Rachael Watton earns top seed spot

in Scottish girls' match-play

Rachael Watton, 17-year-old Mortonhall member, earned the top seed status in the match-play stages of the Scottish girls (close) amateur championship with a five-over-par total of 153 in the 36-hole qualifying test at Lanark Golf Club today.
Rachael, pictured right by Cal Carson Golf Agency, had rounds of 77 and 76, birdieing the second, seventh and 12th in her morning round and the fourth, sixth, 11th and 13th in afternoon. She played the last eight holes in two under par to finish three shots clear of Eilidh Briggs (Kilmalcolm), 16-year-old sister of Scottish women’s champion Megan Briggs, and 15-year-old Hannah McCook from Abernethy Golf Club, Nethby Bridge in Inverness-shire.
Eilidh had a roller-coaster first round of 77 which included an eagle 3 at the long 11th and a birdie at the long 14th as well as a double bogey sixth at the fifth. She had nothing better than par in her second round.