TWENTY-FOUR hours after recording her monstrous 10 and 8 victory, Di Aitchison went virtually twice the distance at L’Ancresse last evening to put out the defending champion, Kay Mapley. In the tightest of the quarter-finals, Aitchison beat the five-times champion on the 18th green, having won the 17th to go one up. Two holes earlier she had birdied the 15th to level the match.

Aitchison is the only unseeded player to reach the semis and now plays Sue Wellfair, who defeated Marian Tanguy.

In the bottom half of the draw Veronica Bougourd and Jan Chamberlain eased through at the expense of Laura Jeffrey and Claire Giles.

The new champion – the final is over 36 holes on Friday – faces another 36-hole clash two days later against Jersey’s hot prospect and defending champion Olivia Higgins.

On her last school day ever, the Beaulieu sixth-former retained her island women’s amateur golf championship by beating Gloria Paradiso 5 and 4 at the Royal Jersey.