SCOREBOARD – Ladies&apos British Open Amateur Championship – Qualifying Royal Fremantle member Minjee Lee and Victorian Breanna Elliott both lost in the opening rounds of the Match Play at the Women&aposs British Amateur Championship which 16 year old Briton Lauren Taylor claimed in an extraordinary performance. England&aposs Amy Boulden defeated Lee 4&3 in the second round of Match Play while Elliott lost to Denmark&aposs Therese Koelbaeck by the same score in the first round. The winner, 16-year-old Woburn GC junior member Taylor, became the youngest ever winner of the Ladies&apos British Open Amateur championship when she beat 17-year-old Alexandra Bonetti from France by 6 and 5 in the 18-hole final over the sunny Royal Portrush. Previously the youngest winner accolade was held by May Hezlett who won on 12th May 1899 aged 17 years and 13 days. Her record lasted for 112 years until Lauren took her place in the record books on Saturday. It capped an astonishing week for Rugby-based Lauren, an England girl international, who surprised even herself and her caddie-dad Martin by playing brilliantly all week and then producing an outstanding performance in the final to take the measure of Bonetti who won the British girls open championship on her last visit to Northern Ireland at Royal Belfast last August. Queensland&aposs Ashley Ona and NSW pair Emma de Groot and Cathleen Santoso failed to make the 36 hole cut. with assistance from the Ladies Golf Union
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