EAST DIVISION COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIP

 MIDLOTHIAN'S GOOD START TO TITLE DEFENCE

Scottish title-holders Midlothian made a good start to their defence of the East Division women’s inter-county team golf championship at Dunbar Golf Club today.

They beat Stirling & Clackmannan 6 ½ -2 ½ after taking a 3-0 lead from the morning foursomes.

Claire Hargan (Mortonhall) won the top singles tie for Midlothian, beating Curtis Cup team first reserve Heather MacRae (Dunblane) by 4 and 3.

Fife shade East Lothian 5-4, that vital point of a difference coming from a 2-1 morning lead gained in the foursomes.

Two St Regulus players, Krystle Caithness (St Regulus), Curtis Cup team second reserve, and last year’s Scottish champion, Fiona Lockhart, finished the day as double winners for Fife.

Results:

 

EAST DIVISION WOMEN’S INTER-COUNTY TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP

Dunbar Golf Club.

DAY 1

 

FIFE 5, EAST LOTHIAN 4

 

Foursomes: L Kenney & J Carthew lost to F Prior & L Mortenson 3 and 1; E Moffat & F Lockhart bt L Fortune & E Fairnie 5 and 4; K Caithness & K Milne bt J Smith & K Brotherton 1 hole (2-1).

Singles: Kenney bt Prior 1 hole, Caithness bt Mortensen 3 and 2, Moffat lost to Fairnie 3 and 2, Lockhart bt S McMaster 3 and 1, L Bennett lost to M Thomson 3 and 2, Carthew lost to Brotherton 1 hole (3-3)

 

MIDLOTHIAN 6 ½ , STIRLING & CLACKMANNAN 2 ½.

 

Foursomes: K Blackwood & C MacDonald bt A Davidson & Lesley Robertson 5 and 4; K Marshall & W Nicholson bt S Mitchell & Linda Robertson 4 and 2; C Hargan & B Murphy bt S Macgregor & V Stephenson 5 and 4 (3-0).

Singles: Hargan bt H MacRae 4 and 3, MacDonald halved with Linda Robertson, H Laughland lost to Davidson 2 and 1, R Livingstone lost to Mitchell 2 and 1, Marshall bt M Tough 1 hole, Blackwood bt E Allison 3 and 1 (3 ½-2 ½)