PAUL LAWRIE GOLF CENTRE LADIES TARTAN TOUR
Tournament Director Nicola Melville (right) presents Laura Murray with a cheque for £2,500. Picture by Cal Carson Golf Agency.
LAURA'S EAGLE GIVES HER A
TWO-SHOT £2,500 VICTORY
REPORT AND PICTURES
By COLIN FARQUHARSON
Colin@scottishgolfview.com
Alford's Laura Murray, the longest hitter in the field, produced an eagle 3 when she needed it
most on her way to a two-stroke victory in the Paul Lawrie Ladies Tartan Tour's Saltire Energy 36-hole tournament at Murcar Links today (Friday).
The 25-year-old former Scottish women's amateur champion and repeating St Rule Trophy winner, who plays out of Paul Lawrie Golf Centre and is sponsored by Saltire Energy supremo Mike Loggie, shot rounds of 73 and 72 for a three-over-par total of 145.
"My play tee to green has never been better but recently in Switzerland and here at Murcar in the first round my putting was letting me down. Let's
hope this is the turning point of my 2014 season," said Murray.
It was Laura's second win on the Paul Lawrie Tour - she led the way home at Ratho Park 12 months
ago - but the £2,500 first prize is the biggest payday of her pro career so far.
She also wins a three-night, self-catering break at Gleneagles Village, Auchterarder, courtesy of Melville Properties (subject to availability).
Murray, who has been a student at Robert Gordon University and a part-time lifeguard at Kippie Lodge County Club swimming pool, pulled off her biggest win yet as a pro with her boyfriend, Kippie Lodge pro Keil Beveridge as her caddie, but it was her own strength off the tee, developed in playing alongside male rivals on the North-east Alliance winter circuit, that separated her from the field down the home straight.
Overnight
Leaders Emma Fairnie (Gullane) 71, Heather Stirling (unattached) 72 and
Lisa Shervill (2-do-Sport) 72, pictured left, lost three balls between them over the
first five holes in the miserable misty and wet conditions that
prevailed in the morning.
Murray limited her damage to bogeys at the sixth and seventh and, out in 38, she was level with nine holes to go with Fairnie (out in 40) and Ellon's Michele Thomson (out in 36 after birding the third and fourth) on the 111 mark.
Murray dropped another shot at the 13th but as the sun broke through to burn off the mist so Laura rolled up her sleeves and got an eagle 3 at the 482yd par-5 14th.
"I used a driver and then a three-iron but it was the third shot that was the best one ...
I holed a chip from about 40ft!" said Laura.
"I was bunkered at the next to bogey it but I birdied the par-4 17th with a 52 degree wedge approach and a 10ft holed putt."
So Murray came sailing home in 34 for a 72 and 145 while Fairnie, pictured left on the 18th green, took 36 for the second nine for a 76 to be runner-up on 147 for which she earned £1,250.
The challenge of former Scottish women's amateur champion and a 2008 Curtis Cup player at St Andrews Michele Thomson, pictured right, died for lack of a birdie - or eagle! - over the inward half. Instead she bogeyed the 10th, 17th and 18th for 38 home and a 74 for 148.
Stirling's
second-round 76 (40-36), pictured left putting left-handed (as she always does) on the 18th green, enabled her to snatch third place on 148 and a
£750 prize from Thomson who three-putted the last and finished joint
fourth on 149 with Shervill (77). They both earned £425.
Nobody won the £25,000 hole-in-one prize offered by the Atholl Hotel at the short fifth.
Jane Turner (Craigielaw), pictured right, who finished with a 78 for 152 and seventh place for a £150 reward, also won the £100 Atholl Hotel prize for the nearest-the-pin tee shot on the second day ... about 8ft from the flagstick.
The next Paul Lawrie Ladies Tartan Tour 36-hole event is at Dundonald Links, Ayrshire on Sunday-Monday, June 8 and 9 when the prizefund will again be £6,000.
Note that these are the NEW dates arranged by Tournament Director Nicola Melville to avoid a clash with LETAS or LET tournaments.
It would be nice if some of the WPGA lady pros from South of the Border came up to swell the numbers.
FINAL TOTALS AND PRIZEMONEY
By COLIN FARQUHARSON
Colin@scottishgolfview.com
Alford's Laura Murray, the longest hitter in the field, produced an eagle 3 when she needed it
most on her way to a two-stroke victory in the Paul Lawrie Ladies Tartan Tour's Saltire Energy 36-hole tournament at Murcar Links today (Friday).
The 25-year-old former Scottish women's amateur champion and repeating St Rule Trophy winner, who plays out of Paul Lawrie Golf Centre and is sponsored by Saltire Energy supremo Mike Loggie, shot rounds of 73 and 72 for a three-over-par total of 145.
"My play tee to green has never been better but recently in Switzerland and here at Murcar in the first round my putting was letting me down. Let's
hope this is the turning point of my 2014 season," said Murray.
It was Laura's second win on the Paul Lawrie Tour - she led the way home at Ratho Park 12 months
ago - but the £2,500 first prize is the biggest payday of her pro career so far.
She also wins a three-night, self-catering break at Gleneagles Village, Auchterarder, courtesy of Melville Properties (subject to availability).
Murray, who has been a student at Robert Gordon University and a part-time lifeguard at Kippie Lodge County Club swimming pool, pulled off her biggest win yet as a pro with her boyfriend, Kippie Lodge pro Keil Beveridge as her caddie, but it was her own strength off the tee, developed in playing alongside male rivals on the North-east Alliance winter circuit, that separated her from the field down the home straight.
Murray limited her damage to bogeys at the sixth and seventh and, out in 38, she was level with nine holes to go with Fairnie (out in 40) and Ellon's Michele Thomson (out in 36 after birding the third and fourth) on the 111 mark.
Murray dropped another shot at the 13th but as the sun broke through to burn off the mist so Laura rolled up her sleeves and got an eagle 3 at the 482yd par-5 14th.
"I used a driver and then a three-iron but it was the third shot that was the best one ...
I holed a chip from about 40ft!" said Laura.
"I was bunkered at the next to bogey it but I birdied the par-4 17th with a 52 degree wedge approach and a 10ft holed putt."
So Murray came sailing home in 34 for a 72 and 145 while Fairnie, pictured left on the 18th green, took 36 for the second nine for a 76 to be runner-up on 147 for which she earned £1,250.
The challenge of former Scottish women's amateur champion and a 2008 Curtis Cup player at St Andrews Michele Thomson, pictured right, died for lack of a birdie - or eagle! - over the inward half. Instead she bogeyed the 10th, 17th and 18th for 38 home and a 74 for 148.
Nobody won the £25,000 hole-in-one prize offered by the Atholl Hotel at the short fifth.
Jane Turner (Craigielaw), pictured right, who finished with a 78 for 152 and seventh place for a £150 reward, also won the £100 Atholl Hotel prize for the nearest-the-pin tee shot on the second day ... about 8ft from the flagstick.
The next Paul Lawrie Ladies Tartan Tour 36-hole event is at Dundonald Links, Ayrshire on Sunday-Monday, June 8 and 9 when the prizefund will again be £6,000.
Note that these are the NEW dates arranged by Tournament Director Nicola Melville to avoid a clash with LETAS or LET tournaments.
It would be nice if some of the WPGA lady pros from South of the Border came up to swell the numbers.
FINAL TOTALS AND PRIZEMONEY
145 Laura Murray (Paul Lawrie GC) 73 72 (£2,500).
147 Emma Fairnie (Gullane) 71 76 (£1,250)
148 Heather Stirling (unatt) 72 76 (£750).
149 Michele Thomson (unatt) 75 74, Lisa Shervill (2-do-Sport) 72 77 (£425 each).
151 Gemma Webster (Succession Group) 73 78 (£250)
152 Jane Turner (Craigielaw) 78 74 (£150).
156 Katy McNicoll (Carnoustie GL) 78 78 (£100).
159 Emilee Taylor (Holmhall) 79 80 (£80)
166 Jorden Ferrie (Hilton Park) 87 79, Martine Pow (Selkirk) 85 81 (£35 each).
167 Jess Wilcox (Blankney) 81 86
168 Georgina Snow (Turnberry Hotel) 82 86
171 Nicola Ferguson (Milgavie) (am) 84 87
177 Lauren Watson (Deeside) (am) 88 89
No Return: Karyn Burns (kbgolf Indoor Golf Acads) 90 NR
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