KirkwoodGolf: Windy conditions at Gullane for Order of Merit event

Sunday, July 29, 2007

Windy conditions at Gullane for Order of Merit event


JENNA WILSON WINS MACKIE BOWL FOR SECOND YEAR
IN ROW AT GULLANE

Scottish champion Jenna Wilson from Strathaven won the Mackie Bowl SLGA 36-hole Order of Merit tournament for the second year in a row over the Gullane No 1 course today.
Jenna had scores of 70 and 78 for a level par aggregate of 148 in a freshening wind.
She had bogey-free inward half of four-under-par 34 in the morning.
Miss Wilson won by two strokes from Robert Gordon University student Laura Murray whose scores also soared in the wind. Laura had a 71, which included an outward half of two-under-34, in the first round and a 79 in the afternoon.
Claire-Marie Carlton (Stirling University), Claire Hargan (Mortonhall) and former Scottish title-holder Fiona Lockhart (St Regulus) all finished with an aggregate of 151.
Claire-Marie was officially placed third with the best first round of the trio (a 74). Claire Hargan's better last nine earned her third place ahead of Fiona Lockhart.
+Picture shows Margaret Milligan, the Gullane Ladies club captain, presenting the Mackie Bowl to Jenna Wilson.
LEADING FINAL TOTALS
Par 148 (2 x 74). CSS 74 75.
148 J Wilson (Strathaven) 70 78.
150 L Murray (Alford) 71 79.
151 C-M Carlton (Stirling Univ) 77 74 (better second round), C Hargan (Mortonhall) 72 79 (better last nine), F Lockhart (St Regulus) 72 79.
152 V Melvin (Reunion, Florida) 73 79, R Niven (Crieff) 73 79.
153 M Thomson (McDonald Ellon) 77 76, C MacDonald (Gullane) 77 76.
154 M Briggs (Kilmacolm) 79 75.
156 P Pretswell (Bothwell Castle) 78 78.

Additional scratch prizes (to players outwith main list):
First round
F Lockhart (St Regulus) 72.
V Melvin (Reunion, Florida) 73.
Second round
K Walker (Buchanan Castle) 74.
Megan Briggs (Kilmacolm) 75.

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