Carly Booth, from Comrie in Perthshire, goes for a second successive victory when she contests a Banesto Tour event which starts in Zaragoza, in north-east Spain, today.
The 54-hole tournament at Club de Golf La Penaza is making its debut on the Ladies European Tour Access Series schedule, hard on the heels of the Dinard Open in Brittany at the weekend where Booth was victorious.
Still only 19 but hitting the golf headlines since the age of 12 when she played off 20, Booth flew back to Scotland on Sunday but was home for just seven hours before returning to the airport, bound for Zaragoza. She said: "It's very windy, but I like the wind – I'm used to it, having been brought up in Scotland – and the course looks good."
Booth is contesting the development tour events to tune up her game for the 2012 Ladies European Tour, which resumes with the Aberdeen Asset Management Ladies Scottish Open, presented by EventScotland at Archerfield Links, East Lothian, from May 3 to 5.
On the LET, she holds the first card in category 9B, for positions 31-50 from Qualifying School, which means that she will get into most, but not all, tournaments.
Should she have a chance to challenge for the LET Access Series order of merit title, though, she may step down to play in a few more of its events later in the season, but she said: "It depends how I do on the actual tour this year."
She is in a strong field of 87 players from 21 countries contesting a prize fund of €20,000.
Five other Scots will be in action: Katy McNicoll (Carnoustie), who finished joint third behind Booth in France, Pamela Pretswell (Bothwell Castle), Heather MacRae (Gleneagles), Pamela Feggans (Ayrshire) and Glasgow's Gemma Webster.
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