Pamela Pretswell wins West

title ... now for the Scottish

Bothwell Castle’s Pamela Pretswell lived up to her rating as the backmarker in the West of Scotland women’s amateur championship at Prestwick today.
The +2 player, whose victory last summer in the Swiss women’s open amateur title put her into the GB&I short leet for the Vagliano Trophy match in Hamburg in July, won over the Prestwick links by four strokes with a pair of 74s, against the CSS of 76 and 77, for a total of 148 in very windy and cold but mainly dry weather.
With no university exams clashing this year, Pamela will make her debut this month in the Scottish women's championship at Southerness ... and on this form she must be one of the favourites.
Runner-up for the West title on 152 with scores of 79 and 73 was former Scotland international Sara Bishop (Windyhill).
Pretswell, Susan Wood and Lesley Lloyd won the County Shield for Lanarkshire, while Renfrewshire (Eilidh Briggs, Alyson McKechin and Natasha Qayum) won the new Junior County Shield, presented by the West Association.
+Picture of Pamela Pretswell with the championship trophy by courtesy of Carol Fell (who also helped out with an in-depth list of scores!
FINAL TOTALS
CSS 76 77.
148 Pamela Pretswell (Bothwell Castle) 74 74.
152 Sara Bishop (Windyhill) 79 73
158 Susan Wood (Drumpellier) 78 80, Clare-Marie Carlton (Fereneze) 78 80, Rachel McQueen (Troon Ladies) 76 82.
159 Eilidh Briggs (Kilmacolm) 80 79.
161 Anne Laing (Vale of Leven) 83 78.
163 Audrey Thomson (Loudoun Gowf) 83 80, Gillian Kyle (East Renfrewshire) 80 83.
164 Elaine Cuthill (Lanark) 85 79.
167 Donna Jackson (Cochrane Castle) 83 84, Alyson McKechin (Elderslie) 82 85, Lesley Lloyd (Hayston) 81 86.
168 Alex Glennie (Kilmarnock Barassie) 91 77.
170 Jill Meldrum ( Dullator) 82 88.
171 Lesley Robertson (Ranfurly Castle) 87 84.
172 Liz Keohone (Loudon Gowf) 82 90, Lesley Williamson ( Kilmarnock Barassie) 80 92.
173 Jennifer Mack (Haggs Castle) 86 87.
174 Ruth Rankin (Lanark) 87 87, Lindsay Stevenson (Whitecraigs) 85 89, Rosalind Purdom (Prestwick St Nicholas) 84 90.
175 Carol Whyte (Windyhill) 92 83, Joanna Scott (Cathkin Braes) 87 85.
176 Janice Paterson (Drumpellier) 87 89, Hannah Gaunt (Kilmarnock Barassie) 82 94.
177 Jennifer Jenkins (Ralston) 84 93.
179 Alison McGinnigle (Cochrane Castle) 90 89, Liz Stewart (Cochrane Castle) 87 92.