MACTAGGART AHEAD OF SAXTON WITH ONE ROUND TO GO

 Tara MacTaggart: 75-79 for 154 at Panmure

              Picture by Cal Carson Golf Agency 

TARA LEADS NICK FALDO SERIES' 

GIRLS BY ONE AT PANMURE

By COLIN FARQUHARSON
Colin@scottishgolfview.com
Stirling student Tara Mactaggat (Minto) leads by one stroke from Jennifer Saxton (Kinross) after two rounds of the 54-hole girls' section of the Nick Faldo Series at Panmore Golf Club, near Carnoustie.
Tara has scored 75-79 for six-over-par 154, Jennifer 81-74 for 155.
Aberdeenshire's youngest ever women's county champion, 14-year-old Shannon McWilliam (Aboyne), recent winner of the Paul Lawrie Foundation Scottish schoolgirls championship at Murrayshall has moved up into third place with a 75 for 157.
Shannon, who was suffering from very sore knees by the end of the North Division women's inter-county matches at Pitlochry on Monday, moved up into the lead at Panmure with an outward half of 35, followed by an eagle 3 at the long 10th.
But then McWilliam lost her momentum and dropped five strokes over the closing holes - bogeys at 14th and 15th, double bogey at 16 and a bogey at 18 for 40 shots home.
The winner and the runner-up in the girls' competition will go forward to the Grand Final in The Greenbrier, West Virginia, USA later in the year.
GIRLS' TWO-ROUND TOTALS
Par 148 (2x74)

154 Tara Mactaggart (Minto) 75 70
155 Jennifer Saxton (Kinross) 81 75
157 Shannon McWilliam (Aboyne) 82
159 Natasha Slater (Furness) 76 83, Kirsty Brodie (Strathmore) 79 80.
168 Kirsten Brown (Strathaven) 81 87.