HEATHER ANDERSON DEFENDS SENIOR TITLE AT PORTPATRICK

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Heather Andrerson (Blairgowrie) will be defending the Scottish Seniors’ Strokeplay Championship against a strong field at Portpatrick Dunskey from June 28-July 1.
The Championship is split into two events. The strokeplay winner is crowned after the first 36-holes – the top 16 players then go through to battle it out for the matchplay title.
Fiona De Vries (St Regulus), who was the runner-up in the strokeplay at Fortrose and Rosemarkie last year, is unable to defend the Matchplay Championship as she broke her leg in April when she was competing for Scotland at the World Senior Curling Championships in Minnesota.
Scotland won the European Seniors’ Team Championship last year and Anderson will be joined in the line-up by another four members of the gold medal winning squad – the Tain pair of Mary Smith and Anne Ryan, Moira Thomson (Gullane) and Lorna Bennett (Ladybank).
Bennett, a many times Fife Champion, is the backmarker with a handicap of one and the majority of the 80-strong field have handicaps in single figures.