CARNOUSTIE PLAYERS KATY AND JESS LEAD PAUL LAWRIE TOUR TABLES

         KATY McNICOLL ... her brother Keir is a professional too

                       Picture by Cal Carson Golf Agency

By COLIN FARQUHARSON
Colin@scottishgolfview.com

Carnoustie players head both the prizemoney table and the order of Merit standings after five events in the Paul Lawrie Scottish Ladies Open Tour.

Professional Katy McNicoll won at Trump International and Deeside on Monday and Tuesday of this week and also the 36-hole aggregate competition linking the scores at both venues.

She has won £2,225, following up the 3,000 Euros she gained for a third-place finish on the LETAS Tour in Spain last week. Her nearest pro rival in the PLGC SLOT money table is Chrisje De Vries (Netherlands), winner of the inaugural event at Dalmahoy last month.

Carnoustie Ladies amateur Jess Meek, 18, heads the Order of Merit with 2,600pt and is the clear leading from professional Laura Murray (Paul Lawrie Golf Centre) who has gathered 2,199pt.
Jess enrols at the University of Missouri in August, which means she will not only miss the PLGC SLOT autumn events she will
be ruled out of selection for the Women's Home Internationals at Scotscraig GC, Fife from September 11 to 13. 

Top placings:

MONEY TABLE

1 K McNicoll (Carnoustie) £2,225; 2 C De Vries (Netherlands) £1,075; 3 L Murray (Paul Lawrie GC) £1,055; 4 H MacRae (Gleneagles) £955; 5 H Stirling (Dairsie) £837; 6 L Shervill (2-do- Sport) £722; 7 P Feggans (Doon Valley) £600; 8 V Laing (Musselburgh) £437; 9 Fabienne In-Albon (Switzerland) £325; 10 (equal) D Dyer (Chigwell) and Eleanor Givens (Darlington) £287 each.

ORDER OF MERIT

1 J Meek (Carnoustie Ladies) (am) 2,600pt; 2 L Murray (Paul Lawrie GC) 2,199; 3 K McNicoll (Carnoustie) 2,000; 4 H MacRae (Gleneagles) 1,954; 5 H Stirling (Dairsie) 1,874; 6 L Shervill (2-do- Sport) 1,865; 7 C De Vries (Netherlands) 1,675; 8 D Dyer (Chigwell) (1,445; 9 M Pow (Selkirk) 1,355; 10 G Webster (Elie SC) 1,190.

The next PLGC Scottish Ladies Open tour events over 18 holes are in July:

2 Downfield GC, Dundee.

3 Carnoustie Burnside.

11 Blairgowrie Rosemount.

12 Alyth GC, Perthshire.

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