Frances Millar and Claire Penman with the SLGA club foursomes championship trophy. Image by courtesy of Carol Fell.

CARNOUSTIE CALEDONIA AND BABERTON SCOOP

MAJOR TITLES AT SLGA FOURSOMES DAY


Carnoustie Caledonia's Claire Penman and Frances Millar won the Scottish Ladies Golfing Association club foursomes team title at windy Douglas Park Golf Club on Sunday .
They beat Saline 6 and 5 in the morning semi-finals while Murrayfield's Pat Walkingshaw and Caroline Johnstone beat Ayr Dalmilling 8 and 6.
In the final Penman and Millar won by 4 and 3.
Saline's Lynne Nelson and Barbara-Ann Boyten won the third place play-off by 1 hole against Ayr Dalmilling (Ann Sym and Gillian Henderson).
Results:
SEMI-FINALS
Carnoustie Caledonia (Claire Penman and Frances Millar) bt Saline (Lynne Nelson and Barbara-Ann Boyten) 6 and 5.
Murrayfield (Pat Walkingshaw and Caroline Johnstone) bt Ayr Dalmilling (Ann Sym and Gillian Henderson) 8 and 6.
FINAL
Carnoustie Caledonia (Penman and Millar) bt Murrayfield
(Walkingshaw and Johnstone) 4 and 3.
THIRD-PLACE PLAY-OFF
Saline (Nelson and Boyten) bt Ayr Dalmilling (Sym and Henderson) 1 hole.
+Named third team members: Murrayfield - Norma Richmond, Saline - Katrina Buist, Ayr Dalmilling - Jackie Ridge.

Karen Marshall (left) and Fiona Hunter of Baberton with the SLGA women's club foursomes stroke-play championship trophy. Image by courtesy of Carol Fell.Karen, Fiona win foursomes stroke-play by two shots

Baberton's Karen Marshall and Fiona Hunter won the SLGA women's club foursomes stroke-play title with a five-over-par round of 77 in windy conditions at Douglas Park.
They had two shots to spare from Windyhill's Laura McGeachy and former Scottish champion Anne Laing, and Craigmillar Park's Karen Ballantyne and Kirsten Blackwood.
McGeachy and Laing had a better inward half and were officially placed second.
Kilmacolm's defending champions Megan and Eilidh Briggs finished joint fourth on 80 alongside Douglas Park's Helen Faulds and Helen Robertson.
Faulds and Robertson won the top net prize with a score of 72 1/2 off 7 1/2.
Kilmacolm's Rena Simpson and Annabel Kane were runners-up, by virtue of a better inward half, with a net score of 73 1/2 off 10 1/2.
Blairgowrie's Norma Fleming and Mary Hope also totalled 73 1/2 off 9 1/2 but were placed third on the card countback.
Thirty-six pairs took part.