Jade Turner - Photo Nathalie Vion

First pro victory on August 17 in France?

Jane Turner will she win the first tournament of her professional career on the European circuit
second division? The answer this Thursday, August 17 at the end of the third and last round of Bossey
Ladies Championship by Pitch & Play, a brand new French stage of LETAS.
After her superb card of 65 in the first round - a feat matched on the same day by the French Astrid Vayson de Pradenne, the solid and smiling Scotswoman ensured a more modest 70 in the second round. But that was enough to keep the tournament lead. Turner even remains the only leader at -7 as Astrid Vayson de Pradenne recorded a 74 after her 65 in the first round, falling for 4th tied at -3.

One stroke ahead of Escuriola and Muehl

Lady Jane was not unhappy with her second round, even less sparkling than the first.
“The flag positions were much more difficult and the putting was much more complicated, it was not
not possible to redo 26 putts as on Tuesday "explained the player from Craigielaw Golf Club who
however attributes his good current skills to the heavy work done this year in putting with the
Aimpoint technique. The kind Turner kept only the positive of his day, happy to have
concluded on a birdie at 18 and thus keep the head of the tournament, with only one stroke ahead of the
second at -6: Natalia Escuriola of Spain and Nina Muehl of Austria.

A rookie already second in a LETAS tournament in 2014

A pro in 2013, Jane Turner, 26, has never played in tournaments on the LET, the
first European division. It operates exclusively on LETAS (20th in the Order of Merit
in 2014, 25th in 2015, and 43rd provisional in 2017). With, as a flagship performance, a place of
2nd in 2014 at the HLR Golf Academy Open in Finland. The win this Thursday at Bossey? We'll have to
battle. Natalia Escuriola has references this year: 3rd in the Jabra Ladies Open in June (so at
a place to qualify for the Evian Championship behind Isabelle Boineau and the Swede
Johanna Gustavsson). As for the Austrian Nina Muehl, her 64 card this Wednesday in Bossey
speak for her!

A 64 for Nina Muehl, an ace for Valeria Martinoli

Before Nina Muehl, only Frenchman Alexander Levy, still an amateur during the Jean Lignel Trophy
in 2010, signed a map of 64 on this mountain of Salève which overlooks Geneva.
Muehl thus achieves the first best mark recorded in a professional tournament on the par 71 Haut-Savoyard. In the same way that the young Swiss Valeria Martinoli, author of a hole in one par 3 at n ° 14, will have scored in her own way on August 16. Less euphoria on the side of
Meghan MacLaren, the current English leader of the Order of Merit of LETAS: triple bogey at
dangerous by 4 n ° 7, card of 76 and a decline in temporary place from 26th to + 3…

No success for Meghan MacLaren, the current n ° 1

The small concerns of Meghan MacLaren, who is part of the team of players sponsored by
Pitch & Play (tournament promoter), will open up prospects for the circuit ranking.
In particular to Nina Muehl, 4th in the LETAS Ranking. And even more French Valentine
Derrey, 2nd, and to the Englishwoman Charlotte Thompsom, 3rd in this same classification. Especially since
Valentine and Charlotte, without making any noise, had a good second round, placing 6th ex
aequo to - 2 total, in the company of the Swiss Anaïs Maggetti. Everything is open for the third round where only 51 players are in action (cut to +6 after two rounds).
Valentine Derrey, with her experience as a player at the highest level on the LET, can notably aim for a comeback.

Valentine Derrey for a third success in 2017

In April at the Terre Blanche Ladies Open, Miss Derrey dominated the tournament and won with a
insolent margin "almost without thinking about it". But on May 26 for its victory in Bara, Sweden, the
Parisian, like a hungry junior, came to snatch the title at the end of the third round: birdie 15,
birdie 16, par 17 and birdie 18! "It's going to be a game of mind and strategy" predicted
Valentine on her arrival at Bossey… With Astrid Vayson from Pradenne 4th, Valentine Derrey 6th,
Agathe Sauzon returned good 11th, but also Eva Gilly, Julie Aimé and Camille Chevalier 14th
tied, no less than six French women appear in the top 15 for a total of eighteen who
passed the cut. The mountain air ...

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