Inchmarlo venue incentive for

Aberdeenshire to win North

Divisional title at Downfield

The big incentive for the Aberdeenshire team to retain the North Division women's inter-county women's golf team championship after the next three days' play at Downfield Golf Club, Dundee is a home-course choice of venue for this year's Scottish county finals from September 19-21.
They will be held at Inchmarlo Golf Resort, Banchory for the first time and will be contested by the winners of the four divisional championships.
Fife and Renfrewshire have already book their places in the finals. This week the North and South Divisions (at Torwoodlee, Galashiels) will decide their champion representatives.
After winning the North Division title last year, Aberdeenshire almost went on to win the national title but lost out on a countback to Midlothian. On paper, Shire have the edge over Angus, Northern Counties and Perthshire & Kinross, their team of eight includes Curtis Cup player and Scottish champion Michele Thomson (McDonald Ellon), picture above by Cal Carson Golf Agency (all rights reserved), and semi-finalist Laura Murray (Alford).
But match-play results do not always follow the formbook and it should be a keen four-cornered contest.
Perthshire & Kinross have their own Curtis Cup player, 16-year-old Carly Booth (Comrie) while Northern Counties have Kelsey MacDonald (Nairn Dunbar), who was the top seed for the "Scottish" at Lossiemouth, and Angus also have two up-and-coming players in Katy McNicoll (Carnoustie) and Rebecca Wilson (Monifieth).

TEAMS

ABERDEENSHIRE - J Harrison (Cruden Bay), L McLardy (Murcar Links), L Murray (Alford), D Pocock (Murcar Links), M Thomson (McDonald Ellon), S Thomson (Murcar Links), C Wilson (Murcar Links), S Wood (Aberdeen Ladies).
ANGUS - H Anderson (Downfield), J Brown (Monifieth), A Hunter (Monifieth), S Raitt (Forfar), K McNicoll (Carnoustie), A Ramsay (Kirriemuir), M Summers (Panmure Barry), R Wilson (Monifieth).
NORTHERN COUNTIES - C Gruber (Royal Dornoch), A Ingram (Fort William), K MacDonald (Nairn Dunbar), E Mackay (Nairn Dunbar), P Mackay (Royal Dornoch), J Milne (Elgin), M Smith (Tain), S Vass (Tain).
PERTHSHIRE & KINROSS - C Booth (Comrie), A Bushby (Strathmore), J Milne (Craigie Hill), C Muir (Craigie Hill), E Muirhead (Pitlochry), A Niven (Crieff),E Ogilvy (Auchterarder), L Walker (Muckhart).
PROGRAMME
Foursomes start at 9.04 daily with singles at 2pm.
Saturday - Aberdeenshire v Angus, Perthshire & Kiniross v Northern Counties.
Sunday - Angus v Northern Counties, Perthshire & Kinross v Aberdeenshire.
Monday - Northern Counties v Aberdeenshire, Perthshire & Kinross v Angus.

DUMFRIESHIRE DEFEND SOUTH TITLE AT TORWOODLEE

The South Division inter-county team championship will be held at Torwoodlee Golf Club, Galashiels, also over the next three days.

Dumfries-shire are the defending champions.

PROGRAMME

Saturday - Borders v Galloway.

Sunday - Galloway v Dumfries-shire.

Monday - Dumfries-shire v Borders.

+With a little bit of luck, we hope to be able to display all Saturday's results at Downfield and Torwoodlee on this website on Saturday evening ... continuing the service over the three days. E-mail address is: Colin@scottishgolfview.com