Stirling and Clackmanna championship qualifiers

At Braehead Golf Club

 SSS 72  Par 73 CSS =75

Qualifiers for Match-play

1 1  Louise Macgregor (Falkirk) 78  bih 

   2  Laura Bissett (Braehead) 78

   3  Sarah Walker (Braehead) 79 bih

   4  Alison Davidson (Stirling) 79

.  5  Jennifer Allan (Glenbervie) 81

   6  Margaret Tough (Glenbervie) 82 bih

   7  Elaine Allison (Stirling) 82

   8  Lesley Gibb (West Lothian) 83 bih

   9  Tricia Chillas (Stirling) 83

   10 Margo Gardner (Linlithgow) 84 bih

   11 Claire Capocci (Bridge of Allan) 84

   12 Elizabeth Goodwin (Glenbervie) 84

1 13  Winifred MacCallum (Falkirk) 85

1 14 Christine Sikora (Braehead) 85

1 15 Fiona Wait (Bathgate) 86 bih

1 16 Mhairi Hall (Bathgate) 86 bih

MATCH-PLAY DRAW

Sunday afternoon

Louise Macgregor v Mhairi Hall

Tricia Chillas v Lesly Gibb

Jennifer Allan v Elizabeth Goodwin

Winifred MacCallum v Alison Davidson

Sarah Walker v Christine Sikora

Claire Capocci v Margaret Tough

Elaine Allison v Margo Gardner

Fiona Wait v Laura Bissett

REPORT BY ANNA HUNTER
The weather was very good but the course was tricky and the pin positions testing .The first qualifier was Louise Macgregor who is is back playing at Falkirk Golf Club and won the county title four years in a row from 2010 to 2013 before losing in last year's final to Alison Davidson. She had a 78 and won top seeding on the better inward half from Braehead girl Laura Bissett .
The third qualifier was Sarah Walker with 79 , another Braehead lady, and in fourth place came the current champion, Alison Davidson, also 79 .
Alison has won the county title seven times since 1992
First-round ties are on Sunday afternoon; quarter-finals on Monday at 5pm; semi-finals on Wednesday at 5.30pm and the final will tee off at 5.30pm on Friday.

Hannah Scott, Karen Marshall KO'd in

Midlothian championship quarter-finals

Hannah Scott, winner of the Midlothian women's county championship for the past two years, failed in her hat-trick bid at Baberton Golf Club today.

The Broomieknowe player, pictured, reached the quarter-finals by beating Caroline Steedman (Murrayfield) 2 and 1 but then was KOd by clubmate Kate McIntosh 2 and 1.

Karen Marshall (Baberton), twice winner of the title and the leading qualifier this year, also bowed out in the quarter-finals. She was beaten 3 and 2 by Kirsten Blackwood (Glencorse).

The semi-final line-up will be Blackwood v Louise Fraser (Kingsknowe) and McIntosh v Wendy Nicholson in an all-Broomieknowe clash.
Three of the last four have lost in recent years' finals - Fraser in 2011, Nicholson in 2010 and Blackwood in 2004. 

Results

Championship

First round

Karen Marshall (Baberton) bt Linda Boyle (Harburn) 5 and 4

Kirsten Blackwood (Glencorse) bt Jennifer Bryans (Harburn) 3 and 1

Sal Shepherd (Craigmillar Park) bt Karen Ferguson (Liberton) 6 and 4

Louise Fraser (Kingsknowe) bt Mandy McBain (Lochend) 6 and 5

Kate McIntosh (Broomieknowe) w.o. Sharon Macpherson (Baberton) scr

Hannah Scott (Broomieknowe) bt Caroline Steedman (Murrayfield) 2 and 1

Wendy Nicholson (Broomieknowe) bt Susan Rennie (Turnhouse) 6 and 5

Alison McBride (Harburn) bt Gilly Glen (Craigmillar Park) 4 and 3

Quarter-finals

Blackwood bt Marshall 3 and 2

Fraser bt Shepherd 5 and 4

McIntosh bt Scott 2 and 1.

Nicholson bt McBride 4 and 3

B Championship

Quarter-finals

Adrienne Turner (Baberton) bt Zandra Mathieson (Broomieknowe) 3 and 2

Helen Warnock (Harburn) bt Celia MacIntyre (Craigmillar Park) 4 and 2

Pam Townsend (Murrayfield) bt Jaci Moriarty (Lochend) 1 hole.

Elaine Lumsden (Kingsknowe) bt Janet Wake (Merchants) 3 and 2.

Semi-finals

Turner bt Warnock 6 and 5

Townsend by Lumsden 2 and 1

 

Sheena Wood is Aberdeenshire championship 

top seed at Peterhead

Five times Aberdeenshire women's county golf champion since 1996, Sheena Wood (Aberdeen Ladies), pictured, earned the top seed position for this year's match-play with a round of two-over-par 74 - which equalled the CSS - at tonight's (Friday) qualifying round at Peterhead.
No 2 seed is clubmate Sammy Leslie, title winner in 2010 and 2013 when she beat Sheena in the field.
Fifteen-year-old Shannon McWilliam (Aboyne), the youngest ever winner of the county title last year, decided to play in the Fairhaven Trophies junior tournament in Lancashire this weekend rather than defend the country title.

CHAMPIONSHIP QUALIFIERS
CSS 74       
74 Sheena Wood (Aberdeen Ladies)      
75 Sammy Leslie (Aberdeen Ladies)      
78 Carol Wilson (Murcar Links), Kimberley Beveridge (Aboyne), Molly Stewart (Murcar Links).      
79 Jill Harrison (Cruden Bay), Lorraine Coleman (Peterhead).
80 Donna Pocock (Murcar Links)      
83 Lauren Whyte (Aberdeen Ladies), Jasmine Mackintosh (Hazlehead).
86 Fiona Hay (Deeside)      
87 Jane Whitehead (Kemnay), Onchittra Veerasaksri (Aboyne)      
88 Lynne Terry (Cruden Bay), Kathleen Esslemont (Cruden Bay)     
89 Kelly Guthrie (Inverurie)      
MATCH-PLAY DRAW
Saturday
8.20 Wood v Guthrie
8.28 Whyte v Pocock
8.36 Stewart v Whitehead
8.44 Veerasaksri v Beveridge
8.52 Wilson v Terry
9.00 Hay v Harrison
9.08 Coleman v Mackintosh
9.16 Esslemont v Leslie
HANDICAP QUALIFIERS
CSS 74
74 Joyce Robertson (Cruden Bay) (16), Sandra Ross (Peterhead) (17)          
76 Anne Loftus (Peterhead) (14).
77 Morven Adam (Hazlehead) (12), Penny Smith (Duff House Royal) (12).
80 Rae Topping (Duff House Royal) (12)      
81 Helen Stewart (Peterhead)     (22)      
83 Sally Collinson (Westhill) (8)  
QUARTER-FINALS DRAW
Saturday
14.10 Robertson v Collinson
14.20 Smith v Adam
14.30 Loftus v Topping
14.40 Stewart v Ross  
           

   

Hard work pays off for Michele with Spanish win

Michele Thomson scored her second pro tournament win inside a couple of months when she finished four strokes clear of the field in the Augas Santas International Women's Open at Balneario Golf Resort at Lugo in Spain today, writes Colin Farquharson
The 27-year-old 2008 Curtis Cup player and Scottish women's amateur champion from Ellon, Aberdeenshire won the Paul Lawrie Ladies Open at Murcar Links in early March.
That was worth over £2,000 and now Michele has collected 5,634 euros for winning the LETAS event.
When asked what her "secret" this season was, Thomson replied
"There is no secret, just hard work on the practice ground.
"I played really well this week. Kept the ball in play and holed some
really good putts."
Over a tricky par-70 course, Thomson had rounds of 69, 69 and 66 for a six-under-par aggregate of 204.
She had a bogey-free final round with birdies at the third, seventh,
15th and 17th. She covered the last 25 holes of this 54-hole event in
five under par without dropping a shot. In all she had 11 birdies.
Four players, including long-time leader Luna Sobron, a Spanish amateur, tied for second place on 208. Sobron sagged to a 73 in the final round, allowing Thomson to make up seven strokes on her.
The top five in the LETAS Order of Merit at the end of the season are automatically promoted to the Ladies European Tour. Michele now tops  that table with 6,320 euros to her credit and is heading in the right direction to regain playing rights on the Ladies European Tour.

SCROLL DOWN PAST THE SCORES FOR THE LETAS WEBSITE REPORT AND A PICTURE OF MICHELE WITH THE TROPHY
 
LEADING FINAL TOTALS
Par 210 (3x70)
204 Michele Thomson (Sco) 69 69 66
208 Natalia Escurios (Spa) (am) 70 69 69, Sanna Nuutinen (Fin) 72 67 69, Maria Palacios (Spa) 70 67 71, Luna Sobron (Spa) (am) 65 70 73.
SELECTED TOTALS
210 Abby Gittings (Eng) 75 66 69 (T6)
214 Annabel Dimmock (Eng) 72 71 71 (T16)
215 Kiran Matharu (Eng) 67 74 74 (T21)
219 Melissa Nicol (Eng) 73 72 74, Lucy Goddard (Eng) 71 75 73 (T36)
220 Anna Scott (Eng) 71 72 77 (T38)
223 Sarah Attwood (Eng) 73 73 77 (43rd)
223 Gabrielle Cowley (Eng) 72 72 83 (44th)

REPORT FROM LETAS WEBSITE

Scotland’s Michele Thomson, with a decisive final round of 66, claimed her first victory on the LET Access Series, in the Ribeira Sacra Patrimonio de la Humanidad International Ladies Open at OCA Augas Santas Balneario Golf Resort in Lugo, Spain.
The 27-year-old won by four shots from Finland’s Saana Nuutinen (69) and Spanish trio, Maria Palacios (71), Natalia Escuriola (69) and Luna Sobrón (73), who all tied for second position at two under par, 208.
Thomson played solidly throughout the final day in rainy conditions to be bogey-free, with birdies on the 3^rd, 7^th, 11^th and crucially on the tough par 17th, to finish at 6 under par for the tournament and seal her victory.
"I played really well, taking advantage of hitting the fairways and greens and my birdie chances as well and I think this has given me an advantage over my opponents, said Thomson.
"The first nine holes have been tougher than the back nine and I've been really focused on taking control of my round, especially trying to save par when missing greens, as on the 2nd hole, where my ball was next to a tree and I managed to save par."  
It was an emotional victory for the Scot who has battled back from injury. She commented, "I enjoyed the week here in Galicia and in the hotel, it has been fantastic and I feel very happy. I loved the tournament. This season I will focus on the LET Access Series and it is very important that I managed to win here in Spain."
The LET Access Series moves to Switzerland next week for the ASGI Ladies Open, which takes place from the 7 – 9 May at Gams-Werdenberg GC, near Zurich.

Northern Counties County Championship Qualifier

SATURDAY, May 9

FORRES GOLF CLUB
Match No.	Time	Name	Club	H'cap
1	08:00	Hannah McCook	Grantown-on-Spey	0
		Cara Thompson	Royal Dornoch	1
2	08:07	Kerri Harper	Inverness	1
		Sammy Fotheringham	Nairn	2
3	08:14	Jenny Milne	Elgin	2
		Alison  Bartlett	Royal Dornoch	2
4	08:21	Meg Sievwright	Buckpool	3
		Annabelle Brown	Nairn Dunbar	4
5	08:28	Claire Riddell	Royal Dornoch	4
		Carinne Taylor	Nairn	5
6	08:35	Gillian Dowling	Nairn Dunbar	5
		Mhairi Donald	Forres	6
7	08:42	Shona Leese	Elgin	7
		Lynne Fraser	Fortrose & Rosemarkie	7
8	08:49	Niketa Cruickshank	Buckpool	9
		Susan MacVicar	Nairn	9
9	08:56	Gillian Cruden	Nairn Dunbar	9
		Margot Barr	Nairn	10
10	09:03	Alison Gowie	Inverness	10
		Ella Simpson	Elgin	10
11	09:10	Emma Logie	Buckpool	10
		Norma Fleming	Royal Dornoch	10
12	09:17	Norma Scrimgeour	Muir of Ord	11
		Lesley Beaney	Brora	11
13	09:24	Fiona Bell	Inverness	11
		Marian Evans	Elgin	12
14	09:31	Emma Borthwick	Nairn Dunbar	12
		Susan Mackenzie	Elgin	12
15	09:38	Abbie Cruden	Nairn Dunbar	12
		Pat Morrison	Muir of Ord	13
16	09:45	Denise McBride	Royal Dornoch	13
		Claire Dingwall	Muir of Ord	14
17	09:52	Hazel Flynn	Inverness	15
		Liz Ballantine	Elgin	16
18	09:59	Joan Cooper	Forres	16
		Ellie Docherty	Moray	16
19	10:06	Angel Grant	Brora	17
		Doreen McCaig	Forres	17
20	10:13	Elaine Hill	Grantown-on-Spey	18
		Jenny Thornton	Fortrose & Rosemarkie	18
21	10:20	Dorothy Marshall	Forres	19
		Moira Rennie	Royal Dornoch	19
22	10:27	Fiona Grant	Forres	19
		Wendy Spencer	Muir of Ord	20
23	10:34	Carol Macdonald	Grantown-on-Spey	20
		Sally Rowan	Inverness	20
24	10:41	Evelyn Hutton	Muir of Ord	20
		Pat Davis	Forres	22
25	10:48	Maureen Walker	Elgin	22
		Val McMurdo	Forres	22
26	10:55	Edna Cameron	Elgin	23
		Ellen Garrow	Forres	24
27	11:02	Liz Smith	Nairn Dunbar	25
		Jeanette Cowe	Elgin	25
28	11:09	Carol O'Keefe	Forres	26
		Morag Simpson	Nairn Dunbar	27
29	11:16	Sandy Morgan	Forres	27
		Rosalind Miller	Forres	28
30	11:23	Jean Cameron	Fortrose & Rosemarkie	28
		Lynda Tolson	Grantown-on-Spey	30
31	11:30	Mora Douglas	Royal Dornoch	36
		Marilyn Stickley	Grantown-on-Spey	36