It's the end of the working day here. I'm sitting at my PC but Sophie Hunter was out there on the green stuff in Spain. Lucky you might think except our lefty lady is at Q-School trying to get a card for the Ladies European Tour in 2007.
Teeing off from the 10th today again Sophie bogeyed her first hole of the day but again settled down well coming back straight away with a birdie on the long par 3 11th. A stead few holes then brought a second consecutive bogey at 17 before she pulled a shot back with a birdie at another par 3. The run into the clubhouse was a gain a bit tortuous running through holes 16-18 at bogey, birdie, bogey.
Overall she's fairly even with as many birdies as bogeys running at around 19.5% of holes played with 61% of holes played to par (hey i'm a guy, ok). So I think she's a goer - so to speak! While she's leaking a few bogeys there's clearly a birdie machine in there too. It all gets psychological from here though.
To be honest i'm not a big fan of the LET's website. Live Scoring is slow and compared to the LPGA website it just ain't that funky. It did, however, today put up a bunch of photos from day one which would do Golf Digest's gallery of golf bellies proud :-). Sophie was in the bunch taken which was a nice lefty 'action' shot. I think that's about the second picture i've seen of her with the other being on the LET player profiles which shows a thumbnail of our Q-School Queen from a few years back i'd say.
So, on to Round 3! The field is cut to the top 50 (+ ties) after R3. For my money I think a 72 Hole score of +2 will get a 2007 card so Sophie has to keep doing what she's doing because she's doing just fine. The men's Q-School at San Roque a week or so back threw up some final round chokers so the final round is all about enjoying the company of 'Old Man Par.' Have a nice chat, keep him sweet, just don't stray far.
For the rest of Q-School Kiran Matharu is coming good with an excellent round today. I'm hardly being psychic here but I think if she continues to progress as she has done - and by that i mean if she challenges for a win at Q-School, she is going to do very well on Tour next year and she can stick that rejection letter from the LPGA right up their golf holes!
Shelly McKevitt put in an excellent round today following on from a donkey of a round yesterday but i'd put my TaylorMade Mid Rescue that there's not full card for her.
I'll have a look at the other English Ladies next time out but hey, this is where Left handed golfers get the spotlight.
GO SOPHIE!
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