LATE ENTRIES WILL BE ACCEPTED FOR NORTH OF SCOTLAND GIRLS

There was a time when the North of Scotland girls' championship was considered one of the premier events on the Under-18s' golfing calendar. Curtis Cup player to be Elaine Farquharson (Deeside) won it on her climb to the top and Kathryn Imrie (Monfieith), another destined to play for Great Britain and Ireland, certainly competed in it and very possibly won it too.
But nothing lasts forever.
Now only a handful of players enter the North of Scotland girls championship - and this year's 18-hole competition.
It's going to be held over the Moray Golf Club's New Course on Sunday, August 21 and late entries will be accepted on 01463 871272.
The competition is open to Northern Division girls (Northern Counties, Aberdeenshire, Angus and Perth and Kinross) who were under 18 years of age on January 1.
The only entries so far barely make up half-an-hour's tee times
11.30 - Jessica Meek (Carnoustie Ladies), Tegan Seivwright (Deeside); Eleanor Tunn (Reay), Sophie Alexander (Deeside); Olivia Borwick (McDonald Ellon) and partner; B Flaherty (Banchory) and partner.
12.02 - E. Henderson (Dunning), K. McBeath (Forres).

Come on, Northern Division girls! Let's make it a "real" championship once again.

LPGA FUTURES TOUR SCOREBOARD

$100,000 Eagle Classic
Richmond Country Club, Richmond, Virginia
FINAL TOTALS
Par 216 (3x72). Yardage 6,278
1 Mo Martin (Altadena, Calif.) 70-67-66 - 203 $14,000
2 Cara Freeman (San Tan Valley, Ariz.) 69-71-66 - 206 $10,000
T3 Olivia Jordan-Higgins (Channel Islands, UK) 72-69-67 - 208 $5,452
T3 Min Seo Kwak (Seoul, South Korea) 65-73-70 - 208 $5,452
T3 Sophia Sheridan (Guadalajara, Mexico) 70-66-72 - 208 $5,452
6 Natalie Sheary (West Hartford, Conn.) 68-70-72 - 210 $3,166
T7 Izzy Beisiegel (St. Hilaire, Quebec) 72-70-69 - 211 $2,191
T7 Cydney Clanton (Concord, N.C.) 70-71-70 - 211 $2,191
T7 Ashli Bunch (Morristown, Tenn.) 71-69-71 - 211 $2,191
T7 Jane Rah (Torrance, Calif.) 69-70-72 - 211 $2,191
T11 Paz Echeverria (Santiago, Chile) 69-74-69 - 212 $1,447
T11 Benedikte Grotvedt (Nesbru, Norway) 73-69-70 - 212 $1,447
T11 Yu-Ling Hsieh (Chinese Taipei) 70-71-71 - 212 $1,447
T11 Sydnee Michaels (Temecula, Calif.) 69-71-72 - 212 $1,447
T15 Hannah Burke (Welnyn Garden City, UK) 71-74-68 - 213 $1,032
T15 Jenny Suh (Fairfax, Va.) 72-72-69 - 213 $1,032
T15 Kathleen Ekey (Sharon Township, Ohio) 70-72-71 - 213 $1,032
T15 Veronica Felibert (Caracas, Venezuela) 70-72-71 - 213 $1,032
T15 Susan Nam (Edmonton, Alberta) 72-74-67 - 213 $1,032
T15 Lisa Ferrero (Lodi, Calif.) 69-71-73 - 213 $1,032
T21 Caroline Westrup (Ahus, Sweden) 72-72-70 - 214 $871
Lizette Salas (Azusa, Calif.) 72-73-69 - 214 $871
Jenny Gleason (Clearwater, Fla.) 71-71-72 - 214 $871
T24 Rachel Connor (Manchester, England) 74-70-71 - 215 $821
Jodi Ewart (North Yorkshire, England) 71-73-71 - 215 $821
Ashley Prange (Noblesville, Ind.) 73-70-72 - 215 $821
Jill Briles-Hinton (Richmond, Va.) 68-75-72 - 215 $821
Daniela Iacobelli (Viera, Fla.) 66-75-74 - 215 $821
Stephanie Na (Adelaide, Australia) 71-70-74 - 215 $821
T30 Jasi Acharya (Columbus, Mont.) 71-74-71 - 216 $762
Mallory Blackwelder (Versailles, Ky.) 71-73-72 - 216 $762
Annie Brophy (Spokane, Wash.) 74-71-71 - 216 $762
Macarena Silva (Santiago, Chile) 71-75-70 - 216 $762
Megan McChrystal (Stuart, Fla.) 77-70-69 - 216 $762
Brittany Johnston (Akron, Ohio) 68-71-77 - 216 $762
Maria Laura Elvira (Buenos Aires, Argentina) 71-68-77 - 216 $762
T37 Jean Chua (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) 71-73-73 - 217 $722
Misun Cho (Cheongju, South Korea) 70-72-75 - 217 $722
Sara Brown (Tucson, Ariz.) 71-71-75 - 217 $722
Erica Moston (Belmont, Calif.) 72-74-71 - 217 $722
Jackie Barenborg (Vero Beach, Fla.) 74-73-70 - 217 $722
T42 Marina Choi (Los Angeles, Calif.) 70-75-73 - 218 $691
Leah Wigger (Louisville, Ky.) 76-70-72 - 218 $691
Eileen Vargas (Ibague, Colombia) 72-74-72 - 218 $691
Jutta Degerman (Kaunianinen, Finland) 72-74-72 - 218 $691
Jessica Shepley (Oakville, Ontario) 74-72-72 - 218 $69
Elizabeth Dotson (White Bluff, Tenn.) 70-77-71 - 218 $691
Stephanie Connelly (Pasadena, Md.) 72-75-71 - 218 $691
T49 Inhong Lim (Seoul, South Korea) 73-72-74 - 219 $661
Valentine Derrey (Paris, France) 74-72-73 - 219 $661
Tracy Stanford (Midland, Texas) 72-74-73 - 219 $661
Britney Choy (Wahiawa, Hawaii) 73-73-73 - 219 $661
Tiffany Tavee (Tempe, Ariz.) 71-76-72 - 219 $661
T54 Candace Schepperle (Birmingham, Ala.) 73-73-74 - 220 $642
Whitney Wade (Glasgow, Ky.) 73-69-78 - 220 $642
Hanna Kang (Seoul, South Korea) 71-76-73 - 220 $642
Meredith Duncan (Shreveport, La.) 73-74-73 - 220 $642
T58 Sandra Changkija (Orlando, Fla.) 72-74-75 - 221 $631
Kendall Dye (Edmond, Okla.) 72-75-74 - 221 $631
T60 Adrienne White (Red Deer, Alberta) 73-71-78 - 222 $617
Laura Kueny (Whitehall, Mich.) 71-72-79 - 222 $617
Jenny Lee (Simi Valley, Calif.) 70-73-79 - 222 $617
Hannah Yun (Bradenton, Fla.) 71-76-75 - 222 $617
Saehee Son (Seoul, South Korea) 71-76-75 - 222 $617
T65 Melissa Eaton-Jackson (Port Shepstone, South 72-73-78 - 223 $604
Rachael Schmidt (Elk River, Minn.) 72-74-77 - 223 $604
Jamie Hullett (Mesquite, Texas) 73-74-76 - 223 $604
68 Lauren Doughtie (Suffolk, Va.) 72-75-77 - 224 $598
T69 Kelly Froelich (Raizeux, France) 74-72-79 - 225 $593
Kelly Jacques (Longmont, Colo.) 75-72-78 - 225 $593
71 Jenna Pearson (Wheaton, Ill.) 75-72-79 - 226 $590

KIMBERLEY BEVERIDGE PIPS SOPHIE ALEXANDER AT ABOYNE

Some of the Aberdeenshire girls who played at Aboyne GC today. Front row (left to right): Kimberley Beveridge, Tegan Seivwright, Kirsten Watson, Megan Clyne. Middle row (l to r): Fiona Sutherland, Olivia Borwick, Sophie Alexander (down a step), Molly Stewart (white top). Back row (l to r): Lauren Watson, Jasmine Mackintosh, Shannon McWiliam. Image by Cal Carson Golf Agency.

Kimberley Beveridge, playing over her home course, pipped Sophie Alexander (Deeside) for first scratch prize in today's Aberdeenshire girls monthly medal at sunny Aboyne Golf Club.
Both players finished with 77s, both had the same inward half totals - Kimberley finally won the countback on the better last six.
Third with a78 was Tegan Seivwright (Deeside). Fourth was Deeside's Megan Clyne with an 82. This was Megan's last Aberdeenshire girls competition before she leaves to become a student at Montevallo University in Alabama.
The best net score was a 71, achieved by both Sophie Alexander, playing off six, and Molly Stewart (Murcar Links), who has 12 of a handicap.
Olivia Borwick (McDonald Ellon) won the long-driving prize with a tee shot at the uphill 18th green which must have been about 240yd.Her ball came to rest over the back of the green.

LEADING SCRATCH
SSS 72. CSS 71
77 Kimberley Beveridge (Aboyne) (better last six holes), Sophie Alexander (Deeside).
78 Tegan Seivwright (Deeside).
82 Megan Clyne (Deeside).
83 Olivia Borwick (McDonald Ellon).
85 Shannon McWilliam (Aboyne).
LEADING HANDICAP
71 Molly Stewart (Murcar Links) (12), Sophie Alexander (Deeside) (6).
72 Fiona Sutherland (Deeside) (21).
73 Tegan Seivwright (Deeside) (5).
74 Kimberley Beveridge (Aboyne) (3), Olivia Borwick (McDonald (Ellon) (9), Shannon McWilliam (Aboyne) (11).
75 Shannon McWilliam (Aboyne).
77 Caroline Gill (Alford) (22), Jasmine Mackintosh (Hazlehead) (20), Lauren Watson (Deeside) (14), Vikki Powell (Deeside) (13).
80 Kirsten Watson (Deeside) (33).

CARLY BOOTH CARRIES THE BURDEN OF GREAT EXPECTATIONS

"I THOUGHT I WAS GOING TO DO MUCH BETTER IN MY FIRST TWO YEARS ...."

FROM THE SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY NEWSPAPER

By Paul Forsyth

CARLY Booth is willing to concede that a golf career is more difficult to carve out than she had anticipated. The Perthshire teenager is not the first to encounter problems with the transition to professionalism, but after a childhood in which she was led to believe that the world was at her feet, the reality has come as a rude awakening. "I thought I was going to do much better in my first two years," she admits.

Such is the lot of the child prodigy. Booth was a club champion at 11, played in a pro-am with Sandy Lyle just a year later and became the youngest woman ever to represent Great Britain and Ireland in the Curtis Cup but, when she joined the paid ranks last year - a stressful enough step for any young player chasing their dream - there was the added burden of expectation.
Booth has been a victim of her own success. With sponsors and media lining up to record the immediate fulfilment of her potential, her struggle to adjust has come as a disappointment.
Last year, her first on the Ladies European Tour, she finished 98th on the money list, missing the cut in ten of her 19 events. This year has been no easier, with only two pay cheques from nine outings.
At the age of just 19, these are not statistics that Booth should beat herself up about but she can't help it. The putts that were once a bonus are now needed to make a living. The scores that used to take people by surprise have become the barometer by which she is judged. And the more she tries, the harder she finds it to replicate the form that came so easily as an amateur.
"You put too much pressure on yourself," she explains. "You almost try too hard and, when you try too hard in golf, that's when things fall apart. It's been a slow start to my professional career, but a lot of it is in my head. I've been playing really well in practice but, when I try to trust my swing in a tournament round, more and more doubts come into my mind."
Her sponsors are both a blessing and a curse. Managed by IMG, she has deals with Nike and Audi, and is an ambassador for Aberdeen Asset Management. Financially, they take a weight from her shoulders but, on the other hand, she is anxious about letting them down. This week, she will be performing in front of a home audience in the Aberdeen Ladies Scottish Open at Archerfield, East Lothian. Tellingly, her 13th place in the same event four years ago, when she was a 15-year-old amateur, is still her best finish in a pro tournament.
"The jump from amateur to professional involves so much. You're trying to make a living. Your results determine how much money you earn, you have sponsors to satisfy and you're pushing yourself to perform. When you miss cut after cut, it starts to build up, and that's when you start trying too hard and thinking too much." Not so long ago, Booth was compared to Michelle Wie, which has turned out to be one of the Scottish media's more prescient observations. The Hawaii-born American is on a different level altogether from Booth but the career pattern is similar. Wie turned professional a week before her 16th birthday, but the hype was too much for her to deal with. Only now, at 21, has she been allowed to find her level.

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LPGA FUTURES TOUR SCOREBOARD

$100,000 Eagle Classic
Richmond Country Club, Richmond, Virginia
SECOND-ROUND TOTALS
Par 144 (2x72). Yardage 6,278

1 Sophia Sheridan (Guadalajara, Mexico) 70-66 - 136
2 Mo Martin (Altadena, Calif.) 70-67 - 137
T3 Min Seo Kwak (Seoul, South Korea) 65-73 - 138
T3 Natalie Sheary (West Hartford, Conn.) 68-70 - 138
T5 Maria Laura Elvira (Buenos Aires, Argentina) 71-68 - 139
T5 Jane Rah (Torrance, Calif.) 69-70 - 139
T5 Brittany Johnston (Akron, Ohio) 68-71 - 139
T8 Ashli Bunch (Morristown, Tenn.) 71-69 - 140
T8 Cara Freeman (San Tan Valley, Ariz.) 69-71 - 140
T8 Lisa Ferrero (Lodi, Calif.) 69-71 - 140
T8 Sydnee Michaels (Temecula, Calif.) 69-71 - 140
T12 Stephanie Na (Adelaide, Australia) 71-70 - 141
T12 Cydney Clanton (Concord, N.C.) 70-71 - 141
T12 Daniela Iacobelli (Viera, Fla.) 66-75 - 141
T12 Yu-Ling Hsieh (Chinese Taipei) 70-71 - 141
T12 Olivia Jordan-Higgins (Channel Islands, UK) 72-69 - 141
T17 Benedikte Grotvedt (Nesbru, Norway) 73-69 - 142
T17 Whitney Wade (Glasgow, Ky.) 73-69 - 142
T17 Sara Brown (Tucson, Ariz.) 71-71 - 142
T17 Veronica Felibert (Caracas, Venezuela) 70-72 - 142
T17 Kathleen Ekey (Sharon Township, Ohio) 70-72 - 142
T17 Misun Cho (Cheongju, South Korea) 70-72 - 142
T17 Jenny Gleason (Clearwater, Fla.) 71-71 - 142
T17 Izzy Beisiegel (St. Hilaire, Quebec) 72-70 - 142
25 Jenny Lee (Simi Valley, Calif.) 70-73 - 143
Paz Echeverria (Santiago, Chile) 69-74 - 143
Jill Briles-Hinton (Richmond, Va.) 68-75 - 143
Laura Kueny (Whitehall, Mich.) 71-72 - 143
Ashley Prange (Noblesville, Ind.) 73-70 - 143
30 Jenny Suh (Fairfax, Va.) 72-72 - 144
Jean Chua (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) 71-73 - 144
Mallory Blackwelder (Versailles, Ky.) 71-73 - 144
Jodi Ewart (North Yorkshire, England) 71-73 - 144
Caroline Westrup (Ahus, Sweden) 72-72 - 144
Adrienne White (Red Deer, Alberta) 73-71 - 144
Rachel Connor (Manchester, England) 74-70 - 144
37 Marina Choi (Los Angeles, Calif.) 70-75 - 145
Jasi Acharya (Columbus, Mont.) 71-74 - 145
Melissa Eaton-Jackson (Port Shepstone, South Africa) 72-73 - 145
Hannah Burke (Welnyn Garden City, UK) 71-74 - 145
Lizette Salas (Azusa, Calif.) 72-73 - 145
Inhong Lim (Seoul, South Korea) 73-72 - 145
Annie Brophy (Spokane, Wash.) 74-71 - 145
44 Leah Wigger (Louisville, Ky.) 76-70 - 146
Candace Schepperle (Birmingham, Ala.) 73-73 - 146
Sandra Changkija (Orlando, Fla.) 72-74 - 146
Eileen Vargas (Ibague, Colombia) 72-74 - 146
Valentine Derrey (Paris, France) 74-72 - 146
Kelly Froelich (Raizeux, France) 74-72 - 146
Rachael Schmidt (Elk River, Minn.) 72-74 - 146
Macarena Silva (Santiago, Chile) 71-75 - 146
Jutta Degerman (Kaunianinen, Finland) 72-74 - 146
Tracy Stanford (Midland, Texas) 72-74 - 146
Britney Choy (Wahiawa, Hawaii) 73-73 - 146
Susan Nam (Edmonton, Alberta) 72-74 - 146
Erica Moston (Belmont, Calif.) 72-74 - 146
Jessica Shepley (Oakville, Ontario) 74-72 - 146
58 Megan McChrystal (Stuart, Fla.) 77-70 - 147
Jenna Pearson (Wheaton, Ill.) 75-72 - 147
Jamie Hullett (Mesquite, Texas) 73-74 - 147
Elizabeth Dotson (White Bluff, Tenn.) 70-77 - 147
Hannah Yun (Bradenton, Fla.) 71-76 - 147
Lauren Doughtie (Suffolk, Va.) 72-75 - 147
Tiffany Tavee (Tempe, Ariz.) 71-76 - 147
Hanna Kang (Seoul, South Korea) 71-76 - 147
Saehee Son (Seoul, South Korea) 71-76 - 147
Stephanie Connelly (Pasadena, Md.) 72-75 - 147
Kendall Dye (Edmond, Okla.) 72-75 - 147
Meredith Duncan (Shreveport, La.) 73-74 - 147
Jackie Barenborg (Vero Beach, Fla.) 74-73 - 147
Kelly Jacques (Longmont, Colo.) 75-72 - 147

MISSED THE CUT
Aimee Neff (Carmel, Ind.) 78-70 - 148
Juliana Murcia Ortiz (Bogota, Colombia) 74-74 - 148
Miriam Nagl (Berlin, Germany) 74-74 - 148
Victoria Elizabeth (Dayton, Ohio) 73-75 - 148
Amy Eneroth (Spokane, Wash.) 75-73 - 148
Rebecca Kim (Tigard, Ore.) 74-74 - 148
Victoria Park (Irvine, Calif.) 73-75 - 148
Dawn Shockley (Estes Park, Colo.) 72-76 - 148
Katie Kempter (Albuquerque, N.M.) 74-74 - 148
Seul Ki Park (Northbrook, Ill.) 75-73 - 148
Kirby Dreher (Fort St. John, B.C.) 75-73 - 148
Lili Alvarez (Durango, Mexico) 76-73 - 149
Stefanie Kenoyer (Lighthouse Point, Fla.) 75-74 - 149
Sue Kim (Langley, B.C.) 71-78 - 149
Chelsea Curtis (New Seabury, Mass.) 71-78 - 149
Vanessa Vela (Bogota, Colombia) 72-77 - 149
Sara Maude Juneau (Fossambault, Quebec) 73-76 - 149
Gerina Piller (Roswell, N.M.) 73-76 - 149
Ayaka Kaneko (Honolulu, Hawaii) 73-76 - 149
Molly Aronsson (Shelburne, Vt.) 74-75 - 149
Briana Vega (Andover, Mass.) 76-74 - 150
Lauren Hunt (Little River, S.C.) 75-75 - 150
Marcela Leon (Monterrey, Mexico) 75-75 - 150
Kim Augusta (Rumford, R.I.) 75-75 - 150
Mallory Fraiche (New Orleans, La.) 74-76 - 150
Danielle Mills (Pointe-Claire, Quebec) 76-74 - 150
Christina Jones (Jensen Beach, Fla.) 75-75 - 150
Alison Whitaker (Melbourne, Australia) 76-74 - 150
Laura Crawford (Lancaster, S.C.) 78-72 - 150
Angela Buzminski (Oshawa, Ontario) 77-74 - 151
Stephanie Kim (Bayside, N.Y.) 75-76 - 151
Sofi Toccafondi (Del Viso, Argentina) 77-74 - 151
Gloriana Soto (San Jose, Costa Rica) 75-76 - 151
Cathryn Bristow (Auckland, New Zealand) 77-74 - 151
Jennifer Hong (Granger, Ind.) 75-76 - 151
Lori Atsedes (Ithaca, N.Y.) 72-79 - 151
Laura Bavaird (Grosse Ile, Mich.) 74-77 - 151
Nicole Smith (Riverside, Calif.) 72-79 - 151
Garrett Phillips (St. Simons Island, Ga.) 71-80 - 151
Nicole Jeray (Berwyn, Ill.) 74-77 - 151
Karlin Beck (Pike Road, Ala.) 79-72 - 151
Laura Nochta-Martin (Cortland, Ohio) 79-72 - 151
Jessica Yadloczky (Casselberry, Fla.) 78-74 - 152
Tanya Dergal (Durango, Mexico) 75-77 - 152
Stacey Miller (Bloomington, Ill.) 78-74 - 152
Kylene Pulley (Kokomo, Ind.) 76-76 - 152
Courtney Mahon (Lee's Summit, Mo.) 73-79 - 152
Dolores White (Lakeland, Fla.) 75-77 - 152
Sofie Andersson (Angelholm, Sweden) 74-78 - 152
Ashley Medders (Alma, Ga.) 75-77 - 152
Jessi Gebhardt (Chandler, Ariz.) 78-74 - 152
Erika Malik (Hinsdale, Ill.) 78-74 - 152
Lyndsay McBride (Elkhart, Ind.) 79-74 - 153
Carling Coffing (Middletown, Ohio) 75-78 - 153
Laura Jansone (Jurmala, Latvia) 76-78 - 154
Alexandra Casi (East Palestine, Ohio) 78-76 - 154
Elise Swartout (Ann Arbor, Mich.) 71-83 - 154
Shasta Averyhardt (Flint, Mich.) 77-77 - 154
Kristin Ingram (Pasadena, Calif.) 77-77 - 154
Lene Krog (Lier, Norway) 79-75 - 154
Alexandria Buelow (a) (Palm City, Fla.) 76-79 - 155
Lyberty Anderson (a) (Chesterfield, Va.) 72-83 - 155
Ashley Knoll (The Woodlands, Texas) 83-73 - 156
Ashley Smith (Calgary, Alberta) 77-79 - 156
Madeleine Holmblad (Stockholm, Sweden) 77-79 - 156
Pamela Ontiveros (Gomez Palacio, Mexico) 77-80 - 157
Sarah Brown (Lopatcong, N.J.) 80-77 - 157
Janine Fellows (Houston, Texas) 79-79 - 158
Mesha Levister (Louisburg, N.C.) 79-79 - 158
Xyra Suyetsugu (Honolulu, Hawaii) 79-80 - 159
Nikki Hadd (Crestview, Fla.) 81-80 - 161

Heather Angell (Winston-Salem, N.C.) WD
Noon Huachai (Bangkok, Thailand) WD