LAURA MURRAY'S REMEDY FOR FORM SLUMP - TAKE A BREAK

KEEPING HER CHIN UP ... Laura Murray is not letting her form slump get her down (Image by Cal Carson Golf Agency)

By COLIN FARQUHARSON
Colin@scottishgolfview.com
Alford’s big-hitter Laura Murray’s answer to a disappointing start to the season is to take a break from golf.
Even if it meant not defending the title at the weekend St Rule Trophy. And she has also pulled out of next week’s Ladies Golf Union amateur flagship event, the British women’s open amateur championship at Royal Portrush GC in Northern Ireland.
Laura, 22, lost in the final of the Aberdeenshire county championship to Donna Pocock and then missed the cut in the Helen Holm Scottish women’s open amateur stroke-play. She qualified 20th of 32 for the match-play stages of the Scottish championship at Machrihanish but lost in the first round to former champion Elaime Moffat.
Laura, a member of the Paul Lawrie Foundation elite team, also works part-time as a swimming pool lifeguard at Kippie Lodge Sports Club, Milltimber.
“As everyone knows I’ve not had the greatest of starts to the season, so I just wanted to pull myself away from a couple of competitions to get myself back forcused and playing comfortably for the bigger tournaments later on in the season,” said Laura.
“It’s no big deal. It just feels like the right thing to do. I’ll be on form in no time.”
Her two highlights of the 2010 season were winning the St Rule Trophy and being a member of the Scotland team who won the women’s home internationals title for the first time in 19 years.