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from Colin Farquharson SCOTTISH UNDER-21 GIRLS GOLF PREVIEW WITH five of the six players from the Scotland team who failed narrowly to win a bronze medal in the recent European Under-21 girls' team championship in Moscow in the field, the BP Scottish junior women's open stroke-play championship at Baberton over 54 holes on Tuesday and Wednesday promises to be one of the most competitive in recent years.
But Moscow team-mates Susannah Laing (Troon Ladies) and Pamela Feggans (Barassie) have also earned their spurs for the women's internationals and should present a challenge. Susannah Laing (Troon Ladies) was one of the most improved players on the American women's college circuit - she is a student at the University of San Francisco - from last September through to May. Heather MacRae (Dunblane), last year's BP Scottish girls Under-18 match-play champion and winner of a tournament earlier this year in the United States where she attends McLennan College, Waco in Texas, was unlucky not to be selected for the Moscow trip and she won the Munross Trophy 36-hole Open at Montrose a few weeks ago. She will be out to prove a point to the Scottish Ladies Golfing Association selectors. Four years ago Vikki Laing (Musselburgh), whose selection for the Curtis Cup match ruled her out of this week's tournament, won both the Scottish girls' Under-18 and Under-21 titles. Bidding to complete that rare double is Laura Walker from Nairn Dunbar. She beat Gemma Webster (Hilton Park) by 2 and 1 in the final of the BP girls' match-play at Powfoot recently and has matured a lot after one year at the same Texas college as Heather MacRae. Others in the Baberton field with experience of the American college tournaments are Louise Kenney (Pitreavie and Iowa State University), Lyndsey Devenish (Cruden Bay and University of San Francisco) and Colette Murray (Dumfries & County and Jacksonville State, Alabama). It may well be, of course, that the title will go overseas for only the second time in its history. Kristin Elsa Erlendsdottir from Iceland and Clare Queen are the only scratch players in the field. |
Clare
Queen (Drumpellier), (pictured left) winner of two British girls' titles
last year and selected to make her debut for Scotland in the women's home
internationals at The Berkshire next month, is entitled to start favourite
after her success in the Mackie Bowl at Gullane on Sunday underlined her
current form. |
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