LOUISE KENNEY SETTING PACE IN SLGA ORDER OF MERIT

By COLIN FARQUHARSON

Colin@scottishgolfview.com

New Scottish women's amateur golf champion Louise Kenney is also No 1 in the Scottish Ladies Golfing Association's Order of Merit, staged on conjunction with designated events to the end of the season.

The 28-year-old from Dunfermline, pictured by Cal Carson Golf Agency, a Pitreavie GC member, is not a full-time amateur. She is employed as a schoolteacher.

Her victory in the Scottish championship at Machrihanish last Saturday gave her points total a big boost and she leads by close on 500 points from Scotland team-mate Jane Turner (Craigielaw) who reached the last four at Machrihanish and finished in the top 15 of the Helen Holm Scottish women's stroke-play championship at Troon in April.

Kenney finished third in the "Helen Holm"

Eighteen-year-old Eilidh Briggs (Kilmacolm) claimed the Girls Order of Merit last year and her impressive double of a top five finish at the Helen Holm and a runner-up finish at Machrihanish earned her 1000 points, which has her in third place.

Kelsey MacDonald (Nairn Dunbar), who won the Order of Merit last season, is currently in fifth place with 850 points.

The next counting event is this weekend’s St Rule Trophy over 54 holes at St Andrews' Old and New Courses.

LEADING POINTS TOTALS

1 Louise Kenney (Pitreavie) 1515

2 Jane Turner (Craigielaw) 1045

3 Eilidh Briggs (Kilmacolm) 1000

4 Rachael Watton (Mortonhall) 922

5 Kelsey MacDonald (Nairn Dunbar) 850

6 Megan Briggs (Kilmacolm) 720

7 Alyson McKechin (Elderslie) 720

8 Pamela Pretswell (Bothwell Castle) 540

9 Lauren Whyte (St Regulus) 505

10 Sheena Wood (Aberdeen Ladies) 390

11 Sara Bishop (Windyhill) 380

12 Alison Davidson (Stirling) 380

13 Elaine Moffat (St Regulus) 380

14 Susan Wood (Drumpellier) 380

15 Hannah McCook (Grantown on Spey) 370

16 Clara Young (North Berwick) 336

17 Cara Gruber (Royal Dornoch) 330

18 Martine Pow (Selkirk) 330

19 Susan Jackson (Ladybank) 280

20 Tara MacTaggart (Minto) 230

21 Karen Marshall (Baberton) 230

22 Noreen Fenton (Dunbar) 160

23 Laura Murray (Alford) 160

24 Jessica Meek (Carnoustie Ladies) 120

25 Rachael McQueen (Troon Ladies) 100

26 Katie Reid (Monifieth) 100

27 Elaine Allison (Stirling) 50

28 Kirsten Blackwood (Glencorse) 50

29 Elaine Cuthill (Lanark) 50

30 Gabrielle MacDonald (Craigielaw) 50

31 Wendy Nicholson (Broomieknowe) 50

32 Ashley Smith (Monifieth) 50

33 Rachael Taylor (Hartl Golf Resort) 50

34 Sammy Vass (Tain) 50