greens here at Marine Drive, along came Saturday's final round of the World Amateur Championships to prove them wrong.

The result was a disappointing showing on a day when Judithanne Astwood, Kim Marshall and Madeline Joell dearly wanted to turn on the style and play the standard of golf they are capable of.

Marshall and Astwood each had five three-putts en route to scores of 84, 86 respectively. Joell, meanwhile, played the first six holes in one-over-par but struggled thereafter and finished on 89.

Bermuda finished the tournament in 28th place on 667, ahead of Guatemala and Hong Kong. Costa Rica, in last place after three rounds dropped out of the tournament Saturday morning when two of their three players fell ill.

Macarena Campomanes is the toast of the Iberian Peninsula today after her display of pressure putting helped Spain to the championship with a one stroke victory over the combined team from Great Britain and Ireland.

Campomanes, experiencing none of the troubles with the slick Marine Drive greens that bedevilled Bermuda all week birdied the 17th hole to put Spain ahead and saved the victory with a six foot putt for par on the final hole.

Spain finished the tournament on 588, with Great Britain/Ireland on 589, New Zealand finished another eight shots back while Italy was fourth on 598.

Sweden was fifth on 599 and France and the United States were joint sixth on 600.

Sweden's Annika Sorenstam won the individual title with a four day total of 287, one-under-par. She set the course record for amateur women of four-under 68 in the second round and had a closing round of two-under 70.

Bermuda's Marshall again saved the best for last, shooting her third sub-40 back nine of the tourney after four front nine three-putts gave her 45 at the turn. For the fourth consecutive day, Marshall's score was one of the two rounds which Bermuda counted. She finished the tournament on 337.

Most impressive this week was the poise of the 18-year-old who returns today to Wake Forest University in North Carolina where she is on a golf scholarship.

"She'll go a long way in this game,'' said Bermuda's non-playing captain Glenda Todd, herself a veteran of world amateur play. "She's got the talent, the temperament -- in fact I can't even think of anything she has to work on.'' Astwood, whose 334 for the four days was Bermuda's best, was hurt Saturday by a string of four straight double-bogeys beginning on the fifth hole.

"I three-putted every last one of them,'' she said "The greens were different today, a lot quicker. I ran the ball past the hole on every one of the three-putts.'' Astwood was pleased with her overall performance at the tournament, but disappointed she couldn't crack the 80 barrier Saturday after coming so close the previous two days -- 81 and 80.

"Overall, this is the best I've scored at one of these tournaments,'' said the veteran of five World Amateurs. "I usually have one round in the 90s.

Today, I came out to shoot 72 and was really pushing it early on because I was pumped up after Friday's 80. But then I got into trouble early, and had to tell myself to relax.'' Joell was playing her best golf of the week yesterday when a run-in with a tournament official put her off her game. After parring five of the first six holes, Joell four-putted the seventh green for a triple-bogey seven.

"I was still happy with the way I was playing at that point,'' said Joell.

who counted another par at eight and a bogey at nine to make the turn at 41.

"Then on the tenth hole, some idiot told us to speed up. He harassed us all the way to the 17th hole. That really upset me -- it was so unnecessary. We only had one group in front of us, Judithanne's twosome, and they were never very far ahead.'' The result for Joell was a Jekyll and Hyde back nine that included a quadruple-bogey nine, two triple-bogeys, two doubles and two birdies.

Todd said the team may have tried too hard on the final day of the tournament.

"We went out there trying to make up for the last three days, and we ended up struggling. They really wanted to play well today. They really wanted to be in the 70s.'' Solving the lightening fast greens here was their biggest problem, Todd said.

"We settled down with the length of the course, but it was the greens that took their toll,'' she said.

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