EUROPEAN GIRLS TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP

 

KRYSTLE SHINES FOR THIRD-PLACED

SCOTS GIRLS IN DENMARK

 Krystle Caithness pulled Scotland through into a satisfactory third place behind Sweden and Spain at the end of the first qualifying round in the European girls’ team championship over a tough Marbaek course at Esbjerg in Denmark today.

The Scots need to finish in the top eight at the end of the second qualifying round to gain a place in the championship match-play flight.

St Regulus club member Krystle recaptured the form that won her the St Rule Trophy with a one-over-par round of 72 on a day when only one player, Sweden’s Camilla Lennarth, scored under par.

Krystle had halves of 38 and 34.

Carly Booth from Comrie returned a 75 with halves of 40 and 35.

Roseanne Niven from Crief also took 40 for the testing outward half and an inward 37 gave her a 77, which was the last counting score – three from four – for Scotland, giving them a team tally of 224, compared with Sweden’s 216 and Spain’s 219.

It was not a good day for 15-year-old Kelsey MacDonald from Nairn. She was going all right when she reached the turn in 39 – second-best in the Scots squad. Then She ran up a quadruple bogey 8 at the ninth, followed quickly by double-bogey 6s at both the 11^th and 12^th. Another double bogey 5 at the short 17^th capped her nightmare second nine which cost her 46 shots for a round of 85.

TEAM SCORES

FIRST ROUND

216 Sweden.

219 Spain.

224 Scotland.

226 Germany.

228 Norway, England.

230 Denmark.

231 Netherlands.

231 Belgium.

234 Switzerland.

235 France.

237 Italy.

238 Ireland, Wales.

239 Latvia.

243 Finland, Iceland.

246 Czech Republic.

SCOTLAND SCORES

72 K Caithness 38-34.

75 C Booth 40-35.

77 R Niven 40-37.

85 K MacDonald 39-46.