Ellis Keenan wins Bridget Jackson

Bowl by six shots at Handsworth

Sunningdale's Ellis Keenan continued her excellent form this season by winning the Bridget Jackson Bowl by six strokes at Handsworth Golf Club today.

Ellis, who celebrates her 18th birthday on Sunday, is the Surrey girls champion and won the Hampshire Rose by five shots at North Hants at the end of April.

She started the 27th staging of the Bridget Jackson Bowl with two of a handicap but after very good rounds of 68 and 70 for a total of 138 - against a par of 72 and a CSS for both rounds of 73 - Ellis will have closed in a scratch rating.

She had two 2s, at the same short hole in both rounds, played in a gusting wind, which made her performance all the more praiseworthy.

FINAL TOTALS

Par 144 (2 x 72). CSS 73 73

138 E Keenan (Sunningdale) 68 70.

144 H Clyburn (Woodhall Spa) 72 72, T Holder (Woburn) 72 72.

146 L Ball (Matfen Hall) 74 72, C Aitken (Mid Kent) 72 74, S James (Bristol & Clifton) 70 76.

147 H Coles (Maxstoke Park) 77 70, A Gittings (Walmley) 74 73.

148 H Key (South Herts 71 77.

149 B Harries (Haverfordwest) 77 72, H Grant (Enmore Park) 75 74, T Boyes (Meon Valley) 74 75.

151 K Larratt (Kibworth) 76 75, L Barton (Coventry) 75 76, L Gould (Bargoed) 74 77.

152 S Birks (Wolstanton) 75 77, E Taylor (Gainsborough) 75 77.

153 A Carling (Vale of Glamorgan) 75 78.

154 H Owers-Bradley (Wollaton Park) 80 74, C Dalton (Ladbrook Park) 75 78, K Rands (Burhill) 73 81.

157 C Douglass (Brodcket Hall) 81 76, B Dowell (Enmore Park) 80 77, J Hodge (Knowle) 78 79, C Field (Harpenden) 77 80.

158 H Turland (Tidworth Garrison) 79 79, J Nicolson (Wrexham) 77 81, E Mallett (Sutton Coldfield) 77 81, B Davies (Wolstanton) 76 82.

159 G Easton (Enville) 84 75, A Barber (Brocton Hall) 77 82.

160 L Watkins (Bicester CC) 82 78, C Howells (Moor Hall) 78 82, B Gibbs (Burnham & Berrow) 78 82.

161 E Cutmore (Colne Valley) 84 77, G Bradbury (Cottrell Park) 81 80.

162 M McMahon (Yeovil) 86 76, H McLoughlin (Sutton Coldfield) 83 79.

166 D Greenslade (Stourbridge) 83 83.

168 L Mileham (Aldwickbury Park) 84 84.