July 2004 Archive

Saturday 31st July 2004

Team of two
Scottish Girls Champion Krystle Caithness (St Regulus)and Kylie Walker (Buchanan Castle), winner of the Menzies Trophy for the best U18 Aggregate at Kirkcaldy this week, are to represent Scotland in the Belgium Junior International Team tournament at the end of August.

English Girls' Championship
Melissa Reid (Chevin) wins English Girls’ Championship at Gainsborough Golf Club, Lincolnshire 31 July 2004 beating Kiran Matharu (Sand Moor) 3&2. Melissa, 16 years old, led the qualifiers into the match play stages of the competition.
During the final match Melissa was 2up at the turn, having been 1 down after 6. Melissa continued to lead during the back 9, the game alternating between 1up and 2up till the 15th, Melissa won the 16th to take the 3&2 victory.
This was a close match, but Melissa said “I felt confident this morning, as I have been playing some of my best golf ever this week”. Although she hadn’t played Kiran before she knew what she was up against and said “Kiran is an awesome golfer, the only way to win was with birdies. This has been one my goals and I feel speechless having actually achieved it”.
To take the Championship title Melissa beat Sian James (Bristol & Clifton) 3&2, Emma Sheffield (Newark) 2&1, Laura Cutler (Warley Park) 3&1 and finally Kiran 3&2. Melissa is looking forward to the British Girls’ Open Amateur Championship at Lanark Golf Club next week and she has been selected for the England Home International Team 11 – 13 August, Strathaven Golf Club.
The event was well supported by local members, local people and lady golfers from a far. Rebecca Hudson was in the crowd, enjoying the golf and she said “I’ve seen some great golf and it was good to see the ELGA crew again”.
Flight2: Rebecca Dowell (Enmore Park) beat Clara Leathers (Ellesborough) 2&1.

Scottish Mens' Championship
MURRAY IS NEW SCOTTISH AMATEUR CHAMPION
George Murray was crowned the Golfing Prince of the Kingdom of Fife yesterday when the 21-year-old from Anstruther took the Scottish amateur golf championship back to the county for the first time in 33 years.
Murray staged a remarkable sub-par comeback to beat 17-year-old Paul O'Hara from Motherwell on the very last green of the 36-hole final over the Gullane No 1 course, East Lothian.
The last Fifer to win the coveted national title was Sandy Stephen (Lundin Links) as a 17-year-old over the Old Course, St Andrews in 1971.
Murray, who plays off plus three of a handicap at Earlsferry Thistle Golf Club, has clinched his first full cap for Scotland in the men's home internationals at Prestwick in September. That will complete the collection for George who has played for his country at boys and youths' level.
George came back from four down after 24 holes for his memorable win, covering covered the last 12 holes in five under par to overhaul the younger brother of Steven O'Hara who won the title in 2000.
The two Young Lions, a credit to Scottish golf, covered each 18 holes in three hours - a terrific pace by today's starts.
It was the friendliest of finals. They had lunch together in the Gullane clubhouse between rounds and went over to the practice ground to warm up together for the second 18 holes.
And George's first thought when he holed the winning putt was: "Of course, I was delighted to win but I felt so sorry for young Paul. For a long way, I thought there was no way I could win this."
George, having played second fiddle to the young maestro for since the 10th hole in the morning, kick-started his title-winning comeback with a winning par 4 at the 25th, followed by a birdie 3 at the 28th and a birdie 4 at the 30th.
Young Paul, a junior member at Colville Park Golf Club, was still one up with four to play but was pulled back to square for the first time since the ninth hole in the morning round when Murray got an eagle 3 at the 537yd par-5 33rd hole.
Home with two mighty shots, George downed a nine-foot putt to be all square.
Followed by a gallery of some 400, there were two nail-biting halves before Murray sank a 15ft birdie putt on the 36th green to complete his remarkable rally with a one-hole victory for the championship.
He is the first Fifer since Sandy Stephen, who played out of Lundin Links, to win the Scottish championship did it in 1971 over the Old Course, St Andrews.
"It's the greatest win of my life," said a normally reserved George Murray, "but I feel so sorry for young Paul. He's going to win this title before long. He's a very good player already but he's got tremendous potential."
Paul, a little bit crestfallen at the way things had run away from him over the closing holes, said: "I didn't hole a putt all day. My putting was just rubbish. My ball kept shaving the hole. I had my chances but I think it all came down to putting in the end. At the start of the week I would have been delighted to know I was going to reach the final. But, having got to the final, I'm really disappointed that I didn't win - especially after leading for most of the way."
Murray was level par (71) in the morning and two down at lunch but he was four under par (67) for the second round. O'Hara was two-under-par (69) for the first round and one-under for the second.
RESULT
SCOTTISH AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP
Gullane No 1 course.
Final (36 holes) - George Murray (Earlsferry Thistle) beat Paul O'Hara (Colville Park) 1 hole.
Both players were out in one-under-par 34 for the first nine holes and all square, Murray having won the second and sixth with birdies but losing the fourth with a bogey and the short ninth to O'Hara's only outward birdie
Then Murray put his second into a greenside bunker at the 10th and two-putted from 25ft while O'Hara pitched dead for a par 4 to lead for the first time.
O'Hara missed a 6ft chance to go two up at the 11th but he chipped dead for a birdie 4 at the long 12th to double his advantage and when Murray was bunkered at the short 13th and missed from 6ft, O'Hara was suddenly on command of the situation with a three-hole lead.
The 14th hole was halved in 4s, at which point O'Hara had not bogeyed a hole and was two under par while Murray had bogeyed three holes and was one over the card.
Murray got back into contention by winning the 15th and 16th. George got an eagle 3 at the 537yd 15th, where he was home in two and holed at 10ft putt, and O'Hara three-putted from 45ft for his first bogey at the short 16th to be only one up.
Murray drove into the rough - not for the first time - at the 18th and came up short in two. He elected to use his putter from a good 20yd off the green and sent it five feet past the hole. He failed to hole his second putt and his third bogey of the inward half put him in for lunch two holes down.
The first 18 holes were completed in 3hr with O'Hara two under par and Murray level par.
O'Hara started the afternoon round with a birdie 3 and then followed a series of halved holes - although Murray should have won the 23rd where he missed a 6ft birdie chance.
Murray had more putting problems at the next where he three-putted from 30ft to bogey the hole and fall four down.
Then a rare slip from O'Hara off the tee. His accurate driving had been a feature of his play but he drove into a bunker at the 25th and elected to play out backwards, finally losing the hole to Murray's two-putt par from off the back of the green. O'Hara back to three up.
Both players missed birdie putts from less than 10ft at the short 27th but Murray sank a raker from 35ft, on the fringe of the 28th. O'Hara could not follow him in from 7ft after much the better approach shot and Paul's lead was now cut to two for the first time since the 18th.
Murray was now on a roll. He birdied the par-5 480yd 11th by getting home in two and two-putting from 30ft while O'Hara, outdriven by 30yd, took three to get home and missed a 12ft birdie putt. O'Hara now only one up with six to play.
Murray's magnificent rally put him back on level terms at last when he eagled the 537yd 33rd where he got home in two and holed from 9ft for a 3. He had also eagled the hole in the morning. O'Hara's pitch-and-putt 4 was not enough to preserve his lead.
After tense halves in par at the 34th and 35th, Murray won the last hole for the match after confidently holing a 15ft birdie putt while O'Hara, short of the putting surface in two, putted 3ft past.

Dumfriesshire Championship
FIONA LEADING QUALIFIER BY BIG MARGIN AT THORNHILL
Thornhill player Fiona MacGregor was the leading qualifier by a big margin - 11 shots - for the match-play stages of the Dumfries-shire women's county golf championship at Thornhill Golf Club yesterday (Friday).
Fiona returned a score a very good score of 71, which was one under the CSS. The No 2 seed in the draw is Chris Hastings (Moffat) who had an 82.
SCRATCH QUALIFIERS
71 Fiona MacGregor (Thornhill).
82 Chris Hastings (Moffat).
83 June Laurie (Thornhill), Pearl Beattie (Thornhill), Eileen Mauchline (Lochmaben).
87 Margaret Macgregor (Dumfries & Co).
89 Dorothy Young (Dumfries & Co).
90 Margaret Mannall (Powfoot).
MATCH-PLAY DRAW
F MacGregor v Mannall, Laurie v Beattie, Mauchline v M Macgregor, Young v Hastings.
HANDICAP DRAW
Eleanor Blunt (Dumfries & Galloway) (20) v Aileen McIntyre (Powfoot) (15).
Sheila Townsley (Dumfries & Co) (15) v Pam Coleman (Thornhill) (22).
Margaret McCall (Dumfries & Co) (27) v Betty Carruthers (Lockerbie) (13).
Margaret Davidson (Thornhill) (10) v Marjory Pringle (Langholm) (19).
The quarter-finals and semi-finals of both scratch and handicap sections will be played on Sunday. The 36-hole championship final will be held on Monday as will the handicap final over 18 holes.

Scottish Mens' Amateur Championship
IT'S O'HARA v MURRAY FOR TITLE AT GULLANE
Seventeen-year-old Paul O'Hara (Colville Park), whose brother Steven won the title four years ago, will contest Saturday's 36-hole final of the Scottish men's amateur championship against 21-year-old George Murray (Earlsferry Thistle) from Anstruther over the Gullane No 1 course.
The first 18 holes will tee off at 8.30am.

Award for Kate
Kate O'Sullivan (Cochrane Castle), a student at Highpoint University in the States, has been recognized as one of the 2003-2004 National Golf Coaches Association All-American Scholars. Read the full story here

Friday 30th July 2004

Scottish Ladies Junior Open Stroke Play Championship
QUEEN IS KING OF THE CASTLE AT KIRKCALDY
Curtis Cup reserve Clare Queen pictured right, found her best form of the season to win the BP Scottish Under-21 girls' golf championship at Kirkcaldy on Friday.
Starting the final round in third place, two shots off the pace, Clare birdied four of the last 10 holes to overtake the leaders.
After a 6 at the par-5 17th, Clare needed to get down in two shots from the edge of the green at the 18th to avoid a play-off. She kept her nerve and was able to pitch to set up the title-clinching par 3.
Clare from Drumpellier shot rounds of 69, 73 and 70 for a four-under-par total of 212 - one shot ahead of Welsh left-hander Stephanie Evans (Vale of Llangollen) and last year's runner-up Heather MacRae (Dunblane New), the pair who had been joint overnight leaders.
Stephanie gained second prize by virtue of having a better inward half than Heather in the last round, in which both shot 73.
Defending champion Jenna Wilson (Strathaven) finished fourth on 217.
Kylie Walker (Buchanan Castle), pictured left, cracked the Kirkcaldy women's course record with a brilliant third round of five-under-par 67. She won the Menzies Trophy for the leading Under-18 finisher with a 54-hole total of 218.
BP SCOTTISH UNDER-21 GIRLS' OPEN AMATEUR STROKE-PLAY CHAMPIONSHIP
Kirkcaldy Golf Club.
FINAL TOTALS
212 C Queen (Drumpellier) 69 73 70.
213 S Evans (Vale of Llangollen) 71 69 73, H MacRae (Dunblane New) 70 70 73.
217 J Wilson (Strathaven) 72 71 74.
218 K Walker (Buchanan Castle) 78 73 67.
222 K Caithness (St Regulus) 74 75 73.
224 L Kenney (Pitreavie) 77 73 74.
225 K Harper (Inverness) 76 73 76.
229 L Walker (Nairn Dunbar) 73 76 80.
230 K O'Sullivan (Cochrane Castle) 76 77 77, A Edwards (Liberton) 74 76 80.
231 D Scarello (Italy) 79 77 75.
232 G Webster (Hilton Park) 75 77 80.
233 Roseanne Niven (Crieff) 77 79 77.
234 L Fleming (The Roxburghe) 82 75 77, D Dewar (Stirling Univ) 76 73 85.
236 K Thomson (Kintore) 84 74 78, S Watson (Elie & Earlsferrey) 75 79 82.
237 E Fairnie (Minto) 83 82 72, L Hendry (Routenburn) 82 77 78.
239 C Booth (Auchterarder) 81 78 80, K MacDonald (Nairn Dunbar) 78 76 85.
240 M Briggs (Kilmacolm) 81 78 81.
241 P Pretswell (Bothwell Castle) 80 79 82, R Livingstone (Musselburgh) 81 78 82, C-M Carlton (Fereneze) 78 80 83.
242 J Turner (Glencorse) 83 75 84, H Harvey (St Leonards) 76 81 85.
243 M Thomson (McDonald Ellon) 84 81 78, E Ogilvy (Muckhart) 86 79 78.
244 A Ingram (Fort william) 80 86 78, N Melville (Bridge of Allan) 80 82 82.
245 L Murray (Alford) 89 82 74, R Watson (Elie & Earlsferry) 88 79 78, A Wilton (Ladybank) 82 80 83..
246 C Kortekaas (Netherlands) 81 88 77, S Herd (Dunblane New) 81 82 83, K McNicol (Carnoustie Ladies) 79 79 88.
247 F Hindshaw (Gullane Ladies) 84 85 78.
248 L Williamson (Barassie) 81 86 81, D Neilson (Hilton Park) 82 81 85.
250 K Wells (Dumfries & Co) 85 79 86.
251 F Williamson (Barassie) 82 80 89.
253 C Paterson (Gullane Ladies0 80 81 92.
254 R Clark (Dumfries & Co) 89 81 84.
257 K Zaanen (Netherlands) 85 88 84, M MacPherson (Barassie) 83 82 92.
258 P Meiklejohn (Aberdour) 90 84 84, L Whitehead (Droitwich) 90 84 84.
259 S Horsburgh (Dunbar) 92 79 88.
263 L MacCallum (McDonald Ellon) 83 93 87.
264 H Myles (St Leonard) 86 92 86, F Blair (Monifieth) 87 91 86.
265 C McLoughlin (Kilspindie) 85 91 89.
267 K Fortune (Haddington) 89 90 88.
269 R Copland (Scotscraig) 88 88 93, S Kettlewell (Dunblane New) 89 87 93, R Myles (St Leonards) 89 84 96.
270 L The (Netherlands) 84 92 94.
272 L MacGregor (Falkirk) 96 86 90.
283 R Archibald (Merchants of Edinburgh) 84 101 88, A Niven (Crieff) 104 86 93.
285 R Hyde (Kirkcaldy) 99 92 94.
291 J Jones (McDonald Ellon) 97 87 107.
323 S Barclay (Kirkcaldy) 102 111 110.
Prizewinners
Round 1
Best U14 nett: Lauren McCallum (McDonald) 83-17=66
Best U16 nett: Hannah Harvey (St Regulus) 76-7=69
Best U18 nett: Amanda Edwards (Liberton) 74-4=70
Best U21 nett: Clare Queen (Drumpellier) 69-0=69
Best Scratch: Claire Queen (Drumpellier) 69
Round 2
Best U14 nett: Annabel Niven (Crieff) 86-15=71
Best U16 nett: Jennifer Jones (McDonald) 87-19=68
Best U18 nett: Sarah Horsburgh (Dunbar) 79-9=70
Best U21 nett: Kerri Harper (Inverness) 73-5=68
Best Scratch: Stephanie Evans (Vale of Llangollen) 69
Round 3
Best U14 nett: Celine Kortekaas (The Netherlands) 77-9=68
Best U16 nett: Emma Fairnie (Minto) 72-6=66
Best U18 nett: Kylie Walker (Buchanan Castle) 67-2=65
Best U21 nett: Claire Queen (Drumpellier) 70-0=70
Best Scratch: Kylie Walker (Buchanan Castle) 67
Overall
Best Nett Aggregate: Kerri Harper (Inverness) (5) 71, 68, 71 = 210
Best U14 Gross Aggregate: Sally Watson (Elie and Earlsferry) 75, 79, 82 = 236
Best U16 Gross Aggregate: Krystle Caithness (St Regulus) 74, 75, 73 = 222
Best U18 Gross Aggregate and Winner of the Menzies Trophy: Kylie Walker (Buchanan Castle) 78, 73, 67 = 218

Scots Girls who did well at Kirkcaldy
Kylie Walker, Clare Queen and Heather Macrae show off their trophies
Runner-up Stephanie Evans (Vale of Llangollen) had to leave immediately after the prizegiving.

English Girls
IT'S MELISSA v KIRAN FOR THE TITLE
It will be Melissa Reid (Chevin), the leading qualifier for the match-play stages, against Kiran Matharu (Sand Moor) for the English girls' closed championship at Gainsborough Golf Club, Lincolnshire on Saturday.
In the semi-finals, Melissa, the leading qualifier for the match-play stages beat Jodi Ewart (Catterick) by 4 and 3 while Kiran beat Rachel Jennings (Izaaok Walton) by the same margin.
In the quarter-finals Melissa beat Laura Cutler (Warley Park) 2 and 1; Jodi Ewart beat Natasha Podmore (High Legh Park) 2 and 1; Rachel beat Claire Aitken (Mid-Kent) 4 and 3 and Kiran, with five birdies on the back nine, beat Felicity Johnson (Harborne) 3 and 2, having been three down at one time during the match.

Thursday 29th July 2004

Scottish Ladies Junior Open Stroke Play Championship
STEPHANIE AND HEATHER SHARE KIRKCALDY LEAD
The stage is set for a stirring finish to the BP Scottish Under-21 girls' open amateur stroke-play championship at Kirkcaldy Golf Club on Friday.
Only three strokes cover the leading four players going into the third and final round.
Welsh left-hander Stephanie Evans and Heather MacRae (Dunblane New), last year's runner-up after a play-off against San Diego University team-mate Jenna Wilson (Strathaven) are sharing the pole position on four-under-par 140.
Stephanie has shot 71 and 69 while Heather, a past winner of the Scottish Under-18 girls' match-play championship, has carded a pair of 70s.
Curtis Cup reserve Clare Queen (Drumpellier), the first-round leader with a 69, dropped back into third place after a 73 for 142.
Title-holder Jenna Wilson looks certain to be in the last-round shake-up. She is lying handy on four place on 143 after a 72 and 71.
COLLATED SCOREBOARD
BP SCOTTISH UNDER-21 GIRLS OPEN AMATEUR STROKE-PLAY CHAMPIONSHIP
Kirkcaldy Golf Club
SECOND-ROUND TOTALS (Par 72)
140 S Evans (Vale of Llangollen) 71 69, H MacRae (Dunblane New) 70 70.
142 C Queen (Drumpellier) 69 73.
143 J Wilson (Strathaven) 72 71.
149 L Walker (Nairn Dunbar) 73 76, K Harper (Inverness) 76 73, K Caithness (St Regulus) 74 75, D Dewar (Stirling Univ) 76 73.
150 A Edwards (Liberton) 74 76, L Kenney (Pitreavie) 77 73.
151 K Walker (Buchanan Castle) 78 73.
152 G Webster (Hilton Park) 75 77.
153 K O'Sullivan (Cochrane Castle) 76 77.
154 S Watson (Elie & Earlsferry) 75 79, K MacDonald (Nairn Dunbar) 78 76.
156 D Scarello (Italy) 79 77, R Niven (Crieff) 77 79.
157 L Fleming (The Roxburghe) 82 75, H Harvey (St Leonards) 76 81.
158 K Thomson (Kintore 84 74, J Turner (Glencorse) 83 75, K McNicoll (Carnoustie Ladies) 79 79, C-M Carlton (Fereneze) 78 80.
159 Megan Briggs (Kilmacolm) 81 78, R Livingstone (Musselburgh Old) 81 78, L Hendry (Routenburn) 82 77, C Booth (Auchterarder) 81 78, P Pretswell (Bothwell Castle) 80 79.
161 C Paterson (Gullane Ladies) 80 81.
162 A Wilton (Ladybank) 82 80, N Melville (Bridge of Allan) 780 82, F Williamson (Barassie) 82 80.
163 S Herd (Dunblane New) 81 82, D Neilson (Hilton Park) 82 81.
164 K Wells (Dumfries & Co) 85 79.
165 E Ogilvy (Muckhart) 86 79, M MacPherson (Barassie) 83 82, E Fairnie (Minto) 83 82, M Thomson (McDonald Ellon) 84 81.
166 A Ingram (Fort William) 80 86.
167 L Williamson (Barassie) 81 86, G Davidson (Saline) 84 83, R Watson (Elie & Earlsferry) 88 79.
169 F Hindshaw (Gullane Ladies) 84 85, C Kortekaas (Netherlands) 81 88.
170 R Clark (Dumfries & Co) 89 81.
171 S Horsburgh (Dunbar) 92 79, L Murray (Alford) 89 82.
173 K Zaanen (Netherlands) 85 88, R Myles (St Leonards) 89 84.
174 L Whitehead (Droitwich) 90 84, L Rolland (Dunfermline) 89 85, P Meiklejohn (Aberdour) 90 84.
176 C McLoughlin (Kilspindie) 85 91, R Copland (Scotscraig) 88 88, S Kettlewell (Dunblane New) 89 87, T Lianne (Netherlands) 84 92, L MacCallum (McDonald Ellon) 83 93.
178 H Myles (St Leonards) 86 92, F Blair (Monifieth) 87 91, R Wilson (Monivfieth) 92 86.
179 K Fortune (Haddington) 89 90.
182 S Wilson (Murcar) 97 85.
184 J Jones (McDonald Ellon) 97 87.
190 A Niven (Crieff) 104 86.
191 R Hyde (Kirkcaldy) 99 92.
194 J Pryde (Monifieth) 97 97.
195 R Archibald (Merchants of Edinburgh) 94 101
200 F Stewart (Monifieth) 108 92.
202 J Wycherley (Merchants of Edinburgh) 105 97.
Withdrew: K Brotherton (Tulliallan), F Gilbert (Carnoustie Ladies), L Aitken (Falkirk Tryst), V Stevenson (Stirling).

English Girls'
The English Girls’ Championship at Gainsborough Golf Club, Lincolnshire first and second rounds took place today, leaving eight players going forward to Friday's quarter-finals.
Melissa Reid (Chevin), the leading qualifier, beat Emma Sheffield (Newark) by two holes.
Melissa led from the first but she was never more than two up. They had 13 birdies between them. Melissa will play Laura Cutler (Warley Park) who won on the 19th against Rachel Connor (Manchester).
Natasha Podmore (High Legh Park), the 16 year old Cheshire girls’ champion, had a good win of 4&3 against Hannah Burke (Mid-Herts).
Jodi Ewart (Catterick) played her Yorkshire compatriot Lizzie Brand (Ilkley) and won 1up in a very close match. Rachel Jennings (Izaak Walton) beat Henrietta Brockway (Yeovil) one of the Championship favourites 3&2.
Felicity Johnson (Harborne) was 5 up at the turn against Anna Scott (Consett & District) who fought back with 3 straight birdies, to loose just 2&1.
Kiran Matharu (Sand Moor) had a convincing 6&4 win against Sarah Purdy (Stoke Rochford) having eagled the par 5, 8th hole by hitting her 7 wood, second shot to 6 inches from the hole. 

IRISH LADIES GOLF UNION PRESS RELEASE
The Irish Ladies’ Open Stroke Play Championship will have a stronginternational flavour at Cork Golf Club next Saturday and Sunday.
Players from Austria, Belgium, England, Germany,  Hong Kong, New Zealand and Scotland will be attempting to take the title out of Ireland for only the second time in the championship’s 12-year history.
Scottish champion and Curtis Cup player Anne Laing was the winner at Birr in 2001. She will not be competing this year but there are four entries from Scotland, including Elizabeth McKinnon (Nairn), who plays off a plus onehandicap and is a former New Zealand junior champion who now lives near Inverness since she married Scottish businessman Roy McKinnon. Roy doubles up as Liz's caddie.
 Curtis Cup player Claire Coughlan will be defending the title on her home course of Cork GC, Little Island. She was a comfortable winner at Rathsallagh last year with a 54 hole total of 215, seven shots ahead of runner-up Maura Morrin (Curragh).
A former Lancôme Irish Close Champion,  Claire was the Curtis Cup star of the British and Irish team thatlost narrowly to America at Formby in June. The Cork girl was the only unbeaten home player with three wins from three starts.
All eight Ireland players from last September’s sensational last-day victory over England at Cruden Bay, to secure the Home International Championship for only thefourth time in the history of the event, are in the 80 strong draw.
Claire’s team mates Tara Delaney, Maria Dunne, Helen Jones, Sinead Keane, Tricia Mangan, Maura Morrin and Heather Nolan will also be in action.
Newly crowned Lancôme Irish Close Champion Deirdre Smith will also be a strong contender to become only the second player to win Ireland's  Close andthe Open Strokeplay in the same year. Rebecca Coakley, now aprofessional, achieved the double in 2002.
The Irish Intermediate (under 23) Championship will be played in conjunction with the main 54-hole tournament which will have 36 holes played on the Saturday and the final round on the Sunday.
Draw:
07:00  12:00   Ailish Mulcahy (Killarney)                   AislingParker (Greenore)
07:10  12:10   Suzanne Corcoran (Portumna)             Tanya Kirby (Australia)
07:20  12:20   Darragh McGowan (Ballybofey/Stranorlar)  Fidelma O’Connor (Kanturk)           Addi Shamash (Scotland)
07:30  12:30  Helen Jones (Strabane)  Tara Watters (England)                      Mary Dowling (New Ross)
07:40  12.40   Michelle Holmes (Enniscrone)  Vicki Power (Brampton Park)           Suzie Hayes (Hermitage)
07:50  12:50  Fiona Carroll (Athenry)  Dawn Marie Conaty (Ashbourne)    Maura Diamond (Royal Portrush)
08:00  13:00   Emile Geury (Belgium)  Karen Delaney (Carlow)                    Sarah Cunningham (Ennis)
08:10  13:10  Fiona Lockhart (Scotland)  Linda Toomey (Limerick)                  Deirdre Smith (Co. Louth)
08:20   13:20   Kristina Rothengatter (Germany) Sinead Keane (The Curragh)             Sarah Bishop (Scotland)
08:30   13:30   Alison Kingston (Bandon) Oula Cunneen (The Island)                Sarah Carty (The Island)
08:40   13:40   Tara Delaney (Carlow)   Martina Gillen (Beaverstown)          Maura Morrin (The Curragh)    
08:50   13:50   Claire Coughlan (Cork)  Pam Mackay (Scotland)                      Elizabeth McKinnon (NZ)
09:00  14:00  Alexandra Young (Scotland)   Laura Gonzalez (Belgium)                 Sue Phillips (Woodbrook)
09:10   14:10   Elodie Wanet (Belgium)  Pamela Feggans (Scotland)               Maria Dunne (Skerries)
09:20   14:20   Susan Curtin (Mallow)  Emma Lyons (England)                      Rose Nagle (Fota Island)
09:30   14:30   Denise McCarthy (Woodenbridge)  Deirdre Walsh (Milltown)                 Jackie Quinn (Greenore)
09:40   14:40   Paula Reardon (Bandon)  Niamh Kitching (Claremorris)         Helen McCarthy (Dunmurray)
09:50   14:50   Kate Logan (New Zealand)  Stephanie Meadow (R. Portrush)      Aisling Hyland (Forrest Little)
10:00   15:00   Nikki Taggart (Greenisland)  Rachel Cassidy (The Island)              Anne Marie Dalton (Coollattin)
10:10   15:10   Shauna McVeigh (R.C.D. Ladies)  Jenna Kinnear (Belvoir Park)            Joanne Cronin (Killarney)
10:20   15:20   Margaret Hayes (Tralee)  Heather Nolan (Shannon)                  Laura Holmes (Enniscrone)
10:30   15:30   Sheena O’Brien Kenney (Grange)  Stella Richmond (Turvey)                  Ann Ladd (Killarney)
10:40   15:40   Sinead Heraty (Castle)  Lillian Kilmartin (Tipperary)           Aisling Roche (Grange)
10:50   15:50   Mary Lowney (Dunmore)Siobhan McCartan (Greenore)          Margaret Hickey (Adare Manor)
11:00   16:00   Miriam Abernethy (Grange)  Deirdre Prendergast (Killarney)      Ailish McCartan (Greenore)
11:10   16:10   Elena L Collins (Hong Kong)  Lillian Harrington (East Cork)         Anne Leonard (Bandon)
11:20   16:20   Brid Naughton (Adare Manor)  Paula Murray (Naas)                           Aisling O’Connor (Mallow)

Wednesday 28th July 2004

Competitors at the Scottish Ladies Junior Open Stroke Play Championship at Kirkcaldy

English Girls'
MELISSA LEADING QUALIFIER AT GAINSBOROUGH
Melissa Reidwas the leading qualifier with a 36-hole total of 143 in the English Girls’ Championship at Gainsborough Golf Club, Lincs.
Melissa, 16 years old from Chevin, had four birdies in a row in her first-round score of one-under-par 71. She followed that up with a 72 which included a double boey at the fourth after thinning her chip through the green. She rescued her front nine score with three consecutive birdies from the sixth.
Melissa’s back nine was level until the 18th when she drove too far into the grassy dip. Her second shot was well short of the green but a pitch from 70 yards hit the pin, finishing 10ft away.
Claire Aitken (Mid-Kent) and Kiran Matharu (Sand Moor) were joint second qualifiers with 144.
Claire scored 71 and 73 while Kiran returned a pair of 72s.
The cut for the championship flight was 154.
143 Melissa Reid (Chevin) 71 72.
144 Kiran Matharu (Sand Moor) 72 72, Claire Aitken (Mid-Kent) 71 73.
146 Jodi Ewart (Catterick) 70 76.
147 Katrina Holford (Ingestre Park) 70 77.
148 Henrietta Brockway (Yeovil) 74 74.
149 Anna Scott (Consett & District) 75 74.
150 Laura Cutler (Warley Park) 76 74, Rachel Connor (Manchester) 75 75, Felicity Johnson (Harbone) 72 78.
151 Claire Starkie (Silsden) 77 74, Emilee Taylor (Gainsborough) 76 75, Nicole Whitmore (Woburn)76 75, Samantha Round (Tadmarton Heath) 76 75, Sarah Purdy (Stoke Rochford) 75 76, Eleanor Givens (Blackwell Grange) 75 76, Emma Sheffield (Newark) 74 77, Joanne Hodge (Knowl 73 78, Nicola Dunn (Harrogate) 73 78.
152 Lizzie Brand (Ilkley) 78 74, Natasha Podmore (High Leigh Park) 77 75, Rachel Jennings (Izaak Walton) 74 78, Pamela McGuirk (Princes) 74 78, Sarah Attwood (Gog Magog) 73 79.
153 Elizabeth Shippin (Halifax) 81 72, Portia Abbott (Kingsdown) 79 74, Gemma Parkes (Cosby) 77 76.
154 Hannah Burke (Mid-Herts) 78 76, Kym Larratt (Knebworth) 76 78, Lucy Clarke (Chelmsford) 76 78, Donna O'Connell (Burnham & Berrow) 75 79, Sian James (Bristol & Clifton) 75 79, Emma Parr (Northamptonshire) 75 79, Kerry-Anne Haskell (Broadstone) 71 83.

JULIE WINS AT WHITEKIRK
Julie Birdsall-White (The Roxburghe) won the Babe Zaharias Trophy women's open golf tournament at Whitekirk Golf Club with a scratch score of 77 - four shots ahead of Sheila Cuthbertson (Peebles).
Kirsty Inkpen (Duns) made it a Borders 1-2-3 by finishing third with a 79.
The tournament is played annual in aid of Macmillan Cancer Relief funds and the magnificent trophy was won by Babe Zaharias during her brilliant golfing career which was cut short by cancer. The trophy was given for annual competition in Scotland by her husband George.
Leading results:
SCRATCH - Silver Division - Babe Zaharias Trophy - Julie Birdsall-White (The Roxburghe) 73; Sheila Cuthbertson (Peebles) 77; Kirsty Inkpen (Duns) 79. Bronze Division - Jose Tuer (Whitekirk) 89; J Tait (bih), Dorothy Marsh (North Berwick) 94.
HANDICAP - Silver Division - Linda Smith (Longniddry) (16) 68; Muriel Ritchie (Ratho Park) (19) 71; Anne Chainey (North Berwick) (14) 72 (bih). Bronze Division - Ultraplast Trophy - Fiona Alderson (Whitekirk) (33) 64; Liz Thom (North Berwick) (bih), Margaret Patey (Whitekirk) (35) 70.
Winning team: Lynn Logan, Fiona Alderson, Pauline Higgins (Whitekirk) 52.

Tuesday 27th July 2004

EUROPEAN JUNIOR RYDER CUP TEAM
England has two players - Oliver Fisher and Florentina Parker  - and Wales (Zac Gould) and Ireland (Rory McIlroy) one apiece in the European Junior Ryder Cup team of 12 announced by the European Golf Association.
England's Kiran Matharu is named as a reserve.
The selection was based primarily on performances in last week's European Young Masters Under-16 tournament at Styrian Golf Club, Murhof in Austria. Zac Gould won the event by one stroke with a six-under-par total for the 54-hole event.
The Junior Ryder Cup match against the United States will be held at Westfield Group Country Club, Cleveland on Saturday and Sunday, September 11 and 12.
Both teams will be guests of the United States PGA at the Ryder Cup match at Oakland Hills the following weekend.
The European team is:
Dominic Angkawidjaja (Austria).
Carlota Ciganda (Spain).
Oliver Fisher (England).
Zachariah Gould (Wales).
Linn Gustafsson (Sweden).
Rory McIlroy (Ireland).
Belen Mojo (Spain).
Camilla Lennarth (Sweden).
Lluis Garcia del Moral (Spain).
Florentina Parker (England).
Valerie Sternbeck (Germany).
Marius Thorp (Norway)
Reserves:
Tristan Bierenbroodspot (Netherlands).
Kiran Matharu (England).

Monday 26th July 2004

WEETABIX WOMEN'S BRITISH OPEN FINAL Q
Former Solheim Cup skipper Dale Reid was the only Scot to survive today's Final Qualifying at North Hants Golf Club for the Weetabix Women's British Open which starts at Sunningdale on Thursday.
Dale shot a 69, one shot inside the limit which decided the 10 qualifiers who were headed on 67 by Germany's Bettina Hauert and England's Samantha Head and Kirsty Taylor.
Scotland amateur international Lynn Kenny from Dunblane figured in a four-way tie on the 71 mark and went out in a sudden-death play-off with Eleanor Pilgrim (Wales), Fame More (England) and Nienke Nijenhuis (Netherlands) to decide who would be first, second, third and fourth reserve to step into the championship in the event of withdrawals.
Pilgrim grabbed the first alternate spot with a birdie 2 at the first hole. More's par at the second got her the No 2 reserve position and Kenny claimed third alternate position ahead of Nijenhuis at the fourth extra hole.
Scottish amateur champion Anne Laing was down the field with a 77.
WEETABIX WOMEN'S BRITISH OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP _ Final Qualifying - North Hants Golf Club.
QUALIFIERS
67 Bettina Hauert (Ger), Samantha Head (Eng), Kirsty Taylor (Eng).
68 Joanne Morley (Eng).
69 Nicole Stillig (Ger), Marina Arruti (Spa), Kirsty S Taylor (Eng), Dale Reid (Sco), Ursual Tuuti (Fin), Nina Karlsson (Swe).
70 Barbara Paruscio (Ita), Cherie Byrnes (Aus).
RESERVES
71 Eleanor Pilgrim (Wal) 1st, Fame More (Eng) 2nd, Lynn Kenny (Sco) 3rd, Nienke Nijenhuis (Net) 4th.
Other score:
77 Anne Laing (Sco).

QUEEN SEVENTH AT ROYAL BIRKDALE.
CURTIS Cup reserve Clare Queen (Drumpellier) finished joint seventh in the Royal Birkdale Scratch Trophy women's open 36-hole tournament. She had scores of 78 and 73 for 151 to finish five shots behind winner Faye Sanderson (Heworth) who had rounds of 70 and 75.
Pamela Feggans (Doon Valley) tied for 13th place on 153 with scores of 76 and 77.
Jenna Wilson (Strathaven) finished joint 23rd on 157 with scores of 82 and 75 while Stirling University student Dawn Dewar (Monifieth) totalled 158 with a pair of 79s.
COLLATED SCOREBOARD
ROYAL BIRKDALE SCRATCH TROPHY WOMEN'S OPEN TOURNAMENT
Leading final totals
145 Faye Sanderson (Heworth) 70 75.
146 Stephanie Evans (Llangollen) 75 71.
147 Louise Davis (Conway) 74 73, Breanne Loucks (Wrexham) 72 75, Rachael Lomas (Hallowes) 70 75.
150 Anne Lowe (Royal Birkdale) 78 72.
151 Clare Queen (Drumpellier) 78 73, Mary Ruddy 77 74, Karen Heywood (Crompton & Royton) 77 74, Naomi Edwards (Ganton) 77 74, Susan Dye 76 75.
Other Scots scores:
153 Pamela Feggans (Doon Valley) 76 77.
157 Jenna Wilson (Strathaven) 82 75.
158 Dawn Dewar (Stirling Univ) 79 79.

SCOT JENNA THIRD IN FORMBY WOMEN'S OPEN
Strathaven's Jenna Wilson, pictured right, who defends the Scottish Under-21 girls title at Kirkcaldy on Thursday and Friday, warmed up for the task with a creditable third place in The Leveret, a 36-hole women's open tournament played at Formby, this year's Curtis Cup venue and organised by Scotland international team
manager Fiona Anderson.
Jenna, who turned 20 in June and is a golf scholarship student at San Diego University, California, had rounds of 75 and 71 for a total of 146 - two shots behind the tournament winner, England international player Sophie Walker (Kenwick Park) who scored 75 and 69.
The windy conditions for the second round boosted the CSS to 73.
Lancashire county champion and Welsh cap Natalee Evans (Pleasington) was runner-up on 145 with 78 and 67.
Curtis Cup reserve Clare Queen (Drumpellier) finished joint ninth on 153 with 77 and 76.
Stirling University student Dawn Dewar totalled 155 with scores of 76 and 79.
Scottish schoolgirls champion Clare-Marie Carlton (Fereneze) felt sick after her morning round of 84 and did not go out for the second round.
LEADING SCORES
144 Sophie Walker (Kenwick Park) 75 69.
145 Natalee Evans (Pleasington) 78 67.
146 Jenna Wilson (Strathaven) 75 71.
148 Rachel Lomas (Hallowes) 73 75.
149 Vivien Saunders (Cambridge Meridian) 73 76, Faye Sandereson (Heworth) 71 78.
150 Lisa Ball (Matfen Hall) 74 76, Sara Garbutt (Ganton) 73 77.
153 Clare Queen (Drumpellier) 77 76, Cori Lee (West Lancs) 78 75.
154 Louise Davis (Conway) 77 77, Emma Tipping (Sandiway) 75 79, Karen Heywood (Crompton & Royton) 79 75.
155 Gemma Thornell (Oswestry) 79 76, Dawn Dewar (Stirling Univ) 76 79, Naomi Edwards (Ganton) 78 77.
156 Michelle Smith (Hallowes) 76 80, Lisa Mason (Bedford) 73 83.
157 Grainne Pendlebury (Boston Lostock) 78 79.
159 Cheryl Smith (Hallowes) 81 78, Elaine Clark (Manchester) 77 82, Jeanne Bell (Royal Liverpool) 76 83.
160 Sarah Walton (Accrington) 78 82.
161 Sarah Mountford (Ormskirk) 79 82, Fiona Thompson (Ellesborough) 83 78, Anne Lowe (Royal Birkdale) 79 82, Natalie Haywood (Rotherham) 79 82.
162 Karen Goodall (Stand) 78 84, Sue Bllaeford (Brancepeth Castle) 81 81, Laura Eastwood (Yelverton) 81 81, Kelly Tidy (Manchester) 80 82.
Other scores:
Retired Clare-Marie Carlton (Fereneze) 84 - .

HEATHER WINS A FEW DOLLARS MORE
Former Scottish amateur champion Heather Stirling picked up $165 (repeat US dollars 165) for a share of 61st place in the latest US Futures Tor event, the M&T Bank Loretto Classic at The Links, Erie Village in Syracuse, New York State.
Heather from Bridge of Allan shot rounds of 73, 75 and 74 for a six-over-par final total of 222 - 15 shots behind winner Michelle Murphy, a 14-year veteran from Tacoma, Washington.
Michelle shot 67, 71 and 69 to win the top prize of $9,400.
Rebecca Prout from Surrey came joint 72nd on 225 and earned $102 for scores of 73, 74 and 78.
COLLAGED SCOREBOARD
US FUTURES TOUR _ M&T Bank Loretto Classic - The Links, Erie Village, Syracuse
Leading Final Totals
207 Michelle Murphy (US) 67 71 69.
208 Alison Hanna (US) 69 68 71.
210 Emily Bastel (US) 71 71 68, Kris Tamulis (US) 68 69 73.
Other scores:
222 Heather Stirling (Sco) 73 75 74.
225 Rebecca Prout (Eng) 73 74 78.

HENRY SPEARHEADS SCOTS BOYS AT ROYAL DUBLIN
Double champion Scott Henry from Cardross will spearhead the Scotland team in the boys' home internationals next week (August 3 to 5) at Royal Dublin Golf Club.
Last week 17-year-old Scott became only the third player in golfing history after Ewan Murray (1971) and Steven Young (1994) to add the Scottish boys' open stroke-play title to the Scottish boys' match-play crown won at Southerness in  April.
Henry led the Scots to a fifth place finish in the European boys' team championship earlier this month, and helped the Scotland youths’ side to victory over Ireland.
The Scots finished third in last year’s boys' home internationals at Royal St David’s, but will be looking to win the title they have not held since Dunbar in 1995.
All six Scots from the European boys' line-up have been selected to play at Royal Dublin. Joining Henry will be David Addison (Barassie), Jordan Findlay (Fraserburgh), Robert McKnight (Kilmarnock Barassie), Paul O’Hara (Colville Park) and Garry Wood (Crow Wood).
New caps in the Scotland squad include Ross Kellett (Colville Park), Steven McEwan (Barassie), Graham Turner (West Linton) and Lewis Kirton (Old Meldrum).
Team is:
David Addison (Barassie), Jordan Findlay (Fraserburgh), Scott Henry (Cardross), Ross Kellett (Colville Park), Steven McEwan (Barassie), Robert McKnight (Barassie), Paul O’Hara (Colville Park), Graham Turner (West Linton), Garry Wood (Crow Wood), Lewis Kirton (Newmachar), Euan Polson (Brora)

clubgolf pilot success in Central Scotland
Newly trained volunteer coaches from four golf clubs in Central Scotland were cautiously optimistic this month when they opened their greens to children from seven local primary schools who piloted Scotland's junior national golf strategy, clubgolf on their school curriculum last term.
But they needn't have had any concerns.
Of the 87 children from Aberfoyle, Callendar, Strathyre, Lochernhead, Killin, Crianlarich and St Fillans Primaries, who have enjoyed clubgolf's six week Introductory Game, almost three quarters decided they liked it so much that they wanted to progress to the Level 1 stage of the pathway, hosted by local clubs.
"We started our 15 week Level 1 course this week and we had groups of eight children on both Monday and Tuesday nights. This Saturday afternoon we will have another group of 14 starting," said John Morrison, Callander's Men's Captain and the secretary for the steering group of the four clubs - Aberfoyle, Callander, Killin, St Fillans - involved in the Rural Demonstration Project.
"Both of this week's courses went extremely well. The parents were delighted to see their children get coaching and our members have approached me saying, "We saw you out with the kids on Monday night - it was good to see."
Whilst the Introductory Game is taught in school play grounds and sports halls with modified clubs and rubber balls, the Level 1 stage uses metal clubs, real balls and is played on the pristine greens which are normally the preserve of the club's fully fledged members.
"We will be giving lessons in putting, chipping followed by longer shots. Then they will have practice on the course proper and we will be bringing in other areas such as etiquette and repairing divots," said Morrison.
"All our L1 trainees have full access to the club's facilities so there is no differentiation between them and our junior or seniors members."
Typical of the other clubs involved in the pilot, Killin has a strong tradition of attracting and retaining junior members. This summer young Stuart Laurence had a hole in one on the club's 'tricky' 97 yard fifth hole; Colin Woods won the Callander Junior Open; and nine year old Laura Aitkin, who experienced clubgolf's Introductory Game at school last term, was runner up in the Wee Wonders final at Strathmore.
"We've been teaching Level 1 to our children since May," said Liz Stevens, Junior Convenor from Killin GC, the area's first club to begin Level 1. "We've got 40 children in total, 12 of whom have come from the Introductory Game, and they come in all the way from Crianlarich, Tyndrum and Lochearnhead every Friday night.
"They have a lesson, do some putting, and then go out for two or three holes. They really enjoy it."
Of the eight St Fillans Primary School children who took part in the Introductory Game, six have now begun Level 1 at St Fillans GC and a local leaflet drop helped recruit a further 11 older children. Aberfoyle GC, attracted four children to its opening night for Level 1 last week. They will be introducing more children to the Level 1 programme at the start of the new academic year.
Next year, in line with clubgolf's aims of introducing every nine-year-old child in Scotland to the game by 2009, the numbers of those involved will compound. The second stage of the Rural Demonstration Project's plan encompasses all 14 primary schools in the McLaren catchment area.
For the four clubs, this means recruiting further Volunteer Coaches who are willing to devote time to helping the next generation of golfers.
"If we get another 80% response from children who have been through the Introductory Game and if the bulk of our Level 1's go on to Level 2 then we will need a good group of coaches," said John Morrison.
"One of the revelations is that we have found no difficulty in attracting club members to undertake clubgolf's two-day volunteer training course. We already have 13 trained coaches. We will certainly need more for next year."
Listen to Morrison and you can sense a mood of urgency and optimism about the strategy.
"I would say this is an initiative that every golf club without exception should become involved with. Whilst we are targeting nine year olds, we are also finding that there are an increasing number of older children, particularly brothers and sisters, who would like to join in. We don't want them to miss out.
"Whilst we are encouraging nine year olds to wait and do the full Introductory Game at school next year, others who would like to start immediately should contact any of the four clubs in our pilot project."
Said Katie Oman, "We were hoping that 25 percent of our children who have been through the Introductory Game would want to progress to the next stage, so to see 73 percent progress is nothing short of spectacular. This is a great credit to all the schools, teachers, clubs and coaches in the Central area who have embraced the clubgolf strategy and we are very excited about the future of golf in the area."

Sunday 25th July 2004

MATTHEW WINS NORTH JUNIOR TROPHY
Castle Heather Golf Club member Matthew Worthington, only 13 years old, won the North of Scotland Junior Golf Open premier award in Inverness today.. Matthew's 62, off a handicap of 26, was the lowest net score in a field of 78 competitors.
Worthington received the Royal Navy & Royal Marine Trophy worth £600 from Commodore Angus Sandford.
Castle Heather provided the complete 1-2-3 with 14-year-old Calum Reid runner-up and 13-year-old Craig MacDougall third.
Competition organiser and manager of the Castle Heather Golf Club and Loch Ness Golf Course, Neil Hampton, said,
"Well done to all the competitors and those who have worked hard to make this an excellent tournament. All the effort is well rewarded when it brings together such a talented group of young players and hopefully some of the names on the winners board can become our leading sportsmen and women in the future.''
Prizewinners:
SCRATCH
Malcolm Isaacs (Nairn Dunbar) 76; Darren Hexley (Inverness) 77; Ryan Elder (Nairn Dunbar) 78; David Taylor (Inverness), Greg Downs (Nairn Dunbar) 79.
HANDICAP
Class 1 (0-18) - Calum Reid (Castle Heather) (18), Craig MacDougall (Castle Heather) (17) 66; Magnus Eilertson (Nairn) (7) 71; Jamie Matheson (Aigas) (17) 72; Scott Hall (Castle Heather) (17) 73.
Class 2 (19-28) - Matthew Worthington (Castle Heather) (26) 62; Finlay Danaher (Alness) (22) 69; Stuart Goodman (Castle Heather) (21) 72; Ewan McCorquodale (Inverness) (19) 73; David Hall (Castle Heather) (23) 75.
Class 3 (29-36) - Scott Greenlees (Muir of Ord) (29) 67; Donald Gordon (Tain) (36) 74; Ross MacLachlan (Castle Heather) (30) 76; Craig MacDonald (Lochcarron) (34) 79; Stephen Chalmers (Castle Heather) (29) 80.
Under-14 years: Boys - Grant Innes (Castle Heather) (22) 77; Fraser Heath (Strathpeffer) (28), Conor Bennett (13) 78.
Girls - Chloe Macleod (Nairn Dunbar) (30) 69; Sammy Vass (Tain) (24) 73; Kelsey MacDonald (Nairn Dunbar)
(3) 79; Eilidh MacKay (Nairn Dunbar) (14) 86.

SCOTS DOWN THE EUROPEAN YOUNG MASTERS FIELD
Scotland's representatives, Lewis Kirton (Newmachar) and Jordan Findlay (Fraserburgh), finished down the field in the final placings of the European Young Masters Under-16s championships at Styrian Golf Club, Murhof in Austria on Saturday.
Kirton shot 75, 78 and 73 for a 10-over-par total of 226 for joint 22nd place in the combined boys-girls standings.
Findlay had scores of 78, 71 and 84 for 233.
Zac Gould (Wales) won the boys' gold medal with rounds of 70, 66 and 74 for a brilliant 54-hole total of six-under-par 210 - one shot ahead of Luis Garcia del Moral (the silver medallist) and Dominic Angkawidjaja (Austria) (bronze medal)..
Rory McIlroy (Ireland) signed off with a great last round of 69 for 212 but finished just outside the medals in fourth place.
Carlota Ciganda (Spain), who began the tournament very scratchily, found her exquisite touch over the final two rounds to win the girls' championship by seven shots from compatriot Belen Mozo with a level par aggregate of 216 (79, 68, 69) which placed her sixth overall.
England's Florentyna Parker won the bronze medal with 224.
The Scottish Ladies Golfing Association did not enter any girls which means they were denied the chance of winning places in the combined European team for the Junior Ryder Cup match against the United States, to be played at Cleveland Golf Club in September.
The team, selected on the basis of the European Young Masters scores, will be announced within the next week.
The fact that there were no Scottish girls in the field almost meant that Scotland could not compete in the team event.
Having entered a team for the first time in the European Under-16 girls team championships in Paris this year, perhaps the SLGA will next turn their thoughts to send two girls to play in next year's European Young Masters. They did at one time - which is how Vikki Laing was able to play in a European Junior Ryder Cup match in her teens.
EUROPEAN YOUNG MASTERS
Styrian Golf Club, Murhof, Austria
FINAL TOTALS
Boys (Par 72)
210 Zac Gould (Wal) 70 66 74.
211 Luis Garcia del Moral (Spa) 71 74 66, Dominic Angkawidjaja (Aut) 67 72 72.
212 Rory McIlroy (Ire) 71 72 69, Marius Thorp (Nor) 70 68 74.
216 Tristan Bierenbroodspot (Net) 73 73 70, Tano Kromer (Aut) 75 68 73.
Other scores:
223 Niall Kearney (Ire) 73 71 79.
224 Thomas Oliver (Eng) 72 73 79.
226 Lewis Kirton (Sco) 75 78 73.
231 Adam Runcie (Wal) 73 77 81.
233 Jordan Findlay (Sco) 78 71 84.
236 Tony Mitchell (Eng) 76 79 81.
Girls (Par 72)
216 Carlota Ciganda (Spa) 79 68 69.
223 Belen Mozo (Spa) 75 72 76.
224 Florentyna Parker (Eng) 74 76 74, Camilla Lennarth (Swe) 71 77 76.
226 Kiran Matharu (Eng) 75 74 77, Linn Gustafsson (Swe) 75 71 80.
Other scores:
251 Charlene Reid (Ire) 84 78 89.
253 Amy Rees (Wal) 84 87 82.
256 Louise Coffey (Ire) 85 85 86.
271 Rebecca Harries (Wal) 90 85 96.
TEAM EVENT (Combined)
637 Spain.
666 Sweden.
667 Belgium, Austria.
673 Germany.
674 England.
683 Ireland.
Other total:
692 (last of 12) Wales.

Futures Tour
HEATHER BEATS CUT ON FUTURES TOUR
Former Curtis Cup player and past Scottish champion Heather Stirling was lying in joint 62nd position with one round to go in the latest Futures Tour event, the M&T Bank Loretto Classic at The Links, Erie Village in Syracuse, New York State.
Heather beat the 36-hole cut at 149 or better withrounds of 73 and 75 for a 36-hole tally of four-over-par 148.
She is currently ranked 104th on the Futures Tour with earnings so far this season of $ 1,519.
Linzi Morton from Alloa, another former Scottish women's champion, is not playing in the current event. She is ranked 179th with earnings of $183 from nine events.
Heather Stirling is 11 shots off the pace being set by Allison Hanna from Portland, Oregon and Krix Tamulus of Naples, Florida. They are both on seven-under-par 137 and hold a one-shot lead.
Erica Blasberg from Corona, California, who turned pro after the Curtis Cup match at Formby this year, is tied for 14th place on 142 with scores of 72 and 70. Also on that mark is Kent-born Australian Lindsey Wright who was beaten by Rebecca Hudson in the final of the British women's open amateur championship at Ashburnham a couple of years ago.
Lindsey, who has scored 73 and 69, is the leading money-winner on the 2004 Futures Tour with $36,082 from 10 events, two of which she hsas won.
LEADING SCORES
137 Allison Hanna (US) 69 68, Kris Tamulis (US) 69 69.
138 Linda Ishii (US) 71 67, Michelle Murphy (US) 67 71.
Other scores:
142 Erica Blasberg (US) 72 70, Lindsey Wright (Aus) 73 69.
147 Rebecca Prout (Eng) 73 74.
148 Heather Stirling (Sco) 73 75..

US Girls
PARAGUAY GIRL WINS U S GIRLS TITLE
Fort Worth, Texas – Leading qualifier Julieta Granada, 17, defeated Paraguay, defeated 17-year-old US Curtis Cup player Jane Park of Rancho Cucamonga, Calif., on the 20th hole of the final match Saturday to win the 56th U.S. Girls' Junior, held at the 6,256-yard, par-71 Mira Vista Golf Club course.
Granada, who shot four-under 138 in stroke play, became the first leading qualifier for the match-play stages to go on to win the title since In-Bee Park in 2002.
The 20 holes of the final tied Pat Hurst and Adele Moore in 1986 and Judy Eller versus Beth Stone in 1957 as the longest in history. It also marked the fourth time in the championship's history that extra holes were needed.
"I don't think I got it, that I just won," said Granada. "I mean, it's such an honor. I see all the names on this trophy and I feel so special winning this."
Paula Creamer, a second member of the winning United States' Curtis Cup line-up at Formby, reached the semi-final at Mira Vista, Fort Worth, Texas before losing to the eventual champion, Juliete Granada, by one hole.
One of the daughters of former tennis star Ivan Lendl reached the round of the last 16.
Michelle Wie, who would have been overwhelming favourite to win the US Under-18s title, did not enter the championship because she had accepted an invitation to play in an event on the European Ladies Tour.
SEMI-FINALS
Granada beat Paula Creamer (California) 1 hole.
Park beat Hsiao-Ching Lu (Chinese Taipei) 4 and 2.
QUARTER-FINALS
Granada beat Esther Choe (California) 3 and 2.
Creamer beat Selanee Henderson (California) 3 and 2.
Park beat Morgan Pressel (Florida) 1 hole
Hsiao-Ching Lu (Chinese Taipei) beat Mina Harigae (California) 2 and
1.
ROUND OF LAST 16
Granada beat Sooji Cho (California) 8 and 7.
Choe beat Jennie Lee (California) 5 and 3.
Creamer beat Grace Woo (California) 5 and 3.
Henderson beat Jennifer Hong (Florida) 3 and 2.
Pressel beat Maria Jose Uribe (Colombia) 3 and 2.
Park beat Taylor Deon (Texas) 2 and 1.
Lu beat Marika Lendl (Connecticut) 1 hole.
Hariga beat Sukjin Lee Wuesthoff (New Jersey) 5 and 4.

Saturday 24th July 2004

Angus Juniors benefit from R&A/SLGA funding
ChristinaSpeed, Hon treasuser of Angus County writes:
"The SLGA received [ in their centenary year] money from the R&A [in their 250th year]. The S L G A then gave money to to every County to be spent on Junior Golf.
18 juniors went to Wellsgreen Driving Range on Friday 23rd July.Every junior had tuition from Stewart, a pro from Balbirnie , putting practice from County President Nancy Duncan and bunker practice from Mary Summers Junior Convenor. They also played in threes twice round the 6 hole course."

Friday 23rd July 2004

Competitors in the East of Scotland Girls Championship at Kingsknowe today
L to R. Sarah Herd (Dunblane New), Sally Watson (Elie and Earlsferry),
Amanda Edwards (Liberton) Megan Barbour (North Berwick)

Sally Watson wins East of Scotland Girls Championship
13 year old Sally Watson, a member of Murrayfield and Elie and Earlsferry, won the East of Scotland Girls Championship today at Kingsknowe in a top class final that could not have be rivalled in the adult arena.
Her opponent, 17 year old Amanda Edwards of Liberton, played some super golf herself, but could not get the better of her younger opponent. The final result was 2 and 1.
Amanda started shakily and lost the first two holes, and was still the same margin down at the turn. Sally showed a chink in her armour when she gave back a hole by three-putting the 10th, and after halving the short 11th in par 3's, it looked as if Amanda's luck had turned when she won 12 and 13 to go one up for the first time in the match. However Sally moved up a gear and won 14 and 15 with 3's. Sally reached the 433 yard 16th with a drive and 8 iron to 6 feet, and looked like winning the hole with Amanda short in two, but a pitch and putt from Amanda and a missed putt from Sally gave them a half. One up playing 17, Sally put her second to 10 feet and holed the putt for a birdie 3 and the Championship.
In the morning semi-finals, Sally beat Dunblane Champion Sarah Herd by 3 and 2 and Amanda beat Megan Barbour on the last green after being three up with three to play.

Amanda and Sally after the Prizegiving

European Young Masters
FINDLAY'S SUB-PAR ROUND STILL LEAVES HIM 13 OFF THE PACE
Fraserburgh's Jordan Findlay pulled himself up the second-round standings with a one-under-par round of 71 in the European Young Masters Under-16s tournament at the Styrian Golf Club, Murhof in Austria yesterday (Fri)
But Findlay's tally of 149 is 13 shots behind the surprise leader - Zachariah - "Zac" to his friends - Gould from Wales. He has a two-shot advantage going into the final round after scores of 70 and 66 for eight-under-par 136.
His nearest rival is Marius Thorp (Norway) with 70 and 68 for 138.
Scotland's other representative - also from the North-east of Scotland - Lewis Kirton from Newmachar has scored 75 and 78 for 153.
In the girls' event, Linn Gustafsson (Sweden) leads on 146 after rounds of 75 and 71. The Scottish Ladies Golfing Association did not submit an entry.
Linn leads by one from Spanish hotshots Belen Mozo and Carlota Ciganda. The leading British Isles girl is Kiran Mitharu (England) with scores of 75 and 74 for 149 - one shot ahead of compatriot Florentyna Parker. Collated scoreboard
EUROPEAN YOUNG MASTERS
Styrian Golf Club, Murhof, Austria
Leading Second-Round totals
BOYS
136 Zachariah Gould (Wal) 70 66.
138 Marius Thorp (Nor) 70 68.
139 Dominic Angkawidjaja (Aut) 67 72.
140 Gonzalo Berlin (Spa) 74 66.
143 Tano Kromer (Aut) 75 68, Rory McIlroy (Ire) 71 72.
144 Marc Dobias (Swi) 71 73, Niall Kearney (Ire() 73 71, Jesper Kennegard (Swe) 76 68.
145 Luis Garcia del Moral (Spa) 71 75, Thomas Oliver (Eng) 72 73.
Other scores:
149 Jordan Findlay (Sco) 78 71.
150 Adam Runcie (Wal) 73 77.
153 Lewis Kirton (Sco) 75 78.
155 Tony Mitchell (Eng) 76 79.
GIRLS
146 Linn Gustafsson (Swe) 75 71.
147 Belen Mozo (Spa) 75 72, Carlota Ciganda (Spa) 79 68.
148 Valerie Sternebeck (Ger) 70 78, Camilla Lennarth (Swe) 71 77.
Other scores:
149 Kiran Matharu (Eng) 75 74.
150 Florentyna Parker (Eng) 74 76.
162 Charlene Reid (Ire) 84 78.
170 Louise Coffey (Ire) 85 85.
171 Amy Reeds (Wal) 84 87.
175 Rebecca Harries (Wal) 90 85.

Thursday 22nd July 2004

Sally Watson wins East of Scotland Girls' Summer Meeting
Sally Watson (Elie and Earlsferry) and Amanda Edwards (Liberton), both members of Midlothian County, had 76's and tied for the best scratch at the East of Scotland Girls Summer Meeting at Kingsknowe today.
New Scottish Girls' cap Sally won on the better inward half, and also won the RBoS/Daily Telegraph qualifier, with a chance to go forward to the National Finals at Sun City, South Africa in October.
Sarah Horsburgh from Dunbar took third place on 78, on the better inward half from Sally's elder sister Rebecca Watson. This pair, both off 10 handicap, also tied for first Handicap Prize, which Sarah won on the better inward half..
Rebecca had the consolation of winning the Under 16 handicap award.
Amanda Edwards won the Under 18 handicap prize with a net 71, and Cara Easton (Dalmahoy) the smallest entrant in the field, took the Under 14 prize with a net 74 off a handicap of 20.
The best eight scratch scores qualified for the Match play stages of the East of Scotland Girls Championship.
Champion of champions
Some cracking ties were played in the first round which took place this afternoon.
Murrayfield Ladies' Champion Sally Watson was three up at the turn against Stirling Ladies' Champion Nicola Melville, but lost the tenth by three-putting and then the pair, with Nicola chipping and putting like a demon, managed to halve every hole all the way to the 17th, when Nicola ran out of holes and Sally won by 2 and 1.
Glencorse Ladies' Champion and last year's runner-up, Jane Turner gave herself too much to do with some wayward driving and missed greens, and Dunblane Ladies' Champion Sara Herd's steady play paid dividends when she came through to win at the sixteenth by 3 and 2.
Rebecca Watson, Junior Champion at Murrayfield, and long-hitting North Berwick Ladies' Champion, Megan Barbour, had a great tussle , with Megan winning by 2 and 1.
Liberton ladies Champion, Amanda Edwards, was too strong on the day against a valiant opponent in Ashleigh Wilton, and won by 6 and 5.
The semifinals and final take place on Friday at 9:30am and 2pm.
Sally Watson will play Sarah Herd and Megan Barbour takes on Amanda Edwards.
Results
East of Scotland Girls' Summer Meeting at Kingsknowe Golf Club
Thursday 22nd July 2004
Scratch scores
76 Sally Watson (Elie and Earlsferry), Amanda Edwards (Liberton)
78 Sarah Horsburgh* (Dunbar) Rebecca Watson (Elie and Earlsferry)
79 Jane Turner (Glencorse), Sara Herd (Dunblane New))
81 Megan Barbour (North Berwick), Ashleigh Wilton (Ladybank)
84 Nicola Melville (Bridge of Allan, Claire McLoughlin (Kilspindie), Vicki Stevenson ( Stirling)
85 Rachael Livingstone (Musselburgh Old Course)
87 Rebecca Hyde (Kirkcaldy)
94 Cara Easton (Dalmahoy)
112 Samantha Lamb (Glencorse)
Best net overall Sarah Horsburgh 78-10=68 bih
Under 18 net Amanda Edwards 76-5=71 bih
Under 16 net Rebecca Watson 78-10=68
Under 14 net Cara Easton 94-20=74
Best Scratch and Daily Telegraph qualifier Sally Watson 76
* unable to play in the matchplay
East of Scotland Girls Championship
First round
Sally Watson beat Nicola Melville 2 and 1
Sarah Herd beat Jane Turner 3 and 2
Megan Barbour beat Rebecca Watson 2 and 1
Amanda Edwards beat Ashleigh Wilton 6 and 5

European Young Masters
STEADY START BY SCOTS BOYS IN EUROPEAN YOUNG MASTERS
Scotland's two representatives in the European Young Masters, Lewis Kirton (Newmachar) and Jordan Findlay (Fraserburgh), made steady starts to the international amateur golf tournament for Under-16 year olds at Styrian Golf Club, Murhof in Austria today.
Kirton shot a three-over-par 75 and Findlay a 77 as local hero Dominic Angkawidjaja returned a superb score of five-under-par 67 to open up a three-shot first-round lead in the 54-hole event.
There was reflected glory for Scotland in the success of the Austrian youngster. St Andrews-born Gordon Manson has been the Austrian Federation's national coach for a number of years.
The leading British Isles boy at the end of the first day was Zac Gould from Wales in joint second place on the 70 mark.
The Scottish Ladies Golfing Association did not enter any competitors in the girls' event in which Valerie Sternebeck (Germany) set the pace with a two-under-par 70.
COLLATED SCOREBOARD (at end of play)
EUROPEAN YOUNG MASTERS _ Styrian GC, Murhof, Austria.
FIRST ROUND
Leading boys (Par 72)
67 Dominic Angkawidjaja (Aut).
70 Marius Thorp (Nor), Zac Gould (Wal).
71 Rory McIlroy (Ire), Luis Garcia del Moral (Spa), Marc Dobias (Swi).
Other scores:
72 Mark Suursalu (Est), Thomas Oliver (Eng).
73 Adam Runcie (Wal), Niall Kearney (Ire).
75 Lewis Kirton (Sco).
76 Tony Mitchell (Eng).
77 Jordan Findlay (Sco).
Leading girls (Par 72)
70 Valerie Sternebeck (Ger).
71 Camilla Lennarth (Swe).
74 Florentyna Parker (Eng).
75 Kiran Matharu (Eng).
84 Charlene Reid (Ire), Amy Rees (Wal).
85 Louise Coffey (Ire).
90 Rebecca Harries (Wal).

Scottish Boys Stroke Play
GREAT SCOTT! HENRY ONLY THIRD BOY TO ACHIEVE TITLE DOUBLE
Winner of the Scottish boys' match-play title in April, Scott Henry from Cardross underlined his rating as "something special" by winning the Scottish boys' open stroke-play golf championship at Machrihanish Golf Club on the Mull of Kintyre today.
Joint fifth at the start of the final 36 holes, Henry swept past halfway leader Scott Larkin with a third-round 69 for 215 and then he clinched an historic victory with a closing round of 71 for a six-over-par total of 286, which was two under the combined CSS.
Great Scott's same-year match-play and stroke-play boys' titles double has been achieved only twice previously in Scottish amateur golf history. The first was in 1971 by Ewan Murray, now better known as a TV golf commentator than a golfer, and the second was Steven Young from Inverallochy in 1994.
Henry won by two shots in the end from Greg Paterson (Drumoig) and one of the pre-tournament favourites Paul O'Hara (Colville Park).
Paterson could have delayed the presentation of the trophy to Henry - in fact, he might have gone on to win it himself. Faced with an 8ft putt on the very last green, Paterson needed to hole it to tie with Henry on 286 and force a play-off.
Sadly, young Greg missed it ... and the next one as well ... so three putts for a closing 73 put him alongside O'Hara who rocketing up the scoreboard with a last round of 68. The silver medal for runner-up went to Paterson for having a better last 36-hole aggregate than O'Hara (143 to 144).
Brora's Malcolm Murray flew the standard for North junior golf by finishing fourth on 292 after two good rounds (71, 69) on the final day.
Larkin, leader by two at the start of the third round, eventually subsided to joint fifth place with Euan Malcolm (Dunfermline) on 294. Larkin's last round of 79 was easily his worst of the four.
Sam Torrance's son Daniel made the halfway cut despite opening with an 81 but he finished down the field with closing rounds of 79 and 78 for 308.
The George Macdonald Memorial Bowl for the best performance by an Under-16 year old was won by David Murray of Newbattle - but it was close! David totalled 305 - the same score as another in the same age category, Cameron Gray (West Kilbride). The trophy went to Murray for having the better final 36-hole total (153 to 156).
Golf scores
SCOTTISH BOYS’ OPEN STROKE-PLAY CHAMPIONSHIP
Machrihanish Golf Club (Par 70).
FINAL TOTALS (CSS 74 72 71 71)
286 Scott Henry (Cardross) 70 76 69 71.
288 Greg Paterson (Drumoig) 71 74 70 73, Paul O’Hara (Colville Park) 69 75 76 68.
292 Malcolm Murray (Brora) 79 73 71 69.
294 Scott Larkin (Banchory) 72 70 73 79, Euan Malcolm (Dunfermline) 77 71 74 72.
295 Euan Polson (Royal Dornoch) 71 77 73 74, Kenneth Glen (Royal Musselburgh) 77 73 73 72, Neil Cameron (King James VI) 75 73 75 72.
297 Robert McKnight (Barassie) 80 74 70 73, Johnny Walkden (Royal Montrose) 73 80 74 70.
298 Graeme Stewart (Lenzie) 77 68 74 79.
299 Stuart George (Dalmahoy) 72 74 72 81, Scott Borrowman (Dollar) 81 69 77 72, David Calder (Helensburgh) 77 77 76 69, Darren Watson (Peterhead) 81 73 72 73.
300 David Addison (Barassie) 82 72 75 71, James Donaldson (Brucefields) 76 76 73 75, Simon Hislop (Selkirk) 75 76 76 73.
301 Ross McKen (Newburgh on Ythan) 72 80 73 76, Jamie Murchie (Lamlash) 78 73 73 77.
302 Richard Graham (Hayston) 78 75 73 76, Dean Yeats (Newmachar) 81 72 75 74.
303 Chris Bell (Shotts) 79 73 73 78, Keith Spence (Newmachar) 73 75 77 78.
304 Steven McEwan (Barassie) 74 77 76 77.
305 David Murray (Newbattle) 80 74 79 72, Stewart Beattie (Ratho Park) 73 79 78 75, Cameron Gray (West Kilbride) 78 71 80 76.
306 Dean O'Brien (Brora) 78 70 77 81.
307 Garry Wood (Crow Wood) 81 72 77 77, Michael Main (Thornton) 72 80 71 84.
308 Daniel Torrance (Sunningdale) 81 70 79 78.
309 Stephen Neilson (Dunbar) 82 71 79 77, Zac Saltman (Craigielaw) 77 75 78 79.
313 Robert Hutton (Brunston Castle) 82 72 75 84, Colin Goudie (Gosfield Lake) 74 79 84 76, Michael Stewart (Troon Welbeck) 81 71 80 81, David Saunders (Royal Montrose) 76 76 81 80.
NR Richard Hyland (Newmachar) 72 77 76 NR.

NICOLA WINS JANICE MOODIE TROPHY
Nicola McNeil, a member of Vale of Leven Golf Club, won the main award in the Janice Moodie Trophy Under-21 girls' open tournament at Windyhill Golf Club.
Nicola, playing off 20 of a handicap, returned a net score of 63.
Eilidh Briggs (Ranfurly Castle) won the 10 to 14 years' age category on a better inward half countback after she and Cara Easton (Dalmahoy) had both scored 68 net. Eilidh plays off 23 and Cara 21.
Last year's Scottish schoolgirls champion Kylie Walker (Buchanan Castle) headed the 15 to 17 years group with a net 75 off 2. She won by one stroke from runner-up Karen Brodie (Douglas Park), playing off 22.
It was a tight finish in the 18 to 21 years' section. Both Gillian Mullen (Paisley Bushes and Lesley Rolland (Dunfermline) play off eight and both had net scores of 74. Gillian won on the better inward half.
The field was disappointingly low for this popular annual event - only 26 competitors - and it may return to its previous August date next year.
COLLATED RETURN
JANICE MOODIE TROPHY _ Under-21 girls' open - Windyhill GC (CSS 71) - 10-14 Years: Eilidh Briggs (Ranfurly Castle) (23) (bih), Cara Easton (Dalmahoy) (21) 68. 15-17 Years: Kylie Walker (Buchanan Castle) (2) 75; Karen Brodie (Douglas Park) (22) 76. 18-21 Years: Gillian Mullen (Paisley Bushes) (8) (bih), Lesley Rolland (Dunfermline) (8) 74.

Wednesday 21st July 2004

IRISH GIRLS TEAM FOR STRATHAVEN
New Irish girls champion Tara Delaney from Carlow will spearhead the Ireland team in the girls' home internationals at Strathaven from August 11 to 13.
Tara, who will join older sister Karen (last year's Irish girls champion) at Kent State University, Ohio in the autumn, also finished runner-up to Deirdre Smith in the Irish women's close championship this year.
The Ireland girls team is:
FIONA CARROLL (Athenry)
RACHAEL CASSIDY (The Island)
TARA DELANEY (Carlow)
EMMA GILMORE (Mountbellew)
DANIELLE McVEIGH (Royal Co Down)
SINEAD O'SULLIVAN (Galway)
NIKKI TAGGART (Greenisland)
CATHERINE TUCKER (Limerick)
Reserves
STEPHANIE MEADOW (Royal Portrush)
CHARLENE REID (Gracehill)

SCOTT IS NOT LARKIN ABOUT AT MACHRIHANISH
BANCHORY'S uncapped Scott Larkin is the surprise halfway leader in the Scottish boys' open stroke-play championship at Machrihanish Golf Club on the Mull of Kintyre.
Scott, 18, has shot rounds of 72 and 70 for a two-over-par 36-hole tally of 142 - two shots ahead of one of the pre-tournament title favourites, Paul O'Hara (Colville Park).
Paul, brother of Steven O'Hara, had a great round of 69 in Tuesday's high winds and rain but did not do nearly so well in much calmer, warmer conditions today (Wed). He struggled to salvage a 75 for 144.
Lying joint third on 145 are Graeme Stewart of Lenzie (77, 68) and Greg Paterson (Drumoig (71, 74).
Not out of the hunt by any means is BP Scottish boys' match-play champion Scott Henry (Cardross), even though his scoring has followed the same pattern as O'Hara's - a par 70 in atrocious weather but a 76 in the second round.
Sam Torrance's son Daniel made it through on 151 after looking in danger of being eliminated when he had an opening 81. Daniel improved by 11 shots in the improved conditions.
Players with aggregates of 154 and better qualified to play the final two roundson Thursday.
COLLATED SCOREBOARD
SCOTTISH BOYS' OPEN STROKE-PLAY CHAMPIONSHIP
Machrihanish Golf Club (CSS 74 XX)
SECOND-ROUND TOTALS
142 Scott Larkin (Banchory) 72 70.
144 Paul O'Hara (Colville Park) 69 75.
145 Graeme Stewart (Lenzie) 77 68, Greg Paterson (Drumoig) 71 74.
146 Stuart George (Dalmahoy) 72 74, Scott Henry (Cardross) 70 76.
148 Dean O'Brien (Brora) 78 70, Euan Malcolm (Dunfermline) 77 71, Neil Cameron (King James VI) 75 73, Euan Polson (Royal Dornoch) 71 77, Keith Spence (Newmachar) 73 75.
149 Cameron Gray (West Kilbride) 78 71, Richard Hyland (Newmachar) 72 77.
150 Scott Borrowman (Dollar) 81 69, Kenneth Glen (Royal Musselburgh) 77 73.
151 Daniel Torrance (Sunningdale) 81 70, Steven McEwan (Barassie) 74 77, Simon Hislop (Selkirk) 75 76, James Murchie (Lamlash) 78 73.
152 Ross McKen (Newburgh-on-Ythan) 83 69, Michael Stewart (Troon Welbeck) 81
71, Chris Bell (Shotts) 79 73, Malcolm Murray (Brora) 79 73, Zack Saltman Craigielaw 77 75, James Donaldson (Brucefields) 76 76, David Saunders (Royal Montrose) 76 76, Michael Main (Thornton) 72 80, Stuart Beattie (Ratho Park) 73 79.
153 Stephen Neilson (Dunbar) 82 71, Garry Wood (Crow Wood) 81 72, Dean Yeats (Newmachar) 81 72, Richard Graham (Hayston) 78 75, Colin Goudie (Gosfield) Lake 74 79, Johnny Walken (Royal Montrose) 73 80.
154 David Addison (Barassie) 82 72, Darren Watson (Peterhead) 81 73, Robert McKnight (Barassie) 80 74, David Murray Newbattle 80 74, David Calder (Helensburgh) 77 77, Robert Hutton (Brunston Castle) 82 72.
FAILED TO QUALIFY
155 Robbie King (Dumbarton) 84 71, Dean Perkes (Fleetwood) 84 71, Gordon Stevenson (Elie Golf House) 83 72, Peter Keeling (North Berwick) 79 76, Andrew Gordon (Portpatrick) 76 79, Colin Malone (Pitlochry) 77 78, Philip McLean (Peterhead) 85 70, Philip Neil (Burnham & Berrow) 79 76, Austin Schauer (US) 81 74.
156 Finlay White (Crieff) 84 72, Stuart McMehen (Linlithgow) 82 74, Nicky Sinclair (Barassie) 81 75, Scott McGrenaghan (Cochrane Castle) 75 81, Jack Ferrier (Dumfries & Galloway) 75 81, Kevin Truscott (Newmachar) 78 78.
157 Joe Lockie (Tantallon) 85 72, Kristofer Harper (Carnoustie) 78 79, Neil McBride (Cowglen) 76 81, James White (Lundin) 75 82, John Forbes (Inverness) 84 73.
158 Bobby Rushford (Grangemouth) 85 73, Martin Cairney (Cowal) 80 78.
159 Scott Herald (Whitecraigs) 80 79, Niall Finlay (St Andrews) 74 85, Chris Baron (Oldmeldrum) 81 78, Ross Leeds (Muckhart) 81 78.
160 Alan Ferguson (Hayston) 86 74, Graeme Mitchell (Northern) 86 74, Michael Spence (Newmachar) 86 74, Graham Turner (West Linton) 86 74.
160 Ross McDonald (Craigmillar Park) 85 75, Ross Bell (Downfield) 84 76, Toby Garrett (Meltham) 82 78, Ross Noon (Musselburgh) 82 78, John Williamson (Dumfries & Galloway) 82 78, Alan McCandlish (Kirkhill) 80 80, Jamie Gardiner
(Montrose Mercantile) 77 83, Scott Bordon (Carnwath) 85 75, Michael Daily (Erskine) 80 80, Alan Ferguson (Hayston) 86 74, Michael Watson (Elgin) 79 81, Graham Turner (West Linton) 86 74, Michael Spence (Newmachar) 82 78, Graeme
Mitchell (Northern) 86 74, .
161 Lee Vettese (Nigg Bay) 86 75, Jamie Blake (Arbroath Artisans) 82 79, Brian Scott (Hamilton) 81 80.
162 James Byrd (US) 89 73, Stephen Lafferty (Kirkhill) 84 78, Jonathan Caldwell (Greenock) 87 75, Neale Patrick (Craigie Hill) 85 77.
163 Kevin Duncan (McDonald Ellon) 92 71, Steele Dewald (US) 89 74, Mark Rae (Newmachar) 85 78, Peter Latimer (Lundin) 84 79, Kristopher Donaldson (Galashiels) 79 84.
164 Craig Galloway (Uphall) 89 75, Iain Stoddart (Uphall) 86 78, Ross Crowe (Newcastle United) 84 80, Brian Findlay (Machrihanish) 88 76.
165 Graeme Molloy (Wishaw) 89 76, Simon Davie (Carnoustie Caledonia) 86 79, Jonathan Jeffrey (UAR) 86 79, David Lawson Cochrane Castle 86 79, Paul McGhee (East Renfrewshire) 86 79, Kevin Mackie (Glencruitten) 83 82, Greg Aitken
(Renfrew) 82 83.
166 Fergus Niven (Crieff) 85 8.
167 Adam Lindsay (Banchory) 88 79, Callum Spriddle (Lundin) 88 79, Scott Pithie (Carluke) 86 8, Travis Moore (US) 79 88, Michael Smyth (Royal Troon) 79 88, Andrew Connell (Largs) 81 86, David McCaig (Barassie) 86 81.
168 Steven Mann (Moray) 92 76, Alex Main (Thornton) 87 81, Craig McLaughlin (Largs) 87 81, Stuart Burns (Auchterarder) 86 82.
169 Christopher Robinson (Wigtown) 91 78.
170 Ross Kellett (Colville Park) 98 72, Brendan McKenna (Cowglen) 95 75.
171 Brian Keay (Fereneze) 97 74, Grant Minnes (Hayston) 88 83.
172 Craig Haugh (Cathkin Braes) 90 82, Stephen Macnamara (Renfrew) 86 86.
174 Ricardo Scarafile (Gourock) 81 73.
175 David Hunter (Cowal) 96 79, Christopher Burns (Gleddoch) 85 90, Alistair Weir (Portlethen) 88 87.
176 Stuart Henderson (Barassie) 93 83.
177 Michael Robb (Kinghorn) 91 86.
179 Allan Johnston (Cathcart Castle) 95 84.
182 Kyle Valley (US) 104 78, Joel Shamash (Kirkcudbright) 96 86.
187 Clarke Lutton (Qatar) 106 81.

Tuesday 20th July 2004

Midlothian County Ladies Summer Meeting at Murrayfield
A Junior member, Amanda Edwards (Liberton) won the Summer Meeting at Murrayfield today playing to scratch. Amanda won the Dumayne bowl for the best net score - 73 (5) 68; and she also won the Corstorphine Salver for the best scratch score, beating Pamela Williamson (Baberton) on the better inward half. Pamela Townsend (Murrayfield) was the second overall best net winner with 82(13) 69. SS 73, CSS 73.
Results are available on the MCLGA Web site www.mclga.co.uk

Scottish Champion Anne Laing and Midlothian Champion Claire Hargan working on the Press Tent scoreboa