Midlothian County Ladies Championship Qualifier

Karen's cracker of a second round (69) to be 

Midlothian championship top seed

In wintry conditions Karen Marshall, playing over her home course, had a splendid second round of 69 - nine strokes better than her first round and six under the CSS - to be the No 1 qualifier for the match-play stages of the Midlothian women's county championship at Baberton Golf Club.

Karen, pictured, who won the title as long ago as 1992, was more recently county champion in 2011
Karen's aggregate of 147 saw her finish three shots ahead of both Alison McBride (Harburn) who had a pair of 75s and Kate McIntosh (Broomieknowe) 74-76.
Alison earned the No 2 seed status with the better second round.
Broomieknowe's Hannah Scott, county champion for the past two years, qualified in sixth place with rounds of 78 and 80 for 158.
She is in the opposite half of the draw from Karen Marshall.

                                                               

QUALIFIERS 
CSS 74 75

147 Karen Marshall (Baberton) 78 69             

150 Alison McBride (Harburn) 75 75, Kate McIntosh (Broomieknowe) 74 76
152 Louise Fraser (Kingsknowe) 74 78

155 Karen Ferguson (Liberton) 77 78
158 Hannah Scott (Broomieknowe) 78 80
160 Wendy Nicholson (Broomieknowe) 80 80
165 Kirsten Blackwood (Glencorse) 82 83

167 Jennifer Bryans (Harburn) 79 88
169 Susan Rennie (Turnhouse) 85 84. Caroline Steedman (Murrayfield) 83 86
170 Sal Shepherd (Craigmillar Park) 88 82
179 Mandy McBain (Lochend) 92 87
181 Sharon Macpherson (Baberton) 90 91
183 Gilly Glen (Craigmillar Park) 90 93
191 Linda Boyle (Harburn) 92 99

Friday's match-play ties
FIRST ROUND
09.00 Marshall v Boyle
09.07 Bryans v Blackwood
09.15 Ferguson v Shepherd
09.22 McBain v Fraser
09.30 McIntosh v Macpherson
09.37 Steedman v Scott
09.45 Nicholson v Rennie
09.52 Glen v McBride.   

Quarter-finals at 13.45, 13.52, 14.00 and 14.47 

B MATCH-PLAY TIES
QUARTER-FINALS
10.00 Zandra Mathieson v Adrienne Turner
10.08 Celia Macintyre v Helen Warnock
10.15 Jaci Moriarty v Pam Townsend
10.23 Elaine Lumsden v  Janet Wake

Semi-finals at 14,15 and 14.22 

Wood v Lloyd and  Paterson v Norris in 

Lanarkshire semi-finals at East Kilbride


All four semi-finalists in the Lanarkshire women's county championship at East Kilbride have won the title previously.
In the first semi-final, this year's top seed Susan Wood (Drumpellier) will play Lesley Lloyd (Hayston).
Wood has been beaten in the last two county finals but won the title in 2008.
Lloyd has been a finalist seven times but won only once, in 1998
The second semi-final is between Janice Paterson (Drumpellier) and Fiona Norris (Hamilton). Paterson won the title as Janice Gardner in 1994. Norris has played in six finals, winning in  1988 and 1992 as Fiona McKay and added to that total of titles in 2009, 2010 and 2013.

FIRST ROUND
Susan Wood (Drumpellier) bt Pat Casey (Mount Ellen) 7 and 6  
Ruth Rankin (Lanark) bt Ann Roulston East Kilbride) 7 and 6  
Kirsten Brown (Strathaven) bt Angela Devine (Hamilton) 5 and 4 Lesley Lloyd (Hayston) bt Sheila Sergenson (East Kilbride) 7 and 6 Janice Paterson (Drumpellier) bt Kay Cherrie (Mount Ellen) 6 and 5 Katie Scott (Strathaven) bt Allison Bell (Strathaven) 2 and 1
 Fiona Norris (Hamilton) bt Pat Hutton (Lanark) 3 and 2  
Alyson Hendry (Hamilton) bt Anne Sillars (Hayston) 6 and 4

QUARTER-FINALS
Wood bt Rankin 5 and 3.
Lloyd bt Brown 2 and 1.
Paterson bt Scott 2 holes.
Norris bt Hendry at 22nd

SEMI-FINALS

9.0 Wood v Lloyd
9.10 Paterson v Norris


Bronze Championship
 Semi-finals  
Margaret Marshall (Wishaw) bt Jean Allan (Strathaven) at 19th
Nora Wilson (Strathaven) bt Enid King (East Kilbride) 1 hole
Final
9.20 Marshall v Wilson

NEWS RELEASE FROM DUKE UNIVERSITY
Leona Maguire leads Duke team to Notre 

Dame for South Bend Regional, May 7 to 9

DURHAM, North Carolina – The sixth-ranked Duke University women’s golf have been seeded No. 2 in the South Bend Regional at Notre Dame, Indiana, from May 7-9 to play for an invitation to the NCAA Championship.  The regional will be played at the 6,301-yard, par 72 Warren Golf Course.
Other teams competing in the Region are:
 Arizona, Oklahoma State, Wake Forest, UC-Davis, Pepperdine, Tulane, Notre Dame, Purdue, Kent State, Louisville, San Jose State, North Carolina, Kentucky, Harvard,  Troy, Eastern Kentucky and Youngstown State.  
The following individuals will also be competing – Madchen Ly (California State), Elizabeth Tong (Indiana), Martina Edberg (California State), Leilanie Kim (Idaho), Gabby Yurik (Michigan State) and Michaela Fletcher (Memphis).
The regional will be a three-day, 54-hole tournament with 18 holes played each day.  Duke will open action on Thursday, May 7 on hole No. 1 at 9:39 a.m., along with Arizona and Oklahoma State.
The top six teams and top three individuals (not on one of those eight teams) advance on to the NCAA Championships to be played May 22-27 at the Concession Golf Club in Bradenton, Florida 
The Blue Devils (Duke) have won a total of six NCAA Championships over the last 16 years ---1999, 2002, 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2014.
The top three seeds in the other regions were – Raleigh (South Carolina, Louisiana State, Mississippi State), San Antonio, UCLA, Washington, Texas A and M) and St. George (Southern California, Arkansas, Virginia). 

The Duke team enters regional play with six top five finishes on the season, highlighted by wins at the Tar Heel Invitational and Darius Rucker Intercollegiate.  Two different Blue Devils have collected individual victories on the season – Sandy Choi at the Cougar Classic and Leona Maguire, pictured right, at the Darius Rucker Intercollegiate and the ACC Championship.
In the latest Golfweek/Sagarin Performance Index, Maguire, ranked No 2  in the WWAGR, is listed No. 1, while former world female amateur No 1 Celine Boutier (10), Sandy Choi (55) and Gurbani Singh (84) are ranked.
Duke has won NCAA regional title in 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2007 and 2013.