Northern Ladies County Golf Association Scoreboard
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Scratch
72 A Bartlett (Royal Dornoch).
74 A Ryan (Tain).
Silver Division
Handicap
D McBride (Royal Dornoch) (14), E Mackay (Nairn Dunbar) (7) 71; L McEwan (Nairn Dunbar) (17), Eleanor Tunn (Reay) (10) 72; A Nicolle (Grantown) (19) 73.
Bronze Division
Scratch
89 N.Burtwell (Nairn).
Handicap
K Sinclair (Fortrose) (23) 69; S. Rowan (Inverness) (22) 76.

Gillian Monteith wins Southwest of Scotland women's championship

Gillian Monteith (Portpatrick Dunskey) won the Southwest of Scotland women's championship with rounds of 80 and 74 for a total of 154 in glorious weather at Powfoot Golf Club.
Gillian finished four shots ahead of runner-up Rachel Walker (Dumfries & Co) who had scores of 75 and 83 for 158.
The Handicap Cup was won by Linda Jack (Moffat) with a net 68 off a handicap of 14.

Captions to pictures above: LEFT image: Linda Jack receives the Handicap Cup from Powfoot GC ladies captain Lindsey Kirkwood. RIGHT image. Lindsey Kirkwood flanked by championship winner Gillian Monteith to the left and Rachel Walker to the right.

Lancome Irish women's close championship at Portstewart GC

Leona Maguire wins Leitrim Cup as leading qualifier

NEWS RELEASE ISSUED BY THE IRISH LADIES GOLF UNION
QUALIFYING TOTALS
Par 148 (2x74). SSS 77 CSS (both rounds) 77.

CHAMPIONSHIP QUALIFIERS
143 Leona Maguire (Slieve Russell) 69 74
152 Sinead O'Sullivan (Galway)76 76, Lisa Maguire (Slieve Russell) 76 76
154 Karen Delaney (Carlow) 78 76
155 Deirdre Smith (Co. Louth) 79 76
157 Maura Diamond (Royal Portrush) 77 80
158 Jennifer Gannon (Co. Louth) 80 78, Charlene Reid (Royal Portrush) 80 78
159 Tara Gribben (Warrenpoint) 80 79, Maria Dunne (Skerries) 78 81
161 Karen O'Neill (Douglas) 83 78, Anne McCormack (Roscommon) 80 81, Jenny Hennessy (Ennis) 77 84
162 Victoria Bradshaw (Bangor) 81 81, Mary Dowling (New Ross) 79 83
163 Helen Jones (Strabane) 84 79, Sue Phillips (Woodbrook) 83 80, Gillian O'Leary (Cork) 79 84
164 Violet McBride (Belvoir Park) 83 81, Gemma McClenaghan (Greencastle) 81 83
165 Louise Coffey (Malone) 80 85
166 Laura McCarthy (Muskerry) 83 83,Vivienne Houston (City of Derry) 83 83, Niamh Kitching (Limerick) 80 86
167 Amy Farrell (Moate) 86 81, Naoimh Quigg (City of Derry) 85 82, Lesley Hemphill (Portstewart) 83 84 Kate Gallagher (Claremorris) 81 86
168 Holly Robinson (Co. Sligo) 83 85
170 Sandra Atkinson (Woodbrook) 85 85, Gertie McMullen (The Island) 81 89
171 Pat Doran (Donabate) (won three-way play-off for last place at the second extra hole)

ITA WALLACE PLATE QUALIFIERS
171 Caroline Murphy (Grange) 87 84, Sarah Helly (Enniscrone) 84 87
172 Lisa McMeekin (Massereene) 85 87, Linda Toomey (Limerick) 84 88
175 Jessica Carty (Holywood) 91 84, *Pauline Walsh (Headfort) 88 87
176 Kate Evans (Frilford Heath) 90 86,Nicola Coffey (Woodbrook) 87 89
177 Niamh O'Connor (Woodbrook) 90 87, Aisling Parker (Greenore) 87 90
178 Marilyn Henderson (Castlerock) 88 90
181 Niamh Giblin (Dun Laoghaire) 91 90
184 Hannah Henderson (Ballyclare) 97 87, Melanie Mitchell (Royal Portrush) 93 91
185 Roisin Brady (Mannan Castle) 97 88
189 Ann Monteith (Castlehume) 99 90, Louise Hanratty (Mannan Castle) 93 96
*Pauline Walsh not available to take part in the match play
NON-QUALIFIERS
195 Catherine Owens (Ballinasloe) 105 90
198 Una McQuillan (K Club) 99 99, Patsy McCarthy (Grange) 101 97
202 Fiona Farrell (Swords Open) 100 102
213 Claire McGonagle (Portsalon) 109 104

CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH-PLAY DRAW FOR MONDAY, MAY 24
FIRST ROUND
First Quarter
08:00 Leona Maguire (Slieve Russell) v Pat Doran (Donabate)
08:09 Sue Phillips (Woodbrook) v Helen Jones (Strabane)
08:18 Tara Gribben (Warrenpoint) v Niamh Kitching (Limerick)
08:27 Amy Farrell (Moate) v Charlene Reid (Royal Portrush)
Second Quarter
08:36 Deirdre Smith (Co Louth) v Kate Gallagher (Claremorris)
08:45 Louise Coffey (Malone) v Anne McCormack (Roscommon)
08:54 Jenny Hennessy (Ennis) v Gemma McClenaghan (Greencastle)
09:03 Holly Robinson (Co. Sligo) v Karen Delaney (Carlow)
Third Quarter
09:12 Lisa Maguire (Slieve Russell) v Sandra Atkinson (Woodbrook)
09:21 Violet McBride (Belvoir Park) v Victoria Bradshaw (Bangor)
09:30 Karen O'Neill (Douglas) v Laura McCarthy (Muskerry)
09:39 Lesley Hemphill (Portstewart) v Maura Diamond (Royal Portrush)
Fourth Quarter
09:48 Jennifer Gannon (Co. Louth) v Naoimh Quigg (City of Derry)
09:57 Vivienne Houston (City of Derry) v Maria Dunne (Skerries)
10:06 Mary Dowling (New Ross) v Gillian O'Leary (Cork)
10:15 Gertie McMullen (The Island) v Sinead O'Sullivan (Galway)

ITA WALLACE TROPHY (Plate) DRAW FOR MONDAY, MAY 24
FIRST ROUND
Top Half
10:24 Caroline Murphy (Grange) v Louise Hanratty (Mannan Castle)
10:33 Aisling Parker (Greenore) v Niamh O'Connor (Woodbrook)
10:42 Jessica Carty (Holywood) v Hannah Henderson (Ballyclare)
10:51 Melanie Mitchell (Royal Portrush) v Linda Toomey (Limerick)
Bottom Half
11:00 Lisa McMeekin (Massereene) v Roisin Brady (Mannan Castle)
11:09 Niamh Giblin (Dun Laoghaire) v Kate Evans (Frilford Heath)
11:18 Nicola Coffey (Woodbrook) v Marilyn Henderson (Castlerock)
11:27 Ann Monteith (Castlehume) v Sarah Helly (Enniscrone)

Sandra Barnett
Irish Ladies Golf Union

Keeping cool in the heat of the Craigielaw final: Where did you get that hat, Gillian?

They think it's all over ... and they're right! Some of the gallery pictured around the 15th green just after Louise Kenney had conceded the hole, the match and the Scottish title to Kelsey MacDonald at Craigielaw. Perhaps, if you were there, you can recognise yourself in this Cal Carson Golf Agency image. Click on it to enlarge, writes Colin Farquharson
The man in the short-sleeved white shirt is George McGill, captain of Craigielaw Golf Club, given the honour of refereeing the final.
Standing next to him with that classy hat on is the championship's chief referee, Gillian Kirkwood, now chairman of the Ladies Golf Union. She stays fairly close to the Craigielaw links, being a resident with husband David of Gullane.
So where did you get that hat, Gillian, which, I have to say, looked very comfortable and cool in the temperatures which must have touched the high 70s for the final?
"It's the official sun hat for the United Stages Golf Association Rules Committee," says Gillian.
"I'm going to join their Rules team for the US Women's Open at Oakmont, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania at the beginning of July and they've sent me some uniform to wear."
Some people have all the luck!

No Scots left in French men's amateur match-play

Stirling University sent five male students to compete in the French international men's match-play championship for the James Gordon Bennett Trophy at St Germain Golf Club., but unfortunately the interest finished yesterday for the three remaining players, Fraser Moore, Andrew Wallace and David Booth:

Selected results in the round of the last 32 were:
Mervin Rocchi (Fra) bt Joshua White (Eng) 3 and 1.
Stanislav Gautier (Fra) bt Fraser Moore (Sco) 2 and 1.
Craig Hinton (Eng) bt Mathieu Thomas Lenard (Fra) 3 and 2.
Pierre-Henri Leclerc (Fra) bt Andrew Wallace (Sco) at 19th.
Gary Stal (Fra) bt David Booth (Eng) 3 and 2.
Jonathan Bell (Eng) bt Jg Claassen (SAf) 2 and 1.
Selected results in the round of the last 16 were:
Craig Hinton (Eng) bt Jules Bordanado (Fra) 8 and 7.
Sebastien Gross (Fra) bt Jonathan Bell 6 and 5.
Selected quarter-final result:
Stanislas Gautier (RCF La Bule) bt Craig Hinton (Oxfordshire) 2 and 1.
Semi-final results:
Clement Berardo (Ormesson) bt Stanislas Gautier 5 and 4.
Franck Daux (St Germain Corbeil) bt Romain Rouilleaux (PCC) 1 hole.
Monday's Final (36 holes)
Berardo v Daux

Sally Watson makes top 10 behind

Ganton-boun Caroline Hedwall

Stanford University, California freshman student Sally Watson, one of the two Scots in the GB&I team for next month's Curtis Cup match, finished a highly creditable joint ninth in the end of season American women's colleges' golf championship at the Country Club of Landfall, Wilmington in North Carolina.
Teenager Watson, from South Queensferry originally, had scores of 73, 71, 76 and 66 for a two-under-par total of 286 over the tough Pete Dye-designed course.
Sally finished ahead of the only other British player in the big field, Yorkshire's Jodi Ewart (New Mexico) who scored 73, 71, 72 and 73 for joint 15th place on 289.
Jodi, who played alongwith Sally Watson in the 2008 Curtis Cup match over the Old Course, St Andrews, declined selection for this year's match. She is turning professional very soon to compete on the US Futures Tour.
Winner of the prestigious NCAA Women's Championship by four strokes was Sweden's Caroline Hedwall (Oklahoma State) who will be one of the favourites for the British women's open amateur championship at Ganton, Yorkshire next month.Hedwall scored 70, 70, 68 and 68 for 12-under-par 276, winning from two members of the US Curtis Cup team, Jennifer Johnson (Arizona State) on 280 and Cydney Clanton (Auburn) on 281.
Caroline Hedwall, pictured above by Cal Carson Golf Agency, lost to another Swedish player, Anna Nordqvist, now a star on the LPGA Tour, in the final of the "British" at North Berwick two years ago. She has a twin sister Jacqueline.

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HUNGARY TRIP FOR CARNOUSTIE KIDS

AILSA SUMMERS AND JESSICA MEEK

The Scottish Ladies Golfing Association has rewarded Ailsa Summers and Jessica Meek, the two 16-year-old Carnoustie Ladies junior clubmates, for an outstanding performance in battling their way past their elders to feature in the final of the Clark Rosebowl – the No 2 match-play competition at the Scottish championship at Craigielaw last week.
They have been chosen as Scotland’s girl representatives in the European Junior Masters, to be played at Royal Balaton Golf Club, Hungary, from July 22 to 24.
Ailsa, the Angus women’s and girls’ county champion, beat Jessica by 4 and 3 winner to win the Clark Rosebowl with some very good golf – one under par for the holes played with a bag of four birdies.
Ailsa is following in the footsteps of her mother who has been Angus women’s champion on several occasions and reached the final of the British girls championship when it was played at Edzell GC in the 1980s.
Teams announced by the SLGA to represent Scotland:

St Rule Trophy – St Andrews (May 29-30)
Louise Kenney (Pitreavie)
Kelsey MacDonald (Nairn Dunbar)
Pamela Pretswell (Bothwell Castle).

British women’s open amateur championship – Ganton (June 22-26)
Kelsey MacDonald (Nairn Dunbar), capt.
Pamela Pretswell (Bothwell Castle)
Sally Watson (Elie & Earlsferry Ladies).
Reserves:
1 Laura Murray (Alford
2 Jane Turner (Craigielaw)
3 Megan Briggs (Kilmacolm).

European Junior Masters – Royal Balaton GC, Hungary (July 22-24)
Jessia Meek (Carnoustie Ladies)
Ailsa Summers (Carnoustie Ladies).
Reserves:
1 Linsey Stevenson (Elie & Earlsferry Ladies)
2 Clara Young (North Berwick).