Friday 10 March 2017

SHEENA AND ELLIE ARE LEADING SCOTS IN SPAIN

Aberdeen Ladies GC members Sheena Wood and Ellie Whyte were the highest placed Scots in finishing joint 24th in a field of 45 pairs at the Spanish senior women's pairs championship at Isla Canela Golf Club, Ayamonte today (THU).
Wood and Whyte had scores of 83 and 84 for 167, 17 strokes behind the Spanish title-winners, Casilda Castillejo Oriol and Maria Trallero Santamaria (73-77 for 150).
Scotland's second-best pairing were Barbara Biggart and Maureen Richmond with scores of 79 and 91 for a 170 total and a T28 finish.
May Hughes and Lesley Johnson shot 81 and 93 for 174 and finished T35.
Pamela Williamson, partnered by Canadian Diane Williams finished 38th on 177 with rounds of 83 and 94.
The highest finishing English players were Helen Lowe and Lindsey Shaw (76-80 for 156) in ninth place.
Two other all-England pairinigs, Sandy Catford and Angela Jones (78-81) and Debbie Richards and Katharine Russell (75-94) tied for 14th place on 159.

SPANISH SENIOR WOMEN'S INTERNATIONAL PAIRS CHAMPIONSHIP
Isla Canela Golf Club, Ayamonte, Spain

LEADING FINAL TOTALS
par 144 (2s72)
150 C C Oriol and M T Santamaria (Spn) 73 77
151 A Greenfield and J Shorrocks (Eng) 73 78, N C-R Holst (Ned) and T McCart (Ned) 72 79.

SELECTED TOTALS
156 H Lowe and L Shaw (Eng) 76 80 (9th)
159 S Catford and A Jones (Eng) 78 81; D Richards and K Russell (Engt) 75 84 (T14).
167 E Whyte and S Wood (Sco) 83 84 (T24)
170 B Biggart and M Richmond (Sco) 79 91 (T28).
174 M Hughes and L Johnston (Sco) 81 93 (T35)
177 P Williamson (Sco) and D Williams (Can) 83 94 (38th)
Field of 45 pairs