KELSEY THROUGH TO PLAY AMERICAN
CURTIS CUP STAR IN SEMI-FINAL
Scottish Under-21 champion Kelsey MacDonald, a member of Nairn Dunbar Golf Club, will play Meghan Bolger, who played in last year's winning US Curtis Cup team at St Andrews, in Friday's semi-finals of the Jones/Doherty women's amateur match-play championship at Coral Ridge Country Club, Fort Lauderdale in Florida.
Stirling University student Kelsey, 18, beat American Carly Ray Goldstein 3 and 2 in today's quarter-finals.
Kelsey was pipped for third place behind winner Alexis Thompson in last week's South Atlantic Ladies Amateur Championship, the second competition of the women's amateur Orange Blossom Tour in Florida.
Bolger was United States women's mid-amateur champion in 2006 and again in 2007.
Rachel Connor, daughter of the Scots-born Manchester club professional Brian Connor, lost to Alexis Thompson, the 14-year-old US girls champion, by 4 and 3 in her quarter-final.
The second semi-final will feature Thompson against defending champion Isabelle Lendl, one of the golfing daughters of former world tennis ace Ivan Lendl.
Stirling student Holly Calvert (Lancaster) won the Second Flight final, beating Monifieth's Rebecca Wilson, also a Stirling student, by one hole in the final.
Results:
CHAMPIONSHIP FLIGHT
Quarter-finals
Isabelle Lendl bt Marily Hardy 6 and 5.
Alexis Thompson bt Rachel Connor (Manchester) 4 and 3.
Meghan Bolger bt Victoria Trapani 2 holes.
Kelsey MacDonald bt Carly Ray Goldstein 3 and 2.
SECOND FLIGHT
Final
Holly Calvert (Lancaster) bt Rebecca Wilson (Monifieth) 1 hole.
CURTIS CUP STAR IN SEMI-FINAL
Scottish Under-21 champion Kelsey MacDonald, a member of Nairn Dunbar Golf Club, will play Meghan Bolger, who played in last year's winning US Curtis Cup team at St Andrews, in Friday's semi-finals of the Jones/Doherty women's amateur match-play championship at Coral Ridge Country Club, Fort Lauderdale in Florida.
Stirling University student Kelsey, 18, beat American Carly Ray Goldstein 3 and 2 in today's quarter-finals.
Kelsey was pipped for third place behind winner Alexis Thompson in last week's South Atlantic Ladies Amateur Championship, the second competition of the women's amateur Orange Blossom Tour in Florida.
Bolger was United States women's mid-amateur champion in 2006 and again in 2007.
Rachel Connor, daughter of the Scots-born Manchester club professional Brian Connor, lost to Alexis Thompson, the 14-year-old US girls champion, by 4 and 3 in her quarter-final.
The second semi-final will feature Thompson against defending champion Isabelle Lendl, one of the golfing daughters of former world tennis ace Ivan Lendl.
Stirling student Holly Calvert (Lancaster) won the Second Flight final, beating Monifieth's Rebecca Wilson, also a Stirling student, by one hole in the final.
Results:
CHAMPIONSHIP FLIGHT
Quarter-finals
Isabelle Lendl bt Marily Hardy 6 and 5.
Alexis Thompson bt Rachel Connor (Manchester) 4 and 3.
Meghan Bolger bt Victoria Trapani 2 holes.
Kelsey MacDonald bt Carly Ray Goldstein 3 and 2.
SECOND FLIGHT
Final
Holly Calvert (Lancaster) bt Rebecca Wilson (Monifieth) 1 hole.
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