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from Colin Farquharson YOUNGSTER KELLY FOLLOWS IN FOOTSTEPS OF JANICE MOODIE IT is unusual for one so young as 16-year-old Kelly Brotherton to win the BP Scottish Under-21 girls open amateur stroke-play championship as she did at Baberton Golf Club, Edinburgh when the tournament was cut from three rounds to 36 holes because of first lightning and then flooding on the second day. For instance, the previous winners of the tournament include Solheim Cup and US LPGA circuit star Janice Moodie in 1993 but she was past her 20th birthday before she achieved that success and even Vikki Laing, who made her Curtis Cup debut at Fox Chapel this/last month, was 17 years and four months when she won the Under-21 title in 1998. Does that mean in Kelly, whose two rounds of four-under-par 68 against the repeating CSS of 71 cut her handicap from two, is going to be a better player than Miss Laing and even Miss Moodie? Only time will tell and who knows if Miss Brotherton from the Tulliallan club would have retained her overnight lead had bad weather not prevented the schedule third round from being played? In her victory speech, Kelly gracefully said she felt that the bad weather had been kind to her and that Clare Queen from Drumpellier, the 2001 British girls match and stroke-play champion, would very probably have overtaken her had the final 18 holes been played. But, give credit to Miss Brotherton. Although chosen to make her girls' home international debut for Scotland, she was not really expected to finish ahead of Miss Queen and the two other older girls, who will also make their women's home international debuts at The Berkshire - Pamela Feggans (Barassie) and Susie Laing (Troon Ladies). Certainly, there is no question that Kelly played the best competitive golf of her young life and this might well be the springboard to the greater things achieved by Vikki Laing and Janice Moodie. Miss Brotherton had five birdies in her first-morning round of 69 and just to show it was no fluke she went out and repeated her three-under-par score with one fewer birdie. But for a bogey at the last, her only one of the round, Kelly would have led Clare Queen by two shots, not one after 36 holes. Clare had rounds of 70 and 69 for 139. Miss Queen's second round was a roller-coaster ride of birdies and bogeys. She had eight birdies and five bogeys, including shots dropped at the 13th, 15th and 17th. Heather MacRae (Dunblane), last year's BP Scottish girls match-play champion, had been the first-round pacemaker with a 68 but she slipped back to third place with a second-round 75. In fourth place on 142 was the improving Susie Laing, whose rating on the American women's college circuit as a University of San Francisco student climbed steadily in 2001-2002/ She was rock steady with a pair of 71s for two-under-par 142 and it was not beyond the bounds of possibility that had a third round been played and more putts had dropped for her than in the first 36 holes, she could have a lot closer to the winning total. SCOREBOARD BP SCOTTISH UNDER-21 GIRLS OPEN STROKE-PLAY CHAMPIONSHIP Baberton GC, Edinburgh FINAL TOTALS (CSS 71 71) 138 K Brotherton (Tulliallan) 69 69. 139 C Queen (Drumpellier) 70 69. 141 H MacRae (Dunblane New) 68 73. 143 S Laing (Troon Ladies) 71 71. 143 L Kenney (Pitreavie) 69 74. 144 K Erlendsdottir (Iceland) 72 72. 145 N B Geirsdottir (Iceland) 73 72, A Shamash (Kirkcudbright) 71 74, K O'Sullivan (Cochrane Castle) 70 74. 148 L Devenish (Cruden Bay) 73 75. 149 J Wilson (Strathaven) 77 72, P Feggans (Barassie) 76 73, A Bushby (Letham Grange) 72 77. 150 E Cuthill (Lanark) 80 70, L Ruane (Cardross) 77 73, K Wells (Dumfries & Co) 73 77. 151 K D Hilmarsdottir (Iceland) 79 72, S-D Wilson (Murcar) 78 73, F Blum (Germany) 77 74. 152 C McNeill (Milngtavie) 77 75, L Walker (Nairn Dunbar) 76 76, A L Johannsdottir (Iceland) 75 77, D Dewar (Monifieth) 71 81. 154 C Murray (Dumfries & Co) 81 73. 155 D Anisimova (Moscow City) 77 78, A Ramsay (Kirriemuir) 75 80. 156 L Aitken (Falkirk Truyst) 81 75, E Ogilvy (Muckhart) 80 76, K Caithness (St Regulus) 77 79, V Chueprasert (Germany) 77 79. 157 A Edwards (Liberton) 81 76, J Mainberger (Germany) 79 78. 159 K Harper (Inverness) 81 78, C-M Carlton (Fereneze) 76 83. 160 F Hindshaw (Gullane Ladies) 82 78, G Webster (Hilton Park) 80 80. 161 L Hendry (Routenburn) 80 81. 162 S Main (Moray) 81 81, F Gilbert Carnoustie) 79 83. 164 L Nelson (Saline) 80 84, V Stevenson (Stirling) 79 85. 165 G Davidson (Saline) 81 84, S Crolla (Longniddry) 79 86. 166 L Rolland (Dunfermline) 85 81, L Williamson (Kilmarnock Barassie) 83 83, K Walker (Buchanan Castle) 81 85. 167 G Barraclough (Hilton Park) 83 84. 168 V Caudwell (Manchester) 84 84, R Niven (Crieff) 84 84, A Mitchell (Ranfurly Castle) 83 85. 169 K Thomson (Kintore) 90 79, J McNicoll (Longniddry) 85 84, B Copland (Scotscaig) 85 84, A Stewart (Ballumbie Castle) 83 86. 171 E Fairnie (Minto) 86 85, C Paterson (Longndiddry) 854 86. 172 A Ingram (Fort William) 86 86. 173 C Booth (Comrie) 89 84. 174 S Kettlewell (Dunblane) 93 81. 175 C McLoughlin (Kilspindie) 89 86, I Stubley (Prestwick St Nicholas) 84 91, J Turner (Glencorse) 82 93. 178 H Harvey (St Regulus) 92 75, R Clark (Dumfries & Co) 89 89. 180 S Horsburgh (Dunbar) 91 89. 181 A Forrest (Broomieknowe) 93 86. , K MacDonald (Nairn Dunbar) 87 94. 182 K Fortune (Haddington) 97 85. 184 M Briggs (Ranfurly Castle) 96 88. 187 F Williamson (Barassie) 95 92, S Heron (Baberton) 92 95. 189 S McCartney (St Regulus) 97 92. 190 E Linn (Bermuda) 95 95. PRIZEWINNERS OUTWITH CHAMPIONSHIP 1-2-3 Round 1 Best U-14 net, Jane Turner (Glencorse) (13) 69. Best U-16 net, Kyle Walker (Buchanan Castle) (15) 66. Best U-18 net, Kate O'Sullivan (Cochrane Castle) (6) 64. Best U-21 net, Heather MacRae (Dunblane New) (2) 66. Best scratch, Heather MacRae (Dunblane New) 68. Round 2 Best U-14 net, Sally Kettlewell (Dunblane New) (14) 67. Best U-16 net, Amanda Forrest (Broomieknowe) (23) 65. Best U-18 net, Sjavon-Dee Wilson (Murcar) (6) 67. Best U-21 net, Elaine Cuthill (Lanark) 3) 67 (better inward half). Overall winners Best net aggregate, Kate O'Sullivan (Cochrane Castle) (6) 64+69, 133. Best U-14 scratch aggregate, Krystle Caithness (St Regulus) 77+79, 156. Best U-16 scratch aggregate, Franziska Blum (Germany) 77+74, 151. Best U-18 gross aggregate (Menzies Trophy), Kelly Brotherton (Tulliallan) 69+69, 138. |
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