Round
2
The English Girls’ Championship at Gainsborough
Golf Club, Lincolnshire first and second rounds took
place today, leaving 8 players going forward for tomorrow’s
quarter-finals.
Melissa Reid (Chevin) the leading
qualifier beat Emma Sheffield (Newark) 2up. Melissa
led from the 1st but she was never more than 2up in
the match, they had 13 birdies between them. Melissa
will play Laura Cutler (Warley Park) who won on the
19th against Rachel Connor (Manchester).
Natasha Podmore (High Legh Park)
the 16 year old Cheshire Girls’ Champion had
a good win of 4&3 against Hannah Burke (Mid-Herts).
Jodi Ewart (Catterick) played her
Yorkshire compatriot Lizzie Brand (Ilkley) and won
1up in a very close match. Rachel Jennings (Izaak
Walton) beat Henrietta Brockway (Yeovil) one of the
Championship favourites 3&2.
Felicity Johnson (Harborne) was
5 up at the turn against Anna Scott (Consett &
District) who fought back with 3 straight birdies,
to loose just 2&1.
Kiran Matharu (Sand Moor)
had a convincing 6&4 win against Sarah Purdy (Stoke
Rochford) having eagled the par 5, 8th hole by hitting
her 7 wood, second shot to 6 inches from the hole.
Stroke Play qualifying rounds:
Round2
Melissa Reid,
is the leading qualifier in the English Girls’
Championship at Gainsborough Golf Club, Lincs. Melissa,
16 years old from Chevin had four birdies in a row
in the first round, total 71, I under. During the
second round she shot 73, having a double bogie on
the 4th where she thinned her chip to the green. She
then rescued her front 9 by 3 consecutive birdies
from the 6th.
Melissa’s back 9 was level
until the 18th when she drove too far into the grassy
dip, her second shot was well short of the green but
a pitch from 70 yards hit the pin, finishing 10ft
away.
Claire Aitken (Mid-Kent) and Kiran
Matharu (Sand Moor) are joint runner-up qualifiers
with 144. Claire 71 / 73, on the 18th she hit her
tee shot left and could only then play down the 9th
fairway. The ball finished on the 9th green where
she had to take a drop, in turn she played a superb
pitch to 8ft and holed it for a four. Kiran 72 / 72,
now playing with her own clubs said “the speed
of the greens made them more difficult”.
The cut for the Championship
is 154, and the cut for flight 2 is 160. Jodi Ewart
(Catterick) the round 1 leader has qualified for Flight
1 having shot 70 / 76, total 146. Emilee Taylor the
local Gainsborough girl has also qualified having
shot 76 / 75, total 151.
Round 1
Jodi Ewart, Catterick, leads
the field at the end of round 1 in the English Girls’
Championship at Gainsborough Golf Club, Lincs, with
a 2 under par score of 70. Jodi had a solid par round
with birdies on the par 4 7th and the par 5 12th.
. Jodi parred home despite getting stuck behind a
tree on the 15th.
Jodi is 16 years old and currently
holds the Yorkshire County Girls title and won the
2003 Weetabix Junior Under 15 Championship. She has
qualified to play in the Weetabix Under 16 Championship
this year with a 1 under course record at Thetford
Golf Club. Jodi is used to low scores as she shot
4 under in the Helen Holm.
Melissa Reid (Chevin), Claire Aitken
(Mid-Kent) and, the current title holder, Kerry-Anne
Haskell (Broadstone) all had rounds of 71. Felicity
Johnson (Harborne) and Kiran Matharu (Sand Moor) both
played to par on 72. This was a great result for Kiran
as her clubs had been delayed in transit on her return
from the European Young Masters and she played with
a borrowed set.
Emilee Taylor playing on
her home course shot a 4 over par 76.
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