{"id":464414,"date":"2021-08-15T08:32:27","date_gmt":"2021-08-15T08:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/todayheadline.co\/gourley-leads-qualifiers-in-ra-girls-amateur-golf-australia-magazine-the-womens-game\/"},"modified":"2021-08-15T08:32:27","modified_gmt":"2021-08-15T08:32:27","slug":"gourley-leads-qualifiers-in-ra-girls-amateur-golf-australia-magazine-the-womens-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/todayheadline.co\/gourley-leads-qualifiers-in-ra-girls-amateur-golf-australia-magazine-the-womens-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Gourley leads qualifiers in R&A Girls\u2019 Amateur – Golf Australia Magazine – The Women’s Game"},"content":{"rendered":"


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The 17-year-old carded a new women\u2019s course record at the Yorkshire venue after an opening eight-under-par 66 and followed that with a steady level-par 74.<\/p>\n

Gourley, a winner with England at the R&A Girls\u2019 Home Internationals last week, progressed to the match play stages as the leading qualifier with her eight-under-par total, two shots ahead of compatriot Lottie Woad and Scotland\u2019s Hannah Darling.<\/p>\n

\u201cI love the course. I\u2019ve played it so many times. To be able to come and play a national championship here is good fun. I\u2019ve just got to keep it going,\u201d Gourley said.<\/p>\n

Darling, the highest-ranked player in the field and boosted by her Curtis Cup selection on Monday, continued her rich vein of form on the course after a bogey-free round of 70 to add to her 72.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI love the course. I\u2019ve played it so many times. To be able to come and play a national championship here is good fun. I\u2019ve just got to keep it going.\u201d – Rachel Gourley.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The 18-year-old, who won the R&A Girls\u2019 U16 Amateur Championship at Fulford in 2018, carded four birdies in her first 13 holes and passed up other good opportunities in the closing stretch.<\/p>\n

In pleasant conditions for the 92nd staging of the championship, Woad finished on the same six-under-par mark as Darling after back-to-back rounds of 71. The 17-year-old is clearly in confident mood, achieving 12 birdies in her 36 holes \u2013 the best birdie record in the field.<\/p>\n

\u201cI won the Home Internationals with the England Girls\u2019 team last week \u2013 it was good to get match play practice before this week \u2013 so was my goal to progress to the knock-out stages here,\u201d Woad said. \u201cI was unbeaten last week so I\u2019ve hopefully gained in confidence for match play.\u201d<\/p>\n

The leading 32 players progressed to tomorrow\u2019s match play stage, with the cut falling at seven-over-par.<\/p>\n

Two other in-form English players also qualified comfortably, Maggie Whitehead and Patience Rhodes, with Ireland\u2019s Beth Coulter \u2013 runner-up to Darling in 2018 \u2013and Swiss sisters Ella and Victoria Levy also securing a last-32 spot. The youngest player in the field, Roisin Scanlon, 13, is into the match play format too.<\/p>\n

The last staging of the Girls\u2019 Amateur in 2019 was won by Slovenia’s Pia Babnik \u2013 the teenager already a Ladies\u2019 European Tour winner in 2021 \u2013 with past winners also including Suzann Pettersen, Azahara Munoz, Anna Nordqvist and Georgia Hall.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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The 17-year-old carded a new women\u2019s course record at the Yorkshire venue after an opening eight-under-par 66 and followed that with a steady level-par 74. Gourley, a winner with England at the R&A Girls\u2019 Home Internationals last week, progressed to the match play stages as the leading qualifier with her eight-under-par total, two shots ahead […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":227,"featured_media":464415,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4839],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/todayheadline.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/ragirls.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/todayheadline.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464414"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/todayheadline.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/todayheadline.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todayheadline.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/227"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todayheadline.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=464414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/todayheadline.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todayheadline.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/464415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/todayheadline.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todayheadline.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todayheadline.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}