Carmen Griffiths and Ella McGrath are the Scottish Golf Academy Season Opener Winners

Ella McGrath and Carmen Griffiths 
Photo courtesy of David McGrath

Girls Scratch (Played over Montrose 1562 Medal course)
1 Carmen Griffiths (Aboyne ) 74 (bl6)
2 Lorna McClymont (Milngavie) 74
3 Grace Crawford Gullane Golf Club 78

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Ella McGrath - Photo courtesy of David McGrath

Stableford (Played over the Montrose Broomfield course)
1 Ella McGrath (Caldwell)  37 41 
2 Maisie Witt (Bathgate) 34  41 
3 Ruby Watt ( Paul Lawrie) Golf Centre 20 40

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Report when available 

HANNAH DARLING SECURES HOME VICTORY AT THE SCOTTISH GIRLS CHAMPIONSHIP

From the Scottish Golf Website

Scotland’s Hannah Darling led from start to finish at the 2019 Scottish Girls’ Open Championship to claim the title at The Home of Golf on Friday afternoon.

Taking a three-shot lead into the final round, the 15-year-old from Broomieknowe Golf Club carded her second even-par round of the week to finish on four-under-par for a final total of 209.

England’s Ellie Gower was two-under-par through 12 but an eight on the penultimate hole put an end to her chase. Darling, who had spoken about maintaining a level-head throughout the week did just that, finishing with a birdie on 18 to secure a six-shot advantage and the Scottish Girls’ Championship.

Speaking to Scottish Golf following the trophy presentation, Darling said:

“I was really steady out there today and went on a bit of a par-run, but I think that was worth it. Ellie was holing quite a few putts and had me worried at some points but I stuck to my game pan and just really happy to come away with the win.”

Darling now turns her attention to next week’s Helen Holm Women’s Open at Troon. With next week’s event counting towards qualification for The PING Junior Solheim Cup, the Scots teenager is hoping she can take advantage of her recent run of form, adding:

“Next week’s event is a women’s event so obviously it will step up another level but I am definitely happy with where my game is at the moment and ready to take on the challenge of next week and hopefully I will come away with another good performance.” 

For a full list of results from this year’s Scottish Girls’ Open, please click HERE

HANNAH DARLING HAS A THREE SHOT LEAD AFTER ROUND 2 OF SCOTTISH GIRLS ‘ OPEN

Hannah Darling continued to lead the way at this year’s Scottish Girls’ Open. An even par round of 71 gave the Scots teenager a 3-shot lead going into tomorrow’s final round on the Eden Course at St Andrews.

Looking ahead to tomorrow’s final round, Darling said: “Tomorrow is another fresh day and I will be looking to play it as I have over the last two days, not getting ahead of myself and keeping a level head. I’ve not been in a final group often, so I am just looking forward to learning from it and hoping it goes my way.”

Darling, who is currently studying for her National 5 exams, has had to use her down time at this year’s event to keep on top of her revision adding:

“I am doing pretty well at the moment; I’m trying to do it little and often as that’s the only way I can do it at the moment, but I think that my parents will be happy to hear that I am trying to study.”

The low round of the day came from Isabelle Simpson who carded a one-under-par 70 to sit in second place ahead of tomorrow’s final round. She will join Darling and England’s Ellie Gower in the final group tomorrow. 

View Scottish Girls’ Open leaderboard

CLAIRE MCLAUGHLIN FROM WEST KILBRIDE WINS THE FIRST 2019 JUNIOR TOUR EVENT

Claire Mclaughlin (West Kilbride) finished in first place in the Junior Tour event over Southerness on Saturday 6th April after the two rounds with a total score of 159. 
Carys Irvine (Craigielaw) was 2nd on 160
Luisa Gibson (Irvine) finished 3rd (161) 

 Full results can be found here

CAMERON NEILSON AND CARMEN GRIFFITHS DO WELL IN IRISH GIRLS OPEN STROKEPLAY

Ingrid Lindblad in 2017, Kajsa Arwefjall in 2018 and now Lovisa Gunnar in 2019 has secured three Swedish victories in a row at the Irish Girls’ Open Stroke Play played at Roganstown Hotel and Country Club.  

Gunnar, who was supposed to be on a flight home with her mother at 4pm today but changed to a later flight home following her second round 68, fired a final round 69 to secure a 3 shot victory over Ffion Tynan (Wales). 

Scots Cameron Neilson (Nairn) and Carmen Griffiths (Aboyne ) tied 3rd and 6th respectively and Grace Crawford (Gullane) finished in 49th position.

Carmen said on Twitter —. "Delighted with a T6 finish after a great few days competing at the Irish Girls U18’s Championship 

Big thanks to Scottish Golf for another fantastic opportunity"  ⛳

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Catriona Matthew caddies for Hannah Darling

Scottish Girls

By Lewine Mair

Last week aspiring PING Junior Solheim Cup player, Hannah Darling (Broomieknowe) , had the experience of having Catriona Matthew caddie for her.

A member of 'Project 19', Hannah and her fellow members will be targeting a berth at this year's event.

Read more here:  CLICK HERE

CARMEN GRIFFITHS AND EVANNA HYNDS ARE WINNERS IN CYPRUS

Evanna Hynds and Carmen Griffiths -- Courtesy of Karyn Dallas

Last day of Nikos Severis Cyprus Junior Open and well done to all the Scottish Girls! 👏👏🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿...especially Evanna Hynds  for best Nett score on first day and Carmen Griffiths who was 2nd in overall competition
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The Long and Short -- Liz Keohone and Evanna Hynds

Thanks go to Karyn Dallas for the photos and update

And her Karyn's final words were (from facebook )--- Been away working in Cyprus this week with Scottish Girls group...to say it has been eventful is an understatement....we have had sickness, lost wedding ring down van air vent so trip to....wait for it, RINGOS GARAGE and they were absolute stars 👌and retrieved it!! 

Then a nasty and unfortunate accident with one of the girls slipping on marble stairs in hotel and badly bruising her elbow, so much she had to withdraw *sitting 2nd at time 🙈 all happening whilst dealing with the worst weather ever but certainly 40 years in Cyprus...😳😭😭...then, last day another of our Scottish girls took unwell on course and had to withdraw....the other 4 managed to complete and Carmen Griffiths took runner up prize in Nikos Severis Junior Open....fabulous result!! Phew....what a week....but wouldn't change it for the world! #lovemyjob! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

RAIN IN CYPRUS PUTS A DAMPNER ON SCOTTISH GIRLS

Nicos Severis Cyprus Junior Open 2019 Announcement:

 Play for Day 2 of the event cancelled due to weather conditions.

 The Championship (Boys and Girls) will recommence tomorrow, Sunday, 17 February, with a 2-tee start at 07:45.
The draw for the final day will be available from the event's webpage after 11:00 today. CGF greatly regrets to announce that, due to organizational constraints, today's Severis Cup (18-holes) and the 9-Hole competitions cannot be rescheduled and are therefore cancelled.

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 Well another lost day in Cyprus , rain rain rain, poor girls all this way for golf and nothing course closed again hopefully they will get to play tomorrow 😔 and yes I know it’s nice back home  😓

Thanks go to Liz Keohone for the update. 

SCOTLAND GIRLS GO TO THE CYPRUS FOR THE JUNIOR OPEN AND WARM WEATHER TRAINING

Evanna Hynd, Porscha Wilson, Grace Crawford, Rachel Foster, Carmen Griffiths,
Cameron Neilson, Liz Keohone, Karyn Dallas - photo courtesy of Karyn Dallas

A strong Scottish Girls team left today to fly out to Cyprus to join a strong international field in this year’s Nicos Severis Cyprus Junior Open which is being held from Friday 15th to Sunday 17th February at Minthis Golf Club near Paphos. 

Some 54 boys and 26 girls up to 18 years old from 14 countries will compete over three rounds of 18 holes. A strong team of nine local youngsters selected from the Cyprus Golf Federation’s (CGF) Junior Order of Merit system will be flying the flag for Cyprus. 

Since its inception seven years ago, the Severis Cyprus Junior Open has gone from strength to strength. It is now a World Amateur Golf Ranking (WAGR) event for both boys and girls attracting ever stronger fields and producing golf of the highest quality. 

Coach Karyn Dallas said "This is a warm weather training to wrap up winter work in prep for playing season starting April....see what they have taken on board and what we still need to work on....having a competition (WAGR points!!) is an added bonus"

Karyn is being assisted by Past Ayrshire Captain Liz Keohone (Loudoun Gowf)

2019 GIRLS' AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP SWITCHED FROM MONTROSE TO PANMURE

The R and A will stage the 2019 British Girls Amateur Championship at Panmure from Tuesday to Saturday, August 13 to 17 following an agreement reached with Montrose Links to move the event to an alternative venue. 

 This change of venue has been made due to a recent announcement confirming that a series of music concerts are to be set up and staged on a site immediately adjacent to Montrose Links during the month of August. 

Duncan Weir, Executive Director – Golf Development and Amateur Events at The R and A, said, “We have a responsibility to all competitors to provide a world class experience in which they can perform to their full potential and this includes minimising any adverse impacts on the staging of the championship. “There is a risk that the concerts and their setting up would have caused disruption to the players so we have come to a mutual agreement with Montrose Links that the championship will now be played at an alternative venue. 

“Montrose Links remains on our potential list of venues and we very much hope that the opportunity to stage another event there will present itself in the near future. We would like to thank Panmure for moving quickly to step in at such short notice to host this championship, which is again expected to attract a world class field.” 

 The British Girls Amateur Championship will celebrate its centenary year in 2019.

LOUISE IS 3RD AND HANNAH DARLING IS RUNNER UP IN THE TELEGRAPH JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIP WITH THE BEST ROUND OF THE WEEK

Hannah Darling

The girls’ title at the Telegraph Vitality Junior Golf Championship at PGA Catalunya  was a close-run affair – in Sophie Johnson’s eyes at least – until the very last putt of the 54-hole finals.

Johnson looked to be in a two-way scrap with Scotland’s Louise Duncan (West Kilbride)

However, little did the England Under-18 player know that Louise's compatriot Hannah Darling (Broomieknowe) was on her way to a superb 69 – the best round of the Championship and the only player to break 70 across both finals – from the lead-out group.

 Johnson said: “I was told the scores on the 16th and I thought ‘Oh my God!’ It was an unbelievable score by Hannah so she must have played amazingly.”

As Johnson putted out, Darling, 15, sat by the galleries on the 18th before describing the enormity of her round. “After my week, this really meant a lot, but it was a case of ‘What if?’,” she admitted after a 79 and 78.

The Final Scoreboard

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LOUISE SHARES THE LEAD AFTER 2 ROUNDS IN THE TELEGRAPH JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS

Louise Duncan

A rollercoaster second round in the girls’ event has set up a four-way, final-day showdown Telegraph Vitality Junior Golf Championship. 

 Scotland’s Louise Duncan, a returning finalist, shares the lead on six over par with Sophie Johnson, the first-round leader.

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LOUISE DUNCAN IN 2nd PLACE AFTER ROUND ONE OF VITALITY JUNIOR GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP FINALS

In each of the past two years, England’s Sophie Johnson has missed out on qualifying for the Telegraph Vitality Junior Golf Championship finals by a single shot. 

But the England Under-18 player cast aside those disappointments in fine style on Wednesday, producing the round of the day to lead the girls’ event by two shots at a sun-kissed PGA Catalunya Resort in Barcelona

Scotland’s Louise Duncan (West Kilbride) shot a fine 73 to be in 2nd place and is one clear of Charlotte Heath, another returning finalist, in the 54-hole strokeplay event. 

Hannah Darling (Broomieknowe) is in 5th place on 7 over

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2018 WORLD JUNIOR GIRLS CHAMPIONSHIP - LIVE SCORING

Carmin Griffiths, Louise Duncan, Hannah Darling with Karyn Dallas

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SCOTLAND SCHOOLGIRLS LOSE TO ENGLAND

Scotland schoolgirls (l to r): M Docherty, R Fowlie,
L Morrison, K Alexander, M Ashley, L McClymont

England beat Scotland in both the 43rd annual schoolboys' and schoolgirls' golf international matches at Lancaster Golf Club, Lancashire this week but it was a close-run thing with very little between the two sides.. England's victory margins were: 10-8 (boys) and 5-4 (girls) and the general feeling was that, with a little bit of luck, Scotland might have drawn both matches.


ENGLAND SCHOOLGIRLS 5, SCOTLAND SCHOOLGIRLS 4

FOURSOMES (1.5-1.5)

S Johnson and E Lace halved with L McClymont (Dumbarton Acad) and M Docherty (Turnbull High).

L Bell and A Stevenson lost to M Ashley (Blairgowrie High) and K Alexander (Blairgowrie High) 2 and 1.

G Staroscik and A Curtis bt R Fowlie (Mearns Acad) and L Morrison (Boroughmuir High) 1 hole.

SINGLES (3.5-2.5)

Johnson lost to McClymont 2 and 1.

Lace halved with Alexander.

Staroscik bt Fowlie 6 ad 4.

Bell lost to Docherty 3 and 2.

Curtis bt Morrison 4 and 3.

Stevenson bt Ashley 2 and 1.

To read the full report and Boys results -- Go to the ScottishGolf View Website

HANNAH DARLING THE ONLY SCOT TO REACH THE LAST 16 AT THE BRITISH GIRLS

Hannah Darling, the youngest ever Scottish girls champion at the age of 14 last year, is the only Scot in the last 16 of the British girls amateur championship at Ardglass Golf Club, Northern Ireland.

She won her opening tie by 2 and 1 against Jess Baker (Gosforth Park) and followed that up with a very good one-hole win over the highly-rated twice former Irish girls champion Annabel Wilson (Lurgan).

Louise Duncan (West Kilbride), the only other Scot to make it to the match-play stages, won her opening tie by 2 and 1 against Nina Lang (Germany) but went down by 2 holes to Sophie Johnson (Enville).  

Read more from the R&A WEBSITE

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DAY 3 ROUND UP -- WITH HANNAH DARLING

HANNAH DARLING AND LOUISE DUNCAN QUALIFY FOR BRITISH GIRLS' MATCHPLAY STAGES

By Colin Farquharson

Hannah and Louise -- point to Clare Queen
who won the British Girls in 2001
Click to enlarge

Only four Scottish girls entered the British girls open amateur championship at Ardglass, Northern Ireland, and two of them - Hannah Darling (Broomieknowe) and Louise Duncan (West Kilbride) - qualified for the match-play stages.

Hannah, was joint 15th among the qualifiers. She had scores of 74 and 73 for 147. Louise was T42 on 152 (77 75).

Sweden's Ingrid Lindblad (Sweden) was the No 1 qualifier with excellent scores of 69 and 68 for 137. She finished three ahead of Mathile Claisse (France) 67 71.
The two Scots who failed to achieve the 36-hole aggregates of 153 and better to reach the match-play stages were:
Jennifer Rankine (Haggs Castle) 160 (76-84) T107.
Lorna McClymont (Milngavie) 167 (89-78) T128

Clare Queen was the last Scot to win the title back in 2001

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HAZEL STILL THE BEST SCOT, SHANNON INPROVES BUT HANNAH MISSES EUROPEAN CUT

By COLIN FARQUHARSON

Hazel MacGarvie (Troon Ladies) slipped  out of the leading 20 at the European women's amateur championship at Penati Resort, Slovakia with a third-round 72 for a 54-hole tally of 215 which gave her an overnight position of joint 21st going into the final round.
But Curtis Cup player Shannon McWilliam from Aboyne improved 28 places to joint 40th with a 70 for 220. Her earlier rounds were 71 and 79.
Spain's Celia Barquin shot a brilliant course-record round of nine-under-par 63 to take the lead on 13-under 203.
German based Scot Fiona Liddell made the cut on 219 (77,72,70) 

Hannah McCook (Grantown on Spey) was among those who failed to qualify for the final 18 holes. To beat the cut, a player had to have scored 222 or better. McCook totalled 233 (81-79-73.)

LEADERBOARD
par 216 (3x72) CSS 72 72 72
203 C Barquin (Spn) 69 71 63.
205 E Henseleit (Ger) 64 71 70.
207 M E Domingo (Spn) 69 71 67.

SELECTED SCORES
212 O Mehaffey (Ire) 70 71 71 (T10)
214 A Fuller (Eng) 70 74 70 (T18)
215 H MacGarvie (Sco) 75 68 72 (T21)
217 J McCarthy (Ire) 72 74 71 (T27)
220 S McWilliam (Sco) 71 79 70 (T40)

MISSED THE CUT (222 and better qualified for final round)
225 C Goadby (Sco) 79 71 75
226 L M Humphreys (Eng) 73 80 73.
230 L Bailey (Eng) 84 74 72.
232 S Fuller (Eng) 78 81 73
233 H McCook (Sco) 81 79 73.

SCOTS ARRIVE IN SWEDEN AND AUSTRIA FOR THE EUROPEAN TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP

The European Ladies and Girls Matches begin tomorrow -- Good Luck to all the Scots.

Girls Team -- Hannah Darling, Carmen Griffiths, Kirsty Brodie,
Jennifer Rankine, Louise Duncan, Lorna McClymont
Photo courtesy of team manager - Karyn Dallas

European Girls Team Championship | Forsgardens, Sweden | 10-14 July 2018 

Kirsty Brodie (Strathmore) 
Hannah Darling (Broomieknowe) 
Louise Duncan (West Kilbride) 
Carmen Griffiths (Aboyne) 
Lorna McClymont (Milngavie) 
Jennifer Rankine (Haggs Castle)

Ladies Team Back row : Shannon McWilliam, Gemma Batty, Chloe Goadby
Front : Hannah McCook, Eilidh Briggs, Louise Duncan
Selfie Photo courtesy of Hannah McCook

European Ladies Team Championship | Murhof Golf Club, Austria 10-14 July 2018 

Gemma Batty (West Linton) 
Eilidh Briggs (Kilmacolm) 
Chloe Goadby (St Regulus)
Connie Jaffrey (Troon Ladies) 
Hannah McCook (Grantown on Spey) 
Shannon McWilliam (Aboyne)

HANNAH DARLING IS SCOTTISH U18 GIRLS CHAMPION AND ROMY ERSKINE IS HANDICAP CHAMPION

 Scottish Golf official Liz Munro flanked by girls beaten finalist Louise Duncan (left) and title winner Hannah Darling (right)

In today's (Friday) 18-hole final over the Old Course at Moray Golf Club's Lossiemouth links,  Hannah Darling (Broomieknowe) won the U18 girls' title for the second year in a row - and she is only 14 years of age! A star in making, Darling beat Louise Duncan (West Kilbride) who had 5 birdies in her round by 4 and 3 in the final with six-under-par figures. - CLICK HERE and then on the result to see the actual scoring.

Romy Erskine and Iona Reid

In the Handicap Final Renfrewshire Junior Romy Erskine (Kilmacolm) playing off a handicap of 11 beat Iona Reid (Nairn Dunbar) of a handicap of 24  2 and 1

CHAMPIONSHIP
Semi-finals - H Darling (Broomieknowe) bt C Neilson (Germany) 3 and 2, L Duncan (West Kilbride) bt K Brodie (Strathmore) 3 and 1.

Final - Darling bt Duncan 4 and 3.

Romy Erskine - Photo courtesy of her Mum

GIRLS' HANDICAP CHAMPIONSHIP

Final - R Erskine (Kilmacolm) (11) bt I Reid (Nairn Dunbar) (24) bt 2 and 1.

For previous ROUND results -- CLICK HERE

2018 - winners and runners up - Courtesy of Scottish Golf

In the Boys Championship, Connor Wilson beat Royal Aberdeen Golf Club’s Liam Waldron 2&1, in a hard fought match. To read more go to the Scottish Golf Website