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Connie Jaffrey added a 76 to her first round 73 and led the qualifiers on one over par 149 at the 100th staging of the Scottish Ladies’ Championship at Prestwick.
The Troon Ladies’ member maintained her four shot overnight lead with Carnoustie’s Ailsa Summers moving into second place after a best of Championship 72.
In joint third place on 154 were a strong trio of defending champion Alyson McKechin (77) and the Briggs’ sisters from Kilmacolm , Megan and Eildih.
Megan, the 2009 Champion at Southerness, posted a 75, while Eildih, who will represent GB and Ireland at next month’s Curtis Cup, shot 76.
Elderslie’s McKechin, who won the title at Longniddry 12 months ago, had three birdies on a near perfect golfing day on the south Ayrshire coast.
Jaffrey, the Scottish Girls’ Champion, highlighted her round with four birdies and the pick of the bunch came at the short second where she came close to a hole in one.
“I hit the ball to a foot and then did it again for another of my birdies at the 17th,” said the 17-year-old who is playing in the Championship for a first time. “I was delighted to maintain my four shot lead and t’s a good feeling to head the strokeplay qualifiers.”
Summers’ hole of the day was the long eighth – she made eagle – and she also had a handful of birdies in the two under round.
Eilidh Briggs was runner-up at Machrihanish three years ago and she had three birdies to finish among the top seeds. “The conditions were definitely easier,” said the 21-year-old Stirling University student. “The wind wasn’t nearly so fierce.”
Thirty-one players on 169 and better made it straight into the matchplay knock-out and Jane Finnie (Troon Ladies) clamed the 32nd and final spot by defeating beat Carol Whyte (Milngavie) at the second hole of a sudden-death play-off.
Having halved the first extra hole (the 15th) in bogey fives, Whyte hit her second shot out of bounds at the 18th and eventually conceded the hole. Finnie’s reward is a first round match against clubmate Jaffrey.
100th SCOTTISH WOMEN'S AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP
Prestwick Golf Club, Ayrshire
MATCH-PLAY QUALIFIERS
Par 148 (2x74)
149 C Jaffrey (Troon Ladies) 73 76
153 A Summers (Carnoustie Ladies) 81 72
154 M Briggs (Kilmacolm) 79 75, E Briggs (Kilmacolm) 77 77, A McKechin (Elderslie) 77 77
155 R Walker (Dumfries and Co) 78 77, C Young (North Berwick) 77 78
156 L Whyte (St Regulus) 81 75
158 N Ferguson (Milngavie) 78 80
159 G MacDonald (Craigielaw) 79 80
161 K Marshall (Baberton) 84 77, L Atkins (Gullane) 84 77
162 R Polson (Peterculter) 81 81, J Graham (Southerness) 81 81, E Moffat (St Regulus) 79 83
164 L MacGregor (Glenbervie) 84 80, H McCook (Grantown on Spey) 84 80, H MacGarvie (Troon Ladies) 82 82, K McIntosh (Broomieknowe) 77 87
165 S McWilliam (Aboyne) 88 77, K Brodie (Strathmore) 83 82, Susan Wood (Drumpellier) 82 83, N Stephen (Wentworth) 82 83
166 C Thompson (Royal Dornoch) 84 82, K Beveridge (Aboyne) 82 84, Sheena Wood (Aberdeen Ladies) 80 86
167 C Robertson (Carnoustie Ladies) 86 81
168 K Wright (Stranraer) 81 87
169 L D'Ambrosio (Carluke) 89 80, E Watson (Muckhart) 85 84, J Meek (Carnoustie Ladies) 84 85
170 (after play-off) J Finnie (Troon Ladies) 87 83
OTHER SCORES
170 (after play-off) C Whyte (Milngavie) 86 84.
171 J Free (Gullane) 89 82, J Farrell (Cardross) 87 84, L Allan (West Kilbride) 87 84, L Fraser (Kingsknowe) 85 86
172 T Mactaggart (Minto) 89 83, A McBride (Harburn) 83 89
173 N Robertson (Stirling) 90 83, K Reid (Monifieth) 88 85, G Coughlin (Fairhaven) 87 86, E Bryce (Strathaven) 84 89.
174 R Rankin (Lanark) 91 83, A Glennie (Kilmarnock Barassie) 84 90.
175 H Munro (Monifieth) 95 80, J Potter (Cathkin Braes) 92 83, K Brown (Strathaven) 92 83, A Bartlett (Royal Dornoch) 86 89, E Hale (Troon Ladies) 82 93
176 I Moncrieff (Pitlochry) 95 82, W Nicholson (Broomieknowe) 88 88
177 S Leslie (Aberdeen Ladies) 88 89
178 A Qayum (Ranfurly Castle) 87 91, J Saxton (Kinross) 86 92
179 D Cowan (Ranfurly Castle) 93 86, J Chalmers (Monifieth) 91 88, H Scott (Broomieknowe) 88 91, L Mathie (Troon Ladies) 87 92.
180 F Gilbert (Carnoustie Ladies) 88 92, L Wilson (Kelso) 87 93,
181 D Young (North Berwick) 94 87
182 C Munro (Gullane) 96 86
183 G Thomson (Ayr Belleisle) 94 89, S L Cameron (Gullane) 92 81, L Lee (Musselburgh) 92 91
184 L Bain (Lochend) 95 89, J Mack (Haggs Castle) 94 90, P Hutton (Lanark) 88 96, K Malcolm (Dumfries and Co) 88 96
186 K Scott (Strathaven) 93 83
187 R Purdom (Prestwick St Nicholas) 96 91
188 J Rankine (Haggs Castle) 89 99
189 K Blackwood (Glencorse) 93 96
190 L McGeachy (Haggs Castle) 96 94, E Caddow (Strathaven) 95 95
191 C Malcolm (Prestwick St Cuthbert) 100 91, F Scott (Bothwell Castle) 95 96
192 A Devine (Hamilton) 96 96
193 R Livingstone (Craigmillar Park) 98 95
194 H Anderson (Troon Ladies) 100 94, B Paterson (Eastwood) 96 98, S Goldie (Eastwood) 92 102
195 A Melvin-Ffinch (Hirsel) 99 96, K Burgess (Silverknowes) 95 100
197 B Waugh (Moor Hall) 98 99, M Gardner (Linlithgow) 86 111.
198 J Harrison (Cruden Bay) 105 93, S Ireland (Prestonfield) 102 96, L Barker (Kilmarnock Barassie) 99 99
200 W MacCallum (Falkirk) 101 99
201 E Wilson (Elie and Earlsferry) 93 108
206 E Irvine (Alford) 105 101
215 M McBain (Turnhouse) 114 101
219 M Miller (Blairgowrie) 114 105
220 L Cackett (Broomieknowe) 115 105
223 R Irvine (Largs) 122 101
226 E Gillespie (Lochend) 124 102.
232 F Findlay (Lochend) 114 118
233 A Joss (Alford) 117 116
243 L McTaggart (East Kilbride) 117 126
CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH PLAY DRAW
CLARK ROSEBOWL DRAW
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