Scotland made a gallant but unsuccessful bid to finish in the top eight for the match-play stages of the European U18 girls team championship at Skalica, Slovenia.
Very good efforts by Troon's Hazel McGarvie (71 for 146 and 21st place) and Lauren Whyte (St Regulus) (72 for 148 and join 29th), as well as a gritty 73 from Monifieth's Heather Munro for 149 gave the Scots an outside chance but the tail did not wag and the team finished the 36-hole stroke play qualifying on 749, six shots behind the last of the championship flight qualifiers, Netherlands.
CHAMPIONSHIP FLIGHT QUALIFIERS
710 France. 720 Austria. 723 Spain. 728 England, Sweden. 733 Germany. 739 Italy, 743 Netherlands.
Other totals
745 Czech Republic. 749 Switzerland, Scotland, 751 Finland, 757 Norway.
Also: 781 Wales (17th)
INDIVIDUAL SCORES
135 L Zeitler (Aut) 70 65
139 C Barquin (Spa) 72 67, R Meekers (Net) 71 68
SCOTS SCORES
146 H McGarvie 75 71 (T21)
148 L Whyte 76 72 (T29)
149 H Munro 76 73
152 C Young 75 77 (T650
154 S McWilliam 78 76 (T77)
163 N Callander 81 77 (T105).
Thanks go to Colin Farquharson for the report
Ladies Golf News in Scotland, the West of Scotland and Renfrewshire