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| Gabrielle Macdonald, Gemma Dryburgh and Nicola Callander |
Nicola Callander, 16-year-old Anglo-Scot from Hertfordshire, won the Scottish Under-21 girls' open amateur stroke-play championship in a dramatic finish at sunny Blairgowrie today.
Nicola, the overnight leader started the final round with a one-stroke advantage over Gabrielle Macdonald (Craigielaw) with Aberdeen-born Gemma Dryburgh (Beaconsfield) four shots off the pace in third place.
But by the time they got to the 18th tee, Nicola had lost the lead after driving into trees at the 17th and running up a double bogey 7.
Dryburgh's par 5 at the penultimate hole put her into the lead by one stroke with Macdonald another shot farther back.
Then came the last-hole drama.
Dryburgh, 19-year-old Tulane University, New Orleans student, hooked her drive into the trees, hacked out on to the fairway but then was horrified to see her long third shot to the green drift out of bounds over the road on the right.
The hole cost her a triple bogey 7 for a 75 and a final total of three-over-par 222.
Callander got a flyer with a five-iron second just off the back of the green. She took three to get down from there but a 5 for 78 - her worst of the three rounds - and a two-over total 221 gave her the title by a shot.
A member of Mill Green Golf Club, near Welwyn, Nicola is the youngest Scottish Under-21 girls champion since Carly Booth, who was 15 at the time, in 2007.
Macdonald, 19-year-old Edinburgh-based St Andrews student, parred the last four holes for a 78 and a share of second place on 222.
Gabrielle was a possible winner until she dropped three shots over the 10th (double bogey), 11th and 12th (bogey).
SCOTTISH UNDER-21 GIRLS OPEN AMATEUR STROKE PLAY CHAMPIONSHIP
Lansdowne course, Blairgowrie
LEADING SCORERS: Par 219 (3x73) CSS 75 75 75
221 Nicola Callander (Mill Green) 74 69 78
222 Gemma Dryburgh (Beaconsfield) 78 69 75, Gabrielle Macdonald (Craigielaw) 73 71 78
225 Lena Weichselgartner (Germany) 74 75 76
227 Rachel Walker (Dumfries and Co) 76 75 76
228 Rachel Taylor (Germany and Lanarkshire) 73 78 77, Alyson McKechin (Elderslie) 72 78 78
230 Connie Jaffrey (Troon Ladies) 71 80 79
231 Katie Bradbury (Cottrell Park) 79 71 81
232 Eilidh Briggs (Kilmacolm) 75 76 81
234 Gillian Scanlan (Hamilton) 78 80 76, Megan Clyne (Deeside) 80 77 77, Charlotte Austwick (Fulford) 76 78 80, Nicola Rawlinson (Royal Birkdale) 76 72 86
235 Jessica Meek (Carnoustie Ladies) 80 78 77
236 Jess Wilcox (Blankney) 75 80 81, Hannah McCook (Grantown on Spey) 76 78 82
237 Kirsty Condon (Blankney) 81 78 78
238 Ailsa Summers (Carnoustie Ladies) 86 74 78, Linzi Allan (West Kilbride) 78 82 78
239 Kimberley Beveridge (Aboyne) 80 82 77, Danielle Ker (Roxburghe) 81 78 80, India Clyburn (Woodhall Spa) 80 77 82, Emily Aird (Blairgowrie) 78 78 83, Lesley Atkins (Gullane Ladies) 77 75 87
Other West of Scotland Players:
244 Katie McGarva (Troon Ladies) 84 82 78, Linsey Stevenson (Whitecraigs / Elie and Earlsferry) 84 78 82, Hazel McGarvie (Troon Ladies) 82 78 84
247 Eva O'Connor (Bothwell Castle) 89 79 79
259 Alexandra Qayum (Ranfurly Castle) 89 84 86,
260 Emma Hale (Troon Ladies) 95 82 83,
272 Emily Glencorse (Millport) 93 90 89
274 Emma Kennedy (Paisley) 90 92 92
284 Alexandra Duffy (Cathkin Braes) 104 93 87
286 Ellie Bryce (Strathaven) 93 91 102
291 Heather Neilson (Greenburn) 97 88 106
293 Jennifer Allan (West Kilbride) 104 94 95
