BRITISH AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP

THREE SCOTS SURVIVE AT ROYAL ST GEORGE'S

 

There are three Scots left in the British men's amateur championship after the opening day of match-play ties at Royal St George's Golf Club, Sandwich in Kent.

They are Duncan Stewart (Grantown on Spey) who plays Ross McGowan (Banstead Downs) in the third round; Bryan Fotheringham (Forres), who plays Niklas Lemke (Sweden) next, and Scott Jamieson (Cathkin Braes) who meets Jamie Arnold (Australia).

McGowan was the long-time leader in the Scottish open amateur stroke-play championship at Craigielaw before late slips relegated him to second place, one shot behind Stephen Henry.

Walker Cup player Rhys Davies from Wales beat Jonathan King (Glasgow) at the 22nd hole in an epic match.

Duncan Stewart beat fellow Scot John Gallagher by 3 and 2. Gallagher reached the final last year.

Jamieson beat Nicklas Glans (Sweden) 3 and 2.

 

WORLD BOYS' TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP

 

SWEDEN LEAD FROM NORWAY AS ENGLAND IMPROVE

 

Sweden and Norway continued to hold down first and second places at the halfway stage of the world boys’ team golf championship at Chukyo Golf Club, Toyota-shi Japan.  But England, slashing 12 shots off their first-round team score, moved up to eighth place in the field of 15 countries.

 

SCOREBOARD
LEADING TEAM TOTALS

411 Sweden 206 205.

415 Norway 207 208.

416 Chinese Taipei 211 205.

418 Japan 208 210

425 Netherlands 220 205, United States 216 209, Argentina 215 210.

428 England 220 208 (James Watts 71 70, Luke Goddard 73 70, Sam Hutsby 76 68, Tom Hesketh 78 72)..

429 Canada 216 213.

432 Korea 213 219.

434 New Zealand 219 215.

436 South Africa 218 218.

437 Colombia 219 218.

442 Venezuela 226 216.

451 Mexico 223 228.

LEADING INDIVIDUALS

136 B Akesson (Swe) 69 67, T Sluiter (Net) 71 65.

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PAULL AND WILLIAMSONS RANKINGS

MUNROSS TROPHY WINNER JENNA

JUMPS TO THIRD IN THE TABLE

Munross Trophy winner Jenna Wilson has moved up from seventh to third in the Paull and Williamsons’ Scottish women’s stroke-play golf rankings as a result of her weekend win at Montrose.

Strathaven’s Jenna is averaging 1.1 shots under the CSS of the designated tournaments, compared with table leader Krystle Caithness (-2.33) and second-placed Anne Laing (Vale of Leven) (-1.12).

Neither Krystle nor Anne played in the Montrose 36-hole tournament because of their involvement in the Ladies’ British open amateur championship at Royal County Down Golf Club in Northern Ireland earlier in the week.

The biggest climber of the updated rankings was Bothwell Castle youngster Pamela Pretswell. She finished joint sixth in the Munross Trophy, the first counting event in which she has played.

Pamela is in sixth place in the updated table with an average score of 0 in relation to CSS.

Ohio State University student Gemma Webster (Hilton Park) achieved joint eighth place in the Munross Trophy and she comes into the rankings for the first time in joint ninth place with a stroke average of 0.5.

LEADING RANKINGS

1 Krystle Caithness (St Regulus) -2.33

2 Anne Laing (Vale of Leven) -1.12

3 Jenna Wilson (Strathaven) -1.10

4 Sally Watson (David Leadbetter GA) -0.66

5 Louise Kenney (Pitreavie) -0.50

6 Pamela Pretswell (Bothwell Castle) 0.00

7 Heather MacRae (Dunblane New) 0.10

8 Kelsey MacDonald (Nairn Dunbar) 0.16

9 Martine Pow (Selkirk) 0.50

9 Gemma Webster (Hilton Park) 0.50

11 Sara Bishop (Windyhill) 0.75

12 Fiona Lockhart (St Regulus) 1.00

12 Roseanne Niven (Crieff) 1.00

12 Emily Ogilvy (Auchterarder) 1.00

15 Megan Briggs (Kilmacolm) 1.33

16 Elaine Cuthill (Lanark) 1.60

17 Claire MacDonald (Gullane Ladies) 1.83

18 Mary Summers (Panmure Barry) 2.00

19 Carly Booth (Comrie) 2.20

20 Sheena Wood (Aberdeen Ladies) 2.33

21 Katy McNicoll (Carnoustie Ladies) 2.40

21 Jane Turner (Mortonhall) 2.40

23 Elaine Moffat (St Regulus) 2.50

24 Ann F Ramsay (Kirriemuir) 2.57

25 Aileen Hunter (Monifieth) 2.66

26 Claire Hargan (Mortonhall) 3.10

26 Cara Gruber (Royal Dornoch) 3.10

28 Michele Thomson (McDonald Ellon) 3.12

29 Kylie Walker (Buchanan Castle) 3.42

30 Kerri Harper (Inverness) 3.50

30 Wendy Nicholson (Broomieknowe) 3.50

30 Jennifer Jenkins (Ralston) 3.50

33 Clare-Marie Carlton (Fereneze) 4.00

33 Noreen Fenton (Merchants of Edinburgh) 4.00

33 Lesley Hendry (Routenburn) 4.00

33 Pamela Williamson (Routenburn) 4.00

33 Laura Murray (Alford) 4.00

33 Ruth Rankin (Lanark) 4.00

GALES BLOW AWAY WHITEKIRK HOPES

PGA EUROPRO TOUR EVENT BEHIND SCHEDULE

Play on the first day of this week's PGA EuroPro Tour event, the Kronenbourg Classic at Whitekirk Golf Club was abandoned due to gale-force winds. Winds of 30-35mph and gusts of up to 45mph were recorded on the East Lothian  course during the day.

Play was suspended at 11.30am with the hope that the winds would drop sufficiently for a resumption to be possible on the longest day of the year. However, officials were forced to abandon the idea at 6pm of getting the players back on the course.

Play is scheduled to resume at 7am on Thursday morning with the first round continuing and the second round taking place before an expected cut to the leading 50 players and ties on Friday morning.

No players finished their rounds before the abandonment but Fraser Mann showed his talent in the windy conditions to be one under par for the first nine holes.

 

 

SUPERMAC DOES IT AGAIN!

 

KELSEY (15) CLAIMS A THIRD NORTH

GOLF COURSE RECORD TO GO TO +1

 

Nairn schoolgirl Kelsey MacDonald, 15, has brought her golf handicap down to +1  by breaking a third course record over the past few weeks.

Her latest achievement was to return a 65 – eight under par and five under the CSS – in winnng the Highland schoolgirls championship at Kingussie

Golf Club.

Kelsey slashed five shots off the previous women’s record for the 5,091yd women’s course, which had stood at 70 since 1994.

Miss MacDonald had 10 birdies and two bogeys on her scorecard which read:

OUT: 3 4 4  5 5 3  4 3 4 – 35

   IN:  2 4 3  5 4 3  3 3 3 -  30

 

She birdied the first, second, sixth, ninth, 10^th, 12^th, 14^th and a glorious finish of birdies at the 16^th, 17^th and 18^th.

She had bogeys at the fifth and seventh.

Nairn Dunbar clubmate and Inverness Royal Academy pupil Eilidh Mackay was second to Kelsey in the Highland schoolgirls championship with an 86.

Eight under par seems to be Kelsey’s favourite figure as she has started to rewrite the record books of North of Scotland golf clubs. First she retained the Northern Counties women’s championship at Forres, lowering the record there to eight-under-par 64.

Then, over her home course at Nairn Dunbar, she brought the record down to 67, again eight under par.

Now Miss MacDonald has achieved a brilliant hat-trick of eight-under-par records.

 

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PGA EUROPRO TOUR EVENT

GALES SUSPEND PLAY AT WHITEKIRK

 

Gale-force winds forced an indefinite suspension of play at 11.30am on the first morning of the Kronenbourg Classic PGA EuroPro Tour 54-hole tournament at Whitekirk Golf Club, East Lothian today

 

 

BRITISH MEN'S AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP

RICHIE RAMSAY GOES DOWN IN HIS FIRST MATCH

Walker  Cup player Richie Ramsay (Royal Aberdeen) was knocked out in his first match-play tie of the British men's amateur championship at Royal St George's Golf Club, Kent today.

Ramsay lost by one hole to the No 1 qualifier, Llewellyn Matthews (Southerndown) in a second round match.

Bryan Fotheringham (Forres), Duncan Stewart (Grantown-on-Spey) and Scott Jamieson (Cathkin Braes) won their opening ties but Wallace Booth (Comrie) and former title-winner Craig Watson (East Renfrewshire) joined Richie Ramsay on the sidelines.

 

FIRST ROUND

Duncan Stewart (Grantown on Spey) bt Ben Westgate (Perranpath) 2 and 1.

Dustin Pimm (US) bt Wallace Booth (Comrie) 6 and 5.

Bryan Fotheringham (Forres) bt Martin Young (Brokenhurst Manor) 2 and 1.

Scott Jamieson (Cathkin Braes) bt Paul Waring (Bromborough) 3 and 2.

Lorenzo Gagli (Ita) bt C Watson (East Renfewshire) 2 and 1.

SECOND ROUN

Llewellyn Matthews (Southerndown) bt Richie Ramsay (Royal Aberdeen) 1 hole.

BRITISH UNIVERSITIES CHAMPIONSHIPS

RAMSAY PULLS OUT AFTER LEADING

STIRLING TO BRITISH TEAM VICTORY

Walker Cup player Richie Ramsay from Aberdeen helped Stirling University to win the British universities men’s team golf championship but did not stay on to contest the last two rounds of the individual title at De Vere Mottram Hall, Prestbury in Cheshire.

Ramsay, who has a handicap of +4, shot rounds of 71 and 69 and, with a 36-hole total of 140, the Royal Aberdeen player had a five-shot lead with two rounds to go in the individual championship, staged in conjunction with the two-round team event.

But Richie withdrew to have some time off before heading to Kent for the British men’s amateur championship.

Other members of the winning Stirling team were Euan Polson (Royal Dornoch), Paul Betty (Hayston) and Karl Shepherd. They totalled 441 to win by five shots from Northumbria with the Stirling No 2 team of Graham Turner, Jonathan Watt and Evan Bryceland, finishing third on 459.

Kerri Harper (Abertay University) from Inverness finished runner-up in the women’s individual championship. She had rounds of 82, 79, 84 and 78 for a total of 323 – eight shots behind title-winner Janet Phipps (Exeter).

Dawn Dewar (Stirling University) from Monifieth finished fourth on 334.

LEADING RESULTS

BRITISH UNIVERSITIES CHAMPIONSHIPS

De Vere Mottram Hall, Prestbury.

Leading scores:

MEN’S INDIVIDUAL

289 E Parker (Birmingham) 74 73 69 73.

291 S Heads (Northumbria) 69 77 77 68.

292 M Davies (Exeter) 72 75 72 73.

Other totals:

295 G Turner (Stirling) 74 76 74 71.

296 J Watt (Stirling) 74 77 73 72.

298 S Borrowman (Stirling) 72 74 76 76, K Shepherd (Stirling) 73 77 75 73.

306 E Polson (Stirling) 81 75 79 71.

308 C Colraine (Strathclyde 78 74 74 82, P Betty (Stirling) 76 77 72 83.

310 M Russo (Glasgow) 74 82 75 79, G Minnes (Strathclyde) 78 77 75 80.

MEN’S TEAM

441 Stirling (R Ramsay, E Polson, P Betty, K Shepherd).

446 Northumbria.

459 Stirling 2 (G Turner, J Watt, E Bryceland).

461 Bournemouth.

466 Stirling 3 (B Paterson, B Rushford, B Brooke, S Borrowman).

468 Bournemouth 2.

474 Strathclyde (C Colraine, A Gordon, D McInroy).

475 Strathclyde 2 (G Minnes, G McInroy, A Brown).

476 Glasgow (R Hutton, M Russo, C Morrison, P Mulcahy).

490 Plymouth.

WOMEN’S INDIVIDUAL

315 J Phipps (Exeter) 84 84 73 74.

323 K Harper (Abertay) 82 79 84 78.

330 J Campbell (Warwick) 81 84 82 83.

334 D Dewar (Stirling) 84 82 81 87.

Other totals:

346 C Winstanley (St Andrews) 94 91 80 81.

347 C Paterson (St Andrews) 84 88 89 86.