Both Hannah Barwood and Rachel Jennings have managed to qualify for the match play stages of the Spanish women’s amateur championship.
The two England internationals are among the 32 women who will go forward in the competition, held at Pals, Girona. Hannah, of Knowle, Gloustershire qualified in eighth place with two rounds of 75. She is set to face Spaniard Noemi Jiminez, the 25th placed qualifier in the match play round.
Rachel, from Izaak Walton, Staffordshire finished in 23rd position with rounds of 79 and 74. She meets another Spaniard, 10th seed Camilla Hedberg in the next stage.
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Match play is a different kind of scoring system in golf; the player or team who wins the hole, wins the point. This is different to the more commonly used stroke play scoring, where the total number of strokes is counted across one or more rounds of 18 holes.
Both women are in the GB&I team for the 2010 Curtis Cup which is to be held in June. Fellow squad members Charlie Douglass and Charlotte Ellis failed to qualify for the next stage of this competition with rounds of 86, 74 and 81, 75 respectively.
Rachel Stansfield, Sportsister
The Women’s Sports Magazine
