Kelsey confident of Total success in Belgium ...
NEWS RELEASE ISSUED BY THE SCOTTISH GOLF UNION
Nairn Dunbar’s Kelsey MacDonald is bidding to retain the Tournament of Nations title at the TOTAL Belgian International Juniors which gets underway at the Royal Golf Club of Belgium tomorrow.
The University of Stirling student won the girls' team event with Comrie’s Carly Booth last season and is this time partnered by Mortonhall’s Rachel Watton, whilst Jack McDonald and Scott Gibson represent Scotland in the boys' event.
MacDonald heads to Belgium in excellent form having just managed a successful defence at the Scottish Ladies Junior Open Stroke Play Championship as well as coming close to another title at the Helen Holm earlier in the year.
Paired with Watton - who is currently in second place in the SLGA Girls Order of Merit having reached the semi-final of the Scottish Girls Match Play Championship – it is a partnership which promises to make a strong challenge for the team title with both players also bidding for the individual girls title.
MacDonald, pictured above, said ahead of the tournament, “I am feeling confident about the individual and team event. It is already very hot out here so the conditions will be tough this week but I have done well on this course before and I think Rachel and I will make a good team.”
Jack McDonald (Kilmarnock Barassie) who has bagged two wins on the SGU Junior Tour this season and more recently has gone on to claim the Scottish Boys Stroke Play Championship is joined by Scott Gibson from Southerness. Gibson, a fellow Scotland Boys cap has also enjoyed a good season including a great run at men’s level in the Scottish Amateur recently, where he made the fifth round.
They hope to improve on the results of last year’s entrants Scottish Boys Champion and finalist, David Law and Paul Shields who finished fourth in the boys international team event.
The 72 hole event gets underway on Wednesday 26 August, competitors play18 holes each day and the top 32 boys and 32 girls plus ties that survive the cut after 54 holes proceed to play the final round.
+Results and news will be available from the official website - http://www.sij.be/home.php as well as Kirkwoodgolf.co.uk
The University of Stirling student won the girls' team event with Comrie’s Carly Booth last season and is this time partnered by Mortonhall’s Rachel Watton, whilst Jack McDonald and Scott Gibson represent Scotland in the boys' event.
MacDonald heads to Belgium in excellent form having just managed a successful defence at the Scottish Ladies Junior Open Stroke Play Championship as well as coming close to another title at the Helen Holm earlier in the year.
Paired with Watton - who is currently in second place in the SLGA Girls Order of Merit having reached the semi-final of the Scottish Girls Match Play Championship – it is a partnership which promises to make a strong challenge for the team title with both players also bidding for the individual girls title.
MacDonald, pictured above, said ahead of the tournament, “I am feeling confident about the individual and team event. It is already very hot out here so the conditions will be tough this week but I have done well on this course before and I think Rachel and I will make a good team.”
Jack McDonald (Kilmarnock Barassie) who has bagged two wins on the SGU Junior Tour this season and more recently has gone on to claim the Scottish Boys Stroke Play Championship is joined by Scott Gibson from Southerness. Gibson, a fellow Scotland Boys cap has also enjoyed a good season including a great run at men’s level in the Scottish Amateur recently, where he made the fifth round.
They hope to improve on the results of last year’s entrants Scottish Boys Champion and finalist, David Law and Paul Shields who finished fourth in the boys international team event.
The 72 hole event gets underway on Wednesday 26 August, competitors play18 holes each day and the top 32 boys and 32 girls plus ties that survive the cut after 54 holes proceed to play the final round.
+Results and news will be available from the official website - http://www.sij.be/home.php as well as Kirkwoodgolf.co.uk
posted by Colin |
See story on its own page | 11:57:00 am
<< Home