Clews leads Amateur on four under

Gemma Clews shot a second-round 69 to edge into the halfway lead at the Ladies British Open Amateur Stroke Play Championship at North Berwick.

On a day of intermittent showers, the Delamere Forest player finished on a four-under-par total of 142, one stroke ahead of first-round leader, Hannah Screen.

The English pair were followed by Swede Linn Grant – she shot a best-of-thechampionship 68 – and Ireland’s Annabel Wilson (70) on one-under-par 145.

Grantown-on-spey’s Hannah Mccook was the leading home player, a second-round 72 lifting the Scot into joint sixth on one over par.

Clews, 22, made her move on the front nine after going out in fourunder-par 34. She birdied the opening two holes, the fourth and the ninth and then strung together nine pars on the inward half.

“I putted nicely going out,” she said. “All the birdies were from about 20 feet. At the moment, I’m playing golf full-time and I do want to turn professional.”

Screen followed her opening 71 with a 72. She made a brave decision to switch putter after the first round and is hoping it will pay off over the final day’s 36 holes.

Defending champion Sophie Lamb slipped outside the top tenafter a 75 for a two-over-par total of 148.