Late drama in Scottish senior stroke-play championship at Fortrose and Rosemarkie

Heather Anderson wins after

nightmare inward half by 

leader Anne Ryan

Alyth’s Heather Anderson, winner of last year’s match-play title decided over the last two days of the Scottish senior women’s amateur golf championship programme, this year claimed the stroke-play award at stake over the first two days at Fortrose and Rosemarkie Golf Club on the Black Isle, 12 miles north of Inverness.
With only a few holes of the 36-hole event to play, it was odds on a North victory with Tain’s Anne Ryan, the first round leader with a 74, still heading the field.
Then she spilled eight shots to par over six successive holes, culminating with a triple bogey 7 at the 17th. Ryan came home in 43 (eight over par) for an 81 and a total of 155.
Anderson, pictured with the trophy by courtest of the SLGA, who had been six shots off the pace at the start of the day with an 80, improved by seven shots, despite the windy conditions, with a splendid round of 73 for 153 and, following Ryan’s late slump she was left as the winner by two shots.
Ryan did not even finish second on her own. Fiona De Vries (St Rule) also totalled 155 with scores of 75 and 80.
The players with the leading 16 aggregates (166 and better) qualified to contest the match-play championship Thursday and Friday.

FINAL TOTALS
Par 142 (2x71)
153 Heather Anderson (Alyth) 80 73.
155 Fiona de Vries (St Rule) 75 80, Anne Ryan (Tain) 74 81.
157 May Hughes (Lanark) 76 81.
159 Margaret Tough (Falkirk) 79 80.
161 Lynne Terry (Cruden Bay) 76 85.
162 Noreen Fenton (Dunbar) 81 81.
163 Fiona Hunter (Baberton) 81 82.
164 Mary Smith (Tain) 84 80, Moira Thomson (Gullane Ladies) 83 81, Jane Herd (Musselburgh) 81 83.
165 Janice Cumming (Inverness) 84 81, Pamela Williamson (Baberton) 82 83, Lorna Bennett (Ladybank) 80 85.
166 Jill Harrison (Cruden Bay) 84 82, Alison Bartlett (Royal Dornoch) 83 83.
MATCH-PLAY CHAMPIONSHIP DRAW
FIRST ROUND: Thursday morning
9am Heather Anderson v Alex Glennie.
9.10 Fiona Hunter v Noreen Fenton.
9.20 Margaret Tough v Pamela Williamson.
9.30 Lorna Bennett v May Hughes.
9.40 Anne Ryan v Jill Harrison.
9.50 Jane Herd v Moria Thomson.
10.0 Lynne Terry v Mary Smith
10.10 Alison Bartlett v Fiona de Vries.
QUARTER-FINALS: Thursday afternoon
2pm Anderson or Glennie v Hunter of Fenton.
2.10 Tough or Williamson v Bennett or Hughes.
2.20 Ryan or Harrison v Herd or Thmson.
2.30 Terry or Smith v Bartlett or De Vries.

DID NOT QUALIFY FOR MATCH-PLAY:
167 Alex Glennie (Kilmarnock Barassie) 86 81.
168 Helen Faulds (Douoglas Park) 85 83.
169 Maureen Woodhead (Gourock) 89 80, Agnes Freeman (Ladies Panmure Barry) 84 85.
170 Karen Ballantyne (Craigmillar Park) 86 84.
171 Sue Penman (Gullane Ladies) 84 87, Marion Stewart (Kilmacolm) 83 88.
172 Jennifer Mack (Haggs Castle) 88 84, Anna Telfer (Milngavie) 86 86, Margot Barr (Gairloch) 83 89.
173 Isobel McIntosh (Inverness) 87 86, Winifred MacCallum (Falkirk) 82 91.
174 Suzanne Cadden (Cardross) 92 82.
173 Ruth Brown (Lothianburn) 88 86.,
174 Pat Wilson (Murcar Links) 83 95.
175 Isobel Harvey (St Rule) 88 87, Susan MacVicar (Gairloch) 84 91, Annabel Kane (Kilmacolm) 82 92.
176 Patricia Hutton (Lanark) 87 89.
178 Janice Paterson (Drumpellier) 89 89, Jen Petrie (Panmure Barry) 87 91, Sheila Travers (Alloa) 89 89.
179 Elizabeth Coghill (Royal Dornoch) 88 91, Fiona Farquharson (King James VI) 86 93.
180 Jenny Thornton (Fortrose and Rosemarkie) 91 89, Rita Dee (Kingsknowe) 91 89, Janice Lang (Alyth) 89 91, Karen Maxwell (Milngavie) 88 92.
181 Mairi Pollock (Craigmillar Park) 96 85, Linda McDougall (Greenock) 92 89.
182 Isabel Chapman (Forfar) 91 91, Carol Fell (Ranfurly Castle) 89 93.
183 Elizabeth Cruickshank (West Surrey) 93 90, Dorothy Thomson (Gullane Ladies) 92 91, Maureen Neilson (Greenock) 90 93, Pat Morrison (Muir of Ord) 88 95
184 Joanne Watt (Gullane Ladies) 96 88, Susy Cooper (Fortrose and Rosemarkie) 95 89, Frances McFadzean (Craigmillar Park) 92 92.
185 Sheena McDonald (Buchanan Castle) 96 89, Esme Hill (Dumfries and Co) 91 94, Alicia Wilson (Clober) 90 95.
186 Sheilah Ramsay (Inverness) 95 91, Hazel Kelly (Ladies Panmure Barry) 91 95, Norma Smith (Downfield) 91 95.
187 Liz Fertacz (Blairgowrie) 92 95, Barbara Biggart (North Berwick) 91 96.
188 Elda Morrison (Fortrose and Rosemarkie) 98 90, Catherine Bryce (Ballater)92 96.
189 Maureen Ritchie (Muir of Ord) 88 101.
190 Sandy Bushby (Blairgowrie), 94 96, Fiona Roger (Ranfurly Castle) 91 99.
192 Ann Moffat (St Regulus) 92 100.
193 Maureen McRobb (Kingsknowe) 91 102.
194 Kay Jarvie (Auchterarder) 94 100.
196 Elinor Wallace (Muir of Ord) 93 103.
199 Pamela Moscati (Royal Dornoch) 105 94.
203 Clare Bowe (Gullane Ladies) 106 97.
208 Shona Low (Gullane Ladies) 106 102.
NR Maureen Ross (Fortrose and Rosemarkie) 88 NR
NR Lesley Johnston (Gullane Ladies) 83 NR.
NR Anne Brownie (Lothianburn) 90 NR.
NR Anne Terrey (Greenock) 102 NR.
NR Morag Wardrop (Niddry Castle) 95 NR