Sporting Digest: Golf

EUROPEAN CLASSIC WOMEN'S TOURNAMENT (Bad Griesbach) Leading first-round scores: (GB or Irl unless stated): 69 L Fairclough. 70 D Petrizzi (US), A Sorenstam (Swe), C Nilsmark (Swe). 71 J Soulsby. 72 H Wadsworth. 73 J Arnold (NZ), K Espinasse (Fr), C Hjalmarsson (Swe), G Stewart, J Forbes, W Dicks. 74 M Landehag (Swe), A Nicholas, C Dibnah (Aus), S Shapcott, M Lunn (Aus) C Duffy, J Hill (Zim), J Germs (SA), M-G Estuesta (Phil), D Barnard, X Wunsch (Sp), N Hall (Aus), A Jones (Aus).

EUROPEAN WOMEN'S TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP (Royal Haagsche, Neth) Leading second-round scores: 739 Sweden (374 365). 744 France (369 375). 746 Spain (375 371). 750 England (375 375) (N Buxton 74 76; L Walton 77 77; J Morley 73 73; S Burnell 78 84; K Speak 78 78; J Hall 73 71). 754 Ireland (372 382) (E Higgins 74 82; D McCarthy 85 76; T Eakin 73 77; A Rogers 74 77; A O'Sullivan 80 77; E Power 71 75). 756 Italy. 757 Scotland (372 385) (J Moodie 77 79, A Rose 75 77, C Lambert 73 71, M McKay 70 79, F McKay 78 79, M McKinlay 77 82). 773 Wales (381 392) (V Thomas 77 77; L Dermott 75 77; J Foster 73 81; B Jones 80 79; A Donne 87 81; H Lawson 76 78). 775 Denmark. 779 Germany. 785 Belgium. 786 Netherlands. 796 Switzerland. 800 Austria, Norway. 807 Iceland.