Australian Women's Amateur

Tsai Pei-Ying played the 36 hole final of the Australian Amateur yesterday at Royal Queensland Golf Club. She played against Justine Lee from Australia who had also played well in the stroke play section.

Justine jumped out of the blocks in the morning 18 and had opened up a four hole lead by the time the players had finished the 14th hole. Tsai Pei-Ying fought back though, winning three of the last four holes of the morning round to head into the lunch break only one hole behind.

The break was handy for Justine as she opened up another two hole lead with only nine holes left to play. Tsai Pei-Ying showed what a fighter she is by getting herself back to square after the 35th hole. Unfortunately she lost the final hole and Justine Lee became the Australian Amateur Women's Champion for 2009.

Tsai Pei-Ying had a great tournament two weeks and gained a lot of experience from playing in this event. It is a lot of golf (11 rounds in 8 days) in both match play and stroke play formats and for her to finish 3rd in the stroke play section and runner up in the match play section shows how good she is as a player.

I spoke to her quickly last night on MSN and she said she was feeling a little sad and happy at the same time. I told her she should be really proud of herself and that she did so well in a strange country travelling by herself. I will speak to her more when she gets back to Taiwan later this week.

I also want to give a big thank you to Michael Craperi and Hills International Golf School for looking after Tsai Pei-Ying while she was in Australia. I really appreciate all the the help Michael gave her while she was in Brisbane.

Just a quick update on the Faldo Series Final at Mission Hills in China. Hsieh Yu-Ling shot 69 to be leading both the girls section and the tournament, Liu Yi-Chen had 71 to be well placed in the girls section as well. In the boys section Hung Chien-Yao had 71 and Hsieh Chi-Hsien had 75. Both boys are well placed to compete in the rest of the tournament. You can find the live scores here.

Until next time,

Brent