PLATFORM 2 GIRLS TOURNAMENT

Platform 2 girls tournament sponsor Eric Lindsay pictured with the scratch (left) and handicap (right) prizewinners today.
MONIFIETH GIRL WINS WITH FIRST
ROUND OVER NEWMACHAR SWAILEND
Monifieth’s Ashley Smith became the first Angus-based winner of the Platform 2 girls’ golf tournament with a round of three-over-par 75 over the Newmachar Swailend course today.
Ashley, 16 years old and a nine-handicapper, won by four strokes from Lauren Whyte (Aberdeen Ladies) with Sammy Vass (Tain) and Jacqueline Sneddon (Alyth) joint third on 83.
“I had never seen the course before today but I hit most of the fairways with my drives and I pitched and putted well,” said Miss Smith who is the Monifieth girls’ champion.
After an outward half of one-under-par 35 with birdies at the third and seventh and a bogey at the sixth, Ashley was heading for a runaway win over the field of 30 girls drawn from as far north as Tain until she ran up a triple bogey 7 at the 15th and a bogey at the 18th .
Ashley Smith also had the lowest net score of 66 but could not win two prizes and so the leading handicap award went to Rachel Polson (Petercutler). She had a net 67 off 24. She won by three shots from Sammy Vass’s younger sister Julie who had a net 70 off 16. Julie has cut her handicap from 31 to 16 this season.

PLATFORM 2 GIRLS TOURNAMENT
Newmachar Swailend.
LEADING SCRATCH
Par 72, CSS 73
75 A Smith (Monifieth).
79 L Whyte (Aberdeen Ladies).
83 S Vass (Tain), J Sneddon (Alyth).
84 A Bowie (Monifieth), K Moss (Monifieth), G Richens (Newmachar), M Johsntone (Northern).
85 S Leslie (Westhill).
86 J Vass (Tain).
87 N McAuley (Stonehaven).
88 F Fullerton (Huntly).



LEADING HANDICAP
66 A Smith (Monifieth) (9).
67 R Polson (Peterculter) (24)
68 L Whyte (Aberdeen Ladies) (11). .
70 J Vass (Tain) (16).
71 F Fullerton (Huntly) (17).
73 K MacCallum (McDonald Ellon) (36).
75 K Moss (Monifieth) (9).
76 S Beattie (Hazlehead) (16), N Thomson (Murcar Links) (15), N McAuley (Stonehaven) (11), J Sneddon (Alyth) (7).
77 S Vass (Tain) (6), A Bowie (Monifieth) (7), S Leslie (Westhill) (8).
78 A Milne (Turriff) (36), A Taylor (Forres) (14).
79 L McGillivray (Oldmeldrum) (16), N Lamond (McDonald Ellon) (13), M Johnstone (Northern) (5).