Friday, May 9, 2008

TURKISH DELIGHT FOR WAHLIN

TURKISH DELIGHT FOR WAHLIN

Sweden's Lotta Wahlin holds a two-shot lead after the first round of the Garanti American Express Turkish Ladies Open.

The 24-year-old shot a two-under-par 71 and was the only player to break par on the opening day at National Golf Club, with Spain's Paula Marti in outright second on level par.

Wahlin, who opened with nine straight pars, said: "It's a tough course and it wasn't that easy because the wind was changing.

"It's one of the toughest courses we have because it's so narrow and long."

Wahlin won an invitational event featuring 20 of the Ladies European Tour's best players in Spain a month ago and added: "Now I know I can beat all of them, even if it was not an official event.

"I still know that I can win and the others know that I can win so it was very important.

"Actually my goal this year is to win three tournaments so if I win one, I'm not happy, I want to win even more."

Marti, the 2002 LET order of merit winner,carded three birdies and three bogeys.

She said: "I didn't start well and thought it would be a long day, but I looked at the scoreboard and saw that Lotta was leading and plus one was second.

"I have taught myself not to get too stressed out early on because you can make up for a bad start and make it into a good round."

Collated first round scores from the Ladies European Tour's Garanti American Express Turkish Open at the National Golf Club, Antalya, Turk (Par: 73)

71 Lotta Wahlin (Swe)

73 Paula Marti (Spa)

74 Melodie Bourdy (Fra), Anne-Lise Caudal (Fra), Stacy Lee Bregman (Rsa), Ana B Sanchez (Spa), Anja Monke (Ger), Jade Schaeffer (Fra)

75 Anne Norman Hansen (Den), Zuzana Kamasova (Svk), Natalie Claire Booth (Eng), Margherita Rigon (Ita), Christine Hallstrom (Swe), Mianne Bagger (Den), Cassandra Kirkland (Fra), Emma Zackrisson (Swe)

76 Ana Larraneta (Spa), Stefania Croce (Ita), Karen-Margrethe Juul (Den), Rachel Bell (Eng)

77 Hanna-Leena Salonen (Fin), Martina Gillen (Irl), Maria Boden (Swe), Danielle Masters (Eng), Lynn Kenny (Sco), Nicole Gergely (Aut), Laurette Maritz (Rsa), Emma Lyons (Eng), Iben Tinning (Den), Melissa Reid (Eng), Gwladys Nocera (Fra), Becky Brewerton (Wal), Amy Yang (Kor), Laura Terebey (USA)

78 Nuria Clau (Spa), Natascha Fink (Aut), Clare Queen (Sco), Sophie Sandolo (Ita), Hazel Kavanagh (Irl), Dana Lacey (Aus), Trish Johnson (Eng), Nikki Garrett (Aus), Stephanie Arricau (Fra)

79 Julie Berton (Fra), Ursula Wikstrom (Fin), Maria Beautell (Spa), Lora Fairclough (Eng), Jehanne Jail (Fra), Karen Lunn (Aus), Lisa Holm Sorensen (Den), Titiya Plucksataporn (Tha), Lee-Anne Pace (Rsa), Ludivine Kreutz (Fra), Martina Eberl (Ger), Marianne Skarpnord (Nor), Anna Rawson (Aus), Kirsty S Taylor (Eng)

80 Nathalie David-Mila (Fra), Cherie Byrnes (Aus), Elisabeth Esterl (Ger), Caroline Afonso (Fra), Laura Cabanillas (Spa), Cecilia Ekelundh (Swe), Georgina Simpson (Eng), Joanne Morley (Eng), Cecilie Lundgreen (Nor), Lara Tadiotto (Bel), Lisa Hall (Eng), Yuki Sakurai (Jpn), Henrietta Zuel (Eng), Lill Kristin Saether (Nor), Amanda Moltke-Leth (Den), Samantha Head (Eng), Johanna Westerberg (Swe), Anna Temple (USA), Ellen Smets (Bel)

81 Kate Combes (Aus), Itziar Elguezabal (Spa), Jo Clingan (Eng), Rebecca Coakley (Irl), Anna Knutsson (Swe), Kiran Matharu (Eng), Felicity Johnson (Eng), Stefanie Michl (Aut), Elcin Ulu (Tur), Maria Verchenova (Rus), Julie Tvede (Den), Jenna Wilson (Sco)

82 Asa Gottmo (Swe), Fame More (Eng), Marta Prieto (Spa), Frances Bondad (Aus), Elizabeth McKinnon (Nzl), Rebecca Hudson (Eng), Beatriz Recari (Spa), Anna Rossi (Ita), Tania Elosegui (Spa), Veronica Zorzi (Ita), Eva Steinberger (Aut), Marjet van der Graaff (Ned)

83 Claire Coughlan (Irl), Mette Buus (Den), Denise-Charlotte Becker (Ger), Vittoria Valvassori (Ita), Elin Ohlsson (Swe), Kirsty J Fisher (Eng), Rui Yokomine (Jpn)

84 Marina Arruti (Spa), Lydia Hall (Wal), Neijla Gercek (Tur), Lynn Brooky (Nzl), Sophie Walker (Eng), Katharina Schallenberg (Ger)

85 Carmen Alonso (Spa), Florence Luscher (Swi), Frederique Seeholzer (Swi)

86 Julie Greciet (Fra), Sofia Renell (Swe), Lena Tornevall (Swe), Anna Tybring (Swe), Federica Piovano (Ita)

88 Bronwyn Mullins-Lane (Aus), Nora Angehrn (Swi), Muzeyyen Sasmaz (Tur)

90 Eleanor Pilgrim (Wal)


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