On-fire Yang is well placed for Girls' title

JULIE Yang, the 15-year-old South Korean girl who has been based in Scotland since last September when she moved from Arizona to Musselburgh to become a pupil at Loretto School, is one to watch in the Girls' Championship when it is played at Royal Belfast Golf Club from 9-13 August.

Her titles this year include the Welsh Women's Open Amateur Stroke-Play, the Paul Lawrie Foundation Scottish schoolgirls and the Danish Amateur Championship.

She has since then also came through the qualifying process and played in the 2010 Ricoh Women's British Open at Royal Birkdale.

Kelly Tidy from Bolton, meanwhile, has the opportunity to become only the third player in history to win both the Ladies' and Girls' British Open Amateur titles in the same year. The only other British player to achieve the feat was Mickey Walker from Leeds in 1972.

The Championship has once again attracted a large field, reduced by ballot to 144 players. Two strokeplay qualifying rounds will take place on Monday 9 and Tuesday 10 August to decide the top 64 qualifiers for the matchplay stages. Perrine Delacoure (France) who won last year will be out to retain the title..