Late entries accepted for Northern Counties championship at Lossie

Late entries are being accepted on 01309 671939 for the Northern Counties’ Ladies’ Golf Association Championship, which starts with a qualifying round on Saturday at Moray Golf Club's Lossiemouth links.
Competitors will tee off in pairs at 8min intervals and are from the host club unless stated.

Abbreviations: A, Abernethy; BB, Bonar Bridge; DHR, Duff House Royal; DS, Dornoch-Struie; E, Elgin; F, Forres; FR, Fortrose & Rosemarkie, G, Gairloch; GK, Garmouth & Kingston; I, Inverness; MO, Muir of Ord; RD, N, Nairn; ND, Nairn Dunbar; Royal Dornoch; T, Tain.
Revised draw:
9.0 – C. Gruber (RD), A. Ryan (T); J. Milne (E), G. Dowling (I); A. Bartlett (RD), M. Howieson (I); J. Vass (T), K. Vincent.
9.31 - E. MacKay (ND), A. Gowie (I); R. Topping (DHR), S. Macvicar (G); J. Cumming (I), E. Coghill (RD); J. Nicol (I), L. Fraser (FR).
10.04 - J. Robertson, C. Dingwall (MO); M. Barr (G), F. Bell (I); S.Mackenzie (E), S. Macdonell (I); P. Morrison (MO), M. Bagott (RD).
10.36 – T. Weekes (RD), D. McBride (RD); J. Maison (DHR), C. Marshall (N); D. Marshall (F), D. Phillips (GK).
11.0 – W. Murray (RD), E. Hutton (MO); I. Wilson (F), M. Rennie (RD); L. Nixon (FR), F. MacDonald (DS); I. Croal (G), C. Boyd (F).
11.32 – S. Duncan (RD), J. Corbett (DHR); K. MacKay (FR), F. Wood (DHR); A. Burnett (RD), S. Rowan (I); M. James (F), K. Sinclair (FR).
12.04 –J. Darroch (FR), D. MacNeil (I); M. Grant, E. McTavish (E); A. Harding (RD), L. Offin (BB).

Youngsters Alyson and Natasha are Renfrewshire toppers

RENFREWSHIRE COUNTY NEWS FROM CAROL FELL
The first Renfrewshire County Medal of the 2010 season was played yesterday at Ralston Golf Club.
On a beautiful Spring day, 43 players took part in this competition.
The 2009 Junior Champion of Champions' girls winner, Alyson McKechin (Elderslie) had the best scratch score with a 73.
The SSS was 71, CSS was 73.
Another up and coming junior - Natasha Qayum (Ranfurly Castle) - had the best net of the day with a 69 and was the overall winner of the medal.

Division 1: (Handicap Scratch - 12)
1st : Natasha Qayum (Ranfurly Castle) 76 (7) 69
2nd: Alyson McKechin (Elderslie) 73 (3) 70
3rd: Carol Fell (Ranfurly Castle) 82 (10) 72
Division 2 : (Handicap 13 upwards)
1st : Jackie MacDonald (Ranfurly Castle) 94 (21) 73
2nd : Tracy Masterton (Windyhill) 90 (14) 76
3rd : Liz Wilson (Elderslie) 97 (20) 77
Scratch : Alyson McKechin 73

ANNA IS TOP SEED FOR D&A

WOMEN'S CHAMPIONSHIP

The decision of Buchanan Castle's Kylie Walker to turn professional makes it a far more wide open Dunbartonshire & Argyll women's county golf championship which teed off today with the stroke-play round to decide the 16 qualifiers for the match-play stages at Hilton Park over the next two days.
Kylie had won the title four times in the past five years. The No 1 seed this year is Anna Telfer (Milngavie), pictured, whose better inward half gave her the top ranking after home-course player Aileen Baker also had an 81 - six over the CSS.
Kirstin Scott (Milngavie), beaten by Walker in last year's final at Hayston, qualfied in 13th position with a 92.
MATCH-PLAY QUALIFIERS
Par 72. CSS 75
81 Anna Telfer (Milngavie) better inward half, Aileen Baker (Hilton Park).
82 Lorraine Campbell (Cardross).
83 Lynne McColl (Bearsden).
84 Helen Faulds (Douglas Park).
85 Fiona McLean (Hilton Park).
87 Jorden Ferrie (Kirkintilloch), Nichola Ferguson (Clober), Sheila Steele (Hilton Park), Laura McGeachy (Windyhill).
91 Gayle Smith (Clober), Margarety Kinvig (The Carrick).
92 Kirstin Scott (Milngavie).
93 Christina MacPherson (Hilton Park).
95 Kay McColl (HIlton Park).
97 Babs Robertson (Helensburgh).
MATCH-PLAY TIES
Automatic draw (8min intervals)
Championship - First round - 9.0 Telfer v Robertson, Steele v Ferguson, Faulds v Kinvig, Scott v L McColl, Campbell v MacPherson, Smith v McLean, Ferrie v McGeachy, K McColl v Baker.
Quarter-finals in the afternoon.
Bronze championship - Semi-finals - Lyndsay McCubbin (Hilton Park) 96 bih v Denise Harrow (Hilton Park) 101; Josephine Monaghan (Dumbarton) 96 v Hellen Low (Hilton Park) 98.

Aberdeenshire Ladies line-up at Deeside. Back row (left to right): Carol Wilson, Donna Pocock, Sheena Wood, Fiona Hay, Sammy Leslie, Laura McLardy. Front: Mhairi Johnstone, Lauren Duncan, Laura Murray, Rachel Polson (image by courtesy of Raymond Penny, click on it to enlarge).

NORTH-EAST DISTRICT YOUTHS BEAT SHIRE

WOMEN - BUT IT WAS CLOSE

The North-east District youths team beat an Aberdeenshire women's select by 3 1/2-1 1/2 in a four-ball, better-ball match at Deeside Golf Club.
All five of the games went to the 18th hole.
It was the second year of the fixture but the first at which the winning team received a trophy donated by former district president Ken Bennions and his wife Margaret, from Peterhead, for annual competition.
Details (youth names first):
Christopher Forman (Peterhead), Greg Kennedy (Hazlehead) lost to Laura Murray (Alford), Fiona Hay (Deeside) 1 hole.
Donald MacAndrew (Royal Aberdeen), Ritchie Manson (Braemar) bt Sheea Wood (Aberdeen Ladies), Laura McLardy (Murcar Links) 1 hole.
Ryan Bain (Strathlene), John Drummond (Strathlene bt Carol Wilson (Murcar Links), Lauren Duncan (Banchory) 2 holes.
Nick MacAndrew (Cullen), Gordon Munro (Fraserburgh) bt Sammy Leslie (Westhill), Marie Johnstone (Murcar Links) 2 holes.
Jamie Robertson (Turriff), Fraser Clarke (Westhill) halved with Donna Pocock (Murcar Links), Rachel Polson (Peterculter).

United States Duramed Futures Scoreboard
$100,000 DAYTONA BEACH INVITATIONAL
FINAL TOTALS
Par 216 (3x72) 6378yd
1 Kristie Smith (Perth, Australia) 66-71-67 - 204 $14,000
2 Gerina Mendoza (Roswell, N.M.) 66-73-67 - 206 $10,000
3 Christine Song (Fullerton, Calif.) 70-67-70 - 207 $7,125
4 Tiffany Tavee (Tempe, Ariz.) 70-70-68 - 208 $5,116
T5 Kim Augusta (Rumford, R.I.) 70-70-69 - 209 $3,066
T5 Amelia Lewis (Jacksonville, Fla.) 71-69-69 - 209 $3,066
T5 Cindy LaCrosse (Tampa, Fla.) 66-73-70 - 209 $3,066
T5 Miriam Nagl (Berlin, Germany) 65-71-73 - 209 $3,066
T9 Carolina Llano (Medellin, Colombia) 72-70-68 - 210 $1,799
T9 Amanda Costner (Claremore, Okla.) 70-71-69 - 210 $1,799
T9 Tiffany Joh (San Diego, Calif.) 68-70-72 - 210 $1,799
T12 Jasi Acharya (Columbus, Mont.) 69-73-69 - 211 $1,341
T12 Nannette Hill (Pelham, N.Y.) 69-72-70 - 211 $1,341
T12 Danah Ford Bordner (Indianapolis, Ind.) 70-71-70 - 211 $1,341
T12 Veronica Felibert (Caracas, Venezuela) 70-71-70 - 211 $1,341
T12 Jessica Korda (a) (Bradenton, Fla.) 68-70-73 - 211
T17 Pornanong Phatlum (Chaiyaphum, Thailand) 70-72-70 - 212 $982
T17 Dewi Claire Schreefel (Diepenveen, Netherland69-74-69 - 212 $982
T17 Meredith Duncan (Shreveport, La.) 72-70-70 - 212 $982
T17 Sarah-Jane Smith (Queensland, Australia) 77-67-68 - 212 $982
T17 Erica Moston (Belmont, Calif.) 68-70-74 - 212 $982
T17 Jessica Shepley (Oakville, Ontario) 66-70-76 - 212 $982
T23 Samantha Richdale (Kelowna, British Columbia)71-71-71 - 213 $846
T23 Jane Rah (Torrance, Calif.) 69-72-72 - 213 $846
T23 Caroline Larsson (Stockholm, Sweden) 72-72-69 - 213 $846
T23 Hannah Jun (San Diego, Calif.) 68-71-74 - 213 $846
T23 Christi Cano (San Antonio, Texas) 74-71-68 - 213 $846
T28 Elisa Serramia (Barcelona, Spain) 72-70-72 - 214 $764
T28 Marlowe Boukis (Lutherville, Md.) 69-73-72 - 214 $764
T28 Michelle Jarman (Wilmington, N.C.) 70-73-71 - 214 $764
T28 Mo Martin (Altadena, Calif.) 69-73-72 - 214 $764
T28 Danielle Mills (Pointe-Claire, Quebec) 70-73-71 - 214 $764
T28 Esther Choe (Scottsdale, Ariz.) 71-71-72 - 214 $764
T28 Jenny Suh (Fairfax, Va.) 70-72-72 - 214 $764
T28 Jenny Lee (Simi Valley, Calif.) 71-72-71 - 214 $764
T28 Michaela Cavener (Ponca City, Okla.) 69-72-73 - 214 $764
T28 Lauren Doughtie (Suffolk, Va.) 71-70-73 - 214 $764
T28 Tara Goedeken (Dodge City, Kan.) 71-73-70 - 214 $764
T28 Benedikte Grotvedt (Nesbru, Norway) 70-74-70 - 214 $764
T28 Laura Crawford (Lancaster, S.C.) 66-74-74 - 214 $764
T41 Virada Nirapathpongporn (Bangkok, Thailand) 70-72-73 - 215 $708
T41 Lili Alvarez (Durango, Mexico) 72-72-71 - 215 $708
T41 Mallory Blackwelder (Versailles, Ky.) 72-72-71 - 215 $708
T41 Kendall Dye (Edmond, Okla.) 72-67-76 - 215 $708
T45 Dori Carter (Valdosta, Ga.) 70-73-73 - 216 $681
T45 Hwanhee Lee (Las Vegas, Nev.) 71-72-73 - 216 $681
T45 Whitney Myers (York, Pa.) 71-73-72 - 216 $681
T45 Lisa Strom (Huntersville, N.C.) 74-71-71 - 216 $681
T45 Ayaka Kaneko (Honolulu, Hawaii) 74-71-71 - 216 $681
T45 Kylene Pulley (Kokomo, Ind.) 75-70-71 - 216 $681
T45 Whitney Wade (Glasgow, Ky.) 70-75-71 - 216 $681
T52 Nicole Smith (Riverside, Calif.) 71-72-74 - 217 $652
T52 Leanne Bowditch (Queensland, Australia) 69-72-76 - 217 $652
T52 Isabelle Beisiegel (St. Hilaire, Quebec) 72-72-73 - 217 $652
T52 Stephanie George (Myerstown, Pa.) 71-73-73 - 217 $652
T52 Heather Burgner (Lakeland, Fla.) 71-73-73 - 217 $652
T57 Adrienne White (Red Deer, Alberta) 73-70-75 - 218 $634
T57 Aimee Cho (Orlando, Fla.) 72-71-75 - 218 $634
T57 Lisa Ferrero (Lodi, Calif.) 69-75-74 - 218 $634
T47 Kim Welch (Sacramento, Calif.) 73-72-73 - 218 $634
T61 Brandi Jackson (Greenville, S.C.) 70-72-77 - 219 $615
T61 Angela Buzminski (Oshawa, Ontario) 71-72-76 - 219 $615
T61 Sam White (Potomac, Md.) 73-69-77 - 219 $615
T61 Christina Jones (Jensen Beach, Fla.) 71-74-74 - 219 $615
T61 Jaclyn Burch (St. Louis, Mo.) 71-74-74 - 219 $615
T61 Libby Smith (Essex Junction, Vt.) 72-73-74 - 219 $615
T67 Lucy Nunn (Lawton, Okla.) 70-72-78 - 220 $602
T67 Briana Vega (Andover, Mass.) 71-73-76 - 220 $602
T69 Rachel Connor (Manchester, England) 74-70-78 - 222 $596
T69 Garrett Phillips (St. Simons Island, Ga.) 72-73-77 - 222 $596
71 Victoria Elizabeth (Orlando, Fla.) 73-72-78 - 223 $592
72 Rebecca Flood (Coonabarabran, Australia) 73-72-79 - 224 $590

Jodi Ewart (left) and Sally Watson (right), Curtis Cup team-mates in 2008 over the Old Course (images by Cal Carson Golf Agency).

Jodi Ewart, Sally Watson finish in top

10 in strongest US college field

Yorkshire's Jodi Ewart (University of New Mexico) and Scotland's Sally Watson (Stanford University, California) finished joint sixth and eighth respectively in the strongest United States women's college circuit field to assemble at the same venue this year.

The occasion was the Ping/ASU Invitational over the Karsten golf course at Tempe, Arizona.

Jodi Ewart, who is coming to the end of her four years at New Mexico and has told the GB&I Curtis Cup selectors that she will be turning professional BEFORE the match against the United States in June, shot rounds of 72, 72 and 67 for a five-under-par total of 211 over the 6,230yd, par-72 course.

Sally also had three very good rounds in very good company and over a testing course. Sally and Jodi were Curtis Cup team-mates in the 2008 match over the Old Course, St Andrews.

Miss Watson, who hails from South Queensferry, had rounds of 71, 72 and 69 for a four-under tally of 212.

A double bogey 6 at the ninth in her second round probably cost the Scot sixth place on her own. In all, the long-hitting Watson had 12 birdies over the 54-hole contest, five of them in her final round - at the long fifth, par-4 eighth, long 10th, short 12th and long 14th. She bogeyed the short seventh and par-4 18th.

Ellie Givens (Denver), from Darlington, tied for 42nd place with scores of 73, 73 and 77 for 223.

Former British women's open amateur stroke-play champion Roseanne Niven (California) from Crieff shared 51st place with scores of 74, 76 and 75 for 225.

The individual winner was Stephanie Kono (University of California-Las Vegas) with scores of 71, 70 and 66 for a nine-under total of 209 - one shot ahead of Jennifer Song (Southern California), one of the US Curtis Cup team selections for this year's match, according to Golfweek.

UCLA (856) won the team title ahead of home-course team Arizona State (856) with Southern California (858) third, New Mexico (863) fourth, Purdue (865) fifth and Denver (865) sixth. Stanford finished 10th in the 17-team field.

FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO WEBSITE

Senior Jodi Ewart and sophomore Rebecca Hellbom (from Sweden) each shot 5-under 67 to propel 24th-ranked New Mexico to one of the best rounds in school history in the final round of the PING/ASU Invitational.
The Lobos shot a 10-under 278, the second-lowest total and the second-best score in relation to par ever by a New Mexico team. UNM's 278 was the lowest round by any team in a tournament that featured 12 of the nation's top-29 schools.
Ewart and Hellbom tied a UNM record by playing a round in 5-under. It had been accomplished five previous times by three UNM golfers, including Ewart at the 2009 Branch Law Firm Dick McGuire. The 67 was a career-best for both golfers and one stroke shy of the Lobo mark set by Kailin Downs at the 2004 Mountain West Conference Championships.

Hellbom ended in a tie for third with a 7-under 209 (71-71-67) - her best 54-hole total at UNM and just one shot off the school mark set by Ewart at the 2009 McGuire.
"It was just really solid," said Hellbom of the lowest round of her playing career. "The hit the fairways and made a lot of putts."

Ewart, who had matched the par of 72 in both her first rounds, caught fire in the third and final round with four straight birdies between holes 3 and 6. She made a bogey at 8 before adding birdies at 10 and 13 in halves of 32 and 35.
"I got off to a great start. The four straight birdies got me going," said Ewart, who went into the tournament ranked as the No. 6 ranked US women's collegiate. "My approach shots were really good. This gives us a lot of confidence going into the conference championships."

FROM THE STANFORD UNIVERSITY WEBSITE

Stanford shot a third round team score of 288 to finish 10th at the PING/ASU Invitational held at the Karsten Course in Tempe, Ariz.
top five.
Freshman Sally Watson fired a final round 69 to finish in eighth place in a field of 90, five strokes behind medalist Stephanie Kono of UCLA (207; -9). Jennifer Song of USC finished one stroke off the pace at 208.
Stanford will next be in action at the Pac-10 Championships, set for April 19-21 at the Eugene (Oregon) Country Club.

LEADING INDIVIDUAL TOTALS

Par 216 (Par 72) 6230yd

207 Stephanie Kono (UCLA) 71 70 66.

208 Jennifer Song (Southern California) 69 70 69.

209 Caroline Hedwall (Oklahoma State) 70 72 67, Rebecca Hellbom (New Mexico) 71 71 67.

210 Kimberley Kim (Denver) 72 69 69.

211 Jodi Ewart (New Mexico) 72 72 67, Lizette Salas (Southern California) 69 72 70.

212 Sally Watson (Stanford) 71 72 69.

Selected scores:

223 Ellie Givens (Denver) 73 73 77 (jt 42nd).

225 Roseanne Niven (California) 74 76 75 (jt 51st).

LEADING TEAM TOTALS

856 UCLA. 857 Arizona State. 858 Southern California. 863 New Mexico. 864 Purdue. 865 Denver. 868 Arizona. 874 Alabama. 875 Oklahoma. 876 Stanford. 17 Teams took part.

US select young team for

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Curtis Cup match in June
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FROM THE GOLFWEEK WEBSITE
By Golfweek Staff
The U.S. Golf Association has finalised the 2010 Curtis Cup team, Golfweek has learned. The committee began informing players earlier this week and, as expected, has picked a young team. (University of Denver) freshman Kimberly Kim is the only remaining member of the victorious 2008 squad in Scotland.
Jennifer Song, the 2009 U.S. Women’s Amateur and WAPL champion, and 15-year-old Alexis Thompson (pictured) hope to end their amateur careers with a win at Essex County Club against Great Britain & Ireland on June 11-13.

The rest of the team:

UCLA's Stephanie Kono and Tiffany Lua.

Auburn’s Cydney Clanton.

Arizona State’s Jennifer Johnson and 17-year-old Jessica Korda.
It will come as a surprise to many that Auburn senior Candace Schepperle is chosen only as first alternate. Schepperle made the cut at the last year’s U.S. Women’s Open and won the 2009 Dixie Amateur and Harder Hall Invitationals. She also was the 2009 Southeastern Conference Golfer of the Year. She’s No. 37 in the Golfweek/Sagarin College Rankings.

+The GB&I team, to be captained by Mary McKenna, will be announced near the end of April.