All the contestants in the Kennedy Salver inter-county team competition. Images by Jean Macintyre.

The winning Renfrewshire team at Cawder today.

Renfrewshire girls win West of Scotland Kennedy Salver

Renfrewshire won the West of Scotland junior inter-county matches for the Kennedy Salver at Cawder Golf Club today. They had 6.5pt. Ayrshire were runners-up with 5.5pt, Dunbartonshire and Argyll fourth with 4.5pt and Lanarkshire were fourth with 1.5pt.
Results:
Foursomes:
Katie McGarva and Grace Mackie (Ayrshire) bt Jorden Ferrie and Kirsten Scott (D and A) 3 and 2.
Natasha Qayum and Lesley Cosh (Renfrewshire) bt Nicole Benson and Abbi Gliksten (Lanarkshire) 1 hole.
Amanda McLeod and Aileen Campbell (D and A) bt Samantha Cowan and Saorcha Warren (Renfrewshire) 4 and 3.
Emma Hale and Rachel Irvine (Ayrshire) bt Julie Glencorse and Nicole Muir (Lanarkshire) 7 and 6.
Robyn Michie and Alex Rennie (D and A) bt Eva O'Connor and Lisa Bathgate (Lanarkshire) 6 and 4
Mairi Gray and Alexandra Qayum (Renfrewshire) bt Conni Jaffrey and Alexandra Brown (Ayrshire) 4 and 3
Singles:
Kirsten Scott (D and A) bt Nicole Benson (Lanarkshire) 2 holes
Natasha Qayum (Renfrewshire) bt Connie Jaffrey (Ayrshire) 3 and 2

Amanda McLeod (D and A) bt Samantha Cowan (Renfrewshire) 7 and 6

Eva O'Connor (Lanarkshire) halved with Katie Mcgarva (Ayrshire)

Emma Hale (Ayrshire) bt Jorden Ferrie (D and A) 4 and 3

Saorcha Warren (Renfrewshire) bt Nicole Muir (Lanarkshire) 4 and 3

Abbi Gliksten (Lanarkshire) bt Rachael McLelland (D and A) 4 and 2

Alexandra Qayum (Renfrewshire) bt Rachel Irvine (Ayrshire) 3 and 2

Aileen Campbell (D and A) halved with Mairi Gray (Renfrewshire)

Grace Mackie (Ayrshire) bt Julie Glencorse (Lanarkshire) 7 and 6

Robyn Michie (D and A) lost to Hazel McGarvie (Ayrshire)

Emma Kennedy (Renfrewshire) bt Abbi Kidd (Lanarkshire) 4 and 3.

East Lothian children inspired by The Amateur experience

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As invitations go the offer of coaching clinics at The Amateur proved irresistible and unforgettable for local youngsters involved in clubgolf coaching.
Over 70 plus children, from North Berwick's clubgolf programme and Gullane Primary School, spent the day at Muirfield on Friday watching the action and improving their own skills in coaching clinics.
“We wanted to give local children a flavour of top class amateur golf by inviting them to the venue that will stage The Open Championship in 2013,” said Duncan Weir, The R&A Director of Golf Development.
“Matteo Manassero, who won this event last year, went on to do very well in The Open at Turnberry. He has since done exceptionally well and is now playing full time on the PGA European Tour. Some of the talent on show at Muirfield this week will do likewise.
“This is a great opportunity for local school children to sample some of that and be enthused and attracted to golf by seeing top young stars of tomorrow playing on a Championship course.
“Who knows, some of the people they are watching might well be in The Open when it returns here in 2013.”
Judging from the children’s reactions, the day was a success on every front. “We had a brilliant time and did chipping, putting and full swing,“ said Gullane P7 pupil Katherine Walker, who was introduced to golf through clubgolf’s introductory game and now plays regularly with her grandparents and father, a clubgolf volunteer coach.
Along with her class mates, 12 year old Katherine was coached at Muirfield by pros from Gullane and North Berwick Golf Clubs. “Chipping was the best thing about today,” she said. “We learnt about positioning your body and your hands on your club and it’s something I’m going to go away and practise.”
clubgolf is making a big impact in East Lothian. Its introductory game, firstclubgolf, is being rolled out in every primary school, to over 1000 children for the third year in succession. Eleven local golf clubs are supporting the programme with the next stages of coaching.
To handle the large numbers of children progressing through the programme three local clubs - North Berwick, The Glen and Tantallon - work collectively under the ‘North Berwick clubgolf’ umbrella to give around 115 children a top notch programme. For 45 of these children, an afternoon at The Amateur will make all the difference.
“The more we can get children involved by playing and spectating, the more enthused they will be,” said Joan Lunn, North Berwick clubgolf’s coordinator.
“Our children had never been to a big event like this before. After the coaching a huge number scooted back to North Berwick and were away afterwards playing in a junior Texas Scramble.
“It was a super day for the children and it also showcased clubgolf. A lot of people came over and spoke to us about clubgolf programmes in their own clubs, so it was great for networking.
“It was fantastic of Muirfield, the R&A and clubgolf to give us this fabulous opportunity.”

Pictures attached of clubgolf coaching at The Amateur by Rob Eyton-Jones:
(1) Gullane PS children with Gullane GC’s assistant pro, Jordan Ramanauskas
(2) Gullane PS children with pros and assistant pros from Gullane and North Berwick GCs
(3) Duncan Weir, The R&A Director of Golf Development tees off in front of children and volunteer coaches from North Berwick clubgolf
(4 and;5) Children and volunteer coaches from North Berwick clubgolf

Rob Eyton-Jones
clubgolf Media Manager

No Maguire twins but Danielle spearheads Irish

challenge for 'British' at Ganton this week
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Curtis Cup star Danielle McVeigh (RCDL) will lead the Irish challenge at the 107th British Amateur Championship at Ganton in Scarborough, Tuesday 22nd to Saturday 26th June 2010.
McVeigh, who just returned from Curtis Cup duty in Boston last Monday, is looking to continue her strong form and add the British Matchplay to her British Strokeplay title won at Royal Aberdeen last August. The Yorkshire course with its “linksy” feel, has long been a favoured venue of the Irish since Lillian Behan beat Claire Waite on the home green in the 1985 final.
Curtis Cup team mates Leona and Lisa Maguire have withdrawn from the event as they recover from the exertion of last weekend’s loss to the United States.
Joining McVeigh is International team mate Gillian O’Leary (Cork), Sarah Cunningham (Ennis) and Aedin Murphy (Carlow). All three made the stiff qualification criteria of playing off scratch or lower while only one of the eight players on 0.4 survived the ballot for the 144th place.
On paper, the best player in the field is Carlota Ciganda, a former champion from the Spanish city of Pamplona. A student at Arizona State University, Carlota has a handicap of +6, marginally better than another US college student, Caroline Hedwall from Sweden who has a handicap of +5.The third lowest handicap in the field belongs to the 2009 Australian Women’s Champion Justine Lee from New South Wales who, off +4, finished Runner-up to England’s Hannah Burke at the recent Irish Women’s Open Strokeplay at Newlands.
The event tees off with two stroke-play qualifying rounds on Tuesday and Wednesday producing 64 qualifiers for the match-play stages. The tournament climaxes with the semi-finals and final on Saturday.

FORTROSE AND ROSEMARKIE GOLF CLUB WELCOMES


SENIOR LADIES FROM JUNE 29 TO JULY 2

Fortrose and Rosemarkie Golf Club is all set to welcome the first of two national events to be staged at the idyllic Black Isle xlub this season.
The Scottish Senior Ladies’ Amateur Championship takes place from June 29-July 2 – and 84 top-class Scottish women will be challenging for stroke and match-play titles.
Fiona Hunter (Baberton) defends the 36-hole strokeplay title over the opening two days. The top 16 qualifiers then take part in the match play knock-out that was won by Alyth’s Heather Anderson at Kinross last year.
Heather is heading north to try and retain the title, while leading the local challenge will be the Tain pair of Anne Ryan and Mary Smith. They both play off three and are among the 21 entrants with handicaps of five or better.
Club secretary Mike MacDonald says the club is “thrilled” to be hosting one of seven annual championships staged by the Scottish Ladies’ Golfing Association.
“We are always trying our best to promote the golf club and the senior ladies is the first of two national events this year,” said MacDonald. “We are also staging the Scottish Golf Union’s Scottish Club Championship Final in September.
“The course is just 20 minutes from Inverness and is ideal for tourists and for Scottish golfers. We were delighted that the number of entries for the Scottish Senior Ladies’ went up this year to 84. I think that proved that we are an attractive venue.”

Regional Medal Final Result from Torwoodlee

FROM THE SCOTTISH LADIES GOLFING ASSOCIATION
Lynn Gray (Lauder) shot the lowest net score of the day at the Regional Medal Final at Torwoodlee yesterday.
She scored a net 67, four shots under the SSS of 71 in winning the Bronze section. Lynn Gray and Eleanor Pearson (Kelso) qualify for the Grand Final for the Bronze section and Janis Davidson (Eyemouth) and Louise Campbell (The Glen) qualify for the Silver section. Linda Ritchie ( Melrose ) was 2nd in the silver section but is not available for the Grand Final.
The Grand Final will be played at Crieff Golf Club on September 5.
Qualifiers (CSS 71)
Silver Section
1 Janis Davidson (Eyemouth) (14) 71 better inward half.
2 Linda Ritchie (Melrose) (18) 71 better inward half.
3 Louise Campbell (The Glen) (16) 71.
Bronze Section
1 Lynn Gray (Lauder) (29) 67.
2 Eleanor Pearson (Kelso) (21) 70

LPGA TOUR SCOREBOARD
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FINAL TOTALS
1 Ai Miyazato -7 F -16 66 67 64 197 $225,000
2 M.J. Hur -3 F -14 67 64 68 199 $136,594
3 Inbee Park -4 F -12 66 68 67 201 $99,090
T4 Suzann Pettersen -5 F -11 67 69 66 202 $62,943
T4 Hee-Won Han -3 F -11 67 67 68 202 $62,943
T4 Katherine Hull -2 F -11 70 63 69 202 $62,943
7 Paula Creamer E F -10 67 65 71 203 $42,254
T8 Karrie Webb -7 F -9 70 70 64 204 $32,157
T8 Angela Stanford -4 F -9 68 69 67 204 $32,157
T8 Karine Icher -3 F -9 68 68 68 204 $32,157
T8 Morgan Pressel -2 F -9 69 66 69 204 $32,157
T12 Anna Nordqvist -4 F -8 70 68 67 205 $25,352
T12 Sherri Steinhauer -1 F -8 64 71 70 205 $25,352
T14 Stacy Lewis -4 F -7 70 69 67 206 $22,360
T14 Yani Tseng -2 F -7 67 70 69 206 $22,360
T16 Pat Hurst -6 F -6 72 70 65 207 $19,070
T16 Azahara Munoz -5 F -6 67 74 66 207 $19,070
T16 Jeong Jang -3 F -6 66 73 68 207 $19,070
T16 Catriona Matthew E F -6 66 70 71 207 $19,070
T20 Soo-Yun Kang -5 F -5 70 72 66 208 $16,902
T20 Amy Hung -2 F -5 67 72 69 208 $16,902
T22 Amanda Blumenherst -4 F -4 68 74 67 209 $12,817
T22 Shanshan Feng -4 F -4 75 67 67 209 $12,817
T22 Meena Lee -3 F -4 72 69 68 209 $12,817
T22 Juli Inkster -2 F -4 69 71 69 209 $12,817
T22 Jane Park -2 F -4 69 71 69 209 $12,817
T22 Beth Bader -2 F -4 70 70 69 209 $12,817
T22 Jennifer Rosales -2 F -4 71 69 69 209 $12,817
T22 Eun-Hee Ji -1 F -4 70 69 70 209 $12,817
T22 Candie Kung -1 F -4 70 69 70 209 $12,817
T22 Natalie Gulbis E F -4 65 73 71 209 $12,817
T22 Cristie Kerr +1 F -4 68 69 72 209 $12,817
T22 Song-Hee Kim +2 F -4 68 68 73 209 $12,817
T22 Seon Hwa Lee +2 F -4 69 67 73 209 $12,817
T35 Iben Tinning -4 F -3 71 72 67 210 $7,852
T35 Samantha Richdale -3 F -3 68 74 68 210 $7,852
T35 Kris Tamulis -3 F -3 66 76 68 210 $7,852
T35 Rachel Hetherington -3 F -3 69 73 68 210 $7,852
T35 Karen Stupples -3 F -3 70 72 68 210 $7,852
T35 Reilley Rankin -1 F -3 69 71 70 210 $7,852
T35 Yoo Kyeong Kim -1 F -3 70 70 70 210 $7,852
T35 Diana D'Alessio -1 F -3 72 68 70 210 $7,852
T35 Laura Davies +1 F -3 67 71 72 210 $7,852
T35 Lorie Kane +1 F -3 71 67 72 210 $7,852
T35 Teresa Lu +2 F -3 67 70 73 210 $7,852
T46 Grace Park -3 F -2 67 76 68 211 $5,491
T46 Michelle Wie -3 F -2 74 69 68 211 $5,491
T46 Giulia Sergas -2 F -2 73 69 69 211 $5,491
T46 Jimin Jeong -2 F -2 74 68 69 211 $5,491
T46 Heather Bowie Young -1 F -2 70 71 70 211 $5,491
T46 Mika Miyazato +1 F -2 70 69 72 211 $5,491
T46 Michele Redman +1 F -2 71 68 72 211 $5,491
T53 Shi Hyun Ahn -2 F -1 72 71 69 212 $4,412
T53 Chella Choi -1 F -1 68 74 70 212 $4,412
T53 Amy Yang -1 F -1 71 71 70 212 $4,412
T53 Christina Kim E F -1 71 70 71 212 $4,412
T53 Mhairi McKay E F -1 72 69 71 212 $4,412
T53 Jimin Kang +3 F -1 69 69 74 212 $4,412
T59 Kyeong Bae -1 F E 72 71 70 213 $3,640
T59 Jee Young Lee -1 F E 72 71 70 213 $3,640
T59 Jill McGill -1 F E 73 70 70 213 $3,640
T59 Taylor Leon +1 F E 69 72 72 213 $3,640
T59 Wendy Ward +1 F E 71 70 72 213 $3,640
T59 Na Yeon Choi +3 F E 69 70 74 213 $3,640
T65 Adrienne White E F +1 67 76 71 214 $3,215
T65 Hee Young Park +1 F +1 69 73 72 214 $3,215
T65 Na On Min +1 F +1 73 69 72 214 $3,215
T65 Stacy Prammanasudh +3 F +1 72 68 74 214 $3,215
T65 Gwladys Nocera +6 F +1 67 70 77 214 $3,215
T70 Pernilla Lindberg +1 F +2 73 70 72 215 $2,973
T70 Tania Elosegui +4 F +2 65 75 75 215 $2,973
T72 Brittany Lincicome +3 F +4 67 76 74 217 $2,843
T72 Paige Mackenzie +3 F +4 69 74 74 217 $2,843
T72 Lisa Strom +3 F +4 71 72 74 217 $2,843
T72 Sarah Lee +3 F +4 72 71 74 217 $2,843
T72 Sun Young Yoo +4 F +4 72 70 75 217 $2,843
77 Sophie Gustafson +7 F +6 70 71 78 219 $2,737
T78 Moira Dunn +8 F +8 72 70 79 221 $2,685
T78 Gloria Park +9 F +8 70 71 80 221 $2,685

Curtis Cup player Jennifer Song wins pro debut on Futures Tour

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DECATUR, Illinois - Jennifer Song wasted little time in making her mark as a first-week professional. Song won her pro debut and crashed the tournament record books, leaving the field six shots back at the $125,000 Tate and Lyle Players Championship.
The former University of Southern California All-American carded rounds of 68-67-65-61 to smash the tournament's 72-hole record at 19-under 261 at Hickory Point Golf Club. She also tied the previous 18-hole mark with her sizzling 9-under-par score of 61 in today's final round of the 26th annual event.
"This win means a lot," said Song, 20, of Ann Arbor, Mich., who pocketed $17,500 for her first professional payday. "Turning professional and stepping into the real world is special, but it's also scary. Honestly, I don't know what was going through my head today. It was like magic."
Esther Choe of Scottsdale, Ariz., who is staging her own professional revival this season, grabbed sole possession of second place at 13-under 267 with rounds of 66-68-69-64.
Tied for third at 9-under 271 was the trio of Tzu-Chi Lin (68) of Taichung, Taiwan, Pornanong Phatlum (69) of Chaiyaphum, Thailand, and Mo Martin (70) of Altadena, Calif.
But from start to finish in today's final round, Song was untouchable. Try as they might, no one could catch her.
"Jennifer's a great player and she kept going lower and lower," said Choe, 20, who hit 16 greens in regulation today to post her career-low professional round of 64. "She was just on fire and there wasn't much I could do."
"She played this round pretty flawlessly," added Martin, a two-time Tour winner who was paired with Song for the second day. "Jennifer definitely kept her foot on the pedal all day."
Song's magical final round put an exclamation point on her week. She hammered her first drive uphill on the 371-yard opening hole and had a 52-degree wedge in her hands for her second shot.
"I was standing there with a wedge and I said, 'It's time to attack,'" said Song, who hit her approach to 10 feet for a birdie on the first hole.
That attack continued for 18 holes with birdies from 15 feet on both holes 5 and 6. She added six more birdies for a back-nine score of 30 in her bogey-free round. Song's back nine featured a string of four consecutive birdies on holes 13 through16.
On the 18th, she flirted with a left fairway bunker off the tee and discovered that she had left herself a tricky lie on her second shot. With one foot on the ground and her left foot in the bunker, Song did what she did so many times in college golf: She "fiddled" with her swing and club selection to create a shot.
"Since my lie was horrible, I decided to take one more club and hit a choke-down, three-quarter 9-iron," said Song, acknowledging that she was often the butt of her college team's jokes when it came to manufacturing shots, and then trying to explain them.
But that 119-yard, play-by-feel approach shot landed three feet from the hole to set up her final birdie of the day and her first win as a professional. As Song tapped in, an appreciative gallery who has watched past champions Tammie Green (1985, 1986), Lorena Ochoa (2002), and most recently Vicky Hurst (2008) and Mina Harigae (2009) pass through Decatur, rose from their seats to applaud the young pro.
The feeling was that next year, they would be driving over to neighboring Springfield to watch Song play at the LPGA's State Farm Classic. And just as it had been with Ochoa, Hurst and Harigae, this week was yet another glimpse of a young professional on her way in a hurry to the LPGA.
With her victory, Song joins at least three other Duramed FUTURES Tour alums now on the LPGA Tour who won their professional debuts. Angela Stanford of Texas won her first FUTURES event as a pro in 2000 in Lakeland, Fla., while Jimin Kang of South Korea won her pro debut in 2002 in Syracuse, N.Y. Australian Katherine Hull also came out of Pepperdine University in 2003 and made the Aurora Health Care FUTURES Charity Golf Classic her first win in Sussex, Wis.
Song's final-round score of 9-under 61 tied the new record set earlier in the week by rookie Rachel Connor of Manchester, England, who posted a 61 in the first round. And Song's 19-under 261 eclipsed the mark of 272 (-16) set by 2006 champion Salimah Mussani of Burlington, Ontario (as a par 72) and the 8-under 272 mark posted by Hurst in 2008 (as a par 70).
"It was cool to watch," said Mussani, who missed the cut, but walked the course this weekend and watched Song play her last two rounds. "It was pretty impressive."
When this week began, a torrential rainstorm swept through on Tuesday and brought the creek out of its banks that bisects the Hickory Point course. Nobody, least of all the rookie unfamiliar with the ebb and flow of Midwestern flash floods, knew if this tournament could even be played over 72 holes.
Normally played as a par-72 course at 6,594 yards, the flooded par-5 sixth hole became a par 3, making the course play at par 70, with a water-adjusted measurement of 6,219 yards. And with the help of a flood-experienced grounds crew and Mother Nature's mercy, the floodwaters that overtook the No. 1 and No. 9 fairways miraculously receded into its banks with only a 90-minute delay for Thursday's opening round.
That was the only green light that Song needed. Arriving in Decatur fresh off her last amateur event as a member of the winning 2010 U.S. Curtis Cup team, Song had a lot of thoughts buzzing in her head. She had actually met Mussani at the Curtis Cup and the Canadian told the soon-to-be rookie pro that she owned the Decatur 72-hole record. Mussani's number was in Song's head today as she hit 16 under and kept going. And when she won the Decatur tournament that was also Lorena Ochoa's first professional victory, that milestone also resonated with Song.
"Lorena is my role model," said Song, who became only the second woman and seventh player in history to hold two U.S. Golf Association titles in one year when she won the 2009 U.S. Women's Amateur Championship and 2009 U.S. Women's Public Links title. "Following in Lorena's path is the greatest path I could ever follow."
But Song wasn't done yet. As she stood on the 18th green at the awards ceremony, the rookie pro made a veteran decision when she announced that she would give one-third of her prize money to a children's charity in Decatur.
"I want to do that for the rest of my professional career when I win," she said. "I made a promise with my parents to try to help people who need help."
Song fought back tears of emotion as she held a microphone in her hands for her first champion's speech. And when she was done, this time, the golf fans in the stands rose from their seats again. Their first standing ovation was for her golf shots. This time, it was for her heart.
Weather: Mostly sunny and humid with temperatures in the low 90s with a slight breeze.