Tour Pro’s Return to Kirriemuir for Junior Exhibition

Tour professionals Jenna Wilson and Pamela Feggans played an exhibition match for the junior golfers at Kirriemuir Golf Club today. Former Scottish women's amateur champion Wilson from Strathaven now plays on the Ladies European Tour. Feggans plays her golf on the US Futures Tour. They are both coached at Kirriemuir by Karyn Dallas the Angus club's professional.
Dallas says, “It is rare to get both girls together at this time of year and when I realised it coincided with the children’s summer holidays I thought this was an ideal opportunity for them to see what can be achieved. The children are all part of Karyn’s Tg54.com coaching program, the same program used by both Pro’s to develop their games.

Jenna Wilson took the 200 mile detour on her way to The Oxfordshire where she will be competing in the Ladies English Open later this week was delighted to help out saying, “What Karyn has achieved here is unbelievable and I am only to happy to do this for her, the standard of the children here is mind blowing I can’t believe the Ladies championship was won at the weekend by a junior who just turned 15 two days ago!

Jenna will be joined at the English Open by Roseanne Niven, another player on the program who is having a wonderful season finishing second in last weekend's Irish women's open amateur stroke-play championship at Elm Park GC, Dublin and a semi finalist - the only British one - in the previous week's British women's open amateur championship at North Berwick.

Pamela Feggans has taken two weeks out of her tour schedule to visit her parents in Patna, Ayrshire and to spend a week at Kirriemuir with Karyn to work on her game. Pamela’s coaching is normally done via the Internet but she felt it would be better to have a more hands on coaching at this time. Of today’s game Pamela says’ “It was a good laugh and the kids seemed to enjoy it, I must admit it was quite nerve racking to look up from the tee and see all these small faces staring at you, but it was nice.

Dallas continues to build her coaching program at Kirriemuir Golf Club where she is delighted at the progress of the players at all levels. She says, “If someone had told me six years ago when this all started that we would have tour players and national champions I would not have believed them, but it has happened and when I look around at the talent coming through I am so excited at the thought that this really is just the beginning!!

Fiona sets Braehead record with a 70

Fiona De Vries set a new ladies' course record of 70 at Braehead Golf Club today. She was playing in the Midlands Vets' summer meeting.

Hope to be able to give you more details of Fiona's great round later.

Set of finalists complete for Inchmarlo in September

Perth & Kinross county captain Dawn Butchart with the North Division championship trophy and her happy team at Downfield. County champion Laura Walker, who is a teacher at a Fife school, had to return to work before the start of the third day's play. Picture by courtesy of Dawn Butchart. You can enlarge the image by clicking on it.

Perth & Kinross win North title
with a 100 per cent record by
beating Angus 8-1

Perth & Kinross, Fife, Renfrewshire and Borders will contest the Scottish women’s inter-county team golf championship at Inchmarlo Golf Resort, Banchory from September 19 to 21.
Perth & Kinross completed the quartet of finalists with an 8-1

win over Angus in the North Division title decider at Downfield Golf Club, Dundee today .
The Perthshire team thus completed their three-day programme with a 100 per cent record, having beaten Northern Counties 6-3 on Saturday and then toppled title-holders Aberdeenshire 5-4 on Sunday.
It is P&K’s second North Division title in three years after a 23-year no-win span between 1982 and 2006.
Their star players were Curtis Cup 16-year-old Carly Booth (Comrie), pictured above right by Cal Carson Golf Agency (all rights reserved), and Scotland international Emily Ogilvy (Auchterarder), each with 5 1/2pt out of a possible six. Alexandra Bushby (Strathmore) was not far behind them with 5pt.
County champion Laura Walker, making her debut for P&K after years of representing Northern Counties, had to return to her job as a teacher before the start of the final day's play.

And their line-up could have been stronger still because it did not include Roseanne Niven (Crieff), who reached the semi-finals of the British open amateur championship at North Berwick two weeks ago and finished runner-up in the Irish open stroke-play in Dublin at the weekend.
Today’s details:
PERTH & KINROSS 8, ANGUS 1
Foursomes: C Booth & E Ogilvy bt R Wilson & K McNicoll 1 hole; A Bushby & A Niven bt M Summers & A Hunter 3 and 2; J Milne & E Muirhead bt S Raitt & A Ramsay 3 and 2 (3-0).
Singles: Ogilvy bt Wilson 4 and 3, Bushby bt McNicoll 1 hole, Booth bt Ramsay 5 and 4, Niven lost to H Anderson 1 hole, C Muir bt J Brown 1 hole, Muirhead bt Raitt 2 and 1 (5-1).
NORTHERN COUNTIES 3, ABERDEENSHIRE 6
Foursomes: C Gruber & K MacDonald lost to M Thomson & L Murray 3 and 1; S Vass & A Ingram lost to J Harrison & L McLardy 1 hole; P Mackay & E Mackay lost to S Wood & D Pocock 2 and 1 (0-3).
Singles: MacDonald bt Pocock 7 and 5, Gruber bt S Thomson 5 and 4, Vass lost to Murray 3 and 1, Ingram bt C Wilson 2 holes, E Mackay lost to Wood 2 and 1, M Smith lost to M Thomson 8 and 7 (3-3).
HOW THEY FINISHED
1 Perth & Kinross 3pt (three wins).
2 Angus 1 1/2pt (one win, one draw).

3 Aberdeenshire 1pt (one win).

4 Northern Counties 1/2pt (one draw)

Captain Sarah Bolton holding the Trophy with the winning Borders team
SLGA President Ethel Jack (far left) and Borders President Joyce Michie (far right)

Borders clinch South Division title
Borders women's golfer clinched the South Division women's inter-county team championship by beating title-holders Dumfries-shire 9-0 at Torwoodlee Golf Club today.
Borders beat Galloway 6-3 in their opening match on Saturday while Galloway beat Dumfries-shire 7-2 on Sunday.
Borders now go forward to the Scottish women's inter-county championship finals at Inchmarlo Golf Centre, Banchory from September 19 to 21. correcDetails:

BORDERS 9, DUMFRIES-SHIRE 0
Foursomes: J Anderson & K Inkpen bt M McGregor & S Townsley 6 and 5; L Campbell & I Craigie bt W Graham, C Kieran 7 and 5; P Costello & G Oliver bt E Scott & F Macgregor 1 hole. (3-0)
Singles: Anderson bt M McGregor 5 and 4, Costello bt E Scott 7 and 6, Inkpen bt Graham 3 and 1, S Lees bt Kieran 4 and 3, Campbell bt Townsley 6 and 5, Craigie bt F Macgregor 4 and 2 (6-0).

Sally out to beat Tiger in race

to return from knee operation

Curtis Cup teenager Sally Watson has set herself a goal of playing - if selected, of course - for Scotland in the women's home internationals at Wrexham from September 10 to 12, followed by the Espirito Santo women's world amateur team championship in Australia from October 22 to 25.
In the normal course of events, Sally, picture right by Tom Ward (all rights reserved), who has her 17th birthday on July 10, would be an automatic selection for these tournaments, given that she played well for Great Britain & Ireland in the Curtis Cup match against the United States over the Old Course, St Andrews, at the end of May.
The problem is that Sally, like Tiger Woods, had a major knee operation on her right ACL (Anterior cruciate ligament) on the Wednesday after the Curtis Cup match was over.
The surgeon was Gordon MacKay, former Rangers footballer who does most of the knee operationss on our top athletes. The physiotherapist is Stewart Barton, physio to Scotland rugby team and the British Lions.
"So thanks to the Scottish Institute of Sport, she is getting world class treatment," said her dad, Edinburgh businessman Graham Watson.
"The right ACL was torn in 2003 playing basketball. She was too young to operate on then. She had an op on her right knee to tidy up her cartilage seven weeks before the Curtis Cup, so she did incredibly well - with the help of her medical team - to be ready to play at St Andrews.
"So basically Sally's story mirrors Tiger's, except hers is the right knee, which is probably the easier one for a right-handed golfer.

"Rehab so far is going very well and Sally expects to return to golf stronger and fitter than ever. "She is back putting and her goal is to be ready to play for Scotland in the women's home internationals and world team championships - if selected."
Sally is still a resident student at the David Leadbetter Golf Academy at Bradenton, Florida and she will return there in August to continue her studies and daily training/practice to become an even better golfer.

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Anne Walker becomes head coach

of University of California-Davis

Anne Walker, 28, from Strathaven takes up her duties this week tomorrow as the new head women's golf coach at the University of California Davis (UCD) near Sacramento.
She had been first a player, then assistant coach and latterly associate head coach of the women's golf team at University of California-Berkeley over the past 10 years.
The UCD post became available when Kathy De Young announced her retirement.
"We will miss her greatly," said Nancy McDaniel, the UCB head coach. "Anne has been instrumental in the rise of California-Berkeley women's golf on the national scene over the last decade. From the moment she arrived on campus as a student-athlete in 1998, our programme has consistently been a national contender."
Anne won twice on the American women's college golf circuit as a player. She stayed on as a golf team staff member at the University of California-Berkeley after gaining a degree with honours in geography in May 2002.
Anne becomes the second Scottish-born head women's golf coach on the US college scene.
Colette Murray from Dumfries is in charge at the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga.
Both Anne and Colette were spectators at the recent British women's open amateur championship at North Berwick.
Anne Walker was beaten by Vikki Laing in the final of the Scottish girls' championship in 1997 and went to California-Berkeley the following January. She was instrumental in Vikki following her to the same university.

Anne played for the Scotland Under-18 girls team from 1996 to 1998 and for Scotland in the European Under-21 team championships of 1997. She also won the Welsh women's open amateur stroke-play title in 1999.

She was responsible for recruiting Roseanne Niven (Crieff), the 2006 Scottish girls match-play champion, to the University of California-Berkeley.

Whether or not Anne will have a budget that allows her to continue to look for emerging golf talent from Scotland - and elsewhere overseas - to add to her new team at California-Davis, remains to be seen.

"I am thrilled to be given this opportunity. Kathy (De Young) has built a strong foundation for a golf programme to be successful and I am looking forward to continuing her efforts," said Anne.

"I was part of building a succesful programme at California-Berkeley. I hope for similar success at California-Davis. I'd like to build a programme around character. I want to built a programme that is recognised both on campus an in the community."

All the final totals and prizemoney distribution

South Korean Inbee Park becomes
youngest US Women's Open winner

Two weeks short of her 20th birthday, Inbee Park became the youngest winner of the United States Women's Open on Sunday by closing with a two-under 71 as everyone around her faded away at Interlachen Country Club, Edina in Minnesota.
Park didn't make a bogey over the final 10 holes, pulling away with three clutch putts early on the back nine and building a four-shot lead going to the final hole. She finished with a tap-in birdie, and a few of her fellow South Koreans doused her with beer.
The victory came 10 years after Park took up the game, inspired by watching Se Ri Pak win the US Women's Open at Blackwolf Run to become the youngest champion at age 20.
“It's really an honour and very special for me that I won the event 10 years after I started playing,” Park said. “Everything happened so fast. It's scary. I really tried to stay calm, but it was so exciting, I couldn't do it. This is my day.”
Park finished at nine-under 283 and earned $585,000 from the richest purse in women's golf. Her four-shot victory over Sweden's Helen Alfredsson who shot 75, was the biggest margin in the championship since Karrie Webb won by eight shots at Pine Needles in 2001.
No one imagined the only drama on the back nine would come from Annika Sorenstam, who was never in contention competing in her final Women's Open before retirement at the end of the season.
Her final shot was a 6-iron from 199 yards that tumbled into the cup for eagle.
“Leaving with another great memory, that's for sure,” Sorenstam said after closing with a 78 to finish 12 shots behind in a tie for 24th. “Maybe not the one I had in mind, but I'll take it.”
Such highlights were rare for everyone else.
Stacy Lewis, a US Curtis Cup team player at St Andrews only a few weeks ago and trying to become the first player to win a major in her professional debut, led the field into the final round but took double bogey from 80 yards away on the par-5 second hole and struggled all afternoon with her putting.
She staggered home with a 79 and tied for third at 4-under 288 with Angela Park (73) and In-Kyung Kim (75).

+Image above of Inbee Park by Zimbio Pictures.

HOW THEY FINISHED
1 Inbee Park 72-69-71-71 283 -9 $585,000.
2 Helen Alfredsson 70-71-71-75 287 -5 $350,000.
T3 Angela Park 73-67-75-73 288 -4 $162,487.
T3 In-Kyung Kim 71-73-69-75 288 -4 $162,487.
T3 Stacy Lewis 73-70-67-78 288 -4 $162,487.
T6 Giulia Sergas 73-74-72-70 289 -3 $94,117.
T6 Nicole Castrale 74-70-74-71 289 -3 $94,117.
T6 Mi Hyun Kim 72-72-70-75 289 -3 $94,117.
T6 Paula Creamer 70-72-69-78 289 -3 $94,117.
T10 Teresa Lu 71-72-73-74 290 -2 $75,734
T10 Maria Jose Uribe 69-74-72-75 290 -2 Amateur
12 Stacy Prammanasudh 75-72-71-73 291 -1 $71,002
T13 Suzann Pettersen 77-71-73-71 292 Even $60,878
T13 Jee Young Lee 71-75-74-72 292 Even $60,878
T13 Cristie Kerr 72-70-75-75 292 Even $60,878
T13 Momoko Ueda 72-71-73-76 292 Even $60,878
T17 Morgan Pressel 74-74-72-73 293 +1 $51,380
T17 Catriona Matthew 70-77-73-73 293 +1 $51,380
T19 Jessica Korda 72-78-75-69 294 +2 Amateur
T19 Ji-Yai Shin 69-74-79-72 294 +2 $43,376
T19 Candie Kung 72-70-79-73 294 +2 $43,376
T19 Na Yeon Choi 76-71-71-76 294 +2 $43,376
T19 Jeong Jang 73-69-74-78 294 +2 $43,376
T24 Pat Hurst 67-78-77-73 295 +3 $35,276
T24 Song-Hee Kim 68-76-75-76 295 +3 $35,276
T24 Annika Sorenstam 75-70-72-78 295 +3 $35,276
T27 Laura Diaz 77-70-73-76 296 +4 $28,210
T27 Ai Miyazato 71-72-76-77 296 +4 $28,210
T27 Seon Hwa Lee 75-70-73-78 296 +4 $28,210
T27 Minea Blomqvist 72-69-76-79 296 +4 $28,210
T31 Sun-Ju Ahn 76-71-78-72 297 +5 $21,567
T31 Lorena Ochoa 73-74-76-74 297 +5 $21,567
T31 Karen Stupples 74-73-75-75 297 +5 $21,567
T31 Alison Walshe 73-74-73-77 297 +5 Amateur
T31 Brittany Lang 71-75-74-77 297 +5 $21,567
T31 Ji Young Oh 67-76-76-78 297 +5 $21,567
T31 Young Kim 74-71-71-81 297 +5 $21,567
T38 Jennifer Rosales 74-72-77-75 298 +6 $18,690
T38 Karrie Webb 75-75-72-76 298 +6 $18,690
T38 Sherri Steinhauer 75-75-71-77 298 +6 $18,690
T38 Amanda Blumenherst 72-78-71-77 298 +6 Amateur
T42 Reilley Rankin 72-75-79-73 299 +7 $15,261
T42 Eun-Hee Ji 76-72-77-74 299 +7 $15,261
T42 Lindsey Wright 78-72-74-75 299 +7 $15,261
T42 Jane Park 78-71-75-75 299 +7 $15,261
T42 Paola Moreno 73-76-75-75 299 +7 Amateur
T42 Rachel Hetherington 71-75-78-75 299 +7 $15,261
T42 Na On Min 77-73-73-76 299 +7 $15,261
T42 Katherine Hull 72-72-77-78 299 +7 $15,261
T42 Yani Tseng 71-74-75-79 299 +7 $15,261
T51 Maria Hjorth 76-74-73-77 300 +8 $12,153
T51 Sakura Yokomine 71-75-77-77 300 +8 $12,153
T53 Sherri Turner 76-70-81-74 301 +9 $10,376
T53 Leta Lindley 77-73-76-75 301 +9 $10,376
T53 Christina Kim 73-76-75-77 301 +9 $10,376
T53 Louise Friberg 69-74-79-79 301 +9 $10,376
57 Linda Wessberg 70-79-79-74 302 +10 $9,463
T58 Meg Mallon 75-72-82-74 303 +11 $8,697
T58 Marcy Hart 78-72-78-75 303 +11 $8,697
T58 Brittany Lincicome 74-73-78-78 303 +11 $8,697
T58 Whitney Wade 77-73-74-79 303 +11 $8,697
T58 Karin Sjodin 74-76-74-79 303 +11 $8,697
T58 Angela Stanford 76-73-73-81 303 +11 $8,697
T64 Janice Moodie 78-71-80-75 304 +12 $7,935
T64 Na Ri Kim 76-71-79-78 304 +12 $7,935
T64 Sydnee Michaels 71-76-76-81 304 +12 Amateur
T64 Shi Hyun Ahn 73-73-77-81 304 +12 $7,935
68 Jimin Kang 73-72-77-83 305 +13 $7,673
69 Kim Hall 74-76-76-80 306 +14 $7,542
70 Michele Redman 74-76-80-77 307 +15 $7,411
T71 Tiffany Lua 72-75-80-81 308 +16 Amateur
T71 Il Mi Chung 76-74-75-83 308 +16 $7,215
T71 Hee-Won Han 74-76-74-84 308 +16 $7,215

74 Meena Lee 75-74-80-82 311 +19 $7,019

Vicky Hurst Earns Third

Futures Tour Victory

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HAMMOND, Indiana. Rookie Vicky Hurst of Melbourne, Florida, overcame a two-stroke deficit and caught fire on a chilly afternoon in the final round to record a five-under-par 67 and claim her third win of the season at the Horseshoe Casino Classic at Lost Marsh Golf Course.

Hurst, pictured right, finished the weekend at 213 (-3), one stroke ahead of 2005 Duramed Futures Tour winner Jin Young Pak (70) of Kang Leung, South Korea, who posted a three-day total of 214 (-2).
It was a blessing in disguise for the 18-year-old Hurst, who very easily could have been part of the field for the 63rd U.S. Women's Open Championship in Edina, Minn. Hurst was an alternate at the Open, but didn't get in. Instead, she seized the chance to play at Hammond and moved into the top spot of the money list with season earnings of $51,701. After turning in her scorecard, the teen indulged in a celebratory Diet Pepsi with a cream puff.
Along with 23 other players on Sunday, Hurst completed her second round this morning after darkness suspended play on Saturday. Despite having to play 22 holes today, Hurst came out of the gates with a birdie in four holes to complete her second-round score and get early momentum on her side.
"I came out playing really well this morning, trying to stay in the moment and attacking pins to try to get birdies," Hurst said.
She mounted another comeback like her last victory at the Tour's major championship in Decatur, Illinois, coming back from four strokes down in the final round.
Hurst took the lead in the final round for the first time after an eagle on No. 12, rolling home a 40ft putt to move to four-under par on the day. She sealed the win with a birdie on the 16th, draining a 15ft putt.
"I really just tried to two-putt on 12, but it kept rolling and went in the cup," Hurst said. "That's when the momentum got going."
With three wins in just seven attempts, Hurst improved by nine shots from her second-round score of 4-over-par 76 to card the tournament's lowest score by two shots. Earlier this season, she claimed Tour victories at the Jalapeno Duramed Futures Classic in McAllen, Texas, and at the Michelob Ultra Duramed Futures Players Championship.
"I'm really surprised I'm doing this well," Hurst said. "The whole season, I've been thinking, 'Get in the top five or the top 10,' but I'm feeling more comfortable out here."
Even as one of the Tour's longer-hitting players, Hurst said it was a struggle to reach the greens in two on par-5s, playing into gusting winds reaching 35 mph.
"It's really hard when the wind affects everyone so much, because it turns into a mind game," Hurst said. "I just had to limit my mistakes and bogeys and never give up."
She added with a soft laugh, "I really need to work on my "wind putting."
Hurst's birdie putt on her final hole was just inches short of dropping into the cup. She wasn't about to relax with Pak, a former tournament winner, strolling up the 18th green -- about nine feet away from forcing a play-off.
Pak had a chance to tie and force a play-off with a birdie putt on the 18th green, but the former LPGA Tour member's putt stopped just left of the hole.
"I think I played pretty well, but Vicky is a special player," Pak said. "I think this will help me on the money list."
"Koko," Hurst's caddie and mother, shied away from taking credit for her daughter's victory. They embraced on the 18th green and posed for pictures together at the awards ceremony.
"It has been my pleasure to spend time with her," Koko said. "I feel extremely blessed and I feel like I should thank her because not every parent has this chance with their kid."
The Duramed Futures Tour is idle this week before beginning its Eastern Swing, starting with the CIGNA Golf Classic in Bloomfield, Connecticutt, on July 11-13.
For complete scores and more information, visit http://www.duramedfuturestour.com/.
17th Hole Surrenders Third Ace
Amateur Benedikte Grotvedt of Nesbru, Norway, drained a hole-in-one -- the Tour's third in two days -- on the 130-yard, 17th hole. Her single shot would have earned her $500 had she been a professional as part of Duramed's Hole-in-One Challenge. Grotvedt's ace brings the Duramed FUTURES Tour's season total up to nine.
Grotvedt played the shot as if it were 119 yards out. She pulled out a pitching wedge and played the wind right-to-left. A spectator saw the shot bounce twice and land in the cup.
"A hole-in-one is really difficult, but three on the same hole is pretty impressive," Grotvedt said. "There were a lot of good shots because that green is not easy."
Her previous career ace came in a Suncoast Series Tour event in 2007. Up next for the Norwegian is a three-week stay in her homeland in an attempt to qualify for the RICOH Women's British Open.
The 17th hole also surrendered a pair of aces to Haeji Kang of Seoul, South Korea, and Anastasia Kostina of Nakhabino, Russia, in Saturday's second round.
Jin Young Pak Becomes 10th Recipient of Duramed's Sunday Low Round Award
Jin Young Pak of Kang Leung, South Korea, fired a 2-under-par 70 to claim a new Apple 8 GB iPod Touch to continue Duramed's season-long promotion of the Sunday Low Round Award. Pak was in the leading group that teed off at 10:50 a.m. and carded five birdies throughout her round to claim the prize.
Vicky Hurst carded a 5-under-par 67, but the three-time Tour winner had already received the award in McAllen, Texas, at the Jalapeno Duramed FUTURES Golf Classic.

Sunday tournament weather: Mostly sunny with temperatures ranging from the mid-70s to low-80s. Partly cloudy with winds gusting at 15-35 mph with intermittent rainfall in the afternoon.

US Women's Open Midnight News

Inbee Park won with rounds of 72, 69, 71 and 71 for 283.
Sweden's Helen Alfredsson was second with 70, 71, 71 and 75 for 287.
Angela Park, In-Kyung Kim and Stacy Lewis tied for third place on 288.