Johanna can't believe she won

31/01/1999

JOHANNA Head of England still can't come to terms with the fact that she
won the Kosaido-DRB-Hicom Malaysian Women's Open at the Glenmarie Golf and
Country Club yesterday.
"I did not look at the scoreboard after the second round so I did not
know my position. And today (yesterday) when I saw that I was second
behind Ludivine Kreutz of France, I nearly fainted," said Johanna, who has
an identical twin sister.
Last year the 25-year-old did not even make the cut but yesterday she
beat Taiwan's Yu Chuan Tai and Ludivine at sudden-death after being tied
214 after regulation time.
The sudden-death, at the par-four 10th, was over in minutes as Johanna
played par for US$10,000 (RM38,000) while Yu Chuan and Ludivine fired
bogies.
The Open is the first major title for Johanna who now plans to play in
Indonesia and Vietnam before returning to England.
Finalscores: 214 Johanna Head (Eng) 71-71-72 (won on sudden-death
playoff), Yu Chuan Tai (Tai) 72-70-72, Ludivine Kreutz (Fr) 69-72-73; 215
Vibeke Strensrud (Nor) 73-70-72; 217 Il Mi Chung (S Kor) 71-75-71, Loraine
Lambert (Aus) 71-74-72, Joung Youn Lee (S Kor) 71-74-72, Hyun Soon Park (S
Kor) 73-73-71; 218 Mia Lojdahl (Swe) 76-71-71, Keiko Arakaki (Jpn) 78-71-
69, Renee Heiken (US) 72-74-72, Camie Hoshino (US) 73-72-73, Akemi
Kuwashima (Jpn) 71-72-75.
219 Wendy Dicks (Eng) 73-76-70, Malin Burstrom (Swe) 68-78-73; 220
Michelle Fuller (US) 74-73-73, Stephanie Dallongv (Fr) 72-76-72, Chin Hue
Hung (Tai-Am) 74-73-73, Anna Berg (Swe) 70-76-74, Karolina Anderson (Swe)
73-74-74.
221 Hitomi Notsu (Jpn) 76-72-73, Mika Tajiri (Jpn) 77-70-74, Lim Siew Ai
(Mas) 74-72-75.
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