EILIDH BRIGGS WINS WELSH OPEN STROKEPLAY CHAMPIONSHIP

Eilidh Briggs

Stirling student Eilidh Briggs (Kilmacolm) scored the best win of her amateur golf career so far today (Sunday) when she had several Curtis Cup-class players in her wake as she led the way home in the Welsh women's open amateur stroke play championship at Prestatyn Golf Club.
Eilidh scored 74, 68 and 74 over a testing par-75 course for a total of nine-under-par 216.
She won by a shot from the recent Helen Holm Scottish women's stroke-play winner and Curtis Cup selection certainty, Annabel Dimmock (Wentworth).
Dimmock had rounds of 71, 73 and 73 for 217.
Connie Jaffrey (Troon Ladies), runner-up in the "Helen Holm," finished a creditable joint ninth year, the Ayrshire teenager, last year's Scottish U18 girls champion, totalling 221 with rounds of 73, 74 and 74.
Alyson McKechin (Elderslie), who defends the Scottish closed title at Prestwick later this month, finished 18th on 225 with rounds of 74, 75 and 76.
St Andrews' Lauren Whyte (St Regulus) scored 77, 75 and 76 for a share of 25th plae on 228.
Stirling student Hannah McCook (Grantown on Spey) finished joint 38th on 232 with rounds of 81, 75 and 76.
WELSH WOMEN'S OPEN AMATEUR STROKE PLAY CHAMPIONSHIP
Prestatyn Golf club
LEADING FINAL TOTALS
Par 225 (3x75)
216 E Briggs (Kilmacolm) 74 68 74
217 A Dimmock (Wentworth) 71 73 73
218 Emma Goddard (Royal Liverpool) 72 73 73. Emma O'Driscoll (Ballybunion) 75 71 72, Emily Pedersden (Denmark) 72 71 75, Gemma Clews (Delamere Forest) 74 68 76
219 Bethan Popel (Long Ashton) 76 72 71
220 Gabriella Cowley (Hanbury Manor) 72 72 76
SELECTED TOTALS
221 C Jaffrey (Troon Ladies) 73 74 74 (T9)
223 G Hall (Parkstone) 75 72 76 (T13)
225 A McKechin (Eldereslie) 74 75 76 (18th)
228 L Whyte (St Regulus) 77 75 76 (T25)
232 H McCook (Grantown on Spey) 81 75 76 (T38)

Thanks go to Colin Farquharson for the report and the SLGA for the photo of Eilidh