Eileen Manson heads Northern

Counties qualifiers at Nairn

Thurso's Eileen Manson, pictured right, headed the 16 match-play qualifiers on the first day of the Northern Counties women's golf championship at Nairn Golf Club today.
In windy conditions, Eileen's round of 79 - four over par and two over the CSS - was good enough to give her the No 1 seed position ahead of Pam MacKay (Royal Dornoch) and Christine McAndrew (Nairn Dunbar) who both returned 80s.
Pam gained the No 2 seed berth after a card countback.
Defending champion Cara Gruber (Royal Dornoch had an 81.
Match-play qualifiers
Par 75. CSS 77
79 E Manson (Thurso).
80 P Mackay (Royal Dornoch), C McAndrew (Nairn Dunbar).
81 J Vass (Tain), C Gruber (Royal Dornoch).
84 J Louden (Nairn).
85 A Bartlett (Royal Dornoch), L Coghill (Royal Dornoch).
87 M Vass (Tain), S Vass (Tain), J Milne (Elgin).
88 S McVicar (Gairloch).
89 J Nicol (Inverness), G Dowling (Inverness), M Howieson (Inverness).
90 S MacDonnell (Inverness).
Sunday's match-play ties
First round

8.45 Manson v MacDonnell.

8.53 M Vass v Coghill.

9.01 Gruber v McVicar.

9.09 Nicol v J Vass.

9.17 McAndrew v Dowling.

9.25 Milne v Louden.

9.33 Bartlett v S Vass.

9.41 Howieson v Mackay.
Quarter-finals at 2.02, 2.12, 2.22 and 2.32