FIFE WOMEN'S COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIP

EMMA AND KRYSTLE GO OUT
FIRST-ROUND SURPRISES
Top seed Emma Wilson, playing over her home course, fell at the first hurdle in the match-play stages of the Fife women's county golf championship at Elie today.
Emma, the Scottish Ladies Golfing Association chairman, was beaten 7 and 5 by Lorna Fury (Thornton), the 1999 champion.
Other surprise results included the 20th hole victory of Lorna Bennett (Ladybank), a multi-winner of the Fife title in the 1980s, 90s and again in 2003, over the Scottish girls' champion Krystle Caithness (St Regulus).
Results:
FIRST ROUND
Lorna Fury (Thornton) bt Emma Wilson (Elie & Earlsferry Ladies) 7 and 5.
Fiona Lockhart (St Regulus) bt Pat Simpson (Lundin Ladies) 7 and 6.
Katrina Milne (Dunfermline) bt Dorothy Ford (Scotscraig) 1 hole.
Becky Copland (Scotscraig) bt J Duncan (Balbirnie Park) 2 and 1.
Jane Whiteford (Leven) bt Lesley Rolland (Dunfermline) 3 and 2.
Lornia Bennett (Ladybank) bt Krystle Caithness (St Regulus) at 20th.
Susan Miller (Kirkcaldy) bt Jo Carthew (Ladybank) 2 holes.
Elaine Moffat (St Regulus) bt Hannah Harvey (St Leonards) 4 and 2.