LAURA MURRAY WINS SCOTTISH WOMEN'S AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP FINAL

    Left to right: Jane Turner (Craigielaw), Margaret MacNaughtan (Aberdeen Ladies), president of the SLGA and championship starter at Tain, Laura Murray (Alford). Image by Cal Carson Golf Agency.

By COLIN FARQUHARSON
Colin@scottishgolfview.com
Bright but still chilly morning for the 98th Scottish women's amateur championship at Tain Golf Club, Ross-shire. Temperature around 7 degrees ... but no wind with a chill factor to reduce that.
Gallery slightly more than "six men and a dog" but still disappointingly few. Maybe they don't rise early on a Saturday morning north of Inverness.

Jane Turner left her approach putt some four feet short of the hole on the first green but confidently holed the putt for a half in par 4.
Second and third holes also halved in par 4s.
Fourth holes halved in par 5s.
First blood to Laura Murray at the short fifth where a par is good enough for her to go one one after a bogey by Jane Turner.
Sixth hole halved in par 4s.
Seventh hole: Laura Murray's first bogey of the morning cost her the seventh hole and the lead. Jane Turner squared the match with a par 4.
Murray regained a one-hole lead with the first birdie of the final - a 2 at the short eighth.
Murray went two up for the first time with a par 4 at the ninth.
Murray reached the turn in an approximate level par 35; Turner two-over 37
Murray bogeyed her second hole of the final - a 5 at the par-4 10th - and Turner's 4 was good enough to cut Murray's lead to one hole.
Turner made it two successes in a row with her first birdie - at the long 11th to square the match
Murray stopped the slide with a half in par 4s at the 12th.
Murray notched her second birdie of the day - a 4 at the par-5 13th to regain a one-hole lead
Murray used her length of the tee to make it back-to-back birdies with a 4 at the long 14th. That put her two up for the first time since the ninth.
Turner got back to one down when Murray bogeyed par-4 15th .was
The short 16th was halved in 3s, leaving Murray one with two to play
The 17th was halved in 4s with Murray missing a 4ft chance to finish the match/
Murray put her approach shot to within a foot of the hole for a conceded birdie 3 - making her champion by two holes
AFTER 18 HOLES .... LAURA MURRAY WINNER BY TWO HOLES

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