JUST CHAMPION - THAT'S LOUISE FLEMING
LOUISE FLEMING FIRST BORDERS PLAYER
TO WIN SCOTTISH JUNIOR WOMEN'S TITLE
Kelso teenager Louise Fleming became the first Borders player in the 50-year history of the Scottish junior women's open stroke-play golf championship to win the 54-hole tournament, sponsored by BP, over the West Kilbride Golf Club links today.
The 19-year-old Roxburghe Golf Club member maintained her three-stroke overnight lead with a one-under-par final round of 72 for a final total of one-under-par 218.
Runner-up was playing partner and former Scottish schoolgirls champion Clare-Marie Carlton (Stirling University) who also had a 72 for 221.
Miss Fleming, a golf scholarship student at Jacksonville State University, Alabama, returned from the United States for the summer vacation only four weeks ago and since then has cut her handicap from three to one.
"I was pretty solid over the three rounds - down the middle mostly, which was important on a course like West Kilbride. The rough was pretty tough at some holes." said Louise. "My game has improved 100 per cent since I moved from Minnesota University to Jacksonville State at the start of the 2004-2005 collegte golf season.
"Colette Murray, who comes from Dumfries and is assistant golf coach at Jacksonville State, persuaded me to transfer from Minnesota - and it's been a great move for me. I was a Scotland girl international and won the South of Scotland women's championship in 2001 but I am a far better player now than I used to be .... thanks to playing regularly with and against very good players on the American college circuit."
Louise's outward half on her final round was typical of her new-found steadiness - she parred every hole to keep her challengers, headed by Clare-Marie Carlton, at a safe distance.
After the turn and with the wind behind her at most of the holes, Miss Fleming birdied the 11th, 13th, 15th and 18th and could afford the luxury of bogeys at the 12th, 16th and 17th and still not be in danger of behind headed with two halves of 36.
Miss Carlton birdied the eighth, 11th and 13th and had bogeys at the 10th and 15th in halves of 35 and 37.
Krystle Caithness (St Regulus), the 16-year-old Fifer who will defend her Scottish Under-18 girls' match-play title at Tain later this month, finished third with a 73 for 225. She won the Menzies Trophy for the best aggregate by an Under-18 player.
TO WIN SCOTTISH JUNIOR WOMEN'S TITLE
Kelso teenager Louise Fleming became the first Borders player in the 50-year history of the Scottish junior women's open stroke-play golf championship to win the 54-hole tournament, sponsored by BP, over the West Kilbride Golf Club links today.
The 19-year-old Roxburghe Golf Club member maintained her three-stroke overnight lead with a one-under-par final round of 72 for a final total of one-under-par 218.
Runner-up was playing partner and former Scottish schoolgirls champion Clare-Marie Carlton (Stirling University) who also had a 72 for 221.
Miss Fleming, a golf scholarship student at Jacksonville State University, Alabama, returned from the United States for the summer vacation only four weeks ago and since then has cut her handicap from three to one.
"I was pretty solid over the three rounds - down the middle mostly, which was important on a course like West Kilbride. The rough was pretty tough at some holes." said Louise. "My game has improved 100 per cent since I moved from Minnesota University to Jacksonville State at the start of the 2004-2005 collegte golf season.
"Colette Murray, who comes from Dumfries and is assistant golf coach at Jacksonville State, persuaded me to transfer from Minnesota - and it's been a great move for me. I was a Scotland girl international and won the South of Scotland women's championship in 2001 but I am a far better player now than I used to be .... thanks to playing regularly with and against very good players on the American college circuit."
Louise's outward half on her final round was typical of her new-found steadiness - she parred every hole to keep her challengers, headed by Clare-Marie Carlton, at a safe distance.
After the turn and with the wind behind her at most of the holes, Miss Fleming birdied the 11th, 13th, 15th and 18th and could afford the luxury of bogeys at the 12th, 16th and 17th and still not be in danger of behind headed with two halves of 36.
Miss Carlton birdied the eighth, 11th and 13th and had bogeys at the 10th and 15th in halves of 35 and 37.
Krystle Caithness (St Regulus), the 16-year-old Fifer who will defend her Scottish Under-18 girls' match-play title at Tain later this month, finished third with a 73 for 225. She won the Menzies Trophy for the best aggregate by an Under-18 player.
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