PIZZA GIRL EMILY LEADS SCOTTISH
FIELD AT BARASSIE WITH A 72

From delivering pizzas and caddieing at Little Rock, Arkansas to leading the field in the first qualifying round of the Scottish women’s amateur golf championship at Kilmarnock Barassie.
That’s the never a dull moment life of 23-year-old Emily Ogilvy (pictured right) from Auchterarder.
Emily shot a three-under-par 72 to put three shots between her and the rest of the field with one more qualifying round to go on Wednesday before the 32 leaders get down to the nitty gritty of the match-play stages.
“I went back to Central Arkansas University to complete my four-year course in December and the weather is so nice out there I didn’t want to come home to the depths of winter in Scotland,” said Miss Ogilvy.
“So I stayed on and paid the bills by taking two jobs – one as a pizza delivery girl and the other as a caddie at a golf course in Little Rock.”
Emily bogeyed the third and fourth before catching fire and covering the nine holes from the fifth to 13th in five under par with six birdies and a bogey.
“You might not believe it but my driving was bad, really bad. It was a good thing my iron shots were really good and I putted well,” she said.
THREESOME ON 75
Sharing second place on level par 75 are Jo Carthew from Ladybank, Michele Thomson, the big-hitting 19-year-old Aberdeenshire women’s county champion from Ellon, and Scotland international Jenna Wilson (Strathaven).
Jo was two after par after only four holes but birdieed the shot sixth and hadf an eagle 3 at the eighth to get out in 37.
Jenna did not have a birdie until the 12th but highlighted her card with an eagle 3 at the 17th in 37 home.
Michele bounced back from a double-bogey 6 at the second to birdied the fifth, eighth, 13th and 17th in halves of 38 aned 37.
Seventeen-year-old Megan Briggs (Kilmacolm), who recently retained the Renfrewshire women’s county championship, Sara Bishop (Cochrane Castle), Welsh women’s open stroke-play champion Heather MacRae (Dunblane New) and Ann Ramsay (Kirriemuir) are on 76
Sara had the best finish of the day – eagle-birdie-birdie (3-4-3).
Heather MacRae, a finalist at Dunbar 12 months ago, felt that the two strong features of her game this season – her driving and putting – left her down today. She had bogeys at the first and ninth in a humdrum outward half and it was the 10th before wedged to 2ft for her first birdie of the round.
TEE SHOT INTO WATER
Having broken the ice, Heather birdied the 11th as well before dropping a shot by going in the water off the tee at the 13th. But she did two-putt for a birdie at the 17th, her 8ft putt for an eagle 3 hanging on the lip of the hole but not dropping. Then she finished on a low with a three-putt at the 18th.l
Krystle Caithness (St Regulus) was a member of the five-strong Britain team who won the Commonwealth tournament in South Africa last week.
She ran up a quadruple, lost-ball bogey 9 at the eighth and a double-bogey 6 in a gorse bush at the 11th. All in all the 18-year-old did well to finish in 77, considering she did not feel 100 per cent, understandably, after making the transition from South Africa’s warmer climate to the cool May temperatures of Bonnie Scotland.
Title-holder Martine Pow (Selkirk), whose 42nd birthday it was, was not celebrating a disappointing round of 79 but it was two shots better than the player she beat in last year’s final, Anne Laing (Vale of Leven).
Anne has played in the last five finals of this championship and seven in all since 1996. This could be the end of her era.
Laura Murray, the 2005 Scottish schoolgirls champion from Alford, would like to start an era but lost-ball double-bogeys at both the 16th and 17th knocked her back to an 82. But she hasn’t given up hope of making the 32 qualifiers for the match-play stages.
And that really is what the first two days are all about in this championship.
If you qualify, who remembers what you scored to get into the match-play?