Renfrewshire Women’s County champion Megan Briggs, only 17, from Kilmacolm became one of the youngest winners of the Munross Trophy over the Montrose Links medal course today.
Megan, had scores of 70 and 73 for a total of 143 against a combined CSS of 146 (73 both rounds) to win the SLGA Order of Merit event by two shots from another teenage county champion from the west, Pamela Pretswell (Bothwell Castle), the Lanarkshire women’s title-holder.
Pamela, three shots behind Megan after the first round, could make up only one of them with a second-round 72 for 146.
Kerri Harper (Inverness) won the best first-round gross score prize, outwith the leading prizewinners, with a 73 and Lesley Hendry (Routenburn) won the best second-round gross award with a 74 (better inward half).
LEADING FINAL TOTALS (CSS 73 73)
143 M Briggs (Kilmacolm) 70 73.
145 P Pretswell (Bothwell Castle) 73 72.
Other West of Scotland Players
156 L Hendry (Routenburn) 80 76.
158 J Jenkins (Ralston) 81 77.
163 R Rankin (Lanark) 82 81,
164 J Linklater (Largs) 81 83, J Meldrum (Dullatur) 84 80.
Ladies Golf News in Scotland, the West of Scotland and Renfrewshire
