Scottish Under-21 girls' stroke-play championship at Dunfermline this week

Kelsey chases title hat-trick

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Kelsey MacDonald will be attempting to continue her season of success when she defends the Scottish Junior Open Strokeplay Championship at Dunfermline (Pitfirrane) Golf Club from Wednesday to Friday (July 21-23) this week.
The 19-year-old won the title at Powfoot two years ago and then stood up to the harshest of pressure to stage a successful defence at her home club of Nairn Dunbar last year. Now she aims to become the first three-time winner since Kathryn Imrie captured the title three years in a row in the mid 1980s.
Kelsey, a sports and psychology student at Stirling University, has had a great summer. She won the Scottish Women’s Amateur Championship at Craigielaw in May and reached the final of the British Women’s Amateur at Ganton last month.
With a handicap of plus two, Kelsey is the back marker in the 80-strong field. Jane Turner, also a member of the SLGA’s Aberdeen Asset Management Elite squad, plays off plus one.
The field also includes Megan Briggs, the 2009 Scottish Women’s Champion, and her younger sister, Eilidh. The Kilmacolm sisters both play off scratch.
The format for the championship is 54-holes strokeplay – one round each day – and there is no cut.