Ponte is too strong

AT JUST 16 Aimee Ponte is the queen of Channel Islands women's amateur golf, but she is already looking over her shoulder at a rising starlet.

Ponte cruised to her second Channel Islands women's title yesterday with an 11 and 10 victory over Virginia Austin-Walker at L'Ancresse on a day when an upset never looked on the cards.

The highlight of the teenager's day was chipping in for eagle on the fourth in the morning round and by the time she reached the seventh tee she was already five up.

A minor blip came when she lost that par three, but the lead gradually increased through the morning - seven up through 11, eight up through 15 - and she finished her opening round in style, rolling in a birdie putt on the 18th to be nine to the good at lunch.