DORAN INTO SENIORS LAST 16 AT TULLAMORE

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Leading qualifier Pat Doran (Donabate) beat Helen O’Donghue (Clonmel) to reach the last 16 of the Irish Senior Women’s Close Championship, Tullamore Golf Club today.
Doran fired a best of the day 74 in the morning to lead the qualifiers by three strokes and now meets Gill Rouiller (Mannan Castle) for a place in the quarter finals.
Defending Champion Marilyn Henderson (Castlerock) faced stiff opposition in Kate Evans (Frilford Heath) before closing out her match on the sixteenth.
Elsewhere, favourite Helen Jones (Strabane) saw off a gutsy challenge by Patricia O’Reilly (Headfort) and will face Jane Gardner (Malone) tomorrow who surprisingly beat the in-form Catherine Reilly (The Heath). Other notables progressing to tomorrow’s round 2 were Violet McBride (Belvoir Park), Rhona Brennan (Bandon), Mary Madden (Ballinasloe), Sheena McElroy (Grange) and Catherine Bird (Nenagh) all comfortably made it through to the last 16.
The final 16 play two rounds of matchplay on Wedensday with the 2010 Champion being crowned on Thursday afternoon.
MATCHPLAY DRAW – ROUND 2
Pat Doran (Donabate) -v- Gill Rouiller (Mannan Castle)
Valerie Hassett (Ennis) -v- Catherine Bird (Nenagh)
Violet McBride (Belvoir Park) -v- Catherine Carty (Tullamore)
Rhona Brennan (Bandon) -v- Niamh Giblin (Dun Laoghaire)
Helen Jones (Strabane) -v- Jane Gardner (Malone)
Mairead MacNamara (Woodbrook) -v- Sheena McElroy (Grange)
Marilyn Henderson (Castlerock) -v- Fionnuala McGrady (Dunmurry)
Mary Madden (Ballinasloe) -v- Pauline Walsh (Headfort)
MATCHPLAY DRAW – ROUND 1
Pat Doran (Donabate) bt Helen O'Donoghue (Clonmel) 4/2
Gill Rouiller (Mannan Castle) bt Madeleine Brennan (Carlow) 1up
Valerie Hassett (Ennis) bt Marie Igoe (Dun Laoghaire) 5/4
Catherine Bird (Nenagh) bt Cait Cooney (Tullamore) 6/5
Violet McBride (Belvoir Park) bt Miriam Murphy (Bandon) 5/4
Catherine Carty (Tullamore) bt Adrienne Crowley (Woodbrook) 1up
Rhona Brennan (Bandon) bt Catherine Kavanagh (Mitchelstown) 3/2
Niamh Giblin (Dun Laoghaire) bt Gemma Butler (Birr) 4/3
Helen Jones (Strabane) bt Patricia O'Reilly (Headfort) 4/3
Jane Gardner (Malone) bt Catherine Reilly (The Heath) 3/2
Mairead MacNamara (Woodbrook) bt Helen Egan (Tullamore) 3/2
Sheena McElroy (Grange) bt Valerie Shannon (Lahinch) 5/4
Marilyn Henderson (Castlerock) bt Kate Evans (Frilford Heath) 3/2
Fionnuala McGrady (Dunmurry) bt Kay McCartan (Greenore) 4/3
Mary Madden (Ballinasloe) bt Honoria Fogarty (Castlecomer) 2/1
Pauline Walsh (Headfort) bt Roma English (Larne) 6/4

QUALIFYING SCORES
74 Pat Doran (Donabate)
77 Pauline Walsh (Headfort)
78 Helen Jones (Strabane) Gemma Butler (Birr) Violet McBride (Belvoir Park)
79 Sheena McElroy (Grange)
81 Marilyn Henderson (Castlerock)
82 Catherine Bird (Nenagh) Valerie Hassett (Ennis) Kay McCartan (Greenore) Helen Egan (Tullamore)
83 Catherine Carty (Tullamore) Rhona Brennan (Bandon) Jane Gardner (Malone)
84 Mary Madden (Ballinasloe) Gill Rouiller (Mannan Castle) Madeleine Brennan (Carlow) Honoria Fogarty (Castlecomer) Catherine Reilly (The Heath)
85 Catherine Kavanagh (Mitchelstown) Adrienne Crowley (Woodbrook) Mairead MacNamara (Woodbrook)
86 Fionnuala McGrady (Dunmurry)
87 Marie Igoe (Dun Laoghaire) Cait Cooney (Tullamore)
88 Kate Evans (Frilford Heath) Valerie Shannon (Lahinch) Miriam Murphy (Bandon) Niamh Giblin (Dun Laoghaire)
89 Patricia O'Reilly (Headfort) Roma English (Larne) Helen O'Donoghue (Clonmel) Mary McGoey (Greenore)
90 Olivia Conroy (Co. Longford) Pamela Morgan (Lahinch) Patsy McCarthy (Grange) Eily Duigenan (Edenderry) Elizabeth Neville (Bearna) Mary Geaney (Killarney)
91 Carmel Cahill (Hermitage) Ann Monteith (Castle Hume) Marjorie McCorduck (Roscrea) Dinah Campion (The Heritage)
92 Mary Kavanagh (New Ross) Anne Kenny (Birr) Kay Kirley (Tullamore)
93 Margaret Atkinson (Wexford) Maeve McCarthy (Blainroe) Carmel Murphy (Wexford)
94 Elaine Elborn (Bangor) Angela Treacy (New Ross) Carmel Bolton (Portarlington)
95 Yvonne MacSweeney (Wexford)
96 Ann Conway (New Ross) Anne McFadden (Tullamore) Aedin McCarthy (Killeen)
97 Catherine Owens (Ballinasloe) Joan Brennan (Castlecomer)
98 Angela Mullins (Mitchelstown)
100 Patricia Morris (Donabate) Kathleen Moylan (Tullamore)
103 Mary Mather (Cill Dara) Anna Somers (Cill Dara)
NR Carol Kinsella (Faithlegg)

Elie Sports Club's 27th junior coaching classes start on Monday

 Elie Sports Club launches its 27th annual junior golf coaching classes on Monday, July 5. The weekly classes run for seven weeks throughout the summer holidays.
They are held from Monday to Thursday with competitions every Friday with no equipment necessary. The classes start with “Wee Wonders” for four and five year olds where the emphasis is on FUNdamental movement and an introduction to the basic skills of golf, culminating in a one-hole competition on Friday.
The classes are designed for all ages and abilities with the final class the “Bridgestone Tour Pro”. Here the emphasis is on developing young talent in the 12 years + category.
Junior Explanars, video analysis and the latest Titleist Performance Institute junior products are all used to provide the most innovative and enjoyable classes possible.
Since 1984 people have been flocking to this picturesque East Neuk of Fife village for junior coaching and for many this is their first taste of golf. Elie head professional Ian Muir takes this responsibility seriously: “Elie has become quite famous for its summer classes and we are constantly striving to improve the product and provide girls and boys the best possible start in golf in a fun and safe environment.”
Over the last two years around 650 juniors each year have been involved in the junior coaching program and already this year Elie Sports Club is on course to surpass that number. The coaching program is delivered by four PGA-qualified coaches who have all undertaken specific coaching for children courses.
Limited spaces are still available for some weeks and for any further information please phone 01333 330 955 or visit www.eliesportscub.co.uk and www.ianmuirgolf.com

Midlothian are 100%  favourites to retain East Division title

Midlothian are the only county with a 100 per cent record after two days' play in the East Division women's inter-county team championship at Royal Musselburgh Golf Club.
The divisional title-holders followed up an opening day 5-4 win over Fife, on paper their biggest challlengeers, with a 6 1/2-2 1/2 victory over Stirling and Clackmannan.
Rachael Watton, Louise Fraser and Karen Marshall all won morning and afternoon for Midlothian who took the foursomes 2-1 and the singless 4 1/2-1 1/2.
In the day's other tie, Fife beat East Lothian 6-3, taking the foursomes 2-1 and the singles 4-2 with wins by Fiona Hastie, Karin Sharp, Dorothy Ford and Linda Dyball.
The final day's matches are: Midlothian v East Fife and Fife v Stirling and Clackmannan.

EAST DIVISION INTER-COUNTY TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP
Royal Musselburgh GC
Third day results
MIDLOTHIAN 6 1/2, STIRLING and CLACKMANNAN 2 1/2
Foursomes (2-1)
Louise Fraser and Rachael Watton bt Louise MacGregor and alison Goodwin 8 and 7.
Gabrielle MacDonald and Kate McIntohs lost to Karen burns and Jennifer bryans 5 and 3.
Karen Marshall and Wendy Nicolson bt Vicki Stevenson and Linda Allan 5 and 4.
Singles (4 1/2-1 1 1/2)
Watton bt Goodwin 3 and 2.
Kirsten Blackwood lost to Burns 1 hole.
MacDonald bt Bryans 3 and 1.
Nicholson halved with Allan.
Fraser bt Claire Capocci 2 and 1.
Marshall bt MacGregor 3 and 2.
EAST LOTHIAN 3, FIFE 6
Foursomes (1-2)
Emma Fairnie and Fiona Prior lost to Fiona Hastie and Elaine Moffat 2 and 1.
Clara YToung and Keren Ward bt Susan Jackson and Karin Sharp 5 and 4.
Jill McNicoll and Linda Grieve lost to Lorna Fury and Linda Dyball 1 hole.
Singles (2-4)
Fairnie bt Jackson 3 and 2.
Prior lost to Hastie 6 and 5.
Mary Lou Renton lost to Sharp 4 and 3.
Grieve lost to Dorothy Ford 2 holes.
Ruth Carroll lost to Cyball 3 and 1.
Young bt Moffat 1 hole.

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ANNE RYAN LEADS SENIORS AT

FORTROSE AND ROSEMARKIE

Northern Counties team player Anne Ryan (Tain) leads the field by one stroke in the Scottish senior women’s (closed) amateur stroke-play championship at Fortrose and Rosemarkie Golf Club on the Black Isle, 12 miles north of Inverness.
Anne shot a three-over-par 74, including birdies at the sixth, seventh and 15th. The CSS was 73.
Her closest challengers at the start of the second round – at the end of which the leading 16 go forward to the match-play championship – are Fiona De Vries (St Rule), a shot behind on 75, and joint third-placed Lynne Terry (Cruden Bay) and May Hughes (Lanark) on 76.

SCOTTISH SENIOR WOMEN’S (CLOSED) AMATEUR STROKE-PLAY CHAMPIONSHIP
Fortrose and Rosemarkie Golf Club.
FIRST ROUND
Par 71. CSS 73
74 Anne Ryan (Tain).
75 Fiona De Vries (St Rule).
76 May Hughes (Lanark), Lynne Terry (Cruden Bay).
79 Margaret Tough (Falkirk).
80 Heather Anderson (Alyth), Moira Thomson (Gullane Ladies), Lorna Bennett (Ladybank).
81 Fiona Hunter (Baberton), Noreen Fenton (Dunbar), Jane Herd (Musselburgh).
82 Pamela Williamson (Baberton), Winifred MacCallum (Falkirk).
83 Lesley Johnston (Gullane Ladies), Marion Stewart (Kilmacolm), Alison Bartlett (Royal Dornoch), Margot Barr (Gairloch), Pat Wilson (Murcar Links), Anabel Kane (Kilmacolm ).
84 Sue Penman (Gullane Ladies), Agnes Freeman (Ladies Panmure Barry), Jill Harrison (Cruden Bay), Susan MacVicar (Gairloch), Mary Smith (Tain), Janice Cumming (Inverness).
85 Helen Faulds (Douglas Park).
86 Anna Telfer (Milngavie), Alex Glennie (Kilmarnock Barassie), Karen Ballantyne (Craigmillar Park), Fiona Farquharson (King James VI).
87 Jen Petrie (Panmure Barry), Isobel McIntosh (Inverness), Patricia Hutton (Lanark).
88 Isobel Harvey (St Rule), Ruth Brown (Lothianburn), Maureen Ritchie (Muir of Ord), Maureen Ross (Fortrose and Rosemarkie), Pat Morrison (Muir of Ord), Jennifer Mack (Haggs Castle), Elizabeth Corghill (Royal Dornoch), Karen Maxwell (Milngavie), Isobel Harvey (St Rule), Ruth Brown (Lothianburn), Maureen Ritchie (Muir of Ord).
89 Maureen Woodhead (Gourock), Carol Fell (Ranfurly Castle), Janice Paterson (Drumpellier), Sheila Travers (Alloa), Janice Lang (Alyth).
90 Alicia Wilson (Clober), Maureen Neilson (Greenock), Anne Brownie (Lothianburn).
91 Rita Dee (Kingsknowe), Fiona Roger (Ranfurly Castle), Maureen McRobb (Kingsknowe), Norma Smith (Downfield), Isabel Chapman (Forfar), Esme Hill (Dumfries and Co), Jenny Thornton (Fortrose and Rosemarkie), Barbara Biggart (North Berwick), Hazel Kelly (Ladies Panmure Barry).
92 Frances McFadzean (Craigmillar Park), Ann Moffat (St Regulus), Linda McDougall (Greenock), Catherine Bryce (Ballater), Dorothy Thomson (Gullane), Liz Fertacz (Blairgowrie), Suzanne Cadden (Cardross).
93 Elinor Wallace (Muir of Ord), Elizabeth Cruickshank (West Surrey).
94 Kay Jarvie (Auchtgerarder).
95 Sheilah Ramsay (Inverness), Susy Cooper (Fortrose and Rosemarkie), Morag Wardrop (Niddry Castle).
96 Sandy Bushby (Blairgowrie), Joanne Watt (Gullane Ladies), Sheena McDonald (Buchanan Castle), Mairi Pollock (Craigmillar Park).
98 Elda Morrison (Foprtrose and Rosemarkie).
102 Anne Terrey (Greenock).
103 Helen MacGregor (Hilton Park).
105 Pamela Moscati (Royal Dornoch).
106 Clare Bowe (Gullane Ladies), Shona Low (Gullane).

East Division women's inter-county team championship

Hosted by Royal Musselburgh Golf Club.

Day 2 morning foursomes:

Midlothians 2, Stirling and Clackmannan 1.

Fife 2, East Lothian 1.

Lesley Atkins (Gullane Ladies), left, and Alison Goodwin (Glenbervie), qualified for the Nick Faldo Series European Grand Final at Lough Erne Golf Resort, Co Fermanagh in Northern Ireland in September.
Switch over to www.scottishgolfview.com to read the report and the leading scores.