MEGAN BRIGGS RETAINS
RENFREWSHIRE TITLE

Megan Briggs has retained the Renfrewshire women’s golf championship she won for the first time at the age of 16 last year.
On a glorious sunny day at Erskine Golf Club, the Kilmacolm teenager, who qualified in fourth position, beat 10 times record county champion Donna Jackson (Cochrane Castle), the leading qualifier, for the second year in a row, this time by 4 and 3 in the morning semi-final instead of in the final.
In the final Megan beat 20-year-old Stirling University student Clare-Marie Carlton (Fereneze), who won the title in 2003, by one hole in a very tight match. Clare-Marie had the edge over the first few holes but couldn't break clear and Megan got back on terms and, in fact, was one up playing the 15th. Clare-Marie birdied this 409yd par-5 hole to level the match.

Then Megan won the 17th with a par 4 and halved the last to be champion again.
Clare-Marie, the No 2 qualifier, had beaten the No 3 seed, Gillian Kyle (East Renfrewshire) by 3 and 1 in her semi-final. Megan Briggs is pictured above with the championship trophy (image courtesy of Carol Fell of RCLGA.
The final match was played in lovely sunny conditions to the backdrop of the Clyde and Dunbarton Rock and the Highlands beyond.
Results:
Semi-finals – M Briggs (Kilmacolm) bt D Jackson (Cochrane Castle) 4 and 3, C-M Carlton (Fereneze) bt G Kyle (East Renfrewshire) 3 and 1.
Final – Briggs bt Carlton 1 hole.