World beginner primary Lottie Woad fired a warning shot throughout the bow of first-round rival Aloysa Margiela Atienza when she adopted a 69 with a superb six-under 66 to high the qualifiers within the Ladies’s Beginner Championship at Portmarnock.
The reigning Augusta Nationwide Ladies’s Beginner champion (20) bounced again from a gap bogey with birdies on the second, fourth, seventh, ninth, tenth, thirteenth and fifteenth to high the leaderboard by 5 strokes on nine-under from Sweden’s Maja Ortengren, who shot 69 to be the one different participant within the crimson.
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Seven of the 13-strong Irish contingent made the 64 qualifiers for the matchplay as diminutive Singaporean Atienzan noticed a 45-foot bomb from in need of the ninth inexperienced on the fourth further gap clatter the pin and drop.
She eradicated England’s Persistence Rhodes in close to darkness to finish a six-way playoff for the sixty fourth spot on 13-over.
American Anna Morgan was eradicated on the first further gap, the tenth, as Atienza, Rhodes, Denmark’s Johanna Axelson, People Rebekka Skoler and Sydney Roberts made pars to advance.
Axelson and Skoler bowed out with bogeys on the ninth earlier than Roberts was eradicated on their return to the tenth, the place Rhodes from the left and Atienza from the suitable each made incredible up and downs for par.