Golf: Matthew moves on up

NORTH BERWICK'S Catriona Matthew climbed the leaderboard with a second-round 71 in the LPGA Championship, the second women's major of the at Locust Hill Country Club in New York State.

After an opening 74, the Ricoh Women's British Open bagged four birdies to move into a tie for 23rd on one-over. Fellow Scot Janice Moodie is on the same mark after rounds of 73 and 72.

In the British women's amateur championship at Ganton in Yorkshire, Scottish champion Kelsey MacDonald says that she is over the disappointment she felt at being left out of the Great Britain and Ireland team for the Curtis Cup match in America earlier this month.

Before teeing it up against ex-US Curtis Cup player Meghan Stasi in the first semi-final this morning, the 19-year-old Stirling University student said was driven by a desire to win not only a place in the afternoon final but also the title itself to make the GB&I selectors squirm.

After beating Spain's Adriana Zwank 2 and 1 and then American Olivia Lansing by a similar margin, Kelsey said: "Whether I would have had the motivation to win the Scottish title and get through here had I not been ignored by the Curtis Cup selectors, I leave for other people to argue about."

The other semi-final featured Kelly Tidy of Royal Birkdale and Rebecca Lee-Bentham from Toronto. Tidy beat Sally Watson (Elie and Earlsferry) by one hole in the quarter-finals.