Renfrewshire first to name their team
for Scottish county finals at Inchmarlo


The Renfrewshire County Team to take part in the Scottish County Finals at Inchmarlo Golf Resort (near Banchory) from 19th to 21st September, 2008, has just been announced -- Click on the photo above to enlarge

Renfrewshire are the first of the four qualifiers to make public their line-up for the Scottish county finals at the Inchmarlo Golf Centre & Resort, Banchory on September 19, 20 and 21.
It is:
Eilidh Briggs (Kilmacolm)
Megan Briggs (Kilmacolm)
Clare-Marie Carlton (Fereneze)
Donna Jackson (Cochrane Castle)
Gillian Kyle (East Renfrewshire)
Sara McCorkell (Williamwood)
Gillian McGinlay (Cochrane Castle)
Liz Stewart (Cochrane Castle)
Reserve:
Alyson McKechin (Elderslie)

When the other finalists are ready to follow suit, could they E-mail their squads to Colin@scottishgolfview.com

Swinging in the rain at Craigmillar Park. Left to right: Gabrielle Macdonald with caddie Gillian Simpson, Nicky Taylor (caddie of Rachael Watton), Rachel Watton and Maggie McPherson, chairman of East Girls. You can enlarge the images by clicking on them.

Rachel Watton beats Gabrielle

Macdonald in final of East

girls' championship

Rachael Watton of Mortonhall, won the East of Scotland girls' championship at Craigmillar Park Golf Club today.
She beat Gabrielle Macdonald of Craigielaw by 4 and 3 in the final.
To reach the final, Rachael beat Nicola Taylor of Thornton by two holes and Gabrielle beat Gillian Simpson of Murrayfield at the 19th.
The conditions the girls had to play in all day could not have been any worse. It never stopped raining.The standard of golf was excellent throughout the final in spite of the heavy rain and very wet conditions underfoot.
Gabrielle won the first but Rachael got back on level terms with a birdie at the second. Rachael edged ahead by winning the fourth and fifth holes but Gabrielle had a birdie at the eighth to reduce the deficit to one hole.
Rachael went two up again with a birdie at the 10th and then three ahead at the short 11th.
The next two holes were halved. Gabrielle lost the 14th after trouble off the tee which meant a penalty shot and she eventually conceded the hole for Rachael to go four up.
At the par 3 15th both girls had excellent tee shots over the burn to the green. Rachael secured her title-clinching par, Gabrielle just missing a birdie 2.

+Rachael Watton is pictured with the trophy.

Images and report supplied by Mandy Easton. For more photos and all the results, log on to http://www.eastgirls.org/

Leading prizewinners in the Aberdeenshire lady-girl greensomes, sponsored by KPMG, at Oldmeldrum Golf Club today (Cal Carson Golf Agency image). Click on the images to enlarge them)

Michele and Kirsten

win Shire lady-girl greensomes with 72

Curtis Cup player and Scottish champion Michele Thomson teamed up with McDonald Ellon clubmate Kirsten MacCallum to win the KPMG-sponsored Aberdeenshire lady-girl greensomes competition at Oldmeldrum Golf Club today.
They had a scratch round of one-over-par 72 to win by four shots from the Murcar Links' pairing of Laura McLardy and Samantha Leslie.
Ann Smart (Banchory) and Kristina Vannet (Peterculter) were third with an 80.
Deeside's Jayne Leith and Vicki Powell, playing off 22 1/2, won the leading handicap award with a net score of 63 1/2.
Twenty pairings took part. Pictured on right above are the Kirsten MacCallum and Michele Thomson with Laura McLardy, this time in her role as representatives of tournament sponsors KPMG. Laura is a senior manager tax for the company in Aberdeen (Cal Carson Golf Agency image).

LEADING PRIZEWINNERS
SCRATCH
(girl name first)
72 Kirsten MacCallum & Michele Thomson (McDonald Ellon).
76 Samantha Leslie & Laura McLardy (Murcar Links).
80 Kristina Vannet (Peterculter) & Ann Smart (Banchory).
HANDICAP (half the sum of the team players' handicaps).
63 1/2 Vicki Powell & Jayne Leith (Deeside) (22 1/2).
65 Cara & Sandra Low (McDonald Ellon) (21).
66 1/1 Hannah Bycroft & Elizabeth Irvine (Alford) (22 1/2).
ADDITIONAL HANDICAP PRIZES
Class 1 (0 to 15)
68 Kirsten Pryde (Deeside) & Evelyn Cruickshank (Cruden Bay) (15).
69 1/2 Seren & Rhian Anderson (Deeside) (14 1/2).
71 1/2 Lauren & Maria Duncan (Aboyne) (11 1/2).
72 1/2 Kimberley Beveridge & Elizabeth Brown (Aboyne) (9 1/2).
Class 2 (16 to 36)
70 Olivia Borwick & Eileen MacIntyre (McDonald Ellon) (24).
71 1/2 Kirsty Robb (Alford) & Audra Booth (Kemnay) (23 1/2).
72 Andrea Henderson & Sandi Barnes (Ballater) (22).
73 1/2 Tegan Seivwright & Karen Soden (Peterculter) (17 1/2).
Other net scores:
73 1/2 Claire & Fiona Prouse (Hazlehead) (7 1/2).
74 Zoe Marr & Billie McColl (Inveruire) (28).
74 Shannon and Julie McWilliam (Aboyne) (24).
77 1/2 Jordyn Booth & Rachel Armell (Kemnay) (11 1/2).
78 1/2 Sophie Alexander & Elaine Farquharson-Black (Deeside) (3 1/2).
85 Emma Read & Patricia Cowie (Ballater) (23).

Ladies European Tour Scoreboard
FINNAIR MASTERS
Helsinki Golf Club, Tali, Finland
FINAL TOTALS
Par 213 (3 x 71)
202 Minea Blomqvist (Fin) 69 68 65
203 Ursula Wikstrom (Fin) 68 69 66
206 Beatriz Recari (Spa) 67 72 67, Martina Eberl (Ger) 71 67 68
207 Diana Luna (Ita) 72 65 70
209 Anna Rawson (Aus) 70 71 68
210 Anja Monke (Ger) 74 66 70, Becky Brewerton (Wal) 71 68 71
211 Gwladys Nocera (Fra) 70 71 70
212 Marina Arruti (Spa) 70 69 73, Karen Lunn (Aus) 72 66 74
213 Lill Kristin Saether (Nor) 73 71 69, Joanne Mills (Aus) 70 71 72, Ana Larraneta (Spa) 70 70 73, Nina Reis (Swe) 69 70 74
214 Lee Anne Pace (Sa) 72 75 67, Georgina Simpson (Eng) 74 72 68, Samantha Head (Eng) 71 70 73
215 Julie Tvede (Den) 73 74 68, Beth Allen (USA) 73 71 71, Soojin Yang (Kor) 70 70 75, Rebecca Hudson (Eng) 69 70 76
216 Bree Turnbull (Aus) 70 76 70, Virginie Lagoutte Clement (Fra) 74 71 71, Anna Tybring (Swe) 75 69 72, Marianne Skarpnord (Nor) 74 70 72, Clare Queen (Sco) 69 74 73
217 Laurette Maritz (Sa) 74 71 72, Laura Cabanillas (Spa) 75 70 72, Ariya Jutanugarn (Tha) 68 73 76
218 Hanna Leena Salonen (Fin) 72 75 71, Martina Gillen (Ire) 74 72 72, Nikki Garrett (Aus) 74 71 73, Sophie Walker (Eng) 73 72 73
219 Miriam Nagl (Ger) 77 70 72, Lisa Holm Sorensen (Den) 77 70 72, Rebecca Coakley (Ire) 74 71 74, Maria Verchenova (Rus) 71 74 74, Julie Greciet (Fra) 70 74 75, Johanna Head (Eng) 73 71 75, Denise Charlotte Becker (Ger) 70 71 78, Emma Cabrera Bello (Spa) 69 70 80
220 Sarah Nicholson (Nzl) 75 72 73, Hazel Kavanagh (Ire) 70 76 74, Bronwyn Mullins Lane (Aus) 75 71 74, Mette Buus (Den) 76 69 75, Anne Lise Caudal (Fra) 73 71 76
221 Jade Schaeffer (Fra) 74 73 74, Smriti Mehra (In) 75 72 74, Rachel Bell (Eng) 76 71 74, Anna Rossi (Ita) 76 70 75, Elena Giraud (Fra) 74 72 75, Vicky Thomas (Aus) 75 69 77
222 Jenni Kuosa (Fin) 70 77 75, Olof Maria Jonsdottir (Ice) 71 75 76, Satu Harju (Fin) 73 72 77, Federica Piovano (Ita) 75 69 78
223 Lynn Kenny (Sco) 71 75 77
224 Elin Ohlsson (Swe) 70 76 78, Lynn Brooky (Nzl) 76 69 79
225 Natalie Claire Booth (Eng) 73 74 78, Lara Tadiotto (Bel) 75 72 78
227 Natascha Fink (Aut) 76 71 80, Denise Simon (Ger) 75 71 81

Carly Booth wins the long-driving competition at the Belgian junior international tournament

Carly Booth and Kelsey MacDonald with the Belgian girls' team trophies and a Belgian Federation official.

Kelsey and Carly win Belgian girls' team title

Scotland's pair of champion girl golfers, Kelsey MacDonald (Nairn Dunbar) and Carly Booth (Comrie) won the girls' team trophy at the Belgian junior international tournament at the Royal Golf Club of Belgium.
Kelsey, the Scottish Under-21 title-holder, and Carly, the Scottish Under-18 champion and Curtis Cup player, finished joint second and joint fifth individually but their totals, added together, won the girls' team trophy with a score of 593, one shot ahead of Spain (594) with Wales (600) third and Ireland (602) fourth.
Kelsey had scores of 74, 73, 73 and 76 for a total of 296 - six shots behind the winner, Ana Fernandez de Mesa (Spain).It was the third year in a row that Kelsey had finished in the top three of this tournament. How's that for consistency? And she also figured in the capture of the team trophy for Scotland last year when it was organised under a boys and girls' combined format.
Carly Booth dropped out of the lead with two disappointing closing rounds and finished joint fifth on 297 with scores of 73, 69, 78 and 77.
Apart from a team trophy replica, Carly did have another award to take home. She won the girls' long-driving on the eve of the competition.
In the boys' section, Aberdeen's David Law (Hazlehead) clinched a share of eighth place with his second round of par-matching 72. He had four birdies and a double bogey in his last round. David finished on 293.
The other Scottish boy in the tournament, Paul Shields (Kirkhill) finished with a 77 for a share of 24th place on 299.
Ireland's Rory McNamara, leader after three rounds, slumped to a closing 77 for one-over-par 289 and finished one shot behind the winner, Joachim Hansen (Denmark).
Ireland did win the boys' team event by five shots. Scotland finished fourth
LEADING INDIVIDUAL TOTALS
GIRLS
Par 288 (4 x 72)
290 Ana Fernandez de Mesa (Spa) 74 71 68 77.
296 Laure Castelein (Fra) 76 74 72 72, Camilla Hedberg Bertrand (Spa) 73 76 73 74, Kelsey MacDonald (Sco) 74 73 73 76.
297 Sarah Faller (Ire) 76 73 77 71, Carly Booth (Sco) 73 69 78 77 (jt 5th).
Other totals:
300 Amy Boulden (Wal) 72 79 74 75, Katherine O'Connor (Wal) 72 74 74 80 (jt 8th).
305 Louise Mernagh (Ire) 76 76 72 81 (jt 11th).
Girls' team event: Leading totals
593 Scotland. 594 Spain. 600 Wales. 602 Ireland.
BOYS
Par 288 (4 x 72)
288 Joachim Hansen (Den) 70 76 73 69.
289 Rory McNamara (Ire) 68 72 72 77, Mads Sogard (Den) 68 76 76 69.
Other totals:
293 David Law (Sco) 76 72 73 72 (jt 8th).
296 Andrew Hogan (Ire) 77 71 74 74 (jt 15th).
299 Paul Shields (Sco) 78 72 72 77 (jt 24th).
Boys' team event: Leading totals
585 Ireland. 590 Germany, Finland. 592 Scotland. 598 Denmark. 600 Italy