Micah blitzes to South West title

9:38am Saturday 19th July 2008

CORNWALL'S Micah Carroll claimed the South West Girls' Championship at North Wilts with a supreme display of golf, writes Ernie Newell.

The three-handicapper from Launceton shot a record first round of one below par 72 and posted a second round 74 for a 36-hole total of 146 to finish eight strokes ahead of Dorset's Hayley Davies (74-80).

The Devon pair of Georgina Snow and Jessica Bradley shared third place, two strokes further back on 156 with rounds of 78-78 and 75-81 respectively.

Twelve-year-old Kyra Horlock was the best of the Wiltshire contingent, the young Hamptworth county player finishing 13th with 171 (86-85).

Wrag Barn's Katie Warren shared 20th place on 177 with Sophie Newman, the Wiltshire girls' captain from Broome Manor, Warren carding 89-88 and Newman 83-94, and the Manor's Samantha Masters 25th with 184 (88-96).

Wiltshire star Hannah Turland, from Tidworth, who won the Under 15's title three years ago when she was 11, was a notable absentee from the championships.

She was in Lancashire preparing to represent the English Women's Golf Association in the biennial 54-hole Junior Open Championship for Under 16's at Hesketh.

And the 14-year-old English Girls' Under 13's and Wiltshire women's champion did her reputation no harm whatsoever at the Southport club.

She finished 28th and fifth among the British and Irish players - the other four were boys - in the strong international field with a three round score of 249, comprising cards of 85, 81 and 83.

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