BELGIAN JUNIOR NATIONS OPEN

KELSEY THIRD, ROSEANNE SEVENTH

AFTER THEY WIN TEAM TROPHY

Overnight leader Kelsey MacDonald (Nairn Dunbar) finished third in the girls’ championship of the Belgian Junior Nations Open at Royal Golf Club of Belgium, near Brussels on Saturday.
Kelsey was the halfway leader with a pair of 74s. Then heavy rain washed out the scheduled third round, reducing the event to a 54-hole contest. In the final round, Miss MacDonald, 15, had a 78 for 226, which allowed her rivals to close the gap.
Only one headed her – Belgium’s Lien Willems who had scores of 73, 78 and 74 for 225 to win the Louise Van Den Berghe Cup.
Kelsey’s overnight lead had disappeared over the first two holes. She had a double-bogey at each of them. But she kept her composure and, in fact, had recovered so much that she came to the last hole level with the eventual winner, Lien Willems.
Unfortunately, Kelsey finished with a bogey while her rival closed with a par – and that was the difference between them at the end of 54 holes.
Fanny Vuignier (Switzerland) matched Kelsey’s 226 total with scores of 77, 72 and 77 and was officially placed second because she had a better last round than the Scot.
Roseanne Niven (Crieff) finished seventh with 76, 80 and 74 for 230.
Consolation for the Scottish girls is that they won the Team Trophy based on scores in the first two rounds and Kelsey MacDonald also finished second in the girls’ long-driving competition with a tee shot of 226 metres (the winner, a French girl, had a drive of 248 metres).
Dawn Marie Conaty (Ireland) finished 23rd on 237 (81-79-77).
Belgium also provided the winner of the boys’ championship for the Flory Van Donck Cup. Dimitri Van Doren scored 72, 70 and 71 for a three-stroke with with a total of 213.
Sam McLaren (King James VI) finished 53rd with 77, 77 and 79 for 233.
Paul Shields (Kirkhill) came 58th with 79, 76 and 81 for 236.

BELGIAN JUNIOR NATIONS OPEN
Royal Golf Club of Belgium, nr Brussels
LEADING FINAL TOTALS
BOYS
213 D Van Doren (Bel) 72 70 71.
216 F Schutte (Ger) 71 75 70, N Nissen (Den) 71 71 74.
Other totals:
220 S Ward (Ire) 77 69 74 (8th).
227 D Lernihan (Ire) 78 72 77 (22nd).
231 J Vickery (Wal) 79 74 78 (46th).
233 S McLaren (Sco) 77 77 79 (53rd).
236 P Shields (Sco) 79 76 81 (58th).
250 R Bentham (Wal) 82 86 82 (63rd).
GIRLS
225 L Willems (Bel) 73 78 74.
226 F Vuignier (Swi) 77 72 77, K MacDonald (Sco) 74 74 78.
Other totals:
230 R Niven (Sco) 76 80 74 (7th).
237 D M Conaty (Ire) 81 79 77 (23rd).