JUNIOR GOLF RESULTS FROM NORTH
KELSEY MACDONALD (14) SETS WOMEN'S
COURSE RECORD AT SKIBO CASTLE
By ROBIN WILSON (Golfview Magazine)
The 2nd Highland junior championships, supported by Skibo Castle’s Carnegie Club, the Highland Council and the Tulloch Group, attracted an entry of 90, all eager to play the exclusive Carnegie Links.
Kelsey Macdonald recording a women’s course record score of 75 and retained the girls’ Championship.
Her Nairn Dunbar clubmate Neil Howat won the boys’ title with a fine par round of 71 over a very difficult course for juniors. He edged out John Forbes (Inverness) – who also scored a 71 – with a better last nine holes.
Kelsey MacDonald has just turned 14 years of age and already this season she has taken tremendous strides in golfing achievements. With her handicap now reduced to three, she became one of the youngest qualifiers for the match-play stages of the Scottish women’s championship at Prestwick in May and last month was selected for the Northern Counties team who made a successful defence of the Scottish women’s county championship across the road for where she lives at her home course of Nairn Dunbar.
Kelsey made a successful defence of the Grant Trophy over the Carnegie Links with a course record score from the LGU tees of 75. At the end of play David Thomson, head professional to the Carnegie Club, marked the achievement by presenting her with a specially inscribed medal.
The ladies’ par is also 71 for the 5,321yd test and Kelsey matched the outward par of 35 with birdies at both par fives and a birdie at the 221yd seventh hole where she drove the green.
A spot of bother in a bunker at the 12th cost her a couple of shots and she missed her par 3 at the 15th but, had she been able to take advantage of a lucky break at the final hole, she could so easily have scored 74.
The sea inlet below Skibo Castle skirts the final par-5 hole and Kelsey’s second shot was heading for the hazard but, while she was bending over her bag to take out a second ball, her first was rebounding from the rocky shore back on to the fairway.
Kelsey’s third shot to the green was hit heavy and short and with three more to hole out she recorded a second half 40 for 75.
Leading Scores.
GIRLS
Grant Trophy – 75 K MacDonald (Nairn Dunbar).
84 A Ingram (Fortwilliam).
87 N Green (Nairn).
Sutherland Trophy – N Green (Nairn) (13) 74, D McKinnon (Durness) (28) 77, C Macleod (Nairn Dunbar) (28) 78.
BOYS
Duncan Allan Quaich - 71 N Howat (Nairn Dunbar), J Forbes (Inverness).
74 M Watson (Elgin), P. Cameron (F&R).
75 E Polson (Royal Dornoch).
76 B Weatherall (Muir of Ord), D O’Brien (Brora).
77 M Murray (Brora), J. Fair (Fortrose & Rosemarkie), S Kinnaird (F&R).
78 R. Elder Nairn Dunbar), C. Gaitens (F&R), J. Fraser (Royal Dornoch). 79 M. Brand (Tain). 80 D. Hexley (Inverness).
Skibo Trophy – P Cameron (F&R) (5) 69, J Fair (F&R) (6), S Kinnaird (F&R) (6) 71.
Highland Clubgolf Trophy – F MacIntosh (F&R) (11) 70, J Treasurer (Castle Heather) (13) 71, C. Graham (Alness) (12) 72.
The Bonar Shield – C Mackay (Golspie) (21) 68, J. Nicholas (Torvean) (24) 71, C. Sutherland (Royal Dornoch) (19) 72.
GLENEAGLES WINNER ROSS STRIKES
AGAIN AT ROYAL DORNOCH
Three days after winning the Bank of Scotland Junior Masters Grand Final at the Queen’s Course, Gleneagles, West Linton’s Ross MacNab triumphed in the Donald Ross Junior Invitation tournament at Royal Dornoch.
Even with the 15 year old’s reduction in handicap from 21 to 18 from his Gleneagles score, he was still able to record 35 points in not too pleasant conditions over Royal Dornoch’s championship links.
MacNab won by two points from Banchory’s James Byrne and Northern Counties girls champion Ashton Ingram (Fort William).
Three handicapper Byrne had the consolation of winning the Royal Dornoch Trophy with a 77 as the leading scratch score and Ingram was the leading girl competitor.
The entry topped the 100 mark with competitors travelling from Denmark, Norway and Sweden to take part. Frida Nilsson, a four handicap girl from Piteaa Golf Club in Sweden, was the second placed girl and Lauren MacCallum from Newburgh came third.
COURSE RECORD AT SKIBO CASTLE
By ROBIN WILSON (Golfview Magazine)
The 2nd Highland junior championships, supported by Skibo Castle’s Carnegie Club, the Highland Council and the Tulloch Group, attracted an entry of 90, all eager to play the exclusive Carnegie Links.
Kelsey Macdonald recording a women’s course record score of 75 and retained the girls’ Championship.
Her Nairn Dunbar clubmate Neil Howat won the boys’ title with a fine par round of 71 over a very difficult course for juniors. He edged out John Forbes (Inverness) – who also scored a 71 – with a better last nine holes.
Kelsey MacDonald has just turned 14 years of age and already this season she has taken tremendous strides in golfing achievements. With her handicap now reduced to three, she became one of the youngest qualifiers for the match-play stages of the Scottish women’s championship at Prestwick in May and last month was selected for the Northern Counties team who made a successful defence of the Scottish women’s county championship across the road for where she lives at her home course of Nairn Dunbar.
Kelsey made a successful defence of the Grant Trophy over the Carnegie Links with a course record score from the LGU tees of 75. At the end of play David Thomson, head professional to the Carnegie Club, marked the achievement by presenting her with a specially inscribed medal.
The ladies’ par is also 71 for the 5,321yd test and Kelsey matched the outward par of 35 with birdies at both par fives and a birdie at the 221yd seventh hole where she drove the green.
A spot of bother in a bunker at the 12th cost her a couple of shots and she missed her par 3 at the 15th but, had she been able to take advantage of a lucky break at the final hole, she could so easily have scored 74.
The sea inlet below Skibo Castle skirts the final par-5 hole and Kelsey’s second shot was heading for the hazard but, while she was bending over her bag to take out a second ball, her first was rebounding from the rocky shore back on to the fairway.
Kelsey’s third shot to the green was hit heavy and short and with three more to hole out she recorded a second half 40 for 75.
Leading Scores.
GIRLS
Grant Trophy – 75 K MacDonald (Nairn Dunbar).
84 A Ingram (Fortwilliam).
87 N Green (Nairn).
Sutherland Trophy – N Green (Nairn) (13) 74, D McKinnon (Durness) (28) 77, C Macleod (Nairn Dunbar) (28) 78.
BOYS
Duncan Allan Quaich - 71 N Howat (Nairn Dunbar), J Forbes (Inverness).
74 M Watson (Elgin), P. Cameron (F&R).
75 E Polson (Royal Dornoch).
76 B Weatherall (Muir of Ord), D O’Brien (Brora).
77 M Murray (Brora), J. Fair (Fortrose & Rosemarkie), S Kinnaird (F&R).
78 R. Elder Nairn Dunbar), C. Gaitens (F&R), J. Fraser (Royal Dornoch). 79 M. Brand (Tain). 80 D. Hexley (Inverness).
Skibo Trophy – P Cameron (F&R) (5) 69, J Fair (F&R) (6), S Kinnaird (F&R) (6) 71.
Highland Clubgolf Trophy – F MacIntosh (F&R) (11) 70, J Treasurer (Castle Heather) (13) 71, C. Graham (Alness) (12) 72.
The Bonar Shield – C Mackay (Golspie) (21) 68, J. Nicholas (Torvean) (24) 71, C. Sutherland (Royal Dornoch) (19) 72.
GLENEAGLES WINNER ROSS STRIKES
AGAIN AT ROYAL DORNOCH
Three days after winning the Bank of Scotland Junior Masters Grand Final at the Queen’s Course, Gleneagles, West Linton’s Ross MacNab triumphed in the Donald Ross Junior Invitation tournament at Royal Dornoch.
Even with the 15 year old’s reduction in handicap from 21 to 18 from his Gleneagles score, he was still able to record 35 points in not too pleasant conditions over Royal Dornoch’s championship links.
MacNab won by two points from Banchory’s James Byrne and Northern Counties girls champion Ashton Ingram (Fort William).
Three handicapper Byrne had the consolation of winning the Royal Dornoch Trophy with a 77 as the leading scratch score and Ingram was the leading girl competitor.
The entry topped the 100 mark with competitors travelling from Denmark, Norway and Sweden to take part. Frida Nilsson, a four handicap girl from Piteaa Golf Club in Sweden, was the second placed girl and Lauren MacCallum from Newburgh came third.
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