SCOTTISH UNDER-21 CHAMPIONSHIP

KRYSTLE HAS A GEM OF A ROUND
(10 UNDER PAR 64) AT STIRLING

Seventeen-year-old Fifer Krystle Caithness is only second reserve for this weekend's Curtis Cup match in Oregon. But when Great Britain & Ireland skipper Ada O'Sullivan hears that Krystle shot a course record of 10-under-par 64 at Stirling yesterday (THU) she might be regretting that there are no Scots in her squad.
Playing in the first round of the Scottish Under-21 girls' open stroke-play championship, Miss Caithness opened up a three-shot lead with 36 holes still to be played.
It was, of course, the best round, the best golf that Miss Caithness has ever played - and she has played a lot of very good ones to amass the amount of trophies and titles in her collection on her sideboard at the family home in Cellardyke.
The tournament started with the Stirling women's course record standing at 71, set by a former Curtis Cup star and past Scottish champion, Alison (Rose Davidson). By the end of the first round, some five players had got inside the old figure and Krystle had lowered it to a staggering 64 in hot and humid conditions.
She could play golf for another 50 years and not have another outward half like the one she had at Stirling - eight under par 30 - with eagles at the first and seventh, birdies at the second, third, fourth and eighth.
Coming home, Miss Caithness actually bogeyed the 12th before catching fire again with birdies at the 13th, 16th and 17th for two-under-par 34.
Other players to break 70 in a super advertisement for the standard of Scottish girls golf were Ohio State University team player Gemma Webster (Hilton Park) with a 67 and Roseanne Niven (Crieff), winner of the Scottish Under-18 girls' match-play title at Peebles last week, with a 69.


SCOTTISH UNDER-21 GIRLS' OPEN STROKE-PLAY CHAMPIONSHIP
Stirling Golf Club
FIRST ROUND (Par 74)
64 K Caithness (St Regulus).
67 G Webster (Hilton Park).
69 R Niven (Crieff).
70 K Walker (Buchanan Castle), K MacDonald (Nairn Dunbar).
71 K McNicoll (Carnoustie Ladies).
74 J Turner (Mortonhall).
75 L Hendry (Routenburn), M Thomson (McDonald Ellon), F Blair (Monifieth).
76 V Stevenson (Stirling), E Fairnie (Peebles), D Dewar (Stirling Univ).
77 L Fleming (The Roxburghe), K Harper (Inverness), A Ingram (Fort William)
78 L Whitehead (Droitwich), I Craigie (Torwoodlee), J Meldrum (Dullatur), K Wells (Dumfries & Co).
79 L Murray (Alford), M Briggs (Kilmacolm), P Pretswell (Bothwell Castle), R Wilson (Monifieth), H Owers-Bradley (Wollaton Park).
81 C-M Carlton (Stirling Univ), S-D Wilson (Murcar Links).
82 A Niven (Crieff), E Briggs (Kilmacolm), R Livingstone (Musselburgh Old), R McIntyre (Eden), G Simpson (Baberton).
83 L Mackin (Majorca), V Smith (Barassie).
84 E Mackay (Nairn Dunbar), L MacCallum (McDonald Ellon), A McGarty (Harburn), H Harvey (St Rule), S Leslie (Westhill).
85 C Easton (Dalmahoy), L MacGregor (Falkirk).
86 S Vass (Tain).
87 J Vilakazi (Merchants of Edinburgh), Z Differ (Dullatur), J Sneddon (Alyth).
89 K Differ (Dullatur), L Allan (Kilbirnie Place).
91 R McQueen (Troon Bentinck Ladies).
92 R Archibald (Merchants of Edinburgh), K Dunbar (Aberfeldy).
93 S Horsburgh (Dunbar).
98 A Smith (Kirriemuir).