Sporting Digest: Golf

TONY JACKLIN shot 67 and Keith Waters a course-record 64 in the ATS Pro- Am tournament at Stoke Poges yesterday. 'That was the best golf I've played for a long time,' Jacklin, who had four birdies, said.

WELSH WOMEN'S CHAMPIONSHIP (Abergele and Pensarn) Semi-finals: V Thomas (Pennard) bt J Foster (Pontardawe) 5 and 4; A Donne (Padeswood and Buckley) bt S Lovatt (Prestatyn) 3 and 2. Final: Donne bt Thomas at 19th.

AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP (Royal Portrush, N Irl) Leading first-round scores: Dunluce (Par 73): 69 B Dredge (Bryn Meadows). 70 J Fanagan (Milltown). 71 D Cameron (Royal Portrush), R Heasley (Lisburn). 72 C O'Carroll (Brynhill), P Sherman (Ashford), R Russell (Longniddry). 73 G Redford (St Andrews New), J Bunch (St Andrews New), S Cage (Sand Moor), D Fisher (Stoke Poges), L Westerberg (Swe), C Cevaer (Fr), M McEwan (Mendip), P Purdy (Shandon Pk), M Thompson (Ferndown), S Barwick (East Berks). Valley (Par 70): 67 M Stanford (Saltford). 68 C Watson (East Renfrewshire), B Collier (Callander), M J Watson (Weymouth), R Hutton (Ardglass), C Evans (West Monmouthshire), N Goulding (Portmarnock). 69 R Walker (Wearside), P Page (Dartford), L Westwood (Worksop), R Hutt (Southport & Ainsdale), N Ludwell (Selby). 70 R Bland (Bramshott Hill), D J Ross (Stoke Rochford), S Mackenzie (West Linton), J P Fitzgerald (Co Louth), G McAleese (Royal Portrush), N Anderson (Shandon Park), E Kennedy (Strabane), C Cowan (Elie), G Hutcheon (Banchory).