TOP SEED QUEEN TRUMPED AT CRUDEN BAY
Top seed Clare Queen was toppled by a three-handicap Edinburgh player, Karen Marshall, in the second round of the Scottish women's amateur golf championship at Cruden Bay today.
British stroke-play champion Miss Queen, who sailed through the qualifying stages with a three-under-par total and won her first match-play tie by 5 and 4 over Pamela Williamson (Baberton), was knocked out by 35-year-old Karen, another Baberton player, who took 14 more shots than Clare did on Tuesday and Wednesday and qualified in 17th place.
But, as the defending champion Anne Laing (Vale of Leven), said later, when she had made it through to the quarter-finals after a birdie battle with Sara Bishop (Windyhill): "Cruden Bay is a great match-play course and you cannot take anything for granted."
"I just kept plodding along, playing my own game and trying not to be too concerned with what my opponent was doing," said modest Miss Marshall whose 2 and 1 victory took her through to the quarter-finals, matching her best ever performance in the championship.
"Nothing happened for Clare at all against me. I was out in level par and all square and one under par coming home. I was never behind but there was only one hole in it for most of the way. I think the crucial holes for me were the 14th and 15th. I birdied them both to go two up and Clare could only halve the 16th and 17th.
On a bad day for the selectors of the Scotland squad of six for the European team championships in Sweden at the beginning of July, Louise Kenney (Pitreavie), a full international, lost out by 2 and 1 to Emily Ogilvy (Muckhart) in a battle between two American college players.
Louise has been an outstanding player for Iowa State University for the past two seasons. Emily, only 19, is beginning to find her feet at the University of Arkansas-Little Rock.
Miss Ogilvie birdied the first two holes against Miss Kenney and, though pulled back to all square at the 10th holes, forged clear again with winning birdies at the 14th and 15th.
Other teenagers in the last eight are Stirling University students Clare-Marie Carlton (Fereneze) and Kylie Walker (Buchanan Castle) and, of course, the 13-year-old overnight sensation of the tournament, Sally Watson from South Queensferry.
The Elie & Earlsferry player could yet give the SLGA selectors, who meet on Friday night to pick the six for Sweden, a major headache. Sally was four under par in beating the new Ayrshire champion, Lesley Hendry (Routenburn) by 4 and 2 in the second round.
Clare Queen's defeat opened up the top half of the draw and shortened the odds against Anne Laing becoming only the fourth player in the 102-year history of the championship to win the title three years in a row.
"Our better ball was 10 under par and I had six birdies and an eagle at the eighth," said Anne after she had kept calm and focused to win by 2 and 1 against her Dunbartonshire & Argyll county team foursomes partner, Sara Bishop.
Three times Midlothian county champion Claire Hargan (Mortonhall) had to go to the 23rd in the morning to beat San Diego State University student Heather MacRae (Dunblane New) and then ousted former champion Elaine Moffat (St Regulus) on the last green. Elaine had come back from three down after six holes with birdies at the 10th, 12th, 13th and 15th to be one up with three to play.
Kylie Walker beat Jenna Wilson (Strathaven), another Scotland team place contender, at the 19th which Jenna bogeyed. Kylie, two down twice on the outward half, birdied the 12th, 15th and 17th to be one up playing the 18th ... only to three-putt and let Jenna square the game with par 4.
Fife county champion Fiona Lockhart (St Regulus), suffering from a heavy cold, held on well to win by one hole against Gemma Wbster (Hilton Park).
Clare-Marie Carlton, making her debut in the champion, won by 2 and 1 over Claire MacDonald (Gullane). Clare birdied the 14th and 16th to edge ahead.
Friday morning quarter-finals:
8.30 Karen Marshall v Fiona Lockhart.
8.40 Kylie Walker v Claire Hargan.
8.50 Anne Laing v Clare-Marie Carlton.
9.0 Emma Ogilvy v Sally Watson.
Thursday afternoon results:
SECOND ROUND
Marshall bt Queen 2 and 1.
Lockhart bt Webster 1 hole.
Walker bt J Wilson at 19th.
Hargan bt Moffat 1 hole.
Laing bt Bishop 2 and 1.
Carlton bt C MacDonald 2 and 1.
Ogilvy bt Kenney 2 and 1.
Watson bt Hendry 4 and 2.
Top seed Clare Queen was toppled by a three-handicap Edinburgh player, Karen Marshall, in the second round of the Scottish women's amateur golf championship at Cruden Bay today.
British stroke-play champion Miss Queen, who sailed through the qualifying stages with a three-under-par total and won her first match-play tie by 5 and 4 over Pamela Williamson (Baberton), was knocked out by 35-year-old Karen, another Baberton player, who took 14 more shots than Clare did on Tuesday and Wednesday and qualified in 17th place.
But, as the defending champion Anne Laing (Vale of Leven), said later, when she had made it through to the quarter-finals after a birdie battle with Sara Bishop (Windyhill): "Cruden Bay is a great match-play course and you cannot take anything for granted."
"I just kept plodding along, playing my own game and trying not to be too concerned with what my opponent was doing," said modest Miss Marshall whose 2 and 1 victory took her through to the quarter-finals, matching her best ever performance in the championship.
"Nothing happened for Clare at all against me. I was out in level par and all square and one under par coming home. I was never behind but there was only one hole in it for most of the way. I think the crucial holes for me were the 14th and 15th. I birdied them both to go two up and Clare could only halve the 16th and 17th.
On a bad day for the selectors of the Scotland squad of six for the European team championships in Sweden at the beginning of July, Louise Kenney (Pitreavie), a full international, lost out by 2 and 1 to Emily Ogilvy (Muckhart) in a battle between two American college players.
Louise has been an outstanding player for Iowa State University for the past two seasons. Emily, only 19, is beginning to find her feet at the University of Arkansas-Little Rock.
Miss Ogilvie birdied the first two holes against Miss Kenney and, though pulled back to all square at the 10th holes, forged clear again with winning birdies at the 14th and 15th.
Other teenagers in the last eight are Stirling University students Clare-Marie Carlton (Fereneze) and Kylie Walker (Buchanan Castle) and, of course, the 13-year-old overnight sensation of the tournament, Sally Watson from South Queensferry.
The Elie & Earlsferry player could yet give the SLGA selectors, who meet on Friday night to pick the six for Sweden, a major headache. Sally was four under par in beating the new Ayrshire champion, Lesley Hendry (Routenburn) by 4 and 2 in the second round.
Clare Queen's defeat opened up the top half of the draw and shortened the odds against Anne Laing becoming only the fourth player in the 102-year history of the championship to win the title three years in a row.
"Our better ball was 10 under par and I had six birdies and an eagle at the eighth," said Anne after she had kept calm and focused to win by 2 and 1 against her Dunbartonshire & Argyll county team foursomes partner, Sara Bishop.
Three times Midlothian county champion Claire Hargan (Mortonhall) had to go to the 23rd in the morning to beat San Diego State University student Heather MacRae (Dunblane New) and then ousted former champion Elaine Moffat (St Regulus) on the last green. Elaine had come back from three down after six holes with birdies at the 10th, 12th, 13th and 15th to be one up with three to play.
Kylie Walker beat Jenna Wilson (Strathaven), another Scotland team place contender, at the 19th which Jenna bogeyed. Kylie, two down twice on the outward half, birdied the 12th, 15th and 17th to be one up playing the 18th ... only to three-putt and let Jenna square the game with par 4.
Fife county champion Fiona Lockhart (St Regulus), suffering from a heavy cold, held on well to win by one hole against Gemma Wbster (Hilton Park).
Clare-Marie Carlton, making her debut in the champion, won by 2 and 1 over Claire MacDonald (Gullane). Clare birdied the 14th and 16th to edge ahead.
Friday morning quarter-finals:
8.30 Karen Marshall v Fiona Lockhart.
8.40 Kylie Walker v Claire Hargan.
8.50 Anne Laing v Clare-Marie Carlton.
9.0 Emma Ogilvy v Sally Watson.
Thursday afternoon results:
SECOND ROUND
Marshall bt Queen 2 and 1.
Lockhart bt Webster 1 hole.
Walker bt J Wilson at 19th.
Hargan bt Moffat 1 hole.
Laing bt Bishop 2 and 1.
Carlton bt C MacDonald 2 and 1.
Ogilvy bt Kenney 2 and 1.
Watson bt Hendry 4 and 2.
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