The Scotsman Golf Show

Martin Dempster at the Women’s Open.

Transcript

00:00Hello it's Martin Dempster the Scotsman golf correspondent here coming to you from the

00:10old course at St Andrews. Play not quite finished yet in the opening round of the AIG Women's

00:17Open, quarter past eight at night. It's been a long day here, the first groups teed off

00:25at seven o'clock and boy was it windy for the most part of the day as had been expected.

00:32However remarkably there were no delays due to that wind and the opening round is going

00:42to be completed on schedule. The pace had been set in the clubhouse by China's Ronnie

00:51Yin. She produced a remarkable effort this morning, she was six under at one point, eventually

00:58settled for a four under par, 68 and it really did look as though that would be the leading

01:04score at the end of the opening day. However the afternoon starters got a bit of a break,

01:11it's still windy but for the last three or four holes the wind had dropped and helped

01:19by that England's Charlie Hull. She shot a five under par 67, almost holed her second

01:27shot at the last, finished with a birdie and she leads by a shot at the end of the opening

01:34day. Alongside Yin on four under par is the world number one Nellie Corder playing in

01:41the same group as Hull and defending champion Lilia Vu. Corder birdied three of the last

01:48five holes including a 3-3 finish and she was certainly delighted with her start. As

01:54was the aforementioned Lilia Vu, she is in a group on three under par. The two Scots

02:01in the field in her last appearance in the event, Katrina Matthew the 2009 winner, she

02:07shot a five over 77 and Gemma Dryborough had to settle for a seven over par 79, meaning

02:14both of them have work to do in tomorrow's second round to make the cut. To keep up to

02:21date with everything to do with the AIG Women's Open, pick up the Scotsman or log on to Scotsman.com.