SCOTTISH SENIOR WOMEN'S CHAMPIONSHP

KATHLEEN SUTHERLAND LEADS AT SOUTHERNESS

ANGUS women's county golf captain Kathleen Sutherland (Royal Montrose) took a two-stroke halfway lead in the Scottish senior women's championship over the Southerness Golf Club links on the shores of the Solway Firth on Thursday with a round of 76.
That represented a good score in very windy conditions, periodically laced with rain, pushing the standard scratch score up by two shots from 73 to 75.
Miss Sutherland, who lives at Broughty Ferry and has won the Angus title several times, said she did "nothing spectacular, just played the ball from A to B to C."
Her closest rival at the start of Friday's second and final round is Heather Anderson (Troon Ladies), Scottish women's amateur champion in 1969 at West Kilbride and still a marvellous competitor in her 70s.
Karen Ballantyne (Craigmillar Park), winner of the title at Ballater 12 months ago, is lying joint 12th on 82.

Collated scoreboard

SCOTTISH SENIOR WOMEN'S CHAMPIONSHIPSoutherness Golf Club, near Dumfries
FIRST ROUND SCORES (SS 73, CSS 75)
76 Kathleen Sutherland (Royal Montrose).
78 Heather Anderson (Troon Ladies).
79 Anna Telfer (Milngavie), Noreen Fenton (Merchants of Edinburgh), Lorna Bennett (Ladybank), Ann Smart (Banchory).
80 Marian Wilson (Stranraer), Moira Thomson (North Berwick), Pamela Williamson (Baberton).
81 Emma Wilson (Elie & Earlsferry), Elizabeth Campbell (Torwoodlee).
82 Ruth Brown (Lothianburn), Lynne Terry (Cruden Bay), Rose Anderson (Huntly), Isobel Harvey (St Rule), Shelagh Quinn (Stirling), Pat Wilson (Murcar), Karen Ballantyne (Craigmillar Park).
83 Nancy Duncan (Brechin), Sheila Travers (Alloa), Frances Neish (Murcar).
84 Anne Prentice (Bothwell Castle), Jean Brydson (Castle Douglas), Margaret Hill (Powfoot), Rita Dee (Kingsknowe).
86 Stella Hodge (Aberdeen Ladies), Jean Lambert (Southerness), Vivienne Harper (Deeside).
88 Carol Whicher (Aberdeen Ladies), Carol Fell (Ranfurly Castle), Helen Faulds (Douglas Park), Jennifer Mack (Haggs Castle), Ros Dunsmuir (Cruden Bay).
89 Pat McGunnigle (Banchory).
90 Pamela Twinn (Aberdeen Ladies), Ann Moffat (St Regulus), Margaret Mowat (Troon Ladies), Midge Miller (Aberdeen Ladies), Pam Nicoll (Banchory).
91 Jean Bald (Aberdour).
92 Margaret McGregor (Dumfries & Co), Sally Coster (Hilton Park), Elizabeth Munro (Moray), Eleanor Fisken (Nairn), Judly Slater (Aboyne), Joy Robertson (Lundin Ladies).
93 Helen MacGregor (Hilton Park).
94 Sally Huntley (Wigton & Bladnoch), Marion Donald (Aberdeen Ladies).
95 Jenny Wheeler (Aberdeen Ladies), Pam Gordon (Inverness), Margaret Beattie (Thornhill), Elinor Grant (Douglas Park), Sheena McLennan (Nairn Dunbar).
96 Beth Duncan (Banchory), Morag Laycock (Lees Hall), Gillian Kirkwood (Broomieknowe), Sheila Reid (Aberdeen Ladies).
97 Gillian Glen (Craigmillar Park),. Doris Dunn (Dunblane New).
99 Anne Athol (Southerness), Mairi Orr (Tain), Anne Stalker (Aberdeen Ladies).