Laura Murray is the 2012 Scottish Ladies Champion

Laura Murray - 2012 Scottish Ladies Champion (Courtesy of Colin Farquharson)

Laura Murray (Alford) won the 2012 Ladies Scottish Championship over Tain this morning against Jane Turner (Craigielaw) and just look at the fantastic scoring in a wonderful final. Laura finally put her approach shot to within a foot of the 18th hole for a conceded birdie 3 - making her champion by two holes. To read the full report go to the Gillian Kirkwood Website

SCOTTISH LADIES' (CLOSE) AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH PLAY Scottish Ladies Golfing Association, 5/17/2012 - 5/19/2012

SCORECARD 1 - TURNER, Jane 2 - MURRAY, Laura Tain Hole 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Par 4 4 4 5 3 4 4 3 4 4 5 4 5 5 4 3 4 4 1: A/S A/S A/S A/S A/S A/S A/S 4 4 4 5 4 4 4 3 5 4 4 4 5 5 4 3 4 - 2: 4 4 4 5 3 4 5 2 4 5 5 4 4 4 5 3 4 C A/S A/S A/S A/S 1up 1up A/S 1up 2up 1up A/S A/S 1up 2up 1up 1up 1up 2up

Kylie Walker, Lynn Kenny and Laura Murray -- This must be how you do it !!

KILMACOLM'S EILIDH AND MEGAN BRIGGS LOSE IN TAIN

Two past champions - Kelsey MacDonald (2010 at Craigielaw) and Megan Briggs (2009 at Southerness) - were beaten in this morning's quarter-finals of the 98th Scottish women's amateur championship, played in a drizzle and over a links course which soaked up a lot of overnight rain but was beginning to show puddles here and there by lunchtime.
Kelsey was beaten 7 and 6 by Renfrewshire's Eilidh Briggs who lost to Louise Kenney in last year's championship final at Machrihanish.  Megan was four holes up on 17-year-old Muckhart player, Eilidh Watson, after seven holes and still three up on the 14th tee, let a place in the semi-finals for the second year in a row slip through her wet fingers.
Watson, the only P and K player to make the match-play stages, won the 14th, then the 17th with an eagle 2 against Megan's birdie 3.  At the 18th Megan three-putted, finally missing on the very wet green from about 2 and a half feet and 19th to lose her tie
In the afternoons semi final Eilidh played a very much on form Laura Murray (Alford). Laura went three up at the eighth and then used her strength of the tee to wrap up victory. She birdied three long holes on the home straight - the par-5 11th, 13th and 14th, to win by 6 and 4 with two-under-par figures.
She now meets Jane Turner (Craigielaw) in tomorrows final
To read more go to the Gillian Kirkwood Website
In the Clark Rosebowl Renfrewshire's Carol Whyte (Windyhill) lost in the Semi Final at the 19th against Heather Munro.

98^th SCOTTISH WOMEN'S AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP

Tain Golf Club, Ross-shire

QUARTER-FINALS

Jane Turner (Craigielaw) beat Susan Wood (Drumpellier) 5 and 4.

Eilidh Watson (Muckhart) beat Megan Briggs (Kilmacolm) at 19^th.

Eilidh Briggs (Kilmacolm) beat Kelsey MacDonald (Nairn Dunbar) 7 and 6.

Laura Murray (Alford) beat Sammy Vass (Tain) 5 and 4.

SEMI-FINALS

Turner beat Watson 7 and 6.

Murray beat Eilidh Briggs 6 and 4.

CLARK ROSEBOWL

SEMI-FINALS
Heather Munro (Monifieth) beat Carol Whyte (Windyhill) at 19^th

Hannah Scott (Broomieknowe) beat Lauren Whyte (St Regulus) 3 and 2.

FINAL

Hannah Scott beat Heather Munro 1 hole.

PAMELA PRETSWELL WINS PRO EVENT IN SWEDEN

GOLF COPY AND SCORES CREDIT CAL CARSON GOLF AGENCY QUERIES TO COLIN FARQUHARSON

Curtis Cup amateur Pamela Pretswell more than justified her decision not to play in this week's Scottish women's amateur championship at Tain by winning the Ljungbyheds Park Women's Open, a Ladies European Tour developmental circuit 54-hole event in Sweden today (Friday).

The Hamilton-based, 22-year-old Bothwell Castle GC member is playing with and amongst female professionals on a regular basis with the objective of raising her game to the standard require to gain pass marks at the LET Qualifying School next January.

Pamela, who will be playing for GB and I against the United States in next month's Curtis Cup match at The Nairn, failed to make it at this year's Q School.

She shot rounds of 73, 72 and a great final score of four-under-par 67 for a one-under-par total of 212 and a two-stroke victory in Sweden.

Swedish amateur Isabella Deilert (69-73-72) finished second on 214.

Carnoustie's Kate McNicoll finished joint 31 on 10-over-par 223 with scores of 72-78-73.

Ayrshire's Pamela Feggans totalled 226 for 38th place with scores of 74-76-77.

It's been a good week for the selectors of the GB and I Curtis Cup team. On Thursday, Kelly Tidy, one of their team of eight, won the English women's amateur championship. Now Pretswell has endorsed her selection too.

 

LJUNGBYHED PARKS WOMEN'S OPEN

Ljungbyheds GC, Sweden

LEADING FINAL TOTALS

Par 213 (3x71)

212 Pamela Pretswell (Sco) (am) 73 72 67.

214 Isabella Deilert (Swe) (am) 69 73 72

216 Linnea Strom (Swe) (am) 77 71 68, Nanna Koertz Madsen (Den) 73 74 69.

SELECTED TOTALS

219 Tara Delaney (Ire) 72 76 71 (T10)

222 Rachel Bell (Eng) 71 78 73, Anna Scott (Eng( 75 71 76 (T26)

223 Katy McNicoll (Sco) 72 78 73 (T31)

226 Pamela Feggans (Sco) 74 76 77 (38th).

 

PAMELA PRETSWELL JOINT FOURTH IN SWEDEN

West of Scotland's Curtis Cup amateur Pamela Pretswell(Bothwell Castle) surged up the leaderboard in the Ljungbyhed Park Women's Open in Sweden with a second-round 72 for 145. The Bothwell Castle GC member is now lying joint fourth, six shots behind the leader by three, Sweden's Jessica Karlsson (67-72) The rest of the Scots in the field of 123 players did not do so well in this Ladies European Tour developmental circuit event. Katy McNicoll (Carnoustie) and Ayrshire's Pamela Feggans are on 150, Katy with scores of 72-78, Pamela 74-76. They are joint 31st. Gemma Webster from Glasgow was joint 94th with rounds of 80-78 for 158. LJUNGBYHED PARK WOMEN'S OPEN Sweden. SECOND-ROUND TOTALS Par 142 (2x71) 139 Jessica Karlsson (Swe) 67 72. 143 Isabella Deilert (Swe) (am) 69 73. 143 Ana Larrangeta (Spa) 69 74. SELECTED SCORES 145 Pamela Pretswell (Sco) (amateur) 73 72 (T4) 146 Anna Scott (Eng) 75 71 (T6) 148 Rhian Wyn Thomas (Wal) 73 75, Tara Delaney (Ire) 72 76 (T15) 149 Rachel Bell (Eng) 71 78 (T20) 150 Katy McNicoll (Sco) 72 78, Pamela Feggans (Sco) 74 76 (T31) 152 Kirsty S Taylor (Eng) 74 78 (T43) 153 Lindsay Brown (Eng) 73 80 (T59) 154 Joanne Clingan (Eng) 77 77 (T

Renfrewshire Spring Meeting over East Renfrewshire

Linda Ellery -- Overall Winner of the RLCGA Spring Meeting 

The RLCGA Spring Meeting was played to-day (Thursday 17th May) over East Renfrewshire.

The Overall winner was home player  LINDA ELLERY (East Renfrewshire) -- pictured above, with an 89 net 70 (19) and the best scratch was GILLIAN KYLE (also East Renfrewshire) with a gross 81.
The CSS was 74, SSS 71 Reductions Only.

Best Scratch: Gillian Kyle (East Renfrewshire) 81

Scratch to 12 Handicap: 
1st Gillian Kyle (East Renfrewshire) 81-5=76
2nd Nancy MacGadie (Ranfurly Castle) 88-12=76
3rd Iona Stephen (Ranfurly Castle) 86-10=76

Handicap 13 and above: 
1st Linda Ellery (East Renfrewshire) 89-19=70
2nd Anne Aitken (Eastwood) 89-13=76
3rd Susan Reid (Kilmacolm) 95-17=78

To see the full list of scores CLICK HERE

WEST OF SCOTLAND STARS MEGAN , EILIDH AND SUSAN REACH THE QUARTER FINALS OF THE SCOTTISH AMATEUR MATCHPLAY CHAMPIONSHIPS

It's crunch time for Kelsey MacDonald in tomorrow morning's quarter-finals of the 98^th Scottish women's amateur golf championship over the Tain links in Ross-shire.

Twelve months ago, the Nairn Dunbar player was defending champion when she lost to Renfrewshire's Eilidh Briggs (Kilmacolm) in the same round atMachrihanish.

Kelsey's next opponent this week is ... Eilidh Briggs.

It's the pick of the quarter-finals after another cold and wet, sunless day at Tain and both Eilidh and Kelsey played well to win both their opening ties in the match-play stages.

The 19-year-old Briggs girl, whose sister Megan is making headway in the other half of the draw, beat Nichola Ferguson (Milngavie) 6 and 4 and then KOd the 2005 champion, Martine Pow (Selkirk) by 3 and 2.

MacDonald won by 6 and 5 against Royal Dornoch's Scotland senior international Alison Bartlett and then marked up a 4 and 3 win over Samantha Munro (Aberdour) who had earlier beaten Aberdeenshire champion Sheena Wood (Aberdeen Ladies) by 6 and 5.

"I'm playing well, quite steady," said Stirling student Eilidh who lost in last year's final to Louise Kenney (Pitreavie) who couldn't get time off from her teaching duties to defend the title.

"It was a different direction of wind today. It made the outward half tougher but I still managed to get to five up on Martine after 10 holes. I'm looking forward to playing Kelsey again. It should be a great match."

In the other match in the lower half of the draw it's local hope Sammy Vass against the No 2 seed Laura Murray from Alford.

Sammy, home for the summer from college in Florida, won through at the 19th at around 6.45pm in her match aLgainst the rising East Lothian star, 16-year-old Clara Young (North Berwick).

Laura Murray was taken to the 18th green in both her ties, holing a 15ft putt to see off the challenge of Dumfries youngster Rachel Walker and reach the last eight.

"Rachel is quite a prospect. It was a really tight match all the way even though I had four birdies along the way. That's how good a player young Rachel is"

In the top half of the draw it will be top seed Jane Turner (Craigielaw) versus Drumpellier's Susan Wood, and 2005 champion Megan Briggs (Kilmacolm) with Muckhart's Eilidh Watson.

Megan had some of the best figures of the day with an eagle (at the 11th) and four birdies as she won by 5 and 4 against new Northern Counties champion Hannah McCook (Grantown on Spey). 

Four down after seven, Hannah had a tiger by the tail - "She holed a lot of good putts and there wasn't much I could about that," said McCook ruefully.

Last year Megan Briggs lost to sister Eilidh in the semi-finals.

Jane Turner is getting away with playing poorly - by her standards - in the opening holes before she gets into her stride. The Robert Gordon University student was three down after five holes to Claire Hargan (Cardross), a former international who organised this championship as an SLGA staff member over the last two or three years.

But Turner turns the heat on her opponents after the turn. She won the 10th, 12th, 13th, halved the 14th and 15th in birdies and then birdied the 17th for a 2 and 1 win.

"I think we were both under par at the finish," said Jane.

SCOTTISH WOMEN'S AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP RESULTS
SECOND ROUND
Jane Turner beat Claire Hargan 2 and 1.
Susan Wood beat Linsey Stevenson 1 hole
Eilidh Watson beat Jemma Chalmers 3 and 1.
Megan Briggs beat Hannah McCook 5 and 4.
Eilidh Briggs beat Martine Pow 3 and 2.
Kelsey MacDonald beat Samantha Munro 4 and 3.
Sammy Vass beat Clara Young at 22nd
Laura Murray beat Rachel Walker 1 hole.

FIRST ROUND

Jane Turner (Craigielaw) beat Fiona Liddell (Schloss Vornholz) 6 and 4

Claire Hargan (Cardross) beat Cara Gruber (Royal Dornoch) 3 and 2.

Susan Wood (Drumpellier) beat Wendy Nicholson (Broomieknowe) 5 and 4.

Linsey Stevenson (Elie and Earlsferry Ladies) beat Elaine Cuthill (Lanark) 5 and 4.

Jemma Chalmers (Monifieth) beat Ailsa Summers (Carnoustie Ladies) 1 hole.

Eilidh Watson (Muckhart) beat Rachel Polson (Peterculter) 2 and 1.

Megan Briggs (Kilmacolm) beat Kate McIntosh (Broomieknowe) 4 and 3.

Hannah McCook (Grantown on Spey) beat Mhairi McKay (West Kilbride) 6 and 4.

Eilidh Briggs (Kilmacolm) beat Nichola Ferguson (Milngavie) 6 and 4.

Martine Pow (Selkirk) beat Alyson McKechin (Elderslie) 6 and 5. 

Samantha Munro (Aberdour) beat Sheena Wood (Aberdeen Ladies) 6 and 4.

Kelsey MacDonald (Nairn Dunbar) beat Alison Bartlett (Royal Dornoch) 6 and 5.

Clara Young (North Berwick) beat Jacqueline Sneddon (Alyth) 4 and 3.

Sammy Vass (Tain) beat Karen Marshall (Baberton) 6 and 5.

Rachel Walker (Dumfries and Galloway) beat Louise Fraser (Kingsknowe) 6 and 5.

Laura Murray (Alford) beat Claire Ross (Tain) 1 hole.

FRIDAY'S QUARTER-FINALS
8.30 Jane Turner v Susan Wood.
8.40 Eilidh Watson v Megan Briggs
8.50 Eilidh Briggs v Kelsey MacDonald
9.00 Sammy Vass v Laura Murray

SEMI-FINALS AT 1.30 AND 1.50

CLARK ROSEBOWL


FIRST ROUND
Anne Ryan (Tain) beat Susan MacVicar (Gairloch) 5 and 4.
Carol Whyte (Windyhill) beat Kirsten Blackwood (Glencorse) 2 and 1.
Lynne Terry (Cruden Bay) beat Lorraine Morrow (Eastwood) 5 and 4.
Heather Munro (Monifieth) beat Nicola Taylor (Dunnikier Park) 6 and 4.
Jenny Potter (Cathkin Braes) beat Linda Bain (Lochend) 4 and 3.
Hannah Scott (Broomieknowe) beat Ashley Ann Alston (Royal Montrose) 4 and 2.
Lauren Whyte (St Regulus) beat Denise Cowan (Ranfurly Castle) 4 and 3.



QUARTER-FINALS
Carol Whyte beat Anne Ryan at 20th
Heather Munro beat Lynne Terry 6 and 5
Hannah Scott beat Jenny Potter 2 and 1
Lauren Whyte beat Mary Smith at 20th

MATCHPLAY RESULTS FROM TAIN

MATCHPLAY STAGES -- LIVE RESULTS

EILIDH BRIGGS IS THE TOP WEST OF SCOTLAND QUALIFIER AT TAIN

Many congratulations go to West of Scotland's Eilidh Briggs (Kilmacolm) who was third qualifier for the matchplay stages of the Scottish (Closed) Amateur Championships at Tain today. Her two round scores of 78 and 77 which equalled the CSS of each day was 5 shots behind the leading qualifier Jane Turner from Craigielaw. Linsey Stevenson (Elie and Earlsferry and Whitecraigs) was the next best with a 76  today to finish in 8th place. Despite having  a 9 on Megan Briggs's card today the Kilmacolm player and 2009 Scottish champion finished well up the list of qualifiers. Other West of Scotland qualifiers were Claire Hargan (Cardross), Alyson McKechin (Elderslie), Susan Wood (Drumpellier) , Elaine Cuthill (Lanark) , Mhairi mcKay (West Kilbride) and Nichola Ferguson (Milngavie) To read the full report go to the Gillian Kirkwood website SECOND QUALIFYING ROUND Par 146 (2x73). CSS 78 (reduction only) 77 MATCH-PLAY QUALIFIERS 150 Jane Turner (Craigielaw) 75 75 152 Laura Murray (Alford) 79 73 155 Eilidh Briggs (Kilmacolm) 78 77 156 Hannah McCook (Grantown on Spey) 80 76, Ailsa Summers (Carnoustie Ladies) 79 77, Kelsey MacDonald (Nairn Dunbar) 77 79. 157 Clara Young (North Berwick) 81 76 158 Linsey Stevenson (Elie and Earlsferry Ladies) 82 76 160 Wendy Nicholson (Broomieknowe) 84 76. 162 Karen Marshall (Baberton) 84 78, Samantha Munro (Aberdour) 83 79 163 Rachel Polson (Peterculter) 84 79, Megan Briggs (Kilmacolm) 81 82, Martine Pow (Selkirk) 80 83. 164 Cara Gruber (Royal Dornoch) 81 83, Rachel Walker (Dumfries and Galloway) 81 83. 166 Claire Hargan (Cardross) 83 83, Louise Fraser (Kingsknowe) 80 86 167 Alyson McKechin (Elderslie) 86 81, Kate McIntosh (Broomieknowe) 85 82, Eilidh Watson (Muckhart) 83 84 168 Sheena Wood (Aberdeen Ladies) 86 82, Sammy Vass (Tain) 85 83 169 Susan Wood (Drumpellier) 89 80 171 Elaine Cuthill (Lanark) 83 88 172 Jacqueline Sneddon (Alyth) 91 81, Jordana Graham (Southerness) 88 84, Alison Bartlett (Royal Dornoch) 86 86. 173 Jemma Chalmers (Monifieth) 97 76, Mhairi McKay (West Kilbride) 87 86 174 Claire Ross (Tain) 92 82, Nichola Ferguson (Milngavie) 92 82. 175 Fiona Liddell (Schloss Vornholz) 88 87 (Liddell bt Anne Ryan (Tain) at second hole of sudden-death play-off for last of 32 places). NON-QUALIFIERS FOR CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH-PLAY 175 Anne Ryan (Tain) 88 87, Linda Urquhart (Banchory) 92 83 (failed to turn up for playoff) 177 Mary Smith (Tain) 92 85 178 Kirsten Blackwood (Glencorse) 93 85, Jenny Potter (Cathkin Braes) 89 89, Dawn Young (North Berwick) 88 90 179 Heather Munro (Monifieth) 95 84, Lynne Terry (Cruden Bay) 88 91 180 Hannah Scott (Broomieknowe) 94 86, Claire Riddell (Royal Dornoch) 91 89, Lauren Whyte (St Regulus) 91 89. 181 Carol Whyte (Windyhill) 89 92 183 Denise Cowan (Ranfurly Castle) 93 90, Eleanor Tunn (Reay) 92 91 184 Ashley Ann Alston (Royal Montrose) 96 88, Lorraine Morrow (Eastwood) 95 89, Nicola Taylor (Dunnikier Park) 93 91. 183 Denise Cowan (Ranfurly Castle) 93 90 187 Linda Bain (Lochend) 99 88 190 Mary Summers (Carnoustie Ladies) 103 87 192 Lynne Fraser (Fortrose and Rosemarkie (Lochend) 104 88 194 Eileen Gillespie (Lochend) 99 95 200 Molly Stewart (Murcar Links) 110 90. 201 Lindsay Mathie (Windyhill) 105 96, Margot Barr (Gairloch) 102 99 207 Fiona Macdonald (Royal Dornoch) 99 108. 215 Ruth McIntyre (Windyhill) 111 104, Pamela Moscati (Royal Dornoch) 108 107 236 Jackie Macdonald (Ranfurly Castle) 125 111. No Return: Sheena McDonald (Buchanan Castle) 98 NR

Disqualified: Kate Reid (Monifieth) 91 dq . 

CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH-PLAY DRAW

THURSDAY 

UPPER HALF
       

8.30 Jane Turner v Fiona Liddell

8.38 Claire Hargan v Cara Gruber

8.46 Wendy Nicholson v Susan Wood

8.54 Elaine Cuthill v Linsey Stevenson

9.02 Ailsa Summers v Jemma Chamers

9.10 Eilidh Watson v Rachel Polson

9.18 Megan Briggs v Kate McIntosh

9.26 Mhairi McKay v Hannah McCook

LOWER HALF

9.34 Eilidh Briggs v Nichola Ferguson

9.42 Alyson McKechin v Martine Pow

9.50 Samantha Munro v Sheena Wood

9.58 Alison Bartlett v Kelsey MacDonald

10.06 Clara Young v Jacqueline Sneddon

10.12 Sammy Vass v Karen Marshall

10.20 Rachel Walker v Louise Fraser

10.28 Claire Ross v Laura Murray

CLARK ROSEBOWL

Thursday

 10.40 eight minute intervals

Anne Ryan v Susan MacVicar

Kirsten Blackwood v Carol Whyte

Lynne Terry v Lorraine Morrow

Nicola Taylor v Heather Munro

Jenny Potter v Linda Bain

Ashley Ann Alson v Hannah Scott

Lauren Whyte v Denise Cowan

Lynne Fraser v Mary Smith

GLEDDOCH LADIES GOLF CLUB OPEN DAY

Sunday 10^TH June 2012 

Entry Fee:  £24.00 per team -- Handicap Limit  30

Starting Times - 09.00 – 3.00pm 
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Please enclose ENTRY FEE (All cheques made payable to “Gleddoch Ladies Golf Club” with completed entry forms, indicating preferred starting time and a SAE for entry acknowledgement to:

Shirley Back, 25 Calderpark Avenue, Lochwinnoch, PA12 4AY.

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Soup and Sandwiches/light buffet available

Professional shop telephone no. 01475 540704  

Mrs Lynn Mitchell – Lady Captain

D&A MAY MEDAL

MAY MEDAL & MISS HENDRY’S QUAICH
Played at Douglas Park Golf Club on Monday 14th May 2012
SSS 72  CSS 75     REDUCTION ONLY

Scratch : Katy MacAulay (Milngavie)  84 (BIH)

1st Silver : Katy MacAulay (Milngavie) 84-8-76
2nd Silver : Sheila Steele (Hilton Park) 88-11-77
3rd Silver : Catherine Skinner (Clydebank and District) 87-9-78

1st Bronze : Christine Baird (Douglas Park) 101-24-77
2nd Bronze : Marion Richardson (Hilton Park) 110-26-84

MISS HENDRY’S QUAICH

Katy MacAulay (Milngavie) 84-8-76

THE WIND BLOWS AT TAIN IN ROUND 1 OF THE SCOTTISH CHAMPIONSHIPS AT TAIN

By COLIN FARQUHARSON 

Colin@scottishgolfview.com

Beaten in the final of the Midlothian county championship on Sunday, Craigielaw's Jane Turner found her best form in the worst kind of conditions today for the first of two qualifying stroke-play qualifying rounds at the 98th Scottish women's (closed) amateur championship at its second most northerly venue in nigh on 100 years.

The 22-year-old from Penicuik and a student at Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen outstripped the field not with a very low sub-par round - a two-over-par 75 was good enough to hoist her two shots clear of the field as only five players broke 80 in at times a gale-force northwestery blowing in over the Dornoch Firth played havoc with the scoring at Tain Golf Club's Old Tom Morris-designed links lay-out in Rosshire, a 40min drive north of Inverness. 
It was not only very, very windy today at Tain, it was also very, very cold. It was sunny most of the day and looked a lovely day through the glass from INSIDE the clubhouse but in reality the temperature outside never rose to double figures.
Underlining just how cold it was, there were two separate showers of hailstones at different times of the day. And this is mid-May?
As players came in, chilled to the bone, after their ordeals, the clubhouse was awash with horror stories of players' experiences in what 2010 champion Kelsey MacDonald and others  described as "absolutely brutal.weather for golf."

Turner (75), MacDonald (77), Eilidh Briggs (Kilmacolm) (78), Ailsa Summers (Carnoustie Ladies) (79) and Alford's Laura Murray (79) fill the first five places overnight on a day when every player deserved a medal.
If the same high velocity wind hangs around for another blow tomorrow, then the qualifying score to figure among the 32 for the match-play stages will be around 178, i.e. a pair of 89s.  
"The trouble with the wind," said Kelsey MacDonald, whose 77 has her tucked in behind Turner in second place in the chase for 32 places in the match-play draw, "was that it was mostly blowing across the fairways and that made it very difficult to get pars and very easy to get bogeys, double bogeys and even higher figures."
Indeed 10s and 11s at single holes became commonplace as the wild wind maintained its tempo and coldness to the bitter end.

One player took 56 shots (21 over par) for the first nine holes after starting with a 10. Another said she was seven over par after only three holes.

Even an experienced and still very good player such as six times Angus champion Mary Summers (Carnoustie Ladies) marked up a 10 at the par-5 11th and finished with 103

So how did Jane Turner succeed when so many others failed?
"Holing a 20ft putt across the first green for a birdie certainly helped my attitude. I wasn't going to let the wind beat me. I drove it well and into the right places," she said. 
"You could say my course management was good but mainly I just played really steady golf, making mistakes as was to be expected, but making the best of it and getting on with it," added the 22-year-old Scotland international who graduates this summer and already has a job waiting for her with an Edinburgh firm of graphic designers (a job that guarantees her time off for golf!)
"I got my second birdie at the long 13th but the icing on the cake for me - and the hole that really gave me a two-shot lead over playing partner Kelsey = was the 17th. It's a par 4, even though it is only 208yd
"Today it was one of the few holes directly into the wind - and I hit it really well with my driver, through to the back edge of the green. And I holed the putt from about 30 feet for an eagle 2!"
"The trouble with the wind," said Kelsey MAC, whose 77 has her tucked in behind Turner in second place in the chase for 32 places in the match-play draw, "was that it was mostly blowing across the fairways and that made it very difficult to get pars and very easy to get bogeys, double bogeys and even higher figures."
Indeed 10s and 11s at single holes became commnplace as the wild wind maintained its strength and coldness to the bitter end.
One player took 56 shots (21 over par) for the first nine holes and another said she was seven over par after only three holes. became common place as the wind maintained its tempo to the bitter end. 
Even an experienced and still very good player such as six times Angus champion Mary Summers (Carnoustie Ladies) marked up a 10 at one hole early in her inward half and finished with 103.
Mary must have had a premonition about her round because she admitted in the clubhouse beforehand that she was a little bit reluctant to go out.
Her teenager daughter Ailsa, Angus women's champion for the fourth year in a row at the weekend, did very well to salvage a 79 considering she was five over par after only four holes, having had a double bogey 7 at the fourth and bogeys at the first three holes.
Out in 41, she matched the par of 38 for the inward journey and was the first player in the field to break 80 - at 3pm!
"It wasn't in the least bit enjoyable but the fact that there is another qualifying round tomorrow kept me going."
New Northern Counties champion Hannah McCook (Grantown on Spey) had the best outward half of 36 (one over par) but had three double bogey 6s, including the 17th and 18th, in an inward 44 (six over par).
"It was a cross wind all the way until we got to the last two holes - which were directly into the wind. They cost me four shots," said Hannah.
"It was such a struggle from start to finish."
Big-hitting Laura Murray was going well when she turned in one-over 37 but she slipped to 42 shots for the inward half, bogeying the 12th, 15th, 16th and 17th. She had only one birdie all day - a 2 at the short fifth.
Peterculter's Rachel Polson, just back from her first year at Florida Tech, finished with an 84 which really did not do her justice/
Out in 38, she had a triple bogey 8 at the long 11th and dropped six shots to par from the 14th to the 17th, including a double bogey 5 at the short 16th.
Eilidh Briggs (Kilmacolm), beaten finalist last year, was five over par on the fourth tee, having started double bogey 6, bogey 5, double bogey 6 but she had picked up two birdies by the turn which she reached in a respectable 40 and got another three birdies- at the 13th, 15th and 17th - over an inward half of 38.
Without having check every card, I would say that Eilidh had more birdies than any other player in the field on a day when they were an endangered species.
Sister Megan, Scottish champion three years ago, also came home in 38 but the damage had been done to her card with 43 for the outward nine.

ALL THE SCORES FROM THE WIND-LASHED FIRST DAY OF THE 98th SCOTTISH WOMEN'S CHAMPIONSHIP

SCOTTISH WOMEN'S AMATEUR (closed) CHAMPIONSHIP Tain Golf Club, Ross-shire FIRST ROUND Par 73 (35-38). Yardage 5,955 75 Jane Turner (Craigielaw). 77 Kelsey MacDonald (Nairn Dunbar). 78 Eilidh Briggs (Kilmacolm). 79 Ailsa Summers (Carnoustie Ladies), Laura Murray (Alford).. 80 Martine Pow (Selkirk), Louise Fraser (Kingsknowe), Hannah McCook (Grantown on Spey).. 81 Rachael Walker (Dumfries and Galloway), Cara Gruber (Royal Dornoch), Clara Young (North Berwick), Megan Briggs (Kilmacolm). 82 Linsey Stevenson (Elie and Earlsferry Ladies). 83 Claire Hargan (Cardross), Wendy Nicholson (Broomieknowe), Elaine Cuthill (Lanark), Samantha Munro (Aberdour), Eilidh Watson (Muckhart) 84 Karen Marshall (Baberton), Wendy Nicholson (Broomieknowe), Rachel Polson (Peterculter). 85 Kate McIntosh (Broomieknowe), Sammy Vass (Tain) 86 Sheena Wood (Aberdeen Ladies), Alyson McKechin (Elderslie), Alison Bartlett (Royal Dornoch). 87 Mhairi McKay (West Kilbride) 88 Jordana Graham (Southerness), Fiona Liddell (Schloss Vorholz), Anne Ryan (Tain), Lynne Terry (Cruden Bay), Dawn Young (North Berwick). 89 Susan Wood (Drumpellier), Jenny Potter (Cathkin Braes), Carol Whyte (Windyhill).. 91 Katie Reid (Monifieth), Lauren Whyte (St Regulus), Jacqueline Sneddon (Alyth), Claire Riddell (Royal Dornoch). 92 Nichola Ferguson (Milngavie), Eleanor Tunn (Reay), Mary Smith (Tain), Linda Urquhart (Banchory), Claire Ross (Tain). 93 Kirsten Blackwood (Glencorse), Nicola Taylor (Dunnikier Park), Denise Cowan (Ranfurly Castle). 94 Hannah Scott (Broomieknowe). 95 Heather Munro (Monifieth), Lorraine Morrow (Eastwood) 96 Ashley Alston (Royal Montrose). 97 Jemma Chalmers (Monifieth). 98 Sheena McDonald (Buchanan Castle). 99 Linda Bain (Lochend), Eileen Gillespie (Lochend), Fiona Macdonald (Royal Dornoch). 100 Susan MacVicar (Gairloch). 102 Margot Barr (Gairloch). 103 Mary Summers (Carnoustie Ladies). 104 Lynne Fraser (Fortrose and  Rosemarkie). 105 Lindsay Mathie (Windyhill). 110 Molly Stewart (Murcar Links). 111 Ruth McIntyre (Windyhill) 125 Jackie McDonald (Ranfurly Castle).

WEDNESDAY'S TEE TIMES

09.00 Anne Laing (Vale of Leven) (past champions event) and Jackie Macdonald.
09.10 Ruth McIntyre, Molly Stewart and Pamela Moscati.
09.20 Lindsay Mathie, Lynne Fraser and Mary Summers.
09.30 Margot Barr,  Susan MacVicar and Fiona Macdonald
09.40 Linda Bain, Eileen Gillespie and Sheena McDonald
09.50 Jemma Chalmers, Ashley Ann Alston and Heather Munro

10.00 Lorraine Morrow, Hannah Scott and Nicola Taylor.
10.10 Denise Cowan, Kirsten Blackwood and Mary Smith.
10.20 Claire Ross, Linda Urquhart and Nichola Ferguson.
10.30 STARTER'S TIME
10.40 Eleanor Tunn, Jacqueline Sneddon and Claire Riddell.
10.50 Katie Reid, Lauren Whyte and Carol Whyte.

11.00 Susan Wood, Jenny Potter and Anne Ryan.
11.10 Dawn Young, Fiona Liddell and Jordana Graham.
11.20 Lynne Terry, Mhairi McKay and Sheena Wood.
11.30 Alyson McKechin, Alison Bartlett and Sammy Vass.
11.40 Kate McIntosh, Rachel Polson and Karen Marshall.
11.50 Wendy Nicholson, Claire Hargan and Eilidh Watson

12.00 Elaine Cuthill, Samantha Munro and Linsey Stevenson.
12.10 Cara Gruber, Clara Young and Megan Briggs.
12.20 Rachel Walker, Hannah McCook and Martine Pow
12.30 Louise Fraser, Laura Murray and Ailsa Summers.
12.40 Eilidh Briggs, Kelsey MacDonald and Jane Turner.

LIVE SCORING FROM THE SCOTTISH (Closed ) AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIPS AT TAIN

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GERMANY CALLING! -- Lanarkshire's Rachael Taylor shoots best-ever round of 66

Thanks go to Colin Farquharson for this report --

E-mail from Rachael Taylor (Based in Germany)

Just wanted to let you know that I am playing with my team Golf Club Am Reichswald in the Bavarian Ladies Team Championships this week. The top eight Bavarian teams compete for the title.

The teams play a stroke-play round the first day and the top four teams compete for the title. I had a fantastic first round yesterday (Thursday) and finished with a nine under par (and personal best) leading round of 66!

It feels great to have achieved that score. My drives were straight and I just kept knocking the ball in for birdies!

It went past so quickly it hasn't quite sunk in yet.

The matchplay stages start today and my team and I will come up against Münchener Golf−Club e.V, the defending champions. They beat us in a play-off last year so we are looking forward to a good match.

You can see the scores on http://www.bayerischer-golfverband.de/ 

There will be live scoring again today.

I will be in Scotland for the St Rule at the end of the month.

Regards Rachael

PAMELA FINISHES 15TH IN SWEDEN

Katy McNicoll finished joint sixth in the Kristianstad Ahus Ladies Open at Kristianstad Golf Club, Sweden today - five strokes behind the winner, Norway's Cecile Lundgreen who shot 74-71-77 for six-over-par 222.

Curtis Cup amateur Pamela Pretswell shot 72-80-78 for 230 and finished T15. Pamela had three bogeys over rounds two and three - two of them in the second round and one today at the sixth.

LEADING FINAL TOTALS
Par 216 (3x72)
222 Cecile Lundgreen (Norway) 74 71 77
223 Marion Ricordeau (France) 77 71 76
224 Lina Boqvist (Sweden) 72 77 75

SELECTED TOTALS
227 Katy McNicoll (Scotland) 72 76 79 (T6)
230 Pamela Pretswell (Scotland) (amateur) 72 80 78 (T15)
232 Kelly Hutcherson (England) 72 80 80 (T19)

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Central Database of Handicaps (CDH)

The Scottish CDH is now live and accepting uploads from affiliated golf clubs.
Individual members of affiliated golf clubs will be able to access the CDH once their 'home' club has uploaded to the CDH and advised their members of their individual, unique CDH ID Number. 

Once a member receives their own CDH ID Number they can register on the CDH at: www.slga.co.uk/cdh/member
This link can then be used for members to login in to the CDH. 

The Individual CDH Guidance Pack is available here  This pack provides details of how a golf club member can register on the CDH and view their own handicap and handicap record. 

Club Access

SLGA affiliated clubs can access the CDH at: www.slga.co.uk/cdh 

PAMELA PRETSWELL STRUGGLES IN SWEDEN

The Scottish challenge in the Kristianstad Ahus Ladies Open in Sweden was halved for the final round when Glasgow's Gemma Webster and Pamela Feggans from Patna, Ayrshire missed the 36-hole cut. Gemma shot 79-76 for 155 and missed out by one shot - Ten over par qualified but 11 over par did not. Pamela had scores of 81-83 for 164 and was never going to make it. Up at the sharp end of the scoreboard,
Carnoustie's Katy McNicoll hung on in there in a share of sixth place on 148 after scores of 72 and 76. She had five bogeys in an outward 39 but eight pars and one bogey on the way home.
Curtis Cup amateur Pamela Pretswell (Bothwell Castle) had a most uncharacteristic, error-strewn round of 80, eight shots worse than her first-day score. She has slumped out of the top 10 to joint 22nd on 152.

Pamela Pretswell had two birdies, at the first and 10th, but she also had two double bogeys, at the fifth and 13th, and six bogeys in halves of 39-41.

 KRISTIANSAND AHUS LADIES OPEN Kristiansand GC, Sweden

LEADING SECOND-ROUND TOTALS Par 144 (2x72)
144 Melodie Bourdy (Fra) 70 74. 145 Cecile Lundgreen (Nor) 74 71.
146 Viva Schlasberg (Swe) 76 70. SELECTED SCORES
148 Katy McNicoll (Sco) 72 76 (T6)
152 Pamela Pretswell (Sco) 72 80 (T22)

MISSED THE CUT (154 or better qualified) 
155 Gemma Webster (Sco) 79 76.
164 Pamela Feggans (Sco) 81 83.

SERVICES TO SPORT AWARD FOR FIONA NORRIS

Fiona Norris, captain of the Scotland women's amateur golf team, received the Scottish Association of Local Sports Council's Services to Sport Award at the recent Hamilton Sports Council Awards  Evening held within the Banqueting Centre of South Lanarkshire Council in Hamilton.

Eilidh Briggs retains the West of Scotland Championship

Eilidh Briggs - The 2012 West of Scotland Champion

Eilidh Briggs (Kilmacolm) retained the West of Scotland Championship played over Renfrew Golf Club today. Her morning round of 75 1 over the SSS 74 was followed by an excellent 2 under par 72 to take the title again.
She won the title from Carol Whyte by 8 shots. Carol was the winner of the best net score of the day on 145.
The Senior team award was won by: Renfrewshire - 3 scores to count -- Eilidh Briggs, Donna Jackson and Gillian Kyle.
May Hughes (Lanark) had an eagle 2 at the 1st hole of the afternoon round when she slotted her ball into the hole with a 7 wood

Renfrewshire : 475
Lanarkshire : 501
D&A : 506
Ayrshire only 2 nomininated players - one withdrawn

The Junior team award (Net Score) was won by : Renfrewshire
Renfrewshire : 319 Alexandra Qayum and Linsey Stevenson
Lanarkshire : 321 Ellie Bryce and Eva O'Conner

Leading Scores
SSS 74, Par 74, CSS 75 (Round 1) CSS 74 (Round 2)

147 Eilidh Briggs (Kilmacolm) 75, 72 --- (Renfrewshire)
155 Carol Whyte (Windyhill) 78, 77 --- (Renfrewshire)
157 Lesley Lloyd (Hayston) 78,79 -- (Lanarkshire)
158 Donna Jackson (Cochrane Castle) 79, 79 ---( Renfrewshire)
161 Jenny Linklater (Largs) 82,79 -- (Ayrshire )
161 Lorraine Morrow (Eastwood) 78, 83 (Renfrewshire)
162 Susan McGrenaghan (Mount Ellen) 82, 80 (Lanarkshire)
163 Nichola Ferguson ( Milngavie) 90, 73 (D&A)
167 Emma Hale (Troon Ladies) 83, 84 (Ayrshire)
169 Laura McGeachy (Windyhill) 82, 87 (D&A )
170 Gillian Kyle (East Renfrewshire) 92 , 78 (Renfrewshire)
170 Linsey Stevenson (Elie and Earlsferry ) 83, 87 (Renfrewshire )

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MEGAN AND ALYSON SHARE 18th SPOT IN WALES

By COLIN FARQUHARSON
Colin@scottishgolfview.com


Welsh champion and Curtis Cup reserve Becky Harries produced arguably the best round of her life just when she needed it most to win the prestigious Welsh women's open amateur stroke-play championship over the Ashburnham links on the South Wales coast today.
Starting the final day four shots behind overnight leader Chloe Williams (Wrexham) and in joint fifth place, the 23-year-old from the Haverfordwest club stormed round in five-under-par 69 for a final total of two-under-par 220.

Top Scot for the second weekend in a row was Laura Murray (Alford). Joint third last week at Troon, Laura finished ninth at Ashburnham with scores of 79-77-74.
The big hitting winner of the St Rule Trophy two years ago (when she beat Amy Boulden in a play-off), Laura had an eagle at the fifth and birdies at the third and 17th.
Four late bogeys - at the 14th, 15th, 16th and 18th - cost Murray a top five or six placing.
Second best Scot was Carnoustie teenager Jessica Meek in 11th place on 233 with scores of 78-75-80.
Alyson McKechin (Elderslie) and former Scottish champion Megan Briggs (Kilmacolm) also failed to break 80 in the final round but made the final top 2-20.
Alyson scored 77-81-80 for 238, the same aggregate as Megan with scores of 77-78-83. They were joint 18th.
Curtis Cup team selection Charley Hull (Woburn) did not defend the title.

THE FINAL TOTALS
Par 222 (3x74)
220 Becky Harries (Haverford West) 76 75 69.
222 Chloe Williams (Wrexham) 74 73 75
224 Georgia Hall (Remedy Oak) 80 70 74.
225 Amy Boulden (Conwy) 78 75 72.
226 Kelly Tidy (Royal Birkdale) 76 74 76, Emily Taylor (Royal Lytham) 73 75 78.
227 Kerry Smith (Waterlooville) 75 78 75.
229 Nikki Foster (Pleasington) 77 74 78.
230 Laura Murray (Alford) 79 77 74
231 Katherine O'Connor (Tadmnarton Heath) 74 78 69.
233 Jessica Meek (Carnoustie) 78 75 80.
234 Rachel Drummond (Beaconsfield) 77 81 76, Lauren Hillier (Newport) 79 75 80, Hannah Barwood (Knowle) 75 77 82
235 Helen Searle (Huddersfield) 83 76 76, Meghan MacLaren (Wellingborough) 78 76 81
237 Katerina Slukova (Czech Rep) 80 81 76.
238 Stacey Rodger (West Hove) 79 83 74, Annabel Dimmock (Wentworth) 81 79 78, Alyson McKechin (Elderslie) 77 81 80, Megan Briggs (Kilmacolm) 77 78 83.
239 Lucy Gould (Bargoed) 85 79 75, Rachel Goodall (Heswall) 82 78 79.
240 Sophie Madden (West Essex) 80 78 82.
Other Scot
244 Clara Young (North Berwick) 77 84 83.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY PAMELA

All in the West of Scotland wish Pamela Pretswell a very HAPPY BIRTHDAY today and every success in the 2012 Curtis Cup in Nairn next month. This is a short video with SLGA'S Isabel Crawford at the County Jamboree at Kilmacolm in 2010

 

Strictly Come Dancing

Scottish golfers Carly Booth (Winner of the Scottish Open at Archerfield) and Lynn Kenny swap their golf clubs for dancing shoes at they are taught some moves by Strictly Come Dancing's Brendan Cole, ahead of all three playing in the Aberdeen Asset Management Ladies Scottish Open.

Perhaps Dancing is good for your golf !!

Welsh Open - West of Scotland's Megan Briggs and Alyson McKechin are both playing

Carnoustie teenager Jessica Meek is the leading Scot after two rounds of the Welsh women's open amateur championship at Ashburnham GC on the South Wales coast.
Jessica shot rounds of 78 and 75 for a tally of five-over-par 153 over the par-74 course to be sharing ninth place with Amy Boulden (Conwy), the Welsh Curtis Cup player who won last weekend's Helen Holm Scottish stroke-play title at Troon.
Former Scottish champion Megan Briggs (Kilmacolm) will start Sunday's final round in 14th place after scores of 77 and 78 for 155 - one shot ahead of Alford's Laura Murray (79-77).
Alyson McKechin (Elderslie) scored 77-81 for a share of 19th place on 158.
Bringing up the rear for the Scots were Rachel Walker (Dumfries&County) (79-82) and Clara Young (North Berwick) (77-84) on 161.
Leading the field is Welsh Junior Vagliano Trophy player Chloe Williams (Wrexham) with scores of 74 and 73 for 147.

SECOND-ROUND LEADING TOTALS
Par 148 (2x74)
147 Chloe Williams (Wrexham) 74 73
148 Emily Taylor (Royal Lytham) 73 75.
150 Georgia Hall (Remedy Oak) 80 70, Kelly Tidy (Royal Birkdale) 76 74.
151 Nikki Foster (Pleasington) 77 74, Becky Harries (Haverfordwest) 76 75.
152 Hannah Barwood (Knowle) 75 77, Katherine O'Connor (Tadmarton Heath) 74 78.
153 Amy Boulden (Conwy) 78 75, Kerry Smith (Waterlooville) 75 78, Jessica Meek (Carnoustie) 78 75.
154 Lauren Hillier (Newport) 79 75, Meghan MacLaren (Wellingborough) 78 76.
OTHER SCOTS SCORES
155 Megan Briggs (Kilmacolm) 77 78 (14th)
156 Laura Murray (Alford) 79 77 (T15)
158 Alyson McKechin (Elderslie) 77 81 (T19)
161 Rachel Walker (Dumfries&Co) 79 82, Clara Young (North Berwick) 77 84