Pace Best Placed in Switzerland

 

 

Lee-Anne Pace is the best-placed of four South Africans after the first round of the Deutsche Bank Ladies Swiss Open, at the Golf Gerre Losone, Switzerland, when she recorded an even-par 72 to finish four off the leading pack.

 

The tournament overnight leaderboard was topped by a group of four, after Britain’s Eleanor Pilgrim, Australia’s Nikki Garrett, Germany’s Bettina Hauert and Switzerland’s Frederique Seeholzer each carded four-under par 68 first-round scores.

 

Garrett will fancy her chances, having won her first professional title against the same field at the Ladies Spanish Open in Castellon on Sunday, when she beat England’s Rebecca Hudson by one stroke for a winning total of 13-under par 275 at Club de Campo Mediterraneo.

 

Also playing are newly-announced professional Ashleigh Simon in her rookie professional tournament, Stacey Lee Bregman and Laurette Maritz, who placed a very good 5th overall position in last week’s Ladies Spanish Open, finishing nine-under par 279 for a Euro11,660 pay check.

 

Maritz trailed Pace by two overnight for a 2-over par 74, and Simon will be disappointed with her first pro tournament jitters, after carding a 5-over 77, to lead former amateur team-mate Bregman by one.

 

The tournament defending champion Gwladys Nocera had a 73 for a share of 31st position, but remains five strokes behind the leaders, and after her third-place to Garrett on the weekend, will believe herself to be very much in the competition.  
 
Deutsche Bank Ladies Swiss Open, at the Golf Gerre Losone
17th – 20th May 2007
Scores at End of Round 1

68 – Eleanor Pilgrim (WAL), Nikki Garrett (AUS), Bettina Hauert (GER), Frederique Seeholzer (SWI)
69 – Lora Fairclough (ENG), Federica Piovano (ITA), Diana Luna (ITA), Elisabeth Esterl (GER)
70 – Shani Waugh (AUS), Elizabeth McKinnon (NZ), Ursula Wikstrom (FIN)
71 – Sarah Kemp (AUS), Becky Brewerton (WAL), Felicity Johnson (ENG), Marina Arruti (ESP), Karen Lunn (AUS), Laura Cabanillas (ESP), Asa Gottmo (SWE)
72 – Maria Boden (SWE), Lotta Wahlin (SWE), Louise Friberg (SWE), Louise Stahle (SWE), Sophie Sandolo (ITA), Anna Rawson (AUS), Lee-Anne Pace (SA), Margherita Rigon (ITA), Beatriz Recari (ESP), Lisa Jean (AUS), Veronica Zorzi (ITA), Ana Larraneta (ESP)
73 – Jo Clingan (ENG), Sarah Heath (ENG), Fany Schaeffer (FRA), Clare Queen (SCO), Tania Elosegui (ESP), Paula Marti (ESP), Kirsty Taylor (ENG), Stefania Croce (ITA), Amy Yang (KOR), Natalie Claire Booth (ENG), Bree Turnbull (AUS), Stefanie Michl (AUT), Kris Lindstrom (USA), Elisa Serramia (ESP), Cherie Byrnes (AUS), Gwladys Nocera (FRA), Isabella Maconi (ITA), Martina Eberl (GER), Katharina Schallenberg (Am) (GER), Rebecca Stevenson (AUS), Helena Alterby (SWE), Eva Steinberger (AUT), Caroline Rominger (Am) (SWI)
74 – Lill Kristin Saether (NOR), Trish Johnson (ENG), Riikka Hakkarainen (FIN), Laurette Maritz (SA), Samantha Head (ENG), Anja Monke (GER), Lisa Holm Sorensen (DEN), Hanna-Leena Salonen (FIN), Elin Ohlsson (SWE), Jenni Kuosa (FIN), Ellen Smets (BEL), Nienke Nijenhuis (NL), Natascha Fink (AUT), Sophie Giquel (FRA), Georgina Simpson (ENG)
75 – Anna Knutsson (SWE), Anne Lise Caudal (FRA), Mianne Bagger (DEN), Rebecca Hudson (ENG), Stephanie Arricau (FRA), Jade Schaeffer (FRA), Fame More (ENG), Kiran Matharu (ENG), Iben Tinning (DEN), Rebecca Coakley (IRE), Lara Tadiotto (BEL), Johanna Westerberg (SWE), Mette Buus (DEN), Julie Tvede (DEN)
76 – Carlie Butler (AUS), Anna Rossi (ITA), Virginie Auffret (FRA), Ana B Sanchez (ESP), Joanne Mills (AUS), Karen-Margrethe Juul (DEN), Denise Simon (GER), Claire Coughlan (IRE), Kathryn Imrie (SCO), Nora Angehrn (SWI), Ludivine Kreutz (FRA), Marta Prieto (ESP), Marlene Hedblom (SWE), Virginie Lagoutte-Clement (FRA), Amanda Moltke-Leth (DEN), Lisa Hall (ENG), Kirsty S Taylor (ENG), Maria Verchenova (RUS)
77 – Tullia Calzavara (ITA), Ashleigh Simon (SA), Leah Hart (AUS), Lynn Kenny (SCO), Jehanne Jail (FRA), Florence Luscher (SWI), Sophie Walker (ENG)
78 – Stacy Lee Bregman (SA), Nicole Gergely (AUT), Nathalie David-Mila (FRA), Danielle Masters (ENG), Cecilia Ekelundh (SWE), Anna Temple (USA), Christine Hallstrom (SWE), Lynn Brooky (NZ), Liza Walters (ENG), Fanny Vuignier (Am) (SWI)
79 – Sofia Renell (SWE), Anna Tybring (SWE)
81 – Sara Beautell (ESP), Carmen Alonso (ESP), Anais Maggetti (Am) (SWI), Catrin Nilsmark (SWE)
82 – Rikke Rasmussen (DEN), Barbara Paruscio (ITA)
RTD – Cassandra Kirkland (FRA)