ANNE LAING PLAYS IN IRELAND

ANNE LAING IN IRELAND TO MAKE GUEST
LADIES CUP APPEARANCE FOR CORK

Left out of the Scotland women’s home international squad this week, three times Scottish champion Anne Laing will be making a guest appearance for Cork Golf Club this weekend in the national finals of the Suzuki All-Ireland Ladies Cup at Massereene Golf Club, Antrim.
Cork, with past Curtis Cup player Anne and Claire Coughlan, who played in this summer’s Curtis Cup match in Oregon, are obviously the favourites.
Cork face Royal County Down in Saturday first semi-final. Royal County Down will not lack confidence, however. Earlier in the tournament, they toppled Royal Portrush, champions for the past three years.
If any side can beat Cork it could be top seeds The Currah with Irish internationals Maura Morrin, Sinead Keane and Marian Riordan in their line-up. Their Saturday semi-final will be against the winners of Friday’s supplementary play-off between County Louth, champions of Leinster, and Roscommon, champions of Connacht.

Friday 2nd September
Play-off
1pm. Co. Louth -v- Roscommon.
Saturday 3rd September
Semi-finals
8am. Cork -v- Royal Co. Down Ladies.
8.40. The Curragh -v- Co Louth or Roscommon.
Final
2pm: Winners of semi-final 1 -v- winners of semi-final 2

IRISH U-15 BOYS CHAMPIONSHIP

IRISH UNDER-15 BOYS OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP
Hosted by Balbriggan Golf Club.
FINAL TOTALS
142: I Keane (Malahide) 72 70.
144: R McGee (City of Derry) 73 71.
145: R Whitson (Mourne) 76 69.
148: G McGee (Malone) 76 72.
149: D Mallon (Dungannon) 76 73, M O'Connor (England) 73 76, P Dunne (Greystones) 73 76, Q Carew (Edenderry) 72 77.
150: N McGlynn (Seafield) 77 73, M Mulhall (Royal Tara) 77 73, M Durcan (Co Sligo) 76 74, P McGlone (Dunmurry) 75 75, S O'Hara (Co Sligo) 72 78.
151: D McElroy (Ballymena) 78 73, C Dowling (Mallow) 76 75, S Cannon (Athenry) 75 76.
152: P Walsh (West Waterford) 79 73, C Selfridge (Moyola Park) 78 74, J Taylor (Shandon Park) 75 77.
153: A Darragh (Dunmurry) 76 77, B Stow (England) 76 77, C Fairweather (Knock) 76 77.
154: K Egan (Curragh) 81 73, C Hansom (Limerick) 76 78, C Finnerty (Corrstown) 74 80.
155: M Fanning (Co Louth) 81 74, D O'Sullivan (Strandhill) 78 77, S O'Connor (Skerries) 77 78, C O'Sullivan (Fota Island) 75 80.
156: W Chambers (England) 78 78, D Byrne (Athenry) 77 79.
157: H McHugh (Skerries) 80 77, J Pierse (Grange) 79 78, D Graham (Shandon Park) 77 80, B Graham (Canada) 76 81, A Stewart (Bangor) 76 81, S Brown (Athy) 74 83.
158: M McKnight (Lisburn) 80 78, P Higgins (Sutton) 80 78, C Glynn (Lucan) 78 80, D Cuddy (Castlebar) 77 81.
159: C Cahill (Navan) 79 80, A Welsh (Knock) 77 82.

SCOTTISH SENIOR WOMEN

SCOTTISH SENIOR WOMEN STRUGGLE TO
MASTER THE MACHRIHANISH MONSTER

The Machrihanish links, even off the par-72 women’s tees, proved a bit of a monster for the over-50s in the first round of the Scottish senior women’s amateur stroke-play championship today.
Only four players broke 80 with Ladybank’s Lorna Bennett leading the field with a 77.
One behind were the defending champion Pamela Williamson (Baberton) and Fiona De Vries. Moira Thomson (North Berwick) was two off the pace with an 80.
Scotland senior international Noreen Fenton (Merchants of Edinburgh) strained her back taking her caddie car out of her car boot – and she struggled round in 88.
There were some high scores at individual holes but, paradoxically, there was a very low score at the 159yd 16th – a hole in one by Rita Dee (Kingsknowe) with her driver. Rita finished on 82.
The stroke-play championship is over 36 holes at the end of which the 16 leading players will go forward to contest the match-play championship in what is now a four-day programme.

SCOTTISH SENIOR WOMEN’S AMATEUR STROKE-PLAY CHAMPIONSHIP
Machrihanish Golf Club.
LEADING FIRST-ROUND SCORES
77 L Bennett (Ladybank).
78 F De Vries (St Rule), P Williamson (Baberton).
79 M Thomson (North Berwick).
80 A Smart (Banchory).
81 H Faulds (Douglas Park), L Terry (Cruden Bay), R Brown (Lothianburn).
82 A Telfer (Milngavie), R Dee (Kingsknowe).
83 J McCartney (Erskine).
84 J Paterson (Drumpellier), N Smith (Downfield), I Harvey (St Rule), E Campbell (Torwoodlee), W MacCallum (Falkirk).
85 P Wilson (Murcar Links), R Anderson (Hntly).
86 E Wilson (Elie &Earslferry), M Tough (Falkirk), K Sutherland (Royal Montrose), S McGregor (Edzell).
87 A Moffat (St Regulus), K Ballantyne (Craigmillar Park).
88 J Mack (Haggs Castle), J Slater (Aboyne), S Quinn (Stirling), N Fenton (Merchants of Edinburgh).
89 A Brownie (Lothianburn), P Hutton (Lanark), I Crawford (Troon Ladies), V Watt (Torwoodlee).
90 M Neilson (Greenock).
91 I McIntosh (Inverness).
93 M MacNaughtan (Aberdeen Ladies), S Coster (Hilton Park), I Chapman (Forfar), M Clapperton (Banchory), S Hodge (Aberdeen Ladies), J Wheeler (Aberdeen Ladies).
94 E Young (Balmore).
95 E Fisken (Nairn), N Duncan (Brechin), P McGunnigle (Banchory), M Robinson (Murcar Links), H Kelly (Ladies Panmure Barry).

EUROPEAN INDIVIDUAL AMATEUR

ONLY TWO SCOTS LIKELY TO BEAT THE
THIRD-ROUND CUT IN HAMBURG

Only two of the six Scots in the field – Krystle Caithness (St Regulus) and Gemma Webster (Hilton Park) – are likely to survive the third-round cut in the European women’s amateur individual golf championship at Hamburg Falkenstein Golf Club in Germany.
Krystle dropped out of the top 20 to joint 39th place with a 76 for seven-over-par 149. She birdied the second and 13th but had a double-bogey 6 at the 14th in halves of 40 and 36.
Gemma also had a double-bogey 6, at the 12th , but had birdies either side in halves of 38 and 36 for a 74 and a halfway tally of 150. She is in joint 45th place.
Only the leading 70 and ties in a field of 136 after Friday’s third round will go forward to the final 18 holes.
That means Heather MacRae (Dunblane New) in joint 82nd place on 154 (79-75), Jenna Wilson (Strathaven) in joint 88th place on 155 (73-82), Kylie Walker (Buchanan Castle) in 106th spot on 158 (82-76) and Clare-Marie Carlton (Stirling University) in joint 111th place on 160 (78-82) need to make big improvements to beat the cut.
Jenna Wilson had the biggest fall from grace. Her 82 included a quadruple bogey 8 at the fifth and a double-bogey 7 at the 17th in halves of 43 and 39.
Germany’s Thea Hoffmeister took over the lead with a 69 for three-under-par 139.
Leading British players are England’s Kerry Smith and Welsh Curtis Cup player Breanne Loucks in joint seventh place on 143. Kerry has scored 71 and 72 while Breanne had 73 and 70.

LEADING SECOND ROUND TOTALS
Par 71
139 T Hoffmeister (Ger) 70 69.
140 S Cologan (Spa) 66 74.
141 B Mozo (Spa) 69 72.
142 L Matthews (Can) 70 72, S Kirchmayr (Ger) 73 69.
143 C Ciganda (Spa) 70 73, I Boineau (Fra) 69 74, K Smith (Eng) 71 72, A Rossi (Ita) 72 71, C Masson (Ger) 74 69, B Loucks (Wal) 73 70, S Maier (Ger) 71 72, K Schallenberg (Ger) 73 70.
144 S Hassan (Wal) 73 71, B Buendia (Spa) 72 72.
145 F Parker (Eng) 73 72, A Munoz (Spa) 70 75, I Wilke (Ger) 72 73, Z Masinova (Cze) 74 71, C Hedwall (Swe) 74 71, E Westrup (Swe) 70 75, M Hernandez (Spa) 73 72.
Other scores:
146 M Bourdie (Fra) 72 74.
147 J Schaeffer (Fra) 74 73.
149 M Reid (Eng) 74 75.
149 K Caithness (Sc0) 73 76.
150 G Webster (Sco) 76 74.
151 S Walker (Eng) 75 76,.
152 J Nicolson (Wal) 79 73.
152 N Edwards (Eng) 76 76.
154 H MacRae (Sco) 79 75, F Johnson (Eng) 75 79.
156 S Evans (Wal) 75 81.
158 K Walker (Sco) 82 76.
160 C-M Carlton (Sco) 78 82.