from Colin Farquharson
STEVEN PIPS EMMA FOR ROYAL DORNOCH JUNIOR OPEN TITLE
STEVEN Querns (Glasgow Victoria) won the overall championship for the
Peter de Savary Trophy at the Donald Ross junior open tournament at Royal
Dornoch Golf Club on Wednesday in the tightest of finishes with Emma Fernie
(Minto).
They both totalled 40 pt under the competition's stableford format. A
card countback gave Steven the No 1 position with 22pt for the inward
half to Emma's 19.
Querns had finished fourth in the boys' section of the recent Bank of
Scotland Junior Masters over the Queen's Course, Gleneagles.
Emma Fairnie is a 14-year-old pupil at Loretto School, Musselburgh. She
plays off 13 and had a gross score of 87, with a 7 at the second hole.
She finished down the field in the Gleneagles event but, over a much tougher
course in the Royal Dornoch championship links, she improved by a considerable
margin.
Emma won the "Best Girl" title by one point from Kylie Walker (Buchanan
Castle). Kylie was runner-up in the Bank of Scotland Junior Masters' girls'
section.
Alison Tait (Moffat) was third with 38pt.
In the "Best Boy" category, Andrew Stewart (Aberdour) just had the edge
over Andrew Wright (The Roxburghe) after they both totalled 39pt. The
inward half points scores were the tie-breaker again with Stewart scoring
20 over the second nine, and Wright 19.
Andrew Stewart also has the best gross score of the day, a 73, despite
a double-bogey 5 at6 the sixth. He finished the outward half birdie-eagle.
Steven Querns had a gross 76 (40-36).
A total of 96 boys and girls took part, some from as far away as Iceland,
Norway and Sweden.
Leading scores:
Overall winner
Steven Querns (Glasgow Victoria) (10) 40pt (better inward half).
Boys
A Stewart (Aberdour) (6) (bih), A Wright (The Roxburghe) (20) 39; C Walker
(Murcar) (14), R Dennison (Muir of Ord) (8), B Bruce (Hopeman) (8) 37;
J Sawyer (Royal Dornoch) (11), K Austin (Peterculter) (11), E Montgomery
(Musselburgh) (24) 36; S Campbell (Royal Dornoch) (8), J Riddell (Craigie
Hill) (10), K Morrison (Tain) (16), C Watson (Tain) (20), B Paton (Gordonstoun)
(8) 35.
Girls
E Fairnie (Minto) (13) 40pt; K Walker (Buchanan Castle) (12) 39; A Tait
(Moffat) (14) 38; J Jones (McDonald Ellon) (24) (bih), L Murray (Alford)
(13) 35; B Copland (Scotscraig) (12) 34; L Hendry (Routenburn) (16), N
Green (Nairn) (20) 32; S Kettlewell (Dunblane New) (13) 31; J Rutqvist
(Sweden) (6) 29; A Ingram (Fort William) (13), L McIntosh (Blairgowrie)
(21), N MacNeil (Vale of Leven) (24) 28; T Figenschou (Norway) (35) 27;
K MacDonald (Nairn Dunbar) (10) 26; R Niven (Crieff) (9) 25; H Harvey
(St Leonards) (13) 24; A Niven (Crieff) (23) 22; T Quinn (East Renfrewshire)
(20) 21; C Boerger (Gordonstoun) (26) 19; K Murray (Alford) (26) 14.
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