Britain and Ireland move up leaderboard

GREAT BRITAIN and Ireland carded the equal-best score of the day to jump eight places up the leaderboard in the women’s World Amateur Team Golf Championship in the sweltering heat of Kuala Lumpur yesterday.

The team moved from 20th after the second round to tied-12th with a five-under-par 141 in the four-day event, which is being led by Thailand.

The surge was largely due to the vastly improved form of Emma Duggleby, the 30-year-old former English, British and European champion from Malton and Norton in Yorkshire.